Thanks to Yuri Tulupenko for clarifying, and pardon me if I am hypersensitive to the connotations that may be coded in language. Since it is established that I am, however, and I admit it, I wonder if "vandalism" is the best word? Some will dismiss this as quibbling, and sometimes it is, but words are the tools we think with. Strip-mining that destroys the surface of land might properly be called vandalism, but rearranging titles to land, without damaging the land, is redistribution without vandalism. I grant that burning old chains of title is a sort of vandalism per se, but I don't think that is the major point. Indeed, the chains of title generally hark back to some super-vandal who appropriated the land by killing many people and destroying their property. One might even liken this record-burning to tearing down an old building to salvage the site for a new use. I apologize to Yuri if this looks like a criticism aimed at him - that is not my intent at all. I just like to raise consciousness of semantic issues. Mason Gaffney