Antelope Valley Press
LA Weekly
La Opinion
Message text follows:
Laura McCallum
June 11, 2010
To whom it may concern,
As I listen to the developments that continue to occur in the disastrous
oil geyser spewing endlessly on the gulf coast, I cannot help but wonder
if anyone in our government is concerned at all. The lies and misleading
information coming from the top officials in British Petroleum (BP) are
just accepted as truth without doing anything to remove them from their
position of authority when it is learned that the information is not just
intentionally misleading, but lies that are prepared way ahead of time to
protect only the interests and assets of BP. From the time this all
began, BP has been allowed to add toxic disbursements to the ocean that
are harmful to all living organisms in the gulf now and to their future.
Toxins that are already proved to make matters worse and not actually
proven to do anything BP claims they can do. Oil that is left alone would
float to the top of the water and be a much easier collection than
allowing BP to sink it by making it heavier than water. BP's assets should
be frozen and given to the people affected by the disaster and to
organizations fighting for clean up efforts and creation of new technology
that will help America move away from oil as it's main source of energy.
Nobody should be given the right to cause this much damage to our
coastlines or to the home of our sea life. The coral wreaths alone this
spill is going to kill should carry mandatory murder charges for its
destruction. It takes 5000 years for the corals to form and they are used
to save people's lives from cancer and make medicines for many important
and groundbreaking treatments that we cannot get anywhere else. How can
the importance of such a fragile and significant environment end up being
ignored and destroyed forever. Our marine life have the right to exist as
much as people do and without them people too will perish. Already there
are parts of our oceans that contain dead zones and they are growing in
number and size everyday. What gives BP the right to threaten them with
the unbelievably careless and greedy actions of their companies just to
make a buck. If the oil companies can not make a profit from drilling on
land anymore then obviously it is time to move on and try to make our
world function without the use of oil at all. The time has come to say
goodbye to gas trains and automobiles. Our railways are ancient when
compared to the creation of Japans High Speed Railways. For decades, the
electric-powered trains put America's to shame by operating at speeds up
to 300e km/h. We cannot ignore the need to eliminate the ugliness anymore.
Officials can no longer be allowed to defend the companies that stand to
gain enormous profits at the detriment of the American people or the
environment. I also would like to know why our media has not been
reporting the ugly facts about Halliburton purchasing an oil clean up
company prior to the oil rig exploding or how Goldman Sax dumped all their
BP stock before the explosion had even occurred. What happened to
investigative reporting in this country? Has it ever occurred to our
broadcasters that the American people expect mainstream media to do their
homework on everything they report because once the information is learned
by other methods the credibility of the mainstream news is gone. I am
disgusted with the way this whole disaster is being handled and even more
disgusted with the way it is being reported.
Sincerely,
Laura McCallum
