Rare Magna Carta auctioned off
p2pnet news | Freedom:- The Magna Carta, also known as the Magna Carta Libertatum (”Great Charter of Freedoms”), is an English charter originally issued in 1215.
It was the, “most significant early influence on the extensive historical process that led to the rule of constitutional law today,” says the Wikipedia.
Says Associated Press:
“A 710-year-old copy of the declaration of human rights known as the Magna Carta – the version that became part of English law – was auctioned for $21.3 million, a Sotheby’s spokeswoman said.
“The document, which had been expected to draw bids of $30 million or higher, was bought Tuesday by David Rubenstein of The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm, the spokeswoman said.”
Sotheby’s David Redden said it’s, “the most important document in the world, the birth certificate of freedom”.
It used to be owned by Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot’s Perot Foundation and is one of only 17 still in existence.
Also See:
Associated Press – Magna Carta Sells for $21.3M in New York, December 19, 2007
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December 19th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
of course.
a leading devil-worshipping NWO neo-con group which influences (controls) world politics, economics, food and wealth distribution, the construction of a one-world government, and is bent on the elimination of 80% of the population would buy it.
they can store it alongside whatever other artifacts they own that they consider “important. perhaps they own things like christ artifacts and such that they revere and believe bring them almighty powers.
what a waste of money. it should be in a publicly-funded museum for everyone to view – not hidden away by a group seeking the destruction of mankind until they can use it as their manifesto in order to bring about their vision of a New World Order.
October 26th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Boring