Category: Political Theroy

The H.A.A.R.P Weapon: Serving statist governments the world over

It is a sad state when wild conspiracy theories provide the most logical conclusions to President Obama’s many political catastrophes.  But it can’t be ignored that when Obama needed political capital most prior to the 2012 election, Hurricane Sandy hit New England soaking up the news cycle with tragedy allowing Obama to look presidential and putting an effective shackle across the loose lips of Governor Chris Christie.  Christie suddenly found himself in need of federal relief money—which Obama largely controlled.  This effectively shut down one of Mitt Romney’s most vocal advocates just days before the election which had been up to that point a very tight race.  Then within the same year when Obama’s administration was drowning in three major scandals a F5 tornado hit Oklahoma in a devastating manner taking lives and destroying billions of dollars worth of value in both real and emotional capital.  At a critical time during the IRS hearings, the news cycle was distracted by another terrible tragedy caused by the weather which brought to my mind the conspiracy theory of the super secret government weapon called HAARP which can supposedly heavily influence the weather at will.  I have always been skeptical of this technology but became somewhat more convinced of its possibilities by some of my readers here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom who sent me off-line emails showing Hurricane Sandy gaining strength in the Atlantic Ocean prior to the election.  The argument provided to me detailed weather maps of ionospheric manipulation that was attempting to “nudge” the storm into a higher hurricane category instead of being just a big storm that might otherwise hit the heavily populated region with a lot of rain.

The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) as reported by Wikipedia is an ionospheric research program jointly funded by the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the University of Alaska, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).[1]

Designed and built by BAE Advanced Technologies (BAEAT), its purpose is to analyze the ionosphere and investigate the potential for developing ionospheric enhancement technology for radio communications and surveillance.[2] The HAARP program operates a major sub-arctic facility, named the HAARP Research Station, on an Air Force–owned site near Gakona, Alaska.

The most prominent instrument at the HAARP Station is the Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI), a high-power radio frequency transmitter facility operating in the high frequency (HF) band. The IRI is used to temporarily excite a limited area of the Ionosphere. Other instruments, such as a VHF and a UHF radar, a fluxgate magnetometer, a digisonde, and an induction magnetometer, are used to study the physical processes that occur in the excited region.

The HAARP Conspiracy: What is it?

HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) is a little-known, yet critically important U.S. military defense project which has generated quite a bit of controversy over its alleged weather control capabilities and much more.

Though denied by HAARP project officials, some respected researchers allege that secret electromagnetic warfare capabilities of the HAARP project are designed to forward the US military’s stated goal of achieving full-spectrum dominance by the year 2020.

Others go so far as to claim that HAARP can and has been used for weather control, to cause earthquakes and tsunamis, to disrupt global communications systems, and more. The U.S. patent of a key developer of HAARP and other documentary evidence support these claims.

Major aspects of the program are kept secret for alleged reasons of “national security.” Yet there is no doubt that HAARP and electromagnetic weapons capable of being used in warfare do exist. According to the official HAARP website, “HAARP is a scientific endeavor aimed at studying the properties and behavior of the ionosphere, with particular emphasis on being able to understand and use it to enhance communications and surveillance systems for both civilian and defense purposes.” The ionosphere is the delicate upper layer of our atmosphere which ranges from about 30 miles (50 km) to 600 miles (1,000 km) above the Earth’s surface.

The HAARP project website acknowledges that experiments are conducted which use electromagnetic frequencies to fire pulsed, directed energy beams in order to “temporarily excite a limited area of the ionosphere.” Some scientists state that purposefully disturbing this sensitive layer could have major and even disastrous consequences. Concerned HAARP researchers like Dr. Michel Chossudovsky of the University of Ottawa and Alaska’s Dr. Nick Begich (son of a US Congressman) present evidence suggesting that these disturbances can even be used to trigger earthquakes, affect hurricanes, and otherwise manipulate weather control.

Read more here:

http://www.wanttoknow.info/war/haarp_weather_modification_electromagnetic_warfare_weapons

The first thing that critics of such technology will point out is that politicians like Obama and his supporters wouldn’t possibly kill innocent people and destroy massive amounts of property just to hold an elected office.  The second thing is that the government couldn’t possibly keep such a weapon secret, and whistle blowers would not participate in the military use of such a weapon maintaining a classified status during high-profile elections.  After all, the top-secret operators of such a weapon might not be Obama supporters and would not be motivated to assist in the re-election efforts of a president who obviously does not support NASA, or the military even though he is the Commander-in-Chief—the ultimate boss and authority over the military.  One must have serious doubts about such schemes as the realm of reality does not lend credence to such an undertaking.

However—first………..one must admit that such a weapon as the HAARP exists, which it appears to, and to what extent it can control the weather.  I would doubt that a HAARP weapon could turn a totally cloudless warm day into a stormy blizzard, but it might have the capability to extenuate existing circumstances that exist in the ionosphere and aggravate their natural reactions.   I have a friend who once explained to me the possibility of creating another Ice Age in the world by simply injecting copious amounts of fresh water into the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic Ocean—such as a way to get the Great Lake water into the Atlantic Ocean quickly to destabilize the salt content and allow the Northern Polar cap to freeze further south.  Theories of such weather manipulation have been around for decades.  In order to aggravate a large storm cell such as a hurricane all one would have to do is find a way to increase the contrasting currents within the storm at its core to help it become stronger kind of like giving it environmental steroids.  The storm would already have to exist, but technology such as what HAARP suggests might in fact elevate existing conditions making them un-naturally strong holding durations of activity that are unusually long.

The same theory might hold true with the Oklahoma Tornado.  An already unstable atmosphere in the Tornado Alley region might be “nudged” along into becoming full-fledged storms with a HAARP weapon provoking them into activity that nature might otherwise alleviate.  So in the realm of scientific theory, there is a possibility of the HAARP weapon actually doing the kinds of things that conspiracy theorist propose.  The problem therefore becomes the unfathomable condition of a government who can order such a weapon used on its own people for some silly political maneuver. How could any one person be so evil to actually do such a thing without blowing the whistle?  And why would a politically motivated person in charge of such things use a HAARP-like weapon to destroy billions of dollars of property and kill innocent people?  Well, for the answer, all one need to do is watch the IRS hearings, or study the Benghazi terrorism event to see that the government is more than willing to collectively lie, deny, and sacrifice their own to protect the statist institution of government.  They collectively believe that a sacrifice of the individual is needed at times to protect the collective whole for a perceived “greater good.”

Then there is the idea of coercion, of “nudging” individuals, or groups of individuals into doing things against their will so to avoid the consequences of going against a democratic mob.  The government does this all the time, most notably in the alarming revelation that the IRS broke the IRS story in the first place.  Lois Lerner used a reporter to plant the question in a conference she was speaking at.  She “wanted” the question asked based on predictable results—knowing full well the level of anger that would be generated by her revelation.  The destruction and lives that would be ruined because of her revelation were known before hand, yet she admitted to the controversy willingly for reasons that are most likely more sinister than any logical person could possibly fathom.  We also know that governments will exploit tragedy at any opportunity, such as what Obama did with the victims of Sandy Hook to advance gun control.  Public schools constantly use the innocence of children to secure more funding for their statist education philosophies, so it is not at all beyond the realm of possibility that government is always on the lookout for tragic circumstances that they can use to advance more statist legislation and expansion of their social philosophy. George W. Bush used the tragedy of 9/11 to create the Department of Homeland Security, the TSA and many other deficit spending measures that favor big government.  But you will never see President Obama suggest that he seek permission to use the HAARP weapon to save the lives of people from hurricanes or tornadoes because if people didn’t die occasionally, or if the world did not have tragedies, then society would not buy into the environmental philosophies which are behind the new world-wide Socialist International movement.  Obama will never propose that the government seek ways to alter the weather to prevent the death of children in public schools like what happened in Oklahoma that produced nearly as many deaths as the tragic Sandy Hook shooting did.  The modern statist government needs such tragedies to justify FEMA, and federal relief agencies which gives Washington D.C. legal means to impose itself on state governments suppressing the 10th Amendment.  If such a weapon as HAARP is actually able to instigate violence in existing weather patterns, then it can do the opposite, and that is dissolve such threats before they occur.  Years from now when it is revealed that the HAARP weapon has been functional for many years, the information will then be revealed once the current politicians have all died off and cannot be blamed for all the senseless deaths that occurred during tragedies like the Oklahoma tornado of 2013 which they did have the ability to stop—but didn’t—because they needed the collateral damage for political capital.

