Exxon Valdez in the Wrong Hands Again

The Supreme Court, the very same court that refused to hear the recent CIA kidnapping and torture case, and last summer sided with jesus over the First Amendment will decide probably in Exxon's favor in its request to not have to pay the amount of 2.5 billion dollars to about 32,000 commercial fishermen, Alaska natives, property owners and others harmed by the 1989 tragedy that is the nation's worst tanker spill in history, because Dumbya would not like it if his good buddies at Exxon would have to pay for their mistake.

That is why he stacked the deck of the Supreme Court so full of dishonest judges that would support the needs of one despot instead of the preservation of the Constitution. Poor Exxon only made $39.5 billion last year and could barely afford to pay their CEO the $2.8 billion bonus for 2006 he so richly deserved. That was in addition to a 17% salary hike to $1.75 million. They have no problem handing over $2.8 billion to one guy who makes them so much money, but they don't want to give what amounts to less than that amount to be split between 32,000 families and individuals who were devastated by Exxon's own inconsideration eighteen years ago. Since the punitive damages Exxon doesn't feel it is their responsibility to pay to those most victimized by the oil spill, which would add up to around the price of a new car for each of the victims, spitting in their faces even more, you would think the money hungry friend of George W. would seize the opportunity to put the profits from 32,000 more oil and gas operated offenses to nature on the road directly into their pockets without blinking.

Why wasn't this corporate crone of the Bush Boys forced to serve a sentence of community service, concentrating its efforts and vast connections on solving the greenhouse gases inducing global warming disaster? One would think the families of these greedy bastards did not live on the same planet as the rest of us for them to be so arrogantly brave. I know they are lying about the seriousness of the effects of ignoring the problem, but are they stupid enough to believe their own lies?