Maximus wrote:erolz66 wrote:Sotos wrote:If you accept something which you know is stolen then you are just as criminal as the one who stole it.
Is taking away a communities legal constitutional rights, outside of any legitimate legal process, not stealing ?
You are now trying to present an apartheid as legit.
Not at all. I am making the point that the moral authority and righteous indignation of someone or some entity who complains of being stolen from is undermined if they themselves have stolen from others but act as if they have not.
Maximus wrote:Those constitutional rights you are referring to are legally invalid.
The rights granted to the TC community in 1960 may well have been unfair but they were legally valid, unless and until a legitimate court with jurisdiction ruled otherwise. One party to a contract can not legally just unilateral declare, after agreeing and signing a contract, that contract is unfair or was signed under duress and then just ignore parts of that contract of their choosing. Only a legitimate court with jurisdiction can legally rule that either the entire contract is invalid or specific parts of it are.
The seizure of peoples property by force in the north post 74 was a theft from those people. Just as the unilateral removal by force of the TC communities rights under the constitution post 63 up till 74 was also theft.
Two wrongs do make make a right but a thief who wails and bemoans they have been stolen from and demands restitution for their loss while denying they themselves have stolen from others is morally bankrupt.