BP's "Rules" Prevent Journalists From Touring Gulf Coast Damage
h/t Bob Cesca
This is yet another in a long series of stunningly arrogant moves by BP:
When CBS tried to film a beach with heavy oil on the shore in South Pass, Louisiana, a boat of BP contractors, and two Coast Guard officers, told them to turn around, or be arrested.
"This is BP's rules, it's not ours," someone aboard the boat said. Coast Guard officials told CBS that they're looking into it.
As the Coast Guard is a branch of the Armed Forces, it brings into question how closely the government and BP are working together to keep details of the disaster in the dark.
Hold the phone...BP is making the rules???? Kind of hard to argue that we aren't a full-blown corporatocracy, when BP--that's British Petroleum--is leading the United States Coast Guard on this--and this is okay with a branch of our armed forces.
And note how far journalism has fallen that anchor Katie Couric doesn't even blink at that information. Later, CBS reported online that Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) demanded that BP provide live footage of the oil spill:
Earlier Wednesday, Markey demanded the broadcast so independent scientists could more accurately calculate the flow rate. He questioned why such data wasn't readily being made public.
"BP thinks it's their ocean," Markey said while chairing a House Energy and Environment Subcommittee hearing Wednesday.
Markey didn't stop with BP, reports CBS News Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson. He blasted the Coast Guard for what he described as letting BP call the shots.
Coast Guard officials were on a boat with BP contractors who stopped CBS News cameras from viewing an oily beach, and the Coast Guard - which is in charge of the investigation - admits it's had access to live video since Day One but wouldn't let Congress or the public see it, Attkisson reports.
Markey said there was "no excuse for withholding live video for 23 days."
There's no excuse for much of BP's actions, frankly, Congressman Markey. And it will be a test of the strength of our federal government to actually hold them accountable.
Rachel Maddow interviewed Admiral Allen Tuesday night. It would seem to me Allen was less then candid and I wonder whose side he is on. Barbara Boxer (also her guest Tuesday night) and other congress members have been trying to get the videos of the oil flow from those pipes. BP would not give them the videos. But on CBS news Tuesday night Allen had more of the story. Sen. Barbara Boxer, CBS and some others fought for and finally got the videos. But in a hearing Tuesday Sen. Nelson, Florida, asked Allen if BP was working with or against them. Allen said basically they have had no problems, they have been watching the videos of the oil leaks the whole time, THEY JUST NEVER THOUGHT TO RECORD IT.
What in the world is going on, whose side is he on, is the Coast Guard paying attention? I think it is time for Admiral Allen to quit now, don't wait a few months to retire. The Coast Guard needs to bring in someone who is not on the side of BP. And Allen best not go to work for them once he retires.
A better question would be, "is BP paying the Coast Guard?"
If you look at them they are over the height/weight standard and have beards. It really looks to me like 2 of the BP contractors on the boat just put on a Coast Guard uniform and punked out the news crew.
"Journalists" today are so cowed and cowardly, I bet they didn't sufficiently challenge the "coast guard" members.
They should have just said, "To hell with you", and gone out anyways. Then they should have said, "What are you going to do, shoot us?"
Are you sh*tting me? These people ONLY pay polititions and pay nothing or very little taxes because they get tax breaks up the a*s from these polititions.
Tickle me! I'll bet you my last n'gwee (Zambian penny) that it is SOP for the CG to record while on assignment.
As for the "BP would not give them the videos."
No shit?
Don't they understand that their exploitation permits can be revoked once the spill is stopped? Yes...it would take an Administration able to grow a set, but popular fury can do that to any politician.
Well, maybe someone should remind BP that this is America and we have freedom of the press. Maybe that doesn't count in the water but then again I think it does. Journalists shouldn't have to go by their rules.
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We're not going to get very far if you keep injecting logic into the conversation!
... wherein we learn the gentleman who said that it's BP's rules 'misspoke' and 'misunderstood.'
