More piractical moaning about the Italy MOU extension from the coineys:
Fair to whom? To the Italian people, Italian antiquity smugglers? Too right, the implementation of the 1970 UNESCO Convention by the US is downright unfair to Italian and any other antiquity smugglers. Also wholly unfair to those in the USA who want to buy illegally exported Italian antiquities. It must put their nose right out of joint that the US Gubn'mint says: "no, no we don't want that going on here on OUR watch". Welsh (not wanting to appear "extreme" you understand) cites the Chant de Guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin "Quoi? Des cohortes étrangères, feraient la loi dans nos foyers!"...It is not administering the carefully crafted 1983 CPIA for which it is responsible in anything even remotely resembling a fair and even handed manner.
"It's not what the American people want" Welsh raves: How many US citizens would actually want their kids hanging around in school with the kids of men who openly campaign for the "right" to buy and sell illegally obtained goods? Would you give them your hand?
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