DOJ Sues Hobby Lobby For Smuggling Ancient Iraqi Artifacts

[Lakhota]

The arts and crafts chain has agreed to forfeit the items and pay millions in fines.

Hobby Lobby has agreed pay a $3 million fine and forfeit thousands of smuggled ancient Iraqi artifacts to settle a lawsuit brought by the Department of Justice.

The settlement, which the DOJ announced Wednesday, is the culmination of a years-long federal investigation into the arts and crafts chain’s efforts to grow its private collection of historically significant cultural items.

Hobby Lobby shipped ancient artifacts to its Oklahoma headquarters from around 2009 to at least 2011, the DOJ complaint says. U.S. Customs and Border Protection intercepted several of the packages and found the shipping labels misleadingly described the contents as ceramic or clay tiles and falsely declared the artifacts’ countries of origin as Turkey and Israel, according to the DOJ.

In reality, the shipments contained thousands of cuneiform tablets, or ancient clay slabs used for writing, and clay bullae, or ancient seals, that originated from what is now modern-day Iraq.

The smuggled items were likely destined for the Museum of the Bible, which the Christian family that owns Hobby Lobby is funding and hopes to open in November.

More: DOJ Sues Hobby Lobby For Smuggling Ancient Iraqi Artifacts

Shame on the so-called "Christian" family that owns Hobby Lobby.

 

[Snouter]

"Israel" is a fake ass zionist concept. The tribe of Judah and Benjamin have left no evidence they ever lived in Palestine and the Ten Tribes of Israel were assimilated into Syria 2 thousand years ago. But yeah it was great Hobby Lobby tried to save the artifacts the savages will destroy when given a chance.

 

[NYcarbineer]

lol, Onward Christian Smugglers!

 

[SYTFE]

It's the "Christian" way.

 

[grainbely]

Oh so it's a criminal organization. Everyone please start labeling them as such. Once a criminal always a criminal, right? Let's start identifying the individual criminals in there. The execs and owners that were complicit are criminals. Let's publicize it. Label them the evil that is bringing down America. Let's put them behind bars. And then...lets go after other white collar criminals that hide behind fine payouts and misdirected ownership. All the institutional discriminators and the financial thieves. All criminals. And the damage done is immense. If an illegal immigrant is by default a criminal and destroying America, then these folks - actual active criminals that go unpunished - should get maximum criminal sentences.

 

[Camp]

Criminal Christians. Global Style.

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

I was wondering why the OP's employer would have him post this; then I saw that it was an anti-Christian effort.

 

[gipper]

lol, Onward Christian Smugglers!

It's the "Christian" way.

If they were Muslim, you two and others like you would be silent.

Chicken shits!

 

[NYcarbineer]

lol, Onward Christian Smugglers!

It's the "Christian" way.

If they were Muslim, you two and others like you would be silent.

Chicken shits!

If you had 2 brain cells, you'd be twice as smart as you are now.

 

[NYcarbineer]

More proof that Hobby Lobby's assertion of religion over healthcare was pure horseshit.

 

[gipper]

lol, Onward Christian Smugglers!

It's the "Christian" way.

If they were Muslim, you two and others like you would be silent.

Chicken shits!

If you had 2 brain cells, you'd be twice as smart as you are now.

I can tell when the truth hits home. Thank you.

 

[IsaacNewton]

This is why I call these people and most 'conservative Kristians' kristians with a k. They are not Christians, they elevate hypocrisy to new levels.

Hobby Lobby Agrees to Forfeit 5,500 Artifacts Smuggled Out of Iraq

They smuggled 5,500 antiquities out of Iraq? This is destruction of antiquities on the level of Isis. How immoral and debauched these people at Hobby Lobby have to be to destroy the history of an entire culture dating back to the beginning of human history. They have committed crimes against humanity and should be charged with such.

 

[gipper]

This is why I call these people and most 'conservative Kristians' kristians with a k. They are not Christians, they elevate hypocrisy to new levels.

Hobby Lobby Agrees to Forfeit 5,500 Artifacts Smuggled Out of Iraq

They smuggled 5,500 antiquities out of Iraq? This is destruction of antiquities on the level of Isis. How immoral and debauched these people at Hobby Lobby have to be to destroy the history of an entire culture dating back to the beginning of human history. They have committed crimes against humanity and should be charged with such.

Would the DNC media report this if Hobby Lobby were Muslim?

Duped again.

 

[theHawk]

This is why I call these people and most 'conservative Kristians' kristians with a k. They are not Christians, they elevate hypocrisy to new levels.

Hobby Lobby Agrees to Forfeit 5,500 Artifacts Smuggled Out of Iraq

They smuggled 5,500 antiquities out of Iraq? This is destruction of antiquities on the level of Isis. How immoral and debauched these people at Hobby Lobby have to be to destroy the history of an entire culture dating back to the beginning of human history. They have committed crimes against humanity and should be charged with such.

How is it a destruction of artifacts? I doubt they went all that trouble to destroy them. ISIS would had destroyed them. Sounds like they were trying to save them because no one else was trying to, and they would had put them in their museum. They should still be fined though if it wasn't done through proper channels.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Why would anyone but a deranged partisan hack defend Hobby Lobby over this?

 

[gipper]

Why would anyone but a deranged partisan hack defend Hobby Lobby over this?

Of course, that is difficult for someone so slanted to understand. You calling someone a deranged partisan hack is the HEIGHT OF HYPOCRISY!!!

It just might be that they were trying to save the artifacts from destruction, but don't expect the DNC media to tell you this. They keep you in the dark on multiple things, and you prefer it this way.

 

[bodecea]

lol, Onward Christian Smugglers!

It's the "Christian" way.

If they were Muslim, you two and others like you would be silent.

Chicken shits!

Like you were silent before this thread was started?

 

[Timmy]

More proof that Hobby Lobby's assertion of religion over healthcare was pure horseshit.

Freedom of religion means not having to follow any laws.

 

[Seawytch]

Where do smuggling and contraception fall on the morality scale? Are they comparable?

 

[bodecea]

More proof that Hobby Lobby's assertion of religion over healthcare was pure horseshit.

Freedom of religion means not having to follow any laws.

That certainly seems to be what many religious people believe.