[Milsurplus] parting rigs

[J. Forster]

D C *Mac* Macdonald wrote:

> Once someone has bought and paid for something,
> that item is his or hers alone.
>
> No non-purchaser has any real right to demand that
> his or her personal ideas as to what can or should be
> done to or with it be "obeyed."

True, BUT that does not restrict the right of Free Speech of others to lament
those actions.

I view older military radios sort of like limited edition lithographs. Once they
are made, the stone is destroyed, and no more will be made.

If I had any such prints, I would not give them to a child to scribble over or
cut up for pastiche. I have seen current, working Tektronix scopes donated to
vocational schools for the students to practice soldering on. Both things are
vandalism, IMO.

I can't stop it, nor would I try, BUT I will certainly speak out against it.

-John


> If any such person wishes to live in a land where the
> few "annointed" ones can control his or her life, then
> I can suggest any number of socialist, muslim, or
> otherwise dictatorial countries.
>
> Mac - K2GKK