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Floridan Aquifer – Save the Florida Aquifer- Let the Voices be Heard!
The Florida Aquifer, technically named the Floridan Aquifer, is one of the largest and most productive aquifer systems in the world. The Floridan Aquifer provides water for irrigation, household, agricultural and industrial use, livestock, plants, wildlife and most importantly, drinking water to the vast majority of Floridians throughout the state. Obviously, for this reason, the Floridan Aquifer is a natural resource of extreme importance which must be protected against Aquifer Storage and Recovery Wells and Deep Injection Wells used for injection of partially treated sewage effluent.
Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR), is the injection of treated or partially treated water that meets the water quality standards of drinking water or ground water directly into the aquifer through an ASR injection well for later use. Or, at least in the state of Florida, that was the original intention as I understand it. The concept of Aquifer Storage and Recovery, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection is that the aquifer functions as a storage facility when water is plentiful. When water is in demand due to short supply, the injected water can then be recovered for use as drinking water, irrigation or other use. The level of treatment required after storage depends on the use of the water, whether for public consumption as drinking water, surface water augmentation, irrigation, or wetlands enhancement. At this time, there are 18 aquifer storage and recovery well fields in Florida that have about 65 wells among them, according to the Department of Environmental Protection.
Sounds like a reasonable solution to a water shortage if done so properly, laws, rules, and regulations are followed, but this is not always the case. Now days, ASR apparently is no longer limited to the storage and recovery of drinking or ground water quality water. It is my understanding, special permits can be issued by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to store partially treated sewage effluent directly into the Florida Aquifer, our main source of drinking water, via very shallow ASR wells (just 500 feet deep).
In many areas of Florida, partially treated sewage effluent and other toxic waste water from various sources is currently being pumped into deep wells at least 1,000 to 2,000 feet deep and deeper, below the Florida Aquifer to depths far and beyond where drinking water is accessed. The intention of these wells, 1,000 feet deep or greater, is not to store or recover, but instead to dispose of the sewage effluent – forever.
Theoretically, deep well injection of sewage effluent does not effect the environment or drinking water because the injection zone is so deep, far below the Florida Aquifer. Myself and many others do not believe that. Studies have been conducted on the environment in areas where deep well injection has occured. Scientific studies indicate adverse impacts on the Florida Aquifer, the environment, sea water, coral reefs, fish, sea turtles, and other sea life. Further studies are being conducted.
The Floridan Aquifer is actually an underground river surrounded by porous rock. Water within the Floridan Aquifer flows underground through channels or veins similar to caves and also flows into nearby veins through the porous rock that surrounds the aquifer water..
Water levels and water pressure within the aquifer fluctuate as demand for the water increases and decreases.
During dry periods, wells used for irrigation are under high demand. This results in low water levels and reduced pressure within the vein of the aquifer that feed the wells. Common sense dictates that if one particular vein of the aquifer is experiencing low pressure due to low water level, and nearby veins are experiencing high pressure due to high water levels, the water flows through the porous rock walls of the aquifer from the veins with high water levels to replenish the vein of low water level. Water seeks its own level, everyone knows that.
We have been lead to believe that water injected into the Floridan Aquifer via Aquifer Storage and Recovery wells is permanently confined within the injection zone, can be recovered, and will never cause a problem. That is not true at all. The water intermingles with the aquifer water within the cavern it was injected and flows great distances in a short period of time from the injection point throughout the vein in which it was injected, to other veins through the porous walls of the aquifer, into other caverns within the aquifer, and beyond, likely reaching local wells, and is also known to surface as springs on land and sea.
In other words, once injected it is gone forever and recovery of the injected water is virtually impossible.
In numerous locations throughout the state, the Floridan Aquifer comes to the surface of the land as springs that feed rivers and streams. Many of these springs are found, not only on shore, but offshore, flowing into the oceans and water ways surrounding Florida.
Since Florida is a peninsula, surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the Florida Bay, and the Gulf of Mexico, ASR is a risky practice to say the least, one that could prove to be a very grave threat to the Floridan Aquifer, our main source of drinking water, the residents of Florida, and the environment in general, on and offshore.
Growth has been out of control in many areas throughout the state of Florida, the fourth largest state in the U.S. Due to the large and expanding population, quality drinking water and water for irrigation is in short supply especially during dry periods. Our state simply does not have the water resources or the water treatment infrastructure necessary to support the population growth in some of these areas. Many communities are still using older, outdated treatment technologies.
Aquifer Storage And Recovery Of Sewage Effluent And Other Waste Water Is A Weapon of Mass Destruction!
Waste water effluent is highly toxic, known to contain deadly bacteria, viruses, traces of pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs, numerous toxic chemicals including Endocrine Disrupters, Volatile Organic Chemicals, Pesticides and Herbicides, Fluoride, Arsenic and Heavy Metals such as Cadmium, Chromium, Copper, Iron, Lead, Mercury, and Zinc.
Protect Yourself, Your Kids, and Your Pets! Don’t Drink The Water From ASR Wells Meant For Irrigation! Don’t Even Allow It To Touch Your Skin! Do Not Drink From Your Garden Hose!
Sewage effluent effects mammals of all kinds including humans. The toxic chemicals in waste water are proven to cause cancer, reproductive problems, nervous system disorders, kidney and liver damage, is highly toxic to humans, especially pregnant women, infants, children, older people, and people with immune deficiencies.
Skin eating disease is on the increase in Florida. The water recovered by ASR wells for irrigation may contain the bacteria responsible.
