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Graverobbers are criminals and the lowest form of life (lower than pond scum, in my book). The next lowest are the people who buy artifacts from graverobbers and display them like trophies in their homes. It's good to see that at least one federal prosecutor is finally treating them like what they are ... common, lowlife criminals. Upstanding "ordinary" citizens (as you aver) don't dig-up and despoil human graves to gather trinkets for their collections (and for venal gain) just because it's always been done that way (lots of folks' grand-daddies around here usta own other people, but we all know that's wrong, now).
I was just reading over a contemporary account of the Great Hurricane that wiped-out Galveston in 1900 ... the U.S. Army and National Guardsmen who were called in to assist with rescue (and to prevent looting after the disaster) had orders to shoot-on-sight anyone found robbing the bodies of the thousands of victims that washed-up on the beaches ... and they din't hesitate carrying out those orders!
How is what this cabal of ghouls in Utah doing any different than stealing from the dead in Galveston 110-years-ago? I think it's worse because we are ostensibly more civilized, less racially prejudiced ... and we're supposed to know better!
Perhaps it would be a more effective deterrent to post snipers guarding the native cemeteries and provide everyone who shows-up with a shovel and starts digging some summary Texian justice?
Bob Skiles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Green" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: Indian Artifact Looting Case Unsettles a Utah Town
> This is just another case of the U.S. government shooting fish in a barrel.
> Law enforcement can't even begin to stop tons of white powder and millions
> of illegal aliens from entering the country, but they can sure round up,
> embarrass and treat ordinary citizens like hardened criminals.
>
> This is the same government that doesn't believe in subjecting terrorists to
> "harsh interrogation", or even calling them terrorists. It's a lot easier
> to arrest otherwise respectable citizens and leading members of a community
> for collecting artifacts.
>
> Maybe if they already did their job, and were running out of crimes to
> prosecute, the Justice Department should go after parties guilty of ongoing
> looting. But since they do a pretty crappy job, even at arresting
> legitimate looters too, it seems a bit far fetched to pursue and arrest
> people with pre-existing collections. What's next?
>
> Rich Green
> Historic Archaeological Research
> 4338 Hadley Court
> West Lafayette, IN 47906
> Office: (765) 464-8735
> Mobile: (765) 427-4082
> www.har-indy.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "geoff carver" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 4:29 PM
> Subject: Indian Artifact Looting Case Unsettles a Utah Town
>
>
>> Unforeseen consequences of looting:
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/us/21blanding.html?_r=1&hp
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