Why the Novel “Tail of the Dragon” takes place on The Fourth of July: Fighting for our freedoms

I purposely set the big car chase in my new novel Tail of the Dragon on the Fourth of July for a very specific reason. As millions of Americans flock to their nearest firework displays whether it is from their back yard, or at one of the massive public displays, it has become apparent that they have lost the meaning of what the fireworks represent. So in my new novel, I wanted to take the reader on a journey to explore that meaning not only as a work of intense action with a political thriller, but as a work of philosophy.

My publisher at American Book Publishing wanted me to shorten my very large manuscript to fit their Bedside Books imprint once it was realized what I was up to. So we shortened the book considerably to fit a particular market located in the philosophy section of book stores. We did this without sacrificing the integrity of the book as a work of literature but as my editor stated, it is the car chase that everyone reading the book will want to get to, and that is where the philosophy of freedom is explored most effectively, so we wanted to get there quickly without delay, which happens to take place on the Fourth of July as the main character is declaring his independence in many ways from a world gone mad. Below is text to the words I spoke in the video above so to explain in more detail the who, what, why, when and where of how Tail of the Dragon came about and why it will appear on the book shelves next to Karl Marx as opposed to Stephen King.

I’m Rich Hoffman, an American writer who is very concerned about the future of our country and I’m speaking from the Great Smoky Mountains. Europe has just made a commitment to socialism in spite of their terrible financial situation. Here in the United States labor unions are attempting to maintain their stranglehold on American business and government employment. Governments everywhere are operating at tremendous deficits. And the American youth seem apathetic turning to mind numbing devices to soften the impact of their dismal futures. I realized that what all these problems had in common was an admiration for one very small book typically sold in the philosophy section of many book stores, Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto.

Many of the problems we see around us today are simply the direct result of a commitment to failed philosophy. So the best way to correct the situation is with competing ideas. This is why I wrote the new thriller Tail of the Dragon, which goes beyond the usual format of a fictional novel, but is rather a work of philosophy which intentionally explores the idea of freedom and what it means to individuals and societies.

To achieve this I drew from extensive personal research into a mythical place called Tail of the Dragon located on the western frontier of the Great Smoky Mountains and decided to explore the concept of freedom by breaking every law society has created so that the characters and therefore the reader can take a journey beyond the restrictions that are holding American society, and the nations of the world into a conformity that is ultimately destructive to individual lives.

In America it is claimed to be the land of the free, and home of the brave. But these tendencies seem to be disappearing at an alarming rate, so I find it important to identify what the traits are that make up an individual who embodies these traditional American values. I wanted to ask the question what does it mean to be fearless–what does it mean to be a patriot—what does it mean to be a good spouse—a good parent—a great American. In Tail of the Dragon under the most adverse conditions, these questions are explored along with much, much more.

For as long as most of us have lived we have heard that if you fight city hall, you will always lose. We have heard that you cannot fight the law, because the law will always win. But what if those who make the laws are bad, or functioning from a false philosophy, are we not supposed to challenge those bad laws? In Tail of the Dragon the main character of Rick Stevens challenges the law and decides that he would rather die than live under unjust law, and this leads to the greatest car chase in the history of the world and massive amounts of destruction. But the premise is a serious one, what should an individual be willing to do to keep and maintain their freedoms? What are the invisible lines that dictate when action against the law becomes necessary? And what is the difference between an outlaw and a freedom fighter?

These are the questions of our day. These are the concerns of the Occupy Movement–these are the concerns of the Tea Party—these are the concerns of civil rights activists—these are the concerns of every tax payer in the entire world and they are explored in the new novel Tail of the Dragon.

