NEWS FLASH !! GOD SUED BY NEBRASKA STATE SENATOR

In a related story, It has been determined that Senator Ernie Chambers needs a brain check. Yes you heard it right the senator is suing God. The senator states that God has been responsible for "untold death and horror and fearsome floods, horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornadoes and threatening to cause more still".The senator also said that "God has made terrorist threats against himself and his constituents, inspired fear and caused widespread death, destruction and terrorized of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants.” Below is a copy of the article from the Associated Press.

Updated: 7:51 p.m. MT Sept 17, 2007

LINCOLN, Neb. - The defendant in a state senator’s lawsuit is accused of causing untold death and horror and threatening to cause more still. He can be sued in Douglas County, the legislator claims, because He’s everywhere. State Sen. Ernie Chambers sued God last week. Angered by another lawsuit he considers frivolous, Chambers says he’s trying to make the point that anybody can file a lawsuit against anybody. Chambers says in his lawsuit that God has made terrorist threats against the senator and his constituents, inspired fear and caused “widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants.” The Omaha senator, who skips morning prayers during the legislative session and often criticizes Christians, also says God has caused “fearsome floods ... horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornadoes.” He’s seeking a permanent injunction against the Almighty.

Suit in protest
Chambers said the lawsuit was triggered by a federal suit filed against a judge who recently barred words such as “rape” and “victim” from a sexual assault trial. The accuser in the criminal case, Tory Bowen, sued Lancaster District Judge Jeffre Cheuvront, claiming that he violated her free speech rights. Chambers said Bowen’s lawsuit is inappropriate because the Nebraska Supreme Court has already considered the case and federal courts follow the decisions of state supreme courts on state matters. “This lawsuit having been filed and being of such questionable merit creates a circumstance where my lawsuit is appropriately filed,” Chambers said. “People might call it frivolous but if they read it they’ll see there are very serious issues I have raised.” U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf, in an order last week, expressed doubts about whether Bowen’s lawsuit “has any legal basis whatsoever” and said sanctions may be imposed against Bowen and her attorneys if they fail to show cause for the lawsuit. The Associated Press usually does not identify accusers in sex-assault cases, but Bowen has allowed her name to be used publicly because of the issue over the judge’s language restrictions. Cheuvront declared a mistrial in the sexual assault trial in July, saying pretrial publicity made it impossible to gather enough impartial jurors.

Now even though the senator is doing this as a protest, I think this a stupid and frivolous lawsuit. So now I have some questions to ask, first in a lawsuit you have to serve someone with papers telling them to show up in court, so who is he going to serve? Second, Where are they going to find God? Third, what happens if God don't show up in court, are they going to have him arrested? Next, if the senator does win how are they going to enforce it, after all he is God and he could do what ever he wants. and finely does the senator really think he could find a judge that won't throw this stupid lawsuit out? I would think that the senator would have better things to do then to waste the tax payers time and tie up the courts with garbage like this. I would also hope that when the elections come up the people of Nebraska will remember that this idiot wasted their time and the courts time with something so stupid and absurd.

Is it really free speech?

Well here is one the N.J. state Supreme Court will talk about for a long time. Below is a copy of an article that deals with a very large rat (Yes a Rat about 20 feet tall). It seems that a local electrical union is having a labor dispute and is using a large inflatable rat at a job site as a form of protest. However, the police in the township don't like the rat so they are enforcing a law that ban banners, streamers, and inflatable signs with the exception of things that announce grand openings.

TRENTON, N.J. - The state Supreme Court has dealt with gay marriage, education funding and abortion rights — and now, it can add "inflatable rat" to the list. The case is about whether a town can ban a 20-foot inflatable rat. The super-sized rat — on its hind legs and baring fangs — had been blown up and displayed at a 2005 labor event in Lawrence Township until police enforced a law that bans banners, streamers and inflatable signs, except those announcing grand openings. A labor official was fined $100 plus $33 court costs. The event was staged by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to protest low wages being paid to electricians by an out-of-area contractor. The rat is a symbol used by organized labor to signal a
labor dispute. A three-judge appeals panel ruled Thursday that Lawrence Township could ban the big black rat and affirmed the labor official’s fines. However,
because the labor official’s claim that the law violates free speech wasn't completely rejected, the plaintiffs can appeal automatically to the state Supreme Court. "That's
the silver lining," said Andrew Watson, a lawyer arguing for the right of a union local to display the rat during a job site protest. © 2007 The Associated Press

So here is my question, Do you think this is a violation of free speech or not? In my opinion it is a violation of free speech, because this is nothing more than a form of protest. I think the township and the police should be spending their time on more important things. So what say you? Is this a free speech issue or not?