Posted on 05/18/2002 12:28:45 PM PDT by Jean S
One has to wonder if this is not a violation of protection under the 5th. Amendment. If one (person or corporation) is compelled to provide testimony against itself, would not this same testimony be excluded in suits regarding, so called, "reparations" ?
I grow so tired of the lawyer bashing.
Everybody knows it's only 99% of the lawyers that give the rest a bad name.
(/sarcasm)
Of course, this proposed suit is just Leftist propaganda. There is no way that you can sue someone for damages you claim happened 137+ years ago. The legal argument is a big joke.
The only reason that we suddenly have "slavery" as an issue in America again, is that the Left sees it as the way to further tear us apart. The issue will go away, fairly fast, I suspect, if Conservatives take a tough and unapologetic tack. If, on the other hand, they fall all over themselves apologizing for history; you can expect that this idiotic foray will be followed by ones of similar "logic," one after another, ad nauseum.
Incidentally, I dealt with one aspect of this new (spontaneous, of course) focus on slavery in The Big Truth.
This would all be funny, if we still had a journalistic media in America with the analytic abilities of a bright fifth grader. But those days are long gone.
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BTW I have NO problem giving every African American a 1/4 of a mil...or even 1/2 a mil...as long as there is a contract that they, and future generations will not claim any future government "benefits" for 100 years.
Have you seen Registered's latest work regarding Tom Daschle?
Might stimulate new graphic ideas for our Governor.
No it won't.
There is still the issue of the enabling complicity of West African nations that sold their own to European and Middle East slave traders. Black slavery could not have existed without the assistance of African tribes selling to whites their prisoners from tribal wars.
Think about it! It would be physically impossible to overwhelm African tribes from land or sea. Africans far outnumbered any white invader. Will reparations be sought from these African nations, the first link in the chain of bondage?
Will the Reparations Contingent sue the European nations that initiated the slave trade in the New world? Will Tony Blair be served? Will the Netherlands? Will Spain?
I am not, in any way, defending anything about slavery. It is this country's "Original Sin". But there are unindicted co-conspirators, that if left out of the "reparations" equation will render the sought for justice, criminally incomplete.
And then, of course, there is the argument that no one alive was harmed by slavery unless you can prove that because your ancestors were harmed, that therefore, opportunities did not realize for you.
This latter argument rings hollow, of course. Can I sue the living family members of someone who damaged my own family in the distant past? Of course not!
Davis should be impeached on this decision alone.
Someday, hopefully, it maybe considered a felony to have been associated with the Perjury Party. At that point, we can hunt down those criminals...
Has anyone axed - "HOW MUCH DO THESE PEOPLE WANT?"
Well this should tell you what this is all about. Is Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition getting a big short on cash lately?
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