SR - Beginning new traditions

Randy Wrinkle WRINKLE at majik-net.com
Fri Jul 17 15:51:52 PDT 1998


It appears that some of my statements were a cause of some discussion. Good!
Thought is growth.

Pug Bainter wrote:

> I thought getting what the populace wanted to see for their group was
> why we put together Principality law. We do that long before the *first*
> coronet list.  Hard to win a tourney before it happens.

> This statement is  incomplete without the sentence after it. "or support someone
> with the same ideas you have". I was not referring to the fact that if you win a
> list to change the rules. It is a simple fact that if you or someone that you
> support wins the list that the problem person is no longer in the seat of power.
> The thread that I responded to was about limitations on the number of crown and
> coronet list a person could win because of problems of some ruling nobles.

> He also wrote:
> I'm sorry, but I have the right to gripe. My time is worth as much as
> the stick joke who happened to win that day. If I have been disillusioned
> and this is not the case, I will gladly find a hobby where I am
> appreciated for what I do.  Even if you win, it doesn't mean you get to change
> the rules. There is still the little bit about having appropriate signatures,
> which at
> minimum incldes the Kingdom or Principality Seneschal.  As well, it doesn't mean
> the next person won't reverse your decision.  Checks and balances are there for
> a reason.

> As the last part of my reply states! The no fight-no gripe statement is
> referring to the individuals right to fight,personally or by representation,
> without excercising that right each individual looses the right to gripe.It does
> not matter if you or the person you support looses the list you have made the
> statement that you will not let your personal beliefs die without a fight. Time
> is a great treasure that is priceless, I would hope that all will respect the
> time and energy that most of the people in the SCA devote to the dream.

> The "term limits" that I was referring to is the number of times that an
> individual will be allowed to hold the crown or coronet.

  In Service to the Crown....Randall der Krieger


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