Oil 'spill' Louisiana genocide (Gassed in the Gulf Part IV)

This Part IV, final part in the series, Gassed in the Gulf, is in memory of my mother and dedicated to Sally Comeaux and all mothers and their children suffering or murdered in Louisiana as well as in remote indigenous communities and war-torn countries by the petrochemical-military industrial complex.

Gassed in the Gulf (Part I)

Gassed in the Gulf (Part II): Toward Full Spectrum Dominance

Gassed in the Gulf (Part III): Cries, anger heard globally

Genocide continues in Louisiana and Gulf Coast region with two fast-kill deaths by the petrochemical-military industrial complex operation overtly began April 20th, invisibly seeping gas into coastal homes and businesses for the slow-kill of millions. American life elewhere and oil company business are as usual, as though the new fascist holocaust is not happening and the risk of a giant methane explosion instantly killing millions of people is non-existent.

Along with Benzene and Corexit released into the Gulf Coast region air causing locals to be choking and gasping for breath, there is up to 1 million times normal level of methane gas is in some regions near the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, reports Reuters, "astonishingly high" says Texas A&M oceanography professor John Kesslar whose crew "took measurements of both surface and deep water within a 5-mile (8 kilometer) radius of BP's broken wellhead."

Supersonic tsunami manifesting

Methane is a greenhouse gas 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide.  High methane concentrations encourage growth of microbes that deplete oxygen resulting in death. It easily ignites.

Terrence Aym writes in Helium.com that worried geologists have reported first signs that "methane may burst its way through the bottom of the ocean would be fissures or cracks appearing on the ocean floor near the damaged well head." This has happened according to evidenced "fissures opening up on the seabed" captured by the robotic submersibles. "Smaller, independent plumes have also appeared outside the nearby radius of the bore hole itself."

[T]he quiet fear now is the methane bubble rupturing the seabed and exploding into the Gulf waters. If the bubble escapes, every ship, drilling rig and structure within the region of the bubble will instantaneously sink. All the workers, engineers, Coast Guard personnel and marine biologists measuring the oil plumes' advance will instantly perish. As horrible as that is, what would follow is an event so potentially horrific that it equals in its fury the Indonesian tsunami that killed more than 600,000, or the destruction of Pompeii by Mt. Vesuvius.

The burgeoning methane gas cloud will surface, killing everything it touches, and set off a supersonic tsunami with the wave traveling somewhere between 400 to 600 miles per hour.

A supersonic tsunami would literally sweep away everything... Loss of human life would be virtually instantaneous and measured in the millions...Loss of property is virtually incalculable and the days of the US position as the world's superpower would be literally gone in a flash...of detonating methane."

Yesterday, an ABC report indicated how much closer the Gulf Coast is to that tsunami: "Oil from the BP oil spill disaster is spewing again into the Gulf of Mexico at nearly full force after a venting system connected the so-called containment cap over the blown-out wellhead was damaged in an accident with a robot sub."

Courage against lies, threats, assaults and murder

Almost 20 years ago, a 15-year old boy testing Louisiana waterways for his school science project found dangerously high-levels of toxins. When presenting at the Louisiana Science Fair, EPA almost had the boy's project disqualified, claiming the agency had done those water tests and his results were wrong. That was before the boy learned EPA gets most of its funding from the petrochemical company giants it is suppose to be protecting the little people from injury.That boy was Josh Tickell.

Tickell did not win first place for his science fair project evidencing oil toxin ladened waters endangering south Louisianan lives. Seventeen years years later, he did not win an Oscar for his multi-award-winning movie, FUEL, evidencing the petrochemical-military-industrial complex cruel corruption plus healthy solutions to kick oil addiction, a visual combination so graphic, inspiring and empowering, Robert Redford screened the film an unprecedented 11 times at Sundance Film Festival, each time ending with a standing ovation.

His mother, however, this writer, won attention of U.S. hit squads who harassed, threatened and physically assaulted her shortly after she was filmed for FUEL. One of the first threatening messages to her was by a man allegedly with "former" CIA contracts and well-connected to Louisiana oil barons who tracked her down on a small, remote island off the southern part of Australia.

