30 Day Status Report on Crimes Against the People of lower Louisiana State. I have learned through trial and error-to document everything in real time concerning blatant and obvious corruption which leads to the dismantling of lower La. Communities. I have learned that, often times, the history gets re-written in people's heads via the local media and the Good Guys get made into the Bad Guys while the parties responsible for corruption & destruction gets a clean slate only to start up again, after people forget about who the enemies really are!
Mary Matalin said, "Obama keeps saying that he has his boot on the necks of B.P. but all he appears to have is a ballet slipper and it isn't on the necks of anyone!"
Douglas Brinkley, who has said for weeks that the U.S. Navy or a more competent arm of the U.S. Military should be handling this Gulf Oil Gusher has now said, "Freeze the American held assets of B.P.!"
Shirley Laska of U.N.O.'s Hazard Response Center said, "this will be the end of Louisiana's fishing culture as we know it!"
Update 05/24/2010-Venice, La.'s Captain Dave Ballay went on record at MSNBC and properly articulated the difference between Hurricane Katrina and British Petroleum/Trans-Ocean's careless man-made disaster. According to Mr.Ballay after Hurricane Katrina aka U.S. Army Corp, the seafood workers could take steps to regain their livelihoods but the B.P. Mess is proving to be worse than Katrina due to no regulations, no concern for the citizens, no over sight, no state advocates working on their behalf and no cooperation from B.P.-to make good on legit damages, to the environment, habitat, equipment and sanctuaries in lower South East La. State! The U.S. Government has allowed B.P. to run the show and create a shady, hybrid, seedy, pseudo-government in Plaquemines Parish!
Chris Matthews of MSNBC, said that the Federal Government is sitting back and assuming that the "Profit Motive" will motivate oil companies to do the right thing but the "Profit Motive" doesn't always work.
The definition of "Profit Motive" is the belief by the Government that a company loosing profits automatically means that they will be honest brokers and act in the best interest of the community! Yes! This self-regulation concept sounds like a bunch of Rand Paul bullshit!
Big Oil Companies have historically used the criminal and heavy handed tactic of deliberately polluting the environment and killing off the industries, that depend on the environment/habitat to have more acres, bayous & land to drill upon in lower Louisiana State. Someone needs to school the Obama Administration on this history, but I doubt it will make any difference since he has already taken their bribes!
- When B.P. spilled over 700 gallons of oil in Saudi Arabia, the U.S. Government and Great Britain got their asses into gear and used tanker ships, to get up over 80% of the oil in a very short time. But now that it is the Gulf Coast & lower Louisiana, these same countries, including our own, are complacent and sending Janet Naplitano and Piyush Jindal to put on these pathetic and staged shows of ANGER, PASSION and CONCERN! Where was this same emotion last week? or the week before that? or even the week before that?
Intro:If one looks at all of the rural American Communities, most of them have high welfare rates and over run with poverty. The rural communities that contain, shovel ready industries, like the seafood industry, which allows anyone with a boat, a desire to succeed and learn the waters, a Middle Class lifestyle & be independently self-employed. Very few communities, in rural America, contained a booming middle and upper middle class like Plaquemines and St.Bernard Parish. What used to be comfortable middle class living, in the rural South simply irked oil companies because families never migrated away-EVER! The working of Foster, Jindal, Nungessor(who came directly from oil companies and now head of Plaquemines) are strategic attacks on lower South East La. Nungessor was thrown into office after Katrina, with money from oil companies, and has lived up to his contract with Texas. When you have oil companies bringing in billions of dollars every month, a desire for land/ bayous and bribing Federal & State Officials to pass anti-middle class regulations-then a community can't have a Big Oil token representing them as a "President."
Billy Nungessor said, “
I make my money from oil companies.” This was said by the President of Plaquemines Parish and aired on a national media outlet. This is the problem, in La. State. Big Oil has become the government of this state, owns the politicians and gets away with the most detestable and grotesque abuses against this state’s citizens!
Nungessor is a major conflict of interest. This dynamic takes all the power away from the middle class of Plaquemines and hands it to corporations, Baton Rouge and Washington D.C. As a result, the nails are being hammered into the coffin. Once its gone, IT IS GONE. There is no guarantee that your family will stay in middle class status and these people simply do not care about the families of these areas. In the early 1900's, President Theodore Roosevelt, said that Plaquemines should be preserved and protected because of its value to the U.S. but local media in La., oil companies and the industrial/political complex, has succeeded in taking the Parish apart, Bay by Bay, Bayou by Bayou and family by family.
(From September 14, 1901 to March 3, 1909- Roosevelt served as President of the United States. He did not want oil companies in Plaquemines Parish because the habitat is home to certain marine life, not found anywhere else in the world and over 50% of all seafood, eaten by Americans, comes out of Plaquemines Parish! In 1909, when Roosevelt left office, the British and Iranians formed British Petroleum & we all know how this story ends!)
