Egwene bound criminals to herself - women who had committed noticible crimes against Tower Law. These women were all given the option to face the consequences or give an Oath of Fealty. None of them really hesitated, which proves how severe their crimes were and how they were willing to accept a lesser punishment instead of a larger disgrace.
Elaida wanted to bind all Aes Sedai to her using a ter'angreal. That's more like Therava's punishment on Galina.
Elaida might be wrong, but your characterization of those who Egwene induced to swear to her is absurd. Nothing Myrelle did with Lan is against Tower law, and her fear of punishment does not prove her guilt, only the likelihood of her being punished, justly or not. In what sense is it possibly just to punish the "crime" of bonding a man against his will, by making four other men have their bonds passed to different sisters, equally against their will, and more obnoxiously so, because they had no share of the guilt of the crime? They seem to think it is a probable punishment, and the injustice of the sentence does not change its likelihood or severity, or lessen the desire of Myrelle & Nisao to shield their warders and themselves from such a punishment.
As for the committee sending the agents provacateur into the Tower, they did that when they had a perfect right to. There was no reason to tell the Hall, and good reasons to keep quiet. It was done before the Hall was elected, for crying out loud! Siuan's own argument that the committee had no right to second-guess her actions as Amyrlin when she had a perfect right to send Accepted out after the Black Ajah with writs of her authority is just as valid in the committee's defense, and their action was not nearly so radical.
If these were in fact crimes, Egwene is a hypocrite for covering them up, and absolutely no different than a magistrate or a prosecutor who accepts a bribe in return for delivering a verdict of "not guilty" or for dropping the case. If they were not crimes, she owes it to her "daughters" and to the Tower and justice to shield them from unjust punishment. Either way, she had no cause to blackmail them.
All you have to ask yourself is why Aes Sedai would accept an Oath of total obedience to anyone. It's clear that the alternative is much worse. It doesn't help to say that they might never have been found guilty or they weren't criminals. All of those women could have raised the roof, gone crazy, and reported the Amyrlin for completely illegal behaviour. And yet they didn't. It settles the scene for me because it explains what's happening in all their minds.
I guess you could see it as a magistrate taking a bribe, but in my opinion it's like a criminal taking a plea bargin and doing something good to atone for something evil they did. In their case it was to follow what Egwene needed done, and her intentions were honourable to unite the Tower.
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Egwene - hypocrite
10/12/2009 01:20:24 PM
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Not the same at all really
10/12/2009 02:12:36 PM
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I agree.
10/12/2009 03:03:49 PM
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What crime? Accepting her unethical promotions? Being afraid of the Hall's injustice?
10/12/2009 03:51:05 PM
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But...
10/12/2009 05:54:39 PM
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She threatened, or made an implied threat, to reveal what they had done.
17/12/2009 12:11:43 PM
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Re: What crime? Accepting her unethical promotions? Being afraid of the Hall's injustice?
10/12/2009 09:08:08 PM
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It does NOT violate Tower Law, as Myrelle herself said, and Siuan admits.
17/12/2009 12:23:25 PM
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I can't decide if you just don't understand the books at all
13/12/2009 05:14:22 AM
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I have doubts about RJ's brain if he actually believed some of the crap he has characters spew
17/12/2009 12:26:52 PM
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Let he who has no sin cast the first stone
10/12/2009 04:34:06 PM
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Not really
10/12/2009 03:06:30 PM
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But what the Amylin said is law, like how she raised those Accepted.
10/12/2009 04:42:51 PM
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Re: But what the Amylin said is law, like how she raised those Accepted.
10/12/2009 11:04:47 PM
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No she was right, and even her blackmail, as reprehensible as that was, was not an act of tyranny
10/12/2009 03:56:41 PM
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Actually, I agree.
10/12/2009 06:47:22 PM
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I like Egwene
10/12/2009 07:08:24 PM
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That really disappointed me.
10/12/2009 07:29:14 PM
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funny, I'm more of the mind set that both groups were right
11/12/2009 12:02:50 AM
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Not the problem.
11/12/2009 12:13:26 AM
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I do agree with DomA and the others on the point that
11/12/2009 07:13:31 AM
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Re: I do agree with DomA and the others on the point that
11/12/2009 08:20:19 AM
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*shrugs*
11/12/2009 02:06:47 PM
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You have no basis for that assertion.
11/12/2009 07:12:03 PM
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They refuse to reveal the Ajah Heads to Egwene, despite her express orders. Doubt Meidani could...
12/12/2009 09:44:23 AM
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Ah, true that.
12/12/2009 07:20:04 PM
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Who said she wasn't wrong?
12/12/2009 09:02:55 PM
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Re: Who said she wasn't wrong?
13/12/2009 04:16:56 AM
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Re: Who said she wasn't wrong?
13/12/2009 08:12:25 AM
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Re: Who said she wasn't wrong?
13/12/2009 07:35:10 PM
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I agree with most of your point
10/12/2009 09:49:18 PM
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Of course she is a hypocrite
11/12/2009 05:22:56 AM
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The same can be said of Nynaeve and Mat
11/12/2009 07:20:47 AM
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