reply to post by Ektar
You made perfect sense. There are days that I sit here for hours, reading, watching, questioning, as I try to find some logic in what's before my
eyes. This is all alien ground for me. ( Sorry...couldn't resist. ) So when a tid bit is tossed in my direction I tear it apart looking for the
answer to what I've just been given.
Unless BP has some sort of weird psych eval to find the most morally bankrupt people on the planet, there has to be people on the inside with a
conscience. We can't expect folks to give up their jobs & we don't want them to give up their jobs. Speaking for myself I want them to stay under
BPs radar & keep tossing a detail or two in my direction. Without people like that where would we be now?
So, I must amend my statement about BP personnel lying. It's those in power that can't be trusted. And not all of those in power are on BPs
payroll. Many are on ours, although they seem to forget that. I'm not talking about just one person, I'm talking about the whole system.
Eleven men died out there & others were injured, due to the negligence & greed. At minimum that's manslaughter, but it's gotten lost in the shadow
of this disaster & the mass chaos that followed. Why haven't we heard more about the families who lost a man that day? I would want them to be
given the respect & privacy they deserve, of course, but there isn't one of them willing to speak up now? I know one man has spoken up, because he
lived to tell the tale, but where are the others? Maybe the survivors have already hired attorneys & have been told not to say anything. Or maybe BP
wrote some big checks?
I don't think those 11 deaths are the end of it. Over the next decade, I believe, many more will die as a result of that negligence & greed. In fact
I fear for the safety of the entire Gulf region. By extension, & weather patterns, even those of us living to the north & east are at risk.
And then there are those eruptions. I can't decide it they are natural to the area, or did BP trigger it by drilling into it? Why is there so much
activity around a dead well? Why are those cameras focused on areas erupting & why doesn't some one answer the damned questions?
And so, we band together here digging for truth...trying to find a few answers working with the only tools we've got...ROVs, people who do have
experience, and our own determination. I'm hoping we can find answers before Hells Pit decides to take on the entire hemisphere.
How's that for a rant?