Another Oil Spill Crisis.

Vic Biorseth, Friday, May 28, 2010
http://www.Thinking-Catholic-Strategic-Center.com

Well, we’ve got ourselves another great oil spill crisis.

On Marxists and their use of Crisis. All varieties of Marxists, including Obamunists, love crisis. When one presents itself, they will jump on it; when one does not present itself, they will induce or cause a crisis so that they can jump on it. There is a propaganda aspect to Marxist crisis strategy, and there is a political aspect to it.

The proper use of propaganda, with the aid of the SLIMC as the propaganda arm of the Marxist government, is to advance the notion of an evil, greedy Bourgeois private business interest versus a heroic, altruistic Proletariat worker class, their way of life, their status and their environment.

The political goal is to end up with a more strangled or weakened private business sector and a larger and more powerful government. The greater the crisis, or the perceived crisis, the greater the opportunity to achieve this end. Marxists want a banking crisis, even a banking catastrophe, because Marxists want total control of all finances. Marxists want business down-turn, even business failure, because Marxists want to control all business. Marxists want social breakdown, even riots, even anarchy, because Marxists want an excuse to completely take over and “save” the nation. Marxists want open revolution; revolution is what they live for; it is their purpose for being, and for being Marxists. If you don’t believe me, go read Marx’s Communist Manifesto, which all good Marxists have read.

An oil spill crisis is one of the best forms of crisis any American Marxist could ever hope for. With this one crisis, they can virtually destroy their demonized, bourgeois Big Oil industry, throw thousands of people out of work, raise gasoline pump prices to $10 + per gallon, bring about an even deeper economic depression, and perhaps even stir violence in the streets. And throw bourgeois businessmen in prison while they do it.

On the Nature of an Oil Spill. The Kuwaiti – Persian Gulf oil spill, until that time, the largest known man-caused oil spill, began on January 21 1991. Volume of the spill involved many hundreds of millions of barrels, and was variously estimated to be from 10 to 20 times the volume of the Exxon Valdez disaster, and more than twice the size of the Mexican Ixtoc I disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The Kuwaiti spill involved some 1200 square miles of visible surface oil slick at one point.

The spill began when Sadam Hussein’s Iraqi forces opened the valves at the Sea Island oil terminal as an obstruction to anticipated landing by US Marines. It is possible that the plan was to light the oil when it would harm the Marines. The spill was stopped by American air strikes that destroyed the pipelines leading to the valves.

Spill estimates ran as high as 500 million barrels. Only about one million barrels were recovered, some three million barrels washed ashore, and most of the shore damage was in Saudi Arabia. Of the rest, it is estimated that half of it evaporated, and most of the rest that did not completely break down and emulsify slowly broke up and congealed into tar-ball globules or thick, heavy droplets which eventually slowly sank to the bottom. Today, you can still find evidence of the Kuwaiti spill if you go looking for it, but it is not obvious. Marine life is pretty much back to normal. A barnacle or a sea anemone or a coral will attach to a tar chunk just as readily as to any other object.

The cost of cleanup of the Kuwaiti Persian Gulf spill was – nothing. There was no cleanup. There must have been some cost of whatever ship or company that recovered the estimated one million barrels, but whatever that cost was, it was a private business cost or a government cost (of an unknown government) that was not publicized. Apparently Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other nations in the region didn’t think it was worth any cleanup effort. America was occupied with a war, American engineering companies were occupied extinguishing the Kuwaiti oil fields set alight by Sadam’s forces, and the Persian Gulf waters presented a very risky place for any American companies to be working, literally in the shadow of hostile Iran.

In contrast, there was a huge cleanup cost involving a monumental human effort in the much smaller Exxon Valdez disaster, and the time frame of those cleanup activities probably took longer than the Persian Gulf spill took to mostly correct itself to the same degree of “cleanup.” In the case of the Exxon Valdez cleanup, pressure washing seashore rocks emulsified tiny oil droplets into the air, which was subsequently aspirated by workers and people in the area, making them very ill. Oil is not good for human lungs. The cost of the effort was astronomical. Today, you can still find evidence of the Exxon Valdez spill if you go looking for it, but it is not obvious. Marine life is pretty much back to normal. As noted before, a barnacle or a sea anemone or a coral will attach to a tar chunk just as readily as to any other object.

