Posted on 01/26/2021 3:35:45 PM PST by nickcarraway
Thanks. I’ll be taking a look.
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You have to be kidding. Your argument is if you murder someone you can keep the property you steal? Would you like that law to be enacted in the U.S.?
I think the argument they are making is the violin changed hands so many times, with nobody knowing it was stolen, that you would now be punishing people who didn’t steal it, and had no idea it was stolen.
The guy who has it is a small shop owner who worked hard for the money he spent to buy it from another shop owner who probably did the same.
Somewhere in the chain was a Nazi who sold it for a pretty penny and enjoyed that money, and he is the villain, not this owner, as far as we know.
It would be like somebody coming to you, and saying your house is on stolen Indian land, so the tribe is going to take it from you, when you have your whole life savings sunk in it, and you will be broken by the taking.
Shit happens. I had a very wealthy relative way back, and my much older ancestors from a different time railed against the Jewish lawyers who descended when he died and cleaned the estate out and picked the bones clean, and they did the railing in much more unfriendly terms.
Sometimes, bygones are bygones, because you would be fucking over a whole new group of people who didn’t deserve it.
The violin does not appear in the list of expropriated items made by the family after the war...so their oversight was lacking .....plus how generations of family members are going to require compensation?
The man was not murdered, he took his own life.
There is a thing called ‘statute of limitations’.
Murder has no statute of limitations, property crime does.
This is at best a property crime, I don’t care how ‘special’ the victims family feels 4 generations later.
Money grubbing is unattractive.
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