From what I have been hearing on the radio and TV all day.

[Cleita]

BP is handling everything including the clean up of oil affected animals. :wtf: Only their contractors are allowed to do this? Only their photographers are allowed to take pictures? No other media allowed? No one is allowed to help clean up because they are doing it? Is this what Obama meant when he said they were paying for all of it? They would do all the cover-up, er cleanup themselves? Boy, if he doesn't send in independent government agencies and military in there, he will have worse than Katrina on his hands if he leaves the foxes in charge of the hen house. I don't like how this is shaping up at all.

[JuniperLea]

1. I think it's about time to take it to the streets, folks...

Something needs done... now.

[Cleita]

2. Sure is. I wonder how much action can be stirred up from the gulf states

and maybe even Mexico?

[JuniperLea]

11. This could unite a lot of us...

I think this crosses all of the imaginary lines "we" have drawn through society.

We need something big... like the anti-Bush war protests... but this time, it will be non-partisan.

[Cetacea]

20. +1 nt

[glinda]

3. I agree 800%. What though??????

[onestepforward]

25. BP Protest in Houston on May 24, 2010

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8387595

[elehhhhna]

4. Time for friggin Glasnost

[leftstreet]

5. BP's 'Beyond Petroleum' motto is finally making sense

yeah, no shit

[Subdivisions]

6. Disaster capitalism. n/t

[gateley]

7. I wonder if the conflict is because they are responsible/liable for the "clean up" -

At a time like this, that stuff needs to be wiped aside and every able-bodied person should be permitted to help. We need EVERYONE.

They (BP) just can't get past their corporate mind set. Don't they understand this will impact the globe? Don't these people have any children? Have their souls shriveled into a pile of ash?

This is beyond horrific.

[BrklynLiberal]

8. They cannot control the spill,,,so they will control the message.

and the media is the message...

[Cleita]

12. We can't let them. I don't know how to stop them though.

:-(

[dgibby]

9. No one should be anywhere near that toxic stew without a respirator and

Hazmat suit. A lot of people are going to die because of this.

[amborin]

10. yep, more here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8384228

[lonestarnot]

15. Thanks for the link.

[Kablooie]

13. I sense a huge glob of intestinal waste heading towards the whirling blades.

The outrage over this is growing exponentially today.

[Nikki Stone1]

14. Totally privatized cleanup...Mark my words; they're cleaning up the crime scene

With no government oversight....

[laughingliberal]

16. +1 nt

[EFerrari]

17. The good news is that they arrested 6 undocumented workers

who were hired to clean up a beach in Florida.

USA!

[Cleita]

22. Yes, that should have the Governor of Arizona and her minions

cheering.

[laughingliberal]

18. I was really pissed when I heard earlier they aren't allowing anyone...

but their own contractors to treat the animals. I'm certain there is a massive coverup in place. And the animals aren't getting treated.

[Cleita]

19. I'm thinking all they are doing is euthanizing them and dumping

them somehow.

[laughingliberal]

21. That was what I thought when I heard it. nt

[EFerrari]

23. We need to find out. How many animals are they putting down.

I hate these bastards.

[onestepforward]

26. I don't want BP's contractors treating the animals either.

For all the animals that survive this catastrophe, I want them treated and cared for by the very best. I want the bird experts to treat the birds, etc. It is the least we can do.





May 20 2010 3:52PM
Gerald Herbert / AP
An unidentified Coast Guard officer carries off a dead oil-covered pelican found on North Breton Island, La., on May 20.

[TheWatcher]

24. Enough is E-Fucking-nough. BP= BUMBLING PSYCHOPATHS

This isn't about just the Gulf Coast anymore, although EVEN IF IT WAS it would make the urgency of what needs to be done no less dire.

If BP is allowed it go on like this, it's going to be about the Atlantic and beyond our country. I simply cannot believe that other countries, other CONTINENTS are just going to sit by, suck their thumbs and let BP kill the entire planet.

They have got to be stopped, and the Adults need to take over.

Something has to be done.

Hayward belongs in jail, and that is the least of what that piece of human waste deserves.

This is insanity.

We CANNOT allow entire OCEANS to be destroyed.