Before such realities can even begin to be accepted, the realization that it is not incompetent fools like President Obama who would pull the trigger on such a catastrophe must be understood.  Obama is simply required to have deniable ignorance and provide social diversions.  The real manipulators are the various shadow government representatives who pour so much money into K-Street in Washington that really rule the world.  It is they who provide the technology; it is they who keep it concealed with hush money placed into the pockets of politicians in the gentleman clubs of D.C.  To them, secret sex with strippers equates to national secrets involving HAARP because easy money comes to their pockets from the shadow government giving them access to women they would otherwise never have a chance to meet while they maintain a false façade of a happy family in their home districts.  The operators of HAARP have their own strategy and make their aims more obtainable over others, so tragedies occur according to their strategic needs.

Most of the time a tornado is just a tornado, and a hurricane is just a hurricane.  The violent earthquakes and seismic activity that built the Appalachian Mountains or the many meter impacts that have possibly erased life on earth many times over are part of nature.  But if there is a way to use a weapon like HAARP to nudge the weather into a desire that is to the advantage of a statist government and the money holders of all potential shadow governments, there is much evidence that such characters will use it—no matter what the social, economic, or moral cost.  All it takes for such acts of coercion and terror to occur is for enough people to deny that such an evil is possible.

As outlandish as such a theory sounds, the HAARP weapon concept actually makes more sense than the acts of the current government and the unique accidents that conveniently occur which contribute to shielding the extremely corrupt Obama Administration from the multitude of scandals which are currently plaguing it.  Unless such a fantastic idea is introduced, there are simply too many missing pieces of the puzzle present which do not make any sense.  That is how bad the current government in America is.  Only fantastic theories can explain the evil that is present.  Logic and good sense are so vacant that conspiracy theories at least offer a glimpse into the treacherous behavior of the current statist government in America that is marching to orders that do not come from the people who elected them, but global interests who do not care who dies, who suffers, or who is destroyed so long as they achieve power for the sake of power at the expense of innocence.

Never forget Benghazi, or the people who died there.  Evil has the reigns of power, and they will do anything to keep it.  Anything…………..even if it is the manipulative use of science fiction made into science fact under the cloak of secrecy and millions of timid souls who allow it.

Rich Hoffman

166701_584023358276159_1119605693_n“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The Iron Men Doc Thompson and Skip Lacombe: Raising $1.5 million for Oklahoma tornado victims after a marathon 24 hour radio broadcast

On Thursday morning, May 23, 2013 The Morning Blaze with Doc Thompson and producer Skip Lacombe broadcasted for 24 straight hours to raise money for Mercury One’s Midwest Tornado Relief Fund with support from The Blaze Radio Network‘s Glenn Beck, Jay Severin, Buck Sexton, Pat & Stu and other special guests such as yours truly.  The broadcast began at 6AM Thursday morning and ran through 9 AM Friday Eastern time 5/24 from Oklahoma.  The time over that 27 hour period that Doc and Skip were not on the air was during Glenn Beck’s regular 9 AM to 12 PM broadcast.  The marathon broadcast was quite an achievement as Doc and Skip spoke straight for the entire time with a performance that far exceeded Rand Paul’s recent filibuster in the Senate and successfully helped generate over $1.5 million dollars for victims of the Oklahoma tragedy.  It was halfway through this marathon that I came on with Doc to talk about the IRS situation surrounding Lois Lerner and how much mutual affection we had for one another.

I have worked long periods of time that also exceeded 24 hour intervals, so I have an appreciation for what Doc and Skip achieved.  Since Doc joined The Blaze, I leave their streaming audio on just about everywhere I go.  With phone apps being what they are these days and computers being so mobile The Blaze Radio can be heard anywhere through streaming audio, so I never have to worry about signal strength that was so typical of AM radio.  I can now travel anywhere in the country never having a break in a broadcast, and that is the single best reason for using The Blaze as my new primary news source.  But I wasn’t willing to give it a chance until my good friend Doc joined The Blaze.  Now that he has, I am hooked.

I left Doc and Skip’s broadcast on for the entire period and was surprised to hear them displaying the same enthusiasm at 4 AM as they did at 6 PM the previous day.  Before the 27 hour marathon performance, Doc and Skip had done remote broadcasts from Washington D.C. and Richmond, Virginia, in the same week which demonstrated the strength of The Blaze’s Radio program to pick up from one location and successfully set up a remote in another location so quickly.  The innovation that was being used at The Blaze means that Doc and Skip due to their iron man-like endurance no longer have to be constrained by cumbersome equipment as other radio stations are limited to.  The phone screener no longer has to be in a booth in the next room communicating to the radio host through a glass window.  Modern equipment efficiency allows part of an operation like The Blaze to function out of New York City, Dallas, Texas, and then the road team represented by Doc and Skip communicated over computer networks through headsets in real-time.  This means that ambitious projects like the Oklahoma fundraiser on the heels of an already extensive road trip are possible because Skip can pack up their radio studio and put it in their car easily to set up in the next town quickly.  The Blaze has been one of the first, and best of their kind, who have a large news organization that is so mobile, and is free of FCC regulation.  That makes them very unique.

After Doc left the air to catch up on some much-needed sleep, The Blaze Radio Network switched over to Glenn Beck who was broadcasting from The American Dream Labs in Salt Lake City and immediately stepped into coverage of the London terrorist incident where a young soldier was beheaded by a radical extremists in the city streets.  The Blaze is a creation of Glenn Beck built by the money he earned off his popularity gained at CNN and Fox News.  Instead of becoming a pompous ideologue, like so many do who have even a fraction of Beck’s talent, he took his money and did great things with it as an entrepreneur.  It is because of Beck’s commitment to The Blaze that it is such a dynamic radio program and had the ability to send Doc and Skip on the road to Oklahoma to raise money for the victims there so efficiently, and effectively.

As I’ve said, more than once I have worked 24 hours or more, and I know how tired Doc and Skip had to have been.  But add to that the need to talk for such a long period of time without the assistance of visual aids, or even music to fill the time.  The entire show had to be filled with Doc and Skip’s voices and that is difficult, because to do so, there has to be enough thought in the mind to articulate words in a voice.  As a fairly frequent guest on talk radio, and occasional public speaker, I can talk for hours without notes—but this is due to the many books and information I put into my head with a daily education that I work hard to maintain.  So I can appreciate the sheer volume of thought it takes to generate 24 hours of straight talking with only breaks at the top and bottom of each hour for the news.  Doc’s performance with Skip was a Marconi Award winning endeavor in my opinion.  No other radio host in the country could come close to what Doc pulled off.  Doc and Skip’s unique brand of news radio and commentary is laced with comedy that is the conservative equivalent to Jon Stewart from The Daily Show, it was funny stuff at 6 AM Thursday, and it was still funny 27 hours later at 9 AM Friday.

Doc didn’t just get to such a level over night.  When he was in Cincinnati Doc did 6 hours of radio every single day.  He did three hours at 700 WLW then 3 hours in Richmond, Virginia at 1140 WRVA for well over a year.  I used to think that was a lot of radio for a voice to perform, but Doc blew that trend out of the water with his marathon Oklahoma performance.

