commentsCOMMENT NOW!

Force BP Executives to Shovel Toxic Sludge

In response to

Abe Louise Young, The Nation
Posted on July 23, 2010, Printed on July 24, 2010
http://www.alternet.org/story/147620/

i have created a petition at Care2.

http://www.care2.com/my/petitionsite

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/make-BP-execs-shovel-toxic-sludge

→ Corporations and thus the elite have no accountability.

Corporations and thus the elite commit crimes and acts of terror

without fear of reprisal or justice, time and time again, but instead of any semblance of real accountability

and punishment, receive rewards and bail-outs while common Americans

the serfs and dead peasantry

suffer and die due to corporate actions and government inaction!

Therefore, after mounting evidence of flagrant violations by BP against humanity,

the earth, the Gulf Coast region, the poor and the under-privileged,

We the undersigned ask that the Administration

(represented by the people of these United States

(and NOT BP–not the shareholders, and NOT corporations united in deceit and silence)

to hold BP and any parties aiding and abetting BP responsible

for this deliberate act of violent greed, neglect, destruction

and disdain for law, earth, wildlife and humankind by:


~ forcing all BP executives to labor in the sun, shoveling

toxic sludge off the shores of America,

under the supervision and authority of independent local

fisherman, workers, and

wildlife management personnel–paid by BP to act as wardens in the clean-up.


~ The BP executives shall be forced to hard labor

a minimum of twelve hours day/six days a week

until the coastal waters are clean and deemed safe

by an ad hoc group of independent monitors

formed by ordinary citizens.


~ This citizen warden-patrol of local workers and fisherman

shall be paid by BP to supervise

and jail them in barred shipping containers–

“jails to go” as are the enslaved inmates, for the duration

of the clean-up for a minimum of 1- 2 years

or until the independent board deems the spill is over and

clean-up is fulfilled.


~ The said wardens, paid by BP, shall be paid

a minimum of twenty dollars an hour.


~ The BP executives will not be paid, but shall pay

the clean-up wardens, and pay for all the costs of clean-up and recovery,

while jailed in shipping containers.  This is a prison sentence.


~ We the undersigned believe this is justice where justice

is due in a world where the elite never pay

and the underclass always pays.


~ We the undersigned believe one should be

accountable for one’s crimes.  And this is a crime.


~ We the undersigned believe all corporate

criminals should pay for their crimes, and that

new green laws

should be enforced to make corporate criminals

and industrial criminals pay for  heinous acts of degradation and human suffering.

Please start drafting such laws now!

Current trends are not sustainable!


~ Make the BP executives shovel toxic sludge today

and everyday until relief is granted under fair

and balanced scrutiny

by local, regional, and global independent regulators.

This is one of the only fair solutions to the complex problems in the gulf.

Frankenstein Dragon teaches literature, contemporary literary theory, and writing in China. He is published in the literary anthology Concertina, read at University of East Anglia in the UK, and received a Master's in Creative Writing at UEA. He is writing a novel based on true events in US naval history. Frankenstein Dragon is an obscure reference to China, and especially the practice of Frankenforestation in China, the freakish environmental contamination of industry, the mutant food industry, and the tyrannical whimsy of government. He believes in direct-democracy. Democracy is not a spectator's sport. He believes business must be ethical, community-based, environmentally sustainable, and produce something aesthetic and functional nourishing the community that gives it life.
 
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