We will be paying for the rape and pillage of our land.

Drilling for the Hell of It

The Dirty Bastards Club Comes to Santa Fe

hat is about to happen in Santa Fe County must be seen in a broader context. Over the past century, oil cartels have claimed the same privileges under the law of the land that you and I have as individual citizens. With this one maleficent legal maneuver, oilmen have been gaming the legal justice system of America, bribing and bullying their agenda into a "legal" status to the detriment of the planet. I am asking that our county government regain possession of the mineral rights they gave away decades ago. I am requesting that Santa Fe County lead the way in America in creating the most stringent environmental codes in this country, truly protecting the citizenry from all industries that jeopardize the health and quality of life of not only of this generation but all generations that will follow us. We must create legislation that is a model for all counties in the United States that are besieged with the pollution of their land, water and air by any industry.

I will submit to you that if there were a referendum -- a vote in Santa Fe County -- and 99.9 percent of the people voted no to oil and gas drilling, it would not matter. What blows my mind is that we will be paying for the rape and pillage of our land, as the federal government, with our tax dollars, is giving carte blanche -- a blank check -- to big oil for exploratory drilling all over the country. In six years the oil president has trashed 60 years of environmental-protection legislation. There is a 10 percent chance of oil and gas in the Galisteo Basin and an absolute certainty of carelessness that would pollute our environment for many generations to come. This agenda is criminal, with authorization coming from the highest offices in the land. This mobster mentality, masquerading as law-abiding entrepreneurs bullying/threatening our elected representatives who are fulfilling the duties of their office, must be challenged.

The level of desperation and momentum of ignorance that can even contemplate drilling for oil in a populated land that is extraordinarily fragile speaks loudly of a level of addiction that is crying out for intervention. The analogy between the oil companies and alcoholics, cokeheads and methamphetamine addicts, who are willing to destroy their bodies and all their relations simply for another hit of their drug, is to my mind unmistakable. The oil companies are addicted, after more than a century, to the rush of profiteering -- the euphoria of going anywhere they choose in the world and taking what they want (see the film A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash); of deposing democratically elected governments and setting up their own puppet regimes that sneak out of town when there is no more oil money to protect them; of destroying any alternative fuel or industry (see Who Killed the Electric Car) that could interfere with their lemminglike race to self-destruction. Over 100 years ago a brilliant inventor named Rudolph Diesel created an engine that would run on peanut oil. In their quest for a level playing field in controlling energy usage, the oil companies flattened any innovative technology that used clean fuels. By 1910, electric cars could exceed 100 mph with batteries that could be recharged at plentiful stations around the country. However, monopolies like the oil industry cannot allow the "common" people to be involved in producing their own energy.

As revealed in the Alaskan oil scandal this past year, in which the FBI covertly videotaped hundreds of hours of elected officials and oil executives scheming the theft of the state's natural resources, we have chillingly direct knowledge of the brass-knuckle politics of the oilmen. Oil executives and their lawyers wrap themselves up in the American flag for public show, but behind the scenes they revel in polluting the democratic process, referring to themselves as the "dirty bastards club," exhibiting mockery and disdain for officials attempting to protect the environment and their constituents. This oil-sleaze information is available thru FBI video documents. The MO of big oil is to poison the well, literally and figuratively, of the democratic process, using their endless financial power to first bribe, then intimidate and, if necessary, destroy anyone -- any official, any populace -- in order to take what they want, all the while claiming that it is theirs by law. Theirs is classic sociopathic behavior, with the president of the United States underwriting everything they do with our money.

The law of the oil companies at this time is best exemplified by the private military company Blackwater. This "security contractor" is acknowledged to be outside the jurisdiction of military law, civil law, international law and even the special jurisdiction of the State Department. In other words, the oil companies and the private army protecting their interests are outside the law -- they are pirates. With no genuine diplomacy in our foreign relations, the most vicious gang of mercenaries operating all over the world has been given diplomatic immunity by our oil president. Blackwater is beholding only to the oilmen who have wormed their way into the highest offices in the land. If the oil companies come to Santa Fe, they will bring Blackwater with them.

