Category: Aliens

Why Women Run Off With Bad Men: How evil comes into the world

Probably because it’s the Holiday season, and it’s on people’s minds, Bible references have come up a lot, and some of the conversations I’ve been in have been interesting, especially on the topic of evil and how it comes into the world and why so many people would like to be good but act in such an evil fashion.  It often rocks us off our center when we have to confront it because we don’t understand how it arrived there in the first place.  So this provoked a rather detailed conversation with me that ended up being one of my long, hour-long utterances about some interesting topics, one of which was why women are the vehicles for evil in the world and what we can do about it.  Now, keep in mind that this is a psychological conversation, not one built out of woke politics and leftist social sentiment.  The needs of human beings are not aligned with political power plays, social construction, or reconstruction.  To that point, I would argue that feminism was never created to free women of a slave relationship with men but to destroy the very foundation of family building because governments in the world have radical beliefs about how many humans should be on earth, and they want through abortion, contraceptives, and family planning to discourage as many births as possible, for all kinds of reasons, most of them not sane.  So, just because there are rules that came up with what we can discuss regarding feminine roles in the world, it doesn’t mean that those rules were ever justified or constructive.  And that there is a good point to the original sin and the long history in the Bible of women who turned to evil and gave it a foundation to destroy the world. 

There is a reason that most women are unhappy with their nice husbands, and I would say that it’s not their fault.  God made them that way, and God shows throughout the Bible that he’s very mad, perhaps even at himself, for making human beings the way they are.  Women are being taken from Adam’s rib to serve him as a companion.  She is physically of weaker sex to fulfill her roles in the procreation of new human beings.  If she’s too masculine like Adam, the motivations for procreation aren’t as robust.  So, there is a balancing act genetically that is the problem behind all sexual interplay.  What makes people want to have sex with each other is not the same thing that might make them want to form and run a country.  So, in the Garden of Eden, the young couple of Adam and Eve are told not to eat fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  But of course, Eve does so because the snake seduces her, and all humanity is thrown into a tailspin of perpetuating evil for which Jesus Christ has to come along to wash away the original sin through his sacrifice.  But why did Eve eat the apple from the forbidden tree?  Well, for the same reason that most people do evil things, out of a sense of personal security.  Rather than fight evil, people, men, and women seek to appease it out of self-preservation.  When a woman has a man she does not think can fight evil off, out of their sense of security, they seek to appease it.  So, in the original sin, Eve listened to the snake because it was a strange force of evil that she wasn’t sure Adam could protect her from. 

This is undoubtedly the case of one of the great villains of the Bible, Jezebel, who was known for turning the people of her kingdom to Baal worship at the expense of Yahweh.  God, all through the Bible, was constantly upset that his people, the Israelites, would turn to the temptations of other gods, specifically Baal, and Jezebel was one of the worst, who ended up being tossed out of a window and into the mouths of dogs below who ripped her to shreds, which we are supposed to applaud in reaction as the audience reading from the text.  But what made her so vile? Why didn’t she honor her husband, King Ahab?  Well, because he didn’t make her feel safe.  Women often seek the shelter of a monster to protect them from other monsters because they think they can control the beast with sex.  It’s the classic Beauty and the Beast scenario.  When a woman doesn’t think the man in her life can protect her from the many monsters of the world, she will, most of the time, pick a monster she believes she can control for her own self-preservation.  Her man might be fine with making children, cooking, cleaning, and talking to them.  But if he can’t protect her from monsters, out of her need for security, she will seek out her own monster to protect her from other monsters.  This is why Jezebel was so evil; she tossed away the protection of her husband and of God himself to seek refuge in the ultimate monster, Baal, a rival of God in the pantheon of the Divine Counsel.  This is the ”bad boy” complex that many women go through.  They might marry the nice guy who can hold a good job and raise good kids, but they seek to run off with the bad boy covered in tattoos, smokes, drinks and is a social wreck because she thinks having one of those monsters of her own will protect her from a world of other monsters.

When we look at a beautiful woman and she is with a disgusting man, we wonder why, after all, she could have anybody in the world that she could want.  Why that guy?  It’s because she doesn’t feel safe in a world full of monsters, and she thinks she can use sex to control her own kind of monster.  So, she seeks to appease one for her own protection.  And this was the problem King Solomon had.  He was married to a lot of women from all over the world, and God became very mad at him because he built temples for them to appease their gods, as they rejected Yahway.  Solomon had all the power and treasure on earth then, but it wasn’t enough for his women to honor and worship him as their husband.  So he found himself chasing after their attention to make them feel safe and secure.  He could at least build a temple to their gods.  This is the same kind of problem Mary Magdeline had with her seven demons until she found a good guy in Jesus to give her some temporary relief.  Jesus was a rebel that the authority figures wanted to kill, and he was removed from her life before she could abandon him for being too nice of a guy.  And through death, he gave her a purpose that would last well into history.  Most women aren’t so lucky.  They attach themselves to a good man either by accident or default and fall out of love with them because they aren’t beastlike enough.  But when the world’s beasts kill off their version of the beast, there is at least a crusade to pursue, and Christianity was born, which has been great for the human race.  But you don’t find that a good woman marries a good man and they live happily ever after anywhere in history.  Certainly not in the Bible.  There is always evil coming into the world, and it comes through the front door that women let in because of the need for safety and security that women have as the weaker sex.  And God, even though he created the universe and everything in it, is perpetually frustrated by the notion.  He tries over and over again to solve the problem through apocalypse after apocalypse.  But evil is never appeased, and the world is often overrun by the beasts of the world who take women for themselves without any level of respect and destroy the world through their bad conduct because other men never quite figure out that the best way to keep a woman is to be a bit of a beast themselves.  And to walk that fine line between being a good guy and a bad guy is a very fine line.  And the only way to make everything work out properly.  Which many never figure out in their lifetimes.

Rich Hoffman

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The Truth About Drones Over New Jersey and the World: Forces losing control are trying to scare us back into submission

So, what’s going on with the drones all over New Jersey and many other places around the world?  I think many people are partially correct about what they think they are.  Alex Jones is not wrong; I do not doubt that the evil forces in the world are trying to provoke a nuclear war with a false flag event.  That is how they have gained and stayed in power after all these years, through fear, so ahead of Trump’s return to the White House, there are no doubt plans for mass chaos in any way possible.  I also know a lot of people who think that the actual government of the world, behind the World Economic Forum activity, are aliens running everything from behind the military-industrial complex, and they are all stirred up that they feel they are losing control with the incoming anti-globalist position of President Trump.  As Trump said, and I agree with him, if aliens are flying around harassing our people over our sovereign country, then shoot them down.  Don’t assume that just because they have UFOs or whatever they want to call them these days, they are superior to any of us.  We have sovereign rights over our domestic country and do not yield them to anything or anybody.  That has to be the American policy.  We do not yield to anything “greater” than us.  Never forget, H.G. Wells, who wrote War of the Worlds, was a major socialist, so this idea of fear of something that pushes everyone to support global communist governments out of fear of some superior otherworldly force is a rather stupid one, yet many are hoping that such a fear might prevent what is going to come from the new Trump administration.  There is plenty to be concerned about, but if I bump into any of these characters, the same rules of personal protection apply, no matter who they are.  I’m with Trump; shoot them down.

