1.61803 writes:
Hi Tanypteryx,
I think personally this is more symbolic than substantive litigation.
I will eat my words if the case brought brings out a smoking gun.
We are as the Prez said inserting our collective penis's into a hornets nest. Ok maybe that was someone else but you get the gist.
"Hoisted by one's own petard" would be the idiom of choice on this one. A good example is the law they passed in Oklahoma allowing religious iconography to be displayed on state owned property, like the statehouse. The OK legislature thought that this would be a great idea since it would allow them to put all the crosses and suffering Jesus' in the statehouse that they wanted. What they didn't forsee was a group of people who wanted to put up a Satanic statue at the OK statehouse. A classic example of something blowing up in your face, or being hoisted by the bomb you are planting on your enemy's door (the petard).
The "sue the Saudis law" has the same potential. It opens us up to the very thing some people want to do to other countries.
Edited by Taq, : No reason given.
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