BP destroys lives. Congress protects it from liability.

“My name is Diane Wilson. I am a fourth generation shrimper from the Gulf. With this BP disaster, I am seeing the destruction of my community and I am outraged. I am also seeing elected representatives like Senator Lisa Murkowski blocking BP from being legally responsible to pay for this catastrophe. She stopped the Big Oil Bailout Prevention Act and wants to keep the liability cap at a pitiful $75 million. This is outrageous. How dare she side with big oil over the American people who have been so devastated by this manmade disaster.”

For four generations, Diane Wilson‘s family has shrimped the Gulf coast. At a Senate Energy Committee hearing today, she poured oil on herself. She was protesting Senator Murkowski’s refusal to require BP to pay for the losses of the shrimping community. Murkowski is the ranking GOP member of the Senate Energy Committee. She is blocking a bill that would have lifted the liability cap on BP.

Wilson was removed and arrested

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