EliteKiller wrote:LMAO wrote:But not when it occurredcan't ex post facto
and that's the great escape ... things that occurred in history under different circumstances are what they are ... good, bad, indifferent you can't change them or blame their descendants ... otherwise you have the crazy situation where we'd be suing for historic events ... so cue the Democrats wanting to pay slave reparations (even though slavery ended 100 years ago) ... no doubt the Zulu's will be suing the Brits soon even though that war was over 100 years ago - oh wait they already are ..... guess those Japanese are in with a shout after all .... how about Dresden, or Baghdad do you think those residents have a claim?
as you so rightly say ex post facto law utter madness ...
Nope, at least not in modern times. Idk what the statute of limitations should be for reparations, but I do know it shouldn't extend generations. And this is coming from someone who has slave ancestors on one side and family that was murdered in the Holocaust on the other.
In the same vein as ex post facto, you can't punish a son for the sins of his father (well, you can in North Korea, but you know what I mean).