Here in Florida, we have a very precious, diverse, and delicate ecosystem. Too numerous to mention, many of our plants, animals, fish, and birds are endangered. The last thing we need in Florida is the detrimental environmental effects associated with the injection of sewage effluent and waste water into the Florida Aquifer via ASR wells.
Evidence is mounting in regards to the devastating effects of deep well waste water injection. It is becoming obvious to many, especially to owners of private wells, beach goers, surfers, fishermen, and divers. Coastal areas near deep well sites are experiencing a lot of irreparable damage. Coral reefs are dying, red tides, increased algae bloom, water plants (both fresh and saltwater) are disappearing, the health of endangered sea turtles is at risk, fish numbers are in decline, and marine life in general is suffering from the ill effects of deep well injection. This being true, ASR wells being so shallow (500 – 1000 feet deep) will cause even more environmental problems.
Recently, a new ASR well was constructed in Rockledge, Florida for the purpose of storing water derived from partially treated waste water and sewage effluent. The Rockledge ASR Project is creating quite a stir. The Rockledge Aquifer Storage and Recovery Well Sewage Effluent Injection Project has many residents of Rockledge, and surrounding Brevard County, and environmental groups alike, highly concerned about this controversial issue.
Note: To clarify my terminology of partially treated, all of the hazardous chemicals will not be removed from the water prior to injection. These chemicals are not naturally occurring, not normally found in the aquifer, and surely should not be injected into our drinking water supply.
Rockledge, a small city of approximately 25,000 people neighboring Cocoa Beach and the Indian River Lagoon is located in Brevard County. Many residents that reside in Brevard County outside of Rockledge city limits own private wells used for drinking water and/or irrigation.
The Indian River Lagoon, an Ecological Resource of National Significance, is less than one half mile from the well site. A large area of the Lagoon is within a 1-mile radius of the well. More than a dozen springs, thought to originate from the aquifer, flow directly into the lagoon.
Obviously, the City, St Johns River Water Management and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection have not considered the adverse environmental impact this experimental well will have on Indian River Lagoon.
The city’s intention is to inject partially treated sewage effluent into the ASR well at a depth of 3 to 5 hundred feet to be used as irrigation water for lawns, golf courses, and agricultural interests during dry periods. The city contends that the well can help guard against water shortfalls, tightening water restrictions, and will not effect local wells used for drinking water outside of the one mile radius.
Construction of the Rocklege ASR Project should be complete in June 2009. The city of Rockledge will then seek a permit from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to operate the well. At this point in time Rockledge does not have a permit to inject partially treated sewage effluent. The permit to operate the well will have to be modified before the actual injection of sewage effluent can take place. By law, testing will be required to determine the extent of the flow that will take place from the point of injection to other areas within the Floridan Aquifer, the state’s main underground source of drinking water.
Being so shallow, only 500 feet, i believe this is the first well of its kind in the state of Florida for the purpose of injecting partially treated sewage effluent. Unfortunately, there are two other ASR wells being constructed on the west coast in Tampa and Ft. Meyers for the same purpose.
City commissioners voted 6 – 0 to approve the project. Officials claim the injected sewage effluent will be contained within the cavern of the aquifer it is injected and also claim that it will not flow to other areas within the aquifer or otherwise, effect drinking water, nor cause harm to neighboring wells, or create any environmental problems.
Officials also claim the water will be treated to drinking water standards. Note: Drinking Water Standards are lacking in that numerous different dangerous chemicals have been found to be in water since the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act was initiated many years ago. New standards need to be put in place to bring our current standards, laws, and regulations up to date… Numerous new chemicals, for example pharmaceuticals, have been identified in tap water throughout the U.S. in recent years. Standards have not been set for many of these new chemicals.
A grass roots organization named Save Our Aquifer has formed to stop the injection of sewage effluent and other waste water, 300 to 500 feet deep, into the newly constructed 500 foot deep, very shallow, ASR well drilled directly into the Florida Aquifer. Hundreds of concerned property owners in Rockledge have responded to Save Our Aquifer (SOA), expressing their concerns over the proposed aquifer injections and ban on potable water wells. Rockledge residents are concerned about the loss of their property and water rights, contamination of their wells and the Indian River Lagoon.
Members of Save Our Aquifer are waging a campaign against the well because they are concerned the injected water will flow from the injection site, contaminate local wells fouling water supplies, cause environmental damage, and ultimately contaminate area drinking water resources.
At this point, many residents in Rockledge and surrounding Brevard County do not even know about the well. Homeowners in the affected area were not directly notified about the ASR well and the potential impacts on their private wells. No public hearing has been held. Members of Save Our Aquifer are attempting to inform the public about the risks involved.
Another concern they have is residents loss of water rights. Back in 2006 the city made an ordinance banning all potable wells within a one mile radius of the new well. Wells used for irrigation are still in operation. Who wants to irrigate with water contaminated with arsenic and deadly chemicals?
The city contends local wells outside of the 1 mile radius will not be effected by the new ASR well and have defined the ordinance prohibiting potable wells within the one mile radius to be an extra safety measure. The truth is, the city officials of Rockledge have no clue as to where the injected water will flow or what damage it could possibly cause to wells located throughout Brevard County, outside of Rockledge city limits.
The city ordinance banning potable wells within the one mile radius of the ASR well site back in 2006 tends to conflict with the claim by the city that the injected sewage effluent will be potable or treated to drinking water standards prior to injection.
Members of Save Our Aquifer and many other people believe the city’s claim that the water produced by this well will be safe is totally false.
