THE ROBING ROOM

Until the BP cleanup is completed, Judge Feldman needs to be required to inhabit the oil-covered barrier islands, and to spend his days and nights cleaning and rehabbing the fish, the birds, and crabs and the turtles. He should have to eat oil-soaked fish and crabs, to drink oil-contaminated water, to wear oily clothes, and to sleep in oil-caked bedding. And he should have the same income as the fishermen. My uncle had a fishing boat in Prince William Sound before the Exxon Valdez disaster; until the day he died, he never saw a penny from Exxon, because judges refused to enforce payment orders pending appeals--which went on until the oil industry oriented Supreme Court took everything away from those who waited an entire generation in vain for justice. Judge Feldman needs to be reminded that 'no citizen shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due course of law'. Since when are oil companies allowed to risk anyone's life, liberty or property without due course of law?