You’re going to hear a lot of predictions in the first quarter of 2012. No doubt, you’ve had your fill already. I’m no seer but, here are three predictions you can take to the bank.

First of all, I confidently predict, without equivocation, that the Mayans were wrong. They simply ‘ran out of ink’ in their ink well. Where are they today? Don’t you think that such a brilliant civilization (and I use that term loosely!) would still be around today if they had a good grip on predicting the future?

That’s not to say that Earth couldn’t cease to exist as we know it at midnight tonight! Anything could happen. I doubt an asteroid will sneak up on us and punt us into another galaxy. But a series of earthquakes, so far unpredictable, or volcanic eruptions, could certainly smother or drown us all in short order. Maybe the most likely scenario for End Times involves Iran nuking Israel, Korea nuking the United States before we can respond to Iran, and Pakistan nuking everyone, including themselves!

Second, and this one is a sure-fire no-brainer, you will be fed a tremendous amount of bullshit this year. 2012 is an election year; bullshit and elections are better pals than vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup. This year the bullshit will be far worse than 2008. I can prove to you that it is already worse, and I will do that in a future post.

Do not fall for the bullshit. If you do you will miss out on the importance of my most significant prediction. Turn your radio off, and the TV, and use the newspaper for lining animal cages, wrapping fish or, starting fires.

Third, and most important, if you continue to slip-slide through life taking life as it comes, you will be part and party to bringing the United States and North America steps closer to global rule. Global rule means no U.S. Constitution. Global rule means that if you think you are a pawn now, and that you can do nothing except take life as it comes, then you will become less than a drone, a short-lived worker bee, soon. To stand around and do nothing is akin to invoking your own new slavery.

If you walk around telling people “It’s all good”, even when someone dings your car door, rips the last can of green beans out of your hands at the store, steals your wallet, abuses your identity, does brodies on your lawn, shorts your paycheck… you get the picture – then please stop reading this blog. Go back to your Facebook account and show the masses of strange friends you’ve accumulated what an idiot you are by telling them all that you’re going to a yoga and healing convention in Berkley for the weekend, leaving your house empty as the day it was supposedly sold to you, so one of them can rip off your Rachel Maddow-signed yoga pad and piss in your drawer of stirrup-tights, all so you can come to say “It’s all good” again. Go away. Go read some Herman Melville.

I am looking for an audience that can make decisions, read between the lines, not look into the future but rather, choose a future and stop at nothing to make that future a reality. If that describes you then, let’s go for a walk… Let’s meet here again next week. Bring your pocket Constitution with you.

© Canfeld Boseman 2012

I’m up late tonight, and I’m pissed off. To start with, whenever I think about the events that unfolded on that fate-filled day in 2001, I get pissed off. The events of September 11, 2011, make me angrier today, ten years and a dead Osama bin Laden later, than they did on that infamous morning back in 2001.

But that’s not all.

There’s been a lot of radio chatter today about where this great country is headed. From what I hear I am clearly not alone, sitting here pissed off, pondering the future of this country. There are some very bright folks around the country who are putting their asses on the line to get a message to U.S. citizens via the radio, on TV, writing newspaper and magazine articles, and books… Are you listening? Can you hear their message?

A man on the radio tonight was asked a question I’ve been hearing more often lately. The question was essentially “Is it too late?” The gist was is it too late to correct the path this country is on? Can this path be corrected without violence?

The man’s answer included thoughts that I found mirrored some of my own. He started with his observations on the state of the average American.

“Americans today are fat. They are lazy. Their obesity causes them to just go along with whatever is happening because they do not have the energy to fight — physically, mentally, ideologically…

“And children today are obese and stupid. They are not taught in school the lessons they need to defend the freedoms this country was designed to have. They are lazy, uneducated and stupid. And these stupid children are prepared, every day, on TV and with video games, to accept violence as a normal part of their everyday life.

“Violence is in our future. But it will not be The People rising up, because they are too fat and too stupid. What resistance is mounted as our country slips away will be brutally crushed and the violence will largely be delivered by the U.S. military, in conjunction with a coalition force made up of our ‘allies’’ soldiers.”

Are you too fat and too stupid to stand up to the forces behind this country’s destruction? Are you too mentally thick to recognize our accelerating slide into Socialism?

I saw an ad in a magazine that nearly made me vomit. And I quote:

“We didn’t put a man on the moon because some company thought they might be able to make a profit doing it. It takes vision to involve the common good of the American people without regard for profit. If you’re charting a course for this country and your big idea is, ‘No We Can’t’, then I don’t want you leading the country.”