It is for these reasons that you will find the book under the philosophy section of a book store as opposed to general fiction because it is not intended to only entertain, but to bring about thought and to directly compete with Karl Marx and Sir Thomas More who have contributed much to modern philosophy which is at the root of so many modern problems globally. America has a unique philosophy that developed as a result of its independent nature and it deserves more spokesmen for liberty than it currently has. Tail of the Dragon is dedicated to this objective. So I invite you to take the journey down the Tail of the Dragon for yourself and discover a world you didn’t know was possible, and restricted yourself from even thinking about, because when you come to the end of this book, you will see the world in a new way—a way that should make your life and those around you a better one. Sometimes the right thing to do is to break all the rules, and in this book, you will get the chance, because the answers to life are not in the legislative halls of our governments, but in our own hearts and minds—and to listen to those voices we must break free.

Tail of the Dragon ends with the President of the United States trying to piece together an America embroiled in civil war, a war between individuality and the theories of collectivism. It is in the Oval Office that Tail of the Dragon comes to grips with the definitions of American spirit and the rights of individuality in a never-ending quest for freedom that extends beyond the borders of The United States to societies the world over.

For more information on the book begin your journey at Tail of the Dragon Book.com. The book is ultimately dedicated to every person who has received a speeding ticket or fears getting a traffic citation and suspects that the fines are just another form of unjust taxation. This book is a chance to strike back at a justice system that is taking our nation in the wrong direction with a political philosophy that erodes human freedom.

Help start the fires of the next revolution by fanning the flames with this new and unusual book.  Become a fan of  Tail of the Dragon on Facebook below, and send this to a friend to help those flames spread, and take back what has been lost through many years of neglect, personal apathy, and open manipulation. 

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This is what people are saying about my new book–Tail of the Dragon

Just finished the book and am sweating profusely. Wow, what a ride !!!  Fasten your seat belts for one of the most thrilling rides ever in print.

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Rich Hoffman
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Celebrate the Fourth of July: Tell the pot bellied pigs in the United Nations to dig!

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There is a lot of stress over the treaty shown below that the Obama administration through his progressive Secretary of State Hillary Clinton—the old bra burning hippie from the sixties—is making in a deal with the United Nations to ban firearms the world over, particularly in the United States.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/10/15/us-arms-usa-treaty-idUSTRE59E0Q920091015

If one looks at a political map, the red states and blue states, it will become readily apparent that the progressive radicals like Obama and Hillary reside in the high urban areas and coastal cities. But in the heart of the county, they are not liked and there is a lot of red in America. If Hillary attempted to give a speech at the Annie Oakley Festival in Darke County, Ohio at the end of July, she would be booed to no end. If Obama attempted to give one of his communist speeches at a NASCAR event he would be embarrassingly scorned, and he knows it. The heart of the country does not like these people and their imposing regulations and theories of collectivity. That’s why Obama tends to speak at public schools when he comes to Ohio, because public schools are institutions of progressive philosophy openly advocating socialism, and he is on safe ground. But people in general do not like progressive politicians.

Obama and Hillary along with the rest of their progressive utopians live in liberal hotbeds of the country that are densely populated with illegal immigrants, welfare recipients, the mentally challenged, and the down and out who do not have the fight in them to get up and try again. Social losers tend to vote the progressive way because they have given up at trying to make a life for themselves under capitalism, so they embrace socialism because they are a lazy and defeated people. Obama and his minion Hillary maintain the illusion of their popularity by only speaking to these types of people. Even when Obama came to Cincinnati to speak about the Brent Spence Bridge reconstruction project he picked a concrete factory that is built right next to one of the largest homosexual nightclubs in the whole Midwest, so that he would have a friendly audience to clap at his avocation of socialism. Obama knows who his supporters are, and the strong backbone of America is not it. Obama to maintain power must pander to gays, abortionists, illegal immigrants, Marxist radicals, school teachers, drug addicts, racists, feminists, revolutionaries, globalists, and the dirt poor who are too lazy to get off their couch to get a can of beer from their refrigerators.

