Let's Ask International Paper

During the course of five decades of wonder about the way the business world operates, it has become somewhat apparent that contact with employee(s)/shareholder(s) within the ranks of International Paper Company is an action-initiation pathway that has not yet been documented.

The key concept is use of "freedom of the press"; because anything that is wanted done can be printed up within the parameters of that United States ethic, quite suddenly a new protocol will surface -- right or wrong.

A wide range of actions -- including fake birth certificates, impeachment proceedings, magazine advertisements, and more -- can be initiated with as little as one telephone call to a key contact within IPC. The success of protocol change -- right or wrong -- is dependent upon attitude and tone of voice, so that a positive response from an IPC contact is used to set up other key actions, most prevalently using a demand strategy.

Decades of wrong-doing can be initiated and perpetuated as a result from the non-publicized ploy, followed by years of law enforcement investigation and court action. It is entirely possible that the methodological operation ('m. o.' , definition outlined in criminology texts) is intended to be an intentional diversion that distracts and redirects the ambitions of entrepreneurs so as to block unreasoned success or to assure the continued gains of pre-existing regional networks.

However, when something necessary should be set up -- say, replacement of water-stream salvage grates here in Martin County, Florida -- such effort is also blocked since a multitude of social ills can be traced to IPC contacts that affect the nation's functioning as a whole.

Metal salvage grates once securely controlled the movement of things (and lost people) within regional ditches, sloughs, and canals, the grates being set into concrete or stone where water flows underneath roadways or into large streambeads. Over the years, the grates do rust; the hurricanes during past recent years severely weakened them, and last year some kind of corraling attempt 'sent' feral animals through the spent bars such that all quite suddenly disappeared within the time-frame of a night-time or two.

With reference to the old fairy tale titled, "The Boy Who Cried Wolf", a call to IPC has become suspect such that any new hurricane(s) blowing through the region might cause a sort of water-slide of human bodies directly into the Saint Lucie River and therefrom into the Atlantic Ocean, and/or a pile-up of drowned corpses at the South Fork area of the St. Lucie Locks. Ugh.