Why is BP being allowed to shut down First Amendment rights? Coast Guard states no rules in place to prevent media access.
One of the disturbing aspects of the BP oil spill is the clear violation of the First Amendment under threat of arrest.
In a CBS news video, Kelly Cobiella reported that she was turned away from filming the damage along the coast by a boat with two BP contractors and two Coast Guard officers. The Coast Guard was alleged to have said that it was BP rules, not ours.
According to The Huffington Post, Rob Wyman, the Lieutenant Commander of the USCG Deepwater Horizon Unified Command Joint Information Center has sent us a statement in response to this incident.
…Neither BP nor the U.S. Coast Guard, who are responding to the spill, have any rules in place that would prohibit media access to impacted areas and we were disappointed to hear of this incident.
The timing of the reporter incident are suspicious as several anomalies concerning the damaged oil rig are surfacing. Fishermen, contracted to assist in the clean up, are reporting sicknesses that they relate to the chemicals used by BP. RawStory.com reported Goldman Sacs sold large shares of BP stock in the days prior to the accident.
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