/snark
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never told us.
It's not BP's land, and it's not BP's ocean, but it is BP's oil (at least I presume that they presume that it is, since they're supposed to be cleaning it up) and since it's their oil, they don't want you filming it. You can film all the coastline footage you want, just so long as none of their property is soiling it.
It's a privacy or property issue, I guess. Or at least I expect their lawyers to say that's what it is.
and they probably sold it too cheaply too.
And what gives BP the right to prevent anyone else from entering those areas? Does that property belong to them?
Here's a BRITISH corporation, instructing a branch of the AMERICAN armed services to arrest AMERICAN journalists on AMERICAN waterways supposedly open to the AMERICAN public. What is going on? We the American people deserve some answers on why this went on and who permitted it. And FAST.
This whole oil spill has gotten me riled up. I want to see heads roll and BP pay through the nose for this atrocity. And what's wrong with CBS News? Why didn't they question the guy when he said 'It's BP rules not ours'? That brings up a hell of a lot of issues and if BP can arrest someone for walking on public land, then certainly this is overstepping their authority. Personally I think the contractor misspoke but there's some questions that need answers. F BP!
on BPs private property? I doubt it, so how in the H-E-L-L are they subject to arrest? WTF is going on? And the problem isn't just that the CG is going along with this, but also that BP instigates this and that the MSM reports it without a shrug. "1984" needs to be retitled "2010."
...in a brig on a rig!
Outrageous!
"A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."....Muhammad Ali
Corps do that because the little guy can be easily pushed around. This is part of the reason why we have Congress....not that they're much help really.
I would hardly call a CBS news crew, "little guys". If the network decided to raise Holy Hell about this incident, it could get very ugly for a lot of head honchos at BP AND the Coast Guard.
The only logical conclusion is that the TV networks are on the take too. How can anyone explain otherwise the total lack of reaction from Katie Kouric?
I'll try very hard to fake outrage and surprise.
The big picture lesson of all this is that we have the WH, BP, the Coast Guard and the TV networks AWOL and working against us.
Gee! That doesn't leave us much alternatives now, does it?
the tobacco company scandal, which they were going to report truthfully. They also fired Dan Rather for truthfully reporting on Shrub, because someone called it a lie.
They go along to get along. Raising holy hell is not in their job description.
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news program. Russ Limpballs. She could never redeem herself in my eyes. Useless media whore.
What, you think "public" property exists anymore?
I'm still waiting for Pepsi to get final approval to beam its logo on to the surface of a full moon.
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Big Oil and their lawyers own us...wrapped in the flag and carrying a Buybull...
By the corporation for the corporation.
Republicans are liars and simply cannot be trusted.
This has been going on since the late '40's at least.
Obama didn't bring it with him when he came on, it was already firmly in place.
Yes and when the sun goes super nova, that's Obama's fault too. Global warming? Obama. Cancer? Obama. Car Accidents? Obama.
Get real.
lies with Obama, who
- 1 1/2 years into office never cleaned up the notoriously corrupt MMS
- put Salazar, who put the interests of big oil over the needs of his constituents while a Senator, in charge of Interior; Salazar let BP bypass environmental reviews and regulations and appeared again to be working for the interests of big oil w/Obama's collusion
- Is colluding with BP to hide the extent of the spill
-Is not taking proactive measures to address the enormity of the crisis, and in fact appears to be more concerned with protecting his political image than substantively addressing it
-Due to political calculations trumping environmental concerns, several months ago in an act of very bad timing authorized more offshore drilling
This will likely be Obama's undoing, imo.
Say, for example, your local mafia were bribing the police to let them run amok, and as a result the mafia wipe out 1/2 the town. The mafia and the police then collude to hide the deaths from the media. Would you not blame the police?
Or has that been privatized too?
Corruption favors the wealthy.
the office of President; make them receive the same health care 'reform', 401k 'pensions', 2-week vacations, and other 'entitlements' that they blather about deigning to give to us plebes. They would do less harm in the private sector.
