Easter Island vandalization-Aarrr!

Rick · 11th April 2008, 02:15 AM

As I understand it the Village Elder where this crime ocurred was demanding the culprit's ear as compensation .

Too bad he did not get his way .

katana · 11th April 2008, 03:42 PM

I appreciate that the thread started with the story of an idiotic vandal ... but with various comments about ownership of cultural heritage etc I thought this may be relavent.....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7334229.stm

This is the same story reported in Canada, but this has responses from readers....

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/sto...kh-armour.html

fernando · 11th April 2008, 05:33 PM

This type of ( forcingly political ) issues is allways amazing ... to give them a sporty name

Allways all parties trying to "bleech" the whatever raised examples to make their interests more benignous that those of the others, expelling any possible remorse from their own scene

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It's a bit like discussing the sex of virgins, as we say over here

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Eveybody sacks everything from everybody, as everybody sells everything to everybody; it's all a matter of context.
This is a dog world, that has allways been ruled by the law of the strongest.
As for collectors being the nice guys in the story, it depends on what they collect; there are even collectors of nations

11th April 2008, 02:15 AM	#1
Rick Vikingsword Staff Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 6,375	As I understand it the Village Elder where this crime ocurred was demanding the culprit's ear as compensation . Too bad he did not get his way .

11th April 2008, 03:42 PM	#2
katana Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Kent Posts: 2,658	I appreciate that the thread started with the story of an idiotic vandal ... but with various comments about ownership of cultural heritage etc I thought this may be relavent..... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7334229.stm This is the same story reported in Canada, but this has responses from readers.... http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/sto...kh-armour.html

11th April 2008, 05:33 PM	#3
fernando (deceased) Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Portugal Posts: 9,694	This type of ( forcingly political ) issues is allways amazing ... to give them a sporty name Allways all parties trying to "bleech" the whatever raised examples to make their interests more benignous that those of the others, expelling any possible remorse from their own scene . It's a bit like discussing the sex of virgins, as we say over here . Eveybody sacks everything from everybody, as everybody sells everything to everybody; it's all a matter of context. This is a dog world, that has allways been ruled by the law of the strongest. As for collectors being the nice guys in the story, it depends on what they collect; there are even collectors of nations