Maverick Party program for consumers rights
time to take freedom back
protection of consumers.
1) The Maverick Party opposes Mandatory Binding Arbitration clauses
that have been inserted into the contracts every applicant for a
credit card must sign. Mandatory Bind Arbitration is a way the
consumer forfeits their right to take a dishonest business to court.
The use of such clauses is a way to deprive Americans of their legal
rights. Arbitration hearing officers are notorious for being picked
by the defendants from private business. The Maverick Party will work
to end the use of these and return the real court to its proper role.
Arbitration hearings often only return any money the consumer has
lost; they do not really penalize the business for dishonest practice
in the first place. What this really means that businesses who force
BMA on their customers are profitting from all the customers who do
not make complaints. Examples of borderline fraud by businesses
include making the customer wait for long periods on the telephone
for
service or payment problems; and making it hard for the customer to
discontinue service if they signed up with a credit card or bank
account number that bills automatically every month.
2) District Attorney offices of consumers' rights are toothless frauds
set up to
make it appear that district attorney's offices were on the side of
consumers, rather than being in the hip pocket of business interests.
(We note the same sort of charade going on with Offices of Citizens'
Complaints.) DA's so-called offices of consumer rights are not
empowered to take offenders to court, but only to mediate disputes.
The Maverick Party will insist that district attorneys' offices do
their proper job and use the power of the real court against
businesses where this is needed. We note the DA's offices do not
refer
drug or prostitution cases to "mediation."
It is not the prerogative of the DA's office to be on the side of
business, which
represents a small fraction of the population, but to be on the side
of
all people deceived in business dealings with the full force of the
law.