Hot Coffee

TORT – MEANS HARM – When a TORT is committed – someone has been harmed in some way..
Essential information is revealed here within this powerful documentary.Here is the detailed unveiling of corporate multi-million-dollar propaganda campaigns,intentionally ment to confuse and brainwash Americans.Photo’s are shown here of the deep burns Stella Liebeck suffered in the McDonald’s hot coffee incident.She was 79 at the time, she required numerous skin graphs and nearly died.But the industry twisted the case to make it the poster child for frivolous lawsuits.Meanwhile McDonald’s kept a low profile on the fact that they previously had,between January 1983 to March 1992, over 700 burn cases.Corporations have armed themselves with these tactics,plus powerful unrelenting lobbing, and friends in high places.They have extensively campaigned to affect jury’s and senator’s to set cap’s on damage awards.And in addition they have among other things,actually managed to change a CRUCIAL part of our 200 year old constitution of the United States.Thus they unbound themselves from prior limits,and now can give unlimited donations to the politician’s who will support their issues.In other words, they control the add campaigns which ultimately sway which politicians American’s vote for.Opening this floodgate means corporations literally hold the future of most American’s in their hands.This documentary is a stunning and reveiling well segmented account of the battle over Tort reform,and what IS happening to America.Reveiled here are many devices and methods that are used.Documented footage shows that the whole point of the Tort reform is to keep the public from accessing the courts.All public, no matter if frivolous or honest.Camera’s follow individuals as they try to access the courts for restitution for the wrongs done to them.That’s when they find out the true meaning of Tort “reform” and what’s happened to their rights.U.S. maps are high-lighted to show which states have which caps on damages, there can be three kinds:Punitive damages,Non-economic,Total caps.Each category is explained.Another way to block a person’s right to sue,is when you agree whether you know it or not to ‘arritration’.This common tactic is exposed and explained.Information is given about the immensely large,extremly powerful and very corrupt U.S. Chamber of Commerce.This is not a government agency, it’s an enormous mass of corporations.They are exposed for who they are, how they sway elections, and what their intent is.This is likely the most accurate, deeply informative documentary you’ll ever have an opportunity to own.Every household should watch this documentary, and understand it’s impact.

Slow in parts but worth checking out
There are a few different stories told in this documentary and some are more interesting than others. Each story is loosely tied together based on the idea that cooperate interests are infiltrating the judicial system and politics. I do think the most interesting details involve the McDonald’s Hot Coffee case. So many of the details of the case were misconstrued by the media and resulted in many of our civil liberties being striped away which is illustrated in poignant detail in the movie. The story teller clearly has an agenda but does a solid job of getting their point across. I believe the Hot Coffee case stays with me because it is the least heavy handed approach to story telling done in the documentary. The two other cases involved anecdotal stories about a child being having severe brain injury due to a doctors negligence and not being fully compensated due to tort reform laws and also a story of a female contractor who was sexually assaulted in Iraq who is fighting to break a binding arbitration employment agreement. I’m don’t know if it’s my connection to the stories or not but each of these seemed more emotionally manipulative then the initial story of the Hot Coffee lawsuit.

I thought I knew about the McDonalds coffee story, but found out I only knew what the corporations wanted people to know. The McD coffee story is only one part of the documentary, they are all really interesting and informative. I would recommend this movie quite strongly.