BSACompass

Beavah and Slouchhat (read my arguments as a debate, not as personal attack - I am glad there is a forum to have exchanges like this and I would bet someone else in the upper echelons might be reading them as well), First, Beavah, I've never seen "Canadian" written out - and I am assuming you are Canadian - or maybe northern Minnesotan? But, I'm getting better at it, eh? (smiley face thing) I thought Eduardo was Missoni, my mistake. 70% constitutes the percentage of NSO's by membership that aligned with the BSA to protest the WSB's actions. Re-read the threads and you will s

So, if the biggest guy on the block BSA wants to protect the little guy (developing NSO's)so they can have great Scouting, but the "man" wants to spend money on lavish offices and projects that waste money to the detriment of those that need it most - it is a bad thing? Didn't say my own opinion one way or da other, BSACompass. Just tryin' to make sure we all don't ignore Eduardo and Volker while sittin' on our American High Horse. I was asking a question, not making an accusation. BSA didn't ignore Eduardo and Volker, they ignored the will of 70% of the WOSM - again, I don't understand

Beavah (as in I used to be a...?) So, if the biggest guy on the block BSA wants to protect the little guy (developing NSO's)so they can have great Scouting, but the "man" wants to spend money on lavish offices and projects that waste money to the detriment of those that need it most - it is a bad thing? And this unilateral argument that keeps getting thrown out makes no sense - 70% backing, do I need to repeat that again? If we are helping the NSO's develop BETTER scouting at the grass roots level, I'll accept the "bully" title anyday. If the BSA is really Dr. Evil in this whole

Looks like this argument has come full circle. What I don't understand is how anyone can say that BSA's decision is hurting the World Scouting Movement. Again, if you READ the International Commissioner's letter, BSA wants financial transparency and wise use of resources - gee, what's wrong with that? BSA wants to see a budget - seems reasonable - especially when you are already well into that fiscal year. If our local councils didn't do a budget in advance, their exec would be sacked! BSA wants money spent on the Scouts in Romania, Bulgaria, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, etc. As I mentioned befo

Having just attended the last WSJ in Chelmsford, I was very interested to learn of this WOSM crisis. I think we should be careful to point too many fingers at the BSA. Yes, we have a "national Scout Center" at Philmont, but it was donated to us by Waite Phllips and maintained entirely without WSB funds, so there is no parallel there. As far as the UN analogy, I concur. If you were to take some time to read Mr. Perry's October 17th letter and Google Picarquin, you would see that this expense was to be paid for by the WSB, not the Chilean Scouting Movement, but would have made fewer funds av