People can't be this fucked up...

Could this be true?:

“The real reason that BP is drilling this relief well is that they want to have a functioning well for recovering oil from the reservoir before they destroy the leaking well. In other words, BP is hedging its bets that state and federal governments will not allow further drilling after the spill is stopped, so they’ve hyped the necessity of a so-called relief well in order to guarantee their company’s access to the oil field once the crisis ends.”
- Don’t Blame Offshore Drilling by Christopher Brownfield, The Daily Beast

The President needs to nationalize the relief effort. Period. Among leftists, I am the most extremist pro-market/believer of capitalism you might ever find. And I am ready to debate my position for as long as necessary. Nonetheless, nationalization is what needs to be done. BP employees in the Gulf are to be magically turned into federal employees, the Fed is to supervise everything and to ‘politically’ own the problem (so there is at least some kind of reality-based incentive -like votes- for someone to do something), and BP is to foot the bill.

In a fit of madness, Chris Matthews uttered the terrible word that my Buddhist brain has been avoiding: execution. Yes, in China they execute people for shit like this. I stop.

Ohhhh. I can not fathom how such a nasty thing could be true. Not even from BP. Really. Not in a time like this. Not with the oil already 12 miles into the marshes. It can not be possible. Can it?