It was not an accident that Joe Biden cancelled his trip to Hamilton a few weeks ago to speak from a government controlled, public union infested firehouse to beat on his chest about the defeat of Issue 2. Even as organizers tried to drum up enough people to generate a crowd among the public employees, there wasn’t enough to fill the screen for the cameras. So they called it off to save the embarrassment. People like Joe Biden or Barack Obama could not stop by the Grand Ol’ Pub in West Chester and expect crowds of general citizens to show up and cheer them to victory, because those people don’t exist in the heart of America. Instead they would encounter anger, and open hostility. The secret service personal has given Obama and his team the risk assessments and they aren’t good. So they stick close to government buildings where they control the crowd with government employees.

So trust me dear reader when I say this—there will not be any treaty that will take away our guns. The old hippie Hillary does not have a right to negotiate a treaty that takes away American guns with the United Nations because the guns protect us from power-hungry politicians like Hillary and Obama, and they will not be given up. It’s not going to happen. They can make the deal, but it won’t be worth the paper it’s printed on. They do not have the power to send the military into the heart of the country and take away guns. They might want to, but they can’t because it would be a slaughter.

They won’t because they can’t even speak at a NASCAR event due to the embarrassment they would be exposed to, and there are a lot more conservatives in the country than these hippie progressives, and once it is realized that Hillary has sold America up the river, and Obama pocketed the profit, there will be open hostility.

On the Fourth of July it is refreshing to sit on my front porch and listen to the hundreds of thousands of people all over the countryside breaking the law by illegally firing off fireworks. The Fourth of July is not about parades and politicians kissing babies, but it’s about rebellion. It’s about defiance. It’s about thumbing noses at authority. The police are helpless to arrest everyone, so they stand down. When the police have attempted to come down my street and enforce firework laws in years past they have encountered intense hostility and it simply isn’t worth the trouble—so they don’t do it any more.

The same thing will happen with 100 times the magnitude if Hillary and Obama make a deal with the United Nations to grab all of Americas guns. The hostility will be tremendous and finally the sleeping sheep of America will realize that they have all along been wolves, and there will be a lot of hunting going on.

The gun laws work in New York because the people who move there want what New York has. They tend to sacrifice many of their values to see if they can make it in the Big Apple, so giving up their guns are not a big deal—because they lack values to begin with. But if those same gun laws were brought to Kentucky—LOL, forget about it. I would love to see the entire military and National Guard attempt to go door to door in Slade, Kentucky and collect their guns. That won’t happen in 1000 years. If the federal government thought it was hard to find Bin Laden in Pakistan when we always knew he was there, wait till they try to enforce gun laws in the rugged parts of the United States.

Yes, the military might try to carpet bomb targets they suspect are the most hostile resistance, but they can’t bomb everyone, and everyone will be against them. And for the military to operate it requires recruits from the core of the country, and tax dollars to fund it, and if that gets cut off, there will be no planes to fly. There will be no military without tax dollars to keep it going, because the inner cities who support Obama and the gang don’t make anything. Most of Obama’s supporters are leeches on society and cannot come to his aid to enforce gun laws, because they are too lazy and economically useless. It is the gun owner who pays the most taxes in America. It is the gun owner who makes the government possible, and it is the gun owner who can take it away.

That is why anything Hillary does with the United Nations is useless. I personally do not recognize the United Nations as a viable government entity. It means nothing to me, and I believe America should cut all funding to it. It allows all the member nations to believe they are equal to America even when they have governments that embrace socialism. It gives those governments the illusion of being equal to the United States and they are not, and should not be allowed to believe such things. By cutting them off American tax dollars through UN support it would force those countries to realize they are functioning from a failed political philosophy. I can say that no member of the United Nations has any control or command of my life, and they never will. I don’t even listen to the politicians in my own community let alone some pot-bellied pig in Geneva.

So worry not dear readers. Hillary is as toothless in her ability to make gun grabbing deals with the United Nations as Obama is in forcing Americans to buy healthcare. We are getting ready to remove our government in America with one that more reflects traditional values. We will attempt to do it peacefully through elections, or we will do it with force, but progressives are about to lose their power.

