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2014-04-04 -Land of the Free

FBI Seizes Indiana Man's Artifact Collection

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Posted by Grunter 2014-04-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Punk/thug federal government. 100 agents against one 92 year old man who probably cannot even walk without a walker. The cockroaches and maggets who took over this mans private property with tents and rvs will line the pockets of thier seedy masters with this man's personal collection worth untold millions. May hell be unleashed on these muthas.

Posted by Bubba Graiting8281 2014-04-04 00:55|| 2014-04-04 00:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Think of the favour they [the bureau] will curry with their mustached DoJ master and his Kenyan God-King as the God-King personally ferries these ill gotten treasures back to their rightful owners and our dear friends in darkest Africa, the Middle East, China, or elsewhere.

If the old man raises his walker in a threatening manner, deadly force is authorized.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-04 04:05|| 2014-04-04 04:05|| Front Page Top

#3 I buy my gold from Rosland Capital because ounce for ounce they're as good as gold--what's in your safe ?

Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-04 04:15|| 2014-04-04 04:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Refused to make a contribution to Obama's perpetual campaigning fund?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-04-04 05:24|| 2014-04-04 05:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Or just not being the kind of person (one of us elites) allowed to own an art collection?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-04-04 05:26|| 2014-04-04 05:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Did you know a creation myth is official US law? NAGPRA -- North American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act -- mandates that Native tribes' beliefs that they've "always been here" are true, and that all archaeological study be conducted in light of that "fact". If you find something contrary to that, the tribes can seize it and "honor their ancestors" by burying it.

The international laws are just as bad. People in Italy have been imprisoned for having Roman pillars in their homes -- pillars they unearthed on their own property! And it's not like Italy isn't swimming in Roman artifacts...

The end result will be all the world's artifacts locked away in vaults where only the credentialed and connected can ever see them, and where a few disasters could wipe out our heritage.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2014-04-04 12:33|| 2014-04-04 12:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Most telling is the expert stating the artifacts were well-kept. The archaeological world keeps over-paying for "new" "research" into "gender roles", but can't hire a half dozen strong backs to clear the drainage ditches at Pompeii.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2014-04-04 12:36|| 2014-04-04 12:36|| Front Page Top

#8 You must never dig under the Clovis layer.
I have run afoul of this shit when I was young. Yes, lol, laugh if you will be my original degree was in Anthropology. Bottom line. If I find it belongs to the tribes or the state if I get caught. This does not apply to any professors collections of course, that's different. Yo know that still makes me damn mad. I got caught twice, both times by State Forestry they ran me off and took my stuff. I will guarantee it is in their possession or their estates possession still. Damn, Ethel, where's muh pill?
I am agitate!

Posted by Shipman 2014-04-04 12:51|| 2014-04-04 12:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Shipman dear, did you intend that entire post to be crossed out?

Posted by trailing wife 2014-04-04 15:32|| 2014-04-04 15:32|| Front Page Top

#10 This 91 year old had been collecting artifacts for 8 decades. He must have started as a kid of 10-11.

I can remember that as a kid (8 or 9), I had a friend who lived on a farm in northern Ohio. On that farm were Indian burial mounds. My friend and his family had a house full of artifacts. This would have been in the late 1940s or 1950s. Such collecting was a hobby--considered innocent at the time. I never knew of any native Americans in that area although there were at one time; Wyandot and Shawnee. They may have integrated into the larger society or moved on to another area. At the time I don't think the Feds concerned themselves with such things as artifacts. In fact, the federal government was much, much smaller (and much more manageable). They didn't intrude on citizens lives nearly so much as they do today. With the perspective of time and old age, I can say we have lost considerable freedom since that time era. Sometimes, the good old days really were the good old days.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-04-04 17:01|| 2014-04-04 17:01|| Front Page Top

#11 Regardless of the age of the offender, there is no statute of limitation regarding the desecration of Ohio Native American burial sites. What you have described is a clear violation of Federal Statutes. I suggest you turn yourself in to the Cleveland Indians at your earliest opportunity.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-04 17:26|| 2014-04-04 17:26|| Front Page Top

#12 Why the Cleveland Indians and not the Washington Redskins?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-04-04 17:33|| 2014-04-04 17:33|| Front Page Top

#13 Yes I had second thoughts, 3 times and want deniability. Crossing stuff out disallows it to be used in court. amirite?

Posted by Shipman 2014-04-04 17:35|| 2014-04-04 17:35|| Front Page Top

#14 Well, I didn't see anything.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-04-04 17:56|| 2014-04-04 17:56|| Front Page Top

#15 I suggest you turn yourself in to the Cleveland Indians at your earliest opportunity.

10-4 that.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-04-04 18:28|| 2014-04-04 18:28|| Front Page Top

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