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Can you buy a chair on a cultural preservation committee in the US for 15 000 dollars? That seems to be what conspiracy-theorist Peter Tompa is inferring.
I find it odd that US collectors and dealers accuse the brown-skinned foreign folk from whom they wish to take the dugup antiquities they covet of all having corrupt governments (which is used to suggest gives the somehow-superior US collectors and dealers some unwritten imperialist "rights" to cultural property illicitly obtained and illegally removed from such countries). Yet the same people do not bat an eyelid while suggesting corruption in their own government.
Can you buy a chair on a cultural preservation committee in the US for 15 000 dollars? That seems to be what conspiracy-theorist Peter Tompa is inferring. Opensecrets.org reports that Prof. Gerstenblith has donated $14,950 to Democratic candidates since 2008, including $2,300 to President Obama's election campaign and $1500 to his Senatorial campaigns.(He does not reveal the political campaign contributions of the antiquity trade CPAC people, like Kislak and Korver).
I find it odd that US collectors and dealers accuse the brown-skinned foreign folk from whom they wish to take the dugup antiquities they covet of all having corrupt governments (which is used to suggest gives the somehow-superior US collectors and dealers some unwritten imperialist "rights" to cultural property illicitly obtained and illegally removed from such countries). Yet the same people do not bat an eyelid while suggesting corruption in their own government.
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