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THE SCOTTISH CURSE - BYRON'S ANGER

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« on: June 21, 2009, 06:44:26 pm »




             

(Looted and mutilated Parthenon masterpiece.
Present Location - The British Museum)










Mr Macgregor's qualifications as a custodian of the Parthenon Marbles are worth noting. He has no early connection with Greece since he grew up in a predominantly industrial Glasgow (in an upper income bracket area) at a time when Glasgow  was trying to escape its past as a drab cultural and architectural wasteland, a grey city almost all owned by the Orwellian-like Corporation of Glasgow, a city with a history of  vast tenement estates like Barlinnie and the Gorbals with its infamous Hutchie E blocks, a city struggling to emerge from the social influence of Gorbals culture, fist fights, booze-ups, seven o'clock pub closings, walk up flats with coal cupboards, a city where the most important cultural/social event had been the quasi-religious Rangers-Celtic footbal meeting, a city where one had feared to walk at night in fear of drunken cosh- and bicycle chain-carrying youths, a city whose only international claim to fame  for many years was the exhibit of one (1) painting by Salvador Dali (for this work of art at least there is credible evidence that it was legally purchased), and for entertainment there were espressos and hot dogs at the Stakis coffee houses, dancing on Saturday evenings at the Pally, and for some better healed Glaswegians in the Sixties acceptable nosh at the Malmaison restaurant (the sole French eatery then in the vast city) located in the aptly named Central Hotel. 


Can Neil Macgregor ever feel for the Greek marbles what the natives of Athens who see the splendour of the Parthenon and its exquisitely sculpted form each time they lift up their eyes? Can Mr Macgregor really be expected to know what the looted Marbles mean to those from whose city his fellow countryman Elgin removed a sizable part of Europe's most important monument?
 
Interestingly Mr Macgregor is described as Saint Neil (!) owing to his religious convictions. He also has legal training which brings his refusal to return the Parthenon Marbles to Greece comes into direct conflict with basic legal principles. It is a fact that the Parthenon Marbles were stolen, in other words they were removed without the consent of the owners who are of course the Greeks. Let us look at this from a legal standpoint -


 
1) God's law - The Commandement - THOU SHALT NOT STEAL

2) British and Greek law - To take for oneself the possessions of a third party, without their consent, is defined as "theft" and is a crime punishable by law

3) To receive and hold items which you know are stolen is receiving of stolen property, a crime punishable by law

4) To remove, sell, purchase or hold for oneself items which are the defining symbols of a nations
culture, history and identity is a crime so abominable that it needs neither God nor Man to define it. It is the ultimate act of cultural barbarity and it is this of which Elgin and the British Museum stand accused of until today.



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