Reply #96: the immediate task at hand of "fixing the leak" is BP's, but overall disaster mgt should be federal

[ima_sinnic]

People's livelihoods have been destroyed--how is BP going to "help" them?
There is vast ecological damage that needs remediating--that is NOT BP's "expertise"
Who should be interfacing with the media? Why should BP have any say in who can photograph what on what beaches? BP is just a contractor--the beaches belong to the people.
Nobody's reassuring us that stringent safeguards and regulations are in the works--NOW--and that deep housecleaning is going on at MMS. Nobody's firing Salazar for even the appearance of corruption, conflict of interest, and incompetence.

I mean, hello, all it took for Van Jones to "resign" was a signature on a petition calling for impeachment of Bush or something -- the "scandal" that "diverted attention" from "more important things" or some crap. I couldn't believe how quickly Van Jones "resigned" for virtually nothing.

Yet the scandal of a corrupt MMS in the face of a disaster of this magnitude doesn't even earn a "stern rebuke"? WHY THE FUCK NOT?

So fuck whoever's "in charge." Because until that SOB Salazar is fired and things brought out in the open, including a total shakedown of MMS, the obsession with "drilling permits" chilled until REGULATION and SAFEGUARDS are in place, and remediation/compensation for ruined lives made available, whoever's "in charge" isn't doing SHIT.