In my admittedly non-expert opinion, it would have been better to leave the oil on the rocks alone. Whatever residue was left by sea and air action would eventually solidify into a heavy black solid. We – meaning mankind – have somehow come to think of oil as some sort of unnatural substance, but that is wrong. Oil is quite natural. There are many places where oil naturally seeps or leaks through the surface of the earth, both underwater and on land; a classic example being the famous La Brea Tar Pits. Far more oil gets into the oceans from natural causes than from man-induced causes. The typical opening scene from the Beverly Hillbillies TV series showing Jeb Clampet shooting at some food and striking oil is not so far fetched.

On the BP – Deepwater Horizon disaster, and its heavy toll on both human life and the environment. I would dearly love to know the cause of the explosion and fire. I simply cannot help suspecting the “Green” Marxists who spend vast, untold sums of money running about the open seas harassing, damaging and endangering commercial fishermen and whalers. Past actions have shown that you can never tell what these nuts might do next, and they’ve got some heavy duty funding behind them. There is no profit motive here, for there is no profit to be had harassing honest workers. We may never know.

The Obamunist administration, their Marxocratic Party and their SLIMC propaganda arm would have us believe that the bourgeois BP company is so evil that they are in business to destroy their own enormous investments, kill their own workers, burn and sink their own assets and pollute the world. And they are going to be held accountable, by gosh. Marxists love to hold public hearings in which they make the bourgeois squirm before the cameras.

There has not been one government word of sympathy for the dead, of support for BP in resolving any issue, or of response to repeated requests for help from the locals. All demonizing, all finger pointing, all threatening, all political posturing, all public huffing and puffing about dirty rotten capitalist exploiter BP, and how all this drilling has to end, now. For the sake of the planet.

What would a Reagan or a Palin have done? I think it’s safe to say the response would have been immediate. Rather than finger-pointing they would have “partnered up” with BP and with other large companies to bring whatever other resources were available to bear on the problem. Cooperation, rather than speechifying and calling hearings, and making major policy changes and executive orders to further America’s precarious economic position and feed economic decline.

As we said in the Up from Obamunism page, the real source of America’s unique historic ability to respond to disaster of any kind, anywhere in the world, is not so much her navy or armed forces, although they are important, as it is her economic wealth. We always had the money to get the job done. That may have changed under Obamunism. However, we still need to be ready to actually do something rather than stand back and puff and bluster at the bourgeois.

A spill of this magnitude cannot be totally cleaned up; the most that can be hoped for is to ameliorate the damage where possible. It cannot all be skimmed, it cannot all be kept out with booms, it cannot all be controlled. EPA is merely getting in the way and being a hindrance to all efforts, I believe on purpose. The job of EPA is to stifle individual liberty and free markets. It does nothing whatsoever that keeps any organism from going extinct. Governors and mayors and other officials trying to protect their fishing grounds, marshes and shorelines are having to file EPA environmental impact statements first. God help us. Government bureaucracies are doing everything in their power to make the disaster worse.

It’s going to get worse before it gets better. Look who is now claiming to have been in charge, from day one. Look at everything he has touched so far.

It’s time to pray for our Gulf, all the Gulf residents, all the Gulf fishermen, for BP and all the engineers and workers, for the Coast Guard and for everyone who is trying their best to end the leak and clean up the mess.

It is also time to pray for America, and for the world, because, politically speaking, this is just one more crisis, one more opportunity, one more nudge in the direction of a Marxist America, and a Marxist world. If he is ruthless enough and lucky enough, it might be an Obamunist world.

Forget the impeachment talk, for now; save it for later. Nobody is going to impeach anybody so long as the Marxocrat Party owns our Congress. Pray that we can hang in there until November.

May God bless the BP workers.

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