-Rachel Maddow

LEAN FORWARD

RACHEL MADDOW, msnbc host msnbc

In the quote reproduced above the italics are mine. Phrases such as “common good” and “without regard for profit” form the mantra for Socialism! This ad is a bold sign that this country’s capitalist economy and its representative republic model of government is wholly under attack!

You, yes YOU, must wake up and shed the extra baggage in your life so you can respond appropriately and efficiently to the clearly present threats that will most certainly lead us, and our children, into slavery! If you are obese, physically or mentally, you must shed that extra baggage in order to have the energy and intelligence necessary to rescue The Constitution of the United States. If your children are obese, you must strive to correct this malady. If your children are not getting the education they need to protect the ideals this great nation was founded upon, for future generations, then you must get involved in their education in order to prepare them for the battles to come.

If you ignore this advice, Rachel Maddow, and others like her, will suckle your progeny on donuts, for the common good, without regard for profit, and your children will be lost to you, along with you country!

Wake up! It’s time to take back America!

All rights reserved. © Canfeld Boseman 2011

It’s too bad that all of the comments about the recent post, To B or not to B, were just spam. I was waiting for someone to write Hey Canfeld, how does bartering have any effect at all on the federal government when bartering is typically a local affair? Great question! I’m glad you asked.

Counties report their tax revenues, including sales tax revenue, to their respective states. The states, in turn, report to the federal government. When tax receipts drop, when overall tax revenues decline, governments take notice – city, county, state and federal governments. You want to rebel against unfair taxation? Start bartering.

When a significant percentage of the population embraces bartering the numbers (tax revenues) will eventually show a dip on some ledger in a dark office in D.C. where a number-cruncher sits hunched over a keyboard pulling on his (or her) chin-hairs. But it takes a significant percentage of The People to make that happen.

It’s not the chin-hair pulling that matters. We don’t really care if the Feds take notice of our bartering. What matters is that by bartering, by avoiding the costly sales tax, and sometimes that sales tax is attached to items (cars, boats, etc.) that have been sold new and resold several more times (Double-taxation? Think triple- and quadruple-taxation!), the avoided sales tax is money in your pocket. And that’s what people need more of today – money in hand.

A welcome  side effect for those who barter is that they are directly altering government spending. Unlike the Federal Government, local governing bodies can’t spend what they don’t have. By bartering your actions help to curb wasteful government spending.

Try bartering today. Do it with something you don’t care about. Start small. Enjoy the process. Enjoy the haggling. Revel in the process of deciding how your goods are an equivalent value for the goods you want. Take a trinket from your house to someone else’s yard sale and trade it for another trinket. Repeat the process at another yard sale. That’s a fun way to start small. Pretty soon you’ll be trading a costly hay-burning paint mare for a heart-healthy canoe and a pair of paddles.

© 2011 Canfeld Boseman

In the previous election cycle quite a few politicians were elected for the sole purpose of putting America, her finances, and her government back on the track our founders spilled blood to provide for us. Many of our politicians, incumbents and freshmen alike, have failed the American public who entrusted our nation’s future to them. Our nation is no better off now than it was six months ago, or even one year ago, or even ten years ago! We are still operating on insufficient funds. The Federal Government has proven time and time again that it cannot and will not check spending and follow a balanced budget. Here’s what you can do, my New Revolutionary Freedom Seekers, to pull the plug on the Federal Government.

You’re the boss! Want to check government spending, as is your right, as the boss of the US Federal Government? Barter. Really.

Is this the answer to all of our problems? Of course not! But as a New Revolutionary Freedom Seeker you feel obligated to do something, right? Barter, barter, barter…

Bartering is, by nature, tax free. Oh sure, a few municipalities, a few counties & states attempt to collect sales taxes on high-end trades of professional services but, who’s going to tell those governments what’s going on? You want to be a New Revolutionary Freedom Seeker? Here’s where you start!

Bartering today is much the same as throwing the tea overboard in 1773, except you don’t have to dress up as an Indian. In fact, you’ll be honoring America’s Indians by making unregulated trades, just like old times.

