From: Jeff Davis (jrd1415@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Sep 08 2002 - 15:24:16 MDT
--- Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
As long as we are going to account for
> historic injustices as seen
> through the eyes of those that say they have been
> treated unjustly I have a
> question.
> Would you pay reparations before or after you
> returned to the American
> Indian all the land that was unjustly taken from
> them. Just remember
> Manhattan Island supposedly was not bought from the
> Indians that lived there
> but from an outsider with no right to sell it. I
> doubt you would survive
> with more than 10 to 25 percent of the U. S. intact.
<snip support for the argument that reparations would
be unworkable because too costly>
I love the hypocrisy of those who intone the mantra of
"personal responsibility". When the other guy is
accused, they declare "If you can't do the time, don't
do the crime." [Which I would like to modify as
follows: "If you can't do the time and pay the fine,
don't do the crime."] Right up to the very moment
when THEY get caught en flagrante. Then it's the blue
wall of silence, executive privilige, the statute of
limitations, the roar of the shredder and the fifth.
C'mon. Do you see the dust settling from the turnip
truck recently departed?
When the dust (the turnip truck dust, no doubt) is
brushed from the business of ancient injustice, and
reconsidered/reformulated as UNFINISHED business,
those who see that they may get stuck with the bill
turn on their "excuse generators", and we hear no more
of "personal responsibility". (Yes, I know. The
persons PERSONALLY responsible for these ancient
injustices, and the direct victims, are long dead.
Nevertheless, the fruits of their crimes HAVE BEEN
PASSED DOWN TO US. Now, the personal responsibility,
whatever the time dilution, is ours.)
So, the next time you hear the term "personal
responsibility", run it through the "bullshit
translator" and hear the true meaning: "Screw you,
it's mine, any way I can get away with it, for as long
as I can get away with it."
Best, Jeff Davis
"It is as morally bad not to care whether
a thing is true or not, so long as it
makes you feel good, as it is not to
care how you got your money as long
as you have got it."
-Edmund Way Teale,
"Circle of the Seasons"
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