I’ve done a lot of research on this topic; I went to Roswell, New Mexico, to study this topic.  I’ve seen plenty of UFOs.  And while I do have lots of very complicated thoughts about how the world was seeded with life and that I think humanity is much older than what we find on Earth through linear history, most of the UFO sightings that we experience are primarily politically motivated by those who are seeking to control us through the fear of what might be.  By constantly reminding us of something superior that is out there beyond our world, their hope is to shepherd us into following global leadership toward a one-world international government for personal protection.  It’s no different than when a rancher cracks a whip to drive cattle or some other herd of animals in the direction they want them to go.  Not long ago, I did a whole report about the CIA and UFOs at the old LeSourdsville Lake Park in Monroe, Ohio, and just a few days later, one appeared right over the Speedway there.  It hovered in the sky just a few miles from my house, clearly in front of the cars stuck at the traffic light for all to see.  Then it flew off to the north at such a pace that the centrifugal force would have killed everyone inside it, as it went from zero to thousands of miles an hour in less than a fraction of a second.  I think there were a lot of things going on with that UFO sighting, but I don’t think it was aliens visiting us.

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There are a lot of AI programs watching everything being said, and with drone technology being what it is today, they are very advanced and can run entirely off computer programs to create brilliant illusions. If you’ve ever seen some of these modern drone shows, they are very sophisticated.  There are also skycars, the size of buses that fly around all the time and can fly very well.  Additionally, projection technology, which I think was the case with the UFO in Monroe, directly addressed my comments and explained how it moved so fast in the sky.  It is possible to project a 3D image in an almost holographic imprint against the molecular structure of air, especially on high-humidity nights or similar cloudy conditions.  So I think we are seeing a lot of attempts here to scare the human race back into submission as the world is seeing all these trends toward populism that are getting well out of control.  After all, we have people like Giorgia Meloni of Italy and Javier Milei of Argentina, who are the rising stars of leadership in the world, and that is a very new thing, which is joining Trump as an anti-globalist force in control now.  And globalism has been attached to UFO phenomena from the beginning of the United Nations.  That’s why there is so much on Netflix: to train the human race in such speculations so that the government can provide parental roles for protection.  However, the trend is to reject that projection and control the fate of each country individually.  And ahead of Trump returning to the White House, the globalist forces are in a panic, which they are showing through control over this particular kind of technology that is more visual than actually dangerous. 

So what I think, whatever forces they are, the powers that have been in control are losing control and are throwing a fit ahead of Trump’s inauguration.  And they are trying every trick in the book to hold power from a world that is quickly rejecting globalism massively.  When I witnessed the UFO event in Monroe, it was just a letdown to be so obvious.  I did a video and written article about all this and here was an answer just a few days later in an attempt to re-establish an alien attack narrative that organizations like the CIA count on to keep mass society under control.  But my research in Roswell had already convinced me that much of the UFO talk out there was more commercial than realistic.  Oh, I do believe in life on other planets.  I think there is a lot of it out there, and as we move into space, we will learn a lot about ourselves.  But most of the Roswell incident was out of commercial needs to boost their economy more than alien visits.  And that is most of the time the case.  Democrats, like Hillary Clinton and John Podesta, have been very excited about a Full Disclosure event that will reveal all that we know about aliens interacting with our government, and that same type of mentality is behind this current drone invasion that is happening all over the world.  But none of that will change the political trajectory we are all on.  If something flies over our countries, we need to shoot them down.  We do not want more government to protect us from aliens, which has always been the push.  If the aliens want to talk, we can talk.  But we are moving on as a human race to a government representing the work people need to have done.  Not one that people worship like a god out of fear of some force that’s out there and has more technology than we do.  Those days are over, and they are never coming back. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Archaeology of Space: A lot of minds need to be shattered

With the same kind of vivacious denials, the narrative of human civilization is as edited and denied as the election fraud of 2020, and for all the same reasons.  The truth, which is being uncovered quickly through decentralized media and studies in these matters that exceeds traditional scholarship, is that for many tens of thousands of years, a global race of very tall people worshipped the stars and had very advanced understandings of planetary movement.  They were hinted at in the Bible as that wonderful collection of documents gives us a hint into a past that very little evidence survived due to the  amount of time that we are talking about.  We have all over the earth, which can be seen on Netflix now with Graham Hancock’s Apocalypse series some of the emerging evidence, the obvious hints at a very ancient past.  But, the narrative, largely for continued control over earth’s populations has been to deny all this aggressively.  Which is why the election of 2024 was so important, and why the current established order has to collapse and be destroyed, essentially.  Because the fight has been to hide a lot of things from the past and once we get out into space as human beings, routinely, and we open up archaeological study that extends to other planets, we are going to find out a lot more soul-shattering details about our place in the universe than what that Netflix show, Ancient Apocalypse has shown.  But it’s a reality we have to face and its going to happen very quickly over the next couple of years.

As Graham Hancock talked about his Ancient Apocalypse Netflix series, which has a lot of faces melting, on the Joe Rogan Experience he mentioned that during the filming he was banned from the Cahokia Mounds Park just outside of St. Louis, for the same reasons that he was banned from Serpent Mound during the previous season.  What Graham was proposing was that the Cahokia complex was much more like ancient Mesopotamia, and the Aztecs and Mayans than some hunter and gatherer Indians who were peaceful and built a few mounds to worship the sun.  I actually have some very direct experience with this phenomena that I was involved in a long time before Graham Hancock became famous for his journalism into these matters.  Way back in 1997 after the Titanic was doing great movie business my brother lived in Los Angeles and a bunch of investors wanted to make a movie of their own and get in on the Hollywood fun.  So I wrote a script on an idea I had called The Lost Cannibals of Cahokia, which was an outrageous adventure story that was a crossover between the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Indiana Jones adventures.  And when I turned it in to the agents and the Wilshire Blvd producers and money people, their faces melted by how violent and outrageous it was.  And at some point about a decade of shopping the script around, several really big names in entertainment were wanting to partner up to get the movie made. But the real heart of the problem with the script was that at the core of it I had explored the cause of the demise of the Cahokian culture, and all cultures for that matter, which is a theme I explore in everything I do.  And it didn’t make people very happy, to say the least.  My script went on to win several awards at various film festivals and was seen by a lot of people who really liked it.  But they couldn’t get their minds around the central premise which attacked directly assumptions about humanity that were sacred cows.  I was told that if I wanted to make the movie that we could do all the horror and adventure elements, but that we’d have to rework the central premise.  And I was offered a lot of money for it, in the millions of dollars.  But I shelved it for a later day because my favorite parts of the story were the things they wanted to throw out.  And I decided to put my attention more into political matters because the world wasn’t quite ready for the things I was interested in.

