A Public Appeal To The FBI

For some reason the FBI is cracking down on the art world (do they have less pressing criminal business than usual during the winter? Drugs dealers are on vacation in Thailand or what?) and mounting raids against art galleries and museums. I cannot comment on the latest as I've never heard of the gallery in question and never set foot in Chicago, but when I look at the picture published I can only cringe.
This is a public appeal to the FBI:

WILL YOU PLEASE TRAIN YOUR AGENTS TO HANDLE ARTWORKS PROPERLY????? HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT ART HANDLING AND SHIPPING?

You know, bubble wrap, glassine, blankets, gloves, special crates, climate-controlled environments and, ahem, trucks? Not the trunk of any vulgar hatchback?It's freezing cold in Chicago, and you're removing artworks like this? It is very, very painful to watch.
Now I have to do a public confession, I've always wanted to work in an art squad, but I'm a bit put out at the methods, really. This being said, I'm looking for a job, do you hire non-citizens? I can train your agents to handle artworks. Really.

It's Classical Antiquity Central!

So things are moving on up fast in Classical Antiquity news! Please click on link to have the LAT full story.
[Apologies for my weak link skills BTW, but learning all the code tricks is difficult in the present state of my brain and neck and back and shoulders.]

I suggest now the Greek government sues the Italian one to get all these Greek finds returned to their original soil.
Including all these Greek colonies temples in Sicily. And the vases found in Etruscan tombs too, now that I think of it. It's not because they have been bought legitimately 2,500 years ago that they are any less Greek, after all.
The German and Russian can sue each other for all the art looting that occurred at the end of WWII, all the African nations that have been plundered during the 20th century should sue every single Western country with African Art collections, etc. The Irakis can sue each others as well as Donald Rumsfeld for all the Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian looting and destructions, and how is the state of the Al Mutawakil minaret in Samara? I've been wondering for the longest time.


UPDATE! Just looked up the Guardian and there we are