Discussion: Report: Hobby Lobby Founders Imported Illicit Artifacts For Bible Museum

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These pseudo Christian religious zealots really are a disgustingly corrupt and hypocritical bunch!!

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… or Cecil’s radio locator beacon collar…

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They translated the cuneiform tablets! Turns out to be a prescription for birth control.

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You may need snark tags. Poe’s Law is insidious…

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ISIS Selling Church Artifacts on Black Market to Fund Terrorism

ISIS Selling Church Artifacts on Black Market to Fund Terrorism | World

Gee, I wonder if these stories are somehow related? It would be beyond ironic if that idiot is funding anti-Christian Islamic terrorism.

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Poverty merchants. They steal labor, they steal culture, they steal materials.

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Que up the rants about Christians being persecuted by our Muslim President Barack HUSSEIN Obama. That crap is getting so predictable you can set your watch by it.

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There never WAS a real Jesus.

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You gotta wonder how many of these artifacts were stolen from Iraq’s museums during Bush’s reign of incompetence after the “victory in Baghdad”.

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Dealing with terrorists is OK if you’re doing it to further G*d’s Work.

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First thing I thought of reading the article.

Providing aid to an enemy (ISIS) as well as theft of cultural assets for their “non-profit”. Yeah, right!

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Does this mean that the true fossilized T-Rex that Jesus rode into Jerusalem won’t be on display at the Museum of the Babble’? Dammit’…I really wanted to see that! The animatronic horsesh*t in Ken-tuck’s ‘Creation Museum’ just won’t cut it.

Well…shoooooooooooooooooooooooot’!
http://new3.fjcdn.com/gifs/Just+jesus+riding+a+t+rex_0338a3_5133585.gif

Eighth Commandment in the Green’s Conservative Fundie Bible: "Thou shalt not get caught stealing."

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Okay, you win the internets today.

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It should read “anti-Christian and anti-Moslem” terrorism as they seem pretty adept at terrorizing muslims also.

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That’s the best post I’ve ever seen here at TPM. Ever.

Thank you.

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Yes, just as there never WAS a “real” Ronald Reagan.

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Wednesday, April 16, 2003

pfaffenBlog who has the most detailed information I’ve seen about the Iraq Museum. Bryan Pfaffenberger of the University of Virginia says:

The team of concerned U.S. scholars wasn’t the only group to make contact with the Pentagon about Iraq’s antiquities. A group of art traders, calling itself the American Council for Cultural Policy (ACCP), recently met with Defense Department officials. Scholars fear that the meeting “was an attempt by the influential dealers to ease restrictions on Iraq’s antiquities laws. The group’s treasurer has called current policies ‘retentionist,’ and favors the export and sale of some of the world’s oldest treasures to the US.” According to German antiquities expert named Sonja Zekri, the ACCP’s goal is to " loosen up the Iraqi antiquities laws under an American-controlled postwar regime… In short, it’s the legalized plundering of Mesopotamian culture by Americans after US bombs have already destroyed the land, and US companies have profited from reconstruction."
Most archaeologists would be alarmed if this group were involved in the post-war supervision of Iraqi antiquities. According to Liam McDougall, an arts columnist for the Sunday Herald, “among its main members are collectors and lawyers with chequered histories in collecting valuable artefacts, including alleged exhibitions of Nazi loot.”

CNN has reported the Iraq Museum thieves displayed some expertise by avoiding replicas of exhibits on loan to other museums and taking only actual antiquities. CNN also reported Museum officials finding high quality foreign made glass cutters left in the debris on the museum floor.

http://planetsean.blogspot.com/2003/04/when-news-broke-of-looting-of-iraq.html

http://planetsean.blogspot.com/2003/04/when-news-broke-of-looting-of-iraq.html

April 23, 2003, Washington Post(link no longer available):

“Every dealer in this country knows that these things are radioactive from a legal point of view,” said William Pearlstein, co-counsel for the National Association of Dealers in Ancient, Oriental and Primitive Art, a lobby founded in 1975 with the express aim of softening U.S. laws on the importation of antiquities…Pearlstein drew sharp criticism from U.S. and British museum curators before the war when he was quoted as saying he hoped Iraq’s post-Hussein government would relax its “retentionist” export regulations to allow more antiquities to reach foreign buyers.

The Washington Post doesn’t mention that Pearlstein is apparently the treasurer of the American Council for Cultural Policy and that the “retentionist” statement was made in Italy as members of the ACCP sat waiting for war to begin. Pearlstein is also identified as ACCP’s treasurer in an April 15th Berliner Zeitung article.

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How quickly they forget.

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“Is it possible that we have some illicit [artifacts]? That’s possible,” he said, as quoted by The Daily Beast.

“Are we a bunch of fucking crooks? That’s possible, too!”

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Heritage Galleries in Dallas, an auction house that has sold many ancient Middle Eastern artifacts, was formed in 2005 shortly after the Iraq War started in 2003:

http://planetsean.blogspot.com/2005/08/that-2002-art-newspaper-story.html

http://planetsean.blogspot.com/2005/08/more-googling-this-morning-in-matter.html

http://planetsean.blogspot.com/2005/08/rather-curious-little-announcement-in.html

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