Editorial - BP Toxic Surge Act of Terrorism
— W. Leon Smith
Editorial - BP Toxic Surge Act of Terrorism
No Action By President Obama, Congress
(VN: not true, Obama did a photo op just like Bush did in Katrina)
People of the Gulf Coast states have been besieged by the spectre of a polluted coastline that will likely cost them lives, health, and financial heartache — not to mention what it is doing to the environment. They are being terrorized by the menace of an oil eruption caused by British Petroleum, Halliburton, and Transocean that may go down in history as the worst disaster ever seen by the American continent.
The answer to this “attack” has been shuffled under the table by President Obama, who is owned and controlled by the oil companies ruling America. They hold total power over him and want nothing done to dampen their profits.
A “real” president would have immediately called a state of emergency and moved in everyone from the military to NASA to contain the massive distribution of oil throughout the Gulf.
He would have frozen all funds of the three mega-corporations and begun an investigation into who will pay for this disaster with jail time — be it the insane execs who think they control the world, or even those who continue to reap gigantic profits off the backs of Americans — anyone in the companies whose cohorts received $50,000 or more in annual bonuses instead of the money properly going toward safety measures to keep this sort of failure from ever happening.
A “real” president would have immediately put into motion the scientific community, including plumbers, to solve this problem and not rely on Wall Street stockbrokers to call the shots, which they do.
A column by Will Durst in this edition of The Iconoclast expresses the sentiments of the American middle class regarding this disaster. It is entitled “The Third Gulf War” and is excellent reading.
Another excellent read is a column by Capt. Eric H. May published in 2007 entitled: “The Texas Triangle: Terror and Treason,” regarding problems with BP .
The Iconoclast published an editorial on March 23, 2008, demanding an investigation into BP. It was entitled “Time To Investigate Houston Is Now,”
Of course, our urgent message went unheeded by elected officials, again congress and the president owned by the oil companies and other corporate giants.
Had the oil surge perpetrators not been BP and company, you can bet the punishment would have been severe and Obama would have acted promptly.
In this case, he did not. He is owned by them.
The Iconoclast editors have occasionally wondered if it would ever be possible to find a worst president than George W. Bush.
Little did we consider who stood just around the corner. (VN: some of us did and said so, strongly suggested voting for a third party, still do)
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