Well if was reading this news article http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24521046/ and though how funny it was. The Spanish government is complaining that a Spanish ship sunk near Portugal in 1804 that contained a $500 million dollar treasure should be returned by an American company. This company found it out in the sea, how is it not theirs to keep?
Second, if the Spanish government feels they still have the right to these coins after 200 years, then they should return all the coins to the country from which they stole it from in the first place. Spain got all its gold and silver from its conquests in the Americas. It sent Native Americans into the mountains to dig out their own gold and have it shipped to Spain.
Do you think that if Spain is complaining that the treasure should still be theirs after 200 years, should the American company keep it, or should the money be redistrabuted to the former colonies that it stole the metals from?
The one and only. ~Pegasus~
Україна Моя Надія
(By the way this means Ukraine is my hope, in Ukrainian)
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