What's the Difference between British Petroleum and Terrorists?

What's the Difference between British Petroleum and Terrorists?

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Saturday morning I got a call from my friend in Boston, a zany PhD student finishing his studies at MIT. We recounted our lives since the last call, and conversation drifted to current events and the BP oil spill. We compared the physical damages from the spill to a terrorist attack. Quite suddenly, my friend asked, "What's the difference between British Petroleum and Terrorists?"

I thought for a moment. "Intent," I answered.

British Petroleum did not intend to spill gobs of oil into the Gulf: they care about people, and would never maliciously hurt anyone. Or would they? Long after I hung up the phone, I began thinking about the words a roommate had said while working Valero, the largest oil refiner in the United States.



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What a great racket. Rape the earth and make obscene profits, but expect occasional disaster. Pay a penance, repeat the process. Worried about your company's name? Hide dirty deeds in subsidiaries like Enron, or change the name altogether like Philip Morris to Altria. American will forget and forgive.

more:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/What-s-the-Difference-betw-by-Tim-Kline-100510-946.html

wrenching illnesses caused by their product.

:shrug:

... and the British interest in keeping control of this company after it was nationalized by Mossadegh was largely responsible for them stopping efforts towards democracy there, working together with the U.S.'s CIA putting in place the Shah after the coup throwing out Mossadegh, which ultimately lead to the Iranian revolution and therefore seeded many terrorists around the world since that time with the newer Iranian regime's help.

http://wapedia.mobi/en/BP

So arguably, not just BP's current efforts, but their whole history has perhaps spawned so much of the world's terrorism now too!

cascadiance, useful info indeed, kpete