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<p>[QUOTE="cladking, post: 1343498, member: 68"]Many countries have passed laws claiming ownership of any antiquities that don't belong to that country. The UN is behind this and the US is signatory to much worse than this. For instance local police departments are now empowered to act in the behalf of foreign governments to arrest US citizens and extradite them almost anywhere. In other words if Egyprt were to declare any coin they've made before 1960 and you don't send it to them then you could be arrested and shipped to Egypt for trial. Obama signed this one last year. </p><p><br /></p><p>The only way you can maintain ownership is to prove it was lawfully removed from the country and is lawfully in your possession. They don't have to prove it was removed befor it was illegal to export. They don't have to prove anything except that you don't have an unbroken chain of ownership for 1500 years. </p><p><br /></p><p>It's getting more and more difficult to conduct business from one country to another as barrier after barrier is put up. Sure, it's easier every year for the big multinationals but they don't likew competition because the only way any big company can operate as inefficiently as they do and stay in business is to stifle competition through their buddies in government. </p><p><br /></p><p>At the current time most of these new laws are just being tried out. Eventually everyone wil lbe hogtied except big business.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cladking, post: 1343498, member: 68"]Many countries have passed laws claiming ownership of any antiquities that don't belong to that country. The UN is behind this and the US is signatory to much worse than this. For instance local police departments are now empowered to act in the behalf of foreign governments to arrest US citizens and extradite them almost anywhere. In other words if Egyprt were to declare any coin they've made before 1960 and you don't send it to them then you could be arrested and shipped to Egypt for trial. Obama signed this one last year. The only way you can maintain ownership is to prove it was lawfully removed from the country and is lawfully in your possession. They don't have to prove it was removed befor it was illegal to export. They don't have to prove anything except that you don't have an unbroken chain of ownership for 1500 years. It's getting more and more difficult to conduct business from one country to another as barrier after barrier is put up. Sure, it's easier every year for the big multinationals but they don't likew competition because the only way any big company can operate as inefficiently as they do and stay in business is to stifle competition through their buddies in government. At the current time most of these new laws are just being tried out. Eventually everyone wil lbe hogtied except big business.[/QUOTE]
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