[Am-info] plot thickens

[Dan Strychalski]

Roy Bixler (rcb@bix.org) posted --

> But the most interesting part of this story at
> "http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1690000/1690780.stm" is a
> revelation at the end that West Virginia has not only held out from the
> US-DOJ inspired settlement, but is filing their own lawsuit:
>
>     West Virginia has filed a suit, alleging the company has breached state
> consumer protection and anti-trust law.
> . . .

Only a few of the reports mentioned it, but West Virginia Attorney
General Darrell V. McGraw, Jr. took a strong stance from the time the
"settlement" was announced.

Let me tell you, I am impressed.

As if that weren't enough, I went to <http://www.state.wv.us/wvag/bottom.html>
and saw this:

    A consumer who learns how to protect himself is less likely to be
    harmed; a business that learns where the law draws its lines is
    less likely to transgress them. Thus, education is the linchpin
    of preventing consumer fraud and abuse in the first place, with a
    happy dividend of reducing demand for mediation and litigation.

You have a knowledgeable populace, or you have an overly busy, overly
meddling government, or you have enslavement to commercial interests.
That's all there is to it.

Dan Strychalski