Louisiana deep oil drilling disaster

[Jan Klimkowski]

Alabama Attorney General Troy King said tonight that he has told representatives of BP Plc. that they should stop circulating settlement agreements among coastal Alabamians.
The agreements, King said, essentially require that people give up the right to sue in exchange for payment of up to $5,000.
King said BP's efforts were particularly strong in Bayou La Batre.

Corporate capitalism personified.

This is analogous to the robber capitalism that raped Russia in the 90s, immediately after Glasnost, when the "oligarchs" and western "investors" bought up the shares that ordinary Russians had acquired in return for working for strong nationalized industries for most of their lives. These shares were "bought" for a fraction of their true value from often starving Russians who had no conception of their true value. And so Russia was looted.

It's also analogous to the vulture scum who descend on people whose innocent families have been slaughtered in predator drone and similar attacks, offering a couple of thousand dollars of blood money in "full settlement" for the loss of a loved family member.