I know that in the past you have advocated of an “orthodox axis” on the Balkans….TO MEGALO KRATOS THS ORTHODOXIAS!!!

In my opinion:

Any politician, in any Country,in any Democracy, that advocates and supports one State Religion…the Religion of the majority …is either an opportunist or Racist or both!

I am a Roman Catholic from Greece and I am terrified, that someone like you, could get Elected, as the Leader of one of the 2 Main political parties, of our Country. The Party of Nea Dimocratia .

Antonios Ioannis Kapodistrias ( Antonio Giovanni Capo D’Istria ) The First President of the New Republic of Greece, a Roman Catholic himself …must be rolling in his grave listening to your Racist Ideas.

Please,come clean and denounce your insane ideas!

Thanks,

Tony V.

The least you could have done to save face, was to send your Ambassador Dr David Landsmam or other chief of staff or at least, the Head of Antiquities of the British Museum to the inauguration ceremony of the Acropolis Museum. Your absence and purposeful arrogance, conceipt and pompous British stiff upper lip mentality shows not only that you abhor Greece’s achievement in creating a museum for the entire world – a worthy sanctuary for the display of the very aesthetic beauty of the Parthenon’s friezes in their entirety – but that also through your absence, you condone the continued criminal vandalism, theft and abuse of the Parthenon Marbles by refusing to even understand why it is important for humanity that these be returned to their birthplace.

It’s high time you get over your brutal and grotesque vanity and your complexes associated with the “Britannia Rules the Waves syndrome” and your distorted beliefs that you were the saviours of the world rescuing “right” from wrong and wise up. How long can the British authorities cling jealously to the loot of their former ambassador to a long-vanished Turkish empire? (Greece was a vassal state when Lord Elgin’s men showed up in all their pomp and ignorant glory with their crowbars and cranes.)

Isn’t it time that the British did something good for this world and for world culture rather than inserting their dirty finger and noses into other people’s business while at the same time considering giving up their hobby of looting the culture of countries who “have something to show”? Moreover, wouldn’t it be a simple goodwill gesture if Britain returned just one of the friezes in the illegal possession of the British Museum to the new Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece creating thus, a new beginning and a new more promising bond in the Greco-Anglo relationship something which would at least go a long way in helping Greeks to view the British in a better and more favourable light and helping us simultaneously of overcoming the idea that the British are just a bunch of drunk and half naked louts who go around reaking havoc in the Greek islands every year? – (Although, I cannot imagine for one moment, where we could have gotten that idea about the British?)

Yours sincerely,

Victor Theofilopoulos, a well-informed and deeply conscientious free-minded, free-willed and democratic citizen of the world.

P.S. and according to the Daily Telegraph, the argument by Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, who has rejected overtures from Athens and said that it is the museum’s duty to “preserve the universality of the marbles, and to protect them from being appropriated as a nationalistic political symbol” is entirely void who goes on to say that: “If the British Museum, which says it is barred by its constitution from handing back its treasures, were obliged to return the marbles, the floodgates might open on other restitution claims. Nigeria, for instance, wants the return of the Benin bronzes, looted by Britain in 1897.”
- seemingly forgetting that the Parthenon’s marbles are the only resounding global testimony of the light, harmony, beauty, simple austerity, eros, ethos and pathos which adorned Classical Greece and that these same values still adorn, still emanate, still radiate and still resonate beyond the Parthenon and Greece to the rest of the world and for the whole of humanity. Light, harmony, beauty, simple austerity, eros, ethos and pathos can only radiate from Athens and Greece where the Parthenon still stands despite the distorted sight and sick wishes of several people who for some bizarre reason see the Parthenon as a derelict ruin and its ever-continuing legacy as non-existent.

Again sincerely yours,

Victor Theofilopoulos