BP’s Corporate Thuggery

Posted on 05/23/2010 at 12:38 pm by Bob Cesca

Via John Cole:

According to two surviving crew members of the Deepwater Horizon, oil workers from the rig were held in seclusion on the open water for up to two days after the April 20 explosion, while attorneys attempted to convince them to sign legal documents stating that they were unharmed by the incident. The men claim that they were forbidden from having any contact with concerned loved ones during that time, and were told they would not be able to go home until they signed the documents they were presented with.

In other words, BP detained its employees like criminals until they agreed to help whitewash the disaster. Here, Rand Paul, is why we need to apply many, many boots to BP’s neck. And you seriously want to allow corporations to go unregulated by government? That’s rich.

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  • eve

    Criminal indictments soon please.What kind of stupid is this? What idiot thought these men would say nothing about how they were treated? Besides the inhumanity of holding the survivors like this, a document signed under duress is not legally valid.

  • http://politicalpartypooper.wordpress.com/ Political Party Pooper

    “And you seriously want to allow corporations to go unregulated by government? That’s rich.”Do you know what else is going to be rich, Bob? Getting together a bunch of investors and Financial Advisors to short BP’s stock into fucking oblivion.Since our elected officials can’t seem to get the Regulation thing right, maybe we ought to do as the Republicans say, and let the Market handle it.My guess is, at the first sign of a coordinated short effort on BP, the FED will suspend short selling on oil company stocks…because, you know, we can’t allow the Market to hurt our oil companies. Every Republican in America will scream for the government to stop the naked short selling of BP. Guaranteed. Because they like letting the market take care of things, so long as their bitches aren’t the ones getting fucked.Watch.

  • http://www.twitter.com/bobcesca_go Bob_Cesca

    Great idea, PPP. For once, I’d actually applaud short-sellers.

  • MrBrink

    Denouncing even minimal efforts at accountability, Rand Paul is aiding & abetting corporate criminals.Oh yeah.And by leading the witnesses of America to look the other way, or publicly petitioning the government to back off, he’s openly obstructing justice and pissing on the chalk outline of 11 rig workers.Rand Paul might as well be the oil slick that spills out of the back of the get away car.Gotta love these “rule of law” criminal accomplices.America v. BP.Why does Rand Paul hate America, accountability and justice?He must’ve used up all his outrage and skewed sense of justice whining about being forced to serve black people.

  • http://politicalpartypooper.wordpress.com/ Political Party Pooper

    That’s good Bob. I’m talking to a few of my fellow advisers about it.I wonder, would you also support bringing every last one of our elected officials before a court of law for criminal neglect in this oil spill? I’m as pissed at BP as anyone, but they only did what they were allowed to do. Our government is ultimately responsible for this mess, because they did not have the proper regulations in place to ensure that something like this could never happen.As we dig deeper, we are going to be seeing numerous instances where the EPA, Congress, and every White House for the last forty years ignored warnings and refused to take precautions that could have prevented this. In my opinion, that’s criminal neglect, and they should all be prosecuted.Yeah, I know; that’s pretty radical, but I’m tired of owning a government full of fuck-ups who escape responsibility time after time.

  • MrBrink

    Rand Paul has Billy Bibbit head.I call bullshit on PPP.It’s like listening to Scarborough.The Interior Department granted exceptions to BP in April of 2009, relying on specific evaluations from 2007 of the Deepwater Horizon by the Minerals Management Service in its own department.Read this link-Washington Post:

    While the MMS assessed the environmental impact of drilling in the central and western Gulf of Mexico on three occasions in 2007 — including a specific evaluation of BP’s Lease 206 at Deepwater Horizon — in each case it played down the prospect of a major blowout.

    Interior Department spokesman Matt Lee-Ashley said the service grants between 250 and 400 waivers a year for Gulf of Mexico projects. He added that Interior has now established the “first ever” board to examine safety procedures for offshore drilling. It will report back within 30 days on BP’s oil spill and will conduct “a broader review of safety issues,” Lee-Ashley said.

    Deregulating corporate pollution and allowing corporations like BP to “self-regulate” is a Conservative Republican tar-baby.More reason why right wing douchebags can’t be trusted with the planet.By all means. Let’s round up the scoundrels and cronies and make an example of their debunked worldview that left this administration and the people of the Gulf holding the bag.

