Dear President Obama,
We write this letter concerning the worst man-made, and ongoing, environmental catastrophe of the modern era, and perhaps the worst calamity the entire hemisphere has ever seen.
We are truly perplexed why the US Federal Government has not taken complete command and control of the disaster area known as the Gulf of Mexico. It is, after all, full of oil and dispersants and corpses of every sort and kind. A foreign multi-national corporation (BP) was allowed to conduct the most risky and highly experimental deep-sea drilling for oil and gas without proper permits, federal oversight and regulatory regime that would have prevented this avoidable event.
We wonder out loud why the US Government has not declared this a federal disaster area. Yes, we hear that only natural disaster areas can be declared as such, but this is the worst environmental disaster in US history. Please, President Obama, declare the Gulf of Mexico a disaster area, so that the concerned Gulf States can receive the necessary federal aid to protect themselves from the Black Wave that is around the corner. To stand by and watch this tragedy of epic proportions unfold without taking decisive presidential action is completely unacceptable.
We all know the facts surrounding this event. (i) That BP was given the green light to conduct extremely dangerous drilling techniques in order to supply the fuel necessary to run the US military. (ii) That the Military-Industrial Complex empowered BP, as it has other US Oil & Gas Companies, to drill and drain every reservoir of oil and gas discovered in the Gulf of Mexico. (iii) That the Departments of Interior, Energy, Homeland Security and EPA collaborated at the very highest levels of government to see to it that federal laws, state statutes and departmental rules and regulations were conveniently suspended or broken in order to facilitate this oil and gas exploration and extraction. Basically, we are stating that treason was committed against these United States of America by the very entities that are tasked to protect it.
Our own estimates, confirmed by the OSATF, indicate that much more oil has gushed, and is gushing, into the Gulf than BP has admitted to. And yet they are allowed to control what is essentially a crime scene, even so far as to dictate on behalf of the Unified Command Structure that was created by the US Federal Government to respond to this regional, soon to be national, crisis. The national media, the affected Gulf States, the people in the water and on the ground have all recounted story after story of how BP has simply betrayed the American people in the most profound and fundamental ways, and yet we see a continuation of an utterly failed policy.
So, what are we now requesting? As follows:
I. That the US Federal Government take immediate and complete command and control of the gushing well, and set about the process of capping this well permanently. Likewise, that the US Federal Government take complete control over the entire Gulf of Mexico where it concerns the remediation of its waters, beaches, wetlands, marshes, estuaries, etc.
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