Remember awhile back when Hank Paulsen suggested to this Great Nation that we needed to hand over billions of dollars in bailout funds to organizations that couldn’t manage their affairs and were too big to fail? Way back then a friend told me that we, as a nation, were heading for a big collapse. I was an unbeliever. Then, things got very tough for me, for friends, family, everyone I knew. To solve all those problems our burgeoning government requested, and acquired, even more bailout funds. That same government then lied to us (again!), pummeling us with absurd data that proved we were on the path to recovery while they muddled further in our affairs. Here we are now, today, on the brink of a far larger disaster, supposedly because we need more debt to solve the problems our current debt has caused, with even more government intrusion being jammed up our ass! The recent tragedy of the past few years has not come and gone, it’s continuing, and getting worse!

You can listen to all the radio talk shows, watch all the Special Reports on TV, and gasp at all the blinky-flashy online headlines you can stand but, here’s what it boils down to: How are you and your family doing? Better today than, say, 2008? 2010? No? Why not? How’s your debt treating you? Your mortgage? The grocery bill? You mean you haven’t noticed that a 4-pack of toilet paper is $5, that a tube of toothpaste is smaller, labeled as a drug and costs $5? How could you not notice that?

How’s your tax burden these days? No, I’m not really talking about your paycheck deductions. Have you tallied up what you pay in sales tax lately? How about vehicle registration, gas taxes, property taxes, fees on your electric bill, 911 service fees, surcharges on your phone bills, your boat registration, canoe registration, dog registration; the list can goes on and on!

Oh, you’re still mumbling about the line about the paycheck? What’s that? You don’t have a job? Why not? Everyone has a job, the economy is improving, and we’re living in renewed prosperity, right? You still don’t buy it? What do you mean you’re still unemployed? C’mon, your new job is right around the corner…

Let me break it to you straight: If I was an ‘unbeliever’ through the first bailout, the second wave – TARP II – sent me reeling. But that wasn’t enough so, here we go for Round Three! OK, I was perturbed by Paulsen’s financial ‘fix-all’, but it was the second round that really motivated me to start looking into what makes this country great and who’s sabotaging its greatness. Now I’m a believer and we’re in big trouble.

You can watch TV and listen to all the talk shows. You can tune into the president’s press conferences. You can get instant updates on your phone, your I-pad, I-pod, your inbox, even the TV screen above your favorite Cardio- whatever at the gym! But, you are the SPAM filter!

Our founding fathers, the men (and the women who shared their risk) who stuck their necks out, literally, for a belief in what was and is right, were just a few among many. This country does not need re-founding, it just needs a few among many who are ready and willing to don the blinders of The Constitution, filter out the SPAM, stand up and stand out.

In future posts I will point out a few of the happenings that are leading the United States of America to complete collapse and subjugation, though I won’t dwell on that stuff because practically every blog, podcast and so-called news outlet is permanently stuck in the past, regurgitating a biased mantra that was fed to them, I think, intentionally as a means to an end that I am not in favor of. Leave the recent past to them! My main bent will be towards solutions, period. I’ll point you toward my sources along the way. And, if you love this country like I do, and believe in her like I do, then you will check up on my sources, you will embark on a path of self-study as I have, you will find receptive minds willing to discuss what you have learned, and you will take action to promote the ideals this Great Country was founded upon.

~Canfeld Boseman

© Take Back America, July 2011

Geronimo – Enemy; Killed in Action: Osama bin Laden is dead.

Despite increased potential for terror attacks on American targets today Americans and allies throughout the world celebrated the death of Osama bin Laden, mastermind behind thousands of American casualties at home and abroad.

Early Sunday morning, May 1, 2011, the hand of Allah delivered a blow to radical Muslims throughout the world by guiding an elite team of U.S. Navy SEALs to bin Laden’s “secret” compound deep inside Pakistan. Reports indicate that Osama succumbed to two expertly placed SEAL team bullets, receiving one to the head and one in his chest.

At 54 years old, Osama lived nearly 20 years too many, if one counts back to the early history of Al Qaeda, the 1993 bomb attack on the World Trade Center and his 1996 fatwa, a declaration of war against all Americans.

Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda terror organization has been implicated in at least five attacks directly aimed at Americans, including the World Trade Center bombing in 1993. Osama’s reign of terror killed significantly more than the 3000+ victims who perished in the September 11^th attacks in New York City, Virginia and Pennsylvania.

bin Laden’s body was buried at sea May 2, 2011. Radical Muslims are already decrying the burial as a sin against Allah. To Americans the quick burial at sea adds to the coup. Reasons for the burial at sea have, according to news sources, embraced the ideas that no country would accept the body for burial, and that U.S. military personnel acted out of respect for Muslim custom by burying Osama’s remains within 24 hours.