Doc’s iron man tenacity in radio was reflected in his broadcast, and ultimately, it is that type of on-air personality that makes The Blaze a much better news organization than is offered any place else.  The Blaze hires and recruits out-side-the-box types of employees like Doc and Skip, and the results are overwhelmingly obvious.  The Doc Thompson Show on The Blaze demonstrates a passion for the material that is simply unheard of anywhere else.  It was a pleasure to listen to Doc and Skip on the radio for more than 24 hours.  I came away from that broadcast wishing that every day could be so wonderful as to hear the Doc Thompson Show on the radio with fresh content every hour of the day for the entire duration.  I feel fortunate to have witnessed it, and even participated in a small way—to be a part of that magnificent history.  Doc’s broadcast was a shining example of how individuals come together in a crisis without government coaxing, to do good things for good people with all the ingenuity and tenacity that is typical of the American spirit.  All those elements were present on The Blaze Radio Network’s 24 hour fund-raising efforts in Oklahoma during a tragedy that brought good will to millions upon millions of listeners who were joined to a great cause by the voice of Doc Thompson and his producer and sidekick, Skip Lacombe.

Nice job guys!

Rich Hoffman

166701_584023358276159_1119605693_n“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Lois Lerner Pleads the Fifth: Tea Party protests the IRS all across America

When I was on the radio with Matt Clark earlier in the week he played a clip from MSNBC where an interviewee declared that the Tea Party movement was equivalent to American politics as a terrorist organization.  I had not heard the comment before Matt played it for me.  It enraged me deeply to hear such a thing!  After I calmed down I came to realize what MSNBC defined as terrorism, and from their point of view, the actions of the Tea Party does stand against everything progressives dream of—which is a statist government, and the Tea Party is undermining their imaginings of a big government utopia—and they are angry about it.  The Tea Party showed what they stood for when they recently protested the IRS building in downtown Cincinnati.  They informed the IRS that “they” worked for them, and they sang “God Bless America” and other acts of vile treachery from the viewpoint of the typical progressive and other godless heathens.  Many of the participants were my personal friends, the type of people who cut their grass regularly, work 45 to 60 hours a week, attend church regularly, say prayers before eating, avoid using curse words, and love their country, their families, and themselves.  The Tea Party protestors at the IRS were in essence the complete opposite of a typical progressive radical.  Progressives fear the Tea Party in the same way that insects fear an exterminator.

The day after the protests of the IRS Lois Lerner director of the IRS division of exempt organizations plead the Fifth in testimony to the congressional Oversight Hearing exploring gross incompetence and possible criminal action by the hated tax collecting organization.  Lerner was given on many occasions an opportunity to defend her previous congressional statements where she advanced the planted question that the targeting of conservative organizations was taking place in the IRS.  She declined to answer any further questions regarding any investigation into her management behavior, or knowledge of IRS corruption that is obviously evident in the recent discoveries.  Lerner opened her testimony with a statement declaring her innocence, and then plead the Fifth so that no questions could be asked in cross-examination.  Even if her actions did not violate the law under Constitutional terms, she showed an arrogance that is bred into all thirty-plus year government employees—including school teachers, cops, firefighters, congressional employees, senators, and ESPECIALLY IRS employees.  They feel entitled to make up the rules as they go since they work for an entity that makes the rules.  They behave with knowledge that if something isn’t legal or illegal today, that with the pull of a lever, they can make it so to their desire at a whim as long as their actions preserve the institutional needs of the systems which employ them.

The National Treasury Employees Union has denied claims that the union’s president was in contact with President Obama shortly before Internal Revenue Service employees began targeting conservative groups.

In a statement emailed to The Daily Caller, the NTEU explained just what NTEU president Colleen Kelley was doing at the White House on March 31, 2010 — shortly before the IRS Determinations Unit began targeting tea party groups.   “On March 31, 2010, NTEU president Colleen M. Kelley attended the White House Forum on Workplace Flexibility at the Old Executive Office Building,” an NTEU spokesperson wrote in an email. “The forum was attended by approximately 200 attendees including business leaders, workers, policy experts and labor representatives discussing telework and worklife balance issues. Attendees were broken into five groups to discuss workplace issues.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/20/irs-union-denies-smoking-gun-meeting-with-obama/#ixzz2U2UsmCwq

Yet just a few days after Kelley visited the White House attending the Delphi Technique oriented White House Forum, the message spread through the IRS community to target the Tea Party and make life difficult for them leading up to the 2012 election disrupting their political ground game—so that president Obama could win a second term.

Anyone who has dealt with public school unions understand how government labor unions work and how the culture of corruption is inherit in their mere existence.  With a wink and a nod, radical activists are ready to pounce on the collective aims of the government organization as all the participants are paid so extraordinarily that they go along to get along, even if they disagree with the ideology.   Until a few days ago I didn’t even know that the IRS had a labor union, and this knowledge points to a big problem.  Labor unions for any government employee should be illegal.  President Kennedy in 1962 was in serious error when he made public sector unions legal through Executive Order—probably to appease the mob at the time.  He should have never done such a thing as the corruption of labor unions made the corruption of government much worse by sheer apathy, ignorance, and scope.  As a result, there is no management present in government.  The inmates run the asylum, and the case with the IRS is beginning to show just how terribly corrupt the entire system is.

Obviously Kelley took with her from The White House a subtle directive that was so obscure that all parties could have plausible deniability.  But because of the nature of labor unions, and their collective hive-like behavior patterns, all that was needed for the IRS to target conservative groups was a wink and a nod.  The culture of corruption was already built by the labor union—always ready to implement the directions of their superiors so that they can maintain their outrageous payrolls, and lucrative retirement packages.  All they needed was a wink and a nod, and administrators like Lois Lerner would take it from there.

When fighting school levies, I have learned that the first defense failing administrators provide for why they cannot manage their costs is that they are legally obligated to fulfill certain parameters which drive up the cost to the community.  What they fail to acknowledge is that the legal means to those funding needs were created through legislation by their public sector unions. In government the chaos is always created by the same people who declare their management is always needed, and only they can solve the problem because everything is too complex for average people to understand.  But the complexity is created as camouflage to hide their ineptness, and their profit margins.

There are over 4000 IRS employees in Cincinnati, and they all want to be well paid, and cared for during the remainder of their lives, and they will sacrifice much of their personal credibility to preserve that system which has become the heart-beat of their very souls.  Lois Lerner caught in lies from her previous testimony decided not to make her treachery any worse for herself by offering conflicting testimony.  Like all government employees, she hoped to stall, belittle, and use Saul Alisnky’s Delphi Technique any way possible to wiggle out of the jaws of justice.  Like a typical government employee Lerner is willing to take the fall for her superiors, in much the way that Stacy Schuler, the Mason teacher caught having sex with 5 of her high school students and going to jail for the crimes, sacrificed herself for the good of the system and her peers at the institution—many who were more guilty than she was.  Lois Lerner is doing the same on a much bigger scale, only the game is clear to all who are watching.  She’s not fooling anybody.

It is for these reasons that the Tea Party protested the IRS.  We are the boss of the IRS, not the other way around and they answer to us, not some stupid labor union.  And the labor unions have no right to “organize” on behalf of the political aims of the President of The United States, where the President might have said to NTEU president Colleen Kelley, “I need some help during the next election, Colleen.  I don’t know if I can win this on my own—in fact I know I can’t.”  An enthralled Colleen Kelley might state in return, “You’re not alone Mr. President.”  Wink and a nod as both parties smile knowingly–no laws broken.  Later Kelley contacts Lerner by phone where she might have said, “I had a wonderful day at the White House yesterday.  It was very productive.”  Lerner might then ask, “How is the president these days?”  Kelley might then have responded, “Oh, he’s worried that some of these Tea Party organizations are actually fronts for the Republican fundraising machine, and they could hurt him in 2012.”  Lerner would then respond with a bit of glee in her voice learned from over thirty years as a government employee, “Well, we might just have to take a little closer look into their finances.”  Again, Lerner didn’t lie, cheat or steal…………and she didn’t break the law.  But in pleading the Fifth, she allows doubt to hide the connection between Kelley and herself leaving plausible deniability as a perpetual option.  The game of government is infected with many hundreds of thousands of similar situations, and they all cost money and lead to vast amounts of corruption.  It is that game that the Tea Party protested, and will continue to fight against and if progressives wish to believe such a thing is terrorism, then the accusation is from the perspective of those who wish to bring harm to America, by destroying what is good about it in preservation of their ever-growing statism.

