Criminal Negligence in the Oil Field

I have to wonder if anyone on the planet actually believes that the thousands of barrels of oil per day that spill into the Gulf of Mexico are anything more than a scheme to increase the value of oil while creating work for thousands of unemployed Americans. I am actually starting to wonder if BP execs didn't engineer the "accident" in he first place. It would not be the first time a large company broke the law and ignored morals in order to turn a profit.

Where were the inspectors who are supposed to ensure that safety mechanisms exist in the event of a failure? Where was the government regulation that was supposed to prevent this kind of disaster in the first place. Where is the political will to enforce a fix and clean up? Why are we now 45 days into he worst ecological disaster in written history without any sign of repair or responsibility?

Why is it that a couple of farmers can come up with an almost free clean up scheme [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6_LU4zHlSE] while BP, who is at least partly responsibe and is one of the largest corporations in the world chooses to spend $50 Million on TV advertising to basically say "it's not our fault". In fact, there are a large volume of suggestions to fix this mess that are going largely ignored. It amazes me that the US Army core of engineers has not been engaged to seal the leak. Leaving the clean up responsibility in the hands of the idiots who caused the problem in the first place is insane. If the US government will not step in and take action then perhaps the UN needs to engage their peace keeping forces and their associated engineering cores to solve this problem at any cost and them bill it all back to BP and Transocean.

Once we finally clean up this mess, Transocean and British Petroleum should both be held criminally responsible. Yes, I said criminally responsible. The damage this has and will cause to the life-forms that depend on the Gulf of Mexico for survival, including humans, is staggering. Their inability to protect the environment that surrounds their drill-site absolutely must be punished not only in painful financial damages, but in prison terms. If the US government will not demand it, then we and citizens of Earth must do so. If this kind of business over humanity thinking continues, our civilization will be lost forever.

You may think that sounds overly dramatic, but history tells us otherwise. Greed makes men wealthy while destroying the planet we rely on for survival. This kind of environmental impact can only have devastating effects on us as a society of people, and where will the perpetrators be when we are looking for new resources to feed ourselves years from now?

It's time for people to take a stand against corporations who recklessly endanger our lives by poisoning the environment with their waste and accidental fallout. Entire species face extinction because some corporate executive chose not to spend the money to fix a safety mechanism.

What an incredibly sad commentary on what 21st century man has become.