The burial at sea will resonate with Americans who remember Osama’s quote in which he besought Allah to utilize Al Qaeda’s brutality to “make it [America] a shadow of itself.” The irony is that Osama’s watery grave in the North Arabian Sea will see no sunlight, thereby reducing him to no shadow at all.

(From Dr. Laura’s blog, July 29, 2010)

I was stunned last Sunday when I read that Private Bradley E. Manning, after taking solemn oaths to protect his country and his fellow soldiers, decided that he no longer personally liked the concept of America’s participation in relieving Afghanistan of the Taliban.  Based upon his mood, he allegedly released over 90,000 classified documents via the Internet to Julien Assange, who is the person behind WikiLeaks.

Mr. Assange released the documents to the New York Times, the Guardian, and Der Spiegel instead of to the world at once, because (as he is quoted as saying): “You’d think the bigger and more important the document is, the more likely it will be reported on, but that’s absolutely not true.  It’s about supply and demand.  Zero supply equals high demand; it has value.  As soon as we release the material, the supply goes to infinity, so the perceived value goes to zero.”

Isn’t that just stunning?  The value of the documents, according to WikiLeaks, is determined by the means of distribution and not by the content?  Is this some kind of media game for attention and power?

Let me first say that I believe in the value and courage of some whistleblowing, for example, when there’s concrete evidence that a company knew its product was dangerous and that they accepted the fact some people would die because they were looking at their bottom line, and it was cheaper to pay for the deaths than change the design of their product.  That situation has occurred – in the car industry, as you may remember – and that form of whistleblowing is specifically geared only toward saving human lives.

Pvt. Bradley Manning enlisted in the Army in 2007, and was working as an Army intelligence analyst, examining classified information.  This twenty-two year old decided on his own that US foreign policy was incorrect, and tracked down a former computer hacker in Sacramento, California named Adrian Lamo, who he thought would be a soul-less mate, and told him how he had downloaded the classified information: “I would come in with music on a CD-RW labeled with something like ‘Lady Gaga,’” he told Lamo.  While pretending to sing along to Lady Gaga, Manning would actually be erasing the music from the CD and recording intelligence onto it instead.

A disgruntled pipsqueak with minimal social skills finally finds his power…putting his fellow soldiers and his country at risk.  Now, that’s being a man?

Adrian Lamo is the hero here.  Fearing that the soldier’s leaks could put American lives at risk, he went to the FBI.  “Had I not acted, I would have always wondered had I gotten someone killed,” Lamo said.  Adrian Lamo is an American hero. 

Adrian Lamo has received threats, including threats of death.  What??  I think he should be awarded the highest medal America gives to a civilian.  Talk to me about the hypocrisy of supporting Manning for so-called whistleblowing, but not Lamo.

Lamo reports Manning wanted Hillary Clinton to wake up and have a heart attack, and that Manning was trying to be an “army of one” and stop the war in Afghanistan, which Manning felt was unjust.  “He did so with the stated intention of disrupting United States’ foreign policy.”  Imagine…

Lamo said, “I don’t think that this is going to do us any good in terms of trying to build relationships and maintain relationships with our allies in the war on terror.”

Here’s more hypocrisy:  Julien Assange has WikiLeaks well insulated (which is sort of counter to his avowed position to make everyone’s “privacies” public, even if it puts lives at risk).  Key members of WikiLeaks are known only by their initials (”M,” for example) even deep within WikiLeaks, where communications are conducted by encrypted online chat services.

Will Julien Assange – “Mr. WikiLeaks” – think positively about the whistleblower that leaks all his information and that of his network?  I don’t think so.

What infuriates me even more is this situation is not being received with a huge, national, shaking reaction by either major political party or any aspect of our news media!  None of the major players, including the so-called liberal mainstream media, nor pundits like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin, and none of our politicians on either side of the aisle have pitched their tents to deal with this egregious and evil assault on the military and the United States of America.  Why no ferocious outrage?  I’ve seen more attention paid to the stupid shenanigans of Lindsay Lohan.

Perhaps it’s because this is so big – bigger than Jane Fonda sitting, smiling, on a North Vietnamese tank, for the world-wide press.  This is the concerted attempt first of one lonely, maladjusted private to betray his country and his oaths, with little or no regard for the final impact on his country and his fellow soldiers, and second, the enthusiastic response of WikiLeaks to dispense national security information to the world for the power of it, and the desire to destroy our country.

I guess this is so big a situation it boggles the mind and makes it impossible for people to neatly and simply wrap their brains around it.  It’s easier to watch reality television or listen to pots calling kettles racist.

