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	Although I am still in limbo and for the moment primarily soaking 
up the various threads on the Rialto, the post on legislating authority 
caught my eye enough that I thought I'd post something.
	If there are laws saying "You must wear X and Y and Z" or things 
along those lines for kit, then be prepared to lose people.  The area I am 
trying to start a chapter in has the second highest unemployment in the 
country and I fear that when I go to potential members and say "You're 
going to be looking at spending X amount of dollars" (which will be 
considerable) the potential members are going to run scared.
	The best way I can put this is to use an exerpt from "The Misplaced 
Legion".  The conversation was about Roman legionaries starting to worship 
gods other than Rome's and the centurion was going to order them to stop.  
The tribune responded by saying "You can't order them to feel Roman -- it 
has to come from within.  If you order them, they'll buck and soon they'll 
stop wanting to be Roman. And that shall be the day they stop being Roman".
	That was more-or-less what the tribune said and I think it applies 
here.  You can't order people to have fun and put out the expense to be 
authentic.  You have to make them want to be authentic.  If you can show 
how being authentic helps to up the fun-meter, then the results you want (
more authenticity) will follow of its own accord.

John Doucette, soon to be SCAdian

Go maire tu i bhfad agus rath.