"Tell your son to lay off his fuel film. He's messing with the big boys," he warned her. 

She soon learned through experience many of the horrors reported by some Targeted Individuals, TIs. Apparently, the big boys of big oil were not pleased that a woman in a film would impress upon millions of people that crude oil is genocidal. Crude invisible toxins cause cancer and miscarriages, as documented in her sections of FUEL.

With New Orleans ancestry dating back to its first Cabildo, the N.O. City Council, Delia LaBarre, noted New Orleanian who revived Lafcadio Hearn literature, told the writer, "They threw South Louisiana away a long time ago. We're so ruined."

LaBarre, a Katrina survivor, said, "I know I'm in denial, gardening to escape the reality of the oil seeping inland, into the marshes, into our very cells.

"But I also know this is not just another catastrophe. It's the catastrophic playing out of advanced crony capitalism, which will destroy everyone, everything on the planet for shareholder profit, executive pay, and other obscenities.

"Will we get it now? It's not just foreign oil. It's all oil. It's capitalism, it's corporatism that's killing us."

What military and mercenary-backed Big Oil has done for years to foreigners in oppressed nations, so it is now doing unmercifully to Americans in the Gulf coast region, killing them. This Gulf crisis is not just a matter of killing business, as the president emphasizes and media mimics.

Oil kills more than business. It kills people.

This is a humanitarian crisis, "an event or series of events which represents a critical threat to the health, safety, security or wellbeing of a community or other large group of people, usually over a wide area." (Wikipedia)

Nobody knows their own issues and what they need most as well as locals suffering the most. In the Gulf Coast, the suffering are those who have breathed, bathed in and drank toxins for decades, good reason to silence them, as government and media with military might have done to people in poor countries and people of Louisiana. Louisiana oppression has increased even more of late.

Louisiana "consistently ranks among states with highest per capita incidences of cancer and highest mortality rates." In 2002, Louisiana had the second-highest death rate rate from cancer in the U.S. One of the millions of Louisianans who suffered from cancer or suffered seeing loved ones writhe in pain due to the disease attributed to oil pollution is the boy who tested the waterways and became a film director/environmentalist, Josh Tickell. Another is Amos Favorite.

Favorite went on to be a prevention volunteer as the first president of Ascension Parish Residents Against Toxic Pollution and recently stated, "Organizing was frightening for many of the people."

"This industry is economically very powerful in Louisiana. The communities' needs are great, and their resources are few. Often it forces them to accept the companies' money and sing to their tune."

Oil violence against women and children

Perhaps no wiser nor heartfelt words were spoken in FUEL than those of Sally Comeaux, an African-American mother interviewed at the front door of her south Louisiana home in Mossville, founded by slaves with inhabitants all but extinct due to oil, as in five South Louisiana towns.

Comeaux spoke about her children swimming with neighbor children in the bayou, before knowing it was polluted with oil toxic waste, as 1/3 of fossil fuel oil is. At the time of the interview, Comeaux and her children had survived Louisiana's 85-mile long corridor of over 200 chemical refineries and their ominous toxic clouds of smoke stretching from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, the world's "Cancer Alley."

Sally Comeaux was interviewed before April's explosion after which BP and the military blanketed the entire region with over twice as much toxins from oil as the Exxon Valdez disaster and then aerial sprayed more toxins on it. Sally was interviewed before Hurricane Katrina, when as much oil blanketed south Louisiana as the Exxon Valdez disaster spilled. The government, with mainstream press assistance, suppressed Information about both of these acts to protect the perpetrators.

Outraged, Comeaux asks in FUEL, "Don't you know children was born here and they left all this water contaminated? (See Youtube below)

"There ain't been nobody come knockin' on our doors saying, 'Y'all gotta be movin' out of here.'

"They just let the people live here as though, 'If they die, so what?'"

Deborah Dupré, with post-graduate science and education degrees from U.S. and Australian universities, has been a human rights advocate and environmentalist for over 25 years in the U.S., Vanuatu and Australia. Support her work by subscribing to her articles (free). For a more just and peaceful world, see Dupré's Vaccine Liberty or Death book plus her Compassion Film Project.