I will close with the observation that globalization is a code word for capitalism run amok; it is a code word for privatization on a massive scale wherein the electoral process, which is the heart and soul of democracy, has been privatized. Josef Stalin is credited with saying it does not matter how many people vote or whom they vote for; the only thing that matters is who counts the votes (see Bush Family Fortune: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy). Our entire governmental system is a breath away from being privatized by special interest groups who perceive a politically aware populace as a menace, as terrorists. Hence, the dumbing of America. Our current leaders in Washington are fearful of an informed citizenry, as evidenced by the fact that they will spy on anyone, especially anyone who does not have his or her head in the sands of their propaganda machines. Throughout the food chains of Mother Nature there have always been predators that feed upon the weak and unsuspecting. In this light, the multinational oil dynasties may be viewed as predators feasting on the abundance of the American Dream without contributing to its future.

I have two suggestions for stopping this invasion of Santa Fe. First, we must understand that we Americans are in the midst of a civil war fueled by decades of ruthless, profiteering corporate lobbies that have gutted and paralyzed the intent of the laws of the land. Our federal government and many of our state governments have lost any legitimacy of actually serving the people -- rather, they are the servants of the corporate structures. It is at the local and county level that we the people have any chance of restoring honor and integrity to the political process. In the eyes of the corporate structures we are sheep to be shorn, and silence and shopping are our patriotic duties. I hope we can start the process here in Santa Fe of halting this runaway train of corporate greed and malfeasance masquerading as the law of the land. Property owners must have the same rights as holders of mineral rights.

Secondly, we New Mexicans are under the gun to quit our passive alliance with gas and oil entrepreneurs. Even with those ethically irresponsible revenues, we are still one of the poorest states in the union.

May New Mexico become a mecca for inventors and entrepreneurs with a vision of serving the highest good of the planet, a world-class pollution-free center for the production of renewable-energy vehicles. Let us start now, priming the pump with no sales tax on clean alternative fuels.