So I understood why so many people were upset over Graham Hancock’s proposals about Cahokia, and many sites along the ancient Mississippi River, where its obvious there was a very established culture during the Archaic period and that they were trading with South America, establishing the settlement at Easter Island, and all through the Polynesian Islands.  And that many of these cultures were considered advanced during the last Ice Age.  There is a vast conspiracy that is obsessed with keeping human beings from learning too much about their past beyond what the Bible discusses.  But the hints are everywhere and being talked about much more now, especially with Trump returning to office and dismantaling a lot of the out-of-date organizations that have been suppressing this information for thousands of years.  It’s not hard to see how and why, considering that Stonehenge is not that old and in a few thousand more years, there won’t be much left of it through the natural erosion process.  That is the same issue with the many pyramids around the world that date back just 3000 to 5000 BC.  The evidence at Gobekli Tepe for instance was buried purposely in Turkey and uncovered only to find that it is over 11,000 years old.  So by being buried, it preserved the site from erosive elements leaving us all to wonder just how much evidence from the past has been eroded away. 

Well, we’re going to find out, and with SpaceX’s Starship producing every 8 hours a new ship to go into space, we will quickly moved to a space economy during Trump’s next term.  And this is not just current politics, but something we have been moving toward since the days of Biblical reporting, even the central heart of the destruction of the Library at Qumran and the standoff with the Romans at Masada.  Governments have been hiding this issue from the public to maintain control over populations until essentially this century.  And now the lid is being blown off that long held secret.  And we’re going to get to the moon and Mars, and to the moons around Jupiter and Saturn and we’re going to find out that our history goes back much further than just colonies on Earth.  And many of our mythologies and assumptions are going to be shattered, and they need to be.  I have watched that process myself just over some of the sites on earth, and among people who were very smart and very rich and their faces melted over any suggestion of something happening beyond the accepted norms.  But we have to get ourselves ready because space archaeology will become an important field, and much of what has been suppressed as evidence on earth will no longer be able to be suppressed.  And we are going to learn a lot about ourselves, at a pace of change that will be astonishing.  I saw many years ago that this had to happen.  I was surprised by it when I saw how violent it made people just based on my script which many were involved with for the money it could have made.  But for me, it was much more personal, and important.  And ultimately, a sign of things to come.

Rich Hoffman

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Let’s Talk About Sex and UFOs: The point of everything, everywhere, all the time

What Tucker Carlson said about UFOs being more spiritual than physical has caused a lot of discussion recently.  Elon Musk took notice and even added to the debate.  But I think when people think of UFOs and life on other planets and our interactions with all these things, we assume all the rules of conduct are applied to our observable universe without considering the still-revealing worlds of quantum mechanics.  A lot is happening in particle sciences with quarks, gluons, muons, and neutrinos.  Every second trillions of these hyper crazy neutrinos are passing through our bodies, and through the earth so fast that they act like the atoms that make up our material world, aren’t even there.  And all these quantum particles point to the very real issue of dark matter and dark energy, “dark” because we can’t see it with our visible light spectrum, yet it makes up most of the matter of our known universe.  So, things get out of control quickly with new information once you ask these questions.  Then, concerning all that, time dilation is very real, where folds of time actually wrap over themselves and behave differently relative to the application of gravity, the mass of a planet, and its position relative to us.  When you have moments of déjà vu, it’s likely attributed to this condition of dark matter folding over on itself with a physical reality that has already taken place but is observed at a different time because of all these attributes we are uncovering in particle sciences.  And, of course, as we go ghost hunting and record paranormal phenomena, we may actually communicate with ghosts who try to interact with us and talk back.  We have assumed that these are characters of the afterlife in a kind of linear format.  But logically, they would trace back more logically to the type of information we are constantly interacting with within dark matter, where the true location of what we call Heaven likely resides.  It is all around us, but men do not see it.

I say all that because of the need to understand these things where science is taking us.  Many of the religions of the world are likely our interpretations of interacting with many characters from paranormal phenomena.  In the Bible, prophets were constantly in a relationship with God who had a lot of concerns about what was going on in our world, even if he could only manifest in a puff of smoke over the gold wings of the Ark of the Covenant under certain conditions of blood sacrifices poured out over the lid with incense burning in the background.  Many of the events of the Bible and other religions could directly be attributed to quantum mechanics and the many lifeforms we are just learning to manage through our interactions with dark matter.  Some of these lifeforms could be massively bigger than us for which we are but a neutrino passing through them trillions of times every second, or much, much smaller, where the contents of an entire universe could be contained in every neutrino, that to our perception is smaller, and faster than anything known in the universe, probably breaking the speed of light by their very nature.  But what is the speed of light if time can actually be warped through dark matter?  So thoughts, feelings, and even politics based on these interactions would have a massive influence over our lives and the future of the known universe, in ways that nothing in science fiction has ever quite figured out.  Perhaps Frank Herbert from the Dune books was dancing with the truth in all its massive assumptions.  But probably, he was just pecking on the surface.

To understand some of these things, I think sex is the best measure.  A nice, attractive couple goes out on a date, cleans up their car, wears nice clothes, and puts on perfumes for dinner, where the food is prepared immaculately.  The wine is poured and consumed with sophistication and small talk to get the couple at ease with each other.  At the end of the night, there is a decision as to whether the couple wants to get into a state of undress and enjoy the human attributes of sex and the good feelings that come with it.  But all along were the sperm and eggs within the man and woman who are waiting in the multitudes to be injected into a situation to meet each other, and they observe the scale of all these things passively without having any fundamental understanding of why things are happening.  The purpose of it all is to inspire human beings to have sex and to make a baby that repopulates the earth.  Who designed that programming? That is the constant thought of religion, but science must increasingly be applied.  That is a lot of effort to make it possible to have a baby.  Most of the sperm that has ever been created, and most eggs in a woman, will never see a real opportunity to fulfill the meaning of their entire existence.  So they will interact with the mating rituals of procreation, the dinner, the dancing, the food, the smells, but will likely never meet an egg to fertilize and produce a child.  Yet, that is the entire purpose of the practice: to get a man and a woman filled with cells and all kinds of biological information to get together and exchange bodily fluid so life could be produced. 

