My outrage at what is happening in the Gulf has generated a lot of ideas for Code Green comics. I’ll probably do some extras this week. Want to help me decide which ones to do first? Which would you choose? Here’s my list:
1)
Image: A bunch of protesters stand in front of BP, sweltering in the hot sun, holding signs that are lame because they are overly polite: “If you wouldn’t mind…” etc.
Person to friend: We’ve got them where we want them. Only 10000000000 more hours of protests to go before they *have* to listen.
Person 2 (kneeling and praying, reading a book: “Obama’s Prayer Manual”): Don’t forget praying.
2)
Obama (dressed as general with opulent uniform and hat, rubber boots and sword held aloft, standing in oily water): Because war rhetoric usually suckers the American people: JOIN MY GLORIOUS WAR ON ERROR!
3)
Caption: BP committed at least 760 “egregious” and “willful” safety violations
during the last 3 years.
BP official (yelling at the sky): It was a tragic, random, accidental act-of-God accident. Damn you, God!
4)
Image: Person (standing on dead planet covered with corpses and toxic waste, indignant): Sure, civilization has its costs. But it’s so convenient. Hey – got any food?
5)
Image: 2 people are at the edge of the oily Gulf.
Person 1: This is nothing new. Oil companies already wrecked huge areas in Ecuador and the Niger Delta.
Person 2: When I demanded an end to outsourcing, I meant jobs.
6)
Image: BP and US officials hold up large banner with photo pristine beach scene, hiding real oil-poisoned beach behind them.
One: We don’t block media access.
Other: Take all the photos you want.
7)
Image: 2 people stands in ruined landscape, with mushroom cloud, toxic water, fires, etc.
Person 1: *THIS* catastrophe is *FINALLY* going to make everyone understand that our way of life is unsustainable.
Person 2: I think I need one more oil spill.
8
Image: Person stands in ruined landscape.
Person: Technology will fix it.
how about a 9th cartoon as follows:
The CEO of Dow Chemical standing in the middle of the hundreds of thousands his company maimed and killed in and around Bhopal, India. Or Obama apologizing for depleted uranium from the Iraq Holocaust now spreading throughout the planet and causing vast rise in lung cancer around the world. Or…
Sigh… the gall with which you US types destroy the planet then get upset when what you do every damn day happens off your own coast, leaves such a bad taste that I cannot come up with a better comic suggestion for you. It’s just not funny.
Well, I don’t disagree with your point. The cartoon idea #5 was an attempt to make this very same criticism.
Number 7!
I like #7…
Among all the responses on Facebook etc, #7 won by a landslide! So that’s the one that appears today! Thanks for your input!