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To: Father Terrence who wrote (21428)	5/12/1998 4:26:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<<Not necessarily. The top management at Denny's were cowards, not businessmen. They were the pragmatic type with no principles or philosophy. The type of men and women who are ruining this country because they don't stand up for their rights when being trampled. they'd rather "settle". Anyone with guts (like the late Howard Hughes) would stand up and spit in their collective eye.>> Wow, we really disagree here. I believe that any American business leader with principles would be a strong advocate of non-discrimination laws. After all, they are the law of the land. <<Denny's as a corporation was not at fault no matter which sniveling bureaucrat in the government chose to label them as so. Why didn't the government go after the individual guilty parties instead of Denny's? Easy answer: they couldn't get millions out of hick wage slaves, but they could out of Denny's if they could intimidate them enough. >> You sound really elitist, Terrence. There are lots of very good, decent and even very intelligent people who, for one reason or another, find themselves working as "wage slaves", including some of the people who are reading this. I don't think a sniveling bureaucrat chose to label Denny's at fault. There were so many people who were discriminated against that there was a class action lawsuit. All of this came out publicly most strongly because a bunch of Secret Service guys protecting the president were at a Maryland Denny's, and the white ones got served, and the others didn't. These are well-educated, well-dressed, professional-looking men. So obviously it was clearly a racial discrimination offense. <<Have you ever considered that the U.S. Government discriminates against corporations and violates the rights of businessmen and women at the drop of a socialist hat? Mmmmmmmmmmmm???>> Terrence, there is no supreme rule of life which says businesses and corporations should be totally unregulated. We tried that, and had polluted skies, oceans, and rivers, child laborers working sixteen hours a day, and hundreds of other abuses that are too long to list here.