Officials claim this project is not about recharging the aquifer, nor getting rid of sewage effluent water. Officials say it is all about storing the water within the aquifer for a short time until needed during the dry season for irrigation purposes. The dry season typically lasts approximately 2 months. Apparently, they think the water is going to wait for up to 10 months before being withdrawn for irrigation. I believe the injected water will be GONE…
Many people feel that the Rockledge ASR project is not only about water storage. Every town or city has the problem – what to do with sewage effluent. This may just be a cheap solution to that problem.
Even cheaper for Rockledge than most realize because the city of Rockledge is actually only paying for approximately half this project. The other half is being paid for by a grant given to the city by the Saint Johns River Water Management District through the “Florida Water Protection and Sustainability Program”, a total of $670,000.00 and another grant from Florida Forever’s “Water Resource Development Project” to the tune of $570,470.00
From what I am seeing on the internet, having read numerous studies, judging from past performances of the deep well projects, injecting sewage effluent deep underground has resulted in a tremendous amount of environmental damage, on and off shore.
This being true as witnessed by many, shallow ASR Injection directly into the Underground Source of Drinking Water (USDW) will be a total disaster. The injected water will mix with the existing natural water contained within the Florida Aquifer, will destroy our source of drinking water, will flow to other areas within the aquifer, springs, wells, and will have a serious negative impact on the environment in general. This is not to mention that only a small amount, if any, of the actual injected water will ever be recovered.
As I understand it, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection Website, the injected water must be treated to the standards of drinking water. The injection wells are required to be constructed, operated, and maintained so that the injected water remains within the injection zone. Flow of water between aquifers is prohibited. All ASR injection wells are supposed to be monitored so that if the water were to flow to other areas it would be detected before reaching the Underground Source of Drinking Water. Rockledge will be injecting treated sewage effluent directly into the Florida Aquifer, our source of drinking water…
Most Floridians have no clue as to what is going on. The citizens of Rockledge living within the 1-mile radius of the project were not notified in writing nor were they asked their opinion of putting partially treated sewage into their underground source of drinking water prior to implementation of the ASR well project
A few residents having knowledge of this well project taking place have asked a number of questions directed at city officials, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the St Johns River Water Management District. Some of the questions have been answered. Most of the answers have come across as being very hard to understand referencing highly technical rules, regulations, and technology that a layman cannot begin to understand. With a lack of information, unanswered questions, and confusing answers to the questions they have chosen to answer, residents of Rockledge and the surrounding area cannot form a full understanding or opinion in regards to this well and it’s purpose.
This project is not being widely publicized as it should. In fact, it appears Rockledge officials are attempting to keep it quiet.
In July, members of Save Our Aquifer requested of the City permission to place signs on private property, with owners consent, where they could be seen by people traveling over US 1. They were denied saying that such signs would be illegal, calling them “snipe” signs.
On November 24, 2008, the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida served notice on the City of Rockledge that they intend to sue the City if Save Our Aquifer is not allowed to place signs informing the public about the City’s proposed ASR well on private property along US 1 and other roads where property owners allow the signs.
December 5, 2008 the City of Rockledge granted Save Our Aquifer permission to post “NO ASR WELL” signs on private property. Save Our Aquifer has posted a $100 bond with the City of Rockledge and will be collecting permission forms from private property owners in Rockledge in order to post signs and raise awareness among the community about the issue.
Defending The Floridan Aquifer Is Not Only Our Right, It Is Our Responsibility!
The ASR waste water injection “Rockledge test well” (shallow 300′-500′) considered an “experiment” with the plan being to expand throughout Florida WILL EFFECT ALL FLORIDIANS IN THE FUTURE!
If Rockledge, with the help of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, receives the necessary permits to continue with this project, and you know they will, this will be a model for other cities. Eventually, many other cities throughout the state will follow their lead.
No One Enjoys The Stench Of Dead Fish!
The Rockledge Aquifer Storage and Recovery Project will be costly in the long run…. Tourism is a huge industry in our state. Tourists flock to our state to enjoy our beaches, sunbathing, fishing, diving, and swimming. In just a few short years Cocoa Beach and the Indian Lagoon will be showing the effects of pollution due to ASR. Once this occurs, the tourists will come no more… Neither will the money they spend at local motels, hotels, restaurants, shopping centers, bait shops, sports stores, etc…
Clean, Healthy Drinking Water Is A Basic Human Right!
Injection of this toxic mix, polluted, chemical laden sludge will contaminate our single major source of clean, healthy, drinking water. The damage ASR Sewage Injection can create is irreversible. It is government’s job, local, state, and federal to protect our water. To stand up and enforce our laws and regulations that protect drinking water. That’s why we have the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Where does government get off thinking they can threaten our water supply, cap our wells used for drinking water, and destroy our environment? Government does not own the water! Water belongs to no one, every human being on the face of this earth has the right to clean, healthy drinking water!
This May Turn Out To Be An Environmental And Economical Disaster!
Some communities have given up on their ASR Projects and returned to using surface storage because they have found ASR to be way too expensive.
As one man said – “ASR Is The Mother Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction” Injection of this toxic mix, polluted, chemical laden sludge will contaminate our single major source of clean, healthy, drinking water. The damage ASR Sewage Injection can create is irreversible.
In Time, No One With A Well In Brevard County Will Have Water Safe To Drink!
In South Florida, the home of many such wells, structural damage has occurred. Injection wells have caused cracks in the ceiling of the Florida Aquifer, causing the aquifer to fill with sand creating sinkholes. Sinkholes are known to be a direct route for pollutants to enter the aquifer.
