Red Fridays spam RE: [SCA-AE] Fwd: [sca-pervect] Digest Number 1523

[Michael B. Greenstein]

>By all means, let us keep politics and the like off this list so that we may pursue other more important activities in this glorious organization.  I would say that the pursuit of awards, self aggrandizement, petty bickering and the vast stupidities that are indulged in on a hourly basis in the SCA are much more important than a simple act of acknowledging one of uur fallen heroes in this, the most beautiful country on God's earth.

Your base disdain bears little to commend
Those virtues which your station claims to bear,
That you would cast them all aside to lend
Your tongue to use a noble should forswear.
Are we so small?  Is what we grow so cheap,
You see it as the blossom of an hour,
And, now the moment's passed, you roar and leap
In wanton rage to crush that idle flower?
Perhaps that is your choice: to trade all this,
And buy instead a jingoistic joy,
Pretending that your words are not amiss,
Nor blushing at the anger you employ.
Whatever honors one purports to claim
Are earned by deeds, and not by acts of shame.