From: whheydt@pbhya.PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)
Subject: Re: Drachenwald Kingdom ideas (long)
Reply-To: whheydt@PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:34:33 GMT

In article <199212301902.AA02653@meryl.csd.uu.se> vader@meryl.csd.uu.se ("]ke Eldberg") writes:
[A great deal of interesting things.  Hwoever, I am going to make
limited remarks on just a couple of points.  -whh]

>The law writers are, however, nearly all Americans, and there is
>not a single person from Nordmark among them -- as far as I know.
>This is a result of the old traditional situation in Drachenwald,
>where American military personnel made up the backbone. The demo-
>graphical situation has changed drastically, but the administrative
>side has not followed. 

I think will change--firstly due the major decrease in American
military personnel in Europe (witness the dissolution of one branch
already), and secondly because Europeans will have continuity in
place.  I think the administrative center *will* migrate to Nordmark.
Even if no active effort is mounted to make it happen.

Making Nordmark a Principality will make this happen even faster.
Why?  Because Principality officers and ex-officers are prime
candidates to be Kingdom officers.  Where better to find experienced
people with a proven track record?

The only other point that needs to be looked for is 'Kingdom
focus'--the willingness and mind-set to consider *all* parts of the
Kingdom when formulating policy and carrying out duties.

>   We could stop participating in IKAC, stop shooting Royal Rounds
>   and other competition forms which are post-period. We could invent
>   our own archery tournament system based on medieval precedents.

You don't need Kingdom or Principality Law for this.  The IKAC was
started at a time when practically no one in the SCA outside of the
West was doing any archery at all.  Sir John Fitz-Rolf started it to
encourage archery.  The form was one designed to encourage
inter-Kingdom rivalry.  There is no bar to nordmark--or any other
group or individual--from starting period-styled archery shoots.  If
it is in a competitive form, you are quite free to open the
competition to all.  Just publish the rules and ask local archers to
enforce 'em and send in the scores.

At the risk of some offense (which is not meant--either specifically
or generally), I think I see a distressing trend here....

Entirely too many people appear to think that there is a rule
somewhere that says:

	Everything that is not compulsory, is forbidden.

Such a rule *does*not*exist*.

Those things that are compusory--are compulsory.  Those things that
are forbidden--are forbidden.  There is a *large* area in the middle
that is neither compulsory *nor* forbidden.  You are completely free
to 'roll your own' in that large area!

So....  Find out what Corpora *requires* you to do.  Find out what
Corpora *forbids* you to do.  Elsewhere--do what you damn well please.
(Remember also, that you can actually take *advantage* of the US
habits about 'self-reliance' and 'individuality' and stand up to the
Board.  They may back down if you present a strong self-assured case
on a topic near and dear to your heart...)


	--Hal

        Hal Ravn, Province of the Mists, West Kingdom
        Wilson H. Heydt, Jr.,  Albany, CA 94706,  510/524-8321 (home)
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