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A Couple More Horror Stories
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 9:16 am
by uniface
So much for the image of good guys and bad guys being determined by professional affiliation. That this kind of crap (and how much of it) goes on is not really news to some. To others, it may be.
http://arrowheadology.com/forums/news/2 ... spute.html
Re: A Couple More Horror Stories
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 10:10 am
by Minimalist
I smell lawyers!
Re: A Couple More Horror Stories
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:48 pm
by uniface
But what other recourse is there ?
Re: A Couple More Horror Stories
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 3:25 pm
by Minimalist
Zahi Hawass never uses lawyers.
Re: A Couple More Horror Stories
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 3:36 pm
by Rokcet Scientist
Minimalist wrote:I smell lawyers!
uniface wrote:But what other recourse is there ?
True.
Common sense and basic decency have been redundant for decades already.
Re: A Couple More Horror Stories
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 12:22 pm
by E.P. Grondine
It is also interesting how the Ohio Historical Society "gave up" Fort Ancient and Newark. Essentially, they want to retain title while someone else operates the sites for them.
In normal times, the National Park Service would be able to put an end to this, as these are nationally important sites, but then these are not normal times.
uniface, do you have any idea what's going on with them?
Re: A Couple More Horror Stories
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 1:13 pm
by uniface
In the same thread --
That is typical of the OHS and it's curators. I was talking to to Mr. Edwin Harness at a show a few years back and he told me a similar story about how the OHS had gotten artifacts from him that came out of the famous Harness Mound that was on his farm. They were supposed to study the pieces and return them to him and when it came time for him to get them back they said they couldn't find them and all he got back was a few items out of the hundreds that they took. He said he fought with them for years just to get those items back and that he suspected that they either sold them off or people pilfered them and now have them in their private collections.
It's the same story, from similar anecdotal evidence, in Kentucky and elsewhere. There aren't too many bright spots, but enough to keep hope alive. People who are institutionally shielded from accountability often behave poorly. Starting with judges and bureaucrats.
Re: Art Imitates Life
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 9:58 am
by kbs2244
Off course you could give it to the Feds.
They have facilities and procedures for this kind of stuff.
From today’s news page.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/7053 ... d-for.html
Re: A Couple More Horror Stories
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 11:26 am
by Minimalist
The National Parks Service is having trouble maintaining the parks already in their supervision.
Re: A Couple More Horror Stories
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 2:21 pm
by E.P. Grondine
Minimalist wrote:The National Parks Service is having trouble maintaining the parks already in their supervision.
More of the Bush Jr legacy - you do not pay for a war with tax breaks for the very wealthy.
Re: Art Imitates Life
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 2:25 pm
by E.P. Grondine
Have you read "The Wrecking Crew" yet, kb?
The neo-con plan was to break it, and then claim that it didn't work.
Re: A Couple More Horror Stories
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 4:18 pm
by Minimalist
E.P. Grondine wrote:Minimalist wrote:The National Parks Service is having trouble maintaining the parks already in their supervision.
More of the Bush Jr legacy - you do not pay for a war with tax breaks for the very wealthy.
We agree completely.