Jack-Booted Thugs?

Referring to the British Petroleum (BP) owned and operated oil well that continues to leak thousands of gallons of black gold into the Gulf of Mexico, Obama Administration spokesman Robert Gibbs, repeated Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's promise to "keep the boot on (BP's) neck."

BP is a legal corporation that is confronting, because of the oil spill, a public relations disaster. It is also losing for the same reason a not insignificant amount of the very product through which it makes a profit. The cost to the company as a result will no doubt be huge, hurting the company's bottom line, placing many of its employee's jobs at risk, and potentially raising the price of gasoline for us all.

And yet the Administration's public approach to this very unfortunate turn of events is to treat the company as if it were the equivalent of some terrorist organization that actually planned the explosion and the resulting oil spill, an effectively al-Qaeda-trained suicide bomber.

Can there remain any doubt as to what this Administration and its allies think of business, big or small? You know, the organizations that produce the goods and services you and I consume? The same ones that provide the jobs through which we earn the money to purchase the same?