--- Russell Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
>
> > CAIRO - An Egyptian lawyer said on Wednesday he was planning to sue
> > the world's Jews for "plundering" gold during the Exodus from
> > Pharaonic Egypt thousands of years ago, based on information in the
> > Bible.
>
> Umm - a couple of obvious things - you can't sue a race of people, you
> have to bring your suit against a specific entity - be it a government,
> corporation, association, individual or any combination of the above. I
> mean, who is going to defend, or pay? The first jewish person the
> process server runs into on the day?
>
> Secondly, I think that a statute of limitations applies on simple
> plundering pretty much everywhere - only capital crimes are ever
> excluded, and the exclusions vary too much to be useful.
>
> Thirdly, none of the people who are being asked to answer for this crime
> actually committed this crime. The accused have been dead for thousands
> of years. Even if stupendous discoveries of incontrovertible evidence
> was suddenly discovered, it's not going to point at anyone around today...
What if your gradfather, knowing that he and my grandfather are both near
death, were to rob my grandfather buy gold with the money and put it into an
offshore bank under your name. Further more he writes in his journal that he
did this. No one is around any more who was originaly involved.
Now what if it was your great grandfather and the only way you were to
recover it was that he made sure you (who was not yet born) got the journal,
so you would know where to get your gold.
Now what if it was his father, or his father before him?
Where does one draw the line?
> The world's gone mad -
Yes it has.
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