tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3279887958085077691.post2460124355072631099..comments2024-02-22T10:35:12.485-08:00Comments on Cultural Property Observer: Better Burned then Smuggled? Cultural Property Observerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05924359202414555962noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3279887958085077691.post-13729827217085922712014-06-24T01:23:56.488-07:002014-06-24T01:23:56.488-07:00"US Collectors and their empty-headed, black-..."US Collectors and their empty-headed, black-hearted, money-grabbing lobbyists, missing the point as usual, say "nothing, better smuggled than lost". Writes Paul Barford.<br /><br />With people being slaughtered on an industrial scale in Syria thousands made homeless refugees, and with increasingly savage and vile atrocities reported on every news bulletin, what does Barford see as the pressing issue to complain about in Syria? Antiquities. <br /><br />In another example of his warped logic, he accuses collectors -without evidence - of buying coins and relics from ISIS thus funding their brand of terrorism, but makes no condemnation of ISIS for looting them in the first place.<br /><br />What a vaudeville act this UNESCO pit-prop is becoming.<br /><br />Best wishes<br /><br />John Howland<br />EnglandJohn Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11752752229384757087noreply@blogger.com