Rich Hoffman

166701_584023358276159_1119605693_n“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Rich Hoffman Interview with Matt Clark: The eye of the IRS scandal storm

Because of all the IRS news lately, and considering that I have been in the center of the storm, Matt Clark wanted me to come on his radio show at WAAM in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  Unlike my friend Justin Binik Thomas who is a very nice guy whose previous interview with Matt sparked my visit seen and heard below, I do not trust the system to fix anything.  I hope that everyone in congress does what they are supposed to and defend the name of Justin and those involved in the recent IRS scandal where that government collection agency attacked Tea Party groups maliciously out of their innate desire for self-preservation.  But I have serious doubts.  I don’t like the IRS, or what it represents.  And I sure don’t like how it goes about its job, and I’ve never been shy to talk about it.  The IRS represents government statism in all the worst ways, leaving their intrinsic social debauchery to migrate unmolested into the American experience.

For my part in the IRS scandal I produced two videos for the Liberty Township Tea Party that fell under the questioning by agents harassing them for information.  The IRS wanted DVD copies of my videos because they were shown at a Tea Party event for education reasons.  The first video was one that was produced by me and a group I was working with called the State Sovereignty Committee of the LTTP.   The basic function of the group was to get together once or twice a month for several months and learn about The Tenth Amendment.  We would then present our findings to the larger group of the Liberty Township Tea Party.  As we uncovered information in our little research group I discovered that the situational abuse of the Commerce Clause was detrimental and highly scandalous.  So I suggested that our group present our findings in a nice video that made the complex topic easier to understand.  That is the video you can see below.

The other video involved the Immigration Committee of the LTTP, which was assembled and put together in much the same fashion for the same reasons.  For that video it simply made sense to sit down with one of the most vocal advocates of immigration reform in the entire United States, Sheriff Jones of Butler Country and interview him.  Both videos were then shown to the larger Liberty Township Tea Party group for purely educational reasons.   The complete expense of the videos was covered by me to keep everything easy.  The reason that I publish this website of Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom without any subscription fees is to avoid having to file any IRS forms that give them regulatory power over my work.  With those videos, no money changed hands—they were simply the result of my donated time, and of those who worked on those projects with me.  I do offer my published works on my website for money, but I do not sell them direct.  The books are sold exclusively through my publisher.  This keeps an accurate record of my quarterly royalty checks which are indisputable with the IRS since the payment comes from a company that keeps sales clean and beyond refute.  Publishers like authors to sell their books directly because the profit margin is much higher instead of sharing the revenue with third-party book distributers; it also allows authors to lower the price selling more titles.  Bill O’Reilly even with all his name recognition does this better than anyone and for the same reasons.  In his case his increased profit margins go directly to charity instead of third-party distributors.  I do not use this method because of my controversial endeavors knowing that everything I do is watched closely by the IRS and the other arms of tyranny which make up the federal government.

As innocent as the videos were, which in essence were no different from any typical YouTube video, the IRS included them on their lists of questions to the Liberty Township Tea Party as though some great scandal had been committed, which was simply laughable.  But I did have to provide actual DVD copies of the videos to the IRS, which seemed ludicrous to me as there were 4000 IRS employees in Cincinnati any one of which could have downloaded their own copies from the YouTube postings.  As I spent a whole Saturday afternoon finding and creating DVDs of the videos I wondered what those IRS employees did all day—and the more I thought about it the angrier I became.  Regardless, I turned in the videos and the Liberty Township Tea Party satisfied all their questions given to them by the IRS.  About a month later this scandal broke to the level it currently is.

In a lot of ways, the 10th Amendment video inspired me to create this site because that was the moment I realized how corrupt our government truly was.  The way congress split hairs over the Commerce Clause, the 14th Amendment and any other hook they managed to get over states rights violating the Constitution in the process showed me what the game of government was really about.  The proof was overwhelming, and obvious.  I saw the same thing happening in our public schools, in the Obama administration, the United Nations, and exemplified in the statist philosophy of the IRS.  So I started this site to help educate others as to how the scam has been perpetrated upon Americans for many years.  Once I admitted to myself that the level of deceit was not just a suspicion I had, but the proof was discovered in that 10th Amendment video, I came to understand that more information had to get out to more people, more often.  I spent 4 months making that 10th Amendment video with a team of other people—and that was too slow.  The Tea Party only met once a month, and that was too slow for educational purposes, so I started this site to accelerate the process of learning.

So is the IRS right to notice that my videos have had a role in the Tea Party effort?  Yes they are right, and they understand that if people learn the truth of their intentions then more people will turn against the IRS grip on the public.  So for their own preservation, they are right to target those videos—as innocent as they are—for what the videos represent.  However, the IRS is still confined to the law—at least the perception of law.   They cannot openly violate the Constitution; they must do so with deceit and fear hoping to get others to comply out of dread instead of legal knowledge.  And it is my intention to take those weapons away from such scoundrels by re-teaching people how to think for themselves.

As usual it was fun to do Matt’s show. It is even more fun to see the IRS squirm on the chopping block for once.  However, I don’t trust what I see or feel of the situation.  There is more to the story and the sacrificial lambs of the IRS thrown upon an alter by the President of the United States indicates a deeper, darker, much more sinister problem that has yet to indicate its magnitude.  For that beast, my eyes follow the evidence trail of dismembered lives, treachery, lies, and every conceivable sham to the lair where the real trouble resides.  It is there that the head of such a monster must be removed through the preferred method of defunding—by starving it out of its hiding place.   But I do not regulate my thoughts to a peaceful end where the process will correct itself.  Logic says that before it’s over, the nasty beast of government will attack to protect its lair where many future baby monsters are laid like eggs—awaiting to be hatched.  The monster of the federal government wants to preserve its young so that they can grow up to become great monsters of their own.  It is the task of all right thinking people to prevent that from happening.  I hope Justin is right about trusting the process, but logic says that in the end it will be my methods that we’ll see first.

Rich Hoffman

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Government is TOO Big: Tea Party Protest in downtown Cincinnati at the IRS building

Before it was all said and done there were around 500 people who joined the crowd protesting the gross intrusion of the IRS into the lives of Tea Party Patriots.

CINCINNATI – The furor over the IRS’s improper targeting of conservative groups went on full display in downtown Cincinnati on Tuesday.

More than 200 people turned out for a noon rally sponsored by local tea party groups, according to 9 On Your Side’s Scott Wegener. Some carried signs that read “Audit the IRS,” “Internal Revenge Service, Stop” and “Stop the Abuse of Power.” Some chanted, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, the IRS has gotta go.”

“I think we need to do something about the abuses of government,” said Dennis Hogan of Maineville.

After gathering on Fountain Square, protesters marched two blocks to the IRS office at the federal building at 550 Main St. That where IRS workers improperly targeted conservative groups in their applications for tax-exempt status over the last few years, a Treasury Department inspector general’s report states.

Lined up along the sidewalk, protesters chanted, “You work for us. You work for us,” while Homeland Security officers stood nearby.

Tea_party_rally_at_IRS_office_20130521143833_320_240“It’s ungodly, it’s un-American and it’s just plain wrong to target Americans because of what they say about the government,” said Paul Johnson of the Grassroots tea party of Boone County.

“We want them to cease and desist harassing us conservatives,” said Andrew Pappas of the Anderson tea party.

To that end, protesters signed a large placard and Ann Becker, president of the Cincinnati tea party, gave it to officers to deliver to the IRS.

“This isn’t about party. It’s about individual freedom,” Becker said.

Becker has called for the immediate resignation of all involved in the targeting scandal.

