[COBOL2Java]

Hmmm. I wonder where the stones in the crown jewels came from? Perhaps the Brits ought to return those, too?

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Hmmm. I wonder where the stones in the crown jewels came from? Perhaps the Brits ought to return those, too?

If they were stolen, you betcha.

I guess I find it extremely amusing that the British can claim some kind of cultural superiority on possessing the Rosetta Stone or the Elgin marbles, when neither the British civilzation nor English language had existed when these artifacts were created.

Not happy with their own heritage, they have to steal others, I guess. Then come up with some kind of cock and bull story of how they are better suited to caring for an articfact that did not define their civilization. Its pretty distasteful. The last remnants of cultural jingoism. I thought we evolved beyound that.

[Cronos]

Actually there is a law suit against the crown to return the Kohinoor diamond which was "gifted" to Queen Victoria by the Ruler of Punjab. Of course the fact that he was a child at the time and had been kidnapped and kept in England had nothing to do with it, of course....