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(NaturalNews) What's most striking about the present BP oil catastrophe is not that it is an aberration but rather part of a dangerous pattern of mankind's
propensity to destroy nature. To destroy life in a large region of an
ocean isn't even new: The world already has over two hundred "dead
zones" where fish can't live because the ocean water has no more oxygen
left thanks to the runoff effects of man-made chemicals.

Not content with mere deforestation and the vast destruction of biodiversity
on land, Man has now expanded to destroy the oceans through
overfishing, ocean acidification from CO2 emissions, agricultural
runoff, flushing pharmaceuticals down the drain and unleashing crude oil
directly into the ocean waters. It almost seems as if mankind were
somehow bent on destroying itself by first destroying everything
else on the planet just to see what happens.

Human beings, by any honest accounting, are repeat offenders engaged in crimes against
nature. This article, by the way, isn't some clever way to try to
push us all toward a U.N.-controlled world government where every human
action is regulated by environmental cops; it's merely an observation of
what's really happening right now on our planet. I'm a
Constitutionalist and remain strongly opposed to UN control as much as
any properly-informed American. In no way do I support suppressing our
individual freedoms or liberties. In fact, the problems here are not
with the People but rather with the corporations.

The criminal corporations

It is the corporations that are committing these crimes against nature: Big Pharma's mass poisoning of the waters,
BP's oil catastrophe crime against the planet in the Gulf Coast, the
manufacture of Depleted Uranium shells by wealthy "defense" contractors,
factory farming by meat producers, the poisoning of our farms by
Monsanto and its campaign to dominate nature with genetically modified
seeds... you get the picture. If you really look hard at the issues,
it's the corporations who are destroying our planet and thereby
destroying future survivability for the rest of us.

It is the corporations, in essence, that are the criminals who are now destroying
the very world around us, and if We the People continue to let these
corporations engage in such actions, it won't be long before we wake up
and find ourselves enslaved in a Corporatocracy that has stolen from us
the very world in which we had hoped to raise our children.

What is abundantly clear now is that corporations will do anything to
make money, from the cruel and inhumane factory farming of cows to
dumping millions of gallons of toxic chemicals in the ocean to try to
sink the dead sea animals in the Gulf. Corporations would set fire to
the entire planet if that act could somehow boost profits by 50% next
quarter.

The unbridled greed that drives these corporations is simply incompatible with sustainable life on our planet. Through their
careless, greed-driven actions, corporations are threatening YOUR
life and the lives of your children.

I say enough is enough.

An armed revolt against the corporations?

There is already some mainstream talk about arresting the CEO of British Petroleum for his
crimes against nature. It will never happen, of course, because these
corporations wield too much power over government entities. We've seen
it time and time again: Corporations are almost never held accountable
for their crimes.

It is becoming increasingly clear that any action to hold these corporations accountable for their actions must
come from the People -- most likely in the form of a dedicated
revolt, or perhaps even an armed "mass citizens' arrest" of the
corporate criminals.

Imagine ten thousand armed, angry citizens from Texas, Louisiana and Florida converging on the BP headquarters in
Houston, led by a local Sheriff, marching in and arresting all the top
CEOs of British Petroleum. That's the kind of action that needs to start
taking place if any justice is ever to be found in our modern world of
corporate corruption and government collusion.

When it comes to corporate crimes, the justice system has utterly failed. The
corporations that commit crimes are almost never held responsible.
Consider the aftermath of the Goldman Sachs fiasco in 2008 - 2009, when
Wall Street banksters ripped off the American people to the tune of
hundreds of billions of dollars, and then got bailed out by the U.S.
government with trillions of dollars in gift money. How is that
justice?

Similarly, after drug giant Pfizer was found to have committed massive marketing fraud that violated federal law, the company
was deemed "too big to fail" and was simply given a free pass by the
government to stay in business, defrauding customers, states and
nations. Pfizer set up a shell company to take the fall for its crimes,
then went right back to business as usual. Read the story on CNN if you
want to learn more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/04/0...

As CNN reports: Imagine being charged with a crime, but an imaginary
friend takes the rap for you. That is essentially what happened when
Pfizer, the world's largest pharmaceutical company, was caught illegally
marketing Bextra, a painkiller that was taken off the market in 2005
because of safety concerns. When the criminal case was announced last
fall, federal officials touted their prosecution as a model for tough,
effective enforcement. "It sends a clear message" to the pharmaceutical
industry, said Kevin Perkins, assistant director of the FBI's Criminal
Investigative Division. But beyond the fanfare, a CNN Special
Investigation found another story, one that officials downplayed when
they declared victory. It's a story about the power major pharmaceutical
companies have even when they break the laws intended to protect
patients..."

