I've been doing a little reading up on the Alien Tort Claims Act of
1789, in recent years it has been sucessfully used by a Paraguian
father who suced a Paraguian policemen in US court for torturing his
son ( 1980) Holocaust survivors sued a Swiss bank in US court and
other survivors are or have sued German manufactuers in US court for
using slave labor. A major oil company was about to be sued in US
cort by Burmease villagers because the company was said to have used
slave
labor.
Democratic US Senator Dianne Feinstein from CA. sponsered a bill
in 2005 called Senate bill 1874 which would have given the president
the power to dimiss a lawsuit if in his or her view the lawsuit would
interfre with foreign policy, a major oil company had given Feinstein
10,000 dollars in
contributions.
The article I read was dated 10/2005 and said it had not
made it to the judicial committe as of then so I do not know yet what
if any progress the bill has made. The bill is a very dangerous
contribution to Excutive power.--- In [email protected],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I know what you are saying but the Japanese government did more
than attack
> miltary targets in China and Korea, they were not so careful on
sparing
> innocent lives.
> Maybe FDR embargo on oil to Japan set the government off but
victims
> of the Japanese government had a right to sue the Japanese
government in US
> court which might have equaled or have been more than the oil
value of the oil
> embargoes.
> Since in legal theory a corporation is a person even
today
> maybe some of the Japanese corporations can be sued for not only
economic
> damages but punitive damages for their help in destroying innocent
lifes and
> property in China, Korea and other parts of Asia. Of course the
facts should be
> proven and if the corporations were forced to help there should
not be any
> punitive damages but if the corporation gainned from the action a
debt still may be
> owed. Now if the Japanese government forced the corporation to do
bad acts the
> government should compensate the corporation for any lose in court
but if the
> corporation was forced to act it probably would be better for the
plantiffs
> to go after the assets of the Japanese government instead of the
corporate
> assets in question.
> If a lawsuit can be avoided in a just way it should
but
> generally it is far far better to sue than to go to war for example
Where does Castro
> have all that money, Chavez and his government may own oil ports in
the US and
> may have produced some of our voting machines, What about the
Irainan
> political big shots, what about The Sadui Royal Family, what about
the big
> corporations that pushed Jim Crow laws in the South, what about the
lifes and property
> of small farmers in Columbia ruined with the help of US government
money and
>
agents.
>
> Now people often think that governments only have money
coming in
> through taxes or borrowed money then it goes out in spending but
that often is
> not the case besides the hard assets like land, buildings,
utilities
> governments or their incorporated entities often have liquid assets
invested in stocks,
> corporate bonds, REITS ( real estate investment trusts),
commodities and
> foregin investments, the New York state employeee pension fund
alone has assets
> valued at over 130 billion dollars. The Japense government may
have billions if
> not trillions in its Postal Fund which non postal employees can
also invest
> in.
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
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