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Pastimes : Slavery Reparations -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neeka who wrote (32)	8/21/2002 3:01:14 PM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 203

Exactly my point; and these are superficial issues, off the top of our collective heads. Imagine what a far closer examination of history and precedent will turn up... LP.

To: Neeka who wrote (32)	8/21/2002 4:59:30 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 203

Sure is. My great grandpappy volunteered for the Union Army and was captured and imprisoned in Andersonville. That destroyed his health and he died a year after being freed by invading Union troops. Now it seems to me that since he fought to free to these people, I should get an exemption from reparations. OTOH, I think everyone should. No living American Black has ever been a slave. And no living American non-Black has ever owned a slave. And the Constitution specifically bans ex post facto laws and bills of attainder, which means the crimes of the fathers cannot be visited onto the sons.