Gymnasts File $1 Billion Lawsuit Against FBI

Good, I hope they get every penny.


I know there have been a lot of stories which have eroded public trust in major institutions lately, but this one is right up there in terms of most enraging. The 80 minute stand around in Uvalde is certainly a standalone number 1 on that list, but I’d put ‘FBI knowingly releasing a pedophile and lying about the statements from his victims to cover for him’ right up there in tier number 2.

Pay these women.

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Good, I hope they get every penny.

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Frick that, why? Paying them punishes no one but the American Tax payer. If you want restitution put some people actually involved in jail or financially penalized, which won’t happen.

But this whole idea we should all just sue the government as a whole when it fails is BS and ultimately penalizes the regular citizen.

Because the FBI knowingly sent a pedophile to work with young, vulnerable girls. It wasn’t until the gymnasts went to the press several years later that they finally put a stop to this serial pedophile. In that stretch of time alone, thousands of additional instances of abuse occurred. If that were my kid who was being traumatized, I can guaran-damn-tee you that I’d want a whole lot more than just money. But given the lack of alternative recourse, punitive damages certainly seem like the absolute bare minimum we should be obligated to provide.






And of course, none of that omits that people should ALSO be going to jail. But since the FBI has already said that no one will be held accountable, monetary compensation is the absolute minimum baseline compensation we owe the victims.

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Because the FBI knowingly sent a pedophile to work with young, vulnerable girls.

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Again, how does that deserve money? The ‘FBI’ wouldn’t pay?

Should it have been criminal? Absolutely, and punish the individuals involved criminally and sue them individually.

It was likely a small handful of people, I doubt the fbi had a convention and all voted to do this.

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Should it have been criminal? Absolutely, and punish the individuals involved criminally and sue them individually.

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The FBI has already said that the culpable agents would not be punished in any way. So what’s the next option?

With punishment already off the table at this point, it’s not about “who pays?” any longer. It’s about “what do these victims deserve?” at this point. It’s already established that they won’t get the justice they deserve in the form of jail time for the perpetrators, so the absolute least we can do is establish that they are worthy of punitive damages.





Also, as for this…

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It was likely a small handful of people, I doubt the fbi had a convention and all voted to do this.

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…that’s an exceedingly weak cop out. FBI leadership declined to punish the agents responsible, which I’ll argue supported and sustains an established culture that shields individual agents from accountability when they commit horrible crimes. And when you create an institution wide culture of unaccountability, you can’t say it’s the fault of only a small handful of agents when that culture creates these terrible outcomes.

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he FBI knowingly sent a pedophile to work with young, vulnerable girls.

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No way the FBI would allow Pedos to run free in our society, especially for political reasons.

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only a billion

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GTFO.

Where do these absurd numbers even come from? Fine, pay them all $5 million. Move on with life if we never have to hear from them again.

If this fricked them up so badly, how come they were able to go out and make millions and win medals? I'm not protecting the FBI, I'm saying we shouldn't accept the FBI not punishing them and push harder for that.

This concept of stealing money from the taxpayers to pay for government officials frick ups is BS.

Sue the individuals in the FBI.

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If this fricked them up so badly, how come they were able to go out and make millions and win medals?

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so because a dozen or so of the hundreds of victims went on to be successful the whole lot of them should just get over it? The number and the big names attached are about making this as public as possible. Nothing changes from an unknown gymnast suing an unknown FBI agent

Because this is such a unique case, it stands to establish some sort of precedent when it comes to law enforcement accountability and sexual assault. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is part of the mission the gymnasts are carrying out.