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Trump's Second Term

She's doing her job perfectly. Everyone is distracted talking about her and not how much more this maladministration is f-ing over the country and the world.
I'm not sure. Because the defeat in her voice as she says "Venezuela" actually brings attention to something Trump claims as a success but which his appointment doubts
 
You may believe so, but it wasn't plunder. There are no 'forged' documents in evidence, the lack of original documents is not evidence of forgery. In retrospect we may know the Parthenon survived and Greece became an independent country. In Elgin's time it was possible that his actions were the best chance of survival of these artefacts. From an article advocating for the return of the marbles;

A more detailed discussion of the authenticity of the documents remaining and the legality thereof can be read here,
In any case coming back to the thread; Trump would oppose the return, he is clearly a believer in possession justifying ownership, and the strong have the right of possession, viz Diego Garcia.
The document that Elgin produced, approximately two years after the theft, to justify the theft was written in Venetian and pupotedly signed by the governor of Athens. All official documents of the Porte and its representatives was never produced nor could ever be shown to have existed.

And even if one had existed, what right did the Ottomans have to disburse Greek artifacts?

In neither a moral sense nor in a sense that would stand legal scrutiny did Elgin have the right to first destroy the marbles and secondly cart their remains back to London nor thirdly to profit greatly from their sale.
 
I don't follow what you mean about an exception.

The original comment was about statues of Columbus, and some people wanting removed because they don't think the European conquest of the Americas deserves heroic monuments.

The Elgin marbles aren't in the British museum as a monument to conquest. Arguably as a result of conquest, but they're not a symbolic celebration of it. And when they were in their original locations they weren't a monument to conquest either. Most of them, as I understand it, depict a mythical tale of a fight between men and centaurs, which broke out at a wedding.
Okay, we disagree on several points. Fair winds and following seas, sir.
 

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