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This is much too unpleasant and political for me. I recently "re-
upped" for CAR-PGa by sending my check to receive the newsletter the
old-fashioned way: via the USPS. I now regret that decision, but
that's okay. A year is not a long time. I'll be able to keep track
of some upcoming conventions and such, and then resign with a clear
conscience.

On May 10, 1:34 am, Paul Cardwell <hippogriff...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I will keep this in the third person because even if personally attacked, it was put on line and so involves the whole group.  I am not going to fall for school-yard tactics like the bully who lands one sucker punch and then proclaims loudly how this should be discussed privately.
>
> First, no one in CAR-PGa is authorized to use the imperative mood in referring to another member.
> Neither the Chair nor the Vice Chair nor any other member.  We have no office of censor.  One may object to any comment posted, and they should, but one does not order other members around.  As the banner of the Newsletter says, we are a network of researchers into all aspects of role-playing games. We are a group of equals.
>
> In the case at hand, and it would apply to other cases as well, there was a request for information at least implied as to why a national unit of an international organization, did not utilize the advances used by other national units of that same organization, particularly since they showed such success in those other nations - particularly since they involved RPG.  I answered.  I suppose I should have gone into more detail in connecting the dots, but I thought it obvious how it related to gaming - the same people who were involved in warping this organization were attacking RPG one and a half decades later - often using some of the same talking points.
>
> Right after this organization was altered, a group the organization's supporters who were also concerned about the damage, organized to try to meet the needs of all the original target population.  I sent them the full details of what I only outlined in my recent post.  It was four pages in single-space typewritten copy (this was long before I owned a computer).  More have come to light since then.  However, a combination of a bill to de-charter this group failed in Congress; the Supreme Court ruled that as a private group, they could continue to use phantom registrations to get more money out of community charity drives, the use of unused military bases while violating their own charter, even to the point of getting tax money; and the corporate mass media shut down all coverage of the subject.  That rather thoroughly destroyed those attempts.
>
> As for frightening off those supporting this group, I must ask which one?  The one founded internationally by Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell and in the U.S. by Dan Beard, or the one operated by the same people who, because of the power Texas has over the textbooks of the nation, are cutting Thomas Jefferson out of the schools (because of his letter to the Baptists about that wall - that they were defending back in those days) and that there were no native Texians defending the Alamo (the four who were all had Spanish names).  Do you want your kid to have to take an entrance exam and a full costly semester of remedial history, sociology, and civics to get a degree from a first rate college?  It is the same people then, plus their children now.  I could name names, but with a few exceptions, most would be unknown to you, although one involved in the phantom registrations once ran for the U.S. presidency - and don't jump to geographical conclusions with that
>  one - I don't know if he were involved or not, but doubt it until shown otherwise.  This is not guilt by association, but may reflect an association by guilt.
>
> One final matter, I have been threatened with having an opponent for the Chair.  That is obviously any member's right.  There are two ways to do it: file for the office when elections are opened by the Annual Report (January Newsletter); or, if that is too far off, by a vote of no confidence by either a majority of the Board of Directors (the Chair not voting, as in this case a tie is a failure) or of the entire active membership.  Unlike with sudden postings on this discussion list, the target does get a defense before final action is taken.
>
> Paul Cardwell
> Chair (at least for now)
>
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