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Stone Moan
Published Aug 2, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Aug 11, 2008
There's bad karma, and there's billion-dollar-bad karma. Sharon Stone is being stalked by the expensive kind, now that 1,000 Chinese earthquake victims are reportedly planning to sue her over those nasty comments she made suggesting that the quake was a result of "karma" for the occupation of Tibet. Stone later apologized, profusely. But even in China they know that when it comes to saying "I'm sorry," there's nothing like putting big money where your big mouth is.
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Posted By: whisperindave @ 08/08/2008 12:40:05 PM
Comment: Comments cannot be considered "damaging" after the fact. Otherwise Blacks from New Orleans or Gays in the Anglican Church or for that matter all over the world, could say they were hurt by any number of comments made by Presidents, Popes, Clebrities and Religious nuts. A person has a right to have and express an opinion. If such an opinion is taken to heart by others, too bad. That is over-sensitivity on their part. And what if it could be proven that China as a nation had karma over the invasion and brutal relressionof Tibet? Would they then owe Sharon Stone a billion dollars? The Chinese victims of an earthquake have no legal leg to stand on. And no comment could possibly cause billions of dollars worth of damage to the psyches of those victims. This is what rampant, unthought out "Globalization" is doing to the world. Making people idiotically litigious(?) seeking money they do not deserve for reasons that are nonsense. Thanks tot he NeoCons in Washington, everyone wants to go to Disneyland on someone else's dime!
Posted By: RoyalRook @ 08/06/2008 3:29:59 PM
Comment: ummm who is sharon stone?
Posted By: Celtia @ 08/06/2008 7:50:19 AM
Comment: What legal principle do they intend to base their case on? I can't think of any that applies, which tells me that this lawsuit is a government-led plot to make China look sympathetic in the eyes of the world as the opening ceremonies of the Olympics the country should not have been allowed to host near. All we have heard about in the past month is Chinese governmental suppression of civil and human rights, such as jailing protestors and getting ready to pry into visitors' email. China could use being the victim right now. Handy to have a frivolous lawsuit, with plenty of film footage of angry, bereft, homeless peasants (focus on the kids!) to throw at the media. Don't believe that the timing is coincidental. It isn't.