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Originally Posted by Webby
Sheesh.. this one second retention spam can cause serious problems :-)
Have you read the article??? This thread suggests the Tsumani victims on masse are suing the US over something grievance. They are not.
They are suing three groups, all involved in advance warning systems on behalf of around 60 named plaintiffs from Austria, Germany, France, Netherlands and elsewhere plus at least 40 more not named.
Whether this is a valid case or not - who knows - they are not "suing the US". The only US element that has anything to do with with is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Now we got the GFY idiot mob cussing the shit outta all and any Tsunami victims that don't even know anything about it. Gimme a break :-)
Some don't know how lucky the are.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is own and run by whom? The US Department of Comerence - Both of whom are US Government offices.
They aren't sueing for money (not yet anyhow), and it's not people who live in the area hit who are sueing. The point is this lawsuit is looking to place blame directly on the US Government for failure to warn them. First, I find it hard to believe that National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is legally responsable to warn anyone, no less governments we are not really friendly with in the frist place. Then factor in that we did in fact warn a number of countries but nothing was done because everything happened so fast. Detection, notification, and evacuation of areas that might be hit doens't happen in twenty minutes..... Not to mention Thailand or Sir Lanka didn't have any ablility to warn residents.
This lawsuit is (a) being filed against a US government agencey not responsable for reporting to other foreign governments and (b) who did in fact report this to other foreign governments who failed to take any action.
So what's the point of this lawsuit?