The extreme fluctuation of the water level within a well used for this purpose can cause other problems. I said “extreme” because during dry weather, a time of high demand, a lot of water will be drawn from the well on a daily basis. During periods of wet weather, especially when we get those frog chokers, 10 – 15 inch rains resulting from hurricanes or tropical storms, a lot of water will be pumped down the throat of the ASR well, up to 180 million gallons per year. That makes me wonder to what degree the water will be “treated” or if it will be treated at all prior to injection during these periods of heavy rainfall…
Not only can this cause structural problems to the porous rock surrounding the water within the Florida Aquifer, pumping such a huge amount of water into the aquifer on a daily basis will increase the prevalence of arsenic in the water. Unsafe levels of arsenic can occur anytime the rock surrounding the aquifer is disturbed. Arsenic is a naturally occurring substance common throughout much of Florida. Arsenic is also found in many herbicides and pesticides. Arsenic is common in Central Florida water and has been found in many drinking water wells.
Something that puzzles me is why the St Johns River Water Management District and the Florida Forever Program is condoning, in fact, donating to this project. I was always under the impression the St Johns River Water Management District and Florida Forever was all about protecting our resources. In fact, I thought Florida Forever was all about conserving natural lands and protecting our environment.
My thoughts are that by this well being a solution to the sewage effluent problem, Rockledge will be in a better position to justify more growth. It has always amazed me how local politicians always run their campaign on the position of stopping growth and then when in put office they vote for everything they can that will encourage more growth…
There are other options to store reclaimed water and solve the problem of sewage effluent. Surface storage is a much better option….
Every community in Brevard County and surrounding counties have similar water problems. Why not get neighboring counties involved, build a large multi-use, environmentally safe reservoir farther inland, in an unincorporated area. Treat the water properly, to drinking water standards and pipe it in. When the dry season comes, draw water necessary for irrigation.
The reservoir and surrounding land could be used for recreational purposes. Boating, fishing, water-skiing, picnicking, camping, etc. Golfing is popular here in Florida, build an adjacent golf course and country club on the property. Include a swimming pool, a restaurant, and tennis courts. Fees charged to use the facilities and profits from the restaurant and camping area would pay the cost of the project.
Build a new modern water treatment facility on the property, one capable of fully treating the water, to handle the incoming sewage effluent using solar power. Solar power would provide electricity to power the entire project. Using solar power would also reduce federal taxes, if any, associated with the facility.
Most of this project could possibly be paid for by federal dollars. A “Green” project such as this would likely qualify for low interest government loans, even grants, I would think, especially since our new, incoming president is committed to the environment, the green initiative, and intends to increase jobs by upgrading and building new infrastructure.
If we can afford to throw billions of our tax dollars, 350 billion to date I believe, to wasteful companies, banks and mortgage companies that obviously don’t know how to handle money, I think the politicians can afford to send a little money our way! I’m no financial wizard and I know this sounds expensive, but so is the Rockledge ASR Project, something to the tune of $2,000,000. Not to mention the extreme cost of the continual testing required to operate the well, upwards of $100,000 per year. If Rockledge is permitted to operate the well, others will be built in the near future.
If one of these wells fail, polluting the aquifer, the cost of clean up would be out of sight.
Now is the time, land is cheaper now than it has been in years. Jobs are needed. A project like this would not only provide water in times of need, if managed correctly, it could actually go into profit and those profits could be shared by all the counties involved. Profits could help pay for county services, reduce local real estate taxes, and build new schools.
Doing this would help to solve the waste water problem, create jobs, increase tourism, improve the local economy, help keep our kids off the street, increase property values, be a great improvement to the entire area, and provide something everyone could enjoy, residents and visitors alike. It would be an environmentally friendly solution, much safer than aquifer injection, and would be something we could all be proud of.
I have a personal stake in regards to this issue. My drinking water comes from a well we had drilled into the Floridan Aquifer back in 1994. The well is drilled directly into a vein within the Florida Aquifer, 365 feet deep. We fully treat the water prior to drinking.
Look, I’m no scientist, just a concerned citizen, resident of Florida and somewhat of an environmentalist. I have written a number of articles concerning issues such as this. I believe in leaving the smallest footprint possible on the environment. If we all practice good stewardship we can leave our children, grandchildren, and future generations a better place to live.
What Can We Do?
Demand All ASR Injected Water Be Fully Treated To Drinking Water Quality, Tested And Monitored On A Regular Basis As It Should Be!
Be Part Of The Solution! Let Your Voice Be Heard! Join Save Our Aquifer In This Effort To Stop Aquifer Storage and Recovery! www.saveouraquifer.org
Click this link – http://www.saveouraquifer.org/?q=node/6 to send an email to Rockledge Officials
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Remember This On Election Day!
Write an editorial to your local newspaper and send a copy to:
Office of Governor Charlie Crist State of Florida The Capitol 400 S. Monroe St. Tallahassee, FL 32399-0001
City Manager, Jim McKnight, City of Rockledge 1600 Huntington Lane, Rockledge, Fla. 32955.
