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Exclusive: Feds Investigate Hobby Lobby Boss for Illicit Artifacts
thedailybeast.com ^
| October 26, 2015
| Candida Moss Joel Baden
Posted on 10/27/2015 6:37:21 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
One of America’s most famously Christian businesses is amassing a vast collection of Biblical antiquities. The problem is some of them may have been looted from the Middle East.
In 2011, a shipment of somewhere between 200 to 300 small clay tablets on their way to Oklahoma City from Israel was seized by U.S. Customs agents in Memphis. The tablets were inscribed in cuneiform—the script of ancient Assyria and Babylonia, present-day Iraq—and were thousands of years old. Their destination was the compound of the Hobby Lobby corporation, which became famous last year for winning a landmark Supreme Court case on religious freedom and government mandates. A senior law enforcement source with extensive knowledge of antiquities smuggling confirmed that these ancient artifacts had been purchased and were being imported by the deeply-religious owners of the crafting giant, the Green family of Oklahoma City. For the last four years, law enforcement sources tell The Daily Beast, the Greens have been under federal investigation for the illicit importation of cultural heritage from Iraq.
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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: 2011; antiquities; biblemuseum; biblicalantiquities; claytablets; cuneiform; epigraphyandlanguage; faithandphilosophy; godsgravesglyphs; hobbylobby; iraq; irisagrig; museumofthebible; obamasfault; site1056; stevegreen; sumeria; thugocracy; tyranny
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They should have left them for ISIS to destroy.
To: ilovesarah2012
Feral Gub’mnt payback for Hobby Lobby daring to disagree with the homosexual in the White House.
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posted on
10/27/2015 6:40:02 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
To: ilovesarah2012
Payback............................
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posted on
10/27/2015 6:40:02 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
To: ilovesarah2012
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posted on
10/27/2015 6:42:06 AM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: Iron Munro
There is no targeting here.......
Move along citizen
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posted on
10/27/2015 6:43:16 AM PDT
by
John 3_19-21
(The media's blackout of Ted Cruz is his greatest endorsement ! Cruz or Lose.)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
What’s the over/under on ValJar being behind this?
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posted on
10/27/2015 6:43:56 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: ilovesarah2012
If this is all our feral government has to do, close shop and go home!
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posted on
10/27/2015 6:44:25 AM PDT
by
basil
( God bless the USA!)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
I am not surprised but very concerned that our government has so much power over citizens. The IRS thing has me pretty upset, too. We, the lowly people, cannot win.
To: ilovesarah2012
How much digging did they have to do in order to find this bogus charge?
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posted on
10/27/2015 6:45:31 AM PDT
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
To: Iron Munro
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posted on
10/27/2015 6:46:14 AM PDT
by
PhiloBedo
(You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
To: ilovesarah2012
Friggin' unbelievable. Guess their books were all in order.
Kill the Christians and Jews. This is what Obama was taught.
To: Iron Munro
Yep. Jail for conservatives under the Rainbow gangster, Obama Corleone Admin.
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posted on
10/27/2015 6:46:57 AM PDT
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
To: Don Corleone
This has Vaseline Jar written ALL OVER IT........................
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posted on
10/27/2015 6:47:11 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
To: ilovesarah2012
For the last four years, law enforcement sources tell The Daily Beast, the Greens have been under federal investigation...."""""".........
Under investigation for..."ANYTHING".........
To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
I don't know, but here's the shovel they used, and we had to pay for the shovel.
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posted on
10/27/2015 6:48:47 AM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: ilovesarah2012
Christian persecution bump.
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posted on
10/27/2015 6:49:03 AM PDT
by
Calpublican
(Republican Party Now Stands for Nothing!!!!!(Except Conniving))
To: ilovesarah2012
As I read this story I keep hearing two words Gibson Guitars
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posted on
10/27/2015 6:50:43 AM PDT
by
TYVets
To: UCANSEE2
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posted on
10/27/2015 6:51:19 AM PDT
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
To: ilovesarah2012
America’s war on Christians continues.
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posted on
10/27/2015 6:53:21 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Thank you mom for not being "pro-choice." Amen.)
To: TYVets
I had forgotten about that. What ever happened?
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