Supreme Court: Law says organizations cannot be sued for torture

[Justice wanted]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/18/supreme-court-ruling-organizations-cannot-be-sued-for-torture/




The United States Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a law on the books since 1991 precludes organizations, both political and corporate, from sued for torture or murder outside of the U.S.

[RKP5637]

1. To me, yet another WTF moment. n/t

[CrispyQ]

2. It feels like the Twilight Zone, some days.

[RKP5637]

4. Doesn't it. Logic, good sense and humanistic approaches, which I once

thought the US stood for, have fled ... and been replaced more and more with this warped sense of convoluted nebulous justice.

[asjr]

3. Well, how about that--from a group that

said corporations were people! If corporations are people so can organizations be people also.

[Fumesucker]

5. Corporations are people, except when they're not..

Makes perfect sense to me..

[BlueIris]

6. Vile.

The SCOTUS is possibly the most disappointing element of our government at this time. Even more than the GOP in some ways. SCOTUS members are supposed to have brains.