Paul Revere and Yours Truly.

Paul Revere and Yours Truly.
Myself and Paul Revere at Rolling Thunder in Washuington D.C. 2006.

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Farewell to white stigma.

    I'm sitting here thinking do I dare or do  I not.  I still have enough brainwashing  to hold back saying what  I feel I need to say. My whole race has been pressured to stay silent for so long that  have lived this whole 57 years a virtual mute along with every right leaning white male in America. Why. Because we have been taught not to speak up to keep our mouths shut about what we see or else bear the stigma of being called a racist.
     We have watched the movies and the news reports declaring what horrible crimes we have perpetrated on women and everyone who is not pure European heritage.
From the theft of the Americas from their aboriginal inhabitants to the enslavement of millions of Africans into servitude in the new world to the exploitation of orientals in the menial tasks associated with the building of this nation that I love. Along with the shoving aside of immigrants from every prosperous undertaking available here. Well I will not take the time to debate it though if I did I would destroy the whole premise of the oppressive European.
     I just have to say that the purpose of those who have raised their fists into the sky and shout their anti white propaganda is obvious. The have pushed their propaganda of suspicion and hate into the minds of Americans to the point that their dealings with each other have been permeated with a distrust so thick that at many times I have felt the need to appease and assuage and calm and comfort and kneel before and kotow to any and all members of another race or the opposite sex to keep from being called a RACIST. Well the anger in me for having to live 57 years as a suspected racist /sexist just because I am a European American Male is done with. I've had it with all of you Gender feminist dyke wannabes and you poor put upon blacks and Hispanics and orientals and Indians and everybody who is not of European descent. Too bad if you feel an offense every time you deal with a white man I can't and I will not help you any more I will no longer bow to you and put my lips to your posterior. I can't abide your United Negro Colleges and your Black Entertainment TV. I hope your National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, and Jesse Jackson's "Monochrome" coalition blows up and burns to ashes. I'm tired. If you who are not white males cannot accept us as is then Bugger Off. You stand in front of us with your hats on upside down and backwards and your pants down to your knees jabbering in some verbal slop impossible even for your mind to understand behaving like some sort of a demented clown constantly grabbing with one hand at your genetals and you want us to show you the respect reserved for an individual of high intelligence and a high level of accomplishment. In fact I am supposed to not only allow you to sit in the empty seat available in the bus of life but now I have to give you my seat even when you didn't earn it just because you are a different colour than me? No! No! I will not any more. I will tell you this once and only once. My family never owned you or your sister nor any of your family as slaves. We owe you nothing so don't come looking. It is your behaviour not my prejudice which has caused me to watch you out of the corner of my eye when you are around. My experience tells me to do so, not some obscure tale about slavery. What I have seen and what has been done to me tells me not to trust people no matter the colour that are dressed and act a certain way. And if you dress and act like thugs I will treat you like thugs. Let me tell you a story.
     I was following Hwy 17 south in the spring of '06 headed to South Carolina. Somewhere in Winston Salem I lost the highway and landed in the dark side of town. Well I stopped and whipped out my map and began to plot a course out of there. I noticed that quite a few of the hoods denizens had taken an interest in me but weren't quite sure what they had parked there. I was sitting on an 80 cu in vtwin piled with gear wearing a three piece patch. Obviously they had had experience with biker clubs because all I had to do was undo my vest and smile and they kept their distance. Not wanting to call the never ending wrath of what might be an outlaw club down on their hood. I got done with what I needed to do and moved on without incident. Their life experience told them to be wary of bikers wearing patches. My life experiences (not the KKK) tells me to be wary of certain folks.
 too.
    But from now on I really don't care what anyone thinks I was born White I am White and I will from this day on be proud of being White. Anyone who can't abide by a white person being happy to be white, Bugger Off. I have put up with all of the "Black power", and La raza, and ADL and NAACP and SPLC and Black liberation and Aztlan liberation and AIM and every other anti white organization there is. I bear you no ill will if you are not like me but don't be surprised if I suddenly shout  White Pride World Wide. Why shouldn't I seek the survival of my people and a future for our children. The actions of those who think their race makes them entitled have forced me to it with their policies of exclusion. And don't tell me I'm the only one who feels this way. I'm just one of the few who has the guts to write it.

