Man Steals Rare Artifact Thumb At Party, Takes A Selfie.

Defacing a part of one of the 8,000 terra cotta soldiers that guard the body of the emporer from China was very wrong. The perp should be fined. However, their "heritage" was not destroyed as Wu said-


According to the South China Morning Post, another official said: “The terracotta warriors are national treasures ... We express strong resentment and condemnation towards this theft and the destruction of our heritage.”


It was vandalism and wrong to do it. I agree.

Yet I can't help but think of the razing of the ancient temples and monasteries that comprised the heritage of Tibet by the Chinese-

Alexander Solzhenitsyn described China’s rule in Tibet as “more brutal and inhuman than any other communist regime in the world.”
...more than 6000 monasteries, temples and other cultural and historic buildings were destroyed and their contents pillaged.

http://tibetoffice.org/tibet-info/invasion-after

China Practices Systematic Destruction of Tibetan Culture: Tibetan PM
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-692296

What about the ancient treasures of Tibet?
So maybe China could chill a little over this thumb.
 
The U.S. should quietly suggest that China file charges, then cooperate on extradition. This is scarcely without precedent. The U.S. charged Manuel Noriega, former head of Panama, seized him in that country, and tried and imprisoned him here. The Chinese will treat this heinous crime in a far more appropriate matter than our own country can. Destruction of ancient treasures merits the death penalty.
 
I completely agree with RadishRose. The Chinese Communists have absolutely no respect for the national treasures of other countries. Or the lives of others for that matter. When the Chinese Communists move out of Tibet AND APPOLOGISE, then and only then will I be concerned about a single clay thumb.
 
Mom always said "Life is like a box or choc......Uh no She alwas said "two wrongs don't make a right!"
 

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