BP representative: “Louisiana isn’t the only place that has shrimp!”

[Bluebear]

Wow.

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From Houma (LA) Today:

BP representative Hugh Depland said that while the company wasn’t sure exactly when more workers would be hired, the $239 billion company was spending “a lot of money, time and effort to bring this event to a close.” And to those worried restaurateurs facing rising prices for shrimp and oysters? In the words of fellow BP rep Randy Prescott: “Louisiana isn’t the only place that has shrimp.”

I wonder how much of America understands what an underwater dustbowl this event is. Do they know how big a hit the entire country's seafood supply has taken? Do they know what's happened to the hundreds of thousands of people whose lives have depended on the bounty of the sea for generations? I'm guessing they have no idea. I'm guessing in less than a year we're going start hearing about how the desperate out of work people of Louisiana's coastal communities are "lazy" or "waiting for a government handout" when they should have been bootstrapping up their education.

Actually BP is already hinting at this. During Monday night's townhall meeting in St. Bernard, I was amazed to read this tweet from a reporter in attendance.

BP spokesman says "we are looking into getting people some extra college"

Perhaps they'll look into getting them some courses in "other places that have shrimp" That might be helpful. Whatever they have in mind, I hope they weren't planning on "getting people some extra college" at LSU. Pretty soon there won't be anything "extra" there to speak of.

http://forum.houmatoday.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=586&p=4144#p4102

[muntrv]

1. And they call liberals elitist! Sheesh!

[Barack_America]

2. Actually, I'm guessing they don't particularly care.

They certainly don't care about the people, the only concern they have is our government potentially holding them financially responsible for their livelihoods. Obama says he will, but I think we're all familiar with the track record our govt. has when it comes to corporate responsibility.

[muntrv]

3. BP is right. The gulf fishermen can always to to Texas....oops I forgot,

Texas is also on the Gulf of Mexico, now tainted by BP oil.

[Uncle Joe]

4. That's true apparently BP has one in Prescott.

Thanks for the thread, Bluebear.

[hobbit709]

5. Hey BP, I got your college right here!

It's called the school of hard knocks.

[laughingliberal]

6. They really need some new PR people. Jesus! nt

[FarCenter]

7. The oil companies are geared to dealing with these events in Nigeria or Indonesia

Or other places where there would be little or no reaction in the US MSM.

[JuniperLea]

8. Aw jeez...

Are they trying to make me hate them more, or what? That is just about the worst PR I've ever seen.

[Nikki Stone1]

9. Email the fucker: randy. prescott@ bp.com

randy. prescott@ bp.com
randy. prescott@ bp.com
randy. prescott@ bp.com
randy. prescott@ bp.com
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[panzerfaust]

80. Call him: His office number is 713-323-4093

Reportedly ( http://thanks-katrina.blogspot.com/2010/05/help-needed.html )

I say reportedly, as that number has been busy ...

[fascisthunter]

10. sociopath

[jp11]

11. To be fair, that person is right, all the people involved in the shrimp business can just pickup and

move now that BP's mess has possibly ruined it in Louisiana for decades if not longer, the same can be said to all the other people who won't be able to make a living, in the spirit of BP "MOVE!", maybe we could get Samuel L. Jackson to do an ad "Move Motherf*&k@r!".

I don't really see what the cuts to LSU have to do with BP when they are due to state budget issues, of which lots of schools face around the country. Program cuts or not I'm sure people can still get a degree in another field. BP's comment for college better include a new career for the people who's livelihood they have ruined.

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/94798504.html

[TheWatcher]

54. There is a PR Position for you at BP, surely

Sell it somewhere else.

[jp11]

92. They can't pay me enough to work for them.

[Dan]

86. I wonder what was the position of the southern states to

Michigan's plight - reference the significant shut down of the automotive industry, and the impact to the workers, their pensions, their health care, their loss income, loss property value, loss of careers'? I wonder about the southern states' majorities that voted for Bush and then McCain (just drill, baby drill) how do they now feel about the role of government.

