tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post2793793200611509830..comments2024-03-27T04:46:33.198-07:00Comments on Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Poll: 88% Polled are for Return of MarblesPaul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-63723215075614955162014-02-18T21:57:14.578-08:002014-02-18T21:57:14.578-08:00While I'm at it, I see the same gentleman has ...While I'm at it, I see the same gentleman has written:<br /><br />"One problem I have with Messrs. Barford, Elkins and Gill is that they make value judgments about metal detectorists, collectors snd dealers, but they don't have any appreciation for the practical issues facing these groups."<br /><br />Whereas a lawyer in Washington knows all about British metal detectorists does he?! Personally I've been in the back room of the Cleveland Arms in Wolverhampton with 3 dozen metal detectorists. Has he?<br /><br />In any case, his reference to a need to have an appreciation of "the practical issues facing these groups" is pure lobbery. An understanding of the stats on who reports and behaves and who doesn't is ALL that's required in order to make a judgement on metal detecting. There are no practical difficulties preventing them from behaving. <br /><br />What next, a plea for understanding of the practical difficulties involved in lobbyists telling the truth?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-56776857303193247172014-02-17T22:34:56.902-08:002014-02-17T22:34:56.902-08:00Well, he has a couple on his blog to help him, Sto...Well, he has a couple on his blog to help him, Stout, Howland, Baines and gives a link (at the bottom) to the Stout metal-detecting blog. Can't get clearer than that....<br /><br /><br />Paul Barfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-7013228733338742192014-02-17T20:53:34.760-08:002014-02-17T20:53:34.760-08:00Well I think they wuz robbed. If they wanted someo...Well I think they wuz robbed. If they wanted someone to state the bleedin' obviously untrue they could have hired a metal detectorist at a tenth of the cost. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-50422775630981480902014-02-17T19:37:45.544-08:002014-02-17T19:37:45.544-08:00"You must know that. Are you paid to say this..."You must know that. Are you paid to say this stuff?"<br /><br />I think you may have got it in one.<br /> Paul Barfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-87174966431723112852014-02-17T13:29:58.880-08:002014-02-17T13:29:58.880-08:00Pull the other one. Lots of comments by a self-int...Pull the other one. Lots of comments by a self-interested sub-set have far less democratic validity than the voice of a general population devoid of vested interest. <br /><br />You must know that. Are you paid to say this stuff? <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-43018703114438150112014-02-17T04:05:02.394-08:002014-02-17T04:05:02.394-08:00Seventy per cent or more of public comments to CPA...Seventy per cent or more of public comments to CPAC before regarding the Cypriot, Italian, Greek and Bulgarian MOUs were either against the MOU or against its extension to coins. That's even less a complex issue, but somehow the State Department ignored that and imposed import restrictions on coins anyway. And the AIA could not even bring itself to mention these lopsided numbers in their reporting on the issue. So, I'm glad you think the will of the people should control.<br /><br />Still, as to this poll, I doubt it was scientific and the UK should not voluntarily give up its cultural property (there for centuries) so easily. Cultural Property Observerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05924359202414555962noreply@blogger.com