2/9/07 - The last two weeks have been very stressful for me and many
of my friends. Sean Stevens and Peter Berdovsky are both charged with
placing hoax devices to incite panic. It is a felony charge with a
five-year maximum sentence. They also face one count of disorderly
conduct, a misdemeanor.

I stand behind Sean and Peter. Peter and I spent some of the first 48-
hours of our acquaintance playing chess. We stale-mated twice, beat
another friend, and than Peter finally won a game against me.

Sean Stevens is one of the nicest and most caring people I know. He
has been a driving force for many of the great things that have
happened recently in this region's burning man community. He has been
an artistic inspiration for a project I am currently working on.

Let's review why my friends got in trouble. First, lets go back to
1952 when George Bush senior founded Zapata Oil Corporation. Oil has
been a major part of the Bush family's income.

In the 1970s George Bush senior was involved with the US Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA). George Bush senior became the director of
the CIA around the time his son, George W. Bush, entered the oil
industry.

George W. Bush was the CEO of several oil ventures including Arbusto
Energy, Spectrum 7, and Harken Energy. $50,000 was invested in
Arbusto Energy by Salem bin Laden, Ossama bin Laden's older brother.

In the 1980s the CIA funded Ossama Bin Laden and Al Quida to wage
jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. This was
directly after George Bush senior was director of the CIA. This was
also while George Bush senior was the vice president of the United
States.

January 1990 Arbusto Energy was awarded a contract to drill crude oil
off the coast of Bahrain in the Middle East. This came as a shock to
industry insiders for the company had no off-shore drilling
experience.

In August of 1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait. 75% of Kuwait's GDP is derived
from oil exports. George Bush senior sent US troops to end the Iraqi
occupation of Kuwait.

Reacting to the war in Iraq Ossama Bin Laden called a jihad against
the United States. In the years that followed Al Quida was
responsible for multiple attacks on the US. The greatest of these was
the September 11th attacks which occurred 9 months after George W.
Bush took office.

Iraq, which was unconnected to the September 11th attacks, was
attacked on the basis of weapons of mass destruction which were never
found. The original attack was called Operation Iraqi Liberation
(OIL).

The CIA and Bush family trained and armed Al Quida. Bush senior's war
with Iraq, which aided the family's personal interests in the oil
industry, prompted Ossama Bin Laden to retaliate. We armed them. We
declared war on people of their religion and they retaliated. Now
we're in Iraq working to open their oil fields to our businesses. US
interventionist policies have gone too far. The Bush family has led
us into two wars and armed terrorists in order to further their oil
interests.

Sean and Peter are not terrorists. They are artists who got hired to
place advertisements throughout the city. The overreaction is a
result of Bush policy. Fear feeds into Bush's hands allowing him to
stomp on the constitution so that he and his family can have more
power. This current war has lasted not only longer than the original
war but longer than our involvement in World War II. How many more
victims will we tolerate for the Bush agenda? How many more 9/11s are
headed our way because we've allowed the Bush family to kill for oil?

If you are upset with Sean and Peter please reconsider. Sean and
Peter are not terrorists. Sean and Peter have no interest in oil.
Sean and Peter did not supply arms to Ossama Bin Laden and train Al
Quida. Sean and Peter did not send our brave troops to fight in
Kuwait and Iraq.