[Sherman Logan]

At what point do you consider unjustly acquired wealth to have acquired this invulerable patina of sacred prescription? You do agree it is possible to acquire wealth in an unjust and immoral way, I assume?

I’m curious because some recent lawsuits have resulted in recoveries by descendants of Jews robbed before and during WWII. That’s a good 60 to 70 years ago.

So apparently the present owners of those properties were not covered by your right of sacred prescription.

OTOH, if you extent property rights back far enough just about all real property was stolen from somebody and the present title is therefore invalid. Heck, this would mean American blacks are owed reparations for the undeniable crimes committed against the property rights of their ancestors.

I’m not trying to be snide, although I admit it’s a challenge. :) Some line must obviously be drawn where property rights vest in the possessor. Drawn too soon it results in criminals grabbing property and then claiming they have every right to it. Drawn too late innocent heirs suffer. Where do you think the line should be drawn and why?

[JasonC]

Yes, you are trying to be snide, and you are a commie radical good fer nothing. But I can answer regardless. Illegal acts, which are not the acts your ideology doesn't approve of nor the things you decide you didn't like 70 years later, but acts illegal at the time, are covered by the perpetrator of the act himself being involved in them. Anyone who isn't, has no part in that fault, which attaches to a human individual and not to wealth or any other material object. A man entirely innocent of any illegal act himself, who owns property he acquired without doing anything wrong, cannot be deprived of it based on allegations about misdeeds of others. If the others are still around, fine go after them. If they are dust, then your cause is gone with them. That is what "prescription" means. It means a man innocent of wrong himself cannot be punished for the alleged misdeeds of his ancestors.

And yes, that means modern Stalinish witch hunts by ambulance chasing lawyers are theft. Every bit as bad as the original acts they pretend to be so hot and bothered about. No, they aren't made any more excusable by the innocent men they attack, being in different demographic groups than those they claim to speak for.

In a walnutshell, the sort of men suing for Holocaust reparations would have been the first to burn the Jews themselves for a few gold fillings, and are pond scum.