Sic semper tyrannis (forever)

Want to stop Terrorism cold in its tracks? Sic the personal injury lawyers on 'em.

WASHINGTON—Congress Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to override President Barack Obama’s veto of legislation that would allow Americans to sue foreign governments over terrorist attacks, the first such rebuke to the president since he took office.
The House voted 348-77 just hours after the Senate, in a 97-1 vote, moved to overturn Mr. Obama’s Friday veto of the bill. Families of the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have long sought the right to sue Saudi Arabia for any alleged role in the attacks, which the kingdom has denied.

Crusader

Talk about building a wall!!! Take that New World Order. We're building a wall of paper and manning the ramparts with teams of lawyers (and we have the biggest and best army of lawyers in the world) to sue your asses into oblivion. We can drag this out for years or decades - doesn't matter to us - and you will pay and pay and pay. This is asymmetrical war at its finest and amazingly our Peace Prize winning president thought he could veto this law, in the final months of his second term, against the wishes of his parties loyalist voting block (trial lawyers). Obama must really love droning these terrorist every day, but at long last he's being sent a message loud and clear. 97 votes in the Senate and 348 in the House is not an override - it's a spanking. Too little, too late from my perspective, but let's face it, FBPOTUS has only found it necessary to veto twelve (12!) pieces of legislation in eight years and, frankly, all of those vetoes should have been overridden hard. Congress has treated him like a slow learner with a fragile temperament but now that he's on the way out the gloves are off and he's going to get a whipping.

Things are about to change and if you were wondering how much they're about to change a good benchmark came with todays endorsement of Hitlery by former VA Senator John Werner. This endorsement means one thing, and one thing only - The DC Establishment is freaking out because HRC is losing Virginia. They have a Clampett lapdog as sitting Governor, a Senator as VP and the Dems still can't wrap up the Commonwealth because the State's motto is "thus always to tyrants" and there are still enough Virginians who know what the Latin means and believe it. The tyranny of the beltway bullies will be killed by paper or sword and they know it - and they fear their destruction.

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