[Sca-cooks] RE: East's Burdened Tyger award

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 12:38 AM 9/10/02 -0500, you wrote:
>> Well, the award is in the gift of the Crown (meaning there's no
>> polling or anything, unlike the East Kingdom's four Orders of High
>> Merit, which, BTW, are not grant-level awards, YHL Stefan...), so
>> that would probably explain the clause about the Crown being present.
>
>But isn't this always the case? I thought most awards were given on
>the recommendation of others and only a few by direct knowledge of the
>Crown.
>Maybe it is a kingdom differance. Here there are no polling orders, even
for the
>Peerages, the laws say that the order only has to be "consulted" by the King.
>They have no veto power and Peers have been made where the circle unanimously
>voted against the individual. I believe Gunthar made mention of this a short
>while ago, in fact.

I think Gunthar would tell you, or any other peer for that matter, that
even if you're the king and you _can_ make a peer against the wishes of teh
order, that doesn't mean it is a good idea. That person, however hard they
try, will always be known as a KGB (King's Good Buddy) or worse. It is the
worst thing you can do to someone, to force them on an order that doesn't
want them. It is very unusual for the order to come around and change their
mind when this happens.

Just a bad idea all around.

Once in awhile though, someone with significant (but not overwhelming or
unanimous) opposition actually turns out to be a good peer, and gradually
folks relax a bit. But that is once in awhile.

'Lainie
-who wishes she didn't see these realities...
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