Punishment for the Sins of Others
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Mike K
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Published on 06/25/2008
A medieval law – corruption of blood – held the belief that those convicted of major crimes had corrupt blood which could be passed onto their children. As a result, punishment extended to the children (and relatives) of the convicted as well.
Punishment for the Sins of Others
Reparations: Punishment for the sins of others.
A medieval law – corruption of blood – held the belief that those convicted of major crimes had corrupt blood which could be passed onto their children. As a result, punishment extended to the children (and relatives) of the convicted as well.
Such “inherited blame” is prohibited by our Constitution – and most, if not all, state Constitutions as well – though one would never know that in reading the many demands for reparations. In their zeal to promote lawlessness, the pro-reparations crowd willfully advocates other Constitutional violations as well.
Article I, section nine, of the U.S. Constitution specifically prohibits passage of laws (by the legislation) that declare a person, or group of persons, guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of trial. That same paragraph also prohibits the passage of retroactive laws: laws that retroactively change the legal status of facts and relationships that existed prior to passage of the law.
“No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.” - Article I, section nine of the US Constitution.
It is abundantly clear that those advocating passage of a reparations law do not intend to abide by the Constitutional limits which prohibit their stated objectives. Not only would they declare guilt upon the innocent; they'd do so in a manner which violates the basic concept of civil rights.
Justice is their cry, but punishment is their intent. They seek to punish the innocent for the actions of others, and reap the rewards for harms suffered by others.
Imagine the world they'd create: whole communities imprisoned/punished for the actions of a relative few; Constitutional law disregarded, tossed aside and rendered moot, all for the selfish whims of a group determined to place their petty whims above the law. Their blatant disregard for the law would demand that the same actions be forced upon them.
The troubles in our black communities are well-documented – excessive criminal activities, high drop out rates in our schools, and single-parent homes nearing the saturation point. There can be no reasonable question of those problems causing harm to society at large; yet there are no rehearsed demands that the entire black population be made to pay for the harm caused. Any such demands would be immediately curtailed; ridiculed by all of society for the unconstitutional farce that it is.
The ruse of reparations deserves no gentle response; society must stand firm, and loudly decry the efforts, of some, to punish the innocent. For well over a century, slavery has been illegal in this country; there are no living slaves, no living slave-owners, and no guilty people left to punish for the sins of slavery. For those insistent upon miring themselves in the slave-holding past; I'd caution you in your quest to infringe upon the rights of your fellow American. For if you succeed, what's to stop you from being held to the exact same standards?
A medieval law – corruption of blood – held the belief that those convicted of major crimes had corrupt blood which could be passed onto their children. As a result, punishment extended to the children (and relatives) of the convicted as well.
Such “inherited blame” is prohibited by our Constitution – and most, if not all, state Constitutions as well – though one would never know that in reading the many demands for reparations. In their zeal to promote lawlessness, the pro-reparations crowd willfully advocates other Constitutional violations as well.
Article I, section nine, of the U.S. Constitution specifically prohibits passage of laws (by the legislation) that declare a person, or group of persons, guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of trial. That same paragraph also prohibits the passage of retroactive laws: laws that retroactively change the legal status of facts and relationships that existed prior to passage of the law.
“No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.” - Article I, section nine of the US Constitution.
It is abundantly clear that those advocating passage of a reparations law do not intend to abide by the Constitutional limits which prohibit their stated objectives. Not only would they declare guilt upon the innocent; they'd do so in a manner which violates the basic concept of civil rights.
Justice is their cry, but punishment is their intent. They seek to punish the innocent for the actions of others, and reap the rewards for harms suffered by others.
Imagine the world they'd create: whole communities imprisoned/punished for the actions of a relative few; Constitutional law disregarded, tossed aside and rendered moot, all for the selfish whims of a group determined to place their petty whims above the law. Their blatant disregard for the law would demand that the same actions be forced upon them.
The troubles in our black communities are well-documented – excessive criminal activities, high drop out rates in our schools, and single-parent homes nearing the saturation point. There can be no reasonable question of those problems causing harm to society at large; yet there are no rehearsed demands that the entire black population be made to pay for the harm caused. Any such demands would be immediately curtailed; ridiculed by all of society for the unconstitutional farce that it is.
The ruse of reparations deserves no gentle response; society must stand firm, and loudly decry the efforts, of some, to punish the innocent. For well over a century, slavery has been illegal in this country; there are no living slaves, no living slave-owners, and no guilty people left to punish for the sins of slavery. For those insistent upon miring themselves in the slave-holding past; I'd caution you in your quest to infringe upon the rights of your fellow American. For if you succeed, what's to stop you from being held to the exact same standards?