livius drusus
07-12-2005, 07:02 PM
The one removed from his skull post mortem, that is. It seems the daughter of the Mexican secret police commander who, um, kept the icepick for safekeeping :shifty: is looking to sell (http://www.breakingnews.ie/2005/07/11/story211136.html).
Trotsky’s grandson doesn't truck with such capitalist pigdog shenanigans, however, so he won't give up his DNA to confirm that the crusty red stains on the pick came from inside Trotsky's head unless Ms. Salas donates the artifact to a museum.
“If it is for commercial purposes, I refuse to participate in this kind of thing,” Volkov said with a disdain echoed in the volumes of Trotsky’s revolutionary writings on display in the museum’s library.
Salas, 50, refuses to consider such a donation, saying people only value the things they pay for.
“Sometimes people don’t value things that are given away,” Salas said.
In a country where police misconduct is legendary, Salas is quick to paint her father, Alfred Salas, as a model secret service agent.
She said that Alfred Salas, who retired in 1965 and died in 1985, had been granted permission by superiors to keep the icepick in order to put together a “museum of criminology”.
He withdrew the pick from the museum and kept it among his personal possessions after someone tried to steal the artefact from a criminology display.
While she has said in the past that she is seeking “some financial benefit” in exchange for the pick, she hedges when asked if she is selling the piece.
“I think this instrument is valuable. It is a piece of world history,” Salas said as she displayed the pick, wrapped in flannel and kept in an old cardboard box labelled Kenmore Electric Heating Pad.
So it looks like her father didn't seem to think people don't value what they don't pay for because he was all about the giving and the criminology museum and whatnot. I guess it's better it stay in the heating pad box until people learn to value it as it deserves.
Trotsky’s grandson doesn't truck with such capitalist pigdog shenanigans, however, so he won't give up his DNA to confirm that the crusty red stains on the pick came from inside Trotsky's head unless Ms. Salas donates the artifact to a museum.
“If it is for commercial purposes, I refuse to participate in this kind of thing,” Volkov said with a disdain echoed in the volumes of Trotsky’s revolutionary writings on display in the museum’s library.
Salas, 50, refuses to consider such a donation, saying people only value the things they pay for.
“Sometimes people don’t value things that are given away,” Salas said.
In a country where police misconduct is legendary, Salas is quick to paint her father, Alfred Salas, as a model secret service agent.
She said that Alfred Salas, who retired in 1965 and died in 1985, had been granted permission by superiors to keep the icepick in order to put together a “museum of criminology”.
He withdrew the pick from the museum and kept it among his personal possessions after someone tried to steal the artefact from a criminology display.
While she has said in the past that she is seeking “some financial benefit” in exchange for the pick, she hedges when asked if she is selling the piece.
“I think this instrument is valuable. It is a piece of world history,” Salas said as she displayed the pick, wrapped in flannel and kept in an old cardboard box labelled Kenmore Electric Heating Pad.
So it looks like her father didn't seem to think people don't value what they don't pay for because he was all about the giving and the criminology museum and whatnot. I guess it's better it stay in the heating pad box until people learn to value it as it deserves.