When we look around our world and consider our political options, we are like the sperm looking to do our life’s work but with limited access to the big picture.  We know our impulse to act, and the conditions of our lives may be up to random circumstances well beyond our comprehension.  Yet those activities may have complete control over whether our life fulfillment achieves what it was designed for, whatever that is.  When we interact with and observe quarks, gluons, muons, and neutrinos, we see elements from the big picture without understanding them.  But we will, and I would argue that the purpose of the human imagination is to pull all these elements together for the benefit of everything.  Our thoughts don’t have to reside in our minds but are likely permeating everywhere in the universe’s dark matter on a grand scale.  What we tune into with our individual lives is but a radio of a constant broadcast that occurs over many lifetimes and people who arise to witness it.  But the purpose of the whole thing could be said to be like sex, with all the dating rituals that go on, all the small talk, to get to an opportunity to inject sperm into a woman to fertilize an egg released at just the right time and place that one out of many thousands will have a chance to fulfill its reason for creation.  And what is the meaning of that creation, a baby that has to spend 18 years growing into an adult, only to do the same thing all over again with different participants?  So when we talk about UFOs and paranormal activity, we need to understand that all those neutrinos passing through us have life and concerns contained within them that have information directly connected to the other side of the universe by the trillions.  They impact how we think, what evil or good might occur, and what creative concepts our minds might develop.  But in truth, we have much more to learn about the nature of these things. And it is likely the point of our imaginations to give birth to something new, which the universe is trying to achieve through us, and is likely the point to all life, everywhere, all the time.

Rich Hoffman

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Zandaya at the ‘Dune II’ Premier: There is hope for the human race yet

With all that’s going on in the world, there are traces of some fascinating things, and one that certainly attracted my attention was the premier of Dune II in London.  It’s not just because it’s a great science fiction story from 1965 put exceptionally well into a movie format, which people have been trying to do for many years.  They have tried it before with David Lynch.   A lot of people didn’t like that earlier movie.  I did like it and thought it was an exciting interpretation of Frank Herbert’s original story.  The first movie came out a few years ago and did quite well, being recognized as a cinematic masterpiece, where even critics agreed with the fans that Dune was something special.  The buzz for Dune II of course has been looming in the background because it’s essentially Part II of the original first book.  Dune is a massive story that takes place across six original books by Herbert. Then, after his death, his sons completed the story with two additional books, which span across the entire universe and involve thousands of years, and the whole thing isn’t just about science fiction but about the problems with power and how living things have difficulty managing it.  It’s very sophisticated and it looks like the producers of Dune understand the content of the story very well, and finally digital set design has caught up to the ambitions of the film and something really special ended up on screen.  But that’s not what dazzled me as a fan of the books and Herbert himself.  Zandaya showed up in a stunning robot outfit that reminded me of many things I had been thinking about lately.  And she made a bold proclamation that certainly did set the world on fire in more ways than one. 

The outfit itself was ultra sexy with cutouts that exposed the sexual areas of a female body in ways that reminded me of a Heavy Metal magazine cover from when I was growing up that put high science fiction concepts into sex appeal to young adolescent boys.  But I had never seen a young woman on such a widespread scale as Zandaya do something like that before.  It wasn’t slutty like something Madonna would do, or even Lady Gaga.  It was bold, innovative, and classy yet very ambitious.  I follow the launch of every Starship from SpaceX very closely, and another launch is coming up, the third for actual flights into space. The first thing I thought of was that her outfit matched the ambitions of these civilian space flights, and I instantly thought of the beautiful statues from the great novel Fountainhead as the perfect embodiment of this current time, when corporate communism and global fascism from that sector of the economy was spreading terror all over the world, A.I. was making people weary with worry about being controlled by machines.  Space travel was displacing all the philosophies and religions of the world with the uncomfortable reality of life on other planets.  Politically, the world was in a populist revolt.  And there was Zandaya boldly managing it all with a very knowledgeable understanding of it all by showing up to that movie premiere dressed in that outfit, which is what I would have expected as a young 12-year-old looking into the future of 2024 and considering what life should have been like.   She certainly understands the director of the film Dune and what he’s trying to do.  And she clearly understands the author of the book, Frank Herbert.  He certainly was not a socialist like H.G. Wells and some of those early European writers.  He was a small government kind of guy who appreciated the founding fathers, and that went into the extensive work of his Dune project, with all the books being between 600 and 800 pages each.  It was a very ambitious work, so there was a lot going on. 

And there were a few times over the last few years when I thought nothing like this would ever happen again, especially a young woman like Zandaya openly expressing her femininity and sex appeal without being raunchy about it.  Not after the Covid lockdowns destroyed the movie industry, and a firm commitment to socialism pretty much provided the final nail in the coffin.  I never thought I would see something like that again or for the first time.  I had all the Heavy Metal magazines for several years, and I loved the ambitious art.  I also loved the animated movie when I was a kid.  This Dune premier was all those magazine covers coming to life.  I think Zandaya is a pretty good kid.  She is younger than my daughters.  I thought she was perfect in the latest Spiderman movies, and she showed up at the end of the first Dune movie.  She’s a singer and a high fashion model who grew up as a Disney talent.  Despite all her early success, I think she has a pretty good head on her shoulders, which came out in interviews with Tom Holland while promoting the Spiderman films.  Unlike other Hollywood types, she is a good entertainment representative for this upcoming generation.  At least so far.  She didn’t have to show up to that premier with that outfit.  But that she did shows she understands far more about the nature of our current reality than most people do, and she was bold about it. 

What a gift she provided to the director of Dune, Denis Villeneuve.  He should be ecstatic with excitement that one of his stars from the new film so openly embraced the overall vision of the Herbert books, which is not to spoil it for anybody, but that Zandaya’s look explores what Frank thought was the background of the entire universe.  But that fashion model of Zandaya knew how to look and express the totality of Frank Herbert’s work with just a few simple gazes, and I felt the entire human race had just leveled up a bit.  Because of the Dune movies, more people will understand the point of Dune, which is a very anti-tyrannical effort that questions the nature of all life and how power flows down to every form of it.  With all the bad news that has been going on in the world, I saw this premiere for this movie as a bold rebellion against those vile forces.  In much the way that I was surprised by the Godzilla Minus One movie.  With all the bits of tyranny that have emerged, these little bits of hope are emerging from the human race.  And sometimes, someone like Zandaya captures the effort with high art and fashion in ways that seem iniquitous, even unintentional.  But you can’t go into public dressed like that, yet face everything down with such boldness without the intent being purposeful and intelligent, without scrutiny being applied.  And with the production of Dune, the launch of the Starships, and the political landscape lashing out at fascism the way it is, many elements came together in human expression that refused to be a victim to it all, which was very encouraging and a sign of a lot of good things to come.  I would say there is hope for the human race yet!