“There shouldn’t be a political attack based on our beliefs, and we believe that’s what the IRS has done,” Becker said.

“That it turned out to be going on in the Cincinnati office is fairly ironic considering the strong tea party presence in this area,” said George Brunemann. “I’d say there’s about 20,000 members in Hamilton, Butler, Warren and Clermont (counties).”

Brunemann said he and his wife were audited and his wife’s business was audited after they started the SouthWest Cincinnati tea party. He doesn’t believe the IRS officials who claim low-level Cincinnati IRS workers came up with the idea to target conservative groups.

“The IRS agent who told us we were being audited said it was directly because of our involvement with the tea party. She was almost apologetic,” Brunemann said.

He said he knows a small business owner who was audited by the IRS and investigated by OSHA after joining.

“To me, that’s what screams that this is not lower-lever IRS workers. This goes all the way up the food chain. The president might not be personally involved, but his people are,” Brunemann said.

Some tea party groups are planning lawsuits in connection with the investigation.

Five present or former Cincinnati IRS workers were called to Washington to give transcribed interviews in advance of a House committee hearing on Wednesday.

The scandal has already led to at least three congressional hearings.

You can read the Treasury inspector general’s report at http://goo.gl/o5mCN.

Read more: http://www.wcpo.com/dpp/news/local_news/tea-party-groups-head-to-downtown-cincinnati-to-protest-irs-scandal#ixzz2Tyubk5h1

Rich Hoffman

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Justin Binik Thomas ‘Ways and Means’ Interviews: Matt Clark and Channel 9 get to the heart

I was at the Liberty Township Tea Party meeting when Katy Kern read the IRS harassment letter calling out Justin Binik Thomas as an individual.  Justin is from Deer Park nearly a half an hour to the south of Liberty Township, Ohio and had no connection at all to the Tea Party group in my community.  So the implication of why Justin, who was a founding member of the Cincinnati Tea Party, was obvious.  The IRS was letting Liberty Township know that the leaders of the Tea Party effort were going to be targeted, and unless they wanted the wrath of the IRS coming down on them—they’d keep their head down.  Well, it didn’t work.  The Liberty Township group hunkered down and Justin went on the offensive letting every media outlet in the country know about the harassment he received.  He’s been on virtually every news program in the country as a result and made a point to fly to Washington D.C. to attend the Ways and Means hearings.  Upon  arrival back into Cincinnati he gave two interviews, one to Channel 9 which is shown after the below video, and a radio interview with Matt Clark of WAAM in Ann Arbor, Michigan which can be seen and heard here:

The Channel 9 Interview is now listed below with the link to the original story here:

http://www.wcpo.com/dpp/news/local_news/local-man-discusses-what-he-learned-during-us-house-ways–means-committee-hearing-on-irs-scandal

Posted: 05/18/2013

 By: WCPO Digital Staff

Justin Binik-Thomas wanted to know why a question about him was among 35 the Liberty Township Tea Party was instructed by the Internal Revenue Service to answer as part of the organization’s application for tax-exempt status last year.

Binik-Thomas, of Deer Park, believes he became the only individual to be singled out in any of the hundreds of questions asked by Cincinnati IRS employees who gave extra scrutiny to applications for tax-exempt status filed by conservative groups.

The 31-year-old was so concerned that he flew to Washington, D.C., to be present during the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee’s hearing Friday.

While Binik-Thomas didn’t expect the hearings to give him answers, he told 9 On Your Side prior to his trip to Capitol Hill that he thought it was important to be there to show the face of someone who has been directly affected by the scandal.

9 On Your Side interviewed Binik-Thomas to get his opinion about what he learned during the hearing.

His responses can be viewed below:

Q. What did you learn from the hearings?

A. I left confident that Congress has taken the [inspector general’s] findings, IRS admission, and constituent concerns seriously. Special thanks to my representative, Congressman (Brad) Wenstrup, for working with Ways and Means colleagues on this issue. Congressman (Pat) Tibiri and Congressman (Erik) Paulsen included my story in their questioning.

Q. Are you satisfied with the answers you got from the experience?

A. There was little new information learned at the hearing proper, but there will be followup, written testimony and committee research over the coming weeks. I hope to learn more in this phase.

Q. What do you plan to do next?

A. I will continue to work with congress and this committee to support as needed and appropriate.

Q. What would you like to hear from IRS/administration officials?

A. I would like to know why I was included in the letter to Liberty Township Tea Party, what the information received will be used for, and where the information was shared. [I’d] also like assurances that it will not be used against me or my small business in the future. The same assurances should be offered to targeted groups.

 Q. What have you received in the way of support from the local community?

A. My family and community have been supportive. It is chilling to be called out by the government.

  Q. What would you like the public to know about what happened?

A. The IRS has identified an individual in a letter to an unrelated group. Risks include future audits to personal or business finances. It can happen to anyone unless there are systemic changes at the agency – true checks and balances – to assure this does not reoccur.

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You can read the full story about Binik-Thomas at the following link: http://www.wcpo.com/dpp/news/local_news/why-was-justin-binik-thomas-singled-out-in-irs-tea-party-application

Read more: http://www.wcpo.com/dpp/news/local_news/local-man-discusses-what-he-learned-during-us-house-ways–means-committee-hearing-on-irs-scandal#ixzz2TjhXKDHL

What Justin said about being targeted in a letter to an unrelated group is the crux of the whole problem.  The IRS used Justin’s name as a way to intimidate the Liberty Township Tea Party, and in doing so, abused their power.  This is the reason that no one organization should ever have so much power that can behave like a dictatorship in such a fashion.  No matter who was at fault at the IRS, the deed was done and Justin has had to embark on at least two years of fearful harassment as a result.  The IRS owes Justin more than an apology.

I admire Justin’s professionalism in his responses.  He has a right to state his outrage in a much more colorful manner than he has, but he’s a nice guy who is immensely responsible.  As a founding member of the Cincinnati Tea Party he has shown a willingness to allow the legal process to work the way it should by working closely with his congressman to see justice done to the IRS.  For Justin’s sake, I hope he gets it.  But I have my doubts.  The IRS is a terribly corrupt organization that stands against virtually everything America was founded upon, so unless major reforms are put in place the status quo will remain and people like Justin will be attacked again.

Rich Hoffman

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Institutional Slavery to the IRS: Darryl Parks 700 WLW broadcast from Saturday May 18th 2013

It’s always the cover-up that brings to light institutional failure because the participants will stoop to no low to protect the organization of which they’re a part.  With the same denials seen during the Penn State child molestation case where thousands of individuals protected Jerry Sandusky because of his legendary contributions to the football team’s defense, employees of the IRS are willing to do the same to keep their jobs and protect the institution. The IRS employs over 100,000 employees all across the nation, 4000 of which work in Cincinnati alone.  It is a giant monster of a bureaucracy and no reform is possible due to the billions of dollars that are stolen out of the treasury to pay for all those employees—which are largely unmanaged positions with payroll values as ridiculously high as public school teachers teeming with incompetence for the same reasons.  The IRS is the judge, jury and executioner of their own crime syndicate and every human being that works for them places their individual judgment into the back of their minds serving blindly an institution created by government to perpetually grow uncontrolled of service to itself and nothing else.  This issue was particularly well articulated by Darryl Parks during his midday radio show on 700 WLW during May 18, 2013.

Darryl was right; there isn’t a politician in the Ohio region who will take on the IRS scandal any further than the Ways and Means hearings because they cannot in all consciousness go against the government institution for which they serve.  People who think in such ways have lost their individual judgment, or their value assessment for other individuals because they are in service to an institution—and their primary task at that point becomes to protect that institution with any sacrifice necessary to further its continuation.  That means lying under oath is on the table of possibility because most individuals who serve like slaves to the government and all its divisions have lost touch with their individuality not fearing even eternity in hell if the preservation of the institution can be preserved.

