rogerluli Posted October 28, 2008 Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/10/beiji...tion-of-relics/ An article about the proposed sale of 2 bronze animal heads that were looted by British and French soldiers from the Summer Palace during the Opium Wars. China refuses to buy art treasures like these that...ALREADY BELONG TO THEM... Didn't all the loot from the Nazis go back to its rightful owners???Didn't major museums in Europe return Egyptian artifacts???Do the Chinese get treated differently??? Link to comment
griz326 Posted October 28, 2008 Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 There's a part of common law called "holder in due course" that people live by when it is convenient. "I didn't steal it . . . and I didn't know it was stolen when I bought it from this guy who told me his great-grandfather got it on an army expedition." Link to comment
rogerluli Posted October 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 Obviously everyone from day one knew these were stolen national treasures. I say the police show up at the home of Mr. St. Laurent with a search warrant and relieve him of the stolen goods and return them to their rightful owners...Too simple... Link to comment
rogerluli Posted October 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 There's a part of common law called "holder in due course" that people live by when it is convenient. "I didn't steal it . . . and I didn't know it was stolen when I bought it from this guy who told me his great-grandfather got it on an army expedition." Nope the "holder in due course" does not apply here...That applies only to a "negotiable instrument"...So a thief remians a thief no matter the time involved... Link to comment
Randy W Posted October 28, 2008 Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 Obviously everyone from day one knew these were stolen national treasures. I say the police show up at the home of Mr. St. Laurent with a search warrant and relieve him of the stolen goods and return them to their rightful owners...Too simple... Make that his estate. Link to comment
rogerluli Posted October 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 Obviously everyone from day one knew these were stolen national treasures. I say the police show up at the home of Mr. St. Laurent with a search warrant and relieve him of the stolen goods and return them to their rightful owners...Too simple... Make that his estate. Yes I noticed that... If he would have been a stand up guy he would have bequeathed these treasures to China... Link to comment
warpedbored Posted October 28, 2008 Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 Let's castrate them. Link to comment
rogerluli Posted October 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 Let's castrate them. Well okay but he's already dead... How about if someone "buys" these 2 artifacts and does something other than give them back to China... Then we castrate them... Link to comment
Yuanyang Posted October 28, 2008 Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/10/beiji...tion-of-relics/ An article about the proposed sale of 2 bronze animal heads that were looted by British and French soldiers from the Summer Palace during the Opium Wars. China refuses to buy art treasures like these that...ALREADY BELONG TO THEM... Didn't all the loot from the Nazis go back to its rightful owners??? No. Didn't major museums in Europe return Egyptian artifacts??? No. Do the Chinese get treated differently??? Sadly, No. Link to comment
griz326 Posted October 29, 2008 Report Share Posted October 29, 2008 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/10/beiji...tion-of-relics/ An article about the proposed sale of 2 bronze animal heads that were looted by British and French soldiers from the Summer Palace during the Opium Wars. China refuses to buy art treasures like these that...ALREADY BELONG TO THEM... Didn't all the loot from the Nazis go back to its rightful owners??? No. Didn't major museums in Europe return Egyptian artifacts??? No. Do the Chinese get treated differently??? Sadly, No. I was thinking the same thing Yuanyang. I think the Carnegie museum still has all of the old treasures I saw there when I was a kid. Link to comment
pkfops Posted October 29, 2008 Report Share Posted October 29, 2008 When I toured the Louvre, I got the impression that most of the stuff I was seeing was nothing more than loot. Link to comment
shadeOgray Posted October 29, 2008 Report Share Posted October 29, 2008 WOW remind me never to tick you guys off Link to comment
Urkidding Posted October 29, 2008 Report Share Posted October 29, 2008 The museums in England, France and Germany are filled with looted cultural treasures from many countries in the world, not just China. A virtual tour of the big museums (London, Paris etc.) shows the extent of those stolen goods. Greece is also one of those countries who is crying to get back their stolen goods that are on display in England. It goes to show how appalling these thefts are. Maybe the more we expose this kind of things, the better hope that they may have of getting these and other antiquities back in China. Other countries are fighting to reclaim their artifacts too, and the more countries that participate in this endeavor, the stronger China and Greece will be in its fight. Link to comment
rogerluli Posted October 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2008 WOW remind me never to tick you guys off Don't fool with the mods and nobody gets hurt... Link to comment
rogerluli Posted October 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2008 The museums in England, France and Germany are filled with looted cultural treasures from many countries in the world, not just China. A virtual tour of the big museums (London, Paris etc.) shows the extent of those stolen goods. Greece is also one of those countries who is crying to get back their stolen goods that are on display in England. It goes to show how appalling these thefts are. Maybe the more we expose this kind of things, the better hope that they may have of getting these and other antiquities back in China. Other countries are fighting to reclaim their artifacts too, and the more countries that participate in this endeavor, the stronger China and Greece will be in its fight. Quite so Andrew...All these cultural treasures need to be returned to their rightful owners... Link to comment
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