Posted on 05/09/2006 10:02:08 PM PDT by peggybac
There once was a land called Liberia...
At least illegal aliens work for their ill begoten money.
The colllateral consequences are rather interesting. Kobe Bryant gets a tax cut of about what, 10 million a year? But then Keyes would get a tax cut too. Charity begins at home. Yes, I know, the last bit was a low blow.
**Preach!**
ON THE DAY THAT JOHN CONYERS RESURRECTS THOSE 250000 DEAD FROM THE BATTLEFIELDS OF THE CIVIL WAR AND THEN BRINGS ME PROOF THAT BEING HERE IN THE US IS WORSE THAN LIVING IN AFRICA THEN I WILL CONSIDER REPARATIONS TO EVERY SLAVE LIVING TODAY IN THE US TODAY PROVIDED THEY IMMEDIATLY REMOVE TO AFRICAN LAND!
Otherwise, shut up!
Ya. But pro discrimination is in a different category than anit discrimination. Just ask SCOTUS.
Oh, gee Edith!
The day reparations are awarded is the day I stop paying taxes.
****barf****
Whatever responsibility there might be to pay "reparations" would rightfully belong to those Southern States where slavery was legal. The US Federal government had nothing to do with it--and Constitutionally, had not the power to act, one way or the other.
"Just as we've discussed the Holocaust, and Japanese interment camps..."
Interment camps?
LOL
I predict in a few short years illegal immigrants will be holding us hostage for "reparations," as well.
They will enumerate all of the "injustices" Americans have inflicted on them by forcing them to live in the shadows, work for paltry wages, and a myriad of other perceived injustices.
"I predict in a few short years illegal immigrants will be holding us hostage for "reparations," as well."
Shortly after that, there will be a legal immigrant uprising up those also looking for reparations... eesh, this could go on for a few years and get entirely too costly. Would a nice red apple do?
And the beauty of it, is that the eleven states of the old Confederacy (well maybe not Louisiana and Mississippi), can afford to pay it now, after a rather long impecunious period. Even better is that about a quarter of the bill will be paid by blacks themselves. It is a winner all around.
Are you familiar with the political issues/debates regarding reparations for former slaves that ocurred in the mid-1860's?
And, Yes, I am talking about the "40 acres and a mule" promise.
I'd love to tell you what I think of this idea, but I'd be banned from the internet. Which tells you right there that Conyers and his band of PC thugs already have a significant leg up on us. So when are we going to start fighting back in terms that are every bit as strong and unforgiving as those the thugs use?
Where Are The Turkeys, Congressman Conyers?The director of a Detroit food bank wants to know what happened to 60 turkeys 720 pounds of frozen birds that his charity gave to members of U.S. Rep. John Conyers local staff two days before Thanksgiving to give to needy people.
1/5/2005Gleaners asks if Conyers staff helped needy people
January 5, 2005BY JOEL THURTELL
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERThe director of a Detroit food bank wants to know what happened to 60 turkeys 720 pounds of frozen birds that his charity gave to members of U.S. Rep. John Conyers local staff two days before Thanksgiving to give to needy people.
Conyers Detroit office promised an accounting of any turkey distribution by Dec. 27, but the Gleaners Community Food Bank had received no paperwork as of Tuesday, said the charitys director, Agostinho Fernandes.
Fernandes said he became suspicious that the turkeys didnt get to poor people after hearing from a friend that a federal court worker had said he was offered free turkeys from a member of Conyers staff.
Conyers press secretary Karen Morgan said Tuesday that she was told that some of Conyers staffers gave the turkeys to poor people whose names were provided by the state Family Independence Agency. A fax with those names, she said, was to be sent Tuesday or today to Gleaners.
Maureen Sorbet, a spokeswoman for the FIA, said Tuesday, I spoke to the central FIA office in Wayne County, and they were unaware of the turkey situation.
Normally, we dont provide names of FIA clients, Sorbet added. Sometimes at Christmastime we might if people self-disclose. Its remotely possible.
By mid-afternoon Tuesday, Fernandes said he had received nothing from Conyers office.
Ive got to tell you that our mission of feeding hungry people has been violated by the people who should have been guardians of our mission, Fernandes said.
Fernandes said Conyers staffer Elisa Grubbs signed a Gleaners invoice Nov. 23 acknowledging she picked up the turkeys on the congressmans behalf. Fernandes sent the Free Press a copy of the invoice.
Morgan said the staffers who picked up the turkeys had promised to provide Gleaners with an accounting by Dec. 27. Morgan said she would ask Conyers to call the Free Press to answer questions about the turkeys, but he did not.
Morgan said Tuesday that she had been assured that a list of recipients exists, but added that she had not seen it.
You can imagine how we feel, Fernandes said. They didnt pay anything. This was donations to them to help the needy. We get calls from different representatives who want to put together food baskets for their needy constituents and you have faith that these people are going to bring the food to the people its intended to go to.
A Conyers staff member who asked not to be named for fear of reprisal told the Free Press that Grubbs and her cousin, Conyers Detroit deputy chief of staff Marion Brown, along with a former Conyers aide, DeWayne Boyd, picked up the turkeys and later gave contradictory accounts of what happened to the birds.
The unnamed staff member raised concerns in a memo sent to both the FBI and House ethics committee. Conyers was the target of an informal ethics committee inquiry last year following a Free Press investigation about use of staff members during work hours for political campaigns.
Boyd, who was fired from Conyers Detroit office in 2002, was convicted on seven counts of fraud last month in U.S. District Court in connection with a scam he ran from Conyers office in 1999.
Boyd, Brown and Grubbs did not return Free Press calls.
A spokesman for the ethics committee could not be reached for comment.
A spokesman for the U.S. Attorneys Office declined comment.
Despite many promises to explain all of this, Conyers never did. Its pretty clear why.
Conyers and his staff stole the turkeys for themselves and their friends.
When Republicans finally internalize the fact that emotion motivates the majority of voters, not reason.
John Conyers: U.S. Owes Slavery Reparations
Polls are looking good for that to happen this year.
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