All list members: If you disagree with the Pelissons, please write a letter to whom it may concern and deliver it to Bruno & Carine in Tucson. If you are not going to Tucson, please mail me your letters at: "Meteorite Propaganda" c/o Michael Blood 6106 Kerch St. San Diego, CA USA 92115-6628 and I will take it To Bruno & Carine to combat the outrageous and irresponsible claims made on the web site mentioned in my letter below:
Here is the letter I am taking - if you so choose, you may use any part of it, rewording it as approptiate to fit your own circumstances: To Whom It May Concern, I have been a meteorite dealer and collector for well over 10 years. I have been published in every meteorite periodical in the English speaking world and author a monthly column in METEORITE TIMES. I, my customers and my friends all collect meteorites, many of which come from Africa. The claim has been made by the Pelissons on their web site at http://www.saharamet.com/meteorite/data/Sahara/Nwa.html as follows: "Smugglers, dealers, investors, all the people who buy, sell, trade and publish documents about these meteorites want to conceal the truth. As long as the collectors believe that unknown hunters wish to keep the locations of their finds secret, that all these meteorites are good for science and a good purchase, the business will go on! The plundering of North Africa, the support to organized smuggling rings, the financing of terrorism, all that happens behind the Moroccan border in Saharan countries is of little concern for too many people today." I know the vast majority of dealers who go to NW Africa to purchase meteorites from nomads and other African nationals and a few who even find them themselves. I know ALL of the US dealers and searchers who engage in these activities. Not one single person I have spoken to has ever seen or heard of one single incident to support these claims. They are preposterous, slanderous and outrageous. Were the hundreds of collectors in the meteorite community not so outraged by their claims, the Pelissons would merely be the laughing stock of the the world meteorite community. However, terrorism is NOT something anyone finds the least bit humorous and for the Pelissons to claim a link between the meteorite dealers and collectors with the terrorist community sickens as well as outrages and flabbergasts every collector and dealer with whom I have discussed this matter. It is my understanding that at least one court is actually considering their claims at this time and I would like to emphatically state that any credibility given to these malicious and totally outrageous allegations would be an error of colossal proportions and without evidence of any foundation whatsoever. Sincerely, Michael Blood Dealer, collector, author and auctioneer of meteorites. ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list