We have a natural disaster of biblical proportions....and we are chosing up sides???
What kind of shit is this?
Since when do drilling rigs grow in Nature?
The arrogance of BP is amazing, but even more stunning is that no one calls them on it. Does anyone have a spine anymore?
"When profit comes up against morality, it's rare that profit loses."~Shirley Chisholm
that is trespassing
Hey, if Tony Hayward and Lamar McKay want the oil THAT bad, they can come down to the dock and lick it off the hull.
......you either pay us for it, or you're stealing it!
We could call that Monsanto logic. All corporate thievery.
and justly, should be compelled to die after a certain amount of years, and all of the proceeds from the 'estate' go to the stockholders and the taxpayers get their fair share for all of the trouble they've caused...then it will be fair.
Until then
OK, so Mussolini's definition of fascism is the merger of government and business.
In this case, working together to thwart the public's need to know. Does any fool need a more graphic example of how our current government works and why fascist is a technical definition and not just an expletive? Really?
... video feed for Congress, make sure Slick Mary Landrieu has an unimpeded view, so she can see the economic prosperity gushing at 210,000+ gallons per day.
I thought this was a news site. Well, news and opinion, anyway.
So what gives with this statement: "Hold the phone...BP is making the rules????"
Well, duh. That's hardly news. The leak wouldn't have happened if BP hadn't been making the rules for many years. It wouldn't have happened if our legislators were not its employees.
Undoubtedly, the reason the MSM isn't reporting that BP makes the rules, is that it isn't news.
Get with the program, C&L!
Well, you thought wrong. This is a political site. It's a place for people to express their opinion. News and opinion are not the same thing, regardless of what Fox may try to tell you.
Thanks for playing. Sorry we have no parting gifts for you.
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I think I would have told them to go ahead and arrest me.
That would have made an interesting court case.
Remember this is America, we have the RIGHT to bare ARMS, we have the Right to defend OURSELVES, ANY BP CONTRACTOR should be taken as a ENEMY of America, THEY HAVE NO,NO,NO right to prevent you from walking and observing YOUR lands.
All I can say is you have the RIGHT to protect yourself, [deleted--do not advocate violence on this site]
Remember these BP people are the ENEMY they are protecting their own at the cost of you and your families WORTHLESS lives, so FEAR Hate and INTIMIDATION is their first weapon of choice, the accidents come later, [deleted].
To BARE arms is to wear a shirt without sleeves.
To BEAR arms is to carry a weapon.
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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
If I own oceanfront property (yeah, right...), and oil washes up on MY beach, is BP going to tell me I can't clean it or photograph the damage?
Bring it on, biatches!
BTW, where are the 'Baggers here defending individual rights?
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
If Teabaggers cared anything about 'rights' they would have been protesting during the Bush administration.
You have the individual right to have oil wash up on your property. You should feel privileged and honored that BP allowed their oil to consecrate your lands.
It's BEAR first of all.
Second of all, you can't go around inciting violence like that. What BP is doing is disgusting but killing them is still MURDER and MURDER isn't going to stop BP. The only thing it will do is get people like you arrested (and with luck) executed by the state. What will stop BP is a government that is actively involved in creating and enforcing THE LAW.
So if you really want to TAKE ACTION NOW by calling up those idiots people like you elected in congress and chewing them out for allowing this to happen.
.........goin' to be hard to write legal opinions if you can't spell.
Stick to shootin' em'. (A joke site moderator)(ha,ha)
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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Like when the press wasn't allowed to photograph flag drapped coffins coming back from Iraq. I guess "freedom" doesn't apply to freedom of the press. Where are the wingnuts, teabaggers, Sarah Palin and FreedomWorks crowd screaming freedoms are being taken away?
The whole Coffins thing was an executive order from the President. Dickish and self serving but he at least has the authority to do it.
