[one2many]

FYI

[fone]

I'm not even a southerner but it makes sense to me.

[shuckmaster]

Aw, Shucks!

Another great article from DiLo

[End The Hypocrisy]

Meanwhile, how about a lawsuit against the Millions For Reparations folks for inciting riots Saturday? Could the deep-pocketed http://www.MillionsForReparations.com folks be to blame for all the racial violence that transpired in Cincinnati this weekend?

Analysis:
1) The U.S. Code statute;
2) Some of the most pertinent facts:

http://uscode.house.gov/usc.htm

18 USC Sec. 2101

Riots: (a) Whoever travels in interstate or foreign commerce or uses any facility of interstate or foreign commerce, including, but not limited to, the mail, telegraph, telephone, radio, or television, with intent -

(1) to incite a riot; or

(2) to organize, promote, encourage, participate in, or carry on a riot; or

(3) to commit any act of violence in furtherance of a riot; or

(4) to aid or abet any person in inciting or participating in or carrying on a riot or committing any act of violence in furtherance of a riot; and who either during the course of any such travel or use or thereafter performs or attempts to perform any other overt act for any purpose specified in subparagraph (1), (2), (3), or (4) of this subsection - Shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

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Here's SOME of the stuff that was communicated to those at Saturday's MillionsForReparations.COM demonstration in D.C., not to mention to folks not in attendance by way of the media, and probably by cellphone and the like:

"I want to go up to the closest white person and say, 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing,' and then slap him, just for my mental health." -Charles Barron, a member of the New York City Council

"Remember Inglewood, California!" [not far from where the Rodney riots took place a decade ago]. "The next time we come here, we're gonna take over the U.S. Treasury." -Louis Farrakhan

"Pass reparations, or pass the ammunition." -President of the new black panther party

"Black power! Black power! BLACK POWER!" -practically every speaker at that Reparations rally.

I'm sure that absolutely NONE of this had any impact on what transpired in Cincinnati soon thereafter??? How about on future civil unrest? If all the alleged culprits were instead caucasian, wouldn't there be some very busy lawyers and potential defendants right now?

[stainlessbanner]

'I know that in the beginning I, too, had the old West Point notion that pillage was a capital crime, and punished it by shooting.'

- William T. Sherman; a few years later he and president Ulysses Grant would use his war crimes against the south as justification for the ethnic cleansing of American Indians.

"I hold about 1,000 prisoners captured in various ways, and can stand it as long as you; but I hardly think these murders are committed with your knowledge, and would suggest that you give notice to the people at large that every life taken by them simply results in the death of one of your Confederates. Of course you cannot question my right to "forage on the country." It is a war right as old as history. The manner of exercising it varies with circumstances, and if the civil authorities will supply my requisitions I will forbid all foraging. But I find no civil authorities who can respond to calls for forage or provisions, therefore must collect directly of the people. I have no doubt this is the occasion of much misbehavior on the part of our men, but I cannot permit an enemy to judge or punish with wholesale murder. Personally I regret the bitter feelings engendered by this war, but they were to be expected, and I simply allege that those who struck the first blow and made war inevitable ought not, in fairness, to reproach us for the natural consequences. I merely assert our war right to forage and my resolve to protect my foragers to the extent of life for life. "

- Gen. W.T. Sherman, US, to Gen. W. Hampton, CS, informing him of his ordered continuation and sanction for northern looting of southern civilian property, February 24, 1865

"I expect Kilpatrick here this p.m. and will send him well to the left. He reports that two men of his foraging parties were murdered after capture by the enemy and labeled "Death to all foragers." Now, it is clearly our war right to subsist our army on the enemy. Napoleon always did it, but could avail himself of the civil powers he found in existence to collect forage and provisions by regular impressments. We cannot do that here, and I contend if the enemy fails to defend his country we may rightfully appropriate what we want. If our foragers act under mine, yours, or other proper authority, they must be protected. I have ordered Kilpatrick to select of his prisoners man for man, shoot them, and leave them by the roadside labeled, so that our enemy will see that for every man he executes he takes the life of one of his own."

- William T. Sherman to Major-General Howard, Commanding Right Wing, February 23, 1865

"Send over about Fairmount and Adairsville, burn ten or twelve houses of known secessionists, kill a few at random, and let it be known that it will be repeated every time a train is fired upon rom Resaca to Kingston"

- Gen. William T. Sherman, orders to Gen. Louis Watkins, 1864

"Our armies traverse the land and waves of disaffection, sedition and crime close in behind and our track disappears. But one thing is certain, there is a class of people, men, women, and children who must be killed or banished before we can hope for peace and order even as far South as Tennessee."

- Gen. William T. Sherman, letter to Stanton, June 21, 1864

"For five days, ten thousand of our men worked hard and with a will, in that work of destruction, with axes, sledges, crowbars, clawbars, and with fire, and I have no hesitation in pronouncing the work well done. Meridian with its Depots, Storehouses, Arsenals, offices, Hospitals, Hotels, and Cantonments, no longer exists."

- Gen. William T. Sherman to Gen. Grant, 1864

[4CJ]

Re: the debauchery and attacks against civilians perpetrated by the yankees - Dr. Thomas P. Lowry, author of Tarnished Eagles: The Court-Martial of Fifty Union Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels, researched ALL courts-martial of that war from both sides (over 22,000), and noted that there were over 300 yankees were courts-martialed and executed for raping southern women.

The number of Confederates courts-martialed for for rape:

    Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. None.

[Non-Sequitur]

Here is a link to the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, or N'COBRA for short, website. I'm sure that you two will have a lot to discuss what with you having so much in common on the reparations issue and all.

[rdb3]

I am as opposed to this as I am to reparations for slavery. Both arguments are patently absurd.

It's 2002. Time to live in the present for a change.

[MEGoody]

Everyone can find some reason that someone owes them reparations. I realize this is in response to the blacks demanding reparations for slavery, and I hope their point gets across quickly so they drop this silly lawsuit.

[Non-Sequitur]

So if you and Mr. DiLorenzo have no problems with reparations for something like this, then how can you have any problems with all the slavery reparations movements? In both cases it's payment for something that happened to people long since dead.

[Godfollow]

And what would it cost should your have to pay for your sins?

[sultan88]

Bump to an older thread. Interesting.

[amused]

Great. I guess I am going to start a class action suit for a hostile environment created by zealous southerners against northerners.

I only had one ancestor in country during the War Between the States(a fireman in NY) but I have to endure constant insults on threads refighting the WBTS. Somehow because I was born in NJ it's okay to throw insults and imply I wanted Southern homes burned, women raped etc. And frankly I am tired of it.

This is America and if I am offended I must be compensated.

Of course, this is completely ridiculous but at least I am the directly injured party ;-)