Hawley bill would allow Americans
affected by virus to sue China:
'The kind of accountability we need'
Fox News,
by
Charles Creitz
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
4/16/2020 4:08:56 AM
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., told "The Ingraham Angle" Wednesday he is drafting a bill that would set up an international fact-finding commission regarding the origins of coronavirus and allow affected Americans to sue the Chinese government for pandemic-related damages.
"[T]he Beijing government put together a video, Laura, that called me a liar and called on me to resign," Hawley said. "So I figure I'm on the right path, and we are going to keep pushing ahead." "We know the truth isn't that this was just some happenstance occurrence that China didn't know anything about," Hawley added. "We know they knew all about this,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
PChristopher 4/16/2020 4:58:25 AM (No. 381193)
You don't really expect China to pay anything, do you? You might as well as Hillary Clinton to tell the truth.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Alecto2 4/16/2020 5:48:38 AM (No. 381214)
Just as China will be China, politicians will be politicians. Is this the best this virtue signaling maroon can do to get tv time?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 4/16/2020 6:18:50 AM (No. 381231)
How about suing the nut that generated the crazy model of death for this virus, Drs. Fauci and Brix the two medical experts that persuaded our President to destroy economy. China doesn't care and good luck trying. There's enough blame to go around.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/16/2020 6:27:57 AM (No. 381237)
Yep, Senator Hawley, I am sure the Chicoms can't wait to start processing the lawsuits. Who are you kidding?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
BirdsNest 4/16/2020 7:02:14 AM (No. 381257)
China says " The check is in the mail".
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 4/16/2020 7:25:59 AM (No. 381273)
Yeah, we need to find more work for lawyers....
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 4/16/2020 7:44:22 AM (No. 381303)
Yeah, we know how these things usually work: the lawyers will rake in millions and the victims will get a coupon for $5 off at their local chinese carryout.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
3XALADY 4/16/2020 7:52:31 AM (No. 381310)
My investments are down $40,000. Can I sue?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
hershey 4/16/2020 7:57:42 AM (No. 381324)
What a waste of time...you know the Chi-coms will NEVER admit they caused this virus, and no one will ever get a cent out of them...grandstanding is all it is..
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
chillijilli 4/16/2020 8:42:32 AM (No. 381395)
Last night, Fox News was all abuzz with breaking alerts about the origin of the pandemic---a Wuhan lab worker using unsafe practices who passed the disease on to his girlfriend. I haven't been able to find this story anywhere else, including Drudge or here. At first I thought it's just another example of the MSM cherry-picking the news for us, but since I can't find ANY conservative media reporting on this I'm totally confused.
Do we or don't we have evidence that this is a Wuhan bio lab error?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LtE126 4/16/2020 8:59:10 AM (No. 381409)
I like this Josh Hawley
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MDConservative 4/16/2020 9:04:48 AM (No. 381411)
Whose "facts" do we use for evidence? The Chinese lied. The WHO backed them up. Our governments relied on bogus numbers run through bogus models by bogus experts to come up with stupid policy and shutdowns. Meanwhile, the nation largely went right along despite the mounting evidence they were being misled.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
franq 4/16/2020 9:13:34 AM (No. 381423)
Please. Just call it the Lawyers Full Employment Act.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 4/16/2020 9:37:07 AM (No. 381448)
My Dad told me to check the wind before peeing in the great outdoors. Well, it is nice theater that a political actor wants to pass a law to allow citizens to sue China. Really, it's a nice gesture. But, it's meaningless, worthless, and a waste of time.
I would rather that they run investigations that uncover and extricate the tentacles of the Chinese Communist Party and its subsidiary the People's Liberation Army from the flesh of our nation. It is long past time that people are put on trial, and if found guilty, imprisoned for decades for their treason. I would start with President Bill Clinton. He sold the exact missile technology now used in Iran, North Korea, and China by issuing a license for Loral to sell it to the Chinese COMMUNIST Party.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/16/2020 9:58:35 AM (No. 381476)
China does not go by the liberal rules of civil procedure, and court decisions made by US Courts on any issue, so good luck getting China to pay.
