CAIRO - An Egyptian lawyer said on Wednesday he was planning to sue the world's Jews for "plundering" gold during the Exodus from Pharaonic Egypt thousands of years ago, based on information in the Bible.
Umm - a couple of obvious things - you can't sue a race of people, you have to bring your suit against a specific entity - be it a government, corporation, association, individual or any combination of the above. I mean, who is going to defend, or pay? The first jewish person the process server runs into on the day?
Secondly, I think that a statute of limitations applies on simple plundering pretty much everywhere - only capital crimes are ever excluded, and the exclusions vary too much to be useful.
Thirdly, none of the people who are being asked to answer for this crime actually committed this crime. The accused have been dead for thousands of years. Even if stupendous discoveries of incontrovertible evidence was suddenly discovered, it's not going to point at anyone around today...
The world's gone mad - is this the best thing they can think of to do with their time and energy?
Cheers Russell C.
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