Earlier this week, I caught Jon Stewart interviewing the author/filmographer Josh Fox regarding the documentary Gasland. Two days later, while the wife and I were awaiting the beginning of our television programming of choice and had a couple of hours to kill. Normally we'd read, the neither of us had anything started and I flipped over to HBO and found the beginning of Gasland.
It took about two minutes for me to get involved in the program and two minutes later my wife exclaimed "Halliburton is much worse than Bin Laden!" when Dick Cheney made his first appearance. I sat and watched and absorbed the horror in silence.
When the gentleman in Colorado set his faucet effluence on fire at the tap, my wife began calling friends and suggesting they watch the documentary. For the past two days, she's told everyone, especially those with children to watch Gasland.
I threw the idea around just a bit that evening as we watched In Plain Sight and broached the idea to the wife over lunch today. I'm sure I'm missing something that someone will point out to me, resulting in another "D'oh" moment, but my skin is getting thicker as my anger boils over the thought of corporations, including BP, being allowed to poison the earth and get apologized to by elected idiots.
Is it possible to pass legislation that makes the poisoning of water consumed by humans an act of intentional terrorism? Bush and Cheney worked so hard to pass legislative loopholes for the corporate world and just as hard to write bills to make certain crimes terror activities. Can't we hoist them on their own petard? I'm writing Shelley Berkley, Dina Titus and Harry Reid, but the legislation would be even sweeter if proposed by Dean Heller and John Ensign. One would think enough Republicans would vote for anything that created terrorists as a reflex.
Throw some thoughts this way and I'll keep putting my points together snd try to get everything in order.