[Northkeep] And from CNN this morning...

[Alton lePeto]

Respectfully,
I wish this had been a topic of discussion on the "Peers Lists" for a longer 
time.  Maybe this latest incident will get the BoD  involved.  Seems like 
this sort of thing has been going on for sometime.  Wasnt that long ago at a 
Northkeep event, I remember an individual being escorted from site(and later 
banished that night) for this sort of behavior.  Of course the individual 
mentioned in the CNN article is not a "Peer"  within the SCA so banishment 
will be a forgone conclusion and good riddance.  Maybe its time we as a pro 
family activities organization decided to exclude known or "red flagged" 
individuals with a past history of this sort of behavior?  I'd really hate 
to see the national media put a spin on how the SCA "harbors" human trash of 
this sort.  I'd say we could forget about ever having access to facilities 
owned by any of the Scouting organizations if they were concerned about it.
Maybe we as a group could come up with some gesture of support for those 
people in that Barony in Pa?  Im sure they are feeling very scared with all 
this attention on them and accusations that are soon to follow this sort of 
thing, not to mention those poor kids caught up in this tragedy.


Alton





>From: Burke McCrory <burkemc at cox.net>
>Reply-To: The Barony of Northkeep <northkeep at ansteorra.org>
>To: The Barony of Northkeep <northkeep at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: RE: [Northkeep] And from CNN this morning...
>Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 01:31:01 -0600
>
>At 10:23 AM 11/12/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>>Not good publicity for the SCA, huh? Too bad there are so many people who
>>don't even know about us until something like this pops up in the media 
>>and
>>their first impression will be a bad one.
>This has been quite a topic of discussion on several SCA wide peers lists.  
>No one seems to know how it got out of hand.  I know that Corp is watching 
>it closely.
>
>Burke

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