June 3, 2010 -- British Petroleum should be expropriated by the U.S. government, and President Obama should be impeached. Since President Obama's inauguration, the effect of his policies has been more of that of an agent of the British Empire seeking to destroy the country, than a President of the United States. His action in the matter of the scandalous case of British Petroleum illustrates the point.

BP has been convicted of blatant, fatal safety breaches in this country over recent years, as well as of petroleum market manipulation. They have failed to adhere to required safety measures after conviction, and were still currently under probation when they committed criminal neglect in the Gulf case. There is no reason now why they should be trusted to carry out any further actions in the current oil leak crisis. The United States government must take control of the situation, seize BP's assets, and take over the investigation and decisions to be made from here on out. In the words of economist Lyndon LaRouche, “Expropriate those British sons of bitches, take over BP, they owe us.” This would be a declaration of sovereignty, finally putting an end to the practices of this British Puppet.

BP's current circulating assets of $70 billion are in the range of what would be required for clean up, compensation, and drilling control, in the level of action of “waging war” rightly demanded by people in the Gulf states and neighboring nations. By nationalizing BP, the government will be ending the “trust us” game of years of looting.

Further, BP operates not simply as an energy company, but as a general operative of the London- centered financial system, much in the same way as the historical British East India Company. One recent President of the company, Lord John Brown, sat simultaneously on the board of Goldman Sachs, currently under investigation for selling “designed-to-fail” portfolios, and profiting off their failure. A recently leaked internal memo regarding BP's safety measures demonstrated that they have the same “cost-effective” procedures as Obama's recently passed genocidal healthcare bill, comparing money spent on safety, to money spent paying off the lives of families of workers who die, and choosing the “least expensive.”

This attack on the principles and sovereignty of the United States must not be allowed to continue. Citizens have lost all trust for their Congress and Presidency. Obama must be impeached, and BP expropriated.

--Rachel Brown