Politics Imitating Art

[TatonkaJames]

In the movie Godfather Part II Senator Pat Geary makes a big show of supporting Italian-Americans and then excuses himself from the hearings on the Mafia. We all know how he was involved in graft from the family.

Today we see this is evident as we’ve always expected it; which is one reason I believe our representatives are not supportive of an audit of Swiss tax havens that also include “off shore” accounts they hold.

We can clearly see which representatives are supported by the oil industry by their easy manner of questioning. One, Joe Barton from Texas, went as far as accusing the administration of pressuring BP to set up a “slush fund.” Who do these reps think they’re fooling?

We can only blame ourselves for this disaster, the war in Iraq, the failure to destroy AQ in Afghanistan when we had them at Tora Bora, the financial meltdown and everything else that is wrong with our system.
This is what we get when we allow our representatives to hire staffers who are lobbyists and do everything from writing the questions they ask in hearings to writing the legislation the corporations want with millions in campaign contributions going for re-election campaigns, which will become worse now that the Supreme Court has shown it’s corporate allegiance. Our leaders work not for us but the corporate world.

We know what is wrong here, what went wrong, what the dispersant is doing and going to do when it evaporates and rains down upon us, what that and the oil is going to do for miles inland during hurricane season. Instead of allowing the oil to come to the surface where it can be captured as they did in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere and stop dispersing it, they continue because it’s out of sight, out of mind which is making it do more harm, but the CEO doesn’t seem to know this?

Yes, as Representative Engel said during today’s hearing, Haywood is insulting our intelligence, but how intelligent are they for not handcuffing him and putting him in jail immediately for perjury. He testified earlier BP had taken steps in 2005 after many spills and safety violations that they’ve taken a new course of action as far as safety is concerned after all the violations and fines in previous years but they were fined over 700 times last year! This is clearly perjury and a classic example of disregard for the law, environment and the people of this planet.

Then there is the question of who is responsible for keeping the remaining workers from the rig who survived the explosion from returning to the mainland for two days until they signed a release form? These people have no heart, greed has shrunk it like the Grinch's.

But the biggest failure of this whole ordeal is with us; we do nothing collectively but sit behind our computers commenting while in many Mid East countries they demonstrate in the streets knowing they can be arrested and executed, yet they have the passion in them to die for what’s right. We sit playing video games or in bars complaining and doing nothing. If we were in the streets like they were in the 60’s and early 70’s but more violent I guarantee you one of two things would happen, we’d see which reps are behind the people or the corporations when they either support our demands to be bold with a plan such as JFK’s travel to the moon for new alternatives in transportation and fuel or they mow us down like they did at Kent State. The way things are going I feel they are waiting for the latter opportunity to make the circle of control over us complete.

[zeemike]

1. You may be right.

And they say the first thing in solving an addiction is to admit that it is a problem.
We are addicted to our things and as long as someone does not take our things away from us we don't care much of what is happening it the larger world around us.
And all these new thing too....makes you want to be compliant and submissive as long as the things keep coming.
And I don't think the young can rebell....they have been conditioned over the last 30 years to be self indulgent and submissive to authority by all of our media and taught it in the schools.
And perhaps like the addict we must hit bottom before we can admit that it is a problem.