[MR] proposed regalia restrictions

[Susan Arthur]

Unto Your Majesties and Highnesses, greetings from Baroness Lucia  Bellini,
of the Order of the Laurel.

It was with great surprise and dismay that I read of the proposed changes to
the laws of the Kingdom of  Atlantia, which has survived-- nay, indeed,
thrived-- for lo, its entire existence with no laws restricting what is worn
by its citizens.

I would first like to thank His Excellency Baron Geoffrey Athos von Ulm for
his insightful comments. I was also extremely impressed with the thoughts of
Their Excellencies, Master Eldrid Tremayne and Mistress Clare de Crecy.
There were points in both letters that I could not have expressed so
cogently, but with which I agree thoroughly.

The only reasons I can see for such a change are so petty as to be
embarrassing. There is absolutely no reason to place such restrictions on
those who have served this Kingdom, and who continue to do so. Recognition
and respect should be, and indeed must be, *earned*, and absolutely cannot
be legislated. The size of one's regalia alone will certainly not guarantee
such a thing. The earning of respect comes from treating one's citizens with
the respect one desires to receive from them, not from legislating such
pettiness as the size of tri-lobed points, or the number of points. Indeed,
such an attempt to impose such rules on a populace which has never been
subject to such may garner scorn and ridicule instead.

Further, from everything I have read, this would encode rules that are
extremely specific-- to one region, and to a period that is post-SCA. This
alone mandates against adoption, in my book. The SCA is supposed to be more
inclusive than one small region of Europe, and it is supposed to be
pre-1600.

I strongly urge that You abandon this rule now.

Ever in service,
Maestra Lucia Bellini