Rich Hoffman

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Trump the Invincible: A person only America could have produced

Now that we’ve been through a few primaries, and the bad guys out there have done everything they possibly could, including gross manipulations of the legal system to exert control over Trump, we are now seeing why only the President could have run for this office, and why he’s the only one who could return. Some real treacherous characters have been wrapped up in our government and media culture, even our military, and they have shown their worst. Trump sees himself as bigger than all them and beyond their influence, which we need now in America. What Trump is doing is something I teach to people, which is why I recognized many years ago the value of Trump running for president, even though everyone laughed it off as ridiculous at the time. I remember returning to the Ross Perot Reform Party days with Pat Buchanon when Trump tried to make headway as a third-party candidate. The key to Trump’s personality is a personal recognition of something significant and is quite specific to the American mindset, which naturally undoes the concept of globalism, which is of the individual showing dominance over collectivist behavior. When I teach these things in public and private settings, I use my metaphor of the lonely gunman who steps into a bar late at night during a storm with lightning streaking across the sky. He gets a drink at the bar with his back to the room, which is filled with criminals, thieves, and maniacal cutthroats. And the gunfighter drinks his drink in peace because he knows something about them that not even they learn about themselves. He places himself above them and their mechanisms of evil in ways that only individuality can do, and it is precisely what America has needed because only America could produce such a person.

A dog whistle from the radical left hoping to eliminate Trump from the realities mass collectivism

To watch Trump bringing the Republican Party together again after all that has been done and revealed over the last few years is astonishing compared to traditional measures, where politicians are always boot-licking someone because of the nature of getting elected, and they can never entirely do what is needed in these kinds of jobs, once they get them.  Even Julius Caesar was a pawn of the public as the conniving political machine of Rome dictated his ever-eroding concerns.  Reagan was an actor and could fake this swagger, but he never was a rugged individualist, the way people recognize Trump.  Trump learned to be that lonely gunfighter through many hard knocks in life, and now he is showing the value, and I’m pretty happy about it.  For some context, I’ll demonstrate here a speech I did to a crowd not long ago, and this was precisely what I was talking about.  I give that same speech to smaller groups of people in more focused settings, but it holds everywhere in every situation.  Trump is performing it on a large scale, but many people operate this way and are very successful in life in many ways of defining success.  It starts with an individual being born of their nature and value and expressing that in a cultural setting.  It’s essentially what the great American novel The Fountainhead was about, the famous novel by Ayn Rand, which should be required reading in every public school as soon as children can learn to read.  If we were serious about teaching kids to be great and have an excellent education in America, we’d teach kids those concepts.  Instead, we teach globalism and righteousness to authority, which destroys them for life. 

Many people never imagined that Trump would lock up the nomination through the New Hampshire primaries, wiping out all the rivals who have come out against him, thinking that collectivism would constantly beat out individualism. To conventional thinking, nobody would survive such a gauntlet. That is, except for me. I knew this day would come and how it would happen, even in the darkest days when everyone thought Trump was toast. Just as nobody would expect that lonely gunfighter to step into a bar of bandits ready to slay him with the twink of an eye at a moment’s notice, let alone enter that room with his back to the room. It is not at all surprising that Alex Soros has been putting out cryptic messages about assassinating Trump. There are lots of these bad guys who are thinking the same thing, but as I say, and sometimes have to prove, just because people intend to kill you, it doesn’t mean they can. Often, many other conditions keep them from doing it, which is part of my speech on individualism and the power of it over the collective masses. Coming out of New Hampshire after a dominating win in Iowa, it is good to see that Trump is invincible to all these hostile forces, even as they now plot to destroy him in any way possible. Just because they want to doesn’t mean they can, which is a condition at the heart of all of Ayn Rand’s novels, especially Atlas Shrugged. Why didn’t they kill John Galt at the end of the book? Because they couldn’t. For the same reason, they can’t do the same to Trump. They need him to make the world work, and the biggest secret is that collectivism is powerless and entirely depends on individuals to carry them through life.

I’ve heard a lot of idiotic stuff over the last four years, starting when the COVID bioweapon was released from China to attempt to destroy Trump’s presidency.  The core of the dispute was collectivism against individualism, and nothing is more effective for scaring the sheep than a deadly virus to convince the masses to run into the arms of an overly protective government and to give up these fantasies of individualism like a global pandemic.  The core of the strategy, which is how you know the whole thing was fake, was the intent to terrify people away from individualism.  When, in fact, the world was rebelling for individualism, which isn’t a new process, but one that started very early in America with a mass movement that was reflected in the Ayn Rand books and certainly played out in the best of the Hollywood movies which expanded on those ideas best when done well.  From Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments to God’s role in the universe as the ultimate individualist, a solitary figure who created the universe and everything in it, which we celebrate on Sundays in church.  The struggle was always against individualism from the mass collectivists hoping to hide their parasitic natures behind a social safety net that keeps their ruse from the world.  But Trump exploits that, and now people can see the truth, a truth they want for themselves.  They want to be free of the parasites of collectivism, and Trump gives them the best chance of breaking free by inserting a barrier between them and those, (who would dare stand at the bar with their back to the crowd and those in the crowd who plot to use that person for all they can squeeze out of them as all collectivist societies do to their individuals.  Trump is unbeatable and has learned to embrace that nature of himself over time and a well-lived life.  As a gift, he is bringing that personality trait to America, which people want desperately, and it’s showing itself in dramatic ways in 2024 politics.  And I love it!  Finally! 

Rich Hoffman

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“Your Mom is a Whore”: How government grows and why people let it

One thing we don’t talk about enough, and we should, is the cause of big government in the first place.  It’s one thing to point it out, and to complain about, and to blame some secondary condition, such as the evils of the World Economic Forum or the secrecy and malice of the CIA.  But in truth, I would say the number one reason that Bill Cooper was killed on his front porch by a couple of Arizona law enforcement had more to do with one of the most intelligent statements I have ever read in a book, which William Cooper accurately put his finger on as the root cause of all conspiracy theory, and the evils that follow.  In his book Behold a Pale Horse, Cooper pointed out what caused most of the problems in the world, which was devastating to all the people and groups out there who want those problems to continue so that they will have power over people in general, especially from government expansion and the abuse that comes with it.  And it wasn’t the talk about UFOs enslaving civilization, which is undoubtedly in that book, or the secrecy of power groups who operate in the shadows with a tax-eating shadow government.  Those are all true things, but not the reason I think they killed Bill Cooper. Instead, what he said about the natural psychological state of children and their parents that was the secret sauce that resides behind all government power.  And it is the biggest challenge to creating a country like America.  And that the way to destroy America was to exploit this weakness.  To strengthen it would be to help people with this essential problem of self-fulfillment and reliance on individual behavior instead of social collectivism.  Bill Cooper’s analysis in that famous conspiracy theory book is one of the most intelligent and powerful statements ever put on paper regarding mass society. 

