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Baalke: Super Hero and Defender of "Truth, Justice and the Canadian Way!"

Hello Ron and List,

Ron Baalke said on 6/3/98:
I should add I've been buying meteorites from Blaine for a number of years
now, and he's the most honest and respected meteorite dealer that I know of.  
He has very good prices, too.

Baalke then said yesterday:  
 This is not true at all. Meteorites can be legally exported from Canada. 


I disagreed with you.  And because of your high respect for Blaine Reed, I
suggested yesterday:

If you don't believe me, I strongly suggest you talk to Blaine Reed before you
respond to the list again.  I trust him more than any other person in this
field, and he will share with you the truth about the Canadian Government and
"Their" meteorites! 

I just talked with Blaine a moment ago, and he said that you still have not
contacted him!  (Which doesn't surprise me.)

Blaine has asked me a favor, to not publicly state the details of the bad
treatment he has been receiving from the officials at the Canadian National
Collection, since finally after two years of stonewalling on their part, they
are now promising that they MIGHT try to work out a deal on the Hodgeville,
and he doesn't want to them to get mad at him!  So I will refrain from talking
about how they have been jerking him around for the past few years.

But Blaine did tell me that he has a friend who purchased some Bruderheim from
a farmer in the fall area a short while back.  He then attempted to get the
export permits to remove them, but the Canadian Officials would not approve it
since they said "there was not enough extra Bruderheim material for scientific
research to allow ANY of it to be exported!"  THERE IS OVER 800 POUNDS OF
BRUDERHEIM!!!!!!!!!  And it is a very ordinary L6.  How much do they need?
And what kind of research are they doing on it anyway?  

And if they won't let out a couple specimens of Bruderheim, Ron, what makes
you think they will let ANYTHING ELSE OUT, especially a new find or fall such
as the Hodgeville?  The answer is THEY WON'T!

But you seemed totally convinced that they will!!!!  So I challenge you.  NO,
I DARE YOU [with my index finger pointing at my screen]: use all your JPL
resources and years of fact finding expertise to find out exactly how many
people have requested meteorite export permits from Canada, and how many have
been granted and how many rejected (and on what grounds).

Then please report back to us here on the list.

And I think I speak for most of us out here, when I say I hope you will be
quicker at producing this information than it has taken you to give us the
list of fresh falls that can easily be purchsed for $1/g.

By the way Ron, can you get me some Bruderheim for $1/g while you are at it?

Steve Arnold