Forwarded: sue

["John K. Bates" <john@humnet.ucla.edu>]

Here is a response I got from a friend of mine regarding SUE.
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JOHN, SUE WAS SEIZED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BECAUSE 
IT WAS EXCAVATED FROM PUBLIC LAND, BLM I BELIEVE.  THE 
ORIGINAL DISCOVERERS PLANNED TO SELL THE FIND TO THE 
HIGHEST BIDDER, PRIVATE OR PUBLIC, CHANCES ARE, WE, AS 
SCIENTISTS, WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ABLE TO STUDY THE 
SPECIMEN.  ALL THIS SUPOSED SEIZURE DID WAS STOP A MONEY 
HUNGRY PRIVATE BUISINESS, IN THE BUSINESS OF SELLING 
FOSSILS (OFTEN SCIENTIFICALLY (I KNOW THATS SPELLED 
WRONG) IMPORTANT TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, WHICH TYPICALLY 
REMOVED THE SPECIMEN FROM THE STUDY BASE.  THESE WERE 
NOTHING MORE THAN PSEUDOSCIENTISTS WITH NO INTEREST 
OTHER THAN PURE PROFIT, IT APPEARS THAT THEIR LATEST 
TACTIC IS MAKE THE GOVERNMENT OUT TO BE THE BIG BAD BOYS 
WHO INTERFER WITH OUR RIGHTS.  ASK THE PREEMINENT 
PALEOENTOLOGISTS JIM BAKKER ETC. WHAT THEY THINK OF THE 
SITUATION, IF THEY BELIEVE THAT THE SEIZURE IS WRONG I WILL 
CHANGE MY CURRENT VIEWS.  CURRENTLY I BELIEVE THE 
GOVERNMENT ACTION SAVED A VERY VALUABLE PIECE OF THE 
PUZZLE.  PS THE SKELETON WILL BE RELEASED FOR STUDY AS 
SOON AS THE INDIVIDUALS WHO MADE THE FIND STOP APPEALING 
COURT DECIUSIONS UNTIL THEN IT IS IMPOUNDED AS COURT 
EVIDENCE AND BY LAW CANNOT BE TAMPERED WITH UNTIL 
APEALS ARE EXHAUSTED.  CARL
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