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Romney Recorded: Asking Employers to Sway Votes? (Original Post) Shankapotomus Oct 2012 OP
Being "Legal" Don't make it Right Heather MC Oct 2012 #1
A couple more: rounding up First People and placing them on reservations was japple Oct 2012 #2
 

Heather MC

(8,084 posts)
1. Being "Legal" Don't make it Right
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 06:25 PM
Oct 2012

Slavery was Legal
Jim Crow Lawswere Legal
Paying women less is Legal
Making children work was legal
denying slaves education was legal
Citzens United IS Legal.
Mitt Romney paying less precentage in taxes then Me is Legal
Women not being able to vote was Legal
Deporting Children who know no other country as their home but America,is Legal
Forcing women to have transvaginal Ultra sounds is "legal rape"in some states


Let's face it, our country has a history of allowing unethical things to happen just because it's "Legal" but it doesn't make it Right

japple

(9,828 posts)
2. A couple more: rounding up First People and placing them on reservations was
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 07:06 PM
Oct 2012

legal
Rounding up US citizens before/during WWII and placing them in internment camps because of their Japanese ancestry was legal.
Performing medical experiments on mental hospital patients was legal.

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