Mayor Larry L. Schultz 1820 Laurel Oak Dr. S. Rockledge, FL 32955
City Clerk & Public Relations Betsi Beatty Moist (W) 321-690-3978 FAX 321-639-1065
Wastewater Treatment & Water Reclamation Director Alan M. LaDuke (W) 321-690-3975 FAX: 321-690-3998
Florida Dept of Environmental Protection 3900 Commowealth Boulevard, MS # 35, Tallahassee, Fla. 32399-3000 850-245-2212
St. Johns River Water Management District 4049 Reid Street, Palatka, Fla. 32177
Rockledge City Council Seat #1
Dr. Joe Lee Smith 918 Levitt Pkwy. Rockledge, FL 32955
Rockledge City Council Seat #2
Richard K. Blake 916 Brunswick Lane Rockledge, FL 32955
Rockledge City Council Seat #3
Colleen Stuart 899 Jefferson Road Rockledge, Fl. 32955
Rockledge City Council Seat #4
Frank Forester 1481 Wellington Circle Rockledge, FL 32955
Rockledge City Council Seat #5
E. Georgia Phillips 856 Westport Dr. Rockledge, FL 32955
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Tom Price 11 Wincove Lane Rockledge, FL 32955
Patti Wilson
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Patti Wilson
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Churchill Surrenders, Roosevelt Appeases, the Ubermensch Dominate
It is May 10th 1940 and Churchill is Prime Minister of Britain. The BBC, Guardian and other left liberal news outlets publish polls stating that 60 % of Britons believe that the war against fascist Germany cannot be won and that the French are an unworthy ally. The questions used in the poll were inadequate containing ambiguous phraseology but the news outlets don’t report this – just the summary results. Instead the media focuses on the hardships, the trauma and destruction of war and record pessimist Britain’s dismay in defeating the Wehrmacht and supporting the fast collapsing French army.
Most of the media is hostile to Churchill, and tired of his bombast. One of their favorites – Lord Halifax prevented from being Prime Minister because he sits in the Lords and not the Commons – convenes many press conferences informing Britons that appeasement with Hitler is the safest guarantor of the British empire. The media endlessly recycles Halifax’s editorials in which he states that fighting Germany contravenes international and British law, since the Jews and Poles provoked the current conflict. He maintains that the British empire has no reason to interfere in the internal politics of Europe and that the two empires can peacefully coexist. Such ideas resonate within the media and their polling affiliates. At the end of May 72 % of Britons feel that Halifax’s demand that peace be sought with Germany would be ‘appropriate’.
To support the anti-war group the BBC broadcasts the already long list of dead military, the perils of fighting Germany alone, portrays the Americans as avaricious Jewish dominated parasites unwilling to formally aid Britain, and proposes that Europe united under one state and one leader is a historical destiny, quelling troublesome feuds once and for all. On British state owned TV well known British music stars and actresses are seen meeting with Hitler in attempts to broker a peace settlement, some more of the more raffish lot are photographed sitting atop Panzer tanks and parading in Gestapo uniforms. Many try to convince the British public that continuing the war with Germany would be unconscionable and will kill millions of innocent children and that the British public must stop their domestic military-industrial complex. A top pop song elaborates that ‘Germans love their children too’. Polls in England state that Churchill has only 22 % general support and almost none amongst women, ethnic, environmental groups and gay rights organizations.
Sympathetic documentaries and films are hurriedly shown in England during May and June 1940, in theatres and on state owned TV, pointing out that Hitlerism and Nazism is nothing more than the realization of Germanic ambition and historical destiny. They focus on German discipline, literary and musical achievements and the valid German need for more land. Indeed Hitler is portrayed in such episodes as a great and noble leader, resurrecting a decrepit and shattered Germany. Nazism is depicted in editorials and on campuses as a uber-philosophy and historical life-force, based on great accomplishments, community-love, and national pride – it is the new world order. The destruction of freedom, life and liberal values are never touched upon. Hitlerism and fascism excites the media and academic elite which publish around the clock, sycophantic essays on the dialectical inevitability of fascist power.
When France falls in June 1940 more polls are published in a frenzy of worried activity revealing that 80 % of Britons are pessimistic or uncertain about the war’s outcome with an astonishing 90 % expressing some level of concern about the government’s performance. Some extreme editorials charge that Churchill lied about the nature of the war and the reality of fighting an invincible Germany during his May 1940 Parliamentary speeches. His speeches and statements are re-parsed, picked over and extensively criticized for their naivety, romanticism and extreme patriotism.
Political and media analysts carp about Churchill’s own past including his poor academic record, his dubious military escapades, and his criminal guilt in the battle of Omdurman in 1898 in the Sudan when black native fighters were destroyed by modern military technology. They also point out Churchill’s personal combat against the Boers, the Indians and Afghans, stating that bigotry and racial hatred are at the core of Churchill’s character. Talk shows abound with analysts and those who ‘know’ Churchill stating that Churchill’s past is inglorious and at odds with current post World War One modernity of enlightened thoughtful liberalism. Even his vain, womanizing syphilitic father, a political star that crashed through arrogance and illness is dragged from the history books to prove that genetically Churchill is an unstable character and the son of drunken political bore.
Churchill’s past and own drinking excesses are front page stories, with news analysts and experts linking Churchill’s terrible character with the losing war effort. Many call for not only Churchill’s resignation but his impeachment for not doing enough to prevent the fall of the British expeditionary army and the humiliation of Dunkirk. The BBC reports that Churchill and his Ministers are not only losing the war, but also profiting from war contracts through firms closely allied with the Conservative political effort and that Churchill has sent his own small fortune out of the country to Canada. No evidence is given on these allegations but no proof is asked for. New public polling puts Churchill with a 13 % approval rating and calls for his resignation echo more loudly each day.
