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| The most unloved heroes in America |
| 2010-05-25 |
| Tigerhawk understands. America does not. Oil continues to pour out of a hole in the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, and BP Plc is the latest corporate villain by dint of its ownership of the hole and its failure to plug it after more than a month of trying. Whether the company survives the disaster probably depends on whether it stops the oil before hurricane season gets in to full swing. Regardless, the executives and employees of BP are under siege, just trying to survive the present and worrying whether they have any future. There will be time to sort out culpability in some imperfect political or prosecutorial process. We will blame some of the right people, but it is a lot more probable than not that we will also blame some of the wrong people and omit to blame at least some person or institution that will escape the gauntlet of hearings and depositions. That spectacle will come as night follows day. In the last few days, however, I've been thinking about other people, the nameless men and women who will actually remediate this disaster. Somewhere within BP true heroes are working night and day to stop the gusher and clean up its consequences. These people -- everybody from petroleum engineers to the rough men and women who work in oil fields in the world's most challenging environments to the machinists and welders who labor around the clock to build the next solution -- are not, in the main, responsible for the disaster. They are responsible for ending it. They are not known to us as individuals. In the current climate, where liberal activists intimidate the families of corporate executives to gain leverage, they no doubt hope to remain anonymous. They are working around the clock, to the point of exhaustion, in conditions, both physical and emotional, more stressful than most American employees (including many who complain about all the stress they are under) can possibly comprehend. They will eventually solve this problem they did not create. At the moment of their success, which no doubt will come, these men and women will have prevented staggering incremental damage. Their only reward, though, will be relief and the satisfaction of a job well done. I respectfully submit that the anonymous employees of BP and its contractors who are devoting themselves to plugging the hole and cleaning up the oil are, perhaps, the most heroic people in America right now. I'm one American who is grateful for you, and wish you the strength and wisdom to finish the daunting task before you. |
| Posted by:Glenmore |
| #2 Darn straight... |
| Posted by: Ptah 2010-05-25 21:26 |
| #1 MSM-NET > the BP DEEPWATER HORIZON repor stood atop the SECOND LARGEST OIL DEPOSIT/FIELD IN THE WORLD. IOW, its an INTERNATIONALLLY IMPOR OIL FIELD HENCE A OWG-NWO = "GLOBAL/GLOBALIST" ISSUE. Sub-read, POLITICAL + ELECTORAL + GEOPOL ISSUE. Sub-sub-read, BETTER TO LET GUSH FOR MONTHS OR DECADES + LOSE MOST, IFF ALL, OF THE GLOBALLY-VITAL OIL IN RIGHTEOUS OWG-NWO ENVIRO CATACLYSM THAN TO BE HELD MORALLY, LEGALLY, OR $$$-PAYOUT NEGLIGENT OR RESPONSIBLE??? E,g. KAMALEN + COMET APHOPHIS > D *** NG IT, WE OWG POLS + PERTS CANNOT BE BLAMED FOR FAULTY MATH + SPACE DEFENSES BECUZ IT WAS OUR INTENTION ALL ALONG TO HAVE APOPHIS SLAM INTO + DESTROY THE MOON..........AND DON'T YOUSE EVER FORGET WHAT WE NEVER TOLD YOU! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-05-25 20:10 |