FISHERMEN FORCED TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY IF CATCH IS CONTAMINATED BY OIL OR COREXIT - BP RELEASED FROM ALL LIABILITY

;o if true this is just retarded.

pin for blatant WTFness

I'm assuming this won't be out on MSM for a while. It's so retarded and wrapped full of BS

Based on the interview...basically what's happening is the Feds are releasing the waters to public fishing...even though they KNOW it's dangerous and heavily poluted by the corexit and oil. Scientists and fishermen who are reporting that their catches are covered in oil and that heavy amounts of contaminates are still in the water...are being told to shut up. Research organizations are being put out of business and places are being forced under contract by the feds to submit to BP's media rules, which include...no answering the feds in court proceedings unless BP allows it.

And now...on top of all that crap, the Feds are providing one more way for BP to be released from liability by forcing the small business man fishermen to take on ALL responsibility if his or her catch if contaminated from the BP oil spill or the corexit used to half ass clean it up.

And here we sit...dumbfounded

wow. just wow.

This just goes from bad to worse.

For the fishermen

MODS - PLEASE PIN THIS!!!

This is so evil!

I'm a lawyer by training, so I think I'm seeing an endgame here.

BP's claims are offset by "income that was reasonably available."

Government opens fishing grounds. This is a gambit - win-win for BP, lose-lose for the fishermen.

Choice A - Commercial fishermen won't sign waivers and won't fish if the seafood is contaminated. BP will then offset their claims by the amount they "reasonably would have earned" had they signed the waivers and begun fishing. The fishermen lose money because they "could" have fished the newly opened waters.

Choice B - Commercial fishermen sign the waivers and fish and sell contaminated fish, destroying their careers because no one will eat Gulf seafood for years. BP's waiver gets BP off the hook for this loss of income.

This is a sick game that BP is playing and the Feds obviously have their back. Members of Congress from those Gulf districts must fight back. In order for them to do that, residents of Gulf districts need to make a stink about this.

The ONLY hope is that the waivers will be invalidated because the fisherman are not given a choice but to sign them.

[link to www.truth-out.org]

For the fishermen.

the bastards

Clapping for BP and their amazingly easy job of fucking over the gulf residents (who apparently just bend over for it or something).

In the OLDEN DAYS the southerners would have dealt with this like MEN.

The fishermen are going to fish it ANYWAY. PATHETIC>

mods fail at pinning imo

yep

There are so many fails by BP and the Feds for the American people. All I can be thankful for is that it didn't happen in my neighborhood. There are "Save haiti" and "Help the tsunami" and "Help pakistan" money grabbers everywhere. But...what about helping the people of the gulf? How come mexico hasn't said anything about their people? About their industry? About their people dying from contaminants?

Is it all propoganda? Would the average mexican be "scared" the way the average American is?

This is just absolutely f'ed beyond all belief.

I am working on getting a copy of the waiver the fisherman are being forced to sign.

good grief...

Bend over... There it is!

Who knew that when you become a BP executive or a politician in the U.S. you have to learn anal sex? After all...you're going to be screwing all kinds of people in the ass!!!

For more help for the people in the gulf!

pin this!!!!!!!!! i dont want to eat oil covered jumbo shrimps

I sho be luvin all dat money BP gave me!

WHAT THE FUCK!!!!



-screams -___

That's interesting since the oil wouldn't BE there, if BP wasn't a fuck up. I wouldn't sign it and class action suit them, and kill a few corrupt pig judges on my down time too.

All it ever was about..

Yup...we wonder how presidents come out of office extremely rich? Because their under the table deals are completely untraceable and for the most part uninvestigated. Contributions to accounts that aren't in their names, etc. Bunch of BS

STOP EATING SEA ROACHES...PERIOD!

Problem solved!