BP starts its own country?

While Joe Barton, Rand Paul, and their media fellow travelers demand that everybody get down on their knees and apologize to BP for daring to criticize it over the oil spill, BP has found a new way to circumvent rules against offshore drilling.

To avoid the moratorium on drilling off the delicate coast of Alaska, BP is building its own artificial island. By doing so, BP can now place an oil well there and claim that it's not really offshore - thus making it legal.

The island consists of nothing but 31 acres of gravel. The rig - which will drill 2 miles under the sea - threatens Alaska's wildlife reserve. It's also the longest extended reach oil drilling ever attempted, and it pushes technology past its known limits. Observers call the effort very unsafe.

BP has named its new landmass Liberty Island - because it thinks the big, mean government is so oppressive.

If BP can build its own island for offshore drilling, doesn't that mean I can also build an island in the ocean and start my own country? If I wasn't a landlocked Midwesterner, it would be no more farfetched than the shit BP pulls.

BP has already committed felonies in the Gulf of Mexico leak, and BP's execs need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

(Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/bp-liberty-artificial-island-alaska-2010-6)