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Andy, my better instincts tell me to ignore
your post, but you did invoke the doctrine of Personal Privilege by mentioning
my name.
I was able to learn that others have been
retained as judges in good standing in the SFOS for years after they stopped
judging. The legitimacy of Fuchs' claim that I was no longer an SFOS judge
in good standing and therefore should not judge at the WOC is blunted by the
fact that one remains a judge at the SFOS only with Fuchs' own
personal indulgence.
I cannot account for your inference, that
anything I have posted implies I do not deplore the atrocities against the
vendors committed in Dijon, other than as an advanced case of Paranoia. I
will be representing Malala Orchids of Madagascar at the Redlands Orchid Fair in
May, so I am particularly outraged at the way the French Plant Police have
treated them. I have had a recent communication from Malala
clarifying the rationalization of the atrocity committed against them by
the French Plant Police. They chose to regard the
Madagascan CITES papers as limited to seedlings or meristems, despite the
specifics in Chapter III, article 26, of the "Journal officiel des Communautees
Europeenes" of 9/19/2001, that they also apply to vegitativly propagated
plants. Apparently laboratory propagation is not yet prevalent in
Madagascar. The fact that, under French administration, 98% of the
Malagasy forests were destroyed for lumber and fuel makes current collecting
rather impractical.
As for the non sequitor linking
me to Andy's bête noire, Joyce Stuart, I don't know her personally and, as I
have explained above, I get my Angraecoids directly from the source. More
Easton Paranoia. Andy should be more concerned about the local
administration of the NEXT WOC, slated to be directed by that
other orchid autocrat, Robert Fuchs. Before it's over I predict that,
by comparison, Joyce Stuart will appear in retrospect as benign as Mother
Teresa.
Bert
Pressman
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