President Theodore Roosevelt made a visit to Plaquemines Parish, in the early 1900's, & was successful in keeping out oil companies because he knew that the habitat damage that could potentially be done by oil companies in Plaquemines Parish, far out weighed the supposedly good.
The setting up of a “secret command center” by B.P. in Alabama was highly precarious.
Did Captain Landry and Oyster-man, Mitch Jurisich prove too much of an unstoppable force for the pathetic public relation liars at B.P.? Why is Gov. Jindal now trying to do photo opts in lower La., talk with passion and name the Bayous? He didn't know any names of Bayous previously, so basically Jindal's Oil Handlers, put him through a Media Crash Course in Louisiana heritage, culture and people! It took Jindal 3 weeks to say the name of even one bayou and he still didn't pronounce all the names right! But Sunday, Piyush Jindal was rolling off every Bayou and Bay in lower La. like Jean Lafitte! Jindal is such a token. What Gov. Piyush is doing, is called "fake it till you make it!" I bet he knows all the mountain ranges and valleys in India and Pakistan! Maybe Jindal has the wrong job.
Louisiana has had Creoles, Whites, Cajuns all as Governors of this state, so one would imagine, that the natural flow would be the……..no not the Vietnamese, who got here a few decades back but the Yugoslavians, who have been here for almost 100 years. Piyush Jindal represents no reflection of La. State! There have been some good Black Americans running for office but people, in lower La., still put in Foster, at the time. Jindal may represent Oil Companies and the Arabs that own I-Hop and Mothers Fried Chicken Shit in Jefferson Parish but La. sure did jump plenty of qualified people from more dominant historic ethnic groups to get some East Indian Pakistani named Piyush. That smells of corruption. There is something very contrived and phooey about Jindal when he talks. He speeds talk but really has no clue about how to lead La. State. Jindal is looking at the seafood workers-and his staff is trying to write up scripts to make him look like he has a clue!
(B.P. started their P.R. Attacks on St.Bernard & Plaquemines with their PAID online bloggers from Houma, La. Next they set up camp in Alabama, but Alabama wasn't having any of B.P.'s games so now B.P. is in Houston,Texas trying to get out of paying for damages to the very people, which this British Oil Company have left completely washed out. Washed out financially and socially. Many La. Seafood workers will simply never recover. The habitat will never recover due to huge amounts of new dead zones in the Bayous and Gulf. This is a salty fact.)
Tony Hayward of British Petroleum along with the N.Y. Times thought that their anti-seafood industry media propaganda would be an easy task. In the first week of this B.P. Oil Gusher, Tony Hayward would leave from B.P.'s Houma, La. Office to travel all the way to his so called "secret command center" in Alabama, to discuss the Public Relations, of how to lie and minimize this B.P. mess, which expose the Obama Administration, Bush Administration, Mineral Management Services, Salazar, Napolitano and British Owned Media outlets, like Fox News Network.
Because I am from Plaquemines and from a family of oyster-men, I was a constant topic of discussion but I can handle myself, I was worried that the Fishermen, in lower La., would not be able to stay in front of this issue but I am in complete awe, that “good ole American Bread & Butter” fishermen, from rural America who live off of the waters of this land-came out like a well, oiled media machine! Celebrities, Corporations and Politicians spend millions of dollars, to prepare themselves for doing interviews, press and handling their P.R. but the La. Fishermen, came out the gates swinging. They created one of the best media friendly narratives that I have ever seen! B.P. and Trans Ocean came out the gates trying to release themselves of ANY blame! B.P. and Trans Ocean simply said that IT WASN’T THEIR PROBLEM & thought that this would fly because it has worked every other time in this country!
Before this happened, I was the straight forward, blunt person who didn’t mince words or play silly agreed upon media games especially if it was destroying other Americans & there was no time to b.s. Now, that this media focus has happened and the Plaquemines Parish hornets’ nest has been shaken, and those hornets flew out with their stingers, everyone can see that my blunt, no bullshit and independent style is not unique. This is the culture of Plaquemines and St.Bernard. We do not care Democrat or Republican, rich or poor, black or white. If you need to be called out on your bad actions and corruption-then 9 times out 10, it will be someone from St.Bernard or Plaquemines Parish. Over the decades of being robbed, cheated and displaced-the people, of these lower South East Communities, have developed some very, very thick skin.
The problem with New Orleans, La. is that the people moan, gripe and bitch about the most irrelevant and insignificant things but they NEVER take action. Everything has to be done for them by other people. This is what was going on with New Orleans, post Katrina AKA U.S. Army Corp. And now that some things are getting done in Nawlins, they have mistakenly re-written history, in their minds, to think that they were the ones who triggered this action.
