Posted on 04/08/2009 10:27:27 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Which is actually a reasonable question. There were a great many historical injustices and confiscations of property during the 20th century. If one is going to pick out one or more as being more worthy of restitution than others, one should at least be willing to explain why the distinction is justified.
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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So, because the others are not in our power to correct, we should avoid fixing those that are within our power?
These are stolen property, chattle.
The ownership is not disputed. Simple confiscation and theft was involved, not muddy political issues of conquest or the like.
Another part is that the owners, galleries, and Israel, ftm, have kept the spotlight on this situation in for decades - iow, they asked for the return of the items.
Moral relativism doesn't have to enter the discussion at all.
Which is actually a reasonable question. There were a great many historical injustices and confiscations of property during the 20th century. If one is going to pick out one or more as being more worthy of restitution than others, one should at least be willing to explain why the distinction is justified.
Maybe because when this campaign first started, the survivors were still around to file the lawsuits?
Ping!!!
And stay at the Madonna Inn. It's pretty impressive too!
ML/NJ
Before my grandparents fled Germany, they were unable to draw money from the banks (the banks stamped a “J” on the account books, and Jews could only draw limited funds out) and our family business was closed one day for unnamed “violations” -— basic socialization, and re-opened the next day by other socialist flunkies.
The National Socialists utilized the same powers of regulation that Obama has seized in this nation.
It’s a scary time.
ping!!!
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