Like my recent article on deadbeat parents, my recent experience on a grand jury was very informative for me.  I had wondered about many things regarding our legal system, such as why prosecutors did what they did and when.  Added to that, I have a pretty unusual life where I have had a chance to know people who live and work in law enforcement to some degree or another from lots of famous personalities, from attorney generals to our local representatives, and to know them beyond handshakes at fundraisers and pictures.  I have heard their problems personally and understand their unique issues specifically, and it’s highly likely that only some, if anybody, to serve on a grand jury have that perspective.  So, spending several weeks of the summer of 2024 as the foreman of a grand jury was a great experience relative to my previous knowledge, and it gave me a good taste of the big picture of how and why things are the way they are.  And that was certainly the case with several murders that needed indictments for which I heard much testimony.  Some of these cases were big ones that were all over the news, so I’ll stay out of the specifics but talk about the broad strokes because there is a pattern to that behavior as well.  Why anybody would want to kill anybody else is a mystery to me.  Most normal people would be inclined to live and let live.  If people want to make mistakes, it’s their choice until they involve others.  And once another person decides to impede on the freedoms of another person, well, that’s when things start getting into the realm of self-defense.  We employ a legal system and lots of law enforcement to clean up those who fall off the rails and lean toward a life of crime, but sometimes, these problems spill over into our daily quest for life, liberty, and happiness, and we sometimes have to decide between the life of a criminal and our own. 

This was a question I have always had about those who commit murder, especially very brutal ones where bodies are cut up and tossed away like garbage.  But hearing from people who have been there and played a part in such crimes, I had to know what the root cause analysis was under those occasions.  It comes down to decision-making ability and how our society teaches people to conduct themselves correctly in a mass society.  For instance, lately, I have been talking about the need for biblical instruction and how our society has deteriorated dramatically since we rejected such foundations.  Without the Ten Commandments or exposure to them, people functioning with others in the world lose their boundaries quickly.  And when we have a society that consumes drugs in the amounts that we do, which I have said was always a military-grade attack against our culture, there is nothing beneficial or recreational about drug use, even to my eyes, alcohol, bad things are going to happen.  And that was certainly the case with the murder cases I heard during my grand jury session.  Take away drugs and alcohol and have people following biblical teachings, and suddenly, most of the violence in our society goes away quickly.  But the people who do fall to crime have lost their way to such morality, and their decision-making ability has been dramatically eroded.  And when they get angry at something, they don’t think anything less of killing someone than they would of throwing away garbage in the trash. 

Take away the use of drugs in our society, and lots of things improve.  When people are that far gone that they reside in these drug houses like communist sanctuaries and the switch that regulates their behavior is no longer operating, then murders do happen, and they occur in grotesque ways that would sicken most people who still do have their switch working in their minds.  Drug and alcohol abuse do make that switch not work, and people who fail to regulate themselves to commit murders lose their sense of personal regulation and, with it, their ability to function in society—knowing that all potential drug abusers are subject to losing it at any minute.  Most drug abusers are the creations of progressive politics that have sought to replace tradition with a progressive change state.  And often, people become radicalized into weapons of war for the political causes of globalism.  The ground troops for such a movement become those who occupy these drug houses and can no longer maintain their ability to live in a civil society.  We see it in this trend of transexual kids raised by progressive influences to become mass shooters.  We have watched people over the years step away from church lifestyles and into a life of crime.  The highway shooter in Kentucky who was just discovered decomposed with a self-inflicted gunshot is another excellent example of how poor management in a progressive society leaves too many people feeling empty and violent.  And when you add drugs to these sentiments, people fall off the rocker and can ultimately become violent.  And based on my experience, I think President Trump is onto the solution for drug dealers, even petty dealers.  The death penalty is the best way to go for anybody who purposely sells poison to people.  Most people likely won’t end up becoming murderers, but enough to mandate a significant policy change, and without getting too specific on the names, the amount of drug-related violence that is going on in Middletown, Ohio, is out of control.

The police in Middletown are doing what they can to stop what they are allowed to.  But after you study several dozen cases of excessive violence and murder, it’s pretty clear that the problem originates in policy and the desire by outside influences to poison the people in that community, just as the Haitian crisis in Springfield is doing presently.  The guilt of complicity ultimately goes to the door of UN regulators and policymakers from the World Economic Forum and the political activism of BlackRock.  They steer mass society in a direction, and the results of that direction end up as gang violence and drug murders in places like Middletown, Ohio, where the economy was husked out and sent to China, leaving behind a society of people depressed and seeking escape in drugs.  And when drugs replace steel and farming as the drivers of an economy, only bad things can happen.  And of those bad things, murders happen too often.  And excessively violent murders at that.  With my background and relationships in law, order, religion, and philosophy, it was perfect to listen to hours of testimony from people who directly participated in murders and to hear their side of the story from the perspective of being killers.  The root cause points back to drugs and the desire to conduct a life of crime because they see no other way in life but such a lifestyle.  They’ve lost touch with reality and can no longer live by the rules of a healthy society.  And for them, jail is a refuge, not a punishment.  At least they know where they will sleep that night, and food will come regularly. So, they are motivated to get jailed for as long as possible.  Even if that means they have to involve themselves in a brutal killing to get a maximum sentence.  At least when they get caught, the pain of living a life under their decision-making ability is taken away from them, and they are pretty happy about it.  While everyone has to be accountable for their actions, there are hidden menaces behind policy-making that are the real villains.  And where we must focus in the months and years to come.

Rich Hoffman

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