STEP RIGHT UP, FOLKS! GENUINE H2O ON SELL!

It seems to me that as long as I can remember I've been drinking water for free. My Mom was pretty tight with the coins, and it would take a pretty good struggle to wring a coin from her paw. Now, don't get me wrong! My Mom wasn't a beast or anything. It's just that what she put away in the "cookie jar," she defended fiercely. You had to have a good reason to get any of it. Real good!.

Yet, my Mom never charged us kids any money for food, or for a place to sleep for the night, nor for water, whether utilized for bath or to drink. Mom understood that there were things that you just didn't have a right to charge for.

There was a time that this was a common belief. I speak here of the 1950s. Virtually everyone thought that water provision was a governmental function, and city waterworks were the norm. The idea that someone might try to create a scarcity of water so as to make a big profit entered no one's head.

Apparently, that's not the case anymore. How do I know? Well, sir, several years ago I read an article in the Wall Street Journal which described how "mergers and acquisitions" mogul, T. Boone Pickens of Texas, was investing in water rights in the great central aquafer that rests beneath the Plains States. I believe it has a fancy name, whether of palaeontology, geography, or marine science, I cannot recall. At any rate Mr. Pickens expected that water would be a commodity whose price was certain to rise. He planned on making a bundle of loot, as water scarcity and human demand compelled an upward trajectory for a "gallon of water."

Parenthetically, I'm not certain whether Mr. Pickens plans to sell water by the gallon, or, as with oil (of which he knows a lot), he plans to sell by the barrel.

I did receive in the mail an unsolicited stock "tout sheet" from a Mr. Jarret Wollstein, who seems to believe that "the biggest commodity boom in history is building steam as I write...That commodity is clean fresh water, and I can assure you, the smart money is getting in now..."

Now, Mr. Wollstein is a convincing, enthusiastic salesman. He cites logically that there are no new sources of fresh water. The world population is increasing, and as many of them as possible will try to come here. That means greater pressure on a limited resource. He also points out ecological considerations and water pollution with toxic chemicals. Science, he seems to feel, cannot rescue the situation in the limited time before the onset of the "Great Water Famine." He offers other reasons but lets stop here.

Who is "the smart money?" Well, of course, I've mentioned Mr. Pickens. One assumes he has some sharp associates in the project as well. Who else? According to Mr. Wollstein's tout sheet, the Queen of England warned in March about the "competition for fresh water by a growing population is itself becoming a source of potential conflict." Further, former Federal Reserve chairman, Allen Greenspan, according to this tout sheet, believes that a bad economic turndown is certain, but that the potential for water price increase makes it the new road to riches. Well, I paraphrase the sense of the quoted chairman.

If Greenspan were interested, its a good bet that the Rockefeller condominum of rich and savvy investors have already taken substantial stakes in water. As with the "art" purchased by the Rockefellers at a cheap price and later unloaded at stupendous profits and/or tax write-offs, so it may be with water. This would also explain the enthusiastic support of Latin peon migration into America by the Rockefeller crowd. This migration would generate a quantum leap in American water usage, starting the pressure upward for the water commodity. But Latins are not the only people pouring into America.

Now, if the Queen of England can perceive water shortages causing conflicts, do not suppose for a moment that the ruling circles in America don't understand that as well. So, why do they do all that they can to ease the travail of invading hordes of people? Why have they NEVER made any semi-serious effort to control our borders and regulate rationally (or at least according to the legislation of record) migration? Why have they always used rhetoric to stall any effective action? They wanted to create a fait accompli.

Since water shortages in America can only be hastened by unrestricted invasion whereby scores of millions of people clandestinely take their refuge in America, awaiting Jorge W. Arbusto's amnesty and "instant citizenship" proclamation. In gratitude they can only respond: "Hail, Caesar!"

Things at the highest levels of government operate with knowledge, purpose and vision. What is the vision of those who "pull the strings" of the Democrat-Republican Socialist Party? It is one of global order, created out of chaos. They are the ones who create the chaos. When the old structures lie in ruin, they will gather together like Nehemiah, Ezra, and the remnant of Israel to rebuild the world ("tikkun olam") They imagine this, as they have a zany understanding of the pertinent relationships.

It is difficult to know how to halt their madness. I recall seeing a roughly formed phalanx of "Weathermen" (or a similar Marxist group) walking down 15th street in Washington, D.C., about 1970 or '71, heading for The Mall area. Their phalanx was perhaps five across and twenty-five deep (as I now recall). Maybe more. I supposed them to be mostly Jewish. They got my attention, and I watched as they "marched," thrusting their fists into the air and chanting: "One more war! Revolution! One more war! Revolution!" I watched them turn the corner, marching toward Fourteenth Street, NW.

When I think back upon those Jewish lads, I believe that they offered an answer to America's looming problems. When leaders are deranged, corrupt, martial, dictatorial, and insatiably greedy, maybe it is time for a "Tea Party." If anyone can afford the water, that is!