What really took B.P., Obama and indeed the State of La. by surprise, was how quickly people in Plaquemines and St.Bernard Parish mobilized. Historically, the point of conflict between the seafood industry and anti-seafood industry courts, academic institutes and oil companies has always been between the "evil doers" & the historic Plaquemines Parish Oystermen.
The Oystermen of Plaquemines Parish have always led the charge. The Oystermen are the Generals of the Army because once oyster bedding grounds get destroyed, the osyterman is looking at one or two decades, to TRY and grow more oysters. Oysters aren't fish, crabs, shrimps-where you can go and get some more to hatch (even though this will be unlikely due to the waters being dead and polluted with B.P.'s Oil and Chemicals) but oysters are like a fine bottle of wine, that needs to age for decades, to get the full results. Oysters are a work of art, that the oysterman must build with his bare hands and his own cash!
Now, after Jindal and Nungessor started pulling a former Gov. Foster scam by closing off more and more fishing areas, while the Oil Whores in Washington D.C. tried to drive seafood workers out of business, with that stupid "tax & fee" proposal on La. seafood workers; many natives of Lower La. took up the cause. This was only last year-so from a few Oyster families of Plaquemines Parish to an entire community of grass roots organization! Obama, Jindal, B.P., Home Land Sec-simply failed to realize that people, in lower La., have become very adept at swelling and closing ranks over night, when threaten from out side forces! If there is an attack on anyone from a community that has been being dismantled since the 1930's like Plaquemines Parish-people see it and take up community arms in a heart beat.
The fishermen of Plaquemines Parish, simply mobilized so fast that B.P., Jindal and Obama are still trying to play catch-up! They thought that because it was Plaquemines or St.Bernard-that this was a non-story and of no interest to Americans but I am pretty sure that some politicians will be loosing their jobs behind this mess.
- So far, the media is impressed at the skill and charisma of lower La. business owners and seafood workers. 99.9% of every one of them, who spoke to the media, carefully laid out the case for the community, without any mistakes! Everyone pushed the agenda and cause forward. Everyone BUT Simon Vullo of Port Sulphur, who runs that Café, which is really owned by Chevron Oil but he leads people to think that it is his business. Simon Vullo, has thus far been the only weak link. The reason why Simon Vullo could have been damaging, in his fairy tale about B.P. being competent and having good will towards everyone-is because it was one of the very first stories released by the Associated Press, to the International Public and the early narrative sets the tone. Good thing the owner of the Black Velvet stepped up and it canceled out Mr.Vullo’s statements. B.P. makes 2 BILLION dollars a month. People in the seafood industry make anywhere from 30,000 to 80,000 per year! You can only defeat this kind of power, money & corruption through the Courts of Public Opinion and Vullo gave us our very first and ONLY set back and luckily the public sees that B.P. & M.M.S. were indeed cutting corners which killed 11 Americans!
The fact that B.P. thought that they would control and manipulate the rest of America, while shafting fishermen, has tanked at every left turn & has left B.P. with a favorable rating of about 11% The only industry that is more despised by Americans, is Wall Street! The most hard core Red States, have seen a mass exodus of blind support to oil companies who kill Americans via bribes to our government and of course flying a foreign flag and having a European Accent in the South-IS NOT A GOOD THING! There is no way to say "11 dead Americans" and see that the culprits are a foreign company and sell Americans that B.P. are the good guys! They are in the wrong region with that mess!
- The fact that the U.S. Federal Government allowed a foreign company, headed up by a foreign CEO, Tony Hayward, to set up a "secret command center" on U.S. Soil, should be deeply troubling to Americans. Why can not Americans go and set up a "secret command center" in England, after killing 11 Britons?
Well, the people of Plaquemines along with people and leadership of St. Bernard, with New Orleans bringing up the rear, opened up a can of nuclear media whip-ass! B.P. was blind-sided by the fishermen's craft and talent, when getting their stories & struggle into the psyche of Americans.
I am never shocked, with anything to do with the N.Y. Times, L.S.U. or Oil Companies, when it comes to attacks on the people of lower Louisiana. Only days before this oil gusher, Levees.Org was shocked, when yet another know-nothing N.Y. Time Plagiarist, insisted on saying that Hurricane Katrina was the main cause of flooding in lower Louisiana State, when even their own media affiliates, have done reports in 2007, showing that the U.S. Army Corp, was still using old news paper to fill in levee cracks! The N.Y. Times is a publication, with opinions and political agendas. The N.Y. Times has no creditability, especially with folks in New Orleans. When they do not like the facts, because it doesn't fit the wishes of their corporate bosses, they simply make stuff up.
