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i can't beleive i forgot to post about it:

yesterday morning, i turned on CTVnewsnet to find that the museaum in bhagdad has been looted.

this museaum contained relics form sumeria and assyria, the earliest civilizations in the world. the sumerian city of ur was the first city, the first place where writing and organized argiculture and trade developed. the erliest records keeperes, mathematicians, and astronomers were sumerians. they invented the wheel.

these civilizations are a part of our collective past as human beings: they are our property. we have rights to them, and responcibilites to preseve them.
it is the right of every concious homo sapien that, if the whim and economic oportunity should strike them, they may see these objects of our past.

they have been stolen. they have been taken, broaken, lost, and whatever remains has been sold into private hands, where we will never be able to find them. the human rights of every person on this planet have been violated.

and this is your democracy?