Re: RC: RE: RE: AERC & International & FEI

[Tivers@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/6/00 8:24:01 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
bobmorris@rmci.net writes:

<< I would like the answer to one very important question. Important to me at
 least. What makes the FEI the world governing body for International
 Endurance Riding? By what authority and by what consensus? Albeit the FEI is
 the controlling body for Europe but who granted them the license for the
 WORLD? Or is it by default because the UAE has placed the money on them
 rather than the rest of the world?
 
 As an American I debate (and politically incorrect that I am) why anything
 that has a European stamp on it makes it better and carries the banner of
 authority. Yes, if we want to compete in Europe, we must compete on their
 terms. If they want to compete on this continent, let them compete on our
 terms. The, FEI, are not the WORLD.
 
 Bob Morris >>


Bob,

I'm not into the politics of endurance--know nothing about it at all. So my 
thoughts come from completely outside the arena. Strictly primitive social 
science.

If you throw a party and nobody comes, then you didn't have a party. If you 
throw a party and everybody comes, then you put on a successful event. If you 
don't throw a party, but somebody else did, and everybody showed up--then the 
sponsor of that party wins by default. 

If the AERC wants to throw an international party, does, and everybody shows 
up, then the AERC becomes an international player. If not, then the FEI is, 
by default, the only international player. And if, as the only international 
player, the FEI decides that its parties have a dress code, then those who 
want to attend better go shopping. 

Is that primitive enough? 


ti