Local Republican politicians have known about this IRS scandal for over two years.  I know personally because I have been intimately involved with the Liberty Township IRS harassment case.  John Boehner knew all about it.  Rob Portman knew all about it.  Mitch McConnell knew all about it, yet nobody did anything about it because they all primarily serve the institution of the federal government.  They do not serve the interests of the individuals who elect them.  This is the fault of our social commitment to altruism which informs these institutional soldiers that individuals should always sacrifice themselves to the “greater good” and that individual judgment should be suspended for collective causes.  Republicans willingly play their roll in preserving institutions at the expense of the individual—even at a cost to themselves.

If I had a quarter for every kitchen I stood in where the children disrespected their parents and the women looked wistfully toward every horizon for some great lover to sweep them off their feet in a passionate romance even though their families all live well in large houses with perpetual financial security, I would have already amassed all the world’s wealth in my possession.  I can speak that in Cincinnati I have been on 90% of the roads of the city covering approximately 150 square miles.  And at one point in time I have stood in the kitchen of at least one house in every neighborhood in all those communities and always the stories are the same, especially when one or both parents work for the federal government.  There is a soulless look on the faces of such bureaucrats that is the direct result of such lack of individuality.  The children of these households are attracted to any presence which might contain some sense of individual structure and they flow toward these personalities like water seeking a glass to hold some semblance of their personal identities.   These children do not respect their parents because their parents do not serve the family, they serve their employer—the government first and foremost which is hidden to nobody.  The women in such relationships if they are still young and attractive have affairs with any man with tattoos, long hair and some external exhibition of individual merit.  Later, when they’ve become shells of their younger physical bodies and such men are no longer attracted to them, they fill up the nail salons’ getting manicures and pedicures so that they can have some sense of individual pampering trying to rekindle their individual identities which has been consumed by the institutions they serve.  The effort is to feel individually special, since their jobs do not offer such entitlement—as they are in service to an institution.  The men fare far worse in such arrangements.  They drink to evade their social realities, they have affairs to feel young so to hide from themselves what they’ve become, and they all end up the same way.  By the time they hit 40 they are physical wrecks often overweight with skin problems, eyesight deficiencies, and heart illnesses.  Their broken hearts are more mental than physical, but the muscle of the heart reflects the broken dreams of every bright-eyed little boy who wishes to save the world with heroics, only to discover that they are middle-aged sell outs afraid of their own shadows.   They become empty husks as the institutions they serve drain them of all their worth feeding off them like a parasite till their deaths.

The commitment to institutions over individual need is the leading cause of misery in American culture and the IRS is filled with these types of people.  Most of them are suffering from the same ailments shown above, even though they have new cars, nice homes, and comfortable retirement packages.  The 4000 employees who work in the Cincinnati IRS fit the above profile by nearly 95%.  They are willing to trade their lives away for the security the IRS provides as an employer because the pay and benefits are good—better than they’d get at a comparable job elsewhere.  They do not care that the value they reap as institutional employees is stolen from millions of tax payers with looted money in a system that mimics slavery in every definition of the word.

This is why the IRS is allowed to attempt ruining the lives of individuals no matter how severe the imposition.  This is also why the IRS has so many supporters who are willing to lie on its behalf.  This makes the testimony provided to the Ways and Means committee on May 17, 2013 that much more potent because if the IRS employees are willing to admit to their specific targeting of individuals in the Tea Party case, then what deeper imposition are they actually protecting?  The IRS didn’t just decide to release a statement that it knew would anger millions of Tea Party protestors like a match thrown on piles of dry paper sprinkled with gasoline.  The IRS itself as an employee of the much larger federal government is seeking to protect the institution of statist government from something the same way that individuals protect the IRS from institutional scandal.  The answer to what that scandal is defines the real scoop of the current problem.  For my money, I would bet on Benghazi.

Rich Hoffman

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The IRS Ways and Means Hearings in Washington D.C.:Justin Binik Thomas and Tea Party friends seek justice

What a lot of people do not realize is that Tea Party groups are educational organizations designed to get back into touch with Constitutional ideals and beliefs that were valued upon the founding of The United States of America.  In essence they are like a giant book club where members get together and talk about the merits of books they have read like The Federalist Papers and The 5000 Year Leap.  That makes the recent IRS scandal against the Tea Party that much more preposterous, which has been going on for over three years now, culminating in the testimony in Washington that is currently going on.  All government entities from local schools to the smallest cubical in the IRS administration offices have in their culture an inherit desire to advance statism—and anything that is a threat to their statism they deem worthy of attack.  If a school levy is resisted, the advocates of the tax increase believe they have a “right” to destroy businesses and any individual who stand in the way of their funding.  The IRS does the same on a massive scale acting as agents of tyranny to those who oppose statist oriented government objectives.  So as a supporter of Tea Party causes, it gave me great pleasure to listen to the testimony of May 17, 2013 and hear occasional cheers coming from the crowd sitting in the balcony—since I personally know a good portion of the Tea Party patriots making such a ruckus there.

Many people are just now arriving to where many of us have been for a long time.  Justin Binik-Thomas is a friend of mine who was also up in the balcony, along with Rachael Proctor who I most recently discussed in another article.  They were joined with most of the organizational heads of the Liberty Township Tea Party which is one that I have supported from the beginning as it is the group that is in my home district.  In February of 2013, only a few months ago I had to provide the IRS through the Liberty Township Tea Party hard copies of videos I made which were shown at a picnic that was done at a local farm celebrating patriotic themes.  CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW.  To understand what the Tea Party is all about, watch the video I have at that link because it involves many of the people targeted in this current IRS probe, and it can easily be seen how ridiculously stupid the IRS probe of these people truly is.    I remember vividly the meeting where it was discussed how the IRS had asked the Liberty Township Tea Party about their relationship with Justin Binik Thomas, who is one of the founding members of the Cincinnati Tea Party, and the cold chill that permeated the audience at that event.

Unlike my Tea Party friends, my interest in politics extends beyond education.  I am an aggressive type of individual and I sometimes do and say things many of them would never consider.  For that reason I keep a bit of distance from them so to preserve my right to exercise my intentions without bringing negativity into their direction, particularly from groups like the IRS or any other government body.  So privately, frequent readers of my Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom got together with Justin Binik-Thomas to deal with this whole IRS thing.  CLICK HERE TO REVIEW.  I’m not the kind of person who believes in mass demonstrations and protests.  I don’t do the group activity thing but I do respect those who do.  The people who were in that Overmanwarrior’s group were not the types who would collect in mass to show the IRS that there is strength in numbers—they are the type of people who are prepared for the next tragic steps once government organizations realize that the Tea Party will not back down.  They are people like Justin Binik-Thomas who won’t be frightened away from holding leadership positions in the Tea Party organizations, due to IRS intimidation.  Knowing something about media relations myself, if those steps are necessitated, I don’t want my friends in the Tea Party splattered all over the news as a negative connection to me, so I keep a respectable distance—because that is where I am.  I admire their kindness, and desire to learn.  That much I share with them.  But I have different methods for dealing with bullies that is much more direct than a lot of people feel comfortable with.  I intend to direct that kind of attention toward one of the biggest bullies around, the IRS.  So the meeting we had with Justin well over a year ago in the middle of this IRS scandal was to deal with those next steps should the IRS push the issue beyond pieces of paper and phone calls.

This is where the statist government types like Barack Obama are at a loss, and why they find themselves in the center of so much trouble.  America is not Europe; we have not been beaten down by thousands of years of statism under kings and queens.  America was founded by rebels fleeing Europe.  Rebellion is so deeply ingrained into our DNA that it cannot be easily changed leaving a subtle and constant push against statism.  Even though government education has trained the minds of generations toward statism, deep in their hearts Americans hate it, and they act against it any way they can.  Most of the people I know are happy to peacefully protest, as they traveled to Washington to show a unified force against the IRS.  But I prepare in other ways for events that are historically probable.  I do not count on government to submit itself to the will of the American people, and I expect a fight from them.  So I am always in a state of preparation.  But what we all have in common, my Tea Party friends and some of my “other” friends who will strategically stay in the shadows until needed–is that we are not going to yield.  Submission to government is not an option.  We will never submit to United Nations authority, we will never submit to the tyranny of the IRS or any other government organization.  I personally won’t even submit to a local trustee or zoning board.   I don’t go out looking for trouble, I simply resist the imposition of my time, money, and energy by those who want something from me, and hope to force me to act in the way they desire through “thuggish” democracy—mob rule.