[virgogal]

12. Foot. Mouth.

[TexasObserver]

13. This oil is killing all who live off the sea for hundreds of miles.

Hotels, motels, resorts, cabins for rent, restaurants, amusement areas, fishing, swimming, boating, jet skiing, shrimping, crabbing. And then there's the health problems for all along the coast.

The carnage on the sea animals is the animal toll, but the human toll from the oil has already begun.

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. Hurricanes will spread it even more.

Wheeeee! Free oil for everybody.

[valerief]

14. When a snake bites you, it doesn't regret the bite. Same thing with these vipers. nt

[marmar]

16. Their PR department is a total f**king disaster......

They couldn't spin their way out of a wet paper bag.

[boston bean]

17. What a despicable thing to say. FUCK BP!

[Dappleganger]

18. In the eyes of BP, the people in the Gulf area are completely expendable. nt

[malaise]

19. WTF???

There are no words for these scumbags.

[Cleita]

20. I guess that rarefied air in the executive suites makes them

clueless.

[KamaAina]

21. Guess what? BP isn't the only place that has oil, either!

:grr: :banghead: :argh: :nuke:

[femrap]

48. Are they to move

to Vietnam?

[WeDidIt]

22. He should be immediately fired.

That's some fucked up shit right there.

[Touchdown]

23. And his right ear isn't the only one that would look better

with an icepick through it. Another would look good in the left too!

[Canuckistanian]

24. And America isn't the only place that has oil. Now bugger off

Fucking twit.

[Feron]

25. I hope he chokes on a Chinese shrimp. nt

[DLnyc]

26. A couple of notes for Hugh Depland:

1) Oil isn't the only source of energy.

2) Capitalism is not the only economic model.

3) Corporatism is not the only possible philosophy of government.

4) Condescending paternalism is not the only form of social interaction.

5) De facto amnesty for persons involved in massive ecocide is not the only option.

6) Allowing psychopathic corporations to continue to exist is not the only path available in the future.

7) Liability caps for large oil corporations are not the only approach to extracting payment for ecological damage of massive proportions.

8) Allowing executives who pushed underlings into destroying an entire gulf to continue to walk the streets is not the only choice.

9) Winking at criminal levels of bribery and corruption, which led to this disaster, is not the only way.

10) Continued existence of BP, and physical liberty of its executives, is not necessarily something to count on in the future.

[ashling]

31. You got that right!

and you've got my vote for the best response to this clueless arrogant slimeball.

[Bluebear]

35. +

[blindpig]

37. Expropriate without compensation

and put that asshole in a cell next to Tony Hayward.

[DLnyc]

93. Very nice sig line

[Canuckistanian]

44. +1

Excellent.

[jwirr]

70. Good response.

[TheKentuckian]

89. Where is the rec post option????? PREACH IT

[Catherina]

27. _|_ U BP n/t

[Bluebear]

30. I like it.

[Bluebear]

94. .

[amborin]

28. K&R

[struggle4progress]

29. Misspoke. Meant to say: "Louisiana's not the only place that hasn't got shrimp anymore!"

[csziggy]

32. Guesss what, Mr. Depland and Mr. Prescott, the Gulf of Mexico is not the only place with OIL

Go get your damned oil somewhere else.

I have read that 40% of the seafood eaten in the US is caught in the Gulf of Mexico - or was.

[Flora]

60. And guess where all the shrimp, fish, crabs,

use as a nursery. Yep, the Louisiana gulf coast marshes, much of which is now coated with oil. Not seeing many of those photo images, though...

[csziggy]

79. Louisiana and theTexas, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida coastlines

We've got plenty of those marshy shorelines along the coast here. So far the oil is staying away - I hope that continues. If at least some of the Gulf coast is kept alive, maybe we can help the rest recover.

[petronius]

33. I haven't lived in Louisiana for almost a decade, and I'm not even an LA native,

but I would love to beat this guy black and blue with a 20 lb block of frozen Chinese crawfish... :grr:

[revolution breeze]

40. Agreed.

And what about the fact that most Louisiana shrimpers want to be SHRIMPERS! They came back after Katrina when most lost everything! Maybe they don't want to go to college, find a new way of life....

