[Art in Idaho]

Another casualty of the UN.

US out of the UN. Demolish the building or set it up as the National Tea Party Headquarters.

Downsize Federal Government by at least a half, 2/3 better. . except increase military spending.

Next project. .

[cpdiii]

But the industry is engaged in a battle with academic marine archaeologists and Unesco, the Paris-based United Nations agency that tries to protect cultural treasures around the world. Critics say buried coins and loot should be studied and preserved in a museum, not sported around an investor’s neck.

Agreed. The museums should have first refusal for these artifacts but must pay fair market value. If they will not pay fair market value they are simply thieves. There have been hundreds of old Spanish wrecks salvaged by private enterprise. How many have been salvaged by governments? These salvagers are doing a service to history. They are bringing back the past for us to admire and see. If a government or museum is not willing to pay the fair market value these goods should be sold as the governments and museums have by their inaction determined them to be not of importance.

[cpdiii]

But the industry is engaged in a battle with academic marine archaeologists and Unesco, the Paris-based United Nations agency that tries to protect cultural treasures around the world. Critics say buried coins and loot should be studied and preserved in a museum, not sported around an investor’s neck.

Agreed. The museums should have first refusal for these artifacts but must pay fair market value. If they will not pay fair market value they are simply thieves. There have been hundreds of old Spanish wrecks salvaged by private enterprise. How many have been salvaged by governments? These salvagers are doing a service to history. They are bringing back the past for us to admire and see. If a government or museum is not willing to pay the fair market value these goods should be sold as the governments and museums have by their inaction determined them to be not of importance.