There is no depth of stupidity to which the US government, especially the Congress, cannot sink. The veto override vote was overwhelming...
The very magnitude of the vote shows that there is plenty of stupidity room there for even more enormous legislation blunders than this.
Just try, for a moment, to imagine some of the kinds of things this law might just open the door to, not only against the government, but against private citizens.
It is rather also like what we used to call a 'lawyer relief act', very poorly disguised.
Why not allow WWII claimants to sue other governments, especially regarding damages for mass barbaric civilian slaughter, as Ambassador Power has put it, such as Dresden, and other German cities, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, certainly filled with innocent children and adults, Vietnam, many thousands of body counts of civilians there; London descendants of those bombed by the Germans need legal retribution; Soviet action certainly caused millions of civilian deaths and casualties, and they need hard suing as well, no doubt; Jewish descendants of civilian Holocaust victims should be able to sue not only the German and Italian governments, and European governments who turned them over to the Germans, but also Allied governments who failed to come to their rescue in a timely manner, etc.
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