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by Glynn Wilson
GULF SHORES, Ala. — There is so much beauty in the world, even amongst the ruins of the BP Oil Gusher of 2010.
There’s a video, a photo essay and story in the works for Thursday.
Meanwhile, the frogs are singing their love songs outside in the swamp, makin’ that frog love, baby.
But that’s a few miles north of the renamed Gulf of BP.
It has come to my sensory attention that the watchword at BP headquarters must be a borrowed Colin Powell line. A quote from the first four Bush years.
“You break it, you own it…”
You remember Iraq.
BP thinks, because they broke the Gulf, they now own it.
That’s where you come in…
With any luck, the American people will see through it — help us break the back of this corporate empire, with a little help from independent Mobile Journalism (MoJo) and citizen activism.
Make no mistake. That is what it takes to make democracy work.
A well funded Web Press is essential to the economic, environmental and Constitutional survival of the United States of America.
Some like to say, “Freedom isn’t free,” or better yet, “Freedom ain’t free…”
We say, “the free press ain’t free neither,” to call up the literary spirit of Huckleberry Finn.
Amen, Aunt Polliana.
© 2010, Glynn Wilson. All rights reserved. The Locust Fork News-Journal, LocustFork.Net
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It was Jefferson, I believe, who said that given the choice between a government with no newspapers or newspapers with no government, he would unhesitatingly choose the latter.
His point was that freedom of communication makes all the difference in whether there is a truly free society. Without that freedom, it is far easier to control everything and everyone.
For decades now both the government and large corporations have been attempting to control access to information, people and events, to try to scuttle media freedom and guarantee outcomes favorable to various vested interests.
BP’s transgression is so large and egregious that it is impossible to cover up, so they’re trying everything from the absurdly comic (visit BP’s “news” website) to authoritarian, such as strong-arming media attempting to report from “sensitive” areas on the beach and Gulf.
It will not work, and we have, among others, Locust Fork and Glynn Wilson to thank for that.
Right on, Yana.
Perhaps, after this oil mess has cleared up, we ought to simply nationalize BP, fire everyone in the company responsible, and assume ownership. BP has treated the US the way they treated Saudi Arabia in 1916.
If it was up to me, I would nationalize all energy production in the U.S.. It belongs to the American people, not rich corporate executives in foreign countries or their bankers and investors.