Guns Don't Kill People: Corporations Kill People

Full News Article: (http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/protest-shuts-down-oil-rig-off-greenland/?src=twt&twt=nytenvironment)

Classic scenario between stereotyped activists and profited oil corporations, this time in the Arctic. While commencing exploratory drilling 100 miles off the coast of Greenland, a group of apparent enironmental activists protested by scaling an offshore rig and remaining there for several days. They claim the drilling in the arctic will lead to a surge of oil profiteers digging up what was once forbidden ground. Sim McKenna, one of the Greenpeace protesters, claims that an oil rush would "...pose a huge threat to the climate and put [the] fragile climate at risk."
In the past, the area was largely left alone due to the abundance ice surrounding the area. Now that the vast majority of it has melted, supposedly because of global warming, drilling has become more profitable.
This comes in the mail as a Golden Ticket for Greenland, as last year it declared independence from Denmark, and it is also widely believed that there are billions of gallons of oil surrounding its coastline.
The majority of Greenland's leaders are all for the drilling and digging of their coastline. Sure, why not? It'll put money in our wallets, gas in the Americans' cars, and CO2 emissions in our atmosphere.
Their Prime Minister, Kuupik Kleist, denounced the oil protesters, claiming that their protests are "openly illegal acts".

Police and the Danish Navy claim that they will arrest the protesters of Greenpeace after they have run out of food and are forced to come down from the rig. Quite a future to look forward to. After all, Greenpeace is only wasting money from the oil companies that already take in billions of dollars for the good of the environment. No good deed goes unpunished.
So, despite their efforts, oil drilling will continue in order to add to our oil supply, allowing us as Americans to procrastinate our efforts to design and utilize alternative fuel sources, while simeltaneously destroying our atmosphere in the same way that the nuclear bomb allowed us to end WWII and kill almost 300,000 Japanese citizens at the same time. It just goes to show: Guns Don't Kill People, Corporations Kill People.