Monday, August 27, 2012

The big shocker right now on the movie scene is D'nesh Dsouza's 2016 Obama's America.Making at last call three times the money it was supposed to be making and at the Hollywood 14 theatre where Dolly and I went to see it they had to move it over from the small theatre to a bigger one because of over flowing attendance. As A documentary I expected to walk into something akin to the Clinton Chronicles. A hazy accusation of everything from murder to drug running based on foggy associations and unsubstantiated accusations from characters I wouldn't have believed if they told me that the sky was blue yesterday. It was nothing like that. D'nesh a university president and easily one of the most intelligent men in America today, takes you though an exploration of the difference between a dark man from Indian stock and a dark man from Kenyan stock and how they can wind up on different ends of the political spectrum. Especially how Obama can behave in such a manner as to baffle most of America and defy every label we try to hang on him unless we know his philosophical secret. Most of us Obama watchers have been shaking our heads till we've become dizzy over what this fellow Barak Obama Aka Barry Soetoro. Maybe son of Barak who has many other maybe sons all over Africa and step son of Lolo Soetoro. Maybe Barak is Kenyan maybe he is Indonesian and he might be just what he says he is, Hawaiian. He was reported to have started off as Islamic and certainly acts like it at the drop of a hat, but he says he is Christian. A label he can hide behind ever since the heresiarchs took over and splintered Christendom into clumps of religion that carry such different beliefs that many are mutually exclusive and have caused Protestants to accept such seriously bizarre variants so as to not be able to judge and decide what is and what is not christian. He has been hiding behind Black Liberation Theology with his pastor Rev. Wright, who is maybe kooky but still only a serious believer in this Marxist anti-colonial extract of neo-christian philosophy. A virus of the philosophical world that has been breeding and populating the Black community labeled as Christian and basically hiding in plain sight. Most White folks have no idea what this is and so when we observe a convert behaving pretty much in perfect concert with its tenets we are baffled. We come up with all sorts of explanations for his behaviour. This is the basis of the movie Dsouza explains Obama's otherwise bizarre behaviour as nothing short of a very dangerous strain of this religiophilosophical virus that breeds hatred of the western nations and the strangest urge to blow apart the economy of the U.S. and Europe and form the worlds victim colonized nations together and somehow raise them from their malaise by the destruction of the colonial nations. I know we the U.S. have never been a real colonial nation in that we have historically, even with our conquered enemies, stayed in control just long enough to see the nation we occupy rise up strong enough to take it's place among the developed nations, strong, economically vital and free. But to the liberationists we are some kind of evil facilitator of the old colonialism that we broke free of. This somewhat abbreviated explanation is exactly what is offered by Mr. Dsouza for Barak's obviously anti-American and pro-Arab, pro-south American pro anybody but us behaviour. This is why he sent the bust of Winston Churchill the man who broke the back of the Mau Mau's in Kenya back to England with an Ipod of his speeches as though Queen Elizabeth would find any wisdom there that she needed. A move that has baffled many. This would also explain his bowing to the king of Arabia and his mistaken open mic conversation about telling Putin that in this next term he would have more flexibility since he would not be able to be reelected. Suddenly the whole refusal to allow drilling to expand in the Gulf under European or American flags but sending our tax dollars to fund Brazoil makes sense. The whole comparison of how Obama could be raised and mentored by his Mother and Frank Marshall Davis both Communists from Kansas and behave as an anti colonialist Marxist while Dsouza could come to America from India and wind up as a Conservative Commentator and university President now makes sense. I advise this movie as time better spent than time spent watching Batman reconstituted. At least for those who wish to see their country survive the clutches of this Marxist liberationist. For the rest of y'all. Well People who know don't understand what they are voting for shouldn't vote.

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Court reporters and DAR.

The following is a letter provided to the Topeka Bar Assn. newsletter about the advantages of court reporters over DAR. Read it.

The Court Reporter-Guardian Of The Record

There has been much discussion in the Third Judicial District about using Digital Audio Recording (DAR) for various types of hearings. One of our misdemeanor criminal courts is already experimenting with the use of DAR technology. As an official court reporter I have seen several very important reasons why DAR should not be used in criminal proceedings.

First let me explain to you exactly what a court reporter is and what they do. A court reporter is simply a silent, impartial witness who records what is said in court, who then safeguards that record and when requested provides an accurate printed account of that record within a specific amount of time. Some can provide a real-time record that is displayed immediately on monitors in the courtroom. I provided This service during the Koch family trial here in Topeka Federal Court. You may have also seen real-time during the O.J. Simpson murder trial on TV.

