Summary of discussion of Greek Cultural Property Request to the US Government on this blog to date

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Since there are a number of posts about this scattered over the pages of this blog, I thought it might be helpful to try and gather the links in one place.

On the afternoon of Sunday 19th September there are 440 public submissions showing on the Regulations.gov website concerning the request of the Greek government to impose curbs on the import into the US of archaeological material illegally exported from Greece. This is the same number as Friday afternoon. The comments are only put up after a delay (David Gill's for example took three days to appear). This makes a nonsense of a coiney's attempt to link a sudden spurt with an email that had been sent the previous day - it just means somebody in a government office cleared a backlog before the weekend.

I have made some observations on the general pattern:
The Public reaction to the Greek Antiquity Import Control Request

I have also commented on some of the opinions sent by the Dark Side to try to stave off the application of import controls on ancient artefacts illegally exported from one of the source countries for the dugup artefacts the no-questions-asked market currently covets most:
The Soft Underbelly of American Democracy: Ninety Philistine Opinions Not on Topic

"Please do not implement new import restrictions on Greek cultural property".

Some Coiney Submissions concerning the Greek Request

This is a result of knee-jerk responses to the transparently but unashamedly alarmist tactics of the lobbyists attempting to maintain support for the damaging (but very lucrative) no-questions-asked manner of trade in the US of antiquities dug up in various foreign "source countries" (which is disguised as "maintaining US collectors' rights"):
Antiquities Lobbyists Use Crude Scare Tactics Again to Snare Gullible Collectors

Urgent Request from CNG: Help to Keep the Flow of Illegally Exported Artefacts From Greece Unrestrained by US Law

The Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act Section 303 (1) for Concerned Collectors

Cultural Property Observatorial Obfuscation

A Presumption Too Far?

The Charade Continues

and most recently to try and kick-start the flagging indignation of collectors in the doings of gubn'mint: Tabloids: Subverting the Democratic Process the Greek Way

I have also noted some opinions more closer to my own on this matter.
Public Submissions Supporting the Greek Cultural Property Request to the US Government

At the moment there are about 200 of the latter and 200 from the Dark Side. It would be disappointing if by midnight Wednesday, when the facility closes there were not more expressions of public interest in the issue of the involvement of US collectors and dealers exercising their "rights" through blocking attempts to curb the trade in illegally exported artefacts from Greece:

Greeks Too Request US Clampdown on Handling Illegally Exported Artefacts

AIA Urges Public Support of a US-Greek Cultural Property Agreement

In the Interests of All

Hate Looting? The SAFE Appeal

See also the posts on David Gill's Looting Matters.

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