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Comments on: No Surprise https://whynow.dumka.us/2011/06/02/no-surprise-3/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Fri, 03 Jun 2011 04:32:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2011/06/02/no-surprise-3/comment-page-1/#comment-56674 Fri, 03 Jun 2011 04:32:22 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=20940#comment-56674 BP’s bill for damages just increased exponentially with these findings. This is going to be corporations versus corporations before the “collateral damage”, i.e. the people and governments around the Gulf, even get to court.

BP will probably fracture to provide a sacrificial entity, and allow that entity to go bankrupt. It’s the corporate way.

]]> By: Steve Bates https://whynow.dumka.us/2011/06/02/no-surprise-3/comment-page-1/#comment-56672 Fri, 03 Jun 2011 04:00:56 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=20940#comment-56672 The real surprise would have been if BP had done the environmentally sound thing and not used Corexit. In that case, considering the propensities of the court system in the John Roberts era, BP could probably have been successfully sued by its stockholders for not maximizing profit.

(Creeping corporatist adjudication is one of several matters for which I cannot even imagine a satisfactory long-term solution in the world of today’s judiciary. In the face of most of America’s potentially catastrophic problems, I retain some small glimmer of hope. In the face of a wholly owned judiciary, I experience true hopelessness.)

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