No kiddin'. I mean, if I wanted to put together a montage of 70's and 80's movies, how am I supposed to do that without the original versions of these movies? That very problem has happened before, because George Lucas will only funish footage from the Special Editions when people want to show footage of them, even if it's in a historical context. I think it was the AFI who was doing a by-decades montage of film, and they couldn't use Star Wars because Lucas wouldn't approve of them showing footage from the '77 version. I also saw a documentary about Harrison Ford on TV a while back, and when they got to discussing his involvement with Star Wars, they showed the Cantina scene where FREAKING GREEDO SHOT FIRST! In addition to the shot being offensive, in the context it did not make any sense because they were discussing Ford's career at that period, and that is not how the scene played out when the film released.

Like I said, I am not against special editions of movies. What I am against is that George Lucas has more or less stamped out the original versions of his films from history. It's one thing to want to make a movie more enjoyable to new audiences with better special effects and picture quality, but it's another thing to try and revise history and say "this is the movie that came out in 1977, and don't try to tell me otherwise even if it's not true." And, there are the stupid alterations like Greedo shooting first, Boba Fett's voice and Hayden Christensen as Anakin's force spirit.