  • http://politicalpartypooper.wordpress.com/ Political Party Pooper

    MrBrink,Call bullshit all you want. The Federal government, the EPA, and YES, ALL OF OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS have their hands all over this. If you don’t believe me, go to Open Secrets.org, search for Oil & Gas industry, and review all Senate and Congressional recipients.What do you think big oil gives all that money to Repubs and Democrats for? Surely it isn’t because they are Patriots, because BP isn’t even an American country!So…what are they buying? Surely not EVERY Senator or Congressperson serves on the committee that oversees oil industry regulation. So why all the money to EVERY party hack?Blaming just the Republicans is the perfect example of why political parties are so asinine. You are completely blind to the cocksucking your side has been doing on this.Why don’t you ask your Democratic President why a foreign company, BP, has been able for all of these years to contribute to American political candidates? Do you think that only Republicans are in bed with them? Get serious.We have a Democratic Congress for four years now. A Democratic President for seventeen months. In all that time, did anyone review the regulations? In all that time, did anyone of those elected officials do anything but accept campaign donations FROM A FOREIGN COMPANY called British Petroleum?This isn’t just a Conservative Republican tar-baby. This is a tar baby love child of both parties.I think we ought to allow the FBI to investigate the Federal government, the Congress, and the White House…going back at least thirty years.Do you know why we won’t, MrBrink? Because party hacks like yourself never think your party does anything wrong. I’m sure there are millions of Republican hacks that believe the Dems are solely to blame for this spill. Stop being hoodwinked by your favorite political action figures.

  • Monique Yeaton

    Yes, Bob, I think Rand does want corporations to do whatever the hell they want, when they want and how they want to do it. Because that’s the American way. Doesn’t matter if it hurts anyone, doesn’t matter if it makes only a handful of people stinking rich, doesn’t matter that they can then buy off politicians so they can keep doing their crimes. Because this is a FREE country. Right, Rand? Free. Spelled F.R.E.E. Free Rights to Exploit Everything.

  • MrBrink

    Do you seriously believe we don’t investigate wrongdoing?Do you seriously believe Bush’s EPA was just like Obama’s?Bush vs. Obama’s Energy department?What about the right wing Supreme Court’s feelings on corporations, energy and otherwise– and government politics?Go fudge yourself.Drill, Baby, Drill?Serious solutions?Not exactly a Democratic Party tar-baby:

    The number of offshore drilling permits issued and wells have increased dramatically from 3,000 permits and wells in 2000 to nearly 8,000 permits and 6,000 wells by 2006.

    On President Bush’s Watch, Big Oil Companies Have Made More Than $600 Billion in Profits. Since 2001, the major oil companies have amassed close to $600 billion in profits

    President Obama sure has a funny way of proving his loyalty to BP.You’re lucky I barely like you, PPP. Because you can be a real jerkoff sometimes.

  • juvanya

    Free. Spelled F.R.E.E. Free Rights to Exploit Everything.

    I love this.

  • MrBrink

    Free. Spelled F.R.E.E. Free Rights to Exploit Everything.

    Oh yeah. That’s good stuff.

  • http://politicalpartypooper.wordpress.com/ Political Party Pooper

    MrBrink,This isn’t a matter of deciding who is more guilty, or who allowed more wrong. That both sides willfully allowed it AT ALL is the point.Partisan bickering will instigate a “they did it more than we did!” argument, and because of that bickering, the real issue, that both sides perpetuate the problem, will be lost.I’m not against drilling, MrBrink. It needs to be done as a bridge to the future. What I am against is lax regulations, and the fact that redundant fail-safe systems that can be found on any home boiler can’t be found anywhere on an oil rig. That kind of failure to regulate has been with us for far longer than the last ten years.Therefore, this isn’t an issue where you compare the Bush administration to the Obama administration, even though I am sure that’s where the political parties would love to deflect the attention to. A laser-like focus needs to be placed on the overall scheme of operation for the EPA, any Congressional oversight committees, and every White House for at least the last 30 years.There was one…ONE fail-safe valve left to protect an entire coastline. If you check on existing oil rigs, I am sure the same is true of them. That’s just one area of failure where even a college engineering freshman could tell the oil and EPA geniuses that a system is not fail safe without redundancy.It’s hard for me to believe that Congress was never told this, and that every White House for the last 30 years was not told. Not unless everyone working for big oil, the EPA, Greenpeace, and every other environmental organization is an absolute fucking moron.