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Hot Coffee documentary

  • 21-05-2015 8:29am
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    kn
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    Recently seen this documentary online. The whole premise of the docu was about big business clamping down on legal actions in the Courts and the size of awards. It was a very big business and politicians are bad docu about the capping of damage awards in Courts and contract clauses preventing people from going to Court. The docu is 2010 and one of the cases very much highlighted was that of Jamie Leigh Jones a KBR (Halliburton) employee who claimed that she was gang raped by fellow employees and unlawfully detained by the company while working in Iraq but her contract of employment prevented her from going to Court but rather to a binding arbitration on her claims. She campaigned in Congress to get the law changed and it was which is where the docu finished.

    However, reading up on her case subsequently it emerged in Court that she was bipolar, a depressive, had been admitted as a mental patient, lied about all of this to the company, after just 3 days in Iraq she wanted out, all the evidence from other people in Iraq including medical is that she had sex with just one male rather than being 'gang raped' as she claimed, that it was consensual, and that she had nothing like the injuries she claimed. The Courts threw out all her claims and in fact ordered her to pay KBR's costs.

    I guess the moral of the story is not to take documentaries at face value as being factual when they are persuing an agenda.


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