Freeper: "Our nation is under attack. Our rigs are being sabotaged! What other eexplanation?????"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Freeper thread: Oil rig explodes in Gulf of Mexico

Responses:

To: Pyro7480

Our nation is under attack. Our rigs are being sabotaged! What other eexplanation?????

3 posted on Thursday, September 02, 2010 8:41:49 AM by my small voice (A biased media and an uneducated public is the biggest threat to our democracy)

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To: Pyro7480

so... we hadn’t had an explosion in a gulf rig in decades...

now we have 2 within 6 months.

hope & change baby!

6 posted on Thursday, September 02, 2010 8:42:26 AM by sten

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To: Pyro7480

No rigs blew up during 16 years of Clinton and Bush. 2 with Obama in the last 3 months? BS.

7 posted on Thursday, September 02, 2010 8:42:36 AM by Frantzie (Imam Ob*m* & Democrats support the VICTORY MOSQUE & TV supports Imam)

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To: Pyro7480

Crap!

I thought they would wait until October to pull this.

16 posted on Thursday, September 02, 2010 8:45:36 AM by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)

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To: Pyro7480

This is no accident. Someone is doing this to push an agenda.
We have never had this happen like this before.

32 posted on Thursday, September 02, 2010 8:48:57 AM by indylindy

[Parche]

1. Hi my name is Perry Noid...i am a conservative republican

:rofl::rofl::hi:

[Taverner]

2. Yeah, someone took a boat out there, a few miles in the sea, climbed up the rig

Which is about 100 ft

Did this ALL unnoticed, and also, while not being noticed, placed a bomb on it.

Yeah...

[RaleighNCDUer]

19. Obama's gubbmint has SUBMARINES, ya know! nt

[BadgerKid]

3. Dear Freepers,

God is obviously out to get you. Quit raping His planet! Divest yourselves of all your fossil fuel interests now!

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. Batshit!

:crazy:

[TwilightGardener]

5. I guess they just ignored the rig workers' post-incident reports from the last spill.

Because inconveniently, they tend to blame the accident on not following procedure and bad judgment. Maybe the rig workers are actually in on the rig-destruction conspiracy... :tinfoilhat:

[Old and In the Way]

21. Which leads me to think that FR has a few people on board at that

are creating the 'buzz" for amplification. Focus the attack on government sabotage, rather than corporate malfeasance which is obviously a much more logical explanation. Notice how a few quick posters can spin the news with a 'consensus' against this government. And the hapless Teapublican rubes believe this stuff...

[PDJane]

6. What about lack of regulation,

a kleptocracy that only pays the guys at the top, and arrant stupidity????

[Ganja Ninja]

7. Here's another explaination.

The rig workers were unqualified, poorly trained, non-union scabs. :shrug:

[harun]

8. All RW'rs are saying this. Look at the yahoo news comments about this.

About 50% of the posts are like this.

[jwirr]

11. Is this the latest GOP talking point?

[Posteritatis]

17. They're just dusting off the previous one...

...where they claimed the rig that inaugurated the Gulf of Texaco was attacked by North Korea.

[Renew Deal]

9. Martian attack

[NoSheep]

12. HA!

:rofl:

[pinboy3niner]

10. Rats--they're on to us!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

13. Umm...

aren't these things blowing up all the time?

[WhoIsNumberNone]

14. "We have never had this happen like this before"

We have never had this level of "laissez-faire environmentalism" before.

Bush deregulated it, now Obama is getting blamed for it.

[sinkingfeeling]

15. There had been 12,087 oil-rig accidents on the day prior to the BP explosion. Were all of them

caused by 'tersorists'?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/17/AR2010071702807.html

"...the number of serious incidents in the gulf totals 650 to 850 a year."

"Until now, 60 inspectors were tasked with investigating all types of incidents. Between 2006 and 2009, those included 30 worker deaths, 1,298 injuries, 514 fires and 23 blowouts that left wells out of control. They conducted 378 investigations in the gulf in roughly the same time period, with 21 considered worthy of more rigorous and extended scrutiny by a panel."

[NightWatcher]

16. we ARE under attack, we ARE being sabotaged......by deregulators

and "free market"ers.
They are CEOs, repukes, local politicians with their lips pursed against the asses of Global Corporations.

[OHdem10]

18. Ask that RWer if he really believes these greedy oil companies

insist on first rate maintenance and safety?????

[Codeine]

20. To be fair, some on DU blamed the Christmas Tsunami

on the US military and "earthquake machines" and a recent thread gave credence to the theory that we're using HAARP to create fire conditions in Russia. Crazies and paranoids on both sides of the fence.

[Sheepshank]

22. Well I've always known

that we have James Bond types on our side to take care of their Dr. No.

He used those underwater skidoo's and skimmed in from below, shot up the deck hands, released the special crane unit that lowers the escape pod, kissed the babe, shot the asshole between the eyes, blew up the rig with a special 007 delayed timer device, and made it look like they were incompetent idiots. It's really not that hard.

[mikeytherat]

34. Perfect, except for one glaring omission:

Where's the martini?

You can't have a James Bond-type story that cool without a martini!

Shaken, not stirred.

mikey_the_rat

[zappaman]

23. Just as ludicrous as the people who blame Bush

for actually planning 9/11.

[Cal Carpenter]

24. The rigs *are* being sabotaged

by capitalism's inherent greed.

[GreenPartyVoter]

32. +1000 Deregulation is definitely sabotage, as is corruption.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

25. It has to be ee cummings!

Seriesly!

[lpbk2713]

26. Sabotage was the first word out of Limbaugh's vile and putrid mouth

... when the news about Deepwater Horizon first became public.

Link: http://mediamatters.org/research/201005030027


They're all a bunch of idiots.


(Edit to add link)

[electricD]

27. what do they expect?

when you work people around the clock on an oil rig, when middle AND upper management is ONLY concerned about profits and productions, to hell with safety and the worker.

put on the straw hat and get out the whip people, us workers are nothing but slaves anymore.

[Subdivisions]

28. DAMN THAT OBAMA AND HIS WET SUIT!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

33. Some lurking freep is gonna send that pic to Drudge

:rofl:

:toast:

[mrs_p]

29. What other eexplanation?????

how about the simplest. corners cut for corporate profit!

[pinboy3niner]

30. Another spelling-challenged freeper. Everybody knows it's 'EEKsplanation.'

How else could it be spelled?

[Dappleganger]

31. OMG IT'S THE BIG ONE

WE'RE ALL DOOMED!