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To: DugwayDuke
I agree with you 100 percent. This is the serious stuff backed by planning and strategy.

While the article states the suit was

inspired by the success of Jewish groups in reclaiming assets and insurance policies from German and Swiss firms

that's not remotely true. In the case of the Holocaust survivors these were genuine assets that had been seized one generation out (from parents or grandparents).

In the case of slavery, the tactic will be as you said (and as was true with the tobacco suits) to launch as many actions in as many jurisdictions as possible, with as many dubious claims of "harm" as can be devised, until the state AGs step in to handle the overload.

Ultimately, as with the tobacco suits, a state-run entity of some sort will be erected to receive the proceeds of many no-contest settlements.

The AGs and the defendants will somehow negotiate a deal that causes the U.S. taxpayer and not the corporate defendant to pay the fees.

The state-protected settlement entities will employ or be run by a board of people like Julian Bond, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton. There will be lots of cushy benefits and power to those on the boards and to their friends and cronies.

The whole enterprise will be veiled in "law" and "justice," supported by taxpayers, and produce a vile and immensely corrupt quasi-public "reparations" organization.

8 posted on 09/03/2002 3:56:03 PM PDT by angkor
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To: angkor
"The whole enterprise will be veiled in "law" and "justice," supported by taxpayers, and produce a vile and immensely corrupt quasi-public "reparations" organization."

There is much truth in what you say. I wish I could remember the program that was started in the 1970s to fund job training in the inner cities. Congress was shamed by the corruption that it cancelled the program. Most of the money went to various black leaders and politicians (I think Sharpton was big in it) in the inner cities. Some of this money was used to open massage parlors and various other illicit operations.

These black leaders and politicians loved this program since it was the basis of the power and wealth. The money from reparations is ear-marked to re-establish this kind of program.
42 posted on 09/03/2002 7:24:49 PM PDT by DugwayDuke
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