3,500 yr old Mesopotamian clay tablet -looted by Hobby Lobby- being confiscated & sent back to Iraq

[kpete]

@OccupyDemocrats
BREAKING: A 3,500-year-old clay tablet with inscriptions in ancient Mesopotamian that was looted from an Iraqi museum 30 years ago and sold to the extremists at Hobby Lobby for $1.7 million is confiscated by US authorities and is being sent back to to Iraq, where it belongs.
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[Casady1]

1. What kind of creep

would not return stolen property.

[ret5hd]

8. The kind that pays to have it stolen.

[redwitch]

2. Hobby Lobby sucks.

I hope their brand dies. Never have set foot in one of their stores and never will.

[Frustratedlady]

3. My family doesn't go to any of their stores, either. Bunch of crap.

I know a couple people who spend mega-bucks there, but not enough to keep the store open. I've always suspected they are a front for something bigger. Suspicious mind and all that.

[hlthe2b]

6. I go to Michaels, Joanne's fabrics, or nothing. Refuse to step foot in HL

[yellowdogintexas]

14. Definitely. I swore off of them when my daughter worked there

the were so inconsiderate with her regardinf her schedule.

Here she is telling them she is available for any shift except Thursday afternoon after 5. When did they schedule her? Thursday from 3 til closing.

What's up with that anyway? I swore that as soon as she quit and lost her quite good employee discount I would never give them a penny.

I will admit to dropping in from time to time to scop out their yarn just to see what they have which I then turn around and order from Michael's, JoAnne's, Amazon or the manufacturer.

[keithbvadu2]

4. Christianity and the Bible witnessed, honored, enhanced, exemplified, glorified and displayed by the

Christianity and the Bible witnessed, honored, enhanced, exemplified, glorified and displayed by theft and fraud by the Hobby Lobby Museum..

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141964644

Hobby Lobby Surrenders 245 More Smuggled Iraq Artifacts

[Sneederbunk]

5. Not looted by Hobby Lobby. It was purchased by HL at a Christie's auction.

[hlthe2b]

7. This isn't the first time HL has purchased stolen/illicit property.

[reACTIONary]

9. True. Thanks.

[billh58]

10. Definition of "Looting"

In 2011, a shipment of between 200 and 300 small clay tablets destined for the Hobby Lobby compound in Oklahoma City, was seized by U.S. customs agents in Memphis. The tablets were part of a large purchase of 10,000 tablets, all thousands of years old, that were written in cuneiform, the script of ancient Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia. These ancient Iraqi tablets were brought into the country illicitly and it was unclear if they had been legally acquired in the first place. The 2011 seizure set in motion a chain of federal investigations, civil forfeiture and repatriation agreements, and lawsuits that shone a harsh spotlight on the substandard collecting practices of Hobby Lobby and their owners, the Green family.

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It is illegal to import into the United States any archaeological material illegally removed from Iraq. “This clause is nothing but self-congratulation for following laws that the Museum of the Bible and Hobby Lobby are already obligated to follow—and which they have repeatedly broken. You don’t get to issue press releases patting yourself on the back for cooperating with a murder investigation—you’re simply obliged to do so!”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-iraq-getting-screwed-in-a-looted-treasures-deal-with-the-hobby-lobby

Receiving and dealing in stolen goods is illegal. Possession of stolen goods is illegal. Aiding and abetting thieves (looters) is illegal. In every respect, Hobby Lobby and its owners are criminals, and looters of foreign antiquities.

[left-of-center2012]

11. More info at this thread ...

‘The Return Of The Ancient Gilgamesh Dream Tablet Stirs Conversation Online’

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215885463

[tclambert]

12. Archaeologists dug up the corpse of an Egyptian king and made a sort of traveling circus attraction

out of his funeral treasures.

The King Tut exhibit was very popular. I think that was in '75. I don't remember if they put his mummy itself on display. I do remember seeing mummies on display, though they may have been of lesser celebrities.

[LeftInTX]

13. I've seen mummies here on display. Took the cub scouts to see it for Halloween one year.

I was stuck with the October meeting, so I had seen the mummies, so I thought..educational and cool...Let's go....

[left-of-center2012]

16. I saw the King Tut exhibit twice

It was nothing like a traveling circus.

The exhibits were very impressive and shown in museums.
His body was not on display with the exhibit.

[soldierant]

19. King Tut's tomb was excavated in the 20's by a team under the

nominal leadership and actual financing of the then Lord Carnarvon, and the archaeological leadership of Howard Carter. What you saw in the seventies was stuff they found in the twenties.

[COL Mustard]

15. Did It Say

Jesus was here…31 AD?

[kairos12]

17. Rightwing Vandals. Hobby is looting.

[raising2moredems]

18. So holy, so religious..

just ask them. Thieves are what they are and most would go to jail for a long time if caught doing this. I won't set foot in Hobby Lobby (or Chik-Fil-A).

[colsohlibgal]

20. Oh Hobby Lobby

I haven’t ever shopped there and that won’t change.

I still subscribe to my local Newspaper and every Sunday Hobby Lobby has a full page AD. I rearrange that section so the Hobby Lobby Ad is on the front and I kind of use it as a food tray, love spilling bits of food on it.

That said I hope they go bankrupt.