OIL SPILL > OBAMA COVER UP
LEE ALLOW THIS AS ITS EARLY....I AM DISGUSTED..
YOUTUBE EMBED NOT COPIED BUT ITS AVAIL..
Coast Guard and BP threaten journalists with arrest for documenting oil spill
Oil washes up on shore today, but journalists beware. If you are caught photographing you will be arrested. CBS documents their encounter this morning.
Tue, May 18 2010 at 11:49 PM EST
Read more: OBAMA, OIL SPILL, POLITICS, VIDEO
Image: Parish County via CBS
I never thought I would say this, but for once I actually agree with Rush Limbaugh. The right-wing radio host is attributed with calling the Gulf Oil Spill "Obama's Katrina." It was an odd statement at the time, but now nearly 4 weeks later, Limbaugh's brash statement is not at all off the mark.
Today, Louisiana Governor Jindal dispensed with his laid-back attitude about the spill and in a local radio interview stated that he had made repeated, increasingly desperate pleas to get the Army Corps of Engineers to approve an emergency retaining wall project that would have protected the fragile marshlands of Louisiana from the onslaught of thick oil now oozing out of the Gulf.
These marshlands are often referred to as "the nursery" for good reason -- they are the breeding ground for hundreds of species of birds and marine animals and the womb of Louisiana's fishing industry. They are also the state's primary buffer against hurricanes. But sadly Jindal's please fell on deaf ears, and this morning around 8 am oil washed up onshore.
The Obama administration, it appears, has higher priorities.. namely helping BP in their frantic efforts to keep the public in the dark about what is almost surely the worst environmental catastrophe in U.S history.
Contacts in Louisiana have given me numerous, unconfirmed reports of cameras and cell phones being confiscated, scientists with monitoring equipment being turned away, and local reporters blocked from access to public lands impacted by the oil spill. But today CBS News got it on video, along with a bone-chilling statement by a Cost Guard official:
"These are BP's rules. These are not our rules."
But wait... isn't that a public beach? It appears that the Coast Guard has been given direct orders to protect BP's PR interests above safety concerns over air and water quality, above the outcries of local governments in need of aid, and (worst of all) above the need for the American public to be informed about what is really going on in the Gulf.
The Coast Guard, as one of the branches of the U.S. Armed Forces, answers to the Commander in Chief -- President Obama. And despite Obama's half-hearted attempt at displaying anger over the government's "cozy relationship" with BP, it is impossible to make any conclusion other than this -- Obama is aiding and abetting a foreign oil company as it perpetrates an environmental crime on American soil, a crime which fortunately (thanks to Sen. Boxer) is now being taken to the Justice Department.
It's a well known fact that President Obama received a hefty campaign contribution from British Petroleum (the largest of all the candidates) and in the oily aftermath of a thoroughly un-American corporate coverup, Obama's credibility as the people's president is quickly eroding. In the next few days -- as the Gulf current pulls miles of black ooze up the Eastern seaboard (the first tar balls landed today in the Florida Keys today) -- BP's federally subsidized media containment operation may soon become impossible to maintain.
At that point, the president will have to ask himself if his allegiance to the polluting petroleum giant was worth it
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