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To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (341560)	1/10/2003 4:13:16 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The petition has already been made and no one's been attacked yet. The trouble would happen if the petition was granted. In my opinion, the granting itself would be a gross violation of our primary law, the Constitution. How can a law written specifically to treat citizens differently based on ancestry pass the equal protection test? And if the Constitution was ignored, implementing it would create lawlessness of monumental proportions as people with the wrong parents would inevitably try to cash in illegally.

To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (341560)	1/10/2003 6:34:56 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

There are freedoms that should not be violated. AND there are STILL costs to their exercise. TALKING seriously about slavery reparations has the cost of lost credibility and sympathy. It has the cost of forcing everyone to view the talker as apart, and forming their OWN opinions (using their OWN freedoms) about their hostility toward society, and thus their reliability as Americans. That may or may not be a good thing-BUT THERE ARE THE COSTS. Forcing implementation of slavery reparations has a COST also. It is far greater, far more damning, and far more permanent. Talk, create a movement, and succeed. But accept the implications of those three steps. Don't come crying to me when the end result is grossly undesirable: I DIDN'T MAKE THE CHOICE-YOU DID!...