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JUSTICE IS ***NOT*** FOR SALE
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Watching rich people get away with
things while the poor are executed, the media like
to say that, in America, "Justice is for sale."
It is very important to understand why this is not
true, and what that means.
What is for sale in America is ACQUITTALS, not JUSTICE.
If you spend lots of money on lawyers, as OJ Simpson
did, you can get acquitted. But acquittals are not
justice.
When the media say that JUSTICE is for sale, they
are saying that, if we spent more money on judges
and lawyers, we would have more justice.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, you could spend
the entire national income of this country on lawyers
and judges and have no more JUSTICE. Lawyers learn
all those technical legal points and the latest
Opinions of courts, but there is not the slightest
bit of evidence that all that rigmarole provides
any more justice than a simpler procedure would.
All the stuff that lawyers learn has nothing to
do with justice, and nobody claims that it does.
More lawyers mean more acquittals, not more justice.
There is no evidence whatsoever that any of those
procedures or legal papers or motions or Opinions
provide the slightest bit of JUSTICE.
The bottom line is:
1) We don't demand justice, therefore
2) We don't get any.
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So the Southern Baptist Convention, trying
desperately to get liberal approval, votes an apology
for slavery. I wasn't surprised at this pointless grovel.
I have watched "Christian" conservatives for
decades, and their bumbling desperation for liberal approval
on race issues is old news.
But then LIBERALS started pushing for a national apology
to blacks for slavery, and I figured there was something
more than a token involved.
As I pointed out in ONLY THE RIGHT
ACCEPTS WOODEN NICKELS, August 12, 2000, liberals,
unlike respectable conservatives, don't accept token gestures
for their clients. If you want Mexican votes, you give
American jobs to Mexicans. If you want black votes, you
have to give jobs and school openings to them that would
have gone to more qualified whites.
Now that respectables have begun groveling over slavery,
liberals are out, as always, to turn that token grovel
into something solid. They want real money reparations
for slavery, and lots of it.
This is not a new issue, but they are serious now. Respectable
conservatives are piling up apologies and grovels that
can be used as evidence. We're talking lots of hundreds
of billions of dollars, and however unlikely it may seem
to you that they'll get it, never underestimate the liberals'
ability to kick around the conservative wimps who speak
for us.
Before you start beating your chest over how we won't
pay, remember when race quotas were unacceptable? I remember
the 1960s, when they were considered impossible. You just
saw a Republican Convention's highlight speaker demand
that we not only allow them, but that Republicans take
a lead in enforcing them.
Anything the left wants is just a matter of time to respectable
conservatives. When reparations come, it will be "Christian"
conservatives who shout about how they will kill anybody
who objects, just as today's "Christian" conservatives
try to outshout liberals about how anyone who ever criticized
Martin Luther King is anaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
This "reparations" business is so old that in
the mid-60s when I was professoring economics, I would
address it. I put on the blackboard the argument liberals
use (and conservatives will not challenge) to justify
black reparations. I would write up the per capital income
of blacks in America and the per capita income of whites
in America. The difference, say liberals, is owed to black
people.
So I put up the per capita income in a few representative
black countries in Africa. Then I put up the average black
income in the United States. I then asked whether BLACKS
owed WHITES that difference. After all, as a direct result
of their being slaves, blacks have had an income several
times that of black Africans for generations.
According to the only serious econometric studies of the
subject in "Time On the Cross," African slaves
in America netted much higher incomes than many Europeans
in their day, much less the so-called "free"
black Africans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Respectable conservatives protect liberals from that kind
of argument.
The movie "Roots" begins with Kunte Kinte, a
free African black man, being captured by white men.
ACTUALLY, THERE IS NO RECORD IN ALL HISTORY OF ANY WHITE
MAN EVER ENSLAVING A BLACK MAN. Like all nonwhite societies,
black Africa had plenty of slaves. There is no record
of any black African refusing to sell another black African
to a white man. They were cheap, so it made as little
sense for a white man to capture a black slave himself
as it would make for you to grow and refine your own sugar.
But the left has a way to prevent all such arguments.
Everything that the most alarmist segregationists said
would happen with racial integration has happened with
racial integration. Liberals deal with this by simply
not allowing anyone to mention the facts. If anyone brings
them up, they simply sic the "religious conservatives"
on them. These fake Christians shriek their loyalty to
Saint ML King, and look back to the libs for approval,
the way a dog looks to his master.
I think the left will get its reparations, because, the
left doesn't give up, while the right caves in predictably
and completely (See October 24, 1998 - LIBERAL
SPORES). And remember, when they get that for the
blacks, they will get something - - probably a totally
open United States border, for Mexicans.
All at our expense, of course.
At the Republican Convention, Colin Powell got up and
demanded that the Party back racial quotas to favor his
race. With their worship of uniforms and their endless,
goofy pursuit of "the Negro vote," respectable
conservatives got up and cheered. Obviously, now that
racial quotas are secured, it is time to go for more.
"According to one fairly typical source, the present
claim for reparations would be around one trillion dollars,
if interest is not included."
If liberals get serious in their push for reparations,
they can get plenty of money from whites. They need to
keep up the drumbeat for hundreds of billion in guilt
payments from whites to blacks, and to collect more and
more conservative grovels for the record like that of
the Baptist Convention. Before long, as always, conservatives
will be desperate to compromise.
And soon conservatives will begin to shout down anyone
who dares to question reparations.
With blacks demanding more, it will be time for other
minorities to get more.
And remember, Bush thinks he can outbid even liberals
for the minority vote.
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