Whether it's Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Food or Big Agriculture, every large and powerful corporations gets away with
murder because laws are never properly applied to them. BP is
destroying an entire ocean -- and the livelihoods of millions of people
-- and will probably get off with a large fine and a slap on the wrist.
In two years, it will all be back to business as usual, polluting the
oceans, destroying life and ignoring safety rules and regulations once
again while the American people suffer.

More dangerous than terrorists

Corporations are a greater threat to our lives than terrorists. That much should be clear by now: When corporations
poison our food supply with toxic chemical ingredients; when they poison
our bodies with fraudulently-marketed pharmaceuticals; when they poison
our oceans with careless oil drilling... they are threatening our lives
and our livelihoods. They are destroying the only world we know, and
they are proving themselves to be far more dangerous to our collective
future than any terrorist organization.

The real terrorists, it turns out, have "Inc." after their name. And if we really want to go
after the terrorists who present a clear and present danger to our
health and lives, we must rise up against the corporate machine that now
controls our media, our food, our sick-care system, our patents, our
elected officials and our energy. We must gather our forces to make
legally-justified citizens' arrests of those at the top who are
responsible for these atrocities against nature and the People. We must
unite out of a common desire for survival against the corporate
criminals who are destroying our very futures as we speak.

We must seek the aid of the local Sheriffs, Constables and community law
enforcement officials who would join us in making these arrests, and
then we must march on the corporate headquarters of these criminal
corporations, right through their front doors and into their corporate
offices where arrests will be made at gunpoint.

And why gunpoint? Because corporations do not respect law, nor ethics, nor morality, nor
compassion towards others. They only respect one thing: force. So
we must reluctantly use force -- backed by the common sense of common
law -- to make these corporations stop destroying our planet and our
livelihoods. I'm not saying we march in there and shoot them; I'm saying
we march in and arrest them and bring them to trial in local
courts, with local jurors who can make local commonsense decisions about
what to do with these criminal corporate executives.

The feds cannot be trusted on this. We must deal with these corporations on a
local level, with the widespread support of the everyday people whose
lives are being destroyed by these corporations.

The extinction of the human race

This is more than just holding corporations accountable for specific crimes such as poisoning the Gulf
Coast; it's about our very survival. We're not merely talking
about small, local damage to specific regions or industries here -- we
are talking about the possibility of the extinction of the human race.

If the world's powerful corporations are allowed to continue operating as
they have done, they will destroy our world and cause the collapse of
human civilization. We cannot survive when suffocated under a cloud
of chemical toxicity, financial fraud, genetically-modified seeds and
widespread environmental destruction. Corporations are incapable of
acting within the guidelines of long-term sustainable living. Their
power and reach are now so great that they have the capacity to destroy
modern civilization (which is quite fragile already).

Rising up against the corporations now means fighting for our very survival.
What BP has made as clear as day is that we must now make a choice: We
can choose to appease powerful corporations and exempt them from any
real enforcement of rules, regulations or common sense; or we can take a
stand against them, arrest their top executives, shut down their
operations, revoke their corporate charters and set course in a new
world without the destructive influence of endless greed backed by
incessant profit-taking.

The worship of profit has become a scourge on human civilization. Unbridled greed is now our curse.
"Economic activity", taken as a lone figure without the context in which
it was generated, holds no measure of real value, and it should never
been pursued for its own sake.

We must now shift our consciousness to a new era of the protection of life. We must
value quality of life, not imaginary numbers in a bank account,
and quality of life is a complex, interdependent equation that
necessarily involves the sustaining of all the diverse ecosystems that
now remain on our planet. For humans to live sustainably, happily and
abundantly, we must stop destroying nature and start protecting it. We
must be its steward, not its exploiter. And those corporations engaged
in the mass destruction or poisoning of living ecosystems must be
courageously arrested as criminals and prosecuted for their crimes
against both the People and the planet.

There is no other way that we will survive the next century. Poisoning our planet on such a
massive scale in an inexcusable act. We the People will either rise up
against it, or we shall be destroyed by it.

I, for one, am willing to fight for our survival. Because I don't want human
civilization to just be a sorry footnote in the history of life on
planet Earth.

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