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post #1 of 43
6/24/10 at 8:28pm
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http://www.bayoubuzz.com/buzz/latest...dge-threatened

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Judge Faces Death Threats After BP Gulf Oil Drilling Moratorium Ruling

New Orleans--While many Americans undoubtedly agree with the decision of U.S. District Court Judge Martin Feldman to overturn the Obama administration’s moratorium on deep water drilling, not everyone is happy. In fact, the Judge is now receiving death threats in the aftermath of his bold ruling.

Last night, Feldman served as a celebrity judge at a cooking contest at a school gymnasium in Uptown New Orleans. Due to the threats, Feldman was accompanied by a federal marshal security team.

It is a sad indictment of our society today that a judge with such a sterling record of integrity and service to his country would be subject to such threats. Feldman was appointed to the federal bench by President Reagan in 1983. Today, he is in the eye of a political hurricane unlike anything he has ever experienced.
Very sad that many on the Left are advocating violence against a judge for making a ruling they don't agree with.
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post #2 of 43
6/24/10 at 9:42pm
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Originally Posted by ckblv View Post
http://www.bayoubuzz.com/buzz/latest...dge-threatened



Very sad that many on the Left are advocating violence against a judge for making a ruling they don't agree with.
So, every single living person who is losing their livelihood and lifestyle because of Big Oil is now on the left? That is just too funny. Uninformed, but funny.
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post #3 of 43
6/24/10 at 10:17pm
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Originally Posted by Skippymjp View Post
So, every single living person who is losing their livelihood and lifestyle because of Big Oil is now on the left? That is just too funny. Uninformed, but funny.
Not only that, but don't forget the "Violent Left" or have you forgotten we eat little little children?
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post #4 of 43
6/25/10 at 7:40am
Babies... they're the other other white meat.
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post #5 of 43
6/25/10 at 8:21am
I was wondering where it was mentioned that "The Left" was making these threats
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post #6 of 43
6/25/10 at 10:52am
So you've made the assumption that anyone opposed to Drill Baby Drill after the BP spill is automatically on the left? Interesting leap there.

So, would I also assume that anyone that supports deep offshore drilling with a potential of a repeat disaster is on the right? So the right supports Spill Baby Spill, and environmental disasters also?

Assumptions can go both ways......
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post #7 of 43
6/25/10 at 11:27am
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Seeing as how there are dozens of other drilling rigs from other countries drilling all over the world with no problem I see no reason to put thousands out of work to satisfy the left wing greenies that have been salivating for this for years. I guess the judge didn't think so either.

So now the judge is receiving death threats from the people opposed to drilling, yes I assume they are left wing. Death threats = advocating violence.

But when Sarach Palin puts a chart, on her Facebook Page, of a map of the United States with the election "Battleground States" that are in the "Cross Hairs" it IS, FOR SURE, advocating violence.

Oh and we cannot forget all those Tea Party signs that show Barack with a Hitler mustache, they are worthy of "being investigated by the F.B.I.

Just a little tit for tat.
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post #8 of 43
6/25/10 at 11:44am
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Originally Posted by ckblv View Post
Seeing as how there are dozens of other drilling rigs from other countries drilling all over the world with no problem I see no reason to put thousands out of work to satisfy the left wing greenies that have been salivating for this for years. I guess the judge didn't think so either.

So now the judge is receiving death threats from the people opposed to drilling, yes I assume they are left wing. Death threats = advocating violence.

But when Sarach Palin puts a chart, on her Facebook Page, of a map of the United States with the election "Battleground States" that are in the "Cross Hairs" it IS, FOR SURE, advocating violence.

Oh and we cannot forget all those Tea Party signs that show Barack with a Hitler mustache, they are worthy of "being investigated by the F.B.I.

Just a little tit for tat.
And for every "Big Oil" political flunky pushing to resume drilling, there are dozens of fishermen that are angry. Are you saying that you assume that every gulf seafood/sea harvest worker that's angry is left wing. The unbelievable part is that anyone could actually believe that.