The essential problem is this, and it’s a specific human issue in that people spend 18 years learning things, and most adults don’t live stable lives raising children over those 18 years.  They may do well at raising kids initially when all the rules are straightforward, and children depend entirely on their parents to function.  This is as opposed to other animals, such as young deer, that can stand up and run around just minutes after birth.  Humans have vast, complicated intellects not designed to be the drivers of mere animal behavior, basic sustenance, the acquisition of food, procreation, and shelter during heavy rains.  Humans take time to make, not their biological bodies but their minds.  At any point during those 18 years, even though their bodies may be ready to reproduce at 12 to 13 years old, their needs for thoughtful expression and social function continue into their 20s.  It takes a long time to build a human being, and then they don’t last very long after all that emotional investment; they are usually dead by age 70 to 80, with all that effort lost to time and what insecurities that bring to the effort of such an endeavor.  Many adults look at life and say, “Why try so hard if it’s all going to be over so fast.”  So they don’t do their jobs in instructing the youth, and the youth end up carrying on that trait to their children, then their children, and more children perpetually for infinity, leaving the world in the mess we have been talking about throughout human history.  Almost nobody gets this process right, which is the root cause of most trouble in the universe.  Suppose we were talking to aliens from the other side of the galaxy living in a type 1 or 2 civilization. They likely would have the same frustrations that they have been unable to overcome in their highly advanced technical society. 

We have tried to compensate for this problem in various ways, but none have worked, especially on the education frontier.  The social answer to this problem is to have the state educate society for its perpetuation of power as a collective entity of its own, viewing the people of society in much the way individual people might look at the cells of their body, as communal heaps of life that work together for the function of a living being.  The government was created to fulfill these needs and insecurities and thinks of itself as an individual, as “the state.”  And it expects people to fall in line to the service and maintenance of it as an organism in the plots of life as we know it, everywhere in the universe.  And as much as people talk about personal freedom and self-expression under Constitutional law, most people never develop individually to live that kind of life because they grew up with unhealthy relationships with their parents.  They often do not get the type of security and reliability of thought that humans require from their insecure parents, so that trait of confidence is never passed on to the children.  And they grow up to perpetuate the mistakes of their parents, who essentially got where they did in life through the same flawed method. 

Often, kids get loving parents who confuse their role in providing security with being afraid of everything that threatens it.  Then, by the time those children become teenagers, their puberty hard-wired behavior becomes their escape velocity only to become independent of their parents to learn life is hard, and they fall flat on their faces only to run back to the arms of a parental figure that can help them.  Since they can’t run back to their parents for that security, often, they create a big government and its various tyrannies to duplicate that infantile parental experience to give them a barrier to the dangers of life.  And those who want to be perpetual parents, always telling people what to do to mask the fact that they don’t know much themselves, use government to continue this dysfunctional relationship to keep the solution off the table.  We have identified the problem in works of philosophy, such as the founding documents of America clearly express.  But often, the people’s minds are not prepared for the responsibility of self-government because of all this sabotage of the parental role that produces such dependent children perpetually in need of parental roles that the government seeks to grow and expand for their own survival.  By weakening children’s minds, the defective parent can disguise love for the menace of keeping those children dependent on their parental fulfillment, realizing that the children never grow up and move away or that the children might surpass them in some way or another.  This vital part of the human relationship between parents and children sets up all the world’s tyrannies.  While parents might grow old and die away, freeing the children of their bonds to the traditional terror of low-intellect relationships, the government only changes the roles of the parental players.  The personalities might come and go, but the entity itself only continues to grow from one generation to the next, worsening until it either collapses or forces rebellion against its tyrannies from the minds who learn better what should be and refuse to accept what is, which is where we find ourselves on this razor thin precipice with the future gazing at us as a challenge.  How we handle that challenge is the cause of some of the most ostentatious fear that permeates the universe, which is conducting itself into a grand fortissimo in this current time in a fascinating way to watch.  What made Bill Cooper such a threat to the order of things was that with him essentially pointing out to his readers that their “mom was a whore,” he was undercutting the desire that mother government had to continue a relationship that benefited her at the expense of all the children.  Which couldn’t stand, so she plotted to get rid of him so that her children would never learn what she was doing to them with dependency disguised as safety.  And at the center of it all is the cause of most problems in the world.

Rich Hoffman

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The Three Wise Men, The Elohim, and UFOs: What the heck was Tucker Carlson talking about

Tucker Carlson always did reports on UFOs, as he was interested in the subject when he was on the mainstream news. But now that he’s on X as a news platform, he has the freedom to cover subjects I knew would make him a much more powerful voice. And UFO subjects come with a kind of stigma where just mentioning them throws the conversation into a conspiracy territory that abandons rationality from the outset. It’s then that you know that many people have been up to no good because UFOs are probably the most significant story worth discussing. They undoubtedly exist; we can see them and often do. Yet for Elon Musk to say that humans will become an interplanetary species for the first time in 4.5 billion years invites scrutiny. How could a person like him not know, who has spent so much time looking into space, studying the surface of Mars and the Moon, and listening to every story from every astronaut who has talked openly about UFO encounters, especially Buzz Aldrin’s descriptions of what they found on the moon? Undoubtedly, much of the anxiety of our times is that these long-held secrets are getting out. Mass media and decentralized discussions have made it so, probably not part of the plan. And now, the world forces are scrambling to keep themselves concealed. Because in concealment comes power, people are always terrified of what they can’t see. Once they realize what something is, they are much more prone not to be afraid of it. So, the UFO stories have a natural inclination toward authoritarian rule by those who can broker such information. And that power has a lot of desire to be maintained. So what did Tucker Carlson, newly freed from Fox News, mean when he said that UFO stories had a spiritual element to them that he found terrifying?

Time and definitions are often shaped by tyranny

I read an excellent book over the 2023 Holiday season called The Magi, which was about the Three Wise Men, or instead, the people who brought three gifts to baby Jesus, and what the nature of the star that led them there was all about, and even how translations over time and various cultures, and languages can undoubtedly create a haze of folklore that means different things to different people.  Tucker Carlson is a good and serious reporter who has been doing investigative journalism for a long time now, so when he admits that his view of UFOs is that they aren’t necessarily coming from Mars and are very ancient, what could he mean?  This is a good reason why we should talk more about the Jewish word for God called Elohim rather than the other words we have misused.  The word “god” does not give us all the information we need to know about Divine Council politics, their motivations, and how they interact with humanity.  It even further gets interesting when you take the reports of ayahuasca users and apply their experiences to UFO abductees.  They have remarkably similar stories to tell, and I find it quite stunning that Peruvian shamans from remote villages high in the mountains paint descriptions of UFOs visiting them under the influence of psychedelics because they have no point of reference to draw from.  All this opens up a discussion I think we all need to have about what we know about these things and how long we have known it, particularly in how power has ruled over humanity, and the cost of that power toward human intellect.

