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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard Which raises the question, Do all the Chinese labors who worked for Central Pacific, as if they were indenture servants, and all the Irish who built UP have a lawsuit based on the conditions and lack of saftey concerns? I am the descendent of a German Jew, arnt I owed somthing for the mass murdering of WWII? Of course not. No more than the descendents of the slaves mentioned in this lawsuit are owed anything. At the time, slavery was legal. Yes, the laws have changed, thank God. I have a shipping reciept for a slave, dated before the Civil War. (long story on how I came to have this) It is quite sobering to hold a reciept for another human being in your hand. A 12 year old girl, and someone sold her, as if she was a piece of merchendise! But, again, that crap was legal. You cant go back and retro fit laws. If that were the case, every person who can trace their bloodline back to the pilgims should be able to sue the Nation of Great Brittan for religious persecution. Ed [/quote] Here here! I'm with you on that one Ed. Do the Christians go against Italy because the Romans once fed them to lions as sport etc etc.. The case against CSX is particularly absurd, because no railroad right now is particularly liquid, all are heavily saddled with debt due to aquisitions and merger. They are "plant" rich, and cash poor. And as they have stated a number of times in the mag, though right of way and rails are expensive to put in place, it isn't worth much without traffic. If there were a huge judgement, what incentive would CSX have to operate for years on end, withoutt profit to pay the shareholders? Id throw in the towel, how bout you? Let them start ripping up the rails, and sel l them for scrap, til it dawned on them that black consumers benefit from the operation of existing railroads just the same as everyone else.
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