A prospective court reporter, after training must pass examinations to certify their accuracy, speed, spelling, grammar and punctuation. After certification they are allowed to affix their seal to a transcript certifying that the transcript was prepared by a Certified Court Reporter thus assuring the accuracy of that document. The court reporter is able to certify the accuracy because they saw and heard what was transpiring in the courtroom. When the speaker spoke too fast or was inaudible the court reporter was able to intervene and slow them down or ask them to speak louder so that their statement will be heard and properly recorded. Law requires the court reporter to guard that record and provide a transcript in a timely manner when requested. Any attorney that cannot obtain an accurate transcript from a reporter in a reasonable amount of time has legal recourse from the State Supreme Court who will issue a “show cause“ to the court reporter in question in order to ascertain the cause of the delay. Likewise the court reporter faces disciplinary and legal action if a transcript is not provided.

The DAR records audio and only audio it cannot differentiate between words. It cannot use visual input or prior knowledge of the case at hand to add to its understanding of what is being said. It will record unintelligible sounds and any background noise that masks testimony. When a DAR is supplied to a transcriptionist to be transcribed many times a complete and accurate transcript cannot be made. Even the skilled firm that the court uses returns transcripts with “inaudible” in many important places. Unlike the record taken by a Certified Court Reporter no one is responsible for the maintenance and accuracy of the DAR. If the transcript of a DAR is not useable for an attorney they have no legal recourse. In several instances already there simply was no DAR taken. Either the judge forgot to turn it on or it simply was lost. If I were an attorney I would be upset if a key portion of the proceedings in a criminal case was “inaudible” or “unintelligible” or simply nonexistent because someone didn’t turn on the recorder or lost the record. Especially since there is no legal recourse.

As a student court reporter I was taught to be “seen and not heard”, probably the reason I haven’t spoken before. The thing is that if you see me in the courtroom you know an accurate record is being taken it will be protected and a transcript will be available. If you don’t see a court reporter, who knows?

If the record is important to you request a court reporter or you don’t know what you will get.

On the administrative level the Certified Court Reporter is seen as an unnecessary expense. The DAR is attractive as an inexpensive replacement.

What price, Justice?


Dorothy J. Sheeley-Seel CSR, RPR, FCRR
Managing Reporter, Third Judicial District

Monday, January 23, 2012

Be careful of the stones that you throw.

