[meteorite-list] It is a sad day.....

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:18:48 -0500
Message-ID: <e51421551003090618t1b83216ay98934f020dda47eb_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi List,

I think this is a lot of worry and noise over nothing. The only thing
that has changed with this announcement is a block of text on a
website.

How a law is worded, versus how it is enforced are two different things.

It's illegal to keep arrowheads you find in Florida, yet almost every
local down here has some in a drawer or box. My grandfather (a highly
decorated WWII veteran and all around great person) was quite proud of
his arrowheads and I'd like to see some LEO try to take them from him.

I don't think this wording change on a website is going to mean much
in the long run. It just means we are going to hear more
conversations like this one :

BLM officer : Where did you get that rock that looks like a meteorite?

Met Hunter : Oh that? I brought that with me from home, it's a good
luck charm. But it's not working today because I didn't find
anything.

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Or -

Met Buyer : Where did you say you found this meteorite again?

Met Hunter/Seller : I didn't, because I can't remember where I found
it. It's the funniest thing, because I know I found it, but I don't
remember where or when. I really need to stop sniffing glue before I
forget where all of these specimens came from.

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Don't you just love it when a government that murdered thousands of
indigenous people and stole this land from the native American
indians, now tries to dictate about theft and property?

Message from this tax payer - hey government, you can make demands
about meteorites when you give back the Indians' land you stole. It's
very hypocritical to claim that meteorite hunters are stealing from
federal land, when that federal land was stolen by the government from
it's rightful owners.

I don't take orders from a government that hands out small-pox
infected blankets to women and children. (or funds the School of the
Americas)

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See yall out on the dry lake beds soon. ;)

Best regards,

MikeG



On 3/9/10, valparint at aol.com <valparint at aol.com> wrote:
> I'll give up my meteorites when they pry them from my cold, dead fingers.
>
> Paul Swartz
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Received on Tue 09 Mar 2010 09:18:48 AM PST