Shrimper Shows Outrage to Oil Shill Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Diane Wilson)

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20007240-503544.html Diane Wilson http://www.youtube.com/user/DianeWilsonsFan , a Texas shrimper and activist, has been arrested for pouring oil on herself during a senate energy hearing.

Wilson was voicing her anger over the issue of BP's liability in the catastrophic spill that has devastated the shrimping industry along the Gulf coast.

She was specifically protesting Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski's blocking of a bill that would have lifted the oil giant's liability cap.

Wilson was promptly removed from the hearing and arrested and charged with unlawful conduct disruption of Congress, according to Sgt. Kimberly Schneider of the Capitol Hill Police.
Wilson is a co-founder of Codepink for Peace, a women's movement dedicated to "redirecting resources into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities," according to their website.

"I am seeing the destruction of my community and I am outraged," Wilson said in a statement released by Codepink following her arrest. "I am also seeing elected representatives like Senator Lisa Murkowski blocking BP from being legally responsible to pay for this catastrophe.... This is outrageous. How dare she side with big oil over the American people who have been so devastated by this manmade disaster?"

Wilson, who claims to be a fourth-generation shrimper, has been protesting and writing about pollution in the Gulf for years.

"We want people to call Senator Murkowski's office and tell her to stop supporting big oil and support a healthy environment and American livelihoods instead," said Codepink co-founder Medea Benjamin, who was with Wilson at the hearing. "BP CEO Tony Hayward should be in jail, not a distraught shrimper!"

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[jckfmsincty]

Are all Alaskan politicians on the take? 

[barbtube01]

What a slimey excuse for a politician. She sells herself to the oil corporations.........I think it's safe to say Sen. Lisa Murkowski is big oil's favorite whore!

[1236bigcat]

She looks like a Geiko gecko Lizard who's looking at a mad raccoon. Maybe an Ostrich who brought her head out the ground. She fears justice for good reason. She has no insurance if it becomes a jungle out there. She better run ... Said with a =^.^= smile.

[ldksparda]

Lisa Murkowski took 400k from the oil companies. People... Have sense and not vote for republicans like this woman. You'll only bring us closer to our extinction by electing these kind of people. Also, republicans don't care about the environment. All they care about is money, war, oil, and the rich.

[ronmexican]

Senator Murkowski is crooked. Should have blocked the bill and saved the taxpayers money we already don't have. Let the oil company foot the bill. Crooked. Crooked. Crooked.