| Senate plans to apologize to blacks. Do you know there is STILL no federal anti-lynching law?
Posted: 6/25/2005 9:19:45 AM |
Government has many more infinitely important things to do than to pass a law you can't scratch your butt on Wednesday or you can't lynch someone.
If a society is so complacent with itself as to equate lynching someone to be at the same level as scratching your butt on a Wednesday, I'd say that society has already declined.
No need for a long decay a la the Roman Empire.. You're already there. | |
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| Senate plans to apologize to blacks. Do you know there is STILL no federal anti-lynching law?
Posted: 6/25/2005 10:10:03 AM | So our society is deemed as declining because of something that happened years ago has come to light. I don't think anyone believes that lynching should be tolerated.
Now, the fact that we are not an empire, but could be one if we wanted to, confuses the****ns of all sorts of people. Indeed, some people find the idea so confusing they willfully refuse to believe it and just go on insisting we are an empire the way the guy in the Monty Python skit just kept insisting the parrot wasn't dead. Other folks don't use the word "empire" but they are just as confused about America's behavior. Marxists, for example, have a hard time fathoming that America doesn't behave according to their straight-line predictions about how a capitalistic "hegemon" should behave. So they mine the data. They ignore the inconvenient and misinterpret the unignorable. | |
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| Senate plans to apologize to blacks. Do you know there is STILL no federal anti-lynching law?
Posted: 6/25/2005 10:13:26 AM | So our society is deemed as declining because of something that happened years ago has come to light.
You *really* need to learn how to read the posts people write.
I wrote that about society declining because the previous writer had equated lynching to scratching their ass. I don't honestly think the American conscience has sunk that low, but if that statement reflects typical opinion - then YES, society has declined. | |
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daisie
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| Senate plans to apologize to blacks. Do you know there is STILL no federal anti-lynching law?
Posted: 6/25/2005 11:53:50 AM | You need to learn to read previous postings. I do not equate lynching with butt scratching. I DO equate wasting time and money passing laws about lynchings that happened ages ago...ages and ages ago...and are not happening now...they are HISTORY...almost ancient history....I DO equate that time and money wasted as the equivalent to passing a butt scratching law. Absolutely. IT's all wasted time and money along with the "anti-fondue fork law" and the "anti-walking the plank law" (jeeze...now the Pirates will probably start a thread obout the legality of "walking the plank"!) It's all equally absurd!
Lynching is a very very very very serious issue. The thing is IT AIN'T HAPPENING NO MORE DUDE!!!! Get with the program, catch up with the 21st century. Let's pass laws (and enforce) laws that are relevant, meaningful and have some purpose other than appeasing the little lost sheep like you. Although, after all this I am I just about ready to agree with passing that law just to get you to put a sock in it. You have a good heart, but you are hopelessly confused. I wish you the best...but I'm tired of trying to help you understand reality. | |
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| Senate plans to apologize to blacks. Do you know there is STILL no federal anti-lynching law?
Posted: 6/25/2005 11:57:26 AM | | Have you ALWAYS called people that don't agree with you "little lost sheep?" Or is this a new thing you've picked up? Either way, it's really not very nice. If you have a valid point you should be able to make it without the disrespect, don't you think? If you don't have a valid point, I guess name-calling and being dismissive is a good way to distract from that fact, but still... | |
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Joined: 5/2/2004
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| Senate plans to apologize to blacks. Do you know there is STILL no federal anti-lynching law?
Posted: 6/25/2005 1:52:36 PM | Hmm...seems I remember a case or two not that long ago where people had ropes tied around their necks and were dragged to death behind a moving vehicle....because they were "different".
"Frontier justice", or "lynching" works in some degree in favour of the majority of people. It helps keep potential criminals "in-line", out of fear of being lynched. Public hangins, etc did much the same. When public executions died out, so did the fear of the death penalty, thereby eliminating it as a deterrent...it just didn't "seem real" to those who could well have been turned by witnessing just one public execution.
Smae goes with caning....where it is used, the people are usually a polite society, where rudeness, and ignorance is NOT tolerated.
Part of the symptoms of a declining society are the acceptance of ignorance, foul language, rudeness, etc....and we've come a long way down that road. | |
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| Senate plans to apologize to blacks. Do you know there is STILL no federal anti-lynching law?
Posted: 7/1/2005 8:57:12 AM | Being part Native American, I agree with you.
But lets examine this topic.
No lynching law?
Isn't it illegal to assault another, attempt to maim or kill? to deprive one of his life has been defined in the past as violating said person's constitutional rights.......
there are many laws that lynching could fall under and be prosecuted.
Apology for .....
Native Americans were more persecuted than almost any other race.European "visitors" were responsible for the extinction of several whole tribes from Maine to Venezuela. There historically has been a more successful sytematic program of genocide against people native to north america than any other ethnicity.
Plus, I'm not so sure I'd want an apology from the current administration.... they might only be sorry they weren't more successful! | |
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| Senate plans to apologize to blacks. Do you know there is STILL no federal anti-lynching law?
Posted: 7/6/2005 10:28:13 AM | | ok now im confused ,,,,its 2005 and we are still under the impression that southerns are prejudice,,,my personal opininon if the freakin naacp and minoities would stop continuing to fight over things that happened how many years ago,,,half of the hate would stop,,,all it does is show ignorance on both parts,,,here again i ask why dont we all trace our roots see where the hell we are really from go back there and give the land back to the true americans,,,i dont remember them smokin a piece pipe and sending signals for them to be invaded and theyr women rapped tortured killed and their blood line being screwed up if you ask me they aare the ones who were wronged and truly sufferd,,,everyone here in america can trace where they come from and go back,,,,can the AMERICAN INDIANS ask all of us to leave and it be done,,i swear i hate to sound insensitive but why must we hear this constant freakin whinning over somthing that cant be changed.... | |
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| Senate plans to apologize to blacks. Do you know there is STILL no federal anti-lynching law?
Posted: 7/6/2005 10:45:30 AM | Where: The reason is I think we need a federal anti-lynching law is that when lynching did take place, many state law enforcement institutions KNEW about the lynchings and refused to prosecute, believe it or not. These events were publicly advertised in major newspapers, even...
Nothing was done.
I think federal laws should be passed to keep it from happening in the future. Apologies are worthless without that. | |
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| Senate plans to apologize to blacks. Do you know there is STILL no federal anti-lynching law?
Posted: 7/7/2005 3:22:53 PM | | you r right there are laws against rape it still happens laws against murder it still happens so why do we need it singled out lynching is a form of murder,,,no need for another law to be passed on it,,,jesus i want a no murder by guns law passed and no rape by a penis law passed,,,,wth | |
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