I was talking with an old friend of mine and a friend of Dolly's. Dolly and I were talking about some of the bike runs I've been on and somehow the subject got around to how Dolly's friend (call her Pat) was at a party and she smelled something burning and lo and behold it turned out to be someone smoking a little weed. she was shocked to find someone doing that at a party that her friends would be at and actually had to be dragged home by her husband because she wanted to turn them in.
Well those of you who now me or have been to biker runs and parties know that there is no way that I am any stranger to Marihuana. I've been in and out of close contact with it since I was 12. No I'm not going to debate the benefits or dangers of smoking weed except to say that I've been around speed freaks and coke heads and different types of hypes. I've also been around drunks. The fact is that Hypes will sell their own mother for another fix and I've seen a speed freak shoot up ice water for the rush Ive also dealt with paranoid cokeheads and a nut case spaced out on angel dust. I don't like dealing with drunks either but I will say that I've never seen a pot head that didn't have problems to begin with that acted out violently on Pot. Say what you will, in the end it is ten times easier to deal with the mildly intoxicated pot head than a mildly intoxicated speed freak or hype or cokehead. It's just that way.
Besides the pot head and the rest are likely to be frome a different sort of group. There are so many otherwise socialy acceptable even conservative type individuals who toke a little weed in the evening. You generaly don't find that among the rest. I won't debate right or wrong because whether you believe it to be right or wrong depends so much on your belief system that it borders on freedom of religion. The fact is that many, many people who are fine upstanding members of society toking.
I knew a fellow, sorry no name, who lived on a farm had a civil servant job and did his job well. He went to church, Protestant if that's important to you. He was pro-life and didn't drink, diabetic, and he liked to hunt. A veteran with a good service record and medals from Vietnam. He didn't even wear an earring. No way you would know that he smoked pot. If you didn't know him you would never suspect. But he kept a few plants just in self defense. He never bought any never sold any he just kept his own supply But he grew outside and he grew Sativa dominant plants. So it ook most of the year to bring his small crop to finish and the plants were tallish. Not very noticable where he kept them. Many of us would say okay let him alone if he isn't driving stoned or selling or buying and supporting the dope industry. But there are those who, like Pat, can't stand to have someone doing something they themselves don't want to do even if it is not immoral so to speak. And one of those found out about my friend. So they went and told about the terrible weed freak down the lane.
The cops did a fly over and hovered right over the spot where he had his handful of Cannabis Sativa and photographed it. They got a warrant and searched his house found guns there, well we all know that a 270 win bolt action with a 20 power Lupold is a favorite weapon among dope gangs and of copurse they found a handgun or two, what a shocker finding guns in Kansas on a damn farm. They also found a few thousand dollars. Not the boxes of bills they show you on the Tv just a few thou. And what a shocker they also found Cannabis Ruderalis on his farm. For those of you who are not familiar that is just ol ditchweed, the sort that gives you a headache and no buzz if you smoke it. No he wasn't using it to mix in with his good stuff. It was just there. Of course his wife knew about his personal weed so she was arrested too.
When the prosecuting attorney came in to the courtroom ans showed the evidence there was a big pile of every Cannabis ruderalis plant they could find on his farm and they were still wet so were the Cannabis Sativa, the real stuff. So the weights were outrageous. Then there were the guns oh my the guns how horrible. You know it's stupid to make a fuss about someone who smokes owning guns but saying nothing about a drinker. Did I mention he was diabetic yeah, I did, for those of you who don't know about it diabetes prevents you from being able to use the sugars that are commonly present in the blood, glucose, so if you drink alcohol the alcohol converts into blood sugar, glucose and you wind up with a terribly high blood/glucose count. You can kill yourself drinking with diabetes. So he chose to smoke. And of course if you smoke somehow it automaticaly follows that you are somehow less capable of keeping a firearm around without using it in a felony. I don't quite understand it but. I think it comes out of that burmuda triangle that the gun barrel laws come from, you know, you can be charged with a felony for having a shotgun with less than 18" barrel yet a M4 carbine is made with a 16" barrel and is smaller, with the stock collapsed that most sawed off shotguns. And I can't have a switchblade knife of any legnth yet I own an assited opening knife with a nice blade that opens faster with a nudge than any switchblade. But I digress, the fact is that if you own a.444 marlin lever action rifle and a 336c 30/30 marlin rifle and a 30" barreled winchester goose gun and you happen to have an ounce of weed they will assume that somehow those weapons were used in the commission of a felony no matter that they are never found in the weapons caches of drug dealers. And if you have any money in the house and you have this same ounce of pot, it is assumed that your money, even if you have a job, was made selling pot. Now it doesn't matter whether you ever actually used the guns in the act of selling pot or if you ever even sold pot at all to make that cash you had. You relaly don't have to break that law to be found guilty of it. I'm serious if you have enough pot you will be charged and of course probably found guilty of "Posession with intent to sell". And it ain't like it used to be back in the day. We used to be able to keep a couple of ounces in allot of the states. Texas and Florida were kinda strict but where I lived it wasn't considered for sale unless you had more than an ounce.
Well my friend found himself suddenly in posession of a number of pounds of pot. His farm and his money including his 401k and his freedom and his wifes freedom were going to be forfiet for a very long time. Why? Because someone couldn't live with the knowledge that someone down the road might come home and have a couple of Jack and cokes. No it was the fact that someone who couldn't drink Jack and coke came home and smoked a little weed that he grew and never sold.
The outcome? My friend couln't stand that his wife was going to prison and so he killed himself. The farm and the equipment and the cars and the money and all accounts are all forfiet. The wife I believe is out of the pen by now probably working a waitress level job.
The little snitch didn't bring any higher level of safety to the community since there was never any problem with my friend. The snitch didn't bring Our Lord or his salvation into their lives. She didn't enrich their lives or save their lives. She ruined their lives and caused the death of a man who went through the worst of the battle for Hue and caused him to commit suicide depriving us of the presence of a very nice jovial fellow depriving his wife of a husband and taking him away from his family.
So be careful of the stones that you throw. Even the small ones can cause a catastrophy. Like my Mom used to say "If you don't have anything good to say shut up!"

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

The other 9/11 and the Cordoba Mosque

The other 9/11 and the Cordoba Mosque


So let’s talk about the other 9/11 in history and the relationship between that day and the proposed Mosque at “Ground Zero”. The choice of the day when the Moslem terrorists flew airplanes into the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon goes way beyond the fact that 911 is the phone number many of us call for emergency help. I believe it is actually connected to the second siege of Vienna that ended on September 11, 1683.

