Your request is being processed... Brad Pitt: I Would Consider Death Penalty For BP
 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_690790.html
"Brad Pitt has harsh words for BP in Spike Lee's new documentary about New Orleans...."

Finally someone with some pull says exactly what i've been saying all along. BP should be killed as a corporation or Hayward (or one of those head douchebags) should get the chair. Enough is enough! BP is guilty of eco-terrorisim to the highest degree through criminal negligence.

on edit- don't know where that "your request is being processed" came from! haha

We are all guilty...

kill all of us...

You should lose your right to operate as a business after that.

But money talks, bullshit walks. They can do whatever they want. The paltry amount of money they will have to pay is NOTHING for them.

"If there's a hell below, we're all gonna go!" ~ Curtis Mayfield

if you would knowingly run a slip shod business you knew through negligence could easily create a massive environmental disaster, then yes, you are guilty.

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He is unquestionable... he bangs Angelina Jolie.

If you run things like that no cleaning up would be done.

Have disaster. Close business. Reopen as BP². Carry on.

:2 cents:true on both counts.

good to see people are talking up, but it won't do shit.

heh, how little do you know. haven't been keeping up on new orleans have you? Pitt has influence, he talks the talk and walks the walk.

When did Brad Pitt become someone with pull??

new orleans

You = sheep

Bad Pitt, Bono and Sean Penn - they all tell you want you want to hear. But if that makes you happy, the so be it. Go vote for them as the next president.

oy vey, this is why ultimately nothing will be done.

Brad pitt is actually a tranny from uzbekistan named Nigora Uzlavetx. Look it up if you dont believe me.

Sure there would be. Freeze their assets and pay for it with their own money.

Look, as private citizens we are held responsible for shit like this. If I burned by neighborhood down by mistake, it would be me ass and if anyone died, I'd go to the monkey house. Corps should not be given a pass for such destruction. Hell, if you got caught dumping ANYTHING in the ocean from a paddle boat, it would be your ass.

Brad Pitt is somebody "with pull"?

Please.

Their assets would be to complicated to get to the bottom of.

I think it would just encourage a cycle of fuck-up to new company in the same way double-glazing businesses work to get out of their guarantees.

Like it or not - if that happened, the industrial revolution would slot to a stop, and we would never be able to go further, cheaper, cleaner or faster than we do today. Nobody would be willing to take any risks and invest money in anything.

There was a security system that failed. Fix the cause, learn from it and move along. It's not like the people of BP WANTED this to happen. They paid a lot of people money to make sure it dident. They might also have paid people not to check, but that is part of the reason for the whold disaster to begin with, as I mentioned before.

The answer to the current problems is not to turn the whole world in to North Korea or Iran.

It's questionable that he dumped Jennifer Aniston for her... :2 cents:

assuming that people can still read and count it would be quite simple.

If I was running a risky business with the threat of being shut down hanging over it purely for an accident everything would be so well hidden you'd never get to the bottom of it.

Eco-Terrorists who wish to destroy everything which doesn't uphold the common communist manifesto. Ah, pay no attention to the old man behind the curtain.

The moment I find myself agreeing with content is the day I stop voting.

If they were in the porn business they'd close their affiliate program and claim they were bought by mysterious group who asked not to be named as part of the deal.

Hahaha. Comeon seriously.

I wish some of these hollywood idiots would just stick to making films and butt out of shit they know nothing about.

BP wasn't the only company to blame. 3 American companies were directly tied into this disaster because they either manned the rig, manufactured the faulty equipment etc. Brad needs to educate himself a little before opening his mouth :)

Still unquestionable since he could choose to dump her...

What a hypocrite. He used to be against the death penalty in cases of murder, but now he is reconsidering his stance since there was an oil spill near a place where he owns some property.

So someone committing murder doesn't justify a death sentence, but look out if you dare to bring down his property value.

why should Brad Pitt have some pull? he's only an actor for fucks sake. and secondly, this whole fiasco worked out rather well for the u.s. oil companies didnt it? A good hatchet job on a foreign company to get them out of the way.

