VIENNA (Reuters) – U.S. and Austrian lawyers have filed a lawsuit demanding Thailand, U.S. forecasters and the French Accor group answer accusations they failed in a duty to warn populations hit by December’s Tsunami disaster, a lawyer said Monday.
The lawsuit was filed Friday at a New York district court on behalf of tsunami victims by lawyers including U.S. attorney Edward Fagan, internationally renowned for 1990s lawsuits against Swiss banks over Holocaust-era accounts. It demanded an account of their actions on Dec. 26.
This story is total bullshit. The U.S. government has no obligation to provide the populations of other countries with any type of safety information whatsoever. Americans already do more than their share of helping out around the world, through voluntary efforts and the coercive tax system that achievers labor under.
However, being sued for not being helpful enough is a fitting irony, especially when you consider that American trial lawyers are involved in the process. If I were in charge, these folks would be tarred and feathered, but first, they would be forbidden from practicing law forever.