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U.S. FIRMS HIT WITH $1.4T SLAVERY' SUITS
New York Post ^ | 3/27/02 | DENISE BUFFA

Posted on 03/27/2002 12:40:37 AM PST by kattracks

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:05:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Landmark lawsuit.

March 27, 2002 -- African-Americans filed three landmark class-action lawsuits yesterday, demanding corporate America pay an estimated $1.4 trillion in damages for engaging in the slave trade generations ago.

The identical suits, filed in Brooklyn federal court, maintain Aetna Inc., FleetBoston Financial Corp., and CSX Corp. built empires on the backs of slaves - and must now give their heirs past wages and profits gained as a result of the free labor.


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1 posted on 03/27/2002 12:40:37 AM PST by kattracks
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The plaintiffs of each and every reparations lawsuit should be slapped with a "frivolous lawsuit" fine.

That would be a good and fitting way to quickly keep these gold-digging lottery players from getting out of hand.

2 posted on 03/27/2002 12:51:31 AM PST by AmericaUnited
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Money gained from the suits would go into a fund to improve health, housing, education and general welfare for the African-American community.

REDISTRIBUTE the WEALTH anb it still wont be enough they will still want us not to exist it will be a isriel/palestine conflict all over again ecept with different players

3 posted on 03/27/2002 12:53:25 AM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK
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More self-aggrandizing attorneys. This is insane. Maybe we should bring back slavery, so that there is something to complain about. That would make as much sense as reparations.

I'll sign up to be a slave. But I'm not worth much--I'm getting old and I'm sassy, you'd have to beat me to death to get much work out of me, anyway.

4 posted on 03/27/2002 12:53:40 AM PST by Judith Anne
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"Farmer Paellmann, who said she went to law school specifically to build a case that would win slavery reparations, recalls her grandfather telling her the story of his grandmother's escape from slavery."

"This is money that they should not be able to keep. By keeping it, it just continues the cycle of unjust enrichment," she said."

Some equally motivated barrister should be on this like white on rice.

A black woman goes to law school for the specific purpose of getting money from someone she doesn't know, or has ever worked for, and justifies her pre-meditated malice with a concept of 'unjust enrichment'.

Whom is being unjustly enriched here?

This is truly insane that we have allowed our country to have been degraded to such a low degree, that this kind of $h!t is even thought of, let alone coming into a court.

5 posted on 03/27/2002 12:58:18 AM PST by knarf
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To: kattracks
They'll be bounced out of court so fast the courtrooms will resemble racquetball courts more than courts of law.
6 posted on 03/27/2002 1:03:42 AM PST by RightOnline
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To: kattracks
Hey my Great-granddad fought at Shiloh. I DEMAND A REBATE!!
7 posted on 03/27/2002 1:05:09 AM PST by CasearianDaoist
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To: RightOnline
DO not be so sure...I live about a 2/3rds of mile from that courtroom and in Brooklyn this sort of activism can find takers.
8 posted on 03/27/2002 1:12:41 AM PST by CasearianDaoist
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To: kattracks
I bought a slave once. But my wife divorced me.
9 posted on 03/27/2002 1:14:23 AM PST by prognostigaator
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They'll get the money.

It's just a matter of when...

10 posted on 03/27/2002 1:15:05 AM PST by Jethro Tull
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The arabs colonized Spain for 800 years. The muslim Tatars extracted tribute from Russians for nearly 250 years. The muslims invaded India and occupied large parts of it for 800 years. Americans of Spanish, Russian and Indian extraction should sue the Nation of Islam for reparations. In fact, anyone with a historical grievance should sue the griever.

The whole point of the exercise should be to create such a web of lawsuits that the whole thing becomes absurd.
11 posted on 03/27/2002 1:18:06 AM PST by wretchard
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To: wretchard
You left out the Hungarians and the Ottoman Empire. I WANT M REPARATIONS , AND I WANT THEM NOW ! I also want them from Austria, Russia, and anyone else who decided that Hungary was just there for the pickings !
12 posted on 03/27/2002 1:23:41 AM PST by nopardons
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To: AmericaUnited
You are absolutely correct !
13 posted on 03/27/2002 1:25:21 AM PST by nopardons
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Money gained from the suits would go into a fund to improve health, housing, education and general welfare for the African-American community.

But I thought we already spent a trillion dollars on the Great Society. That wasn't enough?
14 posted on 03/27/2002 1:31:46 AM PST by primeval patriot
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To: CasearianDaoist; gvnr
Hey my Great-granddad also was is the Civil War, and was wounded. $HOW ME THE MONEY-NOW! (Or I'll stop buying Toyotas.)
15 posted on 03/27/2002 1:33:44 AM PST by Las Vegas Dave
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To: kattracks
. . . demanding corporate America pay an estimated $1.4 trillion . . .

jj has got to be licking his crooked upper lip and hoping for a big cut on this one.

16 posted on 03/27/2002 1:34:01 AM PST by leadpenny
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To: kattracks
"Money gained from the suits would go into a fund to improve health, housing, education and general welfare for the African-American community."

As I've stated countless times, individual African-American's won't see a nichel of this money even if successful. The money will go to people like Jackson and Sharpton to spend, wisely no doubt, on the behalf of African Americans.

17 posted on 03/27/2002 1:35:23 AM PST by DugwayDuke
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To: kattracks

She has the look of a Lotto winner.

18 posted on 03/27/2002 1:42:25 AM PST by Caipirabob
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"They earned money through the exploitation of my ancestors," said one of the plaintiffs

That's right, you idiot, your ancestors, not you!
You have actually benefited from the slavery of your ancestors, you deserve nothing.

19 posted on 03/27/2002 1:43:17 AM PST by RightWinger
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"Farmer-Paellmann said she has documents showing the role of at least 60 companies in the slave trade."

That's notice for. "There will be more of these actions coming."

20 posted on 03/27/2002 1:44:04 AM PST by Kerberos
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