The US is going to sue Saudi Arabia

Good idea to allow lawsuits against foreign nations?

  • Yes

    Votes: 1 33.3%

  • No

    Votes: 2 66.7%
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Jimdamick

Jimdamick

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An interesting thing occurred today, in that the US Senate voted unanimously to allow lawsuits filed by family members of the victims of the attack on 9/11, to sue Saudi Arabia for complicity in those attacks and to be compensated. The Senate's vote, along with the vote of the vast majority in the House of Representatives guaranteed an override of the Obama veto, This will be the 1st time during Obama's term that a veto is guaranteed to fail. So, this is my question. Is this a bad idea or a good one to allow to a lawsuit be allowed against a foreign nation over the actions of it's citizens?. Personally, I think we are opening a Pandora's box, in that every country that we fucked over time, can sue the US. Those countries will probably say if the US can sue other countries, then we who have had the shit bombed out us or had the US try to overthrow our government can do the same. I can think of a few that will just love to be able to do that in international courts, and a few that come to mind are Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Lebanon, Grenada, Iraq, Iran and the list goes on and on (any others come to mind?)
So, bad idea or not?.
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Jimdamick said:
An interesting thing occurred today, in that the US Senate voted unanimously to allow lawsuits filed by family members of the victims of the attack on 9/11, to sue Saudi Arabia for complicity in those attacks and to be compensated. The Senate's vote, along with the vote of the vast majority in the House of Representatives guaranteed an override of the Obama veto, This will be the 1st time during Obama's term that a veto is guaranteed to fail. So, this is my question. Is this a bad idea or a good one to allow to a lawsuit be allowed against a foreign nation over the actions of it's citizens?. Personally, I think we are opening a Pandora's box, in that every country that we fucked over time, can sue the US. Those countries will probably say if the US can sue other countries, then we who have had the shit bombed out us or had the US try to overthrow our government can do the same. I can think of a few that will just love to be able to do that in international courts, and a few that come to mind are Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Lebanon, Grenada, Iraq, Iran and the list goes on and on (any others come to mind?)
So, bad idea or not?.
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Ive got mixed feelings. I am actually involved in lawsuits against saudi's.

In some ways i think that maybe allowing these suits will make everyone more conscientious about mass killing. I also feel like USA might get a long ass spanking to get the ball rolling, after SA of course. I bet it takes forever for any of these cases to see a courtroom.
 
So this country would be listed as a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed here in us? Or is the lawsuit filed somewhere else? Haven't had time to delve into the factoids yet. How would you enforce any of the findings?
 
I have to admit, I agree with Obama on this. It will not bring anyone back and not protect us from terrorism. But it will get a lot of high paid lawyers more wealth.
 
My first thoughts are that it is the governments job to protect it's citizens against the actions of another government. That being the case it falls to the government to prosecute and/or obtain restitution for those that have been wronged.

That does not mean the government cannot fail at it's basic functions such as immigration, crime prevention, etc. This could very well be an extension of that failure.
 
NLXSK1 said:
My first thoughts are that it is the governments job to protect it's citizens against the actions of another government. That being the case it falls to the government to prosecute and/or obtain restitution for those that have been wronged.

That does not mean the government cannot fail at it's basic functions such as immigration, crime prevention, etc. This could very well be an extension of that failure.
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i thought crime prevention was zimmerman's job, not the government.
 
I like this move..fuck the Saudis, at least the 30% of the population that thinks Saddam hit us on 911 will know it was the Saudi's, Our fakest "friend" ..sure, it will open up the United States to massive lawsuits but I'm sure we have em coming.. Maybe this will force us and other countries to not be so dirty and grimy.
 
Corso312 said:
I like this move..fuck the Saudis, at least the 30% of the population that thinks Saddam hit us on 911 will know it was the Saudi's, Our fakest "friend" ..sure, it will open up the United States to massive lawsuits but I'm sure we have em coming.. Maybe this will force us and other countries to not be so dirty and grimy.
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Why? Lets say that some US citizens get a judgement against the Saudi's by a US court. And the Saudi's say they dont recognize the court and are not going to pay. Same for the USA...

Where did this get us again?
 
Justin-case said:
Train crash in New Jersey this morning. Can't wait for the investigation, definitely some dirt on the Clinton's and bushes to be exposed.
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i'll bet the MSM won't even use the words "radical Islam".
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