Posted on 09/30/2016 8:42:51 PM PDT by CMB_polarization
How do you ever get an impartial jury in the U.S. on a case like this?
Not sure but I think, yeah: a chose in action?
Let’s hope so.
Yep. who knows. It could embolden them. “Killing generals could get to be a habit with me”. :-)
Any judgment becomes a judgment lien against any real property owned by the defendant in that county, once recorded in the judgment docket.
They can then file a notice of foreign judgment in whatever county, state the Saudis own land. If they want to sell: lien.
How do you get Saudi to even attend a trial in the USA?
That’s what Obama said as well.
Charles Bronson?
Now they can sue Hillary and Bill Clinton as agents of the Saudi government. They took money from the Saudis.
Karma sucks.
Leni
Seize any of their property or accounts in this country with a court order. Same as you would any other plaintiff.
“I have reservations about this.”
So, I guess you have “reservations” about justice? This isn’t about money, although I hope the people who sue these CSSNs get billions, it’s about achieving a just end for what was done th them, and by extension, to our country.
response from OH-1 Steve Chabot:
Dear John,
Thank you for contacting me to express your concerns regarding management of the Internet. I appreciate having your views on this important issue.
The Internet that is widely used today started as an American military project through the Pentagon in the early 1960s. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was created in 1998 to oversee the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. This system is most commonly known for matching understandable web addresses, like www.chabot.house.gov, with IP addresses (computer-readable number strings).
ICANN is a private, non-governmental entity. It is the sole organization that oversees these functions with a multi-stakeholder approach to its governance whereby policy decisions are made by the Board of Directors and a group of other stakeholders. The Department of Commerce has a degree of authority over ICANN through the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Functions Contract.
This contract is set to expire on September 30, 2016. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU), an agency within the UN would likely replace the Department of Commerce, giving the international community oversight control over the IANA functions.
Like you, many are concerned that international control of ICANN would provide an avenue for repression of free speech by totalitarian governments or for the United Nations to censor the speech of law-abiding Americans advocating for our Second Amendment rights.
Because Congress has limited authority on this matter, my colleagues and I are working through the appropriations process to address our shared concerns. In addition, I have joined my colleagues in signing a letter to the department of Commerce requesting that it renew its contract with ICANN. Further, the House passed H.R. 805, the DOTCOM Act of 2015, with my support. This legislation would require the Department of Commerce to ensure that any transition plan addresses these concerns. H.R. 805 is still awaiting consideration by the Senate.
As congressional efforts to address the management of the Internet continue, I will monitor any developments and keep your concerns in mind.
Again, thank you for contacting me. If I can ever be of assistance to you in any way, please do not hesitate to contact my Washington, DC office at (202) 225-2216 or my Cincinnati office at (513) 684-2723. I look forward to hearing from you in the future.
Sincerely,
Steve Chabot
Member of Congress
Sounds like a lot of signing a piece of paper and sitting on your hands.
I am voting #Trump2016 and ignoring the federal level downticket.
My hope is one of the first tbings #PresidentTrump does is make the pitch for TERM LIMITS and have the public apply the pressure on congress to write term limits into law. If you don’t, in a couple years to use a quote” *You’re FIRED!”
The make up of congress was majority Democrap when obamoa-care was enacted. That, and they really all wanted it. The reason I say that is because we own both houses in congress, and nothing has been done.
We’ve been Gruber’ed and the politicians have been paid off.
Ianal but the saudi defendants default if they receive notice of a court action against them but they choose not to appear.
Could become very interesting legally and politically imho, especially revealing judicial corruption
Good question.
“I still find it odd and suspicious they over rode O’s veto.”
It was a show vote prior to the election. There was no way most Congresscritters running for election would vote against allowing the 9/11 survivors to sue. The actual vote to pass the bill (prior to the veto) was by unanimous consent so no individual had to be tallied.
The Obama veto forced them to go on the record. It was the type of vote politicians don’t like to make. Democrats had to go against the president or face Republican opponents hammering them with the vote during the last 6 weeks of the election cycle. Had the vote been held after the election, Obama’s veto would have been sustained.
Ryan and McConnell likely timed the vote prior to the election to embarrass Obama. However, they know the Saudi’s are angry and will have to make amends. The fix is already in, Lindsay Graham has already publicly announced he and 20 other Senators are working on a measure to water down the bill and address the Saudi issues. To quote from Graham, “What can we do to preserve our relationship with Saudi Arabia?”
Likely there will be legislation approved in the lame duck session that will neuter the 9/11 bill. Don’t expect any of the 9/11 victims to be successful suing the Saudi’s. There is too much Saudi money spread around Capitol Hill. We should recall George W. Bush invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, not the country financing global terrorism.
LOL
Politics? Nobody wants to be seen as having voted against anything referring to 9/11 in an election year.
I think the point is to punish Saudi for their collusion in waging a terror war against the US.
File lawsuits, seize Saudi assets in the US.
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