One fishing boat Captain/owner has committed suicide, apparently because as he told his family, "The Gulf is dead, it's never going to be back in my lifetime". That attitude of hopelessness, IMO, well transcends political idealism.
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post #9 of 43
6/25/10 at 2:43pm
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One has to wonder what the fishing industry does about all the other rigs drilling in the gulf.
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post #10 of 43
6/25/10 at 3:21pm
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One has to wonder what the fishing industry does about all the other rigs drilling in the gulf.
I don't think they are spewing thousands of barrels of oil a day into the gulf, which btw, is poisoning the fish, therefore forcing their unemployment.
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post #11 of 43
6/25/10 at 4:07pm
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I don't think they are spewing thousands of barrels of oil a day into the gulf, which btw, is poisoning the fish, therefore forcing their unemployment.
They're not spewing...yet. Let us not forget that the same government office that was overseeing regulatory compliance on the sunken rig was doing the same for all the others.
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post #12 of 43
6/25/10 at 7:01pm
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Originally Posted by Skippymjp View Post
And for every "Big Oil" political flunky pushing to resume drilling, there are dozens of fishermen that are angry. Are you saying that you assume that every gulf seafood/sea harvest worker that's angry is left wing. The unbelievable part is that anyone could actually believe that.

One fishing boat Captain/owner has committed suicide, apparently because as he told his family, "The Gulf is dead, it's never going to be back in my lifetime". That attitude of hopelessness, IMO, well transcends political idealism.
I just watched an interview with Shell ex-CEO John Hofmeister who says that the US has more oil than all of the Middle East. But the angry fishermen aren't all that angry at the Oil companies (Except BP) and they generally don't want a moratorium on drilling.
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post #13 of 43
6/25/10 at 7:08pm
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I don't think they are spewing thousands of barrels of oil a day into the gulf, which btw, is poisoning the fish, therefore forcing their unemployment.
I rest my case.
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post #14 of 43
6/25/10 at 7:35pm
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Originally Posted by Dusty's Mom View Post
I just watched an interview with Shell ex-CEO John Hofmeister who says that the US has more oil than all of the Middle East. But the angry fishermen aren't all that angry at the Oil companies (Except BP) and they generally don't want a moratorium on drilling.
I wonder how many "generally" is in terms of real numbers, and how many that would leave that ARE angry enough to threaten a judge?
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post #15 of 43
6/26/10 at 8:32am
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I would think that it is illogical to assume that anyone else besides environmental greenies or the far left is behind the death threats to this judge. But hey, that's just me.

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post #16 of 43
6/26/10 at 8:40am
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I would think that it is illogical to assume that anyone else besides environmental greenies or the far left is behind the death threats to this judge. But hey, that's just me.

That's cool. I would think it completely unrealistic to assume that no one directly affected by this disaster would be mad enough to threaten a judge that is being perceived as Big Oil's "go-to boy". But, that's just me.

Yet another possibility is Big Oil itself. If they are doing half the things Gulf residents say they are doing, then "posing" and making threats to a judge to try to "victimize" themselves is right up their alley.
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post #17 of 43
6/26/10 at 10:23am
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...94&ft=1&f=1025

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June 18, 2010 As oil continues to gush from the Deepwater Horizon well, President Obama faces growing opposition in the Gulf region to his moratorium on offshore drilling and exploration. Even fishing groups say the oil industry should be allowed to resume operations.


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NPR's Brian Mann reports.

BRIAN MANN: At a standing room only rally yesterday afternoon in New Orleans, business and civic leaders vented their anger at BP for causing the nation's worst-ever oil spill. But they quickly pivoted to lob their harshest criticisms at President Obama and his decision to suspend deepwater oil exploration in the Gulf.
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post #18 of 43
6/26/10 at 11:00am
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Originally Posted by ckblv View Post
Leaders? Haven't you said numerous, as in lots, of times that the opinions of leaders do not necessarily reflect the opinions of their individual members?

Case in point, our respective governments are our leaders. How much of what they say do you agree with?
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post #19 of 43
6/26/10 at 1:59pm
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Originally Posted by Skippymjp View Post
Yet another possibility is Big Oil itself. If they are doing half the things Gulf residents say they are doing, then "posing" and making threats to a judge to try to "victimize" themselves is right up their alley.
I'm glad to see the left is just as crazy as the right when it comes to picking up every rock to find the conspiracies hidden thereunder.

However, I agree that there is no way of knowing the politics of those who made the threats. But I doubt the people being affected by the spill are behind it; most of them recognize that if there is no more drilling, there is no more income for BP to distribute to them.
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post #20 of 43
6/26/10 at 2:09pm
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I'm glad to see the left is just as crazy as the right when it comes to picking up every rock to find the conspiracies hidden thereunder.

