[Lee Ronstadt, the paramilitary group leader, calls Ray, the talk radio host on the water shortage debate]
Now you wanna know what I think about the water shortage, right?
Right.
There isn't any.
What do you mean there isn't any?
Look, Ray, I heard all about your so-called drought. The fact is, we got plenty of water.
Is that so? Where?
Okay, I'll tell you where it is. We're selling it to the Arabs.
The who?
The Arabs! They got nothing but sand and money.
Look Lee, get to the point.
Listen, if you were sitting in the middle of a desert, what would you be looking to import?
Lee, you are pretty off-base today.
And who suffers? We do! I can remember a time here in California when we grew tomatoes the size of cantaloupes and cantaloupes the size of...
That's a pretty flaky theory, who'd sell our water?
Well, it's them bleeding hearts back in Washington, that's who! Trying to keep the whole world happy and to hell with the American people! Well, I got my sprinklers going, and I'm gonna keep them going, and to hell with the Arabs!
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