IT IS THE BUSINESS OF A GENERAL TO BE SERENE AND INSCRUTABLE, IMPARTIAL AND SELF-CONTROLLED. HE PROHIBITS SUPERSTITIOUS PRACTICES AND SO RIDS THE ARMY OF DOUBTS. -- Sun Tzu, The Art Of War

What is the essence of the armed forces of a free republic?

It is the citizenry, the natural-born and naturalized men and women who have given their pledge to support and sustain their government, first by voting, secondly, by acquiring and displaying what used to be called "civic virtue." The third element of their duty as free men and women is to be prepared to fight for their liberties, or to support those who will fight.

The essential element of attack used by the New World Order -- in seeking to destroy this free and sovereign people, resident in their States and bound together as minature nations in a great federal league -- has been to decouple them from rationality and to reintroduce superstition as the basis of daily decision-making. How was this to be done?

Principally, the New World Order sought to accomplish this work of destruction by the use of clever propaganda, but secondly by the introduction of many and various multi-phased uncertainties, not the least of which is the continuous, roiling instability of our economy. Unhappily for Libertarians and for the Bush Republicans, there is no scientific rationale for having a capitalist economy which is in a constant state of turmoil, despite what some economists call "creative destruction."

The basis of life on this planet is the energy provided by the star or sun which we orbit: the world itself is augmented every single day by the accumulation of dust, debris, tiny pebbles and giant rocks from outer space. Thus, we are receiving -- free of charge -- from the universe around us, a plentiful supply of energy and a constant replenishment of materials, both gross and useless and finely useful. The idea that there is not enough of everything to go around, even for a population of six billion people which continues to grow, is false. The United Nations has been built on Malthusian propositions, namely that there is not now and will never be enough food, medicine, clean water, and other resources essential to life for all of the world's people.

This is a lie, a damnable lie, a Satanic and miserable failure of a lie. Those who seek to perpetrate it are liars, and, worse than liars: they knowingly embrace a falsified philosophy which will require someone, them or someone else, to make decisions which deliberately starve some people while eliminating other peoples as being "dross," surplus, "useless eaters." How sad.

The Modesto area, where Gary Condit has been the leader of a powerful political machine for many years, has been subjected to the same wracking and painful uncertainties of economics -- despite being a wondrous source of foods in a world where new customers are added every day. His close personal association with Gray Davis should remove all doubts as to his allegiance: he has to be seen as being, not just a lieutenant, but a high-ranking officer in the New World Order. He is more than a captain of a company, he is the regimental commander of California's tyrannical corps of liberal Democrats. Barbara Boxer merely looks dangerous: Condit is, truly, dangerous, as a capo de regime of Faction 1, the Tamerlane of Tomato Land.

Every great economy is based on the ability to produce basic foods, and more than that -- foodstuffs, comestibles and luxury or gourmet items -- sustenance is the foundation of prosperity, but the enjoyment of life's vittles is the "added value." Thus, the following quotes from reporting done by the Modesto Bee would seem to violate every commonly accepted principle of economic theory, including the basic notion of "demand" creating the prices for those who "supply" whatever it is that is wanted:

<< Farming communities such as Hughson have felt the trickle-down effects of the collapse of the grower-owned cooperative [Tri Valley Growers]. The Bee visited several farm-related businesses in the Hughson area in July 2000, just days after the co-op filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

<< Business owners predicted then that the economy would take a hit, and it has. Many area growers received checks each year for the fruit they sold to the cannery. And, as members of the co-op, they received second checks for their share of the company's profits. When the co-op failed, Tri Valley's farmers lost $140 million in capital, with a significant portion of that lost by peach growers.

<< John Hancock Life Insurance Co., which purchased most of Tri Valley's assets through Bankruptcy Court, will not process as much fruit as the co-op did.

<< Growers still will get the one check -- albeit a smaller one -- for what they sell to the Hancock subsidiary, Signature Fruit Co., which is running the plants. But they will not share in the private company's profits.

<< Hancock is not running the former Tri Valley tomato plants, so co-op growers either had to secure contracts with other canneries or switch to other crops.

Rewind the tape of memory and consider what this bankruptcy really means: at a time when the economy was roaring, not just growing but positively sprinting forward, a cooperative that helps farmers bring tomatoes, peaches and apricots to market begins to falter and then winds up in bankruptcy -- and in the middle of an election year! Was there suddenly a shortage of hungry people in the world? Have apricots ceased to be sweet?

Gary Condit has represented the district and the area both in the California Legislature and in Congress: what did he know and when did he learn of it? What in the world has been going on there in Modesto? The American appetite for pizza and Italian food in all its varieties has never diminished in the past twenty-five years, canned peaches remain a staple of nearly every household, and dried apricots are always in demand as a healthy snack! Why then did Tri Valley fail?

During the expansionary years of the Great Dot-Com Swindle, many thousands of new restaurants were opened, all of them wanting to employ some of the products grown in the Modesto area! Or in other areas like it. Yet this cooperative -- which by its nature was supposed to have much better financial controls and less speculative management -- could not make any real money and started spiraling downwards in 1998?

Dear Friends, the destruction of the Tri Valley Cooperative is yet another dirty trick by the handlers of the New World Order. In a hungry world, there is no excuse for American food co-ops to go out of business, unless they are pushed out of business by stealth, skulduggery, or the combination of socialist market-tampering and satanistic money-swindles.

Those who know more about economics and agriculture should examine the Tri Valley bankruptcy and seek clues to who has profitted by becoming "the Killers of Tomatoes," because there has got to be more to the story. Too much money vanished.

To be a free man or a free woman in a democratic Republic is the hardest possible task for a citizen, not the easiest one nor the most comfortable one. The citizen is the sovereign, and that means having a responsibility which isn't easy to execute, an expectation of "civic virtue," which isn't easy to fulfill. The people of the republic are its army, and to destroy that army it is necessary to humiliate them, confuse them, and then -- finally -- to starve them out.

We are becoming a nation of gamblers, that is for certain: we have always been fond of gambling, but now it is replacing our heavy industries and our light manufacturing, like fruit or tomato-packing too. The scratch-off instant lottery card is as much a weapon of the New World Order as are the dumbed-down text-books and the 900- sex and "tarot" lines.

These things are dangerous and it is only becoming apparent over time, and as other forces operating make these realities clear and discernable. This is what is going on, but how it all connects to the wistful Jewish girl from Condit-Land ... is not something we can know, just yet. There are other questions pending here, like "who killed the tomatoes, and why?"

Wonder when the multitude of swindles will combine to ruin enough people, to spread enough pain around, to make these questions take front and center in the great American dialogue?