Where Credit Is Due
We focus so often on the excesses and usurpation of power by the Judiciary, we often fail to give credit where due to those judges who faithfully discharge their duties under the Constitution. Judge Charles Norgle shows us how judges should act in his dismissal with prejudice of a ``slave reparations`` lawsuit. Would we have more judges of the Hon. Charles Norgle`s stripe!
Just a couple of final thoughts:
If decendents of slaves can sue other Americans for slavery, perhaps they can sue the Arab slave traders as well. Perhaps we can defund Al-Quada by suing their financiers into bankruptcy? After all, the white slavers merely purchased slaves on the African coast-it was the Arabs who did the capturing and initial training (often they bought them from tribal leaders, but reparations will be hard to squeeze from their decendents, unless Bono gets his way!)
Perhaps I can sue Norway, since I have Irish blood, and the Vikings often enslaved Celts. Perhaps we can sue Italy for Roman slavery? My German ancesters may have been Roman slaves.
Maybe Israel can sue the Egyptians?
Just a couple of final thoughts:
If decendents of slaves can sue other Americans for slavery, perhaps they can sue the Arab slave traders as well. Perhaps we can defund Al-Quada by suing their financiers into bankruptcy? After all, the white slavers merely purchased slaves on the African coast-it was the Arabs who did the capturing and initial training (often they bought them from tribal leaders, but reparations will be hard to squeeze from their decendents, unless Bono gets his way!)
Perhaps I can sue Norway, since I have Irish blood, and the Vikings often enslaved Celts. Perhaps we can sue Italy for Roman slavery? My German ancesters may have been Roman slaves.
Maybe Israel can sue the Egyptians?
posted by Timothy Birdnow | 9:03 AM
2 Comments:
In the same time frame as American slavery, my own ancestors were feudal slaves of the Tsars. Ukraine's greatest poet was a serf whose freedom was purchased by some noblemen who took an interest in him. Feudalism was only ended by decree of the Tsar in 1861 -- so it almost perfectly coincided with the Civil War. More recently, my own parents were slave laborers in Germany. Now Germany is finally getting around to paying reparations for all that free labor, handily they left is so late that most of them are dead -- and the ones that are still alive have no idea how to qualify for these reparations. Certainly my mother has never been notified or contacted.
Good post, Tim. Let's not forget the Japanese and all that slave labor they used too.
Look, the past is over! There are lessons to be learned and applied, but the idea of reparations is a self-perpetuating cycle.
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