NK - Mead Bee Wars (long)

Jerry Herring herring at viagrafix.net
Mon Feb 21 20:34:29 PST 2000


Okay, okay,

First I apologize to the good gentles of the list for this email, I may get
burned for doing this but I think that if you are going to be publicly
posting veiled comments like that previous email then you had better be
ready to explain them. This type of posting just opens the door for trouble
and you need to be ready to defend your insinuations from all the wild and
seditious thoughts that type of underhanded commenting causes. Those that
are loyal to the "dream" of the SCA would deal openly and honorably with
others rather than try to publicly stir up some kind of turmoil.

That said I have a few comments for the gentleman who posted that last
email...

Wow, That was not cryptic at all.

I feel you owe all of us an explanation.

I live in region and I have no idea what you are talking about or what you
are implying.
Maybe if you have something to say you should just say it? I can not fathom
why you would limit the posting of your email to the Northkeep list and a
few select other people when the event in question was held in the Northern
Region and was open for all of Ansteorra to attend?

Was it because you wanted to say something about the people in Northkeep or
say something to the people in Northkeep? I do not feel like I have anything
to hide I attended and supported the event. I have to wonder why you worded
you email the way you did because I know that from the Barony and the entire
region there were many members of the populace who attended that event for
fighting and fun. I also know that many people from the region had mundane
issues to deal with this weekend or they would have attended as well.

Maybe you should be more careful in your public statements, try less to lay
blame on some unnamed threat to the political and general fun environment of
the Northern region, and the SCA in general. Maybe you should try to work
out your problems with these political entities so that we can begin to
rebuild the trust and comraderie in the north that we had a few years ago.
The King has even made a public request that we work together to better the
relationships with in the region and then some one like this Aldric de Kerr
comes along and tries to stir things up. Your comments really struck me as
someone not trying to be constructive but someone who was trying to stir up
trouble and that really bugs me. IF you have to make posts like that why not
make them constructive? Make some suggestions on how these we can work out
these issues rather than blindly pointing fingers. I know a lot of people
here in the North and I do not know a single one who opposed your this
event.

I must admit that declaring it a war does ring of a political event to begin
with. Since wars are in general fought between Kingdoms with-in the SCA.
Proclaiming the event was a war between two groups in two separate kingdoms
that are trying to be at peace would suggest that those involved are not for
that peace. So maybe the name of the event mislead some individuals. Perhaps
it should be called something else?

I remember from this fall that members of the Wolfstar band were commenting
that there was some threat of a Mongolian invasion involved with this Mead
Bee War. I also know that the Khan of the Great Dark Horde (The largest and
oldest Mongolian household in the SCA),who just happens to also currently
live in this region, was not please to hear that Wolfstar was claiming
loudly and publicly at many events that there was this mounting threat of
Mongolian invasion from Vatavia. Maybe there were people out there playing
some kind of political game but I think that Aldric you need look no further
than the people like yourself who were and are making these veiled comments.
Deal openly and honorably with everyone and no one will have to question you
or your motives. If they and you wanted to burn some bridges and stir up
some dissention here in the north then please keep speaking as you have,
because as you do so you show more and more where the fault lies and you
make it easier for those who want the peace to exist to make it happen.

Seeking truth, honesty, and chivalry,
Ld. Ian Dun Gillan




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