Posted on 05/22/2010 11:41:42 PM PDT by balch3
Nagin has nothing to do with Jefferson Parish. Grand Isle is not New Orleans.
Oh, please, shove your pios hypocrisy.
Capitalism and property go right out the window when YOUR interests or sympathies are involved? "The boats are idle so someone's" gonna use them?
Hey, your car is just SITTING there in your driveway, and I really, really want to go somewhere, so I'll just take it.
As for your friend's email--is he/she trying to say BP is just TAKING people's private vessels? Isn't that called stealing, and who would let someone from BP just TAKE their property?
Sorry, no "capitalism and private property when I feel like it" aka community property.
BP = Beyond Pollution? Beach Pollution? Blow-out Preventers? Bayou Polluters?
Could it be those boats were there to measure damage? I'm just askin'.
Did Jefferson Parish do anything about the oil after they "commandeered" BP's boats?
Government by the force of law or other legal or extralegal authority could commandeer. Citizens by threats of some sort of harm could commandeer.
I'm not saying that BP hired vessels are being used efficiently or not and have zero knowledge on this. But I do believe the descriptions on BP commandeering boats is wildly inaccurate.
She didn’t “misspeak.” It was obviously a casual turn of phrase. The point being that the people on Grand Isle are NOT anti-capitalist, in response to some keyboard commandos who were knee-jerking their way to that conclusion.
If oil is washing up on the shore with idle BP boats sitting around that could be used to contain this mess, I say take 'em and get cleaning. When they're done doing the job BP and/or Obama's FEMA should be doing, they can return the boats to BP.
I don't see that this has anything to do with capitalism or communism.
These are hired/contracted boats to work for BP, they have commandeered private property.
If the boats were idle & can be used by JP to clean up some of the oil, that's just fine with me.
I am outraged by 2 things:
1. The oil is coming ashore & I don't see a lot of effort to clean it up by either BP or Obama.
2. This is a disaster for the Gulf Coast & the nation, yet Obama seems content blame BP & say that BP will do the cleanup. BP is not big enough to do the job. Obama has a responsibility to protect this nation, therefore he should have mobilized a “navy” to deal with this emergency. He hasn't!
Right, the Emergency Managers took the boats that weren't being used to clean the oil. If this were in your backyard, same scenario, would you sit and do nothing or get busy cleaning it up with the idle boats?
From what I understand, BP and FEMA should have been doing the job the people of Jefferson Parish are now doing. Evidently they reached a point where they got tired of waiting for govco to do something, said enough already and got to work.
The boats can go back when it's cleaned up and hopefully what they've done will save a lot of jobs, family incomes etc. Far better than if they sat back did nothing and then asked the gov to support them for the next 5 or 10 years.
Exactly right. O is probably trying to figure out how to blame this on Bush. Or maybe he as already and I missed it.
Thanks for verifying that is was a turn of phrase that lead to a misspeaking.
As to the rest, you have no clue what you’re talking about.
Apparently the Parish maybe taking use of some of these vessels. I don’t know if they are ones that signed up and were sitting idle or not but a possiblility.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
Issued by: Patricia Borne
Public Information Officer
“Provide the services, leadership, and vision to improve the quality of life in Jefferson Parish.”
Steve J. Theriot
Parish President
April 29, 2010
Local Vessel Owners Can Assist In CleanUp
The British Petroleum (BP) Corporation has announced a Vessel of Opportunity Program for commercial fishermen who are interested in assisting in the cleanup efforts resulting from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig.
Any fishermen, with a vessel, who wants to assist in the BP program can sign up at the Jean Lafitte Town Hall, 2654 Jean Lafitte Boulevard in Lafitte or the Grand Isle Town Hall, 180 Ludwig in Grand Isle. Vessels owners will need to provide information about their vessel: name of owner and contact information, length of vessel, its draft, horsepower and type. Fishermen and vessels that meet the criteria will be trained by coordinators of the BP program.
The response to this event is a federal responsibility and is being managed by the Coast Guard and the BP response team.
Jefferson Parish Emergency Management is in contact with the Coast Guard and State Officials and is receiving updates regularly. Jefferson Parish officials are closely monitoring the conditions surrounding the oil spill and are working with the state and federal government to insure that everything possible will be done to protect the coast line and environmentally sensitive areas in the Barataria Basin.
### Jefferson
Have you seen pictures of the thick oil on the Grand Isle beach? I have. If those boats are idle, then someone is going to use them to try to mitigate the damage.
It’s got nothing at all to do with hating capitalism for these people. In fact, they’re trying to protect their own capitalist interests.
Oh, and, according to a friend who is down there, “We are still able to fish our local waters so the whole gulf coast is looking to us to supply them. Theoretically that would be great,but BP has commandeered many of the vessels.” (from an email the other day.)
So don’t be too quick to judge these people from your keyboard
Thank you for mentioning this.
I doubt that any of those critical of those in JP who took the BP boats...would be willing to go down there and call those JP folks “socialists”. Not a good idea...especially if you want to leave that part of Louisiana alive
I would not be surprised that BP has been in doings with the Obama Admin....both are Liberal Globalists. Remember that also BP is a FOREIGN company who is not going to concern themselves with damage to American coastlines from a blown well in international waters
Problem is, with too many Liberal Globalists....you get too many who will defend a NON-AMERICAN COMPANY over Americans who want to do something about the damage from a NON-AMERICAN COMPANY
A little more:
He says dozens of boats equipped with skimming devices were just sitting. Idle in the water, waiting on instructions from BP.
Councilman Roberts says in addition to using skimmers, local people will also lay boom in the inland waters, where it’s not so rough.
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http://www.wdsu.com/news/23646158/detail.html
BP has more than 40 boats sitting behind the island, waiting idly as oil rushed into the passes headed toward the Barataria estuaries, Roberts said.
Parish officials took an air tour of the area Saturday afternoon and snapped photos of the boats.
The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office will escort the boats to the Bays, where Roberts said they should have been for days.......
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“8 replies and no one questions BP’s boats being idle?”
It could be that many of us do not know what a BP is; and by now, I am not interested anymore.
BP is “hiring” essentally every local boat that comes forward - as a means of directly and immediately compensating any and all shimpers, osytermen, etc that might otherwise be idle
How many boats will get, “lost” in the confusion?
bozo will never be blamed because of the media .
look at Nashville under water, where was the outrage?
There was none because the media hardly covered it and never asked where bozo was on this
bozo is too blame but also so is the media and I will never forget how corrupt they have been ever since their messiah came onto the scene.
They never vetted him, they still cover for him even when he refuses to answer questions.
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