The anti-Conservative and anti-Churchill media also stoke antipathy to Churchill’s new coalition government by focusing on the incapability of British forces to fight. While willful, manly Germany prepares for the invasion of the British Isles, the media is adamant that the government is doing nothing. The British Labor party, sensing Churchill’s political weakness, reveal documents which support the position that the government is disorganized and drifting with no rational plan to wage war. A recently demoted Cabinet member releases photos of a drunk Churchill slurring his words at a private dinner function while discussing war strategy, and publishes letters from Churchill to his War Cabinet which apparently prove that Churchill has no real plan of national defense. Clement Attlee leader of the Labor Party, along with Lord Halifax, holds a press interview on an important TV talk show criticizing Churchill for the Norway fiasco along with inadequate funding of the armed forces and a lack of strategic focus. Atlee contends that appeasing Germany for two to three years, would enable Britain to retool and rearm, and cites the Soviet-Nazi pact of 1939 as an example of judicious statesmanship. Indeed Atlee calls for a British-like ‘Stalin’ to take over the government and re-energize its martial spirit. The media gives Attlee’s criticisms wide coverage and some propose that an Attlee government would have a more nuanced and realistic appraisal of confronting Germany, and would be smart enough to elicit support from ‘allies’ and the international community. Media analysis and polls are produced showing Atlee as Briton’s top choice for Prime Minister.
By mid June 1940 Churchill is in a political quandary. He is now facing low poll numbers, a well funded and media generated appeasement bloc, blame for the Norway fiasco, the poor performance of the British navy and the fall of France. German U-Boat packs threaten to strangle the British economy and the reliance on overseas supplies of food and war materiel puts Britain in an extended and seemingly insuperably hopeless position. Unless the British can defeat the U-Boat threat and hold off the Luftwaffe they are doomed to suffer a crushing invasion. German dominated Europe has 400 million people, and the vast resources of the entire Continent at its disposal, with close airfield and rocket positions, which are easily able to reach major English population and military centers. The situation according to the media and experts, is utterly hopeless.
Military, economic and polling data don’t smile favorably on Churchill in June 1940. Press coverage presents the above problems as insurmountable and emphasizes other weaknesses: budget deficits, low gold reserves, inadequate military production, poor military technology, a contracting economy and shows footage of worried sometimes tearful mothers in their kitchens stating that a European war should not claim the lives of their sons unless the international community sanctions military action and proves that war is necessary. Indeed Atlee, the media and other ‘experts’, are adamant that pre-emptive action cannot be taken against Germany, since such activity violates international laws. The exact laws are never produced nor detailed, but the general concept of international law is accepted by all ‘experts’ and media analysts. Thus assured the media supported by polls, states emphatically that Britain must not provoke Hitler’s wrath.
To combat low polling numbers and bad PR, Churchill’s political handlers advise a change in policy and image. Churchill’s stance against Germany is deemed to be too xenophobic and unnecessarily rough. After all didn’t Hitler state that he admired the British Empire and wanted to cooperate with it? With 300.000 men safely back from Dunkirk Churchill can claim a victory of sorts and start to repair relations with the Nazi’s. Churchill’s handlers advocate a kindler, gentler centrist Churchill. Churchill must stop the anti-German rhetoric, open up trade ties with Greater German Europe, understand the importance of the Nazi philosophy in elevating society and developing human greatness, pay homage to the great artifacts of European culture developed by German genius, and admit that he was wrong about the handling of the war’s early period. They propose that Churchill meet Hitler in Paris to discuss the mutual benefices of cooperation and tolerance. Before doing so Churchill will be photographed at German intellectual institutions and gatherings in London and be seen reading Germany history and philosophy in order to show his sensitivity to German high culture.
In late June 1940 Churchill delivers a press conference clarifying the change in British policy, and stating that he was mistaken about Hitler and now admits he admires this ‘greatest of German leaders’. Churchill emphasizes that he wants to avoid war, bloodshed and societal destruction and resolve all disputes in a spirit of human rights, love, and cultural relativity. He calls for international arbitration and a ‘New League of Nations’ to adjudicate all disputes between German Europe and Britain. After all, as Churchill states during the press reading, no one can possibly imagine that an Anglo Saxon culture is superior to that of the Teuton. Indeed as provided by the media and sundry academics and the recent Hitlerian success it is clear that Germany is a superior civilization to that of Britain. Lastly Churchill offers peace and implores Hitler to grant humane and favorable terms so that, in Churchill’s words, ‘the great civilizations of German and English speaking peoples, can move forward together to broad sunlit uplands.’
The British public are jubilant. Polls reveal that Churchill’s support rebounds from 13 % to 44 % almost overnight. The press is enthusiastic in their praise of this ‘far-sighted elder statesman who takes the middle and centrist course eschewing death and war’. Atlee and Halifax taken by surprise grudgingly admit that Churchill has implemented most of their ideas, though they caution that ‘many details are missing’. International politicians call Churchill’s volte-face a brilliant and humanitarian move, which ensures peace and prosperity. Amnesty International and the Red Cross state that German dominated Europe does not suffer from human rights abuses or concentration camp murders and lend support to Churchill’s magnanimous gesture, stating that they see little in Hitler’s empire that should spark concern. British music stars and movie celebrity’s hold a gala in which British and German politicians and notables toast their respective empire’s health. Churchill’s handlers rush to provide photo-ops of Churchill shaking hands with assorted celebrities and to be seen chatting to Nazi intellectuals to better understand their civilisational philosophy. There is even one photo of Churchill crying while listening to a Wagnerian opera.
In early August 1940 Hitler and Churchill pose for photos in Paris, shake hands, and commit each empire to a 10 year truce with special economic arrangements. The British are forced to mothball the Royal Navy in a show of good will. Unilateralists are overjoyed and ‘peace missions’ to Germany, which are used to establish a bond of ‘trust and love between the two great peoples’, headed by environmentalists, human rights lawyers, and the well to do sons of the political and business elite, receive ample news coverage.
