Here's what BP, Transatlantic and Halliburton really want to say to you but they won't

[tavalon]

The fact that they won't is the only glimmer of hope I have that somehow we can escape fascism because when they start telling the unvarnished truth, the game is over. So without further ado, I give you what they really want to say:

We don't really give a damn that the oil rig blew up and we really don't care about this big ass spill, well, except for that we will likely lose a lot of that oil for production. We don't care about the men who died nor any of the animals who are dying right now. They aren't our shareholders. We care about our shareholders, well, our big shareholders and really, they don't give a rat's ass about this or any other spill - it's just the cost of doing business in a world thirsty for oil. And you fuckers are endlessly thirsty for oil, even the bitch writing this down is using oil right here, right now and you don't see her stopping anytime soon, now do you? So fuck off. Too bad you pretend to care about the birdies and the fishies and the coral reefs. Not our problem. The only reason we're pretending to try to fix this leak is because there are more of you than there are of us and if you figure that out and get yourselves organized to do more than boycott (ha!!) then some of us will end up with shorter lives than we care to have. We learned well from Marie Antoinette - act like you care and they might not kill you.

So we play your silly games and we sit in front of your Congress and we point fingers and we hem and we haw, and your job is to believe that we will fix it and we will pay for the damage and well, that heads will roll!!! LOL! Not happening people, but lets all play our parts, okay?

[PufPuf23]

1. Most that sell their soul to the degree to effect change from the inside

either are corrupted or marginalized.

[tavalon]

2. True that

I want to believe there are some people in there, but I have doubts.

[Scuba]

3. Indict these greedy devils now!!!

[tavalon]

4. They know it isn't going to happen

They might throw us a lower person, you know like chum for the water. But, otherwise it's just a song and dance.

[tavalon]

5. I don't write my posts to hit the greatest page but sometimes, after I've written something,

I think, that's going to resonate. I thought that with this one but I'm realizing now that it probably won't because I'm not just pointing fingers at the usual suspects, I'm also pointing them at each one of us. And that's hard to hear, to feel, especially when each one of you knows that you're singly, very insignificant and yet, put us all together and the oil we demand and will continue to demand is damning us and our fellow species to hell.

Oil is killing us. We have to let it go. It's the second biggest problem facing mankind and it really stands on the back of the first one.

[BeFree]

6. BP

Boycott Petroleum

[tavalon]

7. Now imagine the incredible changes that will have to occur

Just using the US as an example, suburbia will die, many, many people will die, the whole society will change in ways most of us can barely fathom, much less welcome. You and I won't even be talking to each other this way when we let go of oil, whether by boycott or more likely, when it's mostly all gone which is sooner than many of us realize. We live in a world built on oil, oil that happens to be killing us, slowly for some of us and rather rapidly for others.

[jfkraus]

8. This is why Corporations should not be considered People

Corporations have no soul, no conscience. Instead, corporate entities behave like childish sociopaths.

[tavalon]

10. True

[cascadiance]

9. It will be Exxon-Valdez (AND BP!) disaster all over again...

BP is laughing at how Exxon got off the hook so much from there, and THEY were taken to task more for that disaster than BP was, who fraudulently had falsely indicated that they had resources to clean up that mess before it hit land when they had lied about it and didn't, which is why it was such a mess on Alaska's shoreline, etc. too, when that could have been contained if BP was doing its job that it was supposed to have done, as Greg Palast has recently indicated...

http://www.gregpalast.com/slick-operator-the-bp-ive-known-too-well/

I wonder how BP might try to affect Palast's contractual relationship with the BBC in the coming weeks in the UK...

Though BP is more on the firing line this time and didn't hide under the radar like they did with the Exxon-Valdez spill, they probably figure they can get away with murder (literally!) all over again this time too.

[tavalon]

11. Actually, if they don't get this one under control soon, I suspect

people won't even remember the Exxon-Valdez.

They probably will get away with murder. Again.

[hunter]

14. BP is transnational and huge.

Greg Palast isn't even on their radar.

[CoffeeCat]

12. ...and it's that very attitude that will kill us all...

With the help of our politicians--these corporate greedmongers have made
profits the most important thing--and the only thing--that matters.

These people are fools. Drunk on riches. That's why the oil industry
needs regulation and that's why they need to follow laws that keep our
environment safe. Problem is--regulation is gone. So our laws that keep
our environment safe.

The companies could care less about the people, the ocean, the environment
or any of us--because our government has emboldened them. It's the corporations
and the politicians---vs the people.

When greed rules--the world is run by fools. Ultimately, it will be an environmental
disaster that will destroy our planet or an unregulated banking sector that will implode
our economy. Companies are operating with little or no regulation--and we will
continue to see more disasters, on every important front.

The power elites can't see clearly any more. They're too busy rolling in their billions.
They lack the ability to make rational choices any more.

[blindpig]

13. That could be said of capitalism in general. n/t