BP Oil Spill - "Sir, YOU CAN NOT INTERVIEW THE WORKERS!" Are you Afraid, Intimidated?

[wundermaus]

Run time: 03:21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQj2bk0cY9I   Posted on YouTube: June 14, 2010 By YouTube Member: elementalgadgets Views on YouTube: 4503   Posted on DU: June 29, 2010 By DU Member: wundermaus Views on DU: 646

 

[Catherina]

1. In which third world country did that take place? Nigeria? n/t

[Rhiannon12866]

2. K&R. This is becoming ridiculous...

x(

[FedUpWithIt All]

3. It's just creepy. I have a really bad feeling about all of the secrecy.

A really bad feeling...

[Catherina]

4. Me too. But it's anger too. Where is our government? Our agencies? Our police? n/t

[Triana]

5. My question exactly.

:wtf:

[emilyg]

6. +10

Indeed, where are they?

[Goldstein1984]

7. I was just down in the Gulf on spill-relate business

Even if BP is not controlling information flow, and I believe they are still the primary party controlling what the public hears, contractors discourage their employees from speaking openly out of fear of losing very lucrative contracts.

Many managers working on this spill are earning $1000+ per day. Two or three times what they normally make. There is too much money in play for anyone to threaten the goose laying the golden eggs.

Hint: If you want to find out what is really going on in the Gulf, speak with low-level government employees working on the spill response. They aren't making the big bucks, they aren't dependent on BP for their incomes, and the ones I spoke with are reaching their breaking points regarding how badly this spill response is being managed by both BP and the Feds. Especially those working on fisheries and wildlife response.

[MineralMan]

8. Is this the only video of such an incident?

The video was posted on YouTube two weeks ago, and has been posted and reposted here many times. The reason I ask is that you'd think that with TV news crews all over the place down there, there would be lots of these videos if this was a common event.

I haven't seen any others, though. What does that mean? I think it means that this was an isolated incident, with some rent-a-cop overstepping his authority.

So, show me some other videos of similar things happening. All of the stories I've read are of this particular incident.

I'm not saying it isn't happening, but I don't see the other videos...just this one, posted over and over again.

[wundermaus]

9. Agreed, only one or two such posts in the last two weeks

Speaks volumes about the news blackout imposed on the cleanup workers and the media.
The sounds of silence has become the national anthem of the gulf coast region.
It's what we don't hear... that should alarm us all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B78safrcQo4 - Oil cleanup crews refuse to talk to press. BP denies ordering them not to talk

[FedUpWithIt All]

10. There was a G4TV report on here a few days ago and that reporter was told the same thing

He said that he was told by the BP workers that they are not permitted to speak to him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EHCAqY4iHI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgxvjSZAOs0

[GOTV]

11. I wonder if Obama could have any infuence on media access?

... or is the president subordinate to corporations.