[blml] 2007 laws

[Grattan Endicott]

Grattan Endicott
grandeval at vejez.fsnet .co.uk
[also gesta at tiscali.co.uk]
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Landau" <ehaa at starpower.net>
To: "Bridge Laws Mailing List" <blml at amsterdamned.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: [blml] 2007 laws


>
> Let us hope that by the next round of law revisions the high and
> mighty who sit on the councils of the WBF will have recognized the
> reality that confronts actual bridge players who live in jurisdiction
> of certain NBOs, including one very large one, to wit:
>
> Individual players wishing to express opinions have a better chance
> of conveying those opinions to the WBF if they write them on a piece
> of paper, put it in a bottle and float it out to sea than if they
> send them to their NBO.
>
> Grattan and the others, I'm sure, see some distinction between
> politely guiding players to send opinions to their NBOs and simply
> telling them to ---- off, but from where I sit there's no practical
> difference at all, and the WBF should not be surprised when players
> react to such "guidance" accordingly.
>
+=+  Opportunity given to some 116 NBOs* to comment on our drafts
as they were in November could well have landed us (me) with an
indigestible problem in collating them law-by-law for presentation to the
DSC. As it was, the responses returned from NBOs were not so extensive
that I was unable to sort them in that way and communicate them to
colleagues. Offering the opportunity to bridge players generally to present
their views direct would have opened up an unacceptable risk of clogging
to the procedure, and in any case it was proper that players should present
opinions to their NBOs for consideration and influence upon the replies
NBOs would send.  If players feel that their NBO is deaf to their thoughts
players should use the ballot box to encourage greater attention for their
correspondence; we do not determine their representation or the corporate
structure of the organizations of which they are members.
                                                ~ Grattan ~   +=+
(* plus eight Zonal Organizations and the Portland Club)