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Nebraska Senator Sues God
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LINCOLN, Neb. - The defendant in a state senator's lawsuit is accused of causing untold death and horror and threatening to cause more still. He can be sued in Douglas County, the legislator claims, because He's everywhere.
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State Sen. Ernie Chambers sued God last week. Angered by another lawsuit he considers frivolous, Chambers says he's trying to make the point that anybody can file a lawsuit against anybody.
Chambers says in his lawsuit that God has made terroristic threats against the senator and his constituents, inspired fear and caused "widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth's inhabitants."
The Omaha senator, who skips morning prayers during the legislative session and often criticizes Christians, also says God has caused "fearsome floods ... horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornadoes."
He's seeking a permanent injunction against the Almighty.
Chambers said the lawsuit was triggered by a federal suit filed against a judge who recently barred words such as "rape" and "victim" from a sexual assault trial.
The accuser in the criminal case, Tory Bowen, sued Lancaster District Judge Jeffre Cheuvront, claiming that he violated her free speech rights.
Chambers said Bowen's lawsuit is inappropriate because the Nebraska Supreme Court has already considered the case and federal courts follow the decisions of state supreme courts on state matters.
"This lawsuit having been filed and being of such questionable merit creates a circumstance where my lawsuit is appropriately filed," Chambers said. "People might call it frivolous but if they read it they'll see there are very serious issues I have raised."
U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf, in an order last week, expressed doubts about whether Bowen's lawsuit "has any legal basis whatsoever" and said sanctions may be imposed against Bowen and her attorneys if they fail to show cause for the lawsuit.
The Associated Press usually does not identify accusers in sex-assault cases, but Bowen has allowed her name to be used publicly because of the issue over the judge's language restrictions.
Cheuvront declared a mistrial in the sexual assault trial in July, saying pretrial publicity made it impossible to gather enough impartial jurors. |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070918...Vg19Twigsms0NUE |
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| Moral Hazard |
| You'd figure a legislator would: a) have better avenues to express his opinions then by resorting to such a idiotic tactic, and b) would be more aware of how much time an money a stunt like this costs his constituents. |
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| RJT |
In the intelligence and reason departments, Nebraska is only one step up from Kansas, which itself is barely better than Utah.
Par for the course, IMO. |
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| Moral Hazard |
| Sometimes I question how it is the USA got to be the strongest and richest country in the world. It's frightening to think how smart and talented those in the northeast and west coast have to be in order to carry all that deadweight in the centre. IMO.... you guys need more tornados. |
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| RJT |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moral Hazard
Sometimes I question how it is the USA got to be the strongest and richest country in the world. It's frightening to think how smart and talented those in the northeast and west coast have to be in order to carry all that deadweight in the centre. IMO.... you guys need more tornados. |
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you too bro-ham. |
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| Project-K |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moral Hazard
you guys need more tornados. |
No... they'd just sue them for damages. |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| Sad thing is, I don't think it's even the first time someone's done that. |
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| Pjotr G |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
Sad thing is, I don't think it's even the first time someone's done that. |
You're right, and the last time it didn't go through, cause "God" is not a person or company. You can't sue something that you can't identify/locate. |
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| Ian |
| quote: | Originally posted by Pjotr G
You're right, and the last time it didn't go through, cause "God" is not a person or company. You can't sue something that you can't identify/locate. |
he'd probably watch sean tyas or armin do jesus poses & have them arrested cos it's as close to god as he could get for sueing. |
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| Moral Hazard |
| quote: | Originally posted by RJT
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you too bro-ham. |
Rob, you are clearly the exception to the rule... but you must admit most of those middle states are pretty devoid of intellegent life... especially the square/rectangle ones. |
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| inconspicuous |
| And in the 'adults acting like angry ten-year-olds' category for today, we have... |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moral Hazard
Sometimes I question how it is the USA got to be the strongest and richest country in the world. It's frightening to think how smart and talented those in the northeast and west coast have to be in order to carry all that deadweight in the centre. IMO.... you guys need more tornados. |
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Don't lump us northwest folk in with trying to save that trainwreck (Sorry Rob :p). A sizeable portion of us want out and as far away from that mess as possible, not that it'll ever happen. |
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