Me, stunned: This site has some amazing taphonomic conditions to preserve hair on articulated remains and the wood of an intact vessel resting upright above the silt.
My name is Marta Pittman, and I’m a partner at Xavier, Masham, Abbott and Stevens.
And you’re Santa Claus’ lawyer.
That is correct. More accurately, I’m the partner in charge of our firm’s Seasonal Litigation and Clearances practice, which has as a client NicolasNorth LLC, Santa’s corporate entity.
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800 years ago today, on Nov 6, 1217, the Charter of the Forest was
sealed by King Henry III, making it “the first environmental charter
forced on any government” in which were asserted “the rights of the
property-less, of the commoners, and of the commons.”
For more than 700 years, the Charter was read aloud four times a year in
every Church in England. The Charter – which was signed alongside a
lesser document that eventually became the Magna Carta – stood until
1971, when it was finally abolished by a UK Conservative government.
According to the American Bar Association, the Charter was the basis for
the US Constitution, a document concerned with the “economic rights of
the property-less, limiting private property rights and rolling back the
enclosure of land, returning vast expanses to the commons.”
As responsible parents you never think of allowing your children to play with poison and as responsible Americans it’s your duty to protect them from the dangers of the poison we call prejudice.
Here in America racial and religious hatred does exist, sustained by the political adventurers and plain crackpots who are willing to scrap the democratic way of life to attain their own ends.
Prejudice in America is centered in their addled philosophy but unless we guard ourselves and our families it can find its way into our own lives. Then the poison would do its work, undermining America’s unity, sabotaging our prestige abroad and wrecking our ideal of individual freedom.
In your family life you can effectively carry on a campaign against prejudice. Our youngsters grow up with a pride in their country. Teach them that part of that pride is our tradition of accepting or rejecting people on their individual worth not on the basis of race or religion or color.
Remember freedom and prejudice can’t exist side by side. If you choose freedom, fight prejudice.
