Vigilance has got to be the subtle word.

This culture down here is very much in peril.

This is just the end of the beginning.

Look, people here have been so let down. The levees, the federal government let us down. The MMS colossally let everybody down.

People have said, let them drill and just don't penetrate the reservoir until you know.

But the other thing is, why doesn't the United States government make them?

I mean, you know, they are sitting there with potential criminal charges. And God knows what their civil fines are or anything else. And why are we fooling with these people? We have been invaded by them.

The federal government is about to kill us. It's just about to kill us with their levees and with their regulatory --

I think -- I'm afraid if their shareholders -- I don't -- I think this thing -- like I said, my own view -- and I hope I'm wrong -- but has been from the get-go, this is a catastrophe of the first magnitude.

This is a catastrophe of the first magnitude.

But they can't be, because they have an obligation to their shareholders, just like they can't be transparent about the flow.

But -- but -- but they can't be, because they have an obligation to their shareholders, just like they can't be transparent about the flow.

The reason that they don't let you out there is one word and it's not plastic. It's lawyers.

He was so lawyered up. He was so shot up with tranquilizers or God knows whatnot, told not to say anything.

But they can't be, because they have an obligation to their shareholders, just like they can't be transparent about the flow.

I have always thought from the get-go that this is an extraordinary event, a catastrophe of the first magnitude.

But they can't be because they have an obligation to their shareholders just like they can't be transparent about the flow.

I think -- I'm afraid if their shareholders -- I don't -- I think this thing -- like I said, my own view -- and I hope I'm wrong -- but has been from the get-go, this is a catastrophe of the first magnitude.

The reason that they don't let you out there is one word and it not plastic, it's lawyers.

I was glad to see it, because of the language he used -- we're being invaded. This is -- but the heck with the oil spill act of 1990.

It's not just -- it's really not just earning a living. It's a way of life. It's an entire culture.

Well, sure, of course.

It's -- people that he knows that are just in a -- one guy said he's all he's going to do is eat and wait to die.

It's really not just earning a living. It's a way of life. It's an entire culture.

He's lying. OK? He's lying, lying, lying. The oil -- the statute says that, if they show gross negligence, that it could be up to a $4,000-a-barrel fine.