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Posted By: Jim Hoffman

John, I appreciate your point of view. I don't have anything to counter the King Tut stuff. I don't feel any reverence toward the Tut relics. Someone else might be disturbed by the trade of those items, but that's not my issue. I CAN see how people might look at the Enola Gay with some strong emotions either way, including how they might be disturbed that the plane is "celebrated".

I agree that history is history. But that doesn't mean that every historic fragment needs to be brought to the open market. There are some things in the world that need not have a price tag, or an 18 percent buyers premium.

Joshua Evans cannot have a free pass on this.

If there was a hotel that knowingly rented space to the KKK or the Aryan Nation, shouldn't they be called on the carpet?

If a travel agency was selling travel packages for men to travel to Thailand to have unsavory relations with children, shouldn't they be called on it?

Would you buy products from a company that you knew was violating even the most basic pollution standards?

Would you buy products that you knew were made by sweatshop employees?

I have never met anyone from the Clemente family. I never even saw Clemente play. But the fact that some anonymous person is selling airplane wreckage, with Josh Evans' blessing is wrong.