I am watching Chris Matthews on MSNBC discussing Dick Cheney’s secret meetings with the oil companies, the accommodations for those companies, including Cheney’s Haliburton. It’s becoming more and more apparent that the companies doing the drilling took short cuts, did not have enough safety measures in place, and did not follow safety managerment procedures that are well known in the industry.
This was no accident. I believe that it was an inevitable consequence of greed. It is also a consequence of electing George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. They were oil men. These men were elected as part of an oil economy and maintained that policy throughout their administration. They did not serve the American public, they served the interests of the oil companies — and yes, Dick Cheney earned 24 million dollars from these machinations.
I wish we had the courage to investigate, prosecute, and administer retribution.
Today, in response to an essay, BP – Too Big to Lose, at http://mariopiperni.com/environment/bp-too-big-to-lose.phpI, I wrote and posted another short poem on the consequence of this oil spill. Here is what I wrote, with a bit of revision:
Writhing slimey slick snakes of oil
Around the Gulf of Greed now crawl
What we sought will consume us all.
What we sought was venerated
Our pristine world penetrated,
Virgin bodies violated,
Writhing slimey slick snakes of oil.
Around the Gulf of Greed now crawl
What we sought will consume us all.
What we sought was venerated
Our pristine world penetrated,
Virgin bodies violated,
Writhing slimey slick snakes of oil.
Citizen Poet 