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Dave Welsh
Nov 25, 2011, 3:15:18 PM11/25/11
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For every collector of ancient coins, there is something very important that
urgently needs to be addressed -- and if you wish to continue this
beneficial avocation you should give serious consideration to getting
involved. Archaeoblogger Paul Barford (a failed former archaeologist who has
never yet done anything else of importance in that or any other field) is
doing enormous, irreparable damage to your coin collecting interests through
his incessant anticollecting rants in what has become a very widely read,
influential and dangerous blog.
Should this unpleasant and unscrupulous man get what he wants, you can kiss
ancient [and antique world] coin collecting goodbye, including any hope of
ever being able to sell your collection. Coin collecting (with the
connivance of Barford's fellow travelers in the bureaucracy of the US State
Department) will by degrees eventually be restricted and ultimately
prohibited by law.
This dangerous man is unscrupulously, steadily inciting public opinion
against collectors, and if he is not convincingly answered that incitement
will one day have fatal consequences. Someone must convincingly refute this
drivel, lest this misleading and deceptive propaganda (whose original model
is the "Big Lie" of Josef Goebbels) should be publicly accepted.
To date I have been doing that essential work alone. No one has yet come
forward to help. Meanwhile the usual gaggle of unthinking liberal idiots
have been sniping at what (to their sub-room-temperature IQs) superficially
appears to be unfair personal attacks on Barford (although in social reality
and every aspect of law and beyond that, in professional and academic
ethics, there is no such thing as a personal attack in criticizing the
public persona of someone who has intentionally made himself a notorious
public figure, as even Mr. Barford himself admits that he has done).
This unscrupulous propagandist has intentionally transformed himself into an
anticollecting "shock jock," and has sought to incite public opinion against
antique coin collecting with the intention of gradually making collecting
anything made by the hand of man, which is more than 100 years old,
prohibited by law. His poisonous outpourings cannot be left unanswered. To
date I have been carrying that torch alone (see
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ancientartifacts/message/62969 ) and I am
getting very tired of doing that.
Barford, so far as I am able to determine, has for many more years than
those he spent attempting to pursue a career in archaeology eked a
hardscrabble impoverished existence, first as a cab driver and later as a
document translator in Warsaw, Poland -- which is for him
Wolkenkuckucksheim, that mystical cloudborne imaginary land where
everything one desires (regardless of law, custom and practicality) can
miraculously by delusionary wishing alone be magically transformed into
reality.
Do you care about the future of your coin collecting avocation ? Can you
accept the prospect of never again being able to add specimens to your
collection, or to sell it? You should give that serious thought, for this
evilly disposed crank (reminiscent to me of the creature Gollum) incessantly
endeavors to steal away your collecting rights.
Should ending antique coin collecting be permitted to become the life-work
of this cantankerous, unimpressive former archaeologist -- this failure in
the real world who has never yet accomplished anything of significance in
all his thus far insignificant life, who is derided and laughed to scorn by
almost every legitimate British archaeologist? Should that disaster be
permitted to become the only success of a man who lacks any graduate degree
and has never held an important professional or public appointment?
Forbid it, Almighty Jove!! Hurl thy Olympian thunderbolts and raise up
Dragon's Teeth, a legion of militant collectors willing to stand up in
public for what they believe in.
Dave Welsh
Unidroit-L Listowner
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Unidroit-L
Numismatica Listowner
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/numismatica
dwel...@cox.net
urgently needs to be addressed -- and if you wish to continue this
beneficial avocation you should give serious consideration to getting
involved. Archaeoblogger Paul Barford (a failed former archaeologist who has
never yet done anything else of importance in that or any other field) is
doing enormous, irreparable damage to your coin collecting interests through
his incessant anticollecting rants in what has become a very widely read,
influential and dangerous blog.
Should this unpleasant and unscrupulous man get what he wants, you can kiss
ancient [and antique world] coin collecting goodbye, including any hope of
ever being able to sell your collection. Coin collecting (with the
connivance of Barford's fellow travelers in the bureaucracy of the US State
Department) will by degrees eventually be restricted and ultimately
prohibited by law.
This dangerous man is unscrupulously, steadily inciting public opinion
against collectors, and if he is not convincingly answered that incitement
will one day have fatal consequences. Someone must convincingly refute this
drivel, lest this misleading and deceptive propaganda (whose original model
is the "Big Lie" of Josef Goebbels) should be publicly accepted.
To date I have been doing that essential work alone. No one has yet come
forward to help. Meanwhile the usual gaggle of unthinking liberal idiots
have been sniping at what (to their sub-room-temperature IQs) superficially
appears to be unfair personal attacks on Barford (although in social reality
and every aspect of law and beyond that, in professional and academic
ethics, there is no such thing as a personal attack in criticizing the
public persona of someone who has intentionally made himself a notorious
public figure, as even Mr. Barford himself admits that he has done).
This unscrupulous propagandist has intentionally transformed himself into an
anticollecting "shock jock," and has sought to incite public opinion against
antique coin collecting with the intention of gradually making collecting
anything made by the hand of man, which is more than 100 years old,
prohibited by law. His poisonous outpourings cannot be left unanswered. To
date I have been carrying that torch alone (see
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ancientartifacts/message/62969 ) and I am
getting very tired of doing that.
Barford, so far as I am able to determine, has for many more years than
those he spent attempting to pursue a career in archaeology eked a
hardscrabble impoverished existence, first as a cab driver and later as a
document translator in Warsaw, Poland -- which is for him
Wolkenkuckucksheim, that mystical cloudborne imaginary land where
everything one desires (regardless of law, custom and practicality) can
miraculously by delusionary wishing alone be magically transformed into
reality.
Do you care about the future of your coin collecting avocation ? Can you
accept the prospect of never again being able to add specimens to your
collection, or to sell it? You should give that serious thought, for this
evilly disposed crank (reminiscent to me of the creature Gollum) incessantly
endeavors to steal away your collecting rights.
Should ending antique coin collecting be permitted to become the life-work
of this cantankerous, unimpressive former archaeologist -- this failure in
the real world who has never yet accomplished anything of significance in
all his thus far insignificant life, who is derided and laughed to scorn by
almost every legitimate British archaeologist? Should that disaster be
permitted to become the only success of a man who lacks any graduate degree
and has never held an important professional or public appointment?
Forbid it, Almighty Jove!! Hurl thy Olympian thunderbolts and raise up
Dragon's Teeth, a legion of militant collectors willing to stand up in
public for what they believe in.
Dave Welsh
Unidroit-L Listowner
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Unidroit-L
Numismatica Listowner
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/numismatica
dwel...@cox.net
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