What else is the motive when a bunch of union inspired thugs attempt to vandalize the property of a target, or organize a mass protest in front of a home or business?  What is the point of spying on a target so that weaknesses in their defense can be ascertained?  What is the point of using the rule of law through the tax code or some other government inspired imposition to arrest a target and throw them in jail just because they have charisma and a following?  The intent is to “win” at their intended strategic objectives, through force.  The IRS did these types of things to the Liberty Township Tea Party because they wanted to send a strong message to a Tea Party group in John Boehner’s back yard.  They wanted to tie up the efforts of the Tea Party into not protesting big government and national debt, but to put them on the defensive with red tape and bureaucracy.  It was harassment with the intention of “changing” the behavior of the Tea Party groups.  By targeting Justin Binik-Thomas the IRS wanted to send a message to the other Tea Party groups that leaders in such groups would be targeted—so to discourage leaders from naming themselves for fear of an audit.

I am happy to see the victims of this IRS harassment enjoying their moment in the sun.  They deserve to look down from the gallery upon those who intended to bring harm to their lives—and the IRS did intend to use their authority to change Tea Party behavior.  Justin deserves that satisfaction as does Rachael and the representatives of the Liberty Township Tea Party who were there for the testimony.  It is nice to see justice being handed out where it is deserved.  I’d rather get everything out in the open so that the pretense of politeness can be dropped and everyone can start dealing with reality.

As these scandals break, and justice comes to the aggressors of the IRS and the government that supports such a tyranny, what I believe will happen may be delayed, where the federal government out of frustration just turns on the American people with out-right force.  Such peaceful resolutions are the intentions of the Tea Party and I’m happy to see them getting some form of justice from the efforts and worry they have expelled.  But such victories are paper in nature and easily forgotten.  They are not the kind of conflict resolution that I am thinking of.  It would seem that for that, I’ll have to wait a bit longer as the government recalibrates for their next psychological assault.  But what we all share no matter what the method is that submission is not an option.  Statist government is not what we are willing to support, and there isn’t any amount of forced imposition that can change that basic premise.

Rich Hoffman

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Americans Love Socialism: Why the world regresses under collective causes

I can understand why the un-ambitious, physically frail, intellectually insufficient, culturally lacking and otherwise fearful human beings would be attracted to socialism.  Competition is a frightening ideal to those who lack the confidence to advance themselves to a level of performance that is needed to overcome rivals.  Such attitudes are what drive capitalism and bring freedom to the lives of everyone in subtle ways, yet the idea that there are winners and losers in life must be accepted.  For the characters who wish to be handed victory trophies in life for simply existing—because they fear competition, socialism gives them the ability to feel they are equal to those who are clearly better at some skills and set the bar high for all others to meet.  Socialism is more attractive to the weak and feeble masses because it keeps them from having to compete for merit.  Socialism will always be appealing to those types of people.

But ironically socialism is not good for the collective society because it removes the merits gained through competition.  When competition is missing from any endeavor, performance drops dramatically in every activity attempted under any effort.  While socialism protects the individual from collective pressure exerted upon those who fall short in life it destroys the individual merits that a society enjoys because of competition driven by the best and brightest succeeding.

Americans for many generations, particularly since the 1930s have been inundated with socialism imported from the deficient European political theater, and it has harmed the American way of life dramatically.  But since socialism was introduced so long ago, many modern Americans do not know life without it.  They have socialism in their retirement packages, their collective bargaining agreements, in every aspect of their governments, in their taxation, in their medicine, in virtually every aspect of their lives because a democracy is ruled by the masses and the masses find socialism more appealing than capitalism—that is until they find their freedoms evaporating as a result.

When a football team starts losing because the best quarterback is on the bench because the head coach does not like the individual, or believes that other team quarterbacks deserve a chance but are clearly lacking in ability relative to the better player, the whole team loses and they will begin to embrace methods of capitalism to put the best players on the field so they can win.  But such pressure is only introduced if the other teams are actually trying to win the game by putting their best players against other team’s best players.  If all teams fail to recognize who the best players are from bad players then the game loses appeal to any audience as chaos and boredom are due to follow.  Fans in the stands that pay money to be entertained and watch the game will quickly realize that they could perform at the same hapless level, and will stop attending football games.  They’ll just organize their own games.  So a level of competence and an attempt at becoming the best is required in such endeavors.  Socialism harms this process.

Yet the same rules that make football a great game apply to science, business, education, even gardening—competition drives the level of society higher with quality being better wherever competition is present.  The most dramatic example of such competition can be seen in Orlando, Florida.  My absolute favorite McDonald’s to eat at in the entire country is the fabulous giant of a restaurant which resides just outside of Universal Studios.  It is one of the largest McDonald’s restaurants in the world and is made that way out of a need created by competition.  Universal Studios in Florida has two amusement parks just down the road and both are absolutely fantastic.  But they became fantastic because they are in competition with the four Disney parks just down the highway at the next exit and all the wonderful entertainment options that connect the two multi-park complexes with International Blvd.  And in between these two massive amusement destinations is the Sea World complex which has done so much good for marine wildlife research due to their excessive revenue generating capacity.  It is competition and capitalism that make all the fabulous activity in Central Florida work so well.  Without competition, Universal Studios could afford to cut corners and present the bare minimum investment needed to bring visitors through their admission gates.  But they can’t, because Disney drove the market higher always pushing the other parks to become better, or go out of business.  The result to all this dynamic is that an average fast food restaurant like McDonald’s which everyone takes for granted in their home town communities is driven to become better and more spectacular.  Whenever I’m in Central Florida, I make a point to visit this McDonald’s so I can relish capitalism displayed in such a fantastic fury.  There is no place on earth like Central Florida because capitalism has defined it and made it what it is.

Elsewhere, where socialism injects itself, such as in public education, any unionized effort, or any government position competition is missing.  This is why such efforts struggle perpetually to maintain any level of quality—because they are essentially combating nature itself attempting to fight off the effects that destroyed the U.S.S.R and every communist country in the entire world that functions with a socialist foundation.  Every village in Africa where starving residents struggle to live from day-to-day is due to the regulatory limits set upon them by their village authority.  Those limits may only be religious, political, emotional, or any other variation, but they do not involved competition.  Village chiefs do now as they always have, attempted to drive their collective society’s desire for competition into their military so that proof of valor and manhood merit is designated to bravery on the battlefield instead of creativity in manners of business.  This is the result of socialism and has been going on since before such a term had a definition.

Socialism is the easy way for the masses to avoid not feeling the pressure of competition.  Socialism as we see it today in medicine, in education, and in all government would be equivalent to Universal Studios being allowed to exist without having to compete with Disney World.  Another tendency of socialism is to use the power of pull to eliminate competition such as the theoretical circumstance of Universal Studios using politics to apply too many regulations selectively enforced on Disney World to attack the fact that they have a broader revenue base and force Universal Studios to perform at a higher level than they might otherwise do if they didn’t have to compete with Disney.  Using politics to sap all the wealth of Disney away into nothing, Universal through socialism could eliminate their competition through regulation.  This would mean McDonald’s would only have to build a normal free-standing store since Universal Studios would be the only park around, meaning McDonald’s wouldn’t have to compete with the restaurants that are in business down by Disney World in the absence of such competition, Universal could afford to do the bare minimum of everything driving up costs but dramatically lowering quality.