British Petroleum has no such authority. They were not elected.
selected, by a partisan and corrupt Rethug Supreme Court. Let' stick to facts folks.
And it grates my ass that one of those destroyers of democracy, Sandra Day O'Connor, is paraded around as some sort of moderate. What can be more extreme than overturning the vote of the nation.
And it is dumb ass liberals who are parading and hosting her too. Because, as Bill Maher correctly put it, the Dems moved to the right and the right moved into the insane asylum.
sociopaths in charge of BP that they use/occupy/lease that site on our sufferance. It is not their property and they cannot hang the equivalent of a no tresspassing sign on it. The property owners (We, the People) can access it through our representatives or agents (press) at our pleasure.
We need to nationalize the entire asset and allow only the government to extract the oil for sale on the global market por reserve it for home use, all revenues and profits reverting to the People per the Norway model.
BTW, whoever it was in the CG who made the decision to roll over to these clowns should be relieved of command. Since when do corporations exercise sovereign authority?
For Bobby the page Jindal to turn down fedrul gubment assistance.
yesterday and was "visably shaken."
Looks like the chickens have come home to roost, then die horrible deaths in BP's vomit.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
about his re-election prospects perhaps.
The man looks like he hasn't slept for a week - bags under the eyes, dark eyes, etc.
Yeah, watch him deny federal aid. We don't need no big gub'mint!
..........more likely taking a late and wide stance in a men's room somewhere.
Protest people protest! What gives BP the right to tell the press or anyone else for that matter that looking at their mess will get you arrested. FUCK YOU BP! FUCK YOU.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Corporations rule thanks to corrupt politicians and Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Kennedy and their enablers. This election will be a gold mine for television networks with billions spent by corporations pushing their favorite puppet politicians. Don't expect any fact checking by the mainstream media, those days are gone. We are living in the age of ignorance.
This is not my father's America
of ignorance...and fear AND manipulation--deliberate manipulation, so that most of the sheeple blame everything and everyone for the bad shit that keeps happening EXCEPT those responsible for all the bad shit.
We're just about back to 1920
It's like an armored vehicle overturning on a freeway. All that spilled cash is still the property of the bank. Fuck all the little guys who pick up bills blowing in the wind a mile away--they must return the money "under threat of law."
(Not saying it's right, but seems like what's going on here.)
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Except that spilled oil is no longer a valuable commodity. Spilled oil is a biohazard. Spilled oil in this quantity is an embarrassment (not to be confused with 'concern' or 'taking immediate action to do the right thing' or 'responding in a responsible manner').
... a biohazard, then BP wouldn't be dragging its heels with Rube Goldberg schemes to plug the leak. If they could collect all the oil and separate it, they'd do it in a heartbeat.
It's probably pissing them off that they have to dump dispersant and destroy 'their oil'.
I keep waiting for him to say it's God's punishment on conservative red states. When the currents take this slick up to the coast of Virginia as predicted I wonder what he's going to say then? Not God's punishment on religious charlatans I'm sure.
GOD HATES OIL.
Someone tell Festering Freddy Phelps.
that's not proof GOD HATE FRED PHELPS doncha know you betcha.
God's aim will be true.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Pat Robertson's God only hates liberals, democrats and people who can think for themselves.
This is not my father's America
those who can't be fleeced and conned out of their money.
... the oil companies do better than Rev. Pat as far as fleecing people and running con jobs, it seems.
He already played that card.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Might make a small dent, but don't patronize their stations. Sorry to the small guys (store clerks, owners, food suppliers), but I won't be giving you my business. Your supplier SUCKS!
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
ARCO and AM/PM convenience/gas stations are also BP
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to the test and proceeded. I would have loved to see a "corporate citizen's arrest". The coast guard is not above the law either. I wonder what law they think they could have charged those journalists with violating? Failure to respect their "authorita" I suspect.
