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To: elmatador who wrote (75621)6/26/2011 6:17:10 AM
From: Maurice Winn2 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 217802
 
ElM, 200 years ago, pretty much everything was stolen property. Most still is = government expenditure and waste and control comprise well over half of GDP. My ancestral heritages were stolen from my ancestors. No use me worrying about it or demanding right of return, proportionate to where my ancestry was from.
<Is the British Museum a repository of stolen property?>

So yes, you might say that the British Museum has some stolen things in it, but they were the property of conquest, which would have flowed the other way if the opposition had won instead. When Islamic Jihad was stopped at Tours, that pretty well was the end of Moslems robbing the Europeans. They haven't handed back Constantinople yet or the Blue Mosque. They are unlikely to do so.

The thieves who currently run Greece have no more reason to "own" artifacts from that area than does the British Museum. Since they would be likely sold to raise cash, it seems sensible for the British Museum to continue to own them in the public interest.

Thank goodness for those Virtuous Victorian Values which have seen so much preserved for posterity and available free for any visitors to view.

Mqurice
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