I say you all, I am gettin in on this suit for most of my ancetors fought with the South during the Civil War......and a Stiles dies in Andersonville AFTER the Civil War and assume he was the one who rode with Jesse James and the god damned Yankees got him. So as my two great Uncles used to say (Jefferson Davis Hoke and Stonewall Jackson Hoke and do not think that ws their real names)......as they said, Save Your Confederate Money boys, the South will ride again, and this time we let Morris Dees pay for it for that guy should be sued from here to eternity. Saba Any money derived in the even we win this case and I have documentation of this one real plantation and the will - but any money derived will be given to the IRA or Sinn Fein, with small portion going to Animal Welfare - a private organization who saves the lives of cats and dogs.......
If at first you don't secede... ~~~ forwarded message ~~~ Source: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/010621/politics-66 League of the South requests Civil War reparations Updated: Thu, Jun 21 12:00 PM EDT By Brandon Evans The Auburn Plainsman Auburn U. (U-WIRE) AUBURN, Ala. -- In an effort to relieve the Southern man's burden, the League of the South started an online petition which it is considering to present to Congress. According to the petition, the petitioners want Congress "to conduct a thorough, non-partisan study examining the long-neglected injustices arising from the war crimes committed across the South from 1861-65 in violation of the U.S. Constitution, the Law of Nations and U.S. Executive Order No. 100, whereby the private property of non-combatants was ravaged, burned, stolen and destroyed as a deliberate policy of an unconstitutional war of invasion, conquest and occupation ... We anticipate that a thorough and impartial congressional investigation will reveal the necessity for a long-overdue compensatory program of justice for people of all races in the South who were subjected to treatment during and after the War Between the States that resulted in little less than barbaric dispossession and destruction of Southern people and their way of life." Eric Peatman, a junior in zoology and coordinator of the Auburn University chapter for the League of the South, said the Auburn chapter supports the petition. "My family is from Savannah," Peatman said. "My grandmother tells me stories she heard from her grandmother suffering from Sherman's troops. "You can travel across Georgia and still see the damage." The LOS Web site contains the petition and currently has more than 2,200 electronic signatures from people across the country. Last year, the Southern Poverty Law Center released a 53-page research report declaring the LOS a hate group. Heidi Beirick, a senior writer for the SPLC's magazine, "Intelligence Report," said, "I think it is a cynical attempt by the League of the South to profile themselves as a suffering group, while African-American leaders and civil rights groups are asking for reparations stemming from the serious issue of slavery. "I think it is a mockery to the high-profile attempts made by African-Americans," Beirick. Beirick also said the petition by the LOS comes in the wake of the nationally run advertisement by David Horowitz. The advertisement ran in student and professional papers alike, and stated 10 reasons against giving reparations to descendants of slaves. Critics called the ad racist, and a small protest of the ad occurred at Berkeley. (C) 2001 The Auburn Plainsman via U-WIRE
