“The Oil Belongs to Us, Not British Petroleum: Let the Revolution Begin Here”

Your Daily Dose of BuzzFlash, by way of Mark Karlin:

In a disgraceful, deferential manner, the White House has let British Petroleum be in charge of the disaster clean up of its own making, just as the White House let Wall Street “deal with” the crash of the American economy that the river boat gamblers in Manhattan created.

But the oil is ours, and British Petroleum has no more right to be overseeing the ruin it has caused than Wall Street had in cleaning up an economic casino implosion of its own making.

It is way past time that we stop bowing to the mantra of property rights over the rights of people. British Petroleum is making hundreds of billions of dollars off of oil that belongs to the people of the earth, not to a corporation that is above the law and is a predatory profiteer and polluter.   [...]

It’s odd that Christians have played such a strong role in promoting the privatizing of natural resources that they believe a God created for men and women. [...]

These are not revolutionary words; they are common sense.  [...]

It is time for rebellion against the tyranny of corporate personhood which takes away livelihoods, destroys fish and fowl, savages our beaches and waterways and pollutes our drinking water.

It is time to return the control of oil and other natural resources to “we the people.”

It is time to investigate and charge the executives at BP, not treat them on bended knee as the White House is doing.

It is time to cancel contracts with all oil companies and renegotiate them so that the oil belongs to the people of sovereign nations and not to the oil companies.

You can read the whole thing here.