The media, experts and pundits all state that a world war is now avoided. However the Japanese fuelled by military fascism and jingoistic propaganda are convinced that a supine, lazy, stupid America is an easy target. Meeting in Hong Kong, Japanese and German strategists plan the destruction of US naval power. Hitler states in private meetings that the British can be destroyed after the Germans and Japanese annihilate the US fleet and shipping yards. Without US naval assistance Hitler reasons, Britain naturally falls. Tojo describes the Americans as ‘immoral consumerists and sensualists’, laughing at US culture and backwardness and predicts an easy time of wrecking the US navy. Hitler agrees that if Tojo destroys the US Pacific fleet he will immediately declare war and attack US Atlantic shipping and port installations. Hitler predicts that a combined German-Japanese naval attack will destroy the US navy within 6 months and shortly thereafter Britain can be invaded. Detailed German plans for the destruction of US Atlantic shipping assets is drafted.
On December 7 1941 the Japanese efface the US navy at Pearl Harbor and land paratroopers throughout the island chain, taking Hawaii in a few hours. The remaining US army and naval units in Hawaii capitulate. Tojo’s forces follow this easy triumph with concerted naval and land raids along the Alaskan and Californian coasts. The Germans now join in. During December 1941 the entire US coastline on both the West and East are subject to unrelenting Japanese and German raids and sporadic bombings. The psychological effect on the US is overwhelming. Though Roosevelt declared war immediately after December 7 1941, a section of Congress and the House wanted nothing to do with war or hostilities. Much like Churchill Roosevelt now finds himself under sustained media and political attack. The effective and coordinated Germano-Japanese attacks shake the US to its foundation.
Roosevelt’s war budget and war powers act in early 1942 fails to pass both Houses. The media calls for arbitration between the great powers of Japan, Germany and the US. Opposition politicians state that no international support exists for the US and it is time to negotiate. German and Japanese money, bribes and coercion have been effective in the third world. The Arab league with German money as an inducement, unanimously declares that Hitler’s Jewish policy is the only way to solve the ‘Semitic problem’. In exchange for military and economic support Germany receives favorable oil supplies and prices from the Arab League. Latin America, Africa, and Asia recipients of vast quantities of German and Japanese investments and political arm twisting all declare that Germany and Japan are liberators. The US media dutifully reports that most of the world is anti-american and laments about what can be done.
Regional and national groups in the third world publish a long list of Anglo Saxon crimes and refer to the newly created World Court, indictment terms against both Churchill and Roosevelt. The newly instituted ‘Latin American Freedom League’, and newly created ‘African Unity Bloc’ both proclaim the US and England racist colonial powers and call for the conviction in the World Court of both Churchill and Roosevelt on grounds of ‘the historical and modern destruction of non-white Anglo Saxon peoples and civilizations’. The World Court convenes in recently Nazi liberated Baghdad to hear evidence against the US and Britain. The hastily convened ‘New League of Nations’ sitting in Rome since January 1942 states that Germany and Japan are not guilty of war crimes and have only reversed Anglo-Saxon white imperialism. A proposal is forwarded in the New League of Nations by Germany’s ally Italy, which had just finished the subjugation of Ethiopia, Libya and Tunisia, to force the US and Britain to pay reparations for victims of African slavery. The proposition easily passes.
The media in the US and Britain report these proceedings in great detail and put forward theories elaborating the justness and goodness of the German and Japanese empires and why international institutions, cooperation and above all understanding, are vital. The US media and academic lectures relate statistics which purportedly show both Japanese and German GDP growth rising at about 8 % per annum, with unemployment at 2 %. Polling data shows happy and contented citizens in both German Europe and Japanese Asia. Domestic US and British polls reveal that most consider Germany and Japan to be the harbingers of the future and that both the US and Britain must pay for past crimes of imperialism. A US news poll states that 59 % of Americans believe that Hitler and Tojo have just grievances and historical rights to their empire while 67 % believe that Britain and America were guilty of criminal imperial conduct. Meanwhile US-British trade due to U-Boat embargoes and appeasement philosophies dissipates to 10 % of pre 1939 levels. High unemployment, low trade and investment, rationing, and loss of civic freedoms as both the US and British governments impose drastic security measures and censorship befall both nations.
Shortly after the convening of the New League of Nations in Rome and the expulsion of the US representative on the grounds that ‘US slavery of blacks cannot be condoned in a world body’ , Roosevelt faces domestic impeachment for war crimes for interning Japanese Americans. The thousands of US dead, a destroyed Pacific fleet and ruined communities on both coasts are ignored. The media runs endless recitations of Japanese internment camp footage and abuse. In addition the domestic US political opposition repeatedly and endlessly documents the elitist upbringing of Roosevelt, his avoidance of any military duty whatsoever, his persistent womanizing and whiskeying, and his crippling illness. Privately in back rooms Roosevelt is given an option – officially sign an armistice with Germany and Japan, pay reparations to the New League of Nations for past US crimes, or face impeachment. As well part of this deal includes the repudiation of Churchill and Great Britain and a stern denouncement of the evil actions of the British empire in times current and past. Roosevelt complies. The US media focuses on the terrible conditions of Germans interned in Britain and hails Roosevelt’s volte-face and pro-German policy as ‘far sighted and nuanced.’
In early March 1942 the US ratifies in both Houses a non-aggression pact and economic treaty with both Japan and Hitler. As part of the deal the US must destroy its navy and long range missiles and guarantee that it will not aid Britain in the event of war. Roosevelt signs the document citing poll numbers which state that 65 % of Americans do not like the idea of a war, and that 50 % of Americans do not trust Churchill or the British. The media publish stories on Churchill’s drunkenness, excessive European and German GDP growth and show US actors and writers in Tokyo, who document the perfection of Japanese solidarity and their amazement at Japanese economic success. One actress gushes that she will soon move to Tokyo to be at ‘the centre of man’s future’. The impeachment case against Roosevelt is dropped and the media stops running footage of Japanese internment camp abuses. Roosevelt is saved.
