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[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

That's just a video about the incident. There was very little mention of Corexit.

Anyway, I know people have sued BP (etc.) because they were exposed to Corexit. It's fair to question whether its use was a good decision. Not to excuse or explain BP (I still don't buy their gasoline, and the deepwater drilling industry was and is full of pricks), but BP ordered as much as they could of a different, superior dispersant (Dispersit). No doubt they also had all the workboats they could find putting out booms. There are only so many booms and boats.

You have to weigh what happened, Corexit and all, against what would have happened had they done nothing to disperse that oil slick. On a macro scale, it's the decision between letting a bunch of dirty oil sit on your driveway vs. removing it with soap and water. You screwed up either way, but I'm choosing soap and water every time.

[–]troubleshooter[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

The poor animals that died from drinking oil and corexit.

Yeah.

http://twitter.com/juststop_oil

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Dude, I sympathize. I flip off suburban idiots in Land Rovers and Gelandewagens. But your premise is flawed. The property owners in this case were very diligent about staying within their rights and respecting those of others.

Getting an injunction against a specific form of protest at a specific place isn't "buying your own protest law." It's getting a court to clarify where the boundary between free speech and property rights lies.

That's an act of respect- "hey, we have people on our property but we need clarification that they don't have a free speech right to be there before we exercise our rights." You know, the rights property owners have against tresspassers in any sane society. Where I live that includes pointing a gun at them.

[–]troubleshooter[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Fuck property rights. Fuck rules. Fuck laws. But just don't hurt any person physically.

Fuck the traffic. Fuck everything.

The gloves are off.

Mister nice guy has left the room.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

But just don't hurt any person physically.

That kind of sounds like, you know... a law.

[–]troubleshooter[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh No, I am no lawyer, but I did serve six months and eight months in a county jail, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to listen to the other inmates and to figure out a few things...

1) to punch or kick or slap or bite is an assault crime.

2) if (1) involves using a weapon such as a gun or knife or baseball bat or even a tree branch stick, it increases the severity of the assault to what we refer to as an "aggravated assault", for which you will be in a lot of trouble and are gonna be in jail for a long time.

It is also against the law to verbally threaten to cause harm, even if you don't carry thru with the assault. This is called a terrorist threat.. A lot of people don't know that just speaking a threat can be a felony crime, and many people will make such threats in front of police, perhaps during a domestic violence or other matter where police are called on.

I stay on the straight and narrow today..

But there is one tiny tidbit of legal fancy footwork that is known to a few...

No body... No murder... In most cases.

Video: fleece Johnson - booty bandit

https://youtu.be/hMT1eeaSjLs