Comment 4 for bug 900564

Vish: if we do that, then how do we specify that we can see *both* active and deleted records?

We can't simply perform an extra query each time since all of our helper code is deeply nested and uses a single context. We really need to be able to say, at a top-level, this context can see both active and deleted records.

All that said, I really think this should just be a stop gap; ultimately we should come up with a more elegant solution that can handle all 3 scenarios (live, deleted, and both).