by Brian » Sat Jun 26, 2010 9:44 pm
This is incredibly sad. I just returned from my first Amberjack fishing trip off the coast of NC. It was the first time fishing has ever totally exhausted me. As I sat out there 20 miles offshore watching my good friends being beaten half to death by fish near a US Navy communications tower, the Gulf crept into my mind. I was speechless in thinking that the people of the Gulf may never get to experience this again. Here I was grinning ear to ear, nearly jumping up and down with shaky knees because of excitement over fighting and catching my first truly hard fighting fish ever, and in that moment, I realized just what the people of the gulf were losing. I realized what the people of the gulf were getting screwed out of by yet another scum sucking, bottom feeding, dirtbag fossil fuel company. Another so called great corporate citizen of our world. To be honest, I don't get our justice system. If you commit a murder, you go to jail for life or worse. However, you can blow up an oil rig, kill 11 men, dump hundreds of millions of gallons of oil and toxic dispersants into the water, kill millions upon millions of creatures, destroy an entire ecosystem from top to bottom, Completely deflate a fishing industry that hundreds of thousands of people depend on, and destroy a regions tourism, all from gross negligence, and all in the name of pure profits, then lie in plain sight, and only face fines and maybe, just maybe a lil jail time. I think we know where these corporate dirtbags belong.....
Take care
Brian
Let's Go Pens!
To the Cup!