ACCG Spokesman, "I want to tell you a story"

Alfredo De La Fe, the coin dealer who sent the first ACCG alarms to collectors forums attemptying to incite them to resist the extension of the US MOU with Italy explains with the aid of "one of MANY stories I have experienced" (sic) which he says have taught him "to never trust my rights to others". This is of course to further justify why these collectors should oppose any help offered by the US to Italy to stem the flow of illegal exports. Quite what "rights" a revised MOU would do away with is anyone's guess (the "right" of US citizens to buy illegally exported artefacts is the only thing that comes to mind, but that cannot be right).

Readers can check out the story themselves, it involves a domestic dispute and a strange American instrument of law apparently allowed by the US Constitution which makes you confess to something you had not done, sort of like waterboarding on paper I guess ("a document saying that if he was ever facing charges for domestic violence within a year (or something like this) that he would automatically plead guilty to the first offense"). Anyway the guy apparently was arrested and held more than two days even though he had, De La Fe asserts "a strong alibi": "he had been with ME the entire day and his wife lived one hour away from my office". In fact this alibi was so strong, De La Fe repeats it "he had a strong alibi having been with me and having gone to a few clients", but is angered that the Police did not care. I guess the real moral of this story is when one is seeking an alibi, its best not to rely on a coin dealer who cannot get his story straight.

But this has nothing to do with the MOU and coins. The ACCG must be getting desperate to look to such scare tactics. Come on, let's have another story...
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Photo: Let us hope these NYPD men were not on the prowl looking for some innocent ancient coin collector to "take away more of his rights"....