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THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND

That land includes Geneva Lake, everything around it and the water itself.  The ‘royalty’ of Geneva Lake circulates around the water with their power and money but don’t really seem to give a damn.  What is that all about?  ‘The queen is dead, long live the king,’ well, for as long as he’s got left.  But that’s over in England, where royalty has ruled, been knelt to and honored through many centuries.

In America the word royalty is synonymous with money.  Take the new women’s center to be built in Williams Bay, where one member of the nouveau rich royalty has purchased the remains of the property surrounding the Yerkes Observatory (that actually sits on a very small patch of land in the middle of a huge tract extending down to the lake’s edge).  The new owner’s cell phone number is more than unlisted, it is ‘not to be given out’ by all those of her class who have it.  The ‘couple’ (if you will) that basically run the Yerkes are of the same set, although at least you can call them.

The local media is completely left out of their affairs and their conduct must be gleaned from post occurrence reports of what took place or what happened.  Last week there was a benefit, because the ‘throw away’ rich always want money for projects from the ‘thrown away’ poor. Hillary Clinton came in for the benefit.  The local media wasn’t even made aware of her presence much less invited to the social/financial meeting.  The rich do not have to care, until such time as they need something.

Williams Bay has a wonderful board that is hyper-sensitive to the local residents and owners.  That board kept the nine acres that’s gone toward the building of a women’s center (whatever the hell that’s to become in these transgender days) from being developed by pre-purchasing from wealthy individuals who wanted lake front homes.  That property, which was owned by the similarly snotty and snobby University of Chicago, was only sold to pre-purchase bidders (think back to the throw away wealthy).

Williams Bay refused to change the zoning to allow for residential construction.  So, naturally, the no-bid offer to buy by one of the queens of the lake was accepted.  The little people are important and the little people’s newspaper (which the Geneva Shore Report prides itself on truly being) remains disturbed by the secretive and many times sleazy moves of the ultra-wealthy in supposedly doing great things for the lake communities while, in actuality many times, doing things for their own glorification along with other never-to-be-published actions that will only be discovered as the years go by.

There’s usually a reason when the GSR is not invited.  The people, or those passing themselves off as people, don’t want the foundational motivations or financial roots of things revealed or analyzed for the public’s judgment.  Many wealthy developers and individuals come to the Geneva Lake area, believing that, because they’ve used significant amounts of money to buy property, that they can do whatever they want with it.  What might be said of that kind of thought and potential application of wealth?  “Come my pretties…” and welcome to Williams Bay!

Hillary Clinton came and went, skipping across the Geneva Lake like a flat stone on about her ninth bounce, but to only the mildest of local effect.  The ‘little people’ living around Geneva Lake speak, but they do so very quietly and very effectively when they choose.  It is wonderful for the GSR to be a part of that majority faction (although the GSR is anything but quiet).  Great Britain continues to bask in their ‘entitled’ royalty members, all wearing uniforms and decorations they never earned as they preen about doing, well, almost nothing.

America isn’t that way, and thank God for that, but American citizens, like those living around Geneva Lake, must guard what is their right, patrol their land and water vigorously without let up, and continue to assert that ownership and control.  Freedom is about driving a stake into the earth, chaining oneself to it; and then defending the turf around it vigorously.  It’s good to be part of such a dedicated and warmly friendly group that is also…born again, hard.