Lordo wrote:Get Real! wrote:Lordo wrote:Come now GR, the Swine party supporters are entitled to go anywhere in the world and do as they please, including rob the locals' resources? You know like the Athens Marbles and such like.
We paid a visit to the British museum in central-ish London, I think in 2011... and my wife and I were flabbergasted at all the stuff the Brits had looted from other countries, including the Elgin marbles of course... but that's just the tip of the iceberg.
How embarrassing putting on display foreign priceless artifacts that don’t belong to your culture!
Absolutely disgraceful...
They are Athens Marbles, calling them Elgin does not do justice to them. He was a thief. And of course, this was taking place while the swine legalized robberies from the natives.
They are a symbol to which Elgin's Britain aspired. What is clear from their possession (still) is that such a culture (as the Greeks) has not yet been surpassed.