We, as American citizens, concerned human beings, fellow Christians and neighbors cannot allow any amount of red tape or rhetoric to undermine the VERY real need to have a solid emergency and evacuation plan in place for the people all along the Gulf of Mexico NOW!
While courts argue about money and blame, the health and lives of millions of Americans are at risk, and no one in the government seems to care about this except Governor Bobby Jindal, as far as I can see. I read the letters he wrote on behalf of his people requesting 6,000 National Guard troops, medical supplies and an evac plan to be put in place. He wrote that letter on April 29 and there is no sign of these things there, and if they are then the people don't know about them. They are scared, they are uninformed, they are at risk. Every citizen within 100 miles of the Coast should have been issued an organic vapor respirator before the oil made landfall.
This is the responsibility of every American citizen who is able to help, but most especially that of our government. There is a human need and an immensely dangerous, toxicl disaster, caused in part by lack of Government regulations, threatening the health and lives of millions of Americans. Their health and lives are in the hands of those who care, and this is why I am so worried about them. No one seems to CARE. Please be the one who makes that change. Those people are depending on you.
- Sam Lovelace
You can also use this resource to write to the Senators of other states. Let your voice be heard!!!
http://www.senate.gov/gene
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Here's the letter I wrote to Senator Burr today, and I sent similar letters to Congressmen Hagan and Shuler:
Dear Senator Burr,
I appreciate your reply. From the sound of this letter, there is a lot being done to investigate blame and hold the appropriate parties responsible, and I see how important this is to the whole process, however people and animals are down there in the Gulf being exposed to dangerous, toxic chemicals and environmental situations right now. I have been down there, right on the waterline for three weeks now, since June 1, working with individuals and volunteers to try to help local people get organized and mobilized. People are out of work, mentally and emotionally strained beyond the point of coping in many cases. Babies, children and pregnant mothers are possibly being exposed to very harmful toxins in the rain and the air they breathe, in the groundwater and almost certainly in sand and water at the beaches some of them are STILL playing and swimming in. Animals are dying, people's homes and land are being consumed and ruined forever and you assure me that "From here, we must work hard to stop the spill and to ensure that such a situation does not occur in any of our other offshore production areas."
Does this mean that you intend to continue to support offshore drilling as well as apparently turn a blind eye to the desperate human and environmental need there now? It has become more important now than ever for the American public to be sure where our representatives stand on the subject of disaster and the cost of human lives and our environment, and easier than ever to inform and motivate others to make a necessary change.
I implore you to please consider the immediate health and safety aspects of the disaster that your fellow citizens are living through right now and do whatever you can to help them. Please do whatever you can to support evacuation plans. I am one of many people who live and vote here who have many family members and friends living near and on the Gulf of Mexico, with children, elderly family members and pets to consider as well. We are all responsible, but you have more power than we do. Please use it to help these people. I look forward to your reply,
- Sam Lovelace
http://www.yourcongressyourhealth.org/
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