A newspaper leaking information is something we can deal with.  The Internet dispenses information without any controls – WikiLeaks has no address and no accountability.  That is hugely frightening.  So, I think this is why there is little outrage.

I suppose the right thing is to court martial Private Bradley Manning.  I pray this ends with a firing squad, and they ask me to participate.

Betraying your country because you are an unhappy person just shows you how mundane an appearance evil can make.

Arizona governor Jan Brewer has been ripped apart by the media for her comments insinuating that beheaded bodies had been located inside the US on Arizona soil, seemingly as a direct result of illegal immigration and drug trafficking activity. Since the attacks on Governor Brewer are largely based upon insignificant semantics many people have missed the real story: Mexican drug trade violence is creeping over the border into the US, and many of the crimes approaching the border include beheadings.

A person does not have to look too hard to find stories of beheadings in Mexico. More than 22,000 deaths, many of them beheadings, are attributed to recent drug cartel violence. Numerous news articles going all the way back to 2000 indicating that rival drug gangs in Mexico are using beheadings as a vicious intimidation tactic against rivals, politicians, law enforcement officers, and their family members. It is only a matter of time before Governor Brewer’s semantic slip can be taken literally. Beheadings are coming to a southern US border town near you.

Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Loredo, all US border towns with significant body counts, including headless bodies to be more specific, that are just stunning. Count US citizens in the bloody pile, like Augustin Salcedo, an El Monte, CA resident and school principal who was slain on New Year’s Eve, 2010. Two additional Americans, Leslie Enriquez and her husband, Arthur Redelfs, were gunned down just before crossing back into the US from Ciudad Juarez on March 13, 2010. Though the US citizens were not actually beheaded the killings indicate serious indiscriminate violence on the border being committed by callous, barbaric, unrestrained henchmen acting with complete disregard for human life, regardless of age or nationality, and regardless of the victims’ lack of ties to the drug trade.

This is war. US citizens have been attacked, killed, and beheaded on the US border. It is immoral and unconstitutional for our government to wring its hands while attempting to diplomatically reduce the violence on our southern border. That border must be sealed immediately in order to protect US citizens in our border states. The fact that our National Guard is not yet deployed on that southern border constitutes a serious breach of our Constitution by our current administration.

What happens when killers of a weakened drug cartel lay down their arms to slip across the border into the US to regroup and rearm themselves? Will they suddenly begin to pick lettuce as an undocumented guest worker, or take up mops and brooms in local schools with fake Social Security cards, or hawk helado from a cart at the park? I doubt it. And the violence will follow them north. And our children will stop their bullets, or watch their parents die, as they swing and slide at the park along the river.

Special note to southern border states: Your government will not save you. Arm yourselves. Train daily with your weapons. Establish a system of communication with your neighbors and check on each other frequently. Establish a system of communication with your northern neighbors so you can call up civilian reinforcements. There are Patriots standing by ready to assist. How can we help?

Canfeld Boseman

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In the days leading up to our Independence Day celebrations talk show hosts across the nation asked millions of listeners What does it mean to be an American? The answers, from people of all walks of life and representing all ages, have been varied, steadfast and intriguing. I constantly reassess what it means to me to be an American but, I want to pose the question differently: Are you really an American?

What is an American? For many generations the term has referred to citizens of the United States, even before the United States existed. Yet all the people of this continent are considered to be North Americans. Does that mean Mexicans are Americans, too? Canadians?

Is the term ‘American’, as it is currently used to indicate a citizen of the United States, overreaching? What effect will being called an American have on our constant and ever more intense battle to retain and strengthen our sovereignty, our liberty, within the borders of the United States? With our sovereignty under fire daily on all fronts should we still be calling ourselves Americans today?

As the “bombs burst in air” this evening, while I stood in my backyard with my hat over my heart as the Star Spangled Banner played across the stereo, an aged thought recurred to me: Let’s call Americans, as the term refers to citizens of the United States, “Patriots”. By referring to ourselves as Patriots I believe the voices of our founding fathers will ring more truly in our subconscious to the point, I hope, that more people constantly thinking as patriots will inspire average people to accomplish extraordinary feats in order to hold this great nation together, with its sovereignty intact, as our founding fathers intended

The “Fall of Democracy”, a short treatise that is errantly attributed to British lawyer and writer Alexander Fraser Tytler, describes the supposedly inevitable demise of a democracy, essentially an impossible form of governing for the long term, as in more than 200 years. Would a true patriot stand idly by as his or her representative republic failed? I don’t think so.

