Page Missing from WV Coal Mine Safety Log; Accountability Missing for Bush's Deadly Crimes

[BradBlog]

Page Missing from WV Coal Mine Safety Log; Accountability Missing for Bush's Deadly Crimes
Carnage continues to mount as Obama's lethal 'look forward, not backward' strategy continues to fail...

An argument could be made that the greatest beneficiary of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf has been Massey Energy's CEO Don Blankenship. Until the Gulf Gusher took over the front pages, the serious heat, in both media and Congress, had been on Blankenship and the coal mine explosion which took the lives of 29 miners at Massey's Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia. Remember that?

Well, the investigation has very quietly --- and largely behind closed doors, to the chagrin of family members of the victims --- proceeded into that fossil fuel-related disaster, even as Blankenship must be thanking the Oily Gods for taking him momentarily out of the spotlight. So let's put him back in it, shall we?

Given that the mafia-like strongman tactics seen in remarkable video tape revealing Blankenship roughing up an ABC News reporter in 2008 --- which we've only just now seen (it's posted in full below) --- could as well be a scene straight out of Goodfellas or The Sopranos, the news today from the Charleston Gazette that a page has reportedly been "removed" from the "fireboss" safety log book at the Upper Big Branch Mine, seems par for the course.

So how's that whole "look forward, not backward" thing working out for you, Mr. Obama, as the body count continues to rise from the Bush-era rape and pillaging of our natural resources and of our federal system of "oversight" for it? Whose fault is it now?...

FULL STORY, BLANKENSHIP VIDEO: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7841

[Botany]

1. Thanx for the post brad

Blankenship does not think he is above the law but that he makes the law.

[katandmoon]

2. K&R.