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you aren't trying to fob that off as a statement about history, are you dunedan?
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More like a statement of fact. Whenever a resource, especially a natural resource required for life, becomes the purview of Government that resource is weaponised. As I said, ask the Irish: hell, ask the Kuban Cossacks, Terek Cossacks, and most of Ukraine. Ask anybody from southern Sudan. Ask the Dalits (untouchables) of India what happens to the water supply when some local muckety-muck with a high-Caste name and a Government job decides he'd rather they moved...somewhere else. Ditto the Roma in Central and Eastern Europe. Ask the folks in Klamath Falls, OR. I have yet to hear of any case in history, modern or ancient, in which this has not eventually happened.