You have outdone yourself, Ron. <g>
Probably not very hard for me to do... given how little I've started out with... :0)
I bet we could set an incredible precedent in international law and the Balkan people could sue the pants off the Western Europeans.
Afterall, the word slavery derives from the trade in Slavic people into human bondage:
ourworld-top.cs.com
newadvent.org
"During the long period of war between the Germans and Slavs, which lasted until the tenth century, the Slavonic territories in the north and southeast furnished the Germans large numbers of slaves. The Venetian and other Italian cities on the coast took numerous Slavonic captives from the opposite side of the Adriatic whom they resold to other places. The Slavs frequently shared in the seizure and export of their countrymen as slaves. The Naretani, a piratical Slavonic tribe living in the present district of Southern Dalmatia, were especially notorious for their slave-trade. Russian princes exported large numbers of slaves from their country. The result is that the name Slav has given the word slave to the peoples of Western Europe."
And even more interesting, maybe some of today's foreign workers in the hi-tech sector might claim "indentured servitude" status since they have not been able to expeditiously receive their green cards:
redherring.com
And since Crookran has brought in a bunch of lawyers involved in the tobacco settlement, maybe they might have just the expertise required to sue the tobacco and cotton industry for complicity in perpetuating slavery.
So many possibilities for a entrepreneurial litigator trying to make his bones...
But then again, this entrepreneur may make out even better.....<VBG>
nowandzen.com
Regards,
Ron |
