[meteorite-list] Re: Plundering

From: Mark Miconi <mam602_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:44:15 2004
Message-ID: <002801c10120$375e6940$04f20541_at_fwlr1.az.home.com>

Ari,
There is however a $14.95 a day clean up charge if you Rape and
Pillage.....Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: ari machiz <a_machiz_at_yahoo.com>
To: dean bessey <deanbessey_at_hotmail.com>; <farmerm@concentric.net>
Cc: <Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 3:23 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Re: Plundering


> 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 Sat 30 Jun 2001 12:50:41 AM PDT