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		We will be paying for the rape and pillage of our land. Drilling for the Hell of It The Dirty Bastards Club Comes to Santa Fe hat is about to happen in Santa Fe County must be seen in a broader context. Over the past century, oil cartels have claimed the same privileges under the law of the land that you and I have as individual citizens. With this one maleficent legal maneuver, oilmen have been gaming the legal justice system of America, bribing and bullying their agenda into a "legal" status to the detriment of the planet. I am asking that our county government regain possession of the mineral rights they gave away decades ago. I am requesting that Santa Fe County lead the way in America in creating the most stringent environmental codes in this country, truly protecting the citizenry from all industries that jeopardize the health and quality of life of not only of this generation but all generations that will follow us. We must create legislation that is a model for all counties in the United States that are besieged with the pollution of their land, water and air by any industry. I will submit to you that if there were a referendum -- a vote in Santa Fe County -- and 99.9 percent of the people voted no to oil and gas drilling, it would not matter. What blows my mind is that we will be paying for the rape and pillage of our land, as the federal government, with our tax dollars, is giving carte blanche -- a blank check -- to big oil for exploratory drilling all over the country. In six years the oil president has trashed 60 years of environmental-protection legislation. There is a 10 percent chance of oil and gas in the Galisteo Basin and an absolute certainty of carelessness that would pollute our environment for many generations to come. This agenda is criminal, with authorization coming from the highest offices in the land. This mobster mentality, masquerading as law-abiding entrepreneurs bullying/threatening our elected representatives who are fulfilling the duties of their office, must be challenged. The level of desperation and momentum of ignorance that can even contemplate drilling for oil in a populated land that is extraordinarily fragile speaks loudly of a level of addiction that is crying out for intervention. The analogy between the oil companies and alcoholics, cokeheads and methamphetamine addicts, who are willing to destroy their bodies and all their relations simply for another hit of their drug, is to my mind unmistakable. The oil companies are addicted, after more than a century, to the rush of profiteering -- the euphoria of going anywhere they choose in the world and taking what they want (see the film A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash); of deposing democratically elected governments and setting up their own puppet regimes that sneak out of town when there is no more oil money to protect them; of destroying any alternative fuel or industry (see Who Killed the Electric Car) that could interfere with their lemminglike race to self-destruction. Over 100 years ago a brilliant inventor named Rudolph Diesel created an engine that would run on peanut oil. In their quest for a level playing field in controlling energy usage, the oil companies flattened any innovative technology that used clean fuels. By 1910, electric cars could exceed 100 mph with batteries that could be recharged at plentiful stations around the country. However, monopolies like the oil industry cannot allow the "common" people to be involved in producing their own energy. As revealed in the Alaskan oil scandal this past year, in which the FBI covertly videotaped hundreds of hours of elected officials and oil executives scheming the theft of the state's natural resources, we have chillingly direct knowledge of the brass-knuckle politics of the oilmen. Oil executives and their lawyers wrap themselves up in the American flag for public show, but behind the scenes they revel in polluting the democratic process, referring to themselves as the "dirty bastards club," exhibiting mockery and disdain for officials attempting to protect the environment and their constituents. This oil-sleaze information is available thru FBI video documents. The MO of big oil is to poison the well, literally and figuratively, of the democratic process, using their endless financial power to first bribe, then intimidate and, if necessary, destroy anyone -- any official, any populace -- in order to take what they want, all the while claiming that it is theirs by law. Theirs is classic sociopathic behavior, with the president of the United States underwriting everything they do with our money. The law of the oil companies at this time is best exemplified by the private military company Blackwater. This "security contractor" is acknowledged to be outside the jurisdiction of military law, civil law, international law and even the special jurisdiction of the State Department. In other words, the oil companies and the private army protecting their interests are outside the law -- they are pirates. With no genuine diplomacy in our foreign relations, the most vicious gang of mercenaries operating all over the world has been given diplomatic immunity by our oil president. Blackwater is beholding only to the oilmen who have wormed their way into the highest offices in the land. If the oil companies come to Santa Fe, they will bring Blackwater with them. I will close with the observation that globalization is a code word for capitalism run amok; it is a code word for privatization on a massive scale wherein the electoral process, which is the heart and soul of democracy, has been privatized. Josef Stalin is credited with saying it does not matter how many people vote or whom they vote for; the only thing that matters is who counts the votes (see Bush Family Fortune: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy). Our entire governmental system is a breath away from being privatized by special interest groups who perceive a politically aware populace as a menace, as terrorists. Hence, the dumbing of America. Our current leaders in Washington are fearful of an informed citizenry, as evidenced by the fact that they will spy on anyone, especially anyone who does not have his or her head in the sands of their propaganda machines. Throughout the food chains of Mother Nature there have always been predators that feed upon the weak and unsuspecting. In this light, the multinational oil dynasties may be viewed as predators feasting on the abundance of the American Dream without contributing to its future. I have two suggestions for stopping this invasion of Santa Fe. First, we must understand that we Americans are in the midst of a civil war fueled by decades of ruthless, profiteering corporate lobbies that have gutted and paralyzed the intent of the laws of the land. Our federal government and many of our state governments have lost any legitimacy of actually serving the people -- rather, they are the servants of the corporate structures. It is at the local and county level that we the people have any chance of restoring honor and integrity to the political process. In the eyes of the corporate structures we are sheep to be shorn, and silence and shopping are our patriotic duties. I hope we can start the process here in Santa Fe of halting this runaway train of corporate greed and malfeasance masquerading as the law of the land. Property owners must have the same rights as holders of mineral rights. Secondly, we New Mexicans are under the gun to quit our passive alliance with gas and oil entrepreneurs. Even with those ethically irresponsible revenues, we are still one of the poorest states in the union. May New Mexico become a mecca for inventors and entrepreneurs with a vision of serving the highest good of the planet, a world-class pollution-free center for the production of renewable-energy vehicles. Let us start now, priming the pump with no sales tax on clean alternative fuels.