You Are Not Authorized to See These Pictures of the Oil Spill, Citizen ... Do Not Look!
You Are Not Authorized to See These Pictures of the Oil Spill, Citizen … Do Not Look!
Washington’s Blog Sunday, July 11, 2010
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Preface: The title is a parody of the fact that the government has effectively made it a felony to take pictures of oiled wildlife.
While most of these pictures have previously been published by the mainstream media – and presumably will remain publicly available – that assumption is not 100% certain. By way of analogy, the government sometimes reclassifies as top secret information which was previously declassified.
More importantly, while some of these photos have been widely seen, most have not, and I have never seen them rounded up in a single page before.
Jonathan Elinoff has rounded up rarely-seen videos and pictures of the gulf oil spill:
Below you will find a picture of millions of dead fish. These are small fish, possible baby fish. They are slowly washing ashore and towards the ports. Over 9,000 species of animals will be under threat of extinction in this region, we might not ever see again on the planet. Click the image to enlarge it.
A Greenpeace activist steps through oil on a beach along the Gulf of Mexico on May 20, 2010 near Venice, Louisiana. (John Moore/Getty Images)
A Brown Pelican sits in heavy oil on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
A pair of Brown Pelicans, covered in oil, sit on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast, Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
A dead turtle floats on a pool of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in Barataria Bay off the coast of Louisiana Monday, June, 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
A sea bird soaked in oil sits in the surf at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
A Brown Pelican is seen on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast on Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
A bird covered in oil flails in the surf at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
A Brown Pelican is mired in heavy oil on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast on Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
A Brown Pelican covered in oil sits on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast on Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
A ship’s wake cuts through a pattern of oil near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico Monday, May 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Maura Wood, Senior Program Manager of Coastal Louisiana Restoration for the National Wildlife Federation takes a sample of water in a heavily oiled marsh near Pass a Loutre, Louisiana on May 20, 2010. (REUTERS/Lee Celano)
Crews try to clean an island covered in oil on the south part of East Bay May 23, 2010. (REUTERS/Daniel Beltra/Greenpeace)
The crew of a Basler BT-67 fixed wing aircraft releases oil dispersant over parts of the oil spill off the shore of Louisiana in this May 5, 2010 photograph. (REUTERS/Stephen Lehmann/U.S. Coast Guard)
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Whistler Blowers, Insiders
Clint Didier called in to speak to Rush Limbaugh last week. He wanted to inform Rush of how this administration, via the EPA is STARVING the farmlands of this nation… they are taking the water because of “endangered species” and soon they will make energy too expensive..
This along with the man-caused drogut in the most fertile valley in California last year, and now the purposeful killing of the seafood industry in the gulf of Mexico, Obama and his minions are going to starve the American people just as their heros Mao and Stalin did to their people…
Most of these photos were taken some weeks past and it can be assumed things have not improved since. As the summer passes on, migration time arrives for many northern birds. For some, their path will take them straight into that horror. Nothing can be done to change the migration routes and no warnings cn be given.
I have seen these photos around for a while now, show me something new.
Don’t ever tell me something is classified, against national security, against the law, and all the wonderful penalties that come with violation. Because I’ll do it.
There are 3 Laws I hold dear
Don’t kill or harm others physically
Do not steal property from others
Don’t destroy others property
The other laws are full of it and will not be recognized.
On that note:
“Look Mom” No oil or gasoline required !!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsGeQby7Jnw
I have seen a few of these pictures but not most, and I saw an earlier youtube by the same poster but not this most recent one. Thank you for showing us what most news outlets hide. I uploaded some on my blog with a report on recent research about ocean acidification here: http://www.witsendnj.blogspot.com
Any pics more recent you hack. Every time you post something it’s old news or wrong. I’ve seen all these before on other sites.
Fuck Rush Limbaugh, he is a gaseous planet. Where are the eco-terrorists? DESTROY BP! Please.
Jackloel, If you can find a photo of Rush Limbaugh floating face down in an oil slick, please post it.
Yeah, I guess since you libs railing against this are saying, I’ve seen these before”, it makes it less true or ma,es the situation less dire? Get a life.
Don’t know what it has to do with this old Indian at all? Had people lived like the Tribes used to live this wouldn’t even be happening. You have your cash register world now that you love.
And now the testing of the new cap has been put on hold …… Why?
Of course people have seen these pictures before: does that make them or the disaster less newsworthy? Republicans are beating on the Democrats and vice versa…. Guess what boys and girls, they’re all corrupt including that ultra-right wing wind bag Limbaugh….
We’re just like the story goes “FROGS IN THE POT” it’s getting a little hot in here, lets close our eye just for a few minutes and simply relax…….
WAKE UP PEOPLE, LOOK TO THE LORD FOR YOUR SALVATION!
This is why “Drill Baby Drill” is criminally insane!!!!!!
Republican’s chanted “Drill, baby, drill” at every opportunity during the 2008 elections. Like a bunch of drunken sailors they chanted to the pleasure of the oil and gas industry that was filling their political coffers.
ALL BUSH’S WORK IS PROVING TO BE HARMFUL TO AMERICA.
Soon The Bottom of the Sea Bed will explode….
Show is over.