This is the situation with Social Security, Obama Care, the Post Office, public schools and virtually everything that socialism touches through government.  Socialism allows the average to sell their services as “superior” because they have eliminated competition.  This is the spirit behind every collective bargaining contract—they are socialist attempts at fairness—but the fairness comes at a cost to quality, and dynamics.

So when it is said that people want to see better things out of government, they have to reject the socialism that they are currently addicted to as a safety net to their own incompetence.  It is easy to declare that the entire world should be fair, but the cost of that fairness is terrible, as it pushes society into a black hole where nothing of any good can ever escape.  The grand myth by socialism lovers is that if they collectively believe in something through the power of democracy that they can deny the laws of nature, but they can’t.  Their beliefs are never realized, and their commitments to socialism destroy the world for everyone instead of just the targeted well-to-dos which they rally against.  It is those who are best whether it be richer, stronger, faster, or even more attractive which set the standard for all others to reach up to.  Without such goal posts, society just flaps in the wind and recedes backwards.  The masses may never achieve the level of greatness that comes from the best.  Universal Studios may never be as great as Disney World and McDonald’s may never be a good as The T-Rex Café but it is the attempt through competition which raises the performance of all to achieve heights they otherwise would never accomplish.  Before society can every become better at anything it must reject socialism and embrace capitalism—because until they do, there is no reason for the average and mediocre to attempt to be more than they currently are—to strive for greatness, and goodness in a spirit only competition can provide.

Rich Hoffman

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Lakota Sings and Dances for Spina Bifida: Behind the mask of charity is the demon of public relations

One of the big problems the current White House is going through with all their scandals is due to a commitment to maintaining a positive public image instead of dealing with difficult problems.  The White House is in trouble because they showed more concern about their public image than in doing what was right.  Since The White House trouble is all the rage in the news at the same time the Lakota school system released their lip-dub video in dedication to Spina Bifida awareness comparisons were inevitable. While watching the video I realized that Lakota was guilty of the same sins as their progressive older siblings in the federal government.  I had been prepared to say good things about the video where the efforts of the entire school had been pulled together with thousands of kids involved, but as I watched the obvious attempt to cater to Ellen DeGeneres at the 8:30 mark in the video the line was crossed.

http://westchesterbuzz.com/2013/05/14/lakota-east-lip-dub-video-could-be-about-to-go-viral/

I am sure that many of the people involved in making the video believe superficially that they were working on this project in the hopes of raising money for Spina Bifida, which is a terrible ailment.  The future treatment of Spina Bifida is certainly in the field of regenerative medicine and it takes money to generate that research.  No human being should have to deal with the terrible conditions of Spina Bifida.  However, as I’ve stated about many charity groups, often the intention is not what’s sold to the public, in much the same way that The White House has used victims of tragedy as a way to enact compassion to disguise their real intentions of increasing positive public relations.  Lakota seems to be guilty of the same thing with their new video.

What I see when watching this video is a very committed attempt to shut down the entire school system, teaching the kids nothing during the filming of the video except to act in a music video.  The amount of work was extensive and would have required hundreds of labor hours to decorate all those halls, coordinate the student efforts, and ultimately put on a production that is so large that Lakota could implement their stated objective of getting their effort noticed by Ellen DeGeneres.  They even rented a helicopter for the crane shots!  Based on what I know about the personalities behind the effort it appears to me that Lakota is using the tragic conditions of Spina Bifida as a shield gaining national exposure and the money that comes with such public relations.  The money Lakota needs is to pay for heavy ended labor contracts that are about to launch the administration into a budget deficit.  I wish that it wasn’t the case, but after carefully looking at the posters on the wall and the behavior of the coordination, the effort is more about public relations and appeasing Ellen DeGeneres than actually helping Spina Bifida victims.

These kinds of public relations tricks have been executed against communities for decades.  The White House uses these tactics overtly because nobody would dare call them what they actually are, because the villainy is hidden behind goodness.  In the case of Spina Bifida the little girl featured in the video needs help, and she needs money for research into her ailment.  But if people really wanted to help, the left-leaning video organizers would contribute considerable portions of their pay-checks—especially the nearly 1000 employees at Lakota who make more than $60K per year to help Spina Bifida.  Some of the people involved in that video have quarter million dollar contracts.  A personal check for $1000 to $5000 goes a long way, and those school employees can afford it. But the intention of the video however was to convince “other” people to contribute “their” money while the school gets a pat on the head by a national celebrity.  The school can then use that endorsement during their next levy increase campaign.  I would say the same statements to those organizers that I have said to the local socialites who stick their noses in local charity efforts—just write a six figure personal check instead of buying another Florida condo, then you will have done something good for Spina Bifida and the little girl in the video.  But putting up decorations all over the Lakota schools using staff members and shutting down the entire education process to film a video for a public relations effort with the intention of attracting a day-time talk show host’s airtime is public relations, not Spina Bifida awareness.

When President Obama brought in the families of the Sandy Hook shootings to Washington and gave a speech with them in the background, the President was guilty of using the tragedy of that catastrophic school shooting to advance his anti-gun policies.  The situation was exacerbated when those families were encouraged to sit in the Senate balcony to apply pressure on the Senators as they voted on a proposed gun bill pushed by the Obama administration.  The same type of subtle manipulation is being done by the government school of Lakota.  The attempt at consensus by Lakota to use victims of Spina Bifida as an excuse to appeal to a national audience is using the mechanism of charity as a malicious and manipulative endeavor.  Since altruism is generally a hand-off type of social judgment, assessment of charity value is never analyzed.  It is never judged whether or not a charity event is successful or not, because only the intention is considered.  This allows giant government schools like Lakota to use victims of Spina Bifida to actually gain public relations favor ahead of tax increase requests without being accused of using thousands of Lakota students and employees to illegally support school levy endeavors by hiding the intention behind a detrimental illness.

This is the danger of a government school being stuck into the center of a community and forcing property owners to contribute their money to such institutions under force.  The progressive philosophy shown in the video, especially at the 8:30 mark is one that I do not support, yet I must support it because I own property near the school.  And I also don’t agree with supporting an institution that exploits those who are less fortunate with the disguised need to further raise taxes.  Public schools need to behave under competitive influence so that tax payers are given a choice of what kind of ideas they support, or don’t support, instead of being forced to provide thousands of private dollars in taxes to a progressive organization that thinks singing, dancing, and getting on Ellen’s television show is more important than the fundamentals of education, and living within a community established budget.

It may be considered by many to be “mean spirited” to point out such obvious schemes.  But if someone really wants to help Spina Bifida, they need to put their money where their mouth is and help those who need it without seeking celebrity on television.  In the case of this video, it is just a grim reminder that public education institutions see themselves as molds for a community, and they are driven by government parameters, so it is troubling to see such large conglomerations of collective effort believing that they are doing good, when the act is only an illusion.  These are not the kind of messages that children should grow up believing.  Even though the participants at the 8:30 mark in the video behave in such a flimsy way as part of their social act, the act itself is but one more reminder that the product produced in public schools are one of the many factors that are eroding away the ethical foundation of our present society with beliefs that are caused not for concern over Spina Bifida, but to become celebrities on Ellen with a production so big, and expensive, that nobody would dare question it.

For the clear-cut truth on this matter ask yourself how many of the kids at Lakota watch Ellen DeGeneres?  That’s what I thought.  The effort was created by the administration and the public relation influence that is behind all their actions–the kids just did what they were told.  If you peel back the situation just a bit more, the intent behind the Spina Bifida campaign is clear.  However, if you’d like to give money to help with Spina Bifida CLICK HERE.  But keep your eyes open for the levy addicts.  When I last checked the money this video raised had not broken $10K.  What is a $1000 dollar personal check from a teacher who makes $60K a year?  It means they make $59K per year instead of $60K.  Just think of how much money 2000 employees at Lakota could raise if they all gave such an amount.  $200,000 would go a long way to helping children with Spina Bifida.  So why is the donation amount so low? 

Isn’t it all about the kids?

Rich Hoffman

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