for example, when I google "we own the people of Owens Valley, lock stock and barrel" ----it appears on the internet in only one place, and that is on this thread.
Ken, I summarized the quote at the end of a 3 page article. Here's the quote verbatim:
L.A.'s utility chief Freeman recently told a reporter that the DWP owned the people of Owens Valley "lock, stock and barrel." He was right. Here's the web address:
http://www.alternet.org/water/145761/l.a...r_panels?page=3 As I said, I would be very cautious about taking an advocates position as having anything to do with the truth.
Several things that bring the veracity of your "quote" into question:
1. the article is a couple of years old.
2. the "quote", which was not in quotes, except for three words, were attributed to "a reporter"-unnamed.
3. The person who supposedly said this, is known nationally as a "eco-pioneer", and is currently the head of a hydrogen car company, and is a renowned anti-nuclear activist.
4. Other websites cite the quote DIFFERENTLY. For example,
http://www.sierrawave.net/4385/bureaucrat-beat-grow-up-cool-clint-dapper-david/ "big plans to develop solar power here where, as he put it,
DWP owns the Owens Valley "lock, stock and barrel.""
So different activist sites put out different permutations of a person's words, not in quotes, to push buttons. That is manipulation.