Maybe the people we think of as “true” Americans should be called Patriots? I encourage the term because it appears with each passing day that, as Thomas Jefferson is aptly quoted, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

As I watched thousands of fireworks, basking in the “rockets’ red glare”, I realized that I prefer liberty to slavery, the right to pursue happiness over oppression, and patriots over tyrants. From this time forward, as citizens of the United States, let’s not just call ourselves Patriots, but act as patriots as well.

Canfeld Boseman

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Dear Mr. President,
Day 66 of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has now come and gone. Yet oil still spews into the Gulf, sometimes unabated. It is time for your administration to come up with a serious plan that can be implemented immediately in order to alleviate the deepening impact this disaster is having on the American people. I have some suggestions for what the Federal Government’s response should be.

First and foremost, we need an Executive Order fining BP $1billion per day for every day that oil leaks into the Gulf. And the fine needs to be retroactive to the first day of the disaster, right from April 20, 2010 to present. Furthermore, as a part of this Executive Order BP executives must understand that non-payment is not an option because they will go to prison immediately upon missing a payment.

Please don’t patronize me by telling me you can’t do that. You and your administration jammed additional TARP funds down our throats, took over the American banking system, re-rigged Wall Street, nationalized our auto industry and jammed the mother-ship of all health care plans down our throats, in a little more than one year. Fining BP for this disaster, and collecting the money daily, is not beyond your administration’s ability.

What could the Federal Government do with $66 billion in fines and a fund that grows by $1billion each day? Clean the mess up.

The Federal Government does not have the capability to stop this tragic oil leak. It does, however, have everything necessary to clean the mess up as the disaster continues to unfold.

The American people are eager to step up for the clean-up, but they need leadership, guidance, training, and money. Lots of money. Money the American people should not have to dig out of their own pockets, or print, I might add.

I envision a clean-up system operating much like the day-to-day operations of the Census Bureau. The Census Bureau builds a sizable workforce over a short period of time, trains the workforce, deploys the newly trained workforce, and relieves them of duty once the mission is accomplished. The Gulf oil spill disaster can be cleaned up the same way.

How many people are out of work today? Do you want to create jobs that the American public can really see? You can produce employment numbers we can take pride in by using BP fines to fund the clean-up of the worst disaster to hit our shores, ever. By creating small tent cities, hiring security for same and employing possibly hundreds of thousands along the Gulf shoreline you can elevate yourself to “hero” in the face of this disaster.

Stimulate the economy? The chemical suit manufacturers would love the opportunity to deliver hundreds of thousands of new suits to newly trained clean-up personnel on the Gulf shore. Any company that manufactures oil response gear and materials would be on board. First responder trainers could certify thousands of clean-up volunteers at a time. Veterinary technicians can deploy to the Gulf waters for real, hands on, mutually beneficial experience. The homeless and jobless can shuffle oil containment booms on the shoreline, skim oil as deckhands, capture soiled wildlife, even cook and cater for the influx of clean-up crew members. Those with boats, trucks, planes, etc., can lease their equipment to the managing agency and receive compensation directly from the organization managing the clean-up effort, rather than filing claims with BP.

After all the oil is cleaned up the economic stimulation continues for several more years, right on into your second term. As the tent cities are closed the parks and green areas will have to be rebuilt, reseeded, etc. The locals, once fishermen and seafood merchants, now caterers and sanitation workers, can become landscapers, and finally, fisherman and seafood merchants once again.

BP is overwhelmed on four fronts: the mother of all oil leaks; leaked oil recovery; damage clean-up; and, litigation. Your actions can reduce the workload by more than 25% on BP staff by removing the clean-up from their list of duties.

Honestly, why would you trust them with the clean-up anyway? (There’s another argument here, too, along the same lines, but I am going to ignore that one for the time being.)

Please, Mr. President, I implore you. Do something. Change this disaster into something positive for all Americans. Don’t let such a great crisis go to waste! Do something!

Sincerely,
Canfeld Boseman

P.S. If British Petroleum plc was fined $1 billion per day would they go broke? Put another way, if oil keeps leaking into the Gulf at a fine amount of $1 billion per day how long will it take BP to go broke? Do we care? No.

Wouldn’t it be better to banish BP from this country, destitute and in shame, rather than having innocent gas station owners and attendants murdered because they work for BP? This disaster is moving in that direction.

Furthermore, if BP can’t stop the leak, maybe American ingenuity (IE: an American oil company) can!

Please, do something worthwhile. Twenty or thirty years of wrecked coastline is just not an option.

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