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... access by the press to any location that is cordoned off / patrolled by civil authorities is not guaranteed, and they DO have to follow orders pertaining to safety.
That may vary depending on the jurisdiction somewhat.
However, if it's a safety issue, does that mean BP is aware of a significant hazard, say, toxic fumes bubbling to the surface and forming a low-oxygen zone?
I wonder what more was said between the press boat and the CG....
If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?
... a CBS O&O, and we haven't seen anything additional, no 'GOTCHA!' moment at all.
And they certainly have a duty to warn of hazardous conditions but it would be interesting to test the theory that BP constitutes "civil authority".
Hasa Diga Eebowai
... I ask the question about whether or not BP has knowledge of specific environmental hazards that they're not disclosing to the general public.
The Coast Guard is the authority under which they are justifying it, but the information as to why this is a safety issue would come from BP. (So, as I suggested in a previous thread, we'll also doubtless hear that the Coastie 'misspoke' or 'misunderstood' something.)
A boatload of BP contractors and two CG officers. In a coast guard vessel, or belongs to BP? Looks like this is an extensive shallow area with extensive sandbars, likely public land. Sounds more like the CG is acting as BP's private security force. Crude oil is toxic and carcinogenic but BP is claiming any coastline it fouls as its own.
After the Dan Rather fiasco it looks like CBS is more than willing to put its tail between its legs and run away.
It's obviously NOT a CG vessel and I don't believe any of the people on board were coast guard officers. If they were, saying "It's BP's rules not ours" is total bullshit. The CG should be ripped a new one over this. CBS was totally utterly gutless.
The Supreme Court said so. So I guess that means they can make citizens' arrests. But that Supreme Court ruling knife should cut both ways. Shouldn't corporations also be eligible for capital punishment?
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Look up your congress idiots and start going full on Teaparty at them....and if your congress idiot happens to be Republican and doesn't give a damn ask them why they are allowing British Petroleum to undermine the sovereignty of the United States and suspend the First Amendment.
the entire US military (of which the Coast Guard is part) was outsourced during the bush administration, to a foreign contractor. it was just more economically efficient. if you listen closely, you'll note that all the members now speak with a distinct middle-eastern accent.
they also drive cabs, and manage 7/11's, in their spare time.
Who needs approval? They're a corporation. They can do anything they want.
Let's see how far to the right they go before they fall off of the edge of this flat world.
Wow! Katie didn't even blink. It went right over her head! Whereas CBS did get the exposure of this cover-up started, it is sites like Crooks and Liars that are pushing the issue to the front of our consciousness.
Katie is pretty good sometimes but this travesty is so obvious, it's amazing she didn't pick up on the severity of the issue right away and push more aggressively.
she was ordered not to. November's elections are near and the TV execs expect a gusher of cashola to hit their coffers soon.
Can't risk jeopardizing this river of T-bills right now. Times are tough, it's a recession, shareholders and institutions would be pissed and drive the stock down, execs would get less, bad X-mas for their Missuses and kiddos.
It'd be so bad, I'm tellin' ya!
The U.S government, a wholly owned subsidiary of (insert name of major corporation here).
I guess we better learn a new national anthem...
"Rule, Britannia! Britannia rule the waves"
The whole issue comes down to the issue of privacy and whether media blackouts are legal.
One of the gatekeepers of democracy is the Fourth Estate. As a representative of the people (and I'm not going to argue about that, it's already been debated and litigated and is a firmly espoused in case law), the press is supposed to be granted free and total access to government and public companies. It's wholly a separate issue with regard to privately held companies.
The bottom line is this. The media is firmly entrenched as another arm of government. That is why they didn't FIERCELY litigate against the media blackout in Iraq and the "limited" blackout in Desert Storm.
BP is a publicly owned company operating on publicly owned land. They have no right to deny access to anyone. This includes not having the right to refuse to allow media onto their rigs.
But, we don't see the media filing a blizzard of lawsuits on this, do we?
