[meteorite-list] Re: Plundering

From: ari machiz <a_machiz_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:44:15 2004
Message-ID: <20010629222321.58597.qmail_at_web12508.mail.yahoo.com>

Dean,
Thanks for your reply. I understand now. As long as I
have my passport and other legalities are in order, I
am free to plunder. I just wanted to know in case I
ever get the opportunity.

Thanks for your time.
Ari Machiz
Ari_at_Mediaright.tv
--- dean bessey <deanbessey_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> Ari. You miss the whole point of my previous email.
> There is no law or reason that prevents anybody to
> hunt meteorites in the
> sahara. In some places like morocco you need export
> permits from the
> ministry of mines (A day and a half process but is
> procedural and all legal
> in natural) but anybody can search and own what they
> find. The paulistons
> have just as much right to be in the desert and
> search for meteorites as me
> and you do (Or Bruno, the labbennes, farmer, the
> desert nomads and anybody
> else who has a valid passport, entry visa or
> otherwise a legal right to be
> in the country that they want to go to - which would
> have legally excluded
> americans from libya while there was a US embargo on
> a few years ago). The
> paulistons have every right to be there and I in no
> way suggest that they
> shouldent be allowed to be there looking. My comment
> was nothing more than
> to one up their "Holier than thou" attitude. I didnt
> mean for it to be taken
> literally.
> What the paulistons are trying to do is to use the
> "Preservation of
> scientific interest" arguement to keep the local
> nomads from searching for
> meteorites and keep them from flooding the market
> with 20 cent a gram
> meteorites so that they can get $4 a gram for
> theirs.
> They apear to be not doing as well in desert
> meteorite hunting and dont seem
> to be as good of meteorite hunters and gatherers as
> other desert meteorite
> acquireres like Bruno, farmer and the labbennes and
> basically cant compete
> in a free desert market of meteorites and so are
> therfore trying to skew the
> market in a way that they can keep from starving in
> the meteorite business
> until they learn the ropes of meteorite hunting.
> (Maybe Bruno or the
> labbennes would like to do their charity work for
> the month and give the
> paulistons some lessons in how to hunt for
> meteorites)
> DEAN
> PS
> Say Richard & Roldand. I bet that you guys have been
> spending the last few
> days crying in your beer and camel piss after
> reading recent news stories in
> the international press about Brunos Lunar (Or was
> it Brunos SNC?) I cant
> remember if it was Brunos SNC or his Lunar anymore
> that has been in the news
> lately. Whatever. It makes no difference. Its
> something different from what
> you guys have found anyway.
> >
>
>
>
>
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Received on Fri 29 Jun 2001 06:23:21 PM PDT