Distraught Gulf Shrimper Arrested for Pouring Oil on Herself

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Distraught Gulf Shrimper Arrested for Pouring Oil on Herself in Senate Energy Hearing Protesting Senator Murkowski's Refusal to Make BP Pay

WASHINGTON - June 9 - Diane Wilson, a fourth generation shrimper from the Gulf, poured oil on herself at today's Senate Energy Committee hearing to protest Senator Lisa Murkowski's refusal to make BP pay for the disaster that has devastating Wilson's shrimping community. Republican Lisa Murkowski, ranking member of the Senate Energy Committee, blocked the bill that would have lifted the oil companies' liability cap (the Big Oil Bailout Prevention Act). Wilson was removed from the hearing and arrested.

Wilson traveled from Texas, where her livelihood and those of her fellow shrimpers has been ruined. She had this to say, "My name is Diane Wilson. I am a fourth generation shrimper from the Gulf. With this BP disaster, I am seeing the destruction of my community and I am outraged. I am also seeing elected representatives like Senator Lisa Murkowski blocking BP from being legally responsible to pay for this catastrophe. She stopped the Big Oil Bailout Prevention Act and wants to keep the liability cap at a pitiful $75 million. This is outrageous. How dare she side with big oil over the American people who have been so devastated by this manmade disaster."

"We want people to call Senator Murkowski's office and tell her to stop supporting big oil and support a healthy environment and American livelihoods instead," said CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin, who was with Wilson at the hearing. "Our members from across the country have sent Murkowski thousands of emails already. We also want the Senator to call for Diane Wilson to be exonerated. BP CEO Tony Hayward should be in jail, not a distraught shrimper!"

con't - http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/09-1

[Occulus]

1. "Republican Lisa Murkowski, ranking member of the Senate Energy Committee, blocked the bill"

Describe her in one word.

[kas125]

3. Evil? Owned? Senseless? Traitor? (to the people she's

supposed to represent) I can think of a few more one word descriptions of her, but they're not spoken in polite company.

[era veteran]

5. tool

[Bluenorthwest]

7. Republican

That says it all.

[ladywnch]

8. can't do it in one, but , "chip off the ol' block", or "daddy's corrupt little girl"

, "the rotten apple doesn't fall far from the diseased tree".

I bet she is sweating whether or not BP will still have enough money to buy her seat for her again next time around.

These people have been little more than modern day carpet baggers who have stuffed their pockets full while claiming to be acting in the best interests of state and it's people. I long for the day when there isn't a Murkowski, a Young or a Stevens in Alaskan government. Maybe then they can move forward.

[paparush]

9. assmunchingmegacorporatewhore nt

[Angry Dragon]

2. Traitors and Treason

Any elected official that does not work for the benefit of the people is a traitor and should be tried for treason.

We the people are the government and they just work for us. If they are working for corporations then they are traitors.

[Scuba]

4. Pour a cup of oil on your head, get arrested....

...pour 100 million gallons of oil in the gulf, get a dividend.

[FailureToCommunicate]

6. +1