Lawsuit seeks to--get this--force Glendale to remove 'comfort women' statue

[Dr. Strange]

Lawsuit seeks to force Glendale to remove 'comfort women' statue

Opponents of the statue in Glendale commemorating World War II "comfort women" victimized by the Japanese military have filed suit in federal court to force the city to remove it.

A Glendale resident joined with an organization that fights recognition of comfort women in filing the suit in US District Court on Thursday. They argued that by installing the controversial 1,100-pound statue last July, Glendale illegally infringed upon the federal government's exclusive power to conduct foreign affairs.

The lawsuit was first reported Friday in the Glendale News-Press.

More at http://www.scpr.org/news/2014/02/22/42384/lawsuit-seeks-to-force-glendale-to-remove-comfort/

Un-freakin-believable.

[bemildred]

1. Grabbing at straws. nt

[Shrike47]

2. Fallacious legal argument but interesting statue.

[msanthrope]

3. I'm shocked that a Mayer Brown attorney wrote the Complaint. This on par with Holocaust denial....

Basically, some residents of Japanese descent and few other interested parties are upset that a statue exists commemorating "comfort women." The Complaint also cites how upset the Japanese government is.

So the residents have filed a Civil Rights lawsuit. And they want the City of Glendale to pay their attorney's fees. Because, you see, they feel bad every time they have to walk past a reminder of the Japanese government did--you know--where they enslaved hundreds of thousands of women to be sex slaves.


http://www.glendalenewspress.com/media/acrobat/2014-02/159922120-21190402.pdf

That's right--they want the residents and taxpayers of Glendale to pay for the fact that they feel bad about being reminded of historical facts.

Fuck me....maybe I should find some descendants of the Ottoman Empire, and tell them to go walk past the Meher Statue a few times, and then, we'll sue the city for distress.

http://www.chgs.umn.edu/museum/memorials/philadelphia/

[LuvNewcastle]

4. Ridiculous. I sure hope the judge throws it out. What a waste of resources.