Having attacked Vienna and having failed in 1529 the Moslems decided to venture another campaign on Christendom. The Grand Vizier, Pasha Kara Mustafa called together an army of Turks and Tartar and Malaysian allies and began his march in from the east towards Vienna, Austria. King Leopold and most of the population of Vienna and the surrounding area fled to the west leaving 11,000 soldiers and 5,000 volunteers. The garrison at the city of Vienna burned all the surrounding area and withdrew all foodstuffs and anything useful into Vienna leaving no shelter or cover or supplies for the enemy.

Having 140,000 troops Mustafa was well enough equipped for the battle. He elected to put Vienna under siege. The Ottomans began the battery of the walls but the guns they brought were not able to breech the walls of Vienna. They began to tunnel and to place charges of gunpowder under the walls. The defenders were able to rally and repair every breech that was made by the Ottoman mining. But eventually Vienna would fall if it was not reinforced.

Poland and Austria were joined in a mutual defense treaty and the King of Poland, Jan Sobieski was ready to respond to Pope Innocent’s requests for relief of Vienna. However the law of Poland required that a commision had to approve of the action. The king of France was bribing the commision to keep Poland out of the action for his own interests. The Pope was able to overcome this and the King of Poland rode out. So on the evening of September 11, 1683 King Sobieski along with some Germans and Austrians arrived with an army of 40,000 and took up positions on a hill outside of Vienna. In the early morning of Sept 12, 1683 they attacked the Moslems. King Jan Sobieski at the head of his famous Winged Hussars, yes they actually wore wings on their backs, struck against the Ottomans and pulled their forces away from the walls of the city which allowed the Viennese to sally forth and attack on the flanks of the Ottomans. In 3 hours the Turks fled leaving everything including slaves behind.

The forces of Christendom drove the Ottomans east and south out of Europe and back to Turkey.

I believe that the choice of September 11 for the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon is more connected to this resounding defeat of the forces of Islam which led to their expulsion from Europe than a play on the nationwide emergency phone number. Being the type of people Americans are they immediately assumed that the choice of date had something to do with the emergency phone no.. Unlike the Moslem who does so many things that have significant symbolism in his religious life.
Their last attack on Christendom ended in a rout on 9/12, 1683. So I believe that they intended to announce another crusade of Islam and began it on 9/11, 2001 on the same date that the last one ended. Fortunately we have seen nothing of another full scale crusade. But the crusade in other forms is on again.

Now with the destruction of the World Trade Center there is an effort to erect a Mosque there at “Ground Zero”. I believe that there is also a great deal of symbolism behind placing a mosque at that location and in calling it Cordoba House.

The plan is backed by an organization called The Cordoba Initiative. An organization founded by a group including Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf, the man in the forefront of the effort to build the mosque.

So am I seeing a connection between this and some obscure ancient history? Yes I am. And the history should not be so obscure for anyone calling themselves Christian.

The Crusade to Islamize Christendom began somewhere around 695 A.D. when the Islamic Moors moved west and east to attack the Middle East, Byzantium and North Africa. Many Americans need to have their historical mind jarred back to life so here we go. The Middle East and North Africa were at one time Christian, Jew and Pagan. There were kingdoms claiming faith in one of those beliefs spread across the area. If you will remember the name of St Augustine the famous bishop of Hippo. Well Hippo was in North Africa. The great city of Istanbul in Turkey was Constantinople and the great mosque there was St Sophia’s Cathedral. At the time of the Islamic crusade all of the major Christian sites in the Middle East such as the Church at the Holy Sepulcher and the Church at the Mount of Olives were all in Christian hands. Then came Islam. By 711 A.D. the Moors were at the pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar).

The Moors swept into the Iberian peninsula and took over the Catholic Kingdoms of what is now Spain. One section of that peninsula was called Andalusia and there was the town of Cordoba. In 600 A.D. the Visigoths had built a Cathedral in Cordoba and during the Islamic occupation the property was sold to the Moslems for 100,000 dinars. Late in 785 A.D. Abd Al Rahman I the Emir of the new Umayyad Caliphate began to rebuild the building into a Mosque. In 1236 after a long bloody struggle the Christian Kings finally reached far enough south to free the town of Cordoba the Headquarters of the Islamic occupation of Iberia. The Cathedral was restored to Christian service and by the time of the reign of King Ferdinand and Isabella the country of Spain had been formed and the Moors had been vanquished.

