"Not Juxtaposed Enough" - Granite Grok

“Not Juxtaposed Enough”

I generally don’t just put up whole posts from other sites without some kind of commentary, but I think this speaks for itself:

Not Juxtaposed Enough

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar characterizes the United States Federal Government approach to BP:

“Our job basically is to keep the boot on the neck of British Petroleum to carry out the responsibilities they have both under the law and contractually to move forward and stop this spill,” Salazar told CNN’s “State of the Union” program.

George Orwell characterizes totalitarian government:

But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.

Frightening, isn’t it, how the Department of Interior, that is the Parks Department, for crying out loud, sounds like Big Brother?

During a time of war, I have no problem at all with our leaders showing such an attitude towards those that would enslave and defeat us – I am in favor of fighting back when our security is imperiled and in those cases, there is no such thing as a fair fight (and would love to bring back the spirit of General Patton to do so).

But to use the same rhetoric against an ordinary (albeit, huge) corporation?  Sure, a huge problem has been incurred, and BP will pay for quite a long time and quite a bit for it.  But to use language normally reserved for war against for something that rightly belongs in the world of commerce?  To essentially call them out as an enemy of the State?

Oh yeah, this is the Obama Administration speaking – the "fierce advocate of free markets".

We’re in the best of hands….

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