I think there is enough compelling evidence to discuss the Bible as a chronicle of UFO stories during a time when nobody had a stigma about what they were, including the Three Wise Men story of Christmas.  We have defined what they are to keep humanity under control.  But if we are looking for the little Martian from Bugs Bunny cartoons, we will likely be very disappointed, and Elon Musk may be right about humanity with some wordplay added in.  What you see isn’t necessarily what something is if you have been convinced it is something else.  For me, the more proper way to talk about UFOs is to discuss the role that the Elohim have played in Jewish culture and to consider that supernatural events aren’t so unusual but have been expected.  It has been our experience that was limited and our vision suppressed so that what we did see and when we saw it and reported it through literature, art, or entertainment, skepticism followed so that those who wanted to maintain power, either through the spirit world, or the material world, could remain in power and pull their strings to make humanity dance at their whims, maliciously as has often been the case.  The first step in unraveling this story is to treat UFOs not as unusual but as standard and not recent but ancient.  And they may not be “something else” from “somewhere else,” but they are us as we have always been and continue to be everywhere.  It has been our wrong definitions, not our observations.  And they were unfit to control us and for no other reason.

As I said in Elon Musk’s statement on space, we will deal with these problems now. Going to space is the right thing to do.  With the freedom of speech that the X platform gives him, reporters like Tucker Carlson will be able to report these UFO stories in new and unusual ways.  Ultimately, we will discover that they are very ancient and that we have a past connected to the rest of the universe in very complex ways that all our mythologies and religions have failed to capture correctly.  When we get into space, we will learn what all these astronauts have been seeing, and we will have to deal with it from an archaeological perspective.  And it’s not something for us to fear because it was us all along, and we have been interacting with these Elohim since humanity could write things down to remember later.  The desire to continue to fear visits from outer space by aliens is a lust that governments have to grow and protect us from.  But the more we learn, the less there is to fear.  And the more we realize that all along, the powers of the world have been lying to us and having us worship ancient pagan gods and maniacal political figures from the Elohim who do not have our best interest in mind.  And they are losing their cover story of deceit, which has always been part of their interactions.  So what will happen then?  We will find out, as Elon Musk said, about Starship’s role in taking humans into space.  We’re going, and we need to.  And what we learn is what we should have known all along.  Our ancient past isn’t well understood, and the ramifications of that purposeful ignorance will undoubtedly play a role in the future of politics on Earth as it is in Heaven.  Heaven isn’t necessarily somewhere else far away on a cloud somewhere, but in our backyard, and it was always there, as Jesus said, that mankind did not see it because they weren’t looking at it correctly.

Rich Hoffman

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‘Godzilla Minus One’: The best movie in the world

Simply stunning

Before you think to yourself, oh, there are so many things going on in the world, why do I care about a movie review for a new Godzilla movie? Well, this is something different, this Godzilla Minus One movie. It makes quite a statement, and it is currently destroying the rest of the films being produced in the world, from Bollywood to Hollywood, all places where the World Economic Forum financing has influenced movie content. I’ve been asked several times this year why I’m not out there producing and making movies, as I have wanted to most of my life. And my explanation was that the whole machine is messed up, it costs too much for unionized labor, so the budgets are wrecked. To get funding for the movies, you must have progressive messages in them. The entertainment media has been filled with more progressive political activists who set limits as to the kind of messages that get out to the public, and the theater owners’ associations are often too sensitive to all these politics to back releases. But then there are times when the market is desperate, theater owners are drowning for good content and Hollywood hasn’t given them the kind of movies that people want to see. Online streaming content is eroding the enthusiasm for in-theater distribution. So a foreign film like Godzilla Minus One gets made under the radar and gets into theaters with great passion and enthusiasm, and people get surprised. This is exactly what Godzilla Minus One is: a magnificent surprise, and what I think is the best movie in the world presently, and certainly one of the best to come along in recent memory. On a budget of only 15 million dollars, it’s everything a movie should be, and audiences are reacting to it in very positive ways, for good reason.

I wasn’t exactly planning to see the movie in theaters, I was going to catch it on Apple+ or whatever streaming service was carrying it around Christmas time.  But my grandchildren love Godzilla; it’s been a big part of their childhoods. They were talking to me about the new Godzilla/King Kong movie by Legendary Studios coming out in 2024, probably in March, and they were very excited about it.  That’s when I said, “Well, you know, kids, there is a Godzilla movie playing at Liberty Center right now.  Do you guys want to go see it?”  And I was surprised that my oldest grandson knew everything about it, and yes!  He wanted to see it right away.  So off we went to watch a movie that I thought might have some cool monsters in it.  But it would be filled with subtitles, and I didn’t know if they’d like it much.  But, being Godzilla fans, they could at least say they saw it.  Well………………what a surprise we were in for.  This wasn’t just a great movie, it was a masterpiece.  It reminded me of the many past films I have loved, particularly Yojimbo, the great Akira Kurasawa classic.  This wasn’t just a movie about Godzilla destroying Tokyo once again.  This was a very emotional film about the state of the world and the perseverance of human civilization to overcome the mistakes of governments and live their lives honorably, nobly, and without fear.  Godzilla served as the device that brought this out in people and it was Biblical in scope and magnificent in its execution.  When the movie ended, I just sat there, stunned by what I had just witnessed.  My grandchildren were thrilled, of course, but this was undoubtedly a benchmark in history that I fully realized.  Wow!

Now, I get to go to Japan, and I like to share as much of that experience with my family as possible.  I love Western culture for all its variety, but I love going to Japan because the Japanese are honorable people with self-confidence and a spirit of perseverance.  No matter how many different people I interact with from Japan, that is a foundation assumption about them.  When I need to go to the grocery store to get food and snacks while traveling, the people I deal with bow deeply when doing business and treat the meeting like it’s the most important thing they’ll ever do.  Even at the airports, everyone you deal with is highly respectful.  Walking around Tokyo or any big city, there is no crime, and everything is spotless.  The world could learn a lot from their culture, which I talk about occasionally.  Japan is a good country with good people who are persistent and honorable.  And I enjoy dealing with them on their turf.  Godzilla Minus One is a uniquely Japanese film about their culture and the value of honor as an individual.  The entire point of the movie was about living up to honorable expectations and being a good person, which has been missing so much from all modern movies filled with progressive political messages imposed by the influence of the World Economic Forum.  All that was removed entirely from Godzilla Minus One, and the film had a wonderful sense of freedom that was jaw-dropping in its relief.  I didn’t care that the entire movie was in subtitles.  It was delightful to watch. 