Once again I would like to point out the similarities between the Cordoba house that is being proposed to be built on Ground Zero and the Cordoba Mosque that was bought in Spain. While the building of a Mosque is being proposed the Port Authority has cut off communications with the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese about rebuilding St Nicholas’ Greek Orthodox church which actually was there before 9/11 and was destroyed in the attack. The money for the Mosque and the murderers of 9/11/01 both come from Saudi Arabia. To the secular mind the idea of drawing a correlation between the rout of the Ottomans on 9/11/ 1683 and the attack on 9/11/2001 may seem strange. Doing the same with the takeover of the Cathedral of Cordoba the seat of the Umayyad Caliphate in Spain and the building of the Cordoba House on Ground Zero may seem odd too. But to the mind of a devout Moslem the whole thing is akin to a miracle proving the support of Allah for the Jihad begun on 9/11/01. I believe that allowing the Cordoba House to continue to completion while denying the rebuilding of the Greek Orthodox Church is a form of surrender. It is seen as a great weakness to be exploited by our enemies.

The building of this Mosque so close to the site of the 9/11/01 attack may be a fate accompli but while our weak leaders capitulate to the demands of this radical Imam and his Cordoba Initiative supporters let us raise our voices in opposition. In this way those who would see our leaders allowing the building of this mosque as a victory for Islamofascism will also understand that we the people stand strong and it is only our leaders that are weak.

Call or write your representatives. Maybe send this to them. Do something easy now before we have to do something hard.

Herbert B. Seel
Aug. 25, 2010

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Welcome Home 2/130 FA

My old friend Sam Lecuyer is the supply MSgt. for 2/130 FA. He and I did a bunch of Cavalry Scouting together. We were utilized in teams of four vehicles with two sergeants and two corporals and four pvt. to spc4 crewmen. to drive and as gunners. Sammy and I were together on one of those teams as the sergeants for a couple of years. So isn't it something that after being apart and him being God knows where for 20+ years. All of a sudden out of nowhere I get the email to go send off MSgt. Lecuyer to Egypt and when I get to his house sure enough, it's Sammy. Boy is he surprised to see me? Then a year later I'm there to welcome him home and I'm the first one to shake his hand when he comes down the sidewalk. You never can tell, can you?

Non Serviat Insurgo,

Herb

Monday, July 12, 2010

Here we go!
Of course I’ve been expecting this. Like I always say no matter what you do to business there will be some kind of effect on the economy and the people. This drilling ban was enacted by the Obama regime in response to the Deepwater Horizon incident and was declared unlawful by the court but we all know that the law doesn’t matter to this regime. They are already queing up for another ban. The people who own the rigs know it. They are not going to let a drilling rig set without making any money they will move it to where it can make money. When government makes it impossible for a company to make money within their borders the company will go elsewhere.

There are up to 1400 jobs going to Egypt with this rig. Even the pro Obama Huffington post predicts that around 75,000 jobs are at risk. I’ll bet that figure is way low. Who cares about jobs right? Just so long as the radical left is happy.
Non serviat insurgo,
Herb Seel

First rig sails away over drilling ban
Lawmakers and experts fear loss is only the start of offshore exodus
By JENNIFER A. DLOUHY
WASHINGTON BUREAU
July 9, 2010, 8:28PM


WASHINGTON — Diamond Offshore announced Friday that its Ocean Endeavor drilling rig will leave the Gulf of Mexico and move to Egyptian waters immediately — making it the first to abandon the United States in the wake of the BP oil spill and a ban on deep-water drilling.
And the Ocean Endeavor's exodus probably won't be the last, according to oil industry officials and Gulf Coast leaders who warn that other companies eager to find work for the now-idled rigs are considering moving them outside the U.S.
Devon Energy Corp. had been leasing the Endeavor to drill in the same region of the Gulf as BP's leaking Macondo well, which has been gushing crude since a lethal blowout April 20.
But Diamond announced Friday it will lease the rig through June 30, 2011, to Cairo-based Burullus Gas Co., which plans to send the Endeavor to Egyptian waters immediately.
Devon is one of three companies that has cited the deep-water drilling ban in trying to ease out of contracts to lease Diamond rigs. Diamond, a drilling company, said it expects to make about $100 million from the deal, including a $31 million early termination fee it recovered from Devon.
Larry Dickerson, CEO of Houston-based Diamond, signaled that other of his company's rigs could be relocated, too…

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/7101738.html