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RamboLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 03:10 PM Original message |
Rig Workers Made to Sign Statements after Blast |
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FiveGoodMen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
1. Criminal. |
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katandmoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 03:18 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. No. When all is said and one, the WH and congress will look out for BP mgmt., not the workers |
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pundaint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 04:11 PM Response to Reply #3 |
21. If only that was not a certainty... |
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MellowDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 08:40 PM Response to Reply #3 |
28. This was Transocean, not BP, in this case. nt |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
2. Does not that invalidate their signatures, since it means that they were |
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FiveGoodMen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 03:22 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. My guess is that these statements will be used in two ways... |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 03:30 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Plus the trials will be held in LA (I imagine) a state not |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-12-10 05:03 AM Response to Reply #7 |
31. 'Yes, duress should invalidate the statements, but the waters may be muddied enough |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
4. What scum! |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 03:22 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Since they're all in agreement about those signatures being extorted |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 03:32 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. Attorneys opposing BP will have to ask the court to exclude them |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-12-10 06:20 AM Response to Reply #13 |
32. Duresse from whom? Cui bono? What's more, surely, attempting to pervert the course |
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SPedigrees (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 03:36 PM Response to Reply #4 |
15. I couldn't have said it better. |
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pundaint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 04:14 PM Response to Reply #4 |
22. It's the politicians, who are the only ones in the whole continuum hired to work in the interests of |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 05:10 PM Response to Reply #4 |
23. Kidnapping? |
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MountainLaurel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-12-10 01:25 PM Response to Reply #4 |
37. This answers a question |
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BeyondGeography (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 03:21 PM Response to Original message |
5. Corporate fucks |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 03:23 PM Response to Original message |
8. Pure intimidation, no legal consequence. nt |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 03:25 PM Response to Original message |
9. Yep, unions are passe'. |
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Proletariatprincess (527 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 05:13 PM Response to Reply #9 |
24. My union says to sign nothing but your paycheck. |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 03:28 PM Response to Original message |
10. Mr. Brickbat works a dangerous heavy-industry job and I do worry about an accident. |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 03:30 PM Response to Original message |
12. ... godless, soulless, bastards of BP ... |
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MellowDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 08:41 PM Response to Reply #12 |
29. It was Transocean. nt |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-12-10 03:20 AM Response to Reply #29 |
30. May Justice come upon ALL of them; may their finger-pointing become a circular firing squad. nt |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-12-10 06:59 AM Response to Reply #12 |
34. There's a weird symmetry here, since the Thatcher family have or have had |
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mbperrin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
14. Certainly matches my own ten years of experience in the oilpatch. |
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calimary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 03:59 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. Well, most of us know what their "mission" is. |
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ultracase24 (72 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
16. Im sure they were |
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h9socialist (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
17. Sounds like the gag-orders that medical personnel at . . . |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 04:02 PM Response to Original message |
19. "These men are told they have to sign these statements or they can't go home," |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 04:06 PM Response to Original message |
20. EXTORTION! Bastards! |
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madmax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
25. Ain't no hell hot enough for these bastards. nt |
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FiveGoodMen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 06:16 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Ain't no hell at all. |
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madmax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-11-10 06:41 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Touche nt |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-12-10 07:00 AM Response to Reply #26 |
35. Don't kid yourself. But it doesn't invalidate your second point. |
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FiveGoodMen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-12-10 11:30 AM Response to Reply #35 |
36. I most certainly am not kidding myself. |
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City Lights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-12-10 06:32 AM Response to Original message |
33. Protecting the corporation is job one! |
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MountainLaurel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-12-10 01:27 PM Response to Original message |
38. Absolutely appalling n/t |
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DebbieCDC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-12-10 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
39. BP/Transocean's backpeddling like hell from this |
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