The main character is a Kamikaze pilot who lacked the killer instinct to fulfill his mission, so he ducked out of a fight just as the war ended.  He felt tremendous guilt about this, and it haunted him deeply.  In the aftermath of the war, he ends up moving in with a young lady and her adopted little girl, all war orphans.  None of them are related.  But the girl and the guy sleep in the same house but in separate beds.  And there is no sex.  They lived like this for over three years.  That’s not to say there wasn’t love; they grew to love each other deeply.  But no sex.  In a World Economic Forum-financed film, the girl would have left the guy after three months of no sex, which would have been the dumb plot of the entire movie.  Godzilla Minus One is about much more than sex and relationship problems.  It’s about overcoming self-doubt, becoming great, and earning the right to lead a family by conquering personal demons.  This was great stuff; people lost in the world are soaking up this message like a dry sponge.  And you know what’s best about the film?  The filmmakers had the guts to give it a happy ending, a real happy ending in every way that an audience could hope for.  The movie is undoubtedly about Godzilla, but he served almost like a godly figure, much like Job’s story from the Bible.  Without Godzilla, Job would have had no reference point.  But because of that reference, greatness had an opportunity to grow, and it brought people together as individuals to achieve beautiful things.  What a great message in a world filled with failure.  Along comes this little ray of light that is turning out to light the way for the world in ways nobody thought was possible.  Yet, there it is.  I can’t recommend it enough!

Rich Hoffman

Guns Are All That Stops A Tyrannical Government: The Lessons of Wounded Knee

The more you look at how bad our current government is, the more we have history to reflect on because it will be rough over the next few years for context.  And I must remind everyone why we have the Second Amendment, and for that consideration, the Battle of Wounded Knee serves a lesson we should all reflect on.  Government power unchecked often leads to bad results.  We certainly have seen some of those bad results in Waco, Ruby Ridge, and one that I think is a topic all its own, the assassination of William Cooper in 2001.  I hate to say it, but since COVID-19, I have been expecting a shootout with some tyrannical force in one form or another every day, and that certainly shouldn’t be the case.  That tyrannical force might only be an empowered criminal element driven to boldness by Democrat politics.  But a government out of control will seek to hide its complicity through sheer power and intimidation.  And the Battle of Wounded Knee is one of those times in American history where government power over innocent people evoked disastrous results.  And when pressed, such behavior is the standard foundation of all government activity.  That is why we never want government to get too big, and that they must always have their power checked with at least, equal and opposite ability.  An unarmed population is the foundation of corruption because government types cannot resist the temptation to abuse that power for their own whims and security. The Indians involved in The Battle of Wounded Knee were Americans and had a right to own guns for their own protection.  Sitting Bull had been a member of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show and was working to assimilate into American culture, so his killing was even more of a tragedy that we should all learn from as we prepare for another phase of government failure where desperation will logically drive their actions.

In August 1890 Daniel F. Royer became head of the Pine Ridge Agency; he arrived at his post in October. Many of the Oglala Lakota on his reservation had become passionate Dancers, and he was both displeased with and fearful of their religion. Whereas some federal agents and officials were more tolerant of the practice, Royer was convinced that the Ghost Dancers were militant and threatened to destroy the U.S. government’s decades-long effort to “civilize” the Lakota. When the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) requested a list of Indian “troublemakers” to be slated for relocation, Royer placed influential Dancers at the top of his list and demanded that the military address the matter.  In November the U.S. Army arrived on Lakota reservations with the goal of stopping the rise of the Ghost Dance. One source indicates that it was the largest deployment of federal troops since the end of the Civil War in 1865. Sitting Bull lived near the Standing Rock Agency, a powerful Hunkpapa Lakota chief and spiritual leader who had led the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne to victory in 1876 against the U.S. Army at the Little Bighorn. Many of his 250 followers were Dancers, and, though he was not a practitioner, he refused to let the federal government repress them any further. Maj. James McLaughlin, the reservation’s agent, resolved to arrest Sitting Bull for his role in permitting the spread of the religion. Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles commanded U.S. Army forces on the Lakota lands and hoped to take a peaceful approach to removing the Hunkpapa leader from the reservation. McLaughlin chose to undermine that plan, instead dispatching 43 tribal police officers to Sitting Bull’s cabin on December 15. Sitting Bull was compliant, but his followers would not relinquish him without protest. A vicious struggle ensued, and roughly 300 Indians were killed; among the dead was Sitting Bull.

Of course, the Indians had a right to fight against a tyrannical government.  The government was abusive and trending in the same direction that many similar personalities are trying to place on Trump supporters today.  What has been happening with the January 6th protestors is even worse than the infractions at Wounded Knee.  This brings up the question of what you are supposed to do when the government breaks the Constitution and you comply with authority only to be thrown in jail to rot away, against your natural rights.  Julian Assange comes to mind. I remember going to the Ecuadorian Embassy in 2018 to see him, and as I was there, I wondered what he could do if the police and military decided to storm the embassy and take him by force, which essentially is what happened shortly after.  And should he comply and go peacefully because he has lost any rights to a trial and self-defense?  And that was what was intended with Sitting Bull.  Once a powerful government finds that you are keeping it from what it wants, it will abuse that power to protect itself.  So the debate goes: what role does a person have in peace if the attacker is hell-bent on violence and intimidation?  History shows that compliance with such forces ends up in either false imprisonment or death.  So why not fight back?  To my way of thinking, fighting back is the only correct choice because the government has shown time and time again that it is irrational in its processing of risk assessment.  It doesn’t matter if it’s in a historical context or a modern one; the base behavior of government abuse is to cover that abuse with brute force.

For all these reasons and more, the worse that government gets, drunk on its power, the more guns that society must have to take the temptation out of their heads that they can abuse that power.  They restrict their behavior to something more logical when they fear a cost to the engagement.  In the case of Julian Assange, the embassy was just a block down from the east entrance to Harrod’s, the famous department store, which was constantly crawling with tourists.  The fear of a public incident was all that kept them from raiding Julian Assange, and once they peacefully took him, he lost all rights to a defense.  And back to Sitting Bull, he was a national celebrity, and he tried to comply with the authorities, but the trigger-happy military was looking for an excuse, so everyone ended up dead as a result anyway.  We have to think about these things because the Biden government is dripping with criminal conduct that has too much power.  And their only way to keep that power is with force.  They aren’t just going to give it back through a “fair election.”  So we must think about what might happen.  We can hope it doesn’t.  I certainly do.  But also, we must be ready because, as history has taught us, a government with too much power cannot be trusted, and that’s being nice about it.  The only thing that has kept us safe so far has been the Second Amendment, the fear they have of stepping over the line and having power used against them equally.  Otherwise, they would, could, and certainly will abuse our rights at every opportunity, and death or imprisonment is OK with them so long as they get to go home at night and live their lives unimpeded.  They behave civilly when they, too, must fear losing that security.

Rich Hoffman