Old Blog Jones

Wow. A judge that recognizes his constitutional boundaries

A judge dropped the Slave Reparations Case because the "plaintiffs' claims 'are beyond the constitutional authority of this court.'" I'm impressed. Unfortunately, he left the door open for an "amended complaint," which means the battle isn't over yet.

Despite going to Bob Jones, I'm not a racist, and neither are the vast majority of those on the staff and in the student body. But it takes a special kind of idiot to truly believe that anyone is deserving of my money because of something their great-great-grandfather may have suffered at my great-great-grandfather's hands (which I doubt was the case; despite what you may have heard, slaves were not cheap, and I doubt either side of my family could have afforded slaves even if they had wanted them). (Sorry about the uberlong sentence) If my great-grandfather, or even my father, had shot and killed your father, I would not be held liable for that! In America, you pay for your own crimes. The people who committed the crime of slavery here are all dead.

The only reason to seek "reparations" is basically that you're either too dumb or too lazy to go earn your money, so you have to steal it from others. I seriously doubt that anyone except the most self-deluded true believers think that this issue is really about justice.