From the Ground: BP Censoring Media, Destroying Evidence

[kpete]

Source: Huffington Post

...... BP is using federal agencies to shield itself from public accountability.

For example, while flying on a small plane from New Orleans to Orange Beach, the pilot suddenly exclaimed, "Look at that!" The thin red line marking the federal flight restrictions of 3,000 feet over the oiled Gulf region had just jumped to include the coastal barrier islands off Alabama.

"There's only one reason for that," the pilot said. "BP doesn't want the media taking pictures of oil on the beaches. You should see the oil that's about six miles off the coast," he said grimly. We looked down at the wavy orange boom surrounding the islands below us. The pilot shook his head. "There's no way those booms are going to stop what's offshore from hitting those beaches."

BP knows this as well -- boom can only deflect oil under the calmest of sea conditions, not barricade it -- so they have stepped up their already aggressive effort to control what the public sees.

.............

With oil undisputedly hitting the beaches and the number of dead wildlife mounting, BP is switching tactics. In Orange Beach, people told me BP wouldn't let them collect carcasses. Instead, the company was raking up carcasses of oiled seabirds. "The heads separate from the bodies," one upset resident told me. "There's no way those birds are going to be autopsied. BP is destroying evidence!"

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/riki-ott/from-the-ground-bp-censor_b_608724.html

[woodsprite]

1. Probably to suppress talk about what Corexit and petroleum fumes do to the brain. n/t

[northernlights]

12. more likely to avoid penalties

They have to pay $$ for every killed animal of specific species.

[stubtoe]

2. Why is this being allowed to happen?

I don't understand. BP does not own the airspace over the gulf.

[freespeechtv]

3. BP doesn't own the Gulf or the shoreline...the American people do!

WTF?! Here's another example of why granting corporations "personhood" in the Citizens United case was a bad, bad move. Our democracy is under attack!

[flyarm]

13. not anymore..it has all been turned over to BP..just ask those of us who live on the Gulf..

we have learned the hard way...

why do you think we are all so pissed??

[chowder66]

26. Help me understand....

I keep reading and hearing about how B.P. is blocking everything and everyone they can. But how? What if a citizen walks down with a video camera and starts recording. What are they doing to them? How do they remove them?

What if a hundred people do this. What will they do? What if a media crew records these 100 people instead I wonder? Are they physically removing them or threatening them? The citizens didn't sign anything with B.P. Man, I wish I lived down there. I would really want to see what the hell is going on and record it.


I'm baffled. (I also probably need to do some digging of my own to find out what B.P. is doing to obstruct).

[JoeyT]

28. What would happen

is the coast guard and police would tell them, in no uncertain terms, to fuck off.
If they didn't they'd probably get shot. And I'd be willing to bet someone on here would defend it.

[superconnected]

4. ent lies andbwahahahahhahah oil Giant destroys environment and tries to cover it up.

The sky is blue and water is wet, now back to anti-global warming propaganda... BTW, natural gas is clean and safe for the environment and so are nuclear power plants and the micro particles they emit. I know this because the giant power companies and oil companies told me so.

[wordpix]

5. yes we know BP is trying to hide evidence BUT this catastrophe is too big

so they are complete fools to think they can pull this off.

[flyarm]

14. they have pulled it off for 53 days..with the blessing of our government!

[IScreamSundays]

6. Can someone please tell me why this was moved to GD from LBN?

Seems to be breaking news, is it not?

[ProgressiveProfessor]

9. Because discussion on this topic have been going on for more than a week?

[flyarm]

15. because supression of truth is easy these days???????

[ProgressiveProfessor]

17. How is the moving from LBN to GD suppression of truth?

That was the question...

[dgibby]

7. I can understand why BP wants to hide this,

but what troubles me most, that despite the rhetoric to the contrary, the Govt is allowing this to continue.

Anderson Cooper's report last night on suppression of the press was, to say the least, chilling.

You know things are really getting grim when the corporately owned Media starts complaining about their overlords.

[flamingdem]

8. +1 CNN is looking positively progressive! nt

[flyarm]

16. Badda bing!! ..you win the prize!! eom

[Catherina]

29. Anderson Cooper

simply rocks

[nashville_brook]

10. k n r

[Cetacea]

11. Media blackout on dolphins, whales, and manatee

I've heard mention of them three times in literally thousands of reports.

[flyarm]

19. oh it's worse than that..they are hiding the dead ones and it is like a military state secret..

it's like top secret shit going on hiding the dead dolphin and manatee and whales..a friend of mine in the Military in Fla told me it is a major cover up of the dead dolphin, manatee and whales.

It is an utter disgrace how this government of ours is hiding the truth!

[Cetacea]

20. Thank you. n/t

[blindpig]

18. Kill Capitalism

[Spheric]

21. K&R /nt

[HCE SuiGeneris]

22. Kick

and recommended.

It's a very sad reflection of our inability to govern our own democracy when BP continues to be allowed to "run the show".

[Cetacea]

23. KIck

[BelgianMadCow]

24. I am bookmarking all of the censoring threads

thank you for this one.

It really is digusting, maddening and sickening.

In a couple of years, people will dispute there was a coverup.

[Maiden England]

25. Commercial flight restrictions are so observation flights are clear to operate

My husbands company is maxed out of helicopters flying people along the beaches looking for oil, animals affected etc. The flights are carrying observers from environmental groups, press, as well as BP officials. The FAA is putting restrictions on commercial flights to allow the flights involved in the cleanup to operate safely.

BP deserves a lot of criticism for things that have been done, but getting the FAA involved in helping them cover up oily beaches is not one of them.

[Laelth]

34. Thanks for posting against the prevailing winds.

I come here for the truth. When I see wrongdoing, I do not fear pointing it out and condemning it, but I want to be sure that I am in the right when I do so.

:dem:

-Laelth

[Junkdrawer]

27. Yeah, but it's only to protect the poor pensioners...

Honest.

[deaniac21]

30. It's a race to see who can destroy more evidence, BP or the Obama administration.

[flyarm]

32. You have got that right 100%!! eom

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[Jeffersons Ghost]

33. K&R