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Big-box arts and crafts retailer Hobby Lobby will surrender some 5,500 artifacts it purchased illegally and pay $3 million after federal prosecutors filed a civil complaint in New York yesterday, reports Dan Whitcomb at Reuters.
The objects are believed to come from Iraq, where they were smuggled into other Middle Eastern countries. In 2010, they were sent to the United States falsely labeled as clay tiles.
[...] The items include 144 cylinder seals, used to roll decorative images onto clay, as well as clay bullae, which were used to create wax tokens to authenticate documents. The majority of the items are cuneiform tablets. Cuneiform is a type of writing developed about 6,000 years ago in what is now southern Iraq, Smithsonian.com's Anne Trubek reports. Over time, the writing, which looks like a series of lines and triangles impressed into palm-size pieces of wet clay, was used for over a dozen ancient languages, much like the Roman alphabet for most European and Romance languages.
So, why was a craft chain buying ancient Iraqi artifacts in the first place? Whitcomb reports that company president Steve Green is the founder of the Museum of the Bible, now under construction in Washington, D.C. He began acquiring artifacts for the museum, including the forfeited items, in 2009.
Also at NYT. DoJ and Hobby Lobby statements.
(Score: 2) by BK on Saturday July 08 2017, @09:15PM
Lots of other things other than moral necessity get codified in law. If you think otherwise, you can begin by explaining the moral necessity of this example [nyt.com]. A few of these [huffingtonpost.com] also seem fall short of moral necessity.
You seem frustrated that I am missing your point, but the truth is, you obscured it a bit. Your first post described fairly well known cases [economist.com] pertaining to the law. Your second post in this thread referred to more obscure [cnsnews.com] issues. I thought you were talking mostly about laws or desired laws. This last post seems to indicate you want to talk about something else.
You mean like this example [washingtontimes.com]? What were we talking about again?
...but you HAVE heard of me.