Oil covered seabirds - do not click if you do not want to be horrified and horribly saddened

[swag]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/caught_in_the_oil.html

AP Photographer Charlie Riedel just filed the following images of seabirds caught in the oil slick on a beach on Louisiana's East Grand Terre Island. As BP engineers continue their efforts to cap the underwater flow of oil, landfall is becoming more frequent, and the effects more evident.

[Upton]

1. Damn..

Those pictures are so bad I'm at a loss for words. What have we done?

[Mojambo]

2. I want to print those photos out and have them stapled to Sarah Palin's face. n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

31. Please

use a separate staple for each one :)

[CoffeeCat]

33. and please...

...use rusty staples.

[cascadiance]

40. with some BP oil on them to help them go in with the rust!

[tex-wyo-dem]

34. I want to take some of these poor dead bird bodies...

And place them under the sheets at the foot of the bed of every BP exec and dick chainee so they have these horrible images to wake up to...a warning, so to speak...al la Godfather.

May they have never ending nightmares of what they have done to this world.

Fucking bastards!

[hlthe2b]

3. Does anyone want to be horrified and horribly saddened?

I think we have a responsibility to see and bear witness to the utter and irredeemable destruction committed in our name. :cry:

[Catherina]

19. Yes. We. Do. n/t

[hlthe2b]

27. If you" want" to feel that way

well, I find that very difficult to understand.
I feel a responsibility to witness and to ensure others know what happened, but I certainly take no satisfaction from it...:shrug:

[Catherina]

29. I was agreeing with you hlthe2b, that we have a responsibility to n/t

[hlthe2b]

30. Oh... thanks for clarifying...

I was very confused. ;)

[alstephenson]

4. Gut wrenching. Heart breaking.

I feel like vomiting. Or crying. Or both.

[XemaSab]

5. It's especially such a bummer right after the brown pelican was delisted from the

endangered species act. :(

[One Voice]

6. omfg

:cry:

[kimi]

7. Brings me to tears

and needs to be seen.

[Ron Green]

8. I looked at a couple of them and could not continue.

The knowledge of this massive fuck-up causes me such grief every day that I've been physically sick from it.

[Junkie Brewster]

9. I'm sending this to everyone and posting it on Facebook

The world needs to know what BP has done.

[Call Me Wesley]

10. Ah, humankind. The 'Top Kill' of all. (nt)

[texastoast]

11. Poor, poor babies

This is so horrible. Makes me want to walk everywhere.

[G_j]

12. IMO, everyone needs to get good and sick

this MUST STOP!

But It will happen again.

Have you heard of the Atlantis?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8472787&mesg_id=8478784

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/5/28/bp_oil_spill_confirmed_as_worst


BP Oil Spill Confirmed as Worst in US History; Environmental Groups Challenge Continued Oil Operations in Gulf Excluded from New Moratorium

Although President Obama has extended the moratorium on new deepwater drilling permits for six months and halted operations at thirty-three deepwater wells in the Gulf of Mexico, some oil rigs are continuing their operations. The Center for Biological Diversity has filed a lawsuit to halt forty-nine offshore drilling plans in the Gulf of Mexico that were approved without full environmental review. Meanwhile, the group Food & Water Watch is leading an effort to shut down the Atlantis, another BP oil rig in the Gulf. The group warns an oil spill from the Atlantis could be many times larger than the current spill and even harder to stop. (includes rush transcript)



<snip>
Wenonah Hauter, let’s begin with you. Your response to President Obama going to the Gulf, what you think needs to happen right now?

WENONAH HAUTER: Well, the first thing that needs to happen is that the BP Atlantis platform needs to be shut down before we have another accident. For the last year, we’ve been trying to get MMS to act on this, and we now believe that it’s President Obama who needs to take action in shutting down this very dangerous platform. We filed suit last week against MMS, demanding that the platform be shut down. And we’re asking people to go to the website www.spillthetruth.org and ask President Obama to shut it down immediately.

AMY GOODMAN: Just one minute on this issue of Atlantis. I don’t think most people realize that these oil—deep sea oil drilling sites are continuing now, as they talk about moratoriums and the closings of, shutting down of these in the Gulf of Mexico. Wenonah Hauter, where is the Atlantis deep sea oil drilling rig?

WENONAH HAUTER: The Atlantis is 150 miles offshore from New Orleans, and it’s 7,000 feet deep. So it’s much deeper than the Horizon. And none of the safety documentation has been verified. So we’re very concerned that there could be an accident at any time.

JUAN GONZALEZ: And in terms of this particular platform’s importance to the general Gulf oil production, how big is it? And why is there such a resistance to looking at it?

WENONAH HAUTER: Well, it produces 8.4 million gallons of oil every day. And so, if there were to be a spill, it would be five—it could be five times larger than the Horizon spill within five days. And the thing is that we have a lot of evidence about what’s going on with BP Atlantis because of a whistleblower, but we suspect that this is the case with all of the deepwater platforms.
<snip>

[undeterred]

13. I can't believe we're still going to drill.

The world is a mad place.

[sabrina 1]

14. Those poor innocent birds ~

I agree with the commenter above, Bobby Jindal, Sarah Palin and the rest of the enemies of this planet should have those photos attached to their images every time they speak about continuing this terrorism against the planet.

:cry:

[thereismore]

15. Only humans kill when they are not hungry. We are the meanest sons of bitches anywhere. nt

[Binka]

16. Crying. No Sobbing.

Those innocent creatures, they look exhausted, totally overwhelmed, and sad. Fuck BP.

[G_j]

17. K&R

[Catherina]

18. God damn those criminals and the oil politicos to hell.

That's it. Out comes the bike tomorrow.

I can not stop crying.

[nevergiveup]

20. Holy Crap!

I have always considered myself a tough guy. I am not. There are no words.

[BeFree]

21. gawd...

...ABC news just showed a video of the same birds.

From the stills I had this feeling that the temperament of the birds was this:
You bastards! You will pay dearly for this.

[WaaHoo]

22. Disgusting

No excuse

[City Lights]

23. I'm at a loss for words.

:cry:

[tekisui]

24. Everyone should see these.

Especially those who determine oil drilling policy. Absolutely heartbreaking.

[onestepforward]

25. +1

BP is trying to limit pictures like these from getting out.

[rudy23]

26. Posting on facebook. The most powerful thing we can do is to make sure this doesn't get buried.

Post far and wide--you know our Repub friends wouldn't hesitate to post this.

[marions ghost]

28. and on Countdown they said

the ones that wash up are only about 10% of the dead, at best. "Dawn" doesn't fix this.

Spread these pictures because it's the ONLY way that people get it. They don't see the humans having effects down the line. They don't see the shrimp not reproducing. But this they can see and feel...

[donheld]

32. .

:nuke:

[AllenVanAllen]

35. My heart is broken. n/t

[jimlup]

36. Honestly, this is like a nightmare come true...

[gauguin57]

37. Goddammit! This makes me CRAZY!

[gauguin57]

38. DOUBLE Goddammit!

[blindpig]

39. Goddammit get angry.

Kill Capitalism

[maryf]

41. Hear, hear...

Obliterate capitalism...anyone not angry has a major problem with reality...I cannot imagine not being angry at this point...