[jtrockville]

34. Charming.

[bdamomma]

36. what a POS for saying something like that.

damn they should get those BP personnel and plug them up in that hole!!!!!

love thy fellow man???? yea sure.

[freddie mertz]

38. That is truly hateful. Especially coming from the pigs who killed the shrimp!

Let's stuff them all in the deep, dirty hole.

:puke:

[glitch]

39. Prescott, any relation?

Sure shares same characteristics.

[bullwinkle428]

41. Oil ain't the only thing that produces energy, either!

[unblock]

42. louisiana isn't the only place that has offshore drilling platforms, either.

what happens when they explode and gush oil there, too?

[guitar man]

43. Where is this motherfucker?

And how do I get my hands on him? !! :grr::grr::grr:

They aren't just shrimp, they're Gulf shrimp goddammit!! They ruin the habitat of the greatest shrimp in the world and then want to get glib and nonchalant about it? I will personally kick their asses!! :mad:

[TheWatcher]

53. I am RIGHT THERE with you guitar man.

These people don't think they have to fear any consequences, any reprisals, or any accountability.

They think they can fuck up whatever they want, destroy whatever they want, kill whoever they want, and nothing will happen.

They should be living in fear.

They are a threat to civilization, as far as I am concerned.

The country spends so much time hiding under it's bed in fear of "Men In Caves" who want to "get us" because of our "freedom."

THESE ASSHOLES like Prescott are the REAL TERRORISTS.

:grr:

[guitar man]

57. In a just world

This Prescott character would be the one hiding under his bed right now. The sheer arrogance. These corporate fuckers have no sense of what "community" means. Those waters down there have been shared, and cared for by a communtiy of fishermen and others who realize what side their bread is buttered on and have made their living there for generations. Then along comes BP and acts like they own the place, it exists solely for their profits and anybody who doesn't like it can just fuck off and die.

It would be sheer justice if a bunch of shrimpers got hold of this Prescott character, hogtied him and threw him in a shrimp net for a dip in the cesspool he and his cohorts have created sown there.

[TheWatcher]

62. It's not just having so sense of Community, it's having no sense of HUMANITY as well.

They have complete contempt for everyone and everything outside of their little Bubble World.

Have they given NO thought as to what could happen if this couldn't be stopped?

Someone should grab this Sociopath by the back of the head, slam it into the wall a couple of times, and try to shake lose some simple logic into the vast air pocket between his ears where there should be gray matter:

If the Oceans Die, YOU DIE TOO, ASSHOLE.

[guitar man]

63. Exactly

but that never crosses their minds, all they ever think of is "how many dollars can we make today, right now!!" and their right wing propaganda machine runs 24/7 trying to convince people that that is a noble way of thinking. Unbelievable! :grr:

[LynneSin]

45. 'Teh Stupid' burns strong in that one

It's not about where you can get your shrimp it's about the fact taht there are people whose living is based on catching those shrimp in Louisianna.

[Starry Messenger]

46. Video posted by kpete

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x469435

Louisiana Fishermen: "How Are We Going To Live"

Hugh Depland sez, let them eat oil. :(

[Bluebear]

55. 'let them eat oil.' says it.

[Starry Messenger]

59. More accurately put in the mouth of Prescott

I need to have coffee before reading and posting. The rest of it works though.

[DFW]

47. Cute. And China isn't the only country with the death penalty, either.

Maybe someone should try that analogy on him the next time he visits Louisiana.

[TheKentuckian]

49. We can trust BP to repair every bit of damage and make the people whole

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[tango-tee]

50. Doesn't that just make you want to kick that sorry sack of shit in the teeth?

Hey, bluebear... I feel so worn out. Sad, tired, disgusted, angry, full of hope one minute, hopeless the next.

Still :hug:

[Withywindle]

51. That's the mentality they have, right there!

Oops, we destroyed an ecosystem and a way of life. Oh well. The earth is big. There's always more somewhere else (for us to destroy).

