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Title: Supreme Court could hear groundbreaking case that challenges UN immunity
Post by: Elderberry on September 24, 2019, 01:11:07 pm
Fox News by Ben Evansky 9/22/2019

As world leaders descend on New York for this year’s U.N. General Assembly, the immunity enjoyed by the organization is being challenged at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Following a devastating earthquake in 2010, Nepalese peacekeepers sent to help instead brought Cholera to Haiti – a disease unknown to the country at the time. Waste from the peacekeepers' HQ leaked into the local river and ended up being responsible for ten thousand deaths, with hundreds of thousands contacting it.

Edward Flaherty, a Geneva-based lawyer who filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court on behalf of Swiss NGO, Hear Their Cries, told Fox News that if the case is accepted for review, it “will allow the Court to finally examine the constitutionality of UN immunity.”

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Title: Re: Supreme Court could hear groundbreaking case that challenges UN immunity
Post by: PeteS in CA on September 24, 2019, 11:46:52 pm
Given UN "humanitarian" officials' rather pungent peccadilloes, this could could open a cargo container load of 55-gallon drums of worms. One can hope, :pop41: .
Title: Re: Supreme Court could hear groundbreaking case that challenges UN immunity
Post by: verga on September 30, 2019, 02:58:44 pm
Quote from: PeteS in CA on September 24, 2019, 11:46:52 pm
Given UN "humanitarian" officials' rather pungent peccadilloes, this could could open a cargo container load of 55-gallon drums of worms. One can hope, :pop41: .
I just want to see them be forced to pay parking tickets.
Title: Re: Supreme Court could hear groundbreaking case that challenges UN immunity
Post by: PeteS in CA on September 30, 2019, 11:25:59 pm
Quote from: verga on September 30, 2019, 02:58:44 pm
I just want to see them be forced to pay parking tickets.

As long as it's in Caracas, Venezuela or some similar Paradise.
Title: Re: Supreme Court could hear groundbreaking case that challenges UN immunity
Post by: Bigun on October 01, 2019, 12:08:00 am
Quote from: PeteS in CA on September 30, 2019, 11:25:59 pm
As long as it's in Caracas, Venezuela or some similar Paradise.

 :yowsa:  :amen: