Blood simple

Though most Americans don't know it, the courts over the last thirty years have put a serious hamper (specifically, though not singlehandedly through, AT &T Mobility v. Concepcion and American Express v. Italian Colors) on our ability to seek recourse against corporations via the courts.  With a simple click of your mouse on one of those Terms of Service agreements, you often sign away your rights to sue, replacing it with an arbitrtation hearing, with the arbiter being chosen by the corporation.  Which is like playing a board game where you have to roll the dice, but your opponent gets to choose his numbers from the dice (also known as, heads I win, tails you lose).

David Atkins discussed this in a piece at Hullabaloo yesterday, and posited that one day we would have laws against it and wonder why we ever let ourselves suffer through it.

Myself, I wonder how long before someone realizes that the deck is stacked and starts blowing corporate offices up as a means of extralegal recourse.

My guess is not very fucking long.

Peace,
emaycee