For the progressive to have power they must take away the greatest weapon that can slaughter them forever—and that is the truth. They have managed to make the “truth” unfashionable. They have made it so we cannot speak the truth without hurting someone’s feelings or committing acts of racism. Whenever we deal with government this seems to be the tactic, even at the local level of the government school. When a school says they need tax increases for the children, while at the time employees give themselves massive raises and extravagant vacations, they are lying and using the removal of the truth as their means of executing their crime of theft. I declared my independence from these idiots by calling them Latté Sipping Prostitutes with asses the size of car tires and everyone who reads here knows what a fall out there was because of it. But I had more people who thanked me for saying it than the 70 people who hated me, and that scared the shit out of the progressives who attempt to run my community with manipulative influence. Rush Limbaugh the same week I had my ordeal with the local progressives called a progressive spokeswoman for the Obama clan a prostitute and boycotts were threatened against his advertisers. Progressives screamed victory. But the economic reality is that advertisers aren’t stupid. They made a public stand against Rush, just like the newspapers and media outlets around Cincinnati did toward me—to pander like slaves to the progressive fools—but then it was realized that Rush Limbaugh has 15 million listeners and no advertiser in their right mind would turn away the revenue they can make off that audience to appease some progressive ex-hippies. The boycott faded away and Rush is still on the air with no shortage of advertisers wanting to direct their products to his audience.

You see, there is a reason people like Rush, people like Glenn Beck, and more than 100 people stopped me within one month of my standoff and thanked me for saying what they always thought—because the core of the country knows they are being screwed over by Obama and the gang, and they don’t like it. And they are close to fighting back right now, and Obama’s team knows it.

So on the Fourth of July, relish the sound of the thousands of fireworks that fill the countryside deep into the night—each of them breaking the law.  Watch the videos on this article, clean your guns and kiss the barrel like it’s your first-born son or a treasured daughter, because it is there to preserve your freedom from the tyranny of an encroaching government. But the best thing you can do for yourself is to declare your independence from the control of the progressive. Feel free to speak the truth, it feels good, because as long as a majority of America politely holds their tongue so to avoid being called names by the progressive types, you give them power over you. It allows looting politicians like Obama and the bra burning hippie Hillary to believe they have a right to give America away to the United Nations. While they campaign in safe zones like homosexual nightclubs, public schools, and firehouses, they pretend that all of America endorses them, and they don’t. Progressives believe they are good, intelligent, and special because they do not hear what people really think about them, because conservatives hold their tongues and their manners. This allows the progressive to believe that they have support they do not have.

So free yourself from that burden and speak the truth. Declare your independence from the tyranny of having the strongest weapon in your arsenal removed from the battlefield of ideas—the weapon of truth. Speak it openly, and set yourself free, and let the punks, the losers, and the progressive politicians know what you really think of them. Because now is not the time for violence, because the weapon of the truth has not yet been employed, and once it is, progressives have nothing to stand on and no money to use to attempt to get it. It is the gun owner who holds all the cards, and the best card in the deck is the truth. Use it and you will find your progressive foes are toothless bureaucrats that can do nothing but call people names and spend money that is not their own. Take those things away from them and they have nothing to use against you.

Take away the money progressives use, fail their school levies, fail their police levies, and cut all government employees so there aren’t enough of them to even think about going door to door to take away our guns and force Americans to comply with foolish United Nations mandates. Vote out every politician who supports anything but tax decreases, and don’t let them think they are important members of some invisible European political class. In America a politician is just one step above scum, and fancy talk can’t mask the fact. Make sure to remind them of that from time to time, instead of letting progressives believe they are gods on earth with your silence. Because you see dear reader, as the video below will remind you, there are two kinds of people in this world–people with loaded guns, and those who dig.  It’s time we hand the progressives a shovel.

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This is what people are saying about my new book–Tail of the Dragon

Just finished the book and am sweating profusely. Wow, what a ride !!!  Fasten your seat belts for one of the most thrilling rides ever in print.

Visit the NEW Tail of the Dragon WEBSITE!  CLICK HERE!

Rich Hoffman
https://overmanwarrior.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/ten-rules-to-live-by/
http://twitter.com/#!/overmanwarrior
www.overmanwarrior.com