POLAND SPRING: Legal and Local but Who are Their Enemies?

Mike Corthell

Mark Dubois, a geologist for Poland Spring.

   
Who are the enemies of our free enterprise system? Socialist groups like Food & Water Watch and others. As our economic system shows signs of strain, a growing number of Americans are coming out of the woodwork and are proudly declaring that they are socialists or communists. 
   Some, who like the promises of groups like Food & Water Watch are blissfully unaware of the group's nefarious back agenda. And an increasing number of Americans actually believe that the free enterprise system needs to be brought down and that the answer to our problems is to fully embrace socialism and/or communism. This puts Food & Water Watch in direct opposition to what our founding fathers intended.
   George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and the rest of our founders knew that freedom and liberty can only be brought forth and maintained in a free system of government and business. Free enterprise allows every individual to add to his own happiness and that of others, by being free to provide as much value as he wants, and thereby make money when others voluntarily pay for it. This is a fundamental human freedom.
   We also cannot help but notice that Franklin was the fifteenth of seventeen children of Josiah Franklin. He is a great example and a credible refutation to the zero-sum idea that, in the words of the United Nations Population Fund, there is a "link between population and poverty." Every person is indeed a potential asset, not a potential liability, because every person is a potential inventor, innovator, or contributor to the good of not only himself but of others.

Much of the opposition toward Poland Spring and other manufacturers in Maine can be attributed to "tribalism and selfishness," according to Lloyd Irland, a forestry consultant who once served as director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands and as state economist. Few forest products endeavors, with their tree cutting and smoke-emitting plants, are as "tidy" as bottled water, he says. "If we can't get people to accept a bottled water plant, they're not going to buy into a biomass plant, a sawmill," Irland says. Nervousness about the nibbling away of Maine's rural character causes people to target companies like Poland Spring because they can't stop construction of the subdivision up the road, which also contributes to traffic, he says. And many of the people Poland Spring would employ live outside the towns casting votes on its expansion efforts, Irland says. "It used to be something every community wanted," he says of business investment. "It just isn't anymore." Taping-in

   It is patently obvious that groups like Food & Water Watch are anti-free enterprise and therefor anti-freedom and would like nothing better to weaken, to the point of dissolution the United States Constitution and dictate to the people of the sovereign Town of Fryeburg Maine what we can do with the water that passes under our feet on the way to the Atlantic Ocean.
   As you can see below people have the right to their opinions and they are guaranteed by what? The United States Constitution. Who wants those rights modified and/or destroyed? Socialist/Communist groups like Food & Water Watch. 

''Former Fryeburg selectman Cliff Hall, who is now an intervenor in the case, praised Welch for his recusal with a letter to the PUC last week."I congratulate him on making the right choice," he wrote. "I can see how he was truly in the wrong position to decide this case. I do not agree with all his comments regarding this matter, nor his characterizations of those he clearly views with disdain. This docket is about the arrangement and proposed agreement between NWNA and the privately owned public utility, FWC. The proposed agreement does not clearly show benefit to those they serve, nor was it approved by those who pay for the resource the public utility delivers."The fact that tens of thousands of people who come here in the summer or spent part of their lives here, along with many concerned Americans *who do not want to see foreign or any other corporations, taking our fine 'spring' water while paying absolutely nothing for it. This shows how much there needs to be proper oversight."''  FULL CONWAY DAILY SUN ARTICLE

 *(reporter's emphasis) 

What is Food & Water Watch Up To?

From last month's editorial:

''Food & Water Watch's long-term mission is to challenge the economic (Capitalism) and political forces (Democracy) that are promoting industrialized (Corporate) food production and the 'commodification' (Food &Water Watch has chosen this code word well; to wit: The Marxist understanding of commodity is distinct from the meaning of commodity in mainstream business theory. Commodity played a key role throughout Karl Marx' life work, he considered it a form of capitalism and a key starting point for an analysis of this politico-economic system) of the oceans and fresh water sources.'' MORE