wrote:
>
> Dave Welsh observes:
> > I'm inclined to think that you are instead afflicted by
rectocranial inversion...
> More crude name-calling. Perhaps you would like to be more specific
about who you have in mind? I'd hate to think that you were referring
to one of my friends by such a remark.
You have friends? I wasn't aware that anyone would admit to that, thus
it was not aimed at any of your friends - or at you.
> > Paul Barford is apparently still confused about jurisdiction.<
> No, I am not,
Yes, you are - or perhaps you simply don't want to recognize the
difference between legal jurisdiction and what you consider to be ethics.
> ... it is you that is still playing with words. If someone buys
something which is tainted by having been illegally exported, they are
dealing in tainted goods whether their business is run from California
or the space station Mir.
The issue is whether the individual in question KNOWINGLY buys
something which has been "tainted" in the sense in which you use that
word. It would never be unlawful for me [in California] to buy that
item, if I were not aware that it had been "tainted" by exportation in
violation of another country's laws. It would frequently be lawful for
me to buy it even if I were aware that it had been illegally exported.
US and California law do not, in most instances, consider past illegal
exportation of an artifact as making it unlawful to acquire once it
has entered the USA.
However, I will not buy anything that I suspect may have been
illegally exported, even if doing so would be lawful.
> As to whether a part-time coin dealer is a part-time dealer, I see
this is for you more of an "identity" thing. Part time is part time,
but you call yourself what you want.
No, it's an accuracy thing. What do you consider to be full time - 24
hours a day? I have had a few days like that, but normally it's ten
hours a day. You can call yourself a part-time archaeologist, if you
prefer.
> Its jolly quiet from the Unidroit-L and ACCG front about what Steve
Minor wrote yesterday morning (post # 42697). Any comments Dave?
He's entitled to his opinion. It's a very complicated world we live
in, and the situation is not helped by the rampant corruption
prevalent in most "source" states. If that corruption were eliminated
and antiquities ministries were honestly and competently managed, that
would do much more to solve looting and smuggling issues than import
controls.
Dave Welsh
Unidroit-L Listowner
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Unidroit-L
dwelsh46@cox.net
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