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To: TobagoJack who wrote (10340)	10/20/2006 9:44:37 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220345

TJ, at the risk of belabouring the point, a slave from Africa can't sign away the future of all descendants by accepting a free passage to the promised land of the USA in exchange for perpetual servitude for all their descendants. Such a treaty, obligation etc is ultra vires, valid only at the point of a gun. No perpetuity, no heaven and earth. The papers from such times are quite amusing, as is, for example, the silly and racist Treaty of Waitangi, which conferred sovereignty, while taking it away [another example of paradoxical dual conflicting realities such as your unpredictable/inevitable duality]. Maoris are now setting themselves up as a master race. Such ideas are always popular among megalomaniacs. I don't know about Brunei. I suppose I could ask Google. Mqurice