However, I agree that there is no way of knowing the politics of those who made the threats. But I doubt the people being affected by the spill are behind it; most of them recognize that if there is no more drilling, there is no more income for BP to distribute to them.
And it means that more of their friends, neighbors and relatives are also out of work. Interesting that the family members of the 11 men who were killed in the Deep Horizon explosion BEGGED Obama NOT to instate the deep water moratorium. That tells me that you are right, and the people most affected by this tragedy are NOT the ones behind the threats.
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post #21 of 43
6/26/10 at 3:26pm
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Originally Posted by Skippymjp View Post
Leaders? Haven't you said numerous, as in lots, of times that the opinions of leaders do not necessarily reflect the opinions of their individual members?

Case in point, our respective governments are our leaders. How much of what they say do you agree with?
I didn't see where the article said anything about "leaders" in regards to the fishing industry which YOU brought up. It does say the following:
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In Louisiana, many business and government leaders say the six month moratorium will devastate their region's oil industry.
But I thought we were talking about fishing groups, since you brought them up when you posted the following:
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And for every "Big Oil" political flunky pushing to resume drilling, there are dozens of fishermen that are angry. Are you saying that you assume that every gulf seafood/sea harvest worker that's angry is left wing. The unbelievable part is that anyone could actually believe that.

One fishing boat Captain/owner has committed suicide, apparently because as he told his family, "The Gulf is dead, it's never going to be back in my lifetime". That attitude of hopelessness, IMO, well transcends political idealism.

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post #22 of 43
6/26/10 at 7:23pm
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I didn't see where the article said anything about "leaders" in regards to the fishing industry which YOU brought up.
Really? Commercial fishing isn't a business anymore? Then why do they do it?
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post #23 of 43
6/26/10 at 7:24pm
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Originally Posted by mrblanche View Post
I'm glad to see the left is just as crazy as the right when it comes to picking up every rock to find the conspiracies hidden thereunder.

However, I agree that there is no way of knowing the politics of those who made the threats. But I doubt the people being affected by the spill are behind it; most of them recognize that if there is no more drilling, there is no more income for BP to distribute to them.
Quid pro quo. It's pretty simple actually. Just imagine what the right would say if the shoe were on the other foot, and beat them to it.

I somewhat doubt it myself, but I'm wondering about the BP doing it themselves angle.
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post #24 of 43
6/26/10 at 7:42pm
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Really? Commercial fishing isn't a business anymore? Then why do they do it?
Who knows who the "business leaders" are, it doesn't specify.

Are there any articles that you have read that say the fishing industry is against drilling being resumed? There must be some.
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post #25 of 43
6/26/10 at 7:53pm
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Originally Posted by ckblv View Post
Who knows who the "business leaders" are, it doesn't specify.

Are there any articles that you have read that say the fishing industry is against drilling being resumed? There must be some.
Are you actually of the opinion that every, single fisherman is in complete agreement with their industry leaders?

Doesn't that strike you as a bit far fetched?
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post #26 of 43
6/26/10 at 7:55pm
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Originally Posted by Dusty's Mom View Post
And it means that more of their friends, neighbors and relatives are also out of work. Interesting that the family members of the 11 men who were killed in the Deep Horizon explosion BEGGED Obama NOT to instate the deep water moratorium. That tells me that you are right, and the people most affected by this tragedy are NOT the ones behind the threats.
The mean the families who will soon be suing them for their share of the money they wouldn't be making under the deep water moratorium?
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post #27 of 43
6/26/10 at 8:26pm
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Are you actually of the opinion that every, single fisherman is in complete agreement with their industry leaders?

Doesn't that strike you as a bit far fetched?
I didn't even bring up the fisherman, you did.
I made a thread about the death threats against the Judge.
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post #28 of 43
6/26/10 at 8:29pm
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Originally Posted by ckblv View Post
I didn't even bring up the fisherman, you did.
I made a thread about the death threats against the Judge.
You also said they came from the "violent left". Where is it you read that again?
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post #29 of 43
6/27/10 at 5:13am
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Originally Posted by ckblv View Post
So now the judge is receiving death threats from the people opposed to drilling, yes I assume they are left wing. Death threats = advocating violence.
She didn't read it, she assumed it. So this whole thread is based on an assumption.
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post #30 of 43
6/27/10 at 6:25am
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She didn't read it, she assumed it. So this whole thread is based on an assumption.
You mean like some people "assume" the Tea Party "advocates violence" and should be "investigated by the F.B.I."? You mean like some people "assume" it is advocating violence to have a FB page with a chart on it of the coming election "Battleground States in the Cross Hairs"?

Yep, assuming sucks, on both sides of the political fence doesn't it 2dogmom?
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