Re: Nice Planet 14: You People Make Me Sick
NDA's should be null and void if they are A) Being used to cover up illegal activity, or B) In the case of testimony in a legal proceeding.
First, many of them likely have language that says that if you are required to show up in court and give testimony, you have to notify the other party before you do it so that the other party can go to court and try to prevent it from happening.
The point is, if a person has been molested like these women are claiming they have been, they have some options. They can go to the police. They can hire a lawyer to file a lawsuit. They can have that lawsuit publicly filed. They can hold press conferences. They have numerous opportunities to "out" the molester.
If they have a good case, their lawyer will win it for them, or maybe even achieve a settlement, and there will be nothing to "non-disclose" except for the amount paid.
If a criminal offense has been committed, the prosecutors will prosecute the offender.
But what won't happen in those cases is, a) the victim won't get to get paid
and keep his or her identity a secret, and b) they won't get paid the "silence premium."
Candidly, some of these people got paid, or got paid the amount they did, not because of the strength or weakness of the case, but because they chose to approach the offender or offender's employer privately, to lay out the case, and agree to accept a certain sum of money in exchange for the wrong committed against them
and in exchange for staying quiet about it.
No one has forced them to do this. They did it willingly. They agreed to get paid extra money. They agreed to not publicly out the molester because it meant money in their pocket. Both parties benefited, and neither has particularly clean hands in the transaction. But it's a matter of contract. You, me and the rest of the public, are on a "need to know" basis with respect to those cases, and to put it bluntly, we don't have a farking need to know.
