People who participate in valid protests should be careful who they join hands with, because more often than not the underlying objective of the sponsors does not represent what the event appears to be.

Tomorrow Hands Across the Sand, a Florida formed organization gone global to protest against offshore oil drilling, will hold a protest at the Englewood Beach on Manasota Key.  They will gather at 11 AM, form lines in the sand and at 12 noon join hands for 15 minutes.

The organization was founded by Dave Rauschkolb, a restaurateur and surfer from the panhandle area of Florida, in October of 2009.  Rauschkolb says, “People in love hold hands. People who want to change the world join hands.”

MoveOn.org is a participant sponsor in coordination with Hands Across The Sand, Sierra Club, Audubon, Surfrider, Oceana, Greenpeace and a number of environmental groups and the money behind moveon.org and many of the others comes from George Soros, the billionaire, investor and philanthropist.

President Obama owes much of his Chicago political success to the radical, left-wing billionare and leading “social entrepreneur”  Soros.  Large sums of money and fund raising events were sponsored by Soros for Obama’s presidential bid.

A New York trader was once quoted in the Wall Street Journal saying, “Soros is a bit like God.  There are three of him at any one time, and he moves in mysterious ways.”

Soros owns the controlling interest in Petrobras, Brazil’s state-owned oil company.  Back in 2008 Petrobras announced the discovery of Tupi an oil field that some think could hold 50 billion barrels of oil.

In August of 2009 President Obama announces that the US will lend $2 billion to Petrobras with the possibility of increasing that amount.

How does this fit with Obama’s goal of cutting back on our use of fossil fuels?  He and his allies in Congress have blocked exploration of American oil fields off both shores for decades, yet he has no trouble of committing $2 billion of taxpayer money for Brazil to drill off its own coast.  All of this while the US is in debt to the tune of $13 trillion.

Following the BP disaster with billions of barrels of oil still spewing crude oil into the Gulf, Obama places a ban on drilling in the Gulf.  Obama’s response to the spill was slow and then he refuses to lift the Jones Act, a benefit to Unions in the US,  to accept foreign help  from countries with far more experience in such spills to help in the recovery and mitigate the damage.  Its almost and act of intent to make matters worse, an Obama  White House philosophy of never, ‘let a good crisis go to waste’, and in this instance he is currying favor to Unions.

A judge lifts the ban and Obama vows to fight it.  If he’s successful the oil rigs in the Gulf could very well head for the shores of Brazil benefiting Soros’ investment in Petrobras.

What appears on the surface of a valid event is not what appears to be beneath its surface.

I live on the beach on Manasota Key and I can assure you, I don’t want to see globs of oil on my beachfront.  Furthermore, I never supported oil drilling in the Gulf.

However, to participate with the underlying hippocratic motives, putting further cash in the pocket of Soros, a  left wing radical which will continue to fund Obama’s agenda of socialist policies, is not part of my modus operandi.