Some might say just seize Chinese goods coming into the USA to payoff court judgements against China so they cannot be sold thus stopping profits from being sent back to China. Anyway we will probably find out that once Chinese goods arrive in the USA that they have to be handled just as American goods are handled under provisions of in place international trade agreements and cannot be discriminated against due to their national origin, or that the Chinese will simply retaliate against US goods arriving in China.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
starboard 4/16/2020 10:01:19 AM (No. 381483)
Senator Josh Hawley defeated the beastly Claire McCaskill to become Senator from MO. I sure like his spirit.
He's a smart freshman senator with a lot of energy. We could use a few more like him in Senate.
Basically, what he's doing stirring the pot along with Senator Marcia Blackburn who is doing the same. It's gets attention and takes control of the thinking. It may also precipitate defensive actions.
Personally, my thinking has been suspicious of a possible US citizen colluding with China that could be behind this. It's not entirely far fetched with all the hate that's been festering in this country. This story is incubating. It will be interesting to see where it goes.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 4/16/2020 10:30:25 AM (No. 381525)
Sue 'em for our debt balance.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Kafka2 4/16/2020 10:39:21 AM (No. 381539)
Hawley bill would allow Americans affected by virus to sue China: This is a nice idea, but it has one major flaw. The Chinese would have to go along with any court findings. The Chinese would more likely laugh in your face.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/16/2020 10:54:41 AM (No. 381570)
China is going to pay through the nose whether we sue or not. The American people and hopefully our cost-focused corporations have learned a valuable lesson, do not trust the Communists, they are as greedy and devious as our democrats. Well, they should have learned.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/16/2020 11:00:29 AM (No. 381576)
#10, for that to be a valid story, the worker would have had to tell the truth and the Chinese government would have had to tell us the truth. The odds of those two things happening are about as high as winning the Powerball two weeks in a row. I'll go with Fake News.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 4/16/2020 11:23:34 AM (No. 381609)
I wouldn't care about the suing, but I would definitely support Trump tightening the economic screws a whole lot more than he has done in the past and currently.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/16/2020 11:53:48 AM (No. 381651)
Great. I would also allow suing our government when losses are incurred. i think behaviors would be changed a lot from that.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
DVC 4/16/2020 12:44:56 PM (No. 381718)
I can see that this is a good thing to have in place, but collection will be pretty well impossible.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 4/16/2020 1:37:18 PM (No. 381796)
Chinese debt—cancelled
All imported Chinese products—cancelled
Then SUE their pants off for damages
We CAN bankrupt these medieval tyrants!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/16/2020 1:40:43 PM (No. 381797)
Just refuse to pay back one penny of the debt we owe them.
As far as our own government - do I get to declare the losses to my investments on my taxes next year? When I make money in the markets I have to pay taxes on it. Seems like if I lose money (especially this amount which was essentially caused by our own government!) I should be able to get a refund on all those losses. (Fat chance!)
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 4/16/2020 3:24:30 PM (No. 381892)
China would not have to admit any guilt to lose nor would they have to pay anything, there are trillions of China's dollars available in this country to use for the payouts. China has very deep pockets.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
red1066 4/16/2020 5:17:41 PM (No. 381997)
Nice idea, but quite frankly it would be a waste of time to sue China. Any country willing to deliberately spread a virus worldwide, isn't going to give two dungs about being sued let alone paying up. If people really want to hurt China. Stop buying anything made in China. Even if it's a product from an American company. Stop buying Apple phones. every one of which is assembled in China. Hurt China where they will feel it the most. Right in the pocket book.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 4/16/2020 5:50:08 PM (No. 382025)
Good luck with that.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
rochow 4/16/2020 6:10:33 PM (No. 382047)
#16 you might be right with your suspicions. I heard that a professor from Texas works in the Wuhan lab and the Chinese refer to her as the bat lady. Apparently she hunts bats down then commences with whatever her experiments are. If that is true this dame should be held accountable for treason.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 4/16/2020 6:36:42 PM (No. 382068)
This won't be like traffic court or like suing an insurance company. This will be the longest, most dragged out fiasco you can imagine. All China will do is gloat!! All you will do is annoy some corporate attorney who will in turn eat your lunch! Talking about it is all you can expect to do.
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The American Way: a lawsuit. Laughable.
China will never be held accountable. China will never pay. What's the point of a lawsuit?
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