The version signed by Obama became watered down, not making a direct apology from the government, but rather apologizing "on behalf of the people of the United States to all Native peoples for the many instances of violence, maltreatment, and neglect inflicted on Native peoples by citizens of the United States."
The resolution also includes a disclaimer: Nothing in it authorizes or supports any legal claims against the United States, and the resolution does not settle any claims.
'This does not affect your statutory rights' was omitted.
It's all nonsense. Apology as a moral event must involve the doer of the crime and not some far off, long dead, relation or a statue.
Vilfredo Pareto was fond of bizarre stories drawn from classical sources which served to illustrate his theories about residues and derivatives. Re derivatives which he calls juridical entities he cites:
Pausanias, Pcriegesis, VI, Elis II, n, 5-7, relates that, at Thasos, one of the rivals of the champion runner, Theagenes, was in the habit of thrashing his statue every night, and that finally to punish the man it fell upon him and crushed him : "The children of the dead man then brought action against the statue for murder, and following one of the Draconian laws, the Thasians threw it into the sea." But a blight oracle declared that it was because the Thasians "had forgotten the greatest of their fellow-citizens." So they fished up the statue and re-erected it in its original position.
Take that Colston, Gandhi, Jefferson etc. I suppose if you can designate a business corporation a person anything is possible
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