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Beware of a Trojan Horse

horseBeware a gift of a “Trojan Horse”… has come to mean any trick that causes a target (that’s you and me) to invite a foe into a securely protected bastion or place.
Beware … this Clean Water Restoration Act … http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s787/text … A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify the jurisdiction of the United States over waters of the United States … Senate Bill 787 will change federal jurisdiction over “navigable” water, to give the federal government control over all water everwhere, in municiple reservoirs, and on private lands, and in private wells. This bill ignores state water law authority and the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution … is nothing more than an offering of a “Trojan Horse” . . . ?

SEC. 4. DEFINITION OF WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES … Section 502 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1362) is amended
(1) by striking paragraph (7);
(2) by redesignating paragraphs ( through (25) as paragraphs (7) through (24), respectively; and
(3) by adding at the end the following: … (25) WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES- The term `waters of the United States’ means all waters subject to the ebb and flow of the tide, the territorial seas, and all interstate and intrastate waters and their tributaries, including lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes, natural ponds, and all impoundments of the foregoing, to the fullest extent that these waters, or activities affecting these waters, are subject to the legislative power of Congress under the Constitution.

SEC. 5. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS … The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.) is amended
(1) by striking `navigable waters of the United States’ each place it appears and inserting `waters of the United States’;
(2) in section 304(l)(1) by striking `NAVIGABLE WATERS’ in the heading and inserting `WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES’; and
(3) by striking `navigable waters’ each place it appears and inserting `waters of the United States’.

I sincerely invite each of you to watch a short video… link to www.youtube.com

VIEW THROUGH A DIFFERENT LENS …I confess recent history respecting the total lack of full, open, honest, timely DISCLOSURE provided by our government to you and me … I look with great distrust upon this overt taking by our government.

I made the time to read… http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s787/text … in total the entire senate 787 legislation and a part of me wants to believe this proposed action by our government is truly an honorable attempt to integrate the current myriad of competing and conflicting rules and regulations enacted by the 50 individual states respecting the 1972 Clean Water Act. I find my heart and my head holding very polarized positions on this topic.

My heart says OK … let’s move in the direction to unify the definition of water to the point where each one of us is held accountable and responsible to the same standards.

My head says … that’s foolish and dangerous thinking as there is nothing in the proposed legislation to prohibit our government from grant or gifting or entering into a business proposition which permits for-profit corporate water purveyors from providing – water – to you and me.

There is absolutely no question that – water – today here and now is what oil was the “holy grail” to future profit$. It is this lack of clear, concise and understandable language absolutely and positively prohibiting such a taking of our water by corporate interests which causes me to stand steadfastly opposed to the legislation in its current offering.

While some will unquestioningly challenge my statements, I invite each of you to do your own DISCLOSURE and see if you do not determine that whenever the multinational giant for-profit water purveyors enter the picture most often arrive preceded by an invitation extended by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (WB) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) along with a host of other governmental agents like GANTT, NAFTA, etc.

Your own research and disclosure will reveal those noted above are hardily the honest openly benevolent forms of assistance which we have been lead to conclude they are. I invite our US Senate to include in the preamble and into the body of this proposed legislation the following … everyone has the right to clean & accessible water, adequate for the health & well being of the individual & family, and no one shall be deprived of such access or quality of water due to individual economic circumstances … such words appear to me to reduce water as solely in the category of a commodity and place it to a degree in the realm of the commons, owned by you and me.

I rise to express disappointment that to date President Obama has not chosen to speak directly to you and me utilizing the gift of his voice to with understandable clarity make – water – part of the commons for you and me. Viewed through an economic lens the USA has been on a stead march in the direction of fascism embracing the sovereignty of the corporation over the sovereignty of the individual. Today, the pendulum has rather firmly swung in protecting the corporation rather than protecting the rights of the individual. I fear without clear, concise, understandable words in this legislation protecting and prohibiting – water – from being coercively taken and in a heart-beat come under the care, custody and control of for-profit water purveyors – water – as we understand it will be forever lost to us.

We have the power … all we need is to speak in one resolute voice …

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… People should never be afraid of their government, government should always be afraid of the people …

…”Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world…indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.” … Margaret Mead

… “they must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority” … G. Massey, Egyptologist

… “Everyone has the right to clean and accessible water, adequate for the health and well-being of the individual and family, and no one shall be deprived of such access or quality of water due to individual economic circumstances” …
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And let me be even a bit bolder, I am most willing to present and discuss any water issue with any audience in Arizona where open full disclosure and two way dialog is permitted.

Respectfully submitted,

Paul F. Miller
striving to promote sustainable awareness

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