OK, thank you for bringing this to my attention. I will be frank and honest with you.
I would love nothing more than to ban anyone and everyone who is cruel to animals from Further Confusion. However banning someone is not my call. Even as Chairman I do work for the AAE which controls the convention. All actions against our attendees would first be approved by the board.
In any event I personally would not recommend a ban on anyone unless I felt that they in some way where a threat to the safety and well being of my attendees. Who knows, maybe by attending our convention and listening to panelist he will have a change of heart.
Im sure you can understand the Pandora box that would be opened if we started trying to take action on everyone who should or should not attend due to actions in their day to day life. We do have a standard for attendees and rules that they must follow, but that is for conduct at the convention and unless there is some legal reason why they should not attend then for us to take action of things that happen outside our realm of responsibly would not be justified.
This letter was CC'ed to the board and to the Chair of Further Confusion 2013 for further review.
Well I stand corrected, not quite a decade ago but close enough.
Chris Bartlett
To:
Cc:[email protected],[email protected]
Jan 22, 2012 at 11:59 AM
Hi there
First of all Great first name!
OK, thank you for bringing this to my attention. I will be frank and honest with you.
I would love nothing more than to ban anyone and everyone who is cruel to animals from Further Confusion. However banning someone is not my call. Even as Chairman I do work for the AAE which controls the convention. All actions against our attendees would first be approved by the board.
In any event I personally would not recommend a ban on anyone unless I felt that they in some way where a threat to the safety and well being of my attendees. Who knows, maybe by attending our convention and listening to panelist he will have a change of heart.
Im sure you can understand the Pandora box that would be opened if we started trying to take action on everyone who should or should not attend due to actions in their day to day life. We do have a standard for attendees and rules that they must follow, but that is for conduct at the convention and unless there is some legal reason why they should not attend then for us to take action of things that happen outside our realm of responsibly would not be justified.
This letter was CC'ed to the board and to the Chair of Further Confusion 2013 for further review.
Respectfully
Chris Bartlett
Chairman FC2012