<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I've got just two words for the Board of Directors. The first one is unprintable and the second is "YOU!"<br><br>Duke Cariadoc warned us more than twenty years ago that one big centralized membership fund is just one big honeypot for lawyers. Now here we are, proving the truth of his thesis.<br><br>We have also found out by catastrophic experience that the "insurance" that the SCA, Inc. was founded to provide is <span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">completely worthless</span>. ONE scumbag in ONE group in ONE kingdom, who <span style="font-weight: bold;">wasn't even perpetrating his vices <span style="text-decoration: underline;">AT</span> SCA events</span>, has ruined the whole game for <span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">everyone</span>. <span
style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">That's</span> what centralization can do.<br><br>I think we need to dis-incorporate and radically decentralize. No more BOD. No more Corpora. No more big central honeypot. No more "insurance" that isn't worth the paper it's printed on. It's going to happen anyway, as the BOD keeps jacking the membership rates into the stratosphere to cover their incompetence and misfeasance, and people start refusing to pay extortionate rates, triggering a vicious spiral that can only end in the destruction of the SCA. Inc.<br><br>Best we start now, <span style="font-weight: bold;">before </span>things completely fall apart, to plan what will take its place. The BOD needs us far more than we <span style="font-weight: bold;">ever</span> needed them - without us they're nothing, but without them, we still have each other and our game. And maybe we can write saner, less exploitative rules.<br><br>This HAD to blow up just when
I was starting to think that it might be in the best interests of Abhainn Iarthair to reinstate my membership. Wretchedly bad timing on the BOD's part, to remind me why I hate them so much.<br><br>With apologies for a rant,<br>Medhbhin (Maven) / B Helms<br><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="padding-left: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 5px; border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlEnd|**|-~-->
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