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To: KLP who wrote (362614)	5/4/2010 11:05:47 AM
From: Maurice Winn	6 Recommendations Read Replies (5) of 794162

The psychology behind that statement is frighteningly ugly: "We have our boot on the throat of BP". I used to dispute the thinking of BP in the 1980s, but they were becoming highly cautious about health and safety issues and working their way around to my thinking on environmental issues [promote sensible environmental strategies to governments and profit from the investment in good environmental protection]. BP's attention to safety issues was becoming almost obsessive, but it was, as happens with big business and big government, more a matter of window dressing for individuals to ensure they looked good to management. It looks as though BP had simply hired an American platform and operator to do the actual drilling and production. Sort of like blaming a taxi passenger for the vehicle crashing into a crowd enroute to the airport - "We have our boot on the throat of the passenger". Who thinks in terms of putting their boot on somebody's throat? BP is currently [over the last few days] being criticized for not checking oil, water, tyres, because they are too careful about safety and training issues. NZ's safety laws have become a joke, literally. I was invited to play the character of an OSH inspector [occupational health and safety] in a movie "The Devil Dared Me To" who inspected the star's plans to do daring dangerous vehicle jumps over various gaps. In reality, the movie makers had to do some secret filming later because the actual OSH inspectors made the filming too pathetic. They like to make explosions, fires and whatnot and the film had to look realistic. Being "safe" has an economic cost. People say "You can't be too safe" and "safety" is normally trotted out by the suffocatocracy as their excuse to stop people doing what they want to do even when there is absolutely no safety issue but the bossy bureaucrat wants to do their normal think and put the kibosh on somebody. Of course BP should be compliant with laws protecting employees the public and others and to ensure there isn't environmental damage. Talk of putting a boot on a throat implies evil-doers being crushed mercilessly and in a hideous way. Does Obama's spokesman talk like that in regard to Moslem actual malign intentions to do murderous harm to people? Obama obviously has a malign antipathy to anything British/English and resentments about the British Empire in Kenya and Africa and over Moslem countries. He sees them as the enemy to be given a boot on the throat. But bowing to the Islamic rulers is showing respect. Why didn't he bow to Gordon Browne and Queen Elizabeth II? The Saudi bosses are likely to give him loads of loot after his presidency. The British will give him nothing. I guess that explains it well enough. Instead of spouting off, I should watch the actual comment if it's available - maybe I'm badly informed. Mqurice

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