Chris Chandler speaks @ New Orleans Rally against BP

[stilltrucking]

It is not about the price of gasoline it is not about the blame, it is about now, this minute as I write this a million gallons of oil just went into the gulf of mexico. yeah I know it was probably only a couple of thousand but you know it is more than they are telling us.

This ain't no over night problem. Not about cheap gasoline and cirucuses. It is about a reality check for the United States of America. Those British lords are telling us to fuck off, they will bloody well plug the hole when they can do it cheap enough. They have their golden parachutes and plane standing by.

[stilltrucking]

At first I thought he sounded kind of xenophobic Doreen but now I see his point.

They trying to put their dick in the hole, why don't do something about picking up the millions and millions hundreds of millions of gallons of oil that will accumulate send the super tankers suck it up now instead of waiting till the hurricane season hits full force later this summer.

Sorry my impotent rage is

[stilltrucking]

I am going to go back and edit out my crude language Doreen.
I don't know why I used words associated sex to express my outrage.

I am going to try and not follow the story so closely, I am obsessing on it.
I need to obsess on something else for a while, breathing would be a good obsession for me right now.

[Arcadia]

I SHOULD TO GO TO PRISON,

[stilltrucking]

Prison hell, I want the death penalty restored for corporations.
If ever a corporation deserved death it is BP.

Obama’s excessive trust in his own heady team is all too often matched by his inherent deference to the smartest guys in the boardroom in the private sector. His default assumption seems to be that his peers are always as well-intentioned as he is. The single biggest mistake he has made in managing the gulf disaster was his failure to challenge BP’s version of events from the start. The company consistently understated the spill’s severity, overestimated the progress of the repair operation and low-balled the environmental damage. Yet the White House’s designated point man in the crisis, Adm. Thad Allen of the Coast Guard, was still publicly reaffirming his trust in the BP chief executive, Tony Hayward, as recently as two weeks ago, more than a month after the rig exploded.

This is baffling, and then some, given BP’s atrocious record prior to this catastrophe. In the last three years, according to the Center for Public Integrity, BP accounted for “97 percent of all flagrant violations found in the refining industry by government safety inspectors” — including 760 citations for “egregious, willful” violations (compared with only eight at the two oil companies that tied for second place). Hayward’s predecessor at BP, ousted in a sex-and-blackmail scandal in 2007, had placed cost-cutting (and ever more obscene profits) over safety, culminating in the BP Texas City refinery explosion that killed 15 and injured 170 in 2005. Last October The Times uncovered documents revealing that BP had still failed to address hundreds of safety hazards at that refinery in the four years after the explosion, prompting the largest fine in the history of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (The fine, $87 million, was no doubt regarded as petty cash by a company whose profit reached nearly $17 billion last year.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/opini ... f=homepage