So, it was no surprise, that when week two of this B.P. Oil Gusher rolled around, that B.P. would team up with the N.Y. Times, to put out the narrative that no wildlife was harmed and then proceed to go into a ridiculous and laughable article regarding Tony Hayward's private helicopter and his tailored made British Suits! The N.Y. Times then found Scientist from L.S.U. to say that the oil was not really oil. When B.P. said jump, the United States Coast Guard said, "How High Mr. Hayward and when can we come down?"
By this time(week 2), all of MSNBC led the charge followed by Historian Douglas Brinkley, Fox New's Shepard Smith, CNN's Anderson Cooper & blogs from Sandy Rosenthal of Levees.Org; had already started their whip ass, on British Petroleum as Senator Mary Landrieu, showed up in Washington D.C. every day, with that ridiculous tight red dress (her Creole Lady Dress, which she wore when Obama and Senator Lieberman were doing photo opt's in Nawlins before Obama announced he was going to enter the Presidential Race of 2008)-and stared every other Senator down, with this scowl, glare & nasty glower towards any Senator that attempted to speak up for the La. Fishermen and ask about the environment of corruption with B.P. and some in the U.S. Government. Mary Landrieu was the person B.P. was depending on to over shadow the peasants, and she was paid very nicely via B.P.'s campaign donations.
Where the media & B.P. messed up?
The Fishermen, Oystermen, Crabbers, Shrimpers and Captains in lower South East La. State! They assumed that going into Lower La. was like going into the Appalachian Mountains or Kentucky! They assumed that everyone in La. State talked with a deep Southern Draw, which creates psychological blocks in the mind of the American Public, because the South has been made to represent everything bad about America, from past to present!
What did the Media Find?
The media found some of the most intelligent, articulate and camera ready people in the country. Due to the professional manners, in which the people of lower South East La. represented themselves, the B.P.’s Strategy of demonizing the oystermen, by saying that fishermen were deliberately killing marine mammals to frame B.P.-simply did not fly. What did fly was Captain Alwin Landry, marching to Washington D.C. and forcing the media to acknowledge that 11 Americans were dead due to corruption. In exchange for huge campaign donations, the Federal & State Government gave a foreign oil company, access to victimize entire areas, of what the Government considers "out-of'the-way" communities! B.P. gave Obama 70 million dollars for access! This is what most corporate corruption is built upon.
Prior to Captain Landry, there was a deliberate effort by the main-stream media, to censor any mention of the 11 dead and their names. Why couldn't Captain Landry be stooped? Why was he not invited to Obama’s White House Dinner or drooled over like Airline New York Pilot, Sully Sullenberger? I tell you why. Captain Landry represented the anti-image of what the U.S. Media feeds to the public about how people in La. may look and act. Captain Landry was their worst nightmare from a Public Relations Perspective. This man has Hollywood film star good looks, strong and articulate. He is very knowledgeable and has a natural media tempo, in other words, he could potentially be more influential than Obama, Jindal and Tony Hayward. The American People are seeking out the La. native seafood workers and people like Captain Landry, for their information. They do not trust the U.S. Government and B.P. as far as they could throw them!
Another problem was that Obama, B.P. and Jindal underestimated that people in St.Bernard and Plaquemines ARE EXPERTS AT SNIFFING OUT CORRUPTION! 99% of the people, stayed two or even three steps ahead of these silly lies, misinformation, attacks and minimizing damages-which were coming out of B.P. and others-at a rapid fire pace! NO ONE FALLS FOR THIS ANYMORE IN LOWER LOUISIANA STATE! There is not one independent media source or online news webpage, that didn’t bypass CNN’s blog and others, to come directly to my site and syndicate the story of the La. Seafood Culture. The entire media had to play catch up and Jindal took the cake-because that man didn’t know the name of even ONE Bayou in the region!
Next problem for the U.S. Government, B.P. and Obama was La. Oysterman, Mitch Jurisich! After people heard Mitch Jurisich give his moving and heartfelt concerns, it resonated with Americans. The fact that the U.S. Government doesn't do one dam thing to help these families but instead the reason why you even have seafood is because the people in St.Bernard and Plaquemines Parish, spend their own money, out of their own pockets, to nurture and grow this fragile habitat, off of La. State! There is no way to clean up oil, oil sheen, sweet crude, chocolate mousse or whatever other ridiculous deflection stunts, B.P. sat around, at their "secret command center" and thought about pulling on the American Public.
The media was simply shock that they could go in and speak to people in lower Louisiana who didn't use scripts and Teleprompters but instead laid out their cases, in such an articulate and professional manner. Easily Captain Landry could be President of the United States of America! Mitch Jurisich could easily be Governor of Louisiana!
By Nicolas Duplessis
http://creoleneworleans.typepad.com/creole_folks/2010/05/oystermen-of-plaquemines-caught-up-in-ultimate-corruption.html
