(Rooters) Washington, DC -- A Washington-based legal foundation Tuesday filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of WWII German POWs and their surviving relatives, charging the federal government with rescinding the POWs' habeas corpus rights under the US Constitution.
The group, co-founded by journalist Andrew Sullivan and left-wing blogger Markos Moulitsas, called "Real Conservatives, Non-Christianists, People-Powered Progressives, and Democratic Party Libertarians United in an Uneasy Coalition for the Preservation of the US Constitution Against War Criminals and Those as Unenlightened as Ourselves," announced the $400 billion lawsuit at an afternoon press conference after filing in federal court.
"The notion that over 400,000 German POWs were held without charges -- and without their habeas corpus rights -- during WWII is a stain on our country's reputation that must be addressed," the group said in a prepared statement.
"We weep for our country that such a travesty has remained swept under the rug for so long. This lawsuit is meant to right those wrongs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Gen. George C. Marshall were war criminals and need to be called to account for their actions. Anyone who disagrees with this legal action is clearly not as pure of mind as we are, and screw them, by the way."
Sullivan and Moulitsas also announced in a prepared statement that they would hold an Internet fundraiser for another group, to be called "Two-Bit Conmen Blogging for America," and that "there would be under no circumstances any refunds for dissatisfied contributors."
Sullivan and Moulitsas denied that the impending lawsuit and subsequent fundraiser were publicity stunts, but were rather a "desire to take back America from reactionary forces determined to besmirch America's reputation."
(Tongue firmly planted in cheek.)
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