[MR] 4/5th Peerage - OMG WILL IT NEVER END?

[Kevin B.]

Vels thank you for your response but allow me to reinforce my point. The 
Society for Creative Anachronism recognizes rapier (among many other 
things) as activities of the society. Many groups don't have Siege 
Engines, that doesn't make them any less a part of Pennsic or Gulf Wars 
(I have nightmares about Gulf Wars archers from time to time :-P ). My 
point is that; Primary, Ancillary, Mandated or merely Tolerated: these 
activities are a part of the SCA as it currently exists.

Thanks for your comments, have a groovy weekend.
-Melchior
> Having a Society Level officer does not a society wide activity make.
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> There is a Kingdom that does not have any kind of non-rattan rapier fighting. They are the "bane" of the fencing community and will stay that way until fencing finds a way to become part of that Kingdom from within. Many attempts to force fencing on that kingdom have been made, and they fail, repeatedly, for the same reason - external force rather than internal dynamism.
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> So while there is a de jure organizational element at the Society level, Society Wide it is not a de facto situation.
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> Interestingly, that Kingdom likely has the most fenced area in the Known World. 
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> Look it up.
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> Vels