But it adds to his baller status just for the fact that he was in a position to do so. :2 cents:

Brad Pitt for president!

okay you're a brit so the bp outrage has got you a little sore eh? the entire episode has nothing to do with where the company is from...its what they did, or allowed to happen thru criminal negligence.

as far as brad pitt goes-
http://www.makeitrightnola.org/

not only could the guy easily become mayor of new orleans, he could probably be governor of the state with a little effort. that is some pull.

Just a quick question. Do you drive a gasoline powered vehicle?

what does that have to do with anything? Its not like any one of us told them to circumwent safety procedures! It was pure corporate greed:2 cents:

no i do not.:)

exactly. it amazes me when they try to use the "it's your fault too because you use gas like everyone else." this is not the point, criminal negligence is a crime in any business. the idea of making these companies more responsible should be of everyone's concern.

If you kill BP as a company based on criminal negligence, then pretty much 90% of all big corporations would be out of business. This kind of psychopathy from corporations is exactly the kind of behavior being performed day in day out to maximize profits for shareholders, end of story.

If you have any doubt at all, do some research into corporate crime and you'll find tens of thousands of examples ranging from small scale pollution to genocide to killing heirloom crops worldwide by creating indestructible GMO's. If you can think it, it's probably been done by some corporation somewhere.

Think of corporations as people, with less conscience, and unbridled greed. Pretty much sums it up.

It makes all the difference in the World.

BP is accountable to their share holders. Bottom line is all that concerns them. The demand for BP's products is driven by a global useage of oil, of course, however the greedy American public that demands to use more oil than anyone else and at a price substanially cheaper than anywhere else in the developed World does far more than their fair share to drive that demand.

At the end of the day it IS greed that's the culprit. Saying that a nameless, faceless corporation is being greedy or that their executive officers are responsible because of greed while at the same time wholesale discounting anyone else's greedy self serving motives as sharing any of the blame is pure ignorance at best.

If people REALLY wanted to end oil related enviromental disasters, they'd start with themselves and their own habbits rather than making useless posts on GFY about it.

of Canada

Yup :thumbsup

Im going to take it one step further. People like Al Gore would stop jet setting around the world, driving in limos backed by guards driving SUVs, buy homes you never set foot in ect.

Amen, crimes of humanity. They have done worse over time but this should show without a doubt how fucked up they are.

of China. Sounds like he wants to kill CEOs that make mistakes. I wonder if Brad wants to kill the people that issued the permit to drill that deep and not in shallow water like BP wanted.

I hope Sally Struthers weighs in on the subject. I heard she has a lot of pull too.

NO Thanks......... Please keep him, send Angelina's younger sister instead:winkwink:

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as far as brad pitt goes-
http://www.makeitrightnola.org/

Like i said, he is only an actor. If he ever gets voted into a postion of power then its only because he is famous. He is a layman and his opinion is as worthwhile as yours or mine, no more than that.

Valid point to a degree.

However, there are some mistakes that are not excusable.

If I drink and drive a couple of times I lose the right to drive my car. That's the rule. If I don't like it, I don't have to drive but that's not going to stop millions from driving and 100s of 1000s from driving drunk.

If I beat my kid or even spank him just a little too hard, I can lose my child to the state. But I'll still spank my child when I need to.

If I get caught picking up a street hooker in some cities, they literally confiscate my car and I lose it forever. That didn't stop me from going on the creep.

If you get 3 felonies, you go to prison FOR LIFE. Yet people keep committing felony crime.

Rules are rules. If you fuck up and cross the lines, you lose. That's not North Korea talking, that is the USA and they impose those same rules on normal citizens. You can bet your ASS if you or I dumped all that oil into the gulf, we would at the very least go to prison.

Harsh rules will not grind business to a halt. They will just be more careful, and if they screw up, they lose the right to work that job. I'm all for it.

okay, now take the time to read what i posted- "...the entire episode has nothing to do with where the company is from...its what they did, or allowed to happen thru criminal negligence."
that being said everything happened under bp's watch and it was a bp well and thus a bp disaster. you could break down the parts and literally find hundreds of companies involved but one company, bp, oversaw it all.

hardly. you have an extreme disconnect to people who actually are doing things in the name of social justice. pitt has done a hell of alot for people in louisiana, spending millions in his own money for the cause.
people there see him "putting his money where is mouth is" and he is highly regarded for doing so.

Dude, seriously, get off Brad Pitts nuts.

Who asked him for anything...