Besides, our courts are way too busy with really important issues like whether or not we need to put a brassiere on Justice.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
The psychopaths in charge at BP are no differnent than the psychopaths in charge at Monsanto, wall street or the death merchants at General Electric. These bastards are doin what they are doin because the American public lets them. Where else in the civilized world does the amount of money raised = election victory(most of the time). The average American let this happen so stop blaming a system that puts psychopaths in the drivers seat.
Don't blame BP? Oh...so it's the peoples' fault. Heh, I MIGHT agree with you to a certain extent on that point. However, all your really doing is drawing up a circular argument that absolves criminals of guilt because they are victims of a system.
Nice try.
The psychopaths at BP fully know what is occurring and what they are doing. They created the system.
The only psychopaths in this melodrama are the American people who are all shocked to shit at the same behavior exhibited by corporations every time shit like this happens.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
I find it funny how the media has reduced this to little more than a side story. It's the biggest thing happening in the World at the moment; yet, it gets almost no air time. I bet half the people out there would be surprised to know it is still leaking oil.
So let's get this straight. A foreign company was extracting our natural resources off our coast and now that they've screwed up and oil is spewing into our ocean and onto our shorelines they've taking control of our land and they're telling our citizens what they can or can't do in our own free country?????? And Obama is letting them?!!!!!
...you can't use the name OBAMA in the perjorative around here. Really, Obama doesn't have the power to act in this case.
It's BP's rig and Obama, Congress and the Coast Guard can't intervene. Sorry, we'll just have to pray and hope these guys do the right thing.
This is all outlined in "The President Is Just An Innocent Bystander Memo" dated Nov. 2008. Surprised you hadn't heard of it.
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And, now, I'm thinking, hey, I probably AM a commie. Good to know.
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Only, instead of hay, they've talked about using bagasse. We grow a lot of sugarcane in Louisiana and we have plenty of bagasse.
http://alternativefuels.about.com/od/glossary...
...pluggin' that fucker up with BP execs..
"He wrote this book here and the book says ; He made us all to be just like him So, if we're dumb, then god is dumb and maybe even a little ugly on the side".
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do you really think there is enough hay and hair to scale up to soak up the entire oil slick?
I'll bet it's just going to be able to clean up 0.2% of the total.
SCALING, people. SCALING.
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Every time I have seen the CG rear admiral Mary Landry on TV, from the very beginning, it seemed obvious that she was reading scripts written by BP. Although it came as no surprise that the CG was chasing away journalists trying to document the severity of the disaster (reported by CBS Tuesday night), it made my blood boil nonetheless. The Coast Guard may well be the "lead agency" in oil spill emergencies (and this cannot really be called a "spill"; a spill is what happens when you knock over a glass of milk), but that does not mean they are capable of handling it. They're as helpless as BP, and for reasons I don't quite understand, they've seemed to be happy making it look like BP is in charge, and mouthing whatever words BP wants mouthed. It's absolutely astounding that BP is now admitting the gusher is around 20 times bigger than they were insisting just yesterday. The Coast Guard is looking very silly for having gone along with BP's lies when any number of independent scientists, using fairly reasonable methods for estimating the flow, pegged it days ago at what BP now admits.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, had a superb article today.
(http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20100520...)
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canad...
Just checking...who won the Battle of New Orleans?
did BP say you could put this story on the web?
is squirting oil all over the place and laughing like a clown.
You are a full blown corporatocracy. Sadly. The question is, are people going to stand for it?
Are we just going to sit by while BP orders scientists and journalists around?
YES
of corrupt, destructive corporations, especially in the energy industry. Nukes, coal and mountain top removal, mining with acid and waste pools, and oil extraction. And those Coast Guard personnel on that BP boat should be removed from duty and brought up on charges for threatening arrest AT A BEACH for so called violation of BP's rules. How STOOPID is our Coast Guard. And where is their Commander in Chief?
Blackwater? I want to know, damn it!
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