Much to media and academic amazement during 1943 fascist military autocracies take over the main nation states in Africa, Latin America, Mexico, and South Asia. The few critics who protested appeasement under the guise of the ‘domino effect’ are suddenly proved correct. For some weeks the US and British media appear confused. Then the political and media elite begin to recast the story. Indeed the spread of fascism excites the media and academic elite who are effusive of their praise of ‘these strong brave leaders, leading their countries to a better future.’ Only a handful of quasi-democracies remain and these, the mainstream media assures its public, are historical oddities. Ubermensch ideology and communitarian fascism are pronounced in editorials and classrooms as mankind’s future.
The German-American Club for Freedom and its President Henry Ford, explain to the US public that the German model is the society of historical destiny. Ford goes on an extensive public tour describing the massive business opportunities for Ford and other corporations in Europe and his respect for Hitler. After all Ford reasons, ‘Hitler has provided security and continuity – both are essential for business planning.’ On a popular TV talk show Ford describes his thrill in meeting the Fuhrer stating ‘never have I met such a great man. He is a monument of history.’ In contrast Ford describes his meeting with Churchill on the same trip as disappointing and describes Churchill as a ‘sodden, drunken relic of the British racist imperialist past.’ Orsen Wells produces a sycophantic film on Hitler, and George Orwell is first fined then imprisoned in England for writing anti-fascist essays. Environmental studies are published showing how careful Germany and Japan are with their natural resources and how green their societies are. The German idea of recycling plastic and paper using green bins becomes widely emulated. German pop music and Japanese dress become quite popular. Across the US and Britain political science courses dealing with ‘Dialectical Materialism and Fascist Destiny’ become the campus rage and German language enrollments blossom. Sensitivity courses on cultural differences are encouraged in high school.
In a private meeting of the great powers in Yalta in April 1943 Hitler threatens Roosevelt with a combined Soviet-German invasion of the US East coast unless the US increases its shipments in oil and key military-industrial technologies in exchange for bartered goods, labor camp produced product, and Russian wheat. Roosevelt without a Navy complies though he tells Hitler that the concentration camps and Jewish liquidation is creating domestic political problems in the US as reporters slowly report on these atrocities across Europe. Hitler replies that the camps and the elimination of the Jews are mere capitalist fantasies and that Roosevelt must silence such slander. Roosevelt is also non-plussed when Hitler demands, in exchange for decreasing European tariff barriers from 100 to 96 %, that the US limit its airforce to 10 squadrons available for domestic security. High unemployment, lagging industrial production and a world economy which is increasingly marginalized and closed off, dropping polling numbers and unrest in sensitive re-election states, convince the US President to sign the accord. Roosevelt is thus able to proclaim a great diplomatic and economic triumph to the US media forecasting a 15 % rise over 2 years in US exports to Europe. Roosevelt’s poll numbers move up to above a 55 % approval rating with many polls citing that by standing up to Hitler Roosevelt has proven himself to be a strong leader.
Meanwhile in England a confused, and angry Churchill loses his Conservative leadership in a coup plotted by Halifax and Anthony Eden. Tired of Churchill’s obstinacy and endless nagging over German aggression and fascist destruction of liberty, the moderate centrists of the Conservative party assemble a convention and on a one member-one vote basis, vote 78 % in demanding the resignation of the obstinate unrealistic Churchill. Churchill’s steadily anti-German policy is for the Halifax-Eden group not centrist or nuanced enough. The resolution against Churchill was particularly scathing about Churchill’s lack of compassion towards Germanic historical grievances, the role of the Jew in destroying German culture and Churchill’s apparent inability to appear sensitive in public alienating the female, gay and media voting blocs. The political destruction of Churchill according to media polls is favorably endorsed by 72 % of the population.
Weary, sick and dazed by what has transpired Churchill becomes ill and dies 6 months after being ousted from office. Roosevelt in great pain from his polio, fatigued and belittled by innuendo and conflicting poll numbers and media disparagement, quietly slips into death 2 weeks later. Charles Lindbergh takes over the leadership of the Democratic party and easily wins election as President with his party dominating in a landslide both the House and Senate. US polls cite the pro-German Lindbergh with 87 % popular support. Further polls state that 42 % of Americans feel that their best ally is Germany with 32 % citing Japan. Only 15 % believe that Britain is a worthwhile ally. TV media coverage documents the new era of ‘responsible American international orientation.’ Funding for the New League of Nations is doubled. Hollywood starlets burble about the alluring sensual mystique of pure Aryan Nazism. American women flock to Berlin seeking marriage with virtuous beautiful Nazi men and to escape the mongrel culture of America.
One year after their deaths both Churchill and Roosevelt are indicted by their national legislatures and the World Court in Baghdad as war criminals for imperialist crimes against humanity. Six months later Britain is invaded and conquered by a massive Euro-Germany army. In May of 1945 the US agrees to hand over its continental coastal territories in the west to Japan and in the east to Germany in order to avoid a direct invasion. As well the remaining nub of American sovereignty stops all military and nuclear arms production. The US media declares this a realistic foreign policy stating that 64 % of Americans feel that war is evil. A last poll cites 85 % of Americans as being confused and afraid with 75 % stating that they don’t trust the media or the political elite. After Germany and Japan reorder their new US based territories, all media transmission and polling data suddenly and dramatically, stops. It is unclear what percent of the population supported this action.
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