Shortsighted, sociopathic, and greedy. I hate them.

[TheWatcher]

52. Another Executive in dire need of a Private Security Detail.

One of these days, contempt is going to have serious consequences.

Sleep well, Prescott.

And don't walk the streets of Louisiana alone.

Then again, please do.

People need a grisly headline they can smile about.

:grr:

[old mark]

56. Really want to beat that man senseless. What an offensive, totally shitty thing to say.

the rich really are different - sociopathic bastards.

Can we take over the energy companies now?


mark

[inna]

58. I want BP to go out of business and suffer the consequences of their criminal actions.

Unfortunately, it is extremely unlikely that that is going to happen.

[icee]

69. I can't say whay I want to do. They have to be dealt with.

[defendandprotect]

76. +1000% --

[Dont TS Me Brah]

61. arrest the executives, seize their assets. Make this all right. nt

[kestrel91316]

64. That's the "let them eat cake" argument.

[burnsei sensei]

65. I've heard that some people who have

traditionally made their living from the waters of the Mississippi & Gulf of Mexico are contemplating suicide.

Quote:
In the words of fellow BP rep Randy Prescott: “Louisiana isn’t the only place that has shrimp.”
end quote.

This is a dreadful, insensitive thing to say.

[icee]

66. This dude has to be dealth with harshly. No more buying gas

or any products from BP.

[felinetta]

67. BP rep Randy Prescott: You son of a bitch. I now know what satan looks like - BP exec,

I now know what Satan looks like.Randy Prescott: You son of a
bitch.

[icee]

68. Dupe

[earth mom]

71. And these are the type of fuckers that have been charge for weeks now!

:grr:

[Chef Eric]

72. BOYCOTT. nt

[Swamp Rat]

73. Sounds like a death wish. eom

[defendandprotect]

75. You're got it--!!! Capitalism is suicidal --

:)

[defendandprotect]

74. This is the reckless, dismissive, exploitive attitude of capitalism . . ..which we should dump--!!

The core of capitalism is exploitation of nature -- to continue with it is to

ensure an unlivable planet -- not only for our futures, our children -- but it's happening

right now!

This is ignorance -- "know-nothingness" -- and it's been guiding our economy/domestic affairs

unregulated, for decades now.

Unregulated capitalism is merely organized crime.

[charlesg]

77. This should be a newspaper headline

[BrklynLiberal]

78. Use that ugly bastard's fat ass to help plug the hole.

[DirtyDawg]

81. These BP guys keep it up....

...and they're gonna find out about those 'other places'...I've got some Coonass relatives down that way that know how to 'settle a score'. The only thing they like better than fishin', and drinkin', and eatin', is huntin' and they can shoot the eyes out of 'em boys. So watch yoself BP you'll soon find out that there are parts of the Atchafalaya Basin where your ass will never again be heard from.

[Divine Discontent]

82. man, they're SICK....

[bahrbearian]

83. Did he just Threaten the other places that have shrimp?

"We"ll take care of them as soon as we finish off the Gulf of Cheney"

[Flora]

84. BP staged clean-up workers

for President Obama's visit. Several hundred workers were bused in for "show" and then they vanished as soon as the President left. I am furious!!

article at http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/bp_ships_in_clean-up_crews_to.html

[Jeffersons Ghost]

85. K&R

[inna]

87. Sign the petition to STOP the BP Bailout:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8439038

[Bluebear]

90. done

[Shining Jack]

91. Done.

[Petrushka]

88. Too late to Rec . . . but . . .

:kick:

Thanks for the link!

[Ramulux]

95. So fucked up

BP needs to basically end their company as it exists now, pay out the stockholders, and take the entirety of the capital it has and begin giving it out to all the workers in the gulf whose jobs have been lost to this disaster. It amazes and disgusts to me to think about how many people's lives have been absolutely fucked over and the fact that most of them will never see any sort of compensation from the people who are DIRECTLY responsible for ruining their lives.

$236 billion should be able to help out a lot of people down there for a long time.