Gee, libtards, maybe all that government-love ain't all that after all? Aren't you just so glad you voted for Mr. Hopeless and Chains?
Posted on 07/03/2010 9:03:54 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Didn’t somebody there take an oath to support and defend the Constitution?
Somebody?
Anybody?
Oh, I forgot.
He flubbed it...
“Secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy . . . censorship. When any government, or any Church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects “This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,” the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything-— you can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.”
Robert A. Heinlein, Revolt in 2100
You have company. Sixty-five feet doesn't give you much room for maneuvering a boat if something goes wrong. That's all we need - a collision with possible deaths on top of everything else.
Art Bell only fills in on an occasional weekend. George Nory has been the mc for years. I don’t listen often, but once in a while a creditable guest will appear on the show. I don’t think this news is a laughing matter.
CRIME, INC has long hated the spot light of truth placed upon it......huh, Jack Squat Barry? IdiotPOTUS.... =.=
They are not hiding anything.
Nope.
Keep those narcissists out of the way. Safety is an issue. BP doesn't want to be sued by journalists or have them sucking money out of the $20 billion trust fund just because they are stupid enough to get too close.
I guess telephoto lenses are too expensive for the staff of major networks.
There have been a plethora of pictures of dead birds on the beaches already. Can't these 'news' agencies just use 'stock photos' like they have been doing for years and years? Like they did for the 'tea-party protests'? Like they do for politicians? A little photoshopping here, a little there, no one will notice the difference.
If they insist on actual photos of dead birds and oil on the beaches from THIS SPILL, I could provide them with links on the internet where there are tons of pictures that already have been taken. All they have to do is put them on 'the air'. I guess it's easier to blame BP and the CG for why you haven't put any pictures on your programs.
Security is an issue, because we don't need a bunch of un-marked, unidentified boats getting too close to the ships that are participating in the cleanup/containment efforts. That is how people end up getting hurt or killed.
Besides, the only time we would get any 'truth' from Anderson Cooper and the MSM is if they benefit in some way from revealing it.
Nice of Cooper and the MSM to try and 'get on board' with what the rest of the nation keeps seeing on the internet.
People, this is non-issue. 65 feet! That is approximately the distance from the street curb to the back of your house. Can't see? Get glasses.
I am an old guy. Obama needs to be impeached, tried for treason and sent to Gitmo to rot with his goat-humping muslim buddies. He’ll fit right in.
They can look all they want.
Anderson Cooper is just mad because he can't get an 'exclusive' on the islands.
BP had the same measures in place, now the CG is just supporting them with legal procedures.
Cooper admitted that they 'could' get closer to the islands if they got 'permission'. Apparently, he wants to whine because he doesn't think he should have to follow the same rules as everyone else.
He has the option of telephoto lenses or getting permission, and he refuses to do either.
What a whiny little metrosexual he is.
I know NFL PLACEKICKERS who would love to be within 65 feet of the goal. (that’s just a tad over 20 yards).
One can only conclude this government is totalitarian.
I agree that this should be a non-issue. 65 feet is close enough to take the pictures you need. Any closer you’d be interfering. Who do you think you are, Greenpeace?
Does anyone else ever remember a media blackout about anything except perhaps ongoing war battles? This is unAmerican and a violation of freedom of the press.
This has nothing to do with 'rights' of the Free Press. They are free to report whatever they want.
They are not allowed to get within 65 feet of booms or ships due to safety and security issues, unless they GET PERMISSION.
When there is a bomb in a building, the PRESS is not FREE to just walk in because they want a photo of the bomb.
AGAIN, NOTE that Cooper just doesn't think he should have to 'get permission'.
Should we allow reporters from an IRANIAN NEWSPAPER to just pull up to any of the ships around the well? Or ones working containment?
They are part of the FREE PRESS. Our government has already tried to make clear that PRESS all over the world have all the same rights.
ANDERSON COOPER, HOST: But we begin, as we do every night, “Keeping Them Honest”.
CUE AUDIENCE LAUGHTER.
Incoming rant:
Our own personal Achmed:
Don’t you get it DUffPo? The words, the speeches aren’t directed at you. The gladhanding is. The handshakes, the payoffs for your support, your votes and silence are. But the words and message aren’t for you.
Don’t you get it DUffPo? The astronomical spending, the ruinous regulations, Executive Order after Executive Order, the legislation passed in the middle of the night, the appointments of fellow travelers that appear to support the wholesale destruction of American in plain view: these efforts only provide the dark mirror you see reflecting your own hearts. But the goal’s not yours.
Don’t you get it DUffPo? The unemployment, welfare, SSI and other, short-term jobs just buy your silence, and keep you feed just long enough to smother you with illegal aliens. What was it that I heard from someone not three months ago? “We take your money. We take your women. We will take your land.”
Don’t you get it DUffPo? The failure of action that now leads to oil encroaching on America’s shores contrast sharply with the vast energy technologies and businesses pulling away.
Don’t you get it DUffPo? Health ‘care’ won’t have death panels: The disabled, derelict, diseased, discarded, dissenting. elderly, will simply not be covered up front, so they’ll not be in any group covered. Of course, the union members will be ‘exempt’ – for now, but they’ll be competing with those who are the actual targets of this ‘administration.’
Don’t you get it DUffPo? Your terminal adolescent opposition to authority merely sets the scene to play out your antagonism against your historical antithesis of conservatives. The players goad you on while they continue to push ahead with all things non-American. Jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs—and research and technologies and weaponry and nuclear/oil/gas exploration are for people overseas. Anywhere else but here. And no one said they were.
Don’t you get it DUffPo? It’s not just America that’s supposed to die. It’s that Americans are. Your grandparents, your folks, your aunts and uncles. And, finally. You. Your rights, your freedoms, your liberties to post articles and methodically scream over opposition on cue simply take your energy while you perform the swan song in the death match.
America is the country so rich in natural resources and physical capacity that we can be completely self-reliant. All we need is dirt-cheap, uninformed, quiet, domesticated labor. Uninformed, technologically skilled in only a narrow pursuit, the ‘worker’ may not question and will obey, or, he will starve, freeze and thirst to death—by his own hand. No, DUffPo, you don’t want to confront your own demons, your relativistic worldview that praises saving and gaining the world, even though it not only costs you your souls, but also, your lives.
See Law of Eminent Domain.
See Parks in Arizona that have been CLOSED by the government due to infiltration by Mexican Ganglords.
Why do you think you have to pay TAX on your land?
I’d be happy to see Cooper and many other MSM puffpieces be allowed to monitor the work on the BOP from 65 feet, or less.
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