BP's Rules, NOT OURS: Arrest For Filming Oil Spill, BY BP CONTRACTORS

[Lars77]

Run time: 01:04 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHdwpFdpjVg   Posted on YouTube: May 20, 2010 By YouTube Member: HorseofPaulRevere Views on YouTube: 199   Posted on DU: May 20, 2010 By DU Member: Lars77 Views on DU: 2904

 
BP is using the coast guard to police the beaches. To keep those nosy reporters away..

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. I would have told the Coast Guard they had two choices...

either "fuck off" or arrest me so I can sue the shit out of them, BP and anyone else even remotely involved. Then I would have gone back to what I was doing.

[era veteran]

17. Right on Vinnie, They could kiss my ass

Couric sucks at her job. Where is the follow up question? A foreign corporation running OUR Coast Guard, bullshit.

[butterfly77]

2. Kicked&Recommended!!!

[nykym]

3. Immediatley

repeal corporate person hood. This is not the US of BP they have no right to tell anyone what or where to go unless they own the land.

[dotymed]

4. No Shit.

Since when does BP own the ocean and beaches? US of Corporatism, undoubtedly

[Lorien]

9. And when did the US coastguard become their personal rent-a-cops??

[glitch]

10. +1,000,000/day nt

[dgibby]

19. The Coast Guard,

like the rest of the Uniformed Services, serves at the pleasure of the Commander in Chief, and as such, follows his orders. I would have to conclude, then, that the CIC has authorized the USCG to do this.

I base this conclusion on my 22yrs of active duty service in the US Navy. If he did NOT authorize this, then heads should already have rolled. Having said that, I am guessing that as the criticism of this Admin. heats up, the CG will be offered up as a sacrifical lamb/scapegoat.

[Wizard777]

20. You can't "repeal" Corporate personhood. It's not a law.

It comes from a SCOTUS decision. The legislature would have to enact a law stating Corporations can sue and be sued. Maybe give them some limited rights like aliens. But not the full privileges and immunities of citizens.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Did you notice stupid corporate Couric made NO comment about BP control?

[KeepItReal]

6. Dan would not have let that slide...

You *know* Walter Cronkite would have been all over that, too!

[Lorien]

8. Yep. She's a complete joke

but the situation is not. Lock BP officials up and seize their assets!

[Lorien]

7. Once again, the government works for private corporations, NOT US

When are we going to demand that this practice end? BP officers should be in JAIL, not being aided by our government in their cover up efforts. They MAKE the rules?? Since when????

[Wizard777]

21. They are the perpetrators of environmental crimes. Why are they running the show?

Are we going to start allowing serial killers to run the investigation and clean up on their murders?

[Cleita]

11. K&R

This needs to make it to the headlines on the first page.

[Devil_Fish]

12. kick this shit. N/T

[Poll_Blind]

13. K&R

PB

[Granny M]

14. EXCUSE ME????

Oh, HELL NO. Granny's mad now. I do not want to be a citizen of a wholly owned subsidiary of BP.

[BEZERKO]

15. What the Hell!

I want to sue the shit out of them because they pissed me off!

[Alcibiades]

16. What kind of boat is that?

Looks like the sort of boat one might charter for fishing. I wonder if this is what BP is doing to try to pay oof local folks--giving them wads of cash to keep reporters away.

Next camera crew should bring a lawyer.

[humbled_opinion]

18. You would think that Republicans

were in charge in our government, where is the White House on this? Where is the AG? This is insanity a severe breach of First Ammendment protection. Is this the new normal? Are we in a dictatorship now?

I am getting seriously sick. They cause the worst unnatural disaster in our history and get a pass to cover it up and all for what BP isn't going to suffer they will pass on the costs of the clean up to us through higher gas prices and our government will just let them do it...

I reapeat I am sick.

[FailureToCommunicate]

22. The brave Sea Shepherd folks sure would have kept going! Calling Sea Shepherd...

Here's hoping they get there soon. The media newbies could use some backbone!

<http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/news-100517-1.html>

[defendandprotect]

23. Sent it on to White House . . . Obama needs to take this over....

and decide whether capitalism/BP is running our government

and "free press' -- or whether our elected officials are

going to do their jobs DESPITE corporate bribery!

[ooglymoogly]

24. Note that Katie jumped right off the subject of foreign contractors and

and US coastguards illegal collusion to stop freedom of press in its tracks, as if no interest whatsoever.

[Vincardog]

25. I just called my Senator and asked him to look into it. I want his view on whether the Coast Guard

works for us or BO er I mean BP

[heliarc]

26. Excuse me but I need to spell it out...

What the F*&^*%&*#... How does a private company set the rules for the coast guard? And a British company at that. Can we say that multinational capitalism has overcome the nation state yet??? This has GOT to be an issue that Obama can move on. It's something that the Tea partiers are bound to agree with. I can't believe the Rand Paul statement that Obama is unamerican for criticizing BP. We need to spell it out for these Tea Partiers immediately. Effing up our precious wetlands and beaches because you had to make a buck is what's unamerican. The Federal government needs to step in and work to fix this immediately. What a disaster. It makes me want to scream.

[asdjrocky]

27. US of BP.

[skip fox]

28. No public outcry? No other reporters on this? We can't even see

the damage they have done? Then their lies will control the day?

Where is the press on this. We screamed to high hell when Bush restricted the filming of caskets, why no outcry when we cannot witness the damage that BP created.

[bananas]

29. Are those "contractors" from Blackwater/XE?

I see 7 people total - 6 in the back and one in the front cabin.
The reporter says there are two Coast Guard officers on board.
Who are the other 5 people? Who do they work for?
Starting around timestamp 0:12

[FlyByNight]

30. Emblematic of "government" these days

They're just middle management.

:puke:

[Gman]

31. No guts reporters. They should have let themselves be arrested

would have been great news.

Would have been allowing themselves to be the news, but there's exceptions to a lot of rules.