As long as America pursues a reckless doctrine of “all war all the time,” everyone and everything suffers: you, me, the enviroment, and all living things.
                                                                                      Richard Oshen

SAVE THE WHALES!

US Navy ship background. Orca whales foreground. (Photo: Kenneth Balcomb / Center for Whale Research)

Southern California coastal waters are home to at least 37 species of marine mammals,including pygmy sperm whales, coastal bottlenose dolphins and endangered blue whales.*

They deserve to be protected against the Navy’s sonar that produces piercing underwater sounds 2,000 times louder than a jet engine. Scientists say sonar use can cause hearing loss, cranial bleeding, behavioral modifications and mass strandings.  (source: Truthout)

Protecting Whales is absolutely what the California Coastal Commission ought to be doing.

This is what PROTECTING THE COAST means to most people - You know, looking after our beaches,  ocean, animals, fish and flora that live in the sea and going up to 1,000 yards inland like the people originally intended. 

 

SINS OF COMMISSION discovered the coastal commission caprisiously uses the term, “Protecting the Coast”, as its calling-card to grab land 5 miles away.  Going after homeowners who paint homes a particular color or decide to build a Victorian style house may go against someone’s personal  aesthetics, but to save the coast from Victorian homes, is not saving nor protecting the coast as it was originally defined in the coastal act.  Preventing some one from clearing dirt that falls on a driveway, without a permit or using a weed wacker,  would be a stretch too. 

 

 

 

*guardian.co.uk, Wednesday October 8 2008 21.45 BST

Pacific Coast Highway Productions, Inc. announces the release of its first feature length documentary film, SINS OF COMMISSION .  

 

SINS OF COMMISSION is the first documentary film to expose decades of abuse of power by the California Coastal Commission, and the first documentary film to investigate the possible link between this abuse and the increasing intensity of recent wildfires in California.

 

A Sin of Omission is failure to do what one must do.
A Sin of Commission is to know something is wrong… and do it anyway.

 

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SINS OF COMMISSION slips behind the veil of secrecy into the invisible world of the California Coastal Commission to reveal how they have corrupted environmentalism and risk people’s lives while fueling California’s wildfires… and why no one does anything about it.

 

SINS OF COMMISSION was written, directed, and produced by Richard Oshen. 

 

For festival inquiries contact SINS OF COMMISSION directly at sinsofcommission@gmail.com