Imagine if someone sailed up the Hudson and made off with the Statue of Liberty's crown.
The marble frieze, hacked from the Parthenon, Greece's greatest treasure, is 'owned' by the British museum.
And now, a moron of a judge, (vice chancellor Andrew Morritt) has ruled that: the British Museum Act – which protects the collections for posterity – cannot be overridden by a "moral obligation" to return works known to have been plundered. "
In effect this means that museum pieces are protected by the law, even if the law was broken to acquire them. It means that museums can receive stolen goods, something which is illegal for everyone else.
This creates a moral justification for the Greeks to plunder the UK at some point in the future, I guess.
But it gets worse. This ruling was based on:
Four drawings that "were stolen from the home of Dr Arthur Feldmann by the Gestapo in 1939 when Germany invaded Czechoslovakia. Dr Feldmann was tortured and murdered by the Nazis and his wife Gisela died at Auschwitz. All the drawings were acquired by the British Museum shortly after the second world war."
This is a law that's sole purpose is to protect crime.
permamark in: Wists