Pay Us Back for What You Didn't Do to People Who Aren't Us!!!

That title could be shorter. Anyway, check out this story:

Slave descendants sue British, U.S. firms

Descendants of black American slaves accused the Lloyds of London insurance firm and two U.S. companies of genocide in a lawsuit on Monday that sought billions of dollars in damages.

Brilliant. They couldn't get their "reparations," so now they're suing. Why does something tell me the London company is going to lose this one?

The suit, filed in Manhattan federal court, seeks $2 billion in punitive damages from London's Society of Lloyd's, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., and FleetBoston Financial Corp. The suit also seeks unspecified actual damages.

"Actual damages" which occurred 200 YEARS AGO YOU IDIOTS!

Filed on behalf of six adults and two minors, the suit alleges the companies intentionally sought to destroy the plaintiffs' "people, culture, religion and heritage."

They obviously failed, first of all, and in any case, ALL. THOSE. PEOPLE. ARE. DEAD. NOW. Seems like they got what was coming to 'em. Unless they're somehow transmitting their bigotry from beyond the grave. Zoinks.

The plaintiffs say their ancestors were transported from African nations as part of the slave trade from 1619 to 1865.

Is anyone denying this?

They allege that Lloyds insured slave ships, while FleetBoston, then called Rhode Island's Providence Bank, financed the ships in the slave trade. R.J. Reynolds, the suit states, profited from plantations.

When was the last time that happened? If it was recent, I'm sure we would've heard about it.

The companies profited from ethnic cleansing, rape, forced breeding, kidnapping and murder that violate U.N. declarations and international law and are defined as genocide, according to the court papers.

UN declarations?! The UN didn't even exist when this was happening, morons! Doesn't international law have ex post facto?

R.J. Reynolds spokeswoman Ellen Matthews said the firm had not yet seen the complaint but added "currently we are not aware of any legal precedent or even a legal theory that would allow these cases to proceed to trial."

"We're pioneers! We're just a few generations late!"

A Lloyds spokeswoman in London said that it had not seen the claim and was not in a position to comment. But she added that previous claims regarding slavery had been dismissed.

That's a shock.

Officials at FleetBoston did not returns calls.

It's good to see that they're giving this the amount of attention it deserves.

This is ridiculous. I haven't talked about things like this very much, but I think that if they're trying to set precedent, it should apply to all oppressed people. For example:

- I have a Scottish last name (no, it's not "D." You really didn't think it was just "D," did you?). The Scots were oppressed by the English. Where are my reparations from England?

-I'm a Protestant Christian. The Catholic Church oppressed my people in Europe for years. Where's my money, John Paul? Is it in the hat? Gimme gimme gimme!!!

See how ridiculous this is? Nimrods.

Posted by CD on March 29, 2004 08:48 PM
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