Waging War on Behalf of the Dolphins

“We’re not just trying to kill everything in the Gulf of Mexico, but everything that flies over it as well”.

Those are the words of the videographer, “Hurricane Creekkeeper John Wathen”, the man who made this video.  He is associated with the Waterkeeper Alliance.  Please spread this video  around and make sure people see it. Even the most hardened oil fanatics might be stunned at the damage to everything this oil leak — still a gusher — is doing to the wildlife, the air, the marshes, the water.  This is the biggest crime, or act of war, ever done to this country by anyone.

This video shows dolphins struggling and wildlife deaths towards the end — hundreds of dolphins and at least one whale, that are dying as they swim in the oil in the Gulf.  Imagine their panic when they realize the sky is burning and the water, their habitat, has been totally poisoned.  There is no where they can escape to.   It’s just heartbreaking to imagine what they must be going through.  Dolphins  and whales are very intelligent animals and they are suffering and dying for our oil addiction.  This is BP, murdering dolphins, whales, pelicans and sharks and everything else in the Gulf that used to live and thrive there.  They have used so much dispersant to break up the oil to cover their own butts it’s not even clear whether most of the oil can ever be collected.  It must be harder and harder for even the cheerleaders of oil to justify the use of it,  given how dangerous getting it has become.

John Wathen says, “There has to be something better than putting all of this toxic smoke into the atmosphere”.  He’s right.  Why are they burning it, and why aren’t there ships collecting it to dispose of it?  Because they want to sell it, and the price of oil is too low to make it worth BP’s while to actually collect it.  Besides, if they did collect it, refine it and sell it, it would end up in the atmosphere anyway.  That’s the life cycle of oil, polluting from the beginning to the end.

In my opinion, this oil “accident” and its aftermath is no less than an act of hostility, an act of war on the part of British Petroleum,  than if they had bombed Louisiana outright.

It’s time for retaliation on the part of the United States.  We should seize their corporation, and seize all their assets before they can hide any more of them.  Seize their equipment, every last boat and skimmer, and force their engineers and rig workers to stop the leak and fix this problem. That would be so much more justified than the war in Iraq ever was.

Whoever posted the link for this video wrote:

This was the most emotionally disturbing video I have ever done!
A flight over the BP Slick Source where I saw at least 100 Dolphins in the oil, some dying. [...]

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