Category: Taxes

Why Politicians Just Can’t Leave Us Alone: What the New York Mayor, Ohio Governor, and King Saul all have in common

One of the reasons that secular progressives have such a desire to remove religion from mankind’s mind and replace it with a belief in government is that they wish for the mistakes of the past to re-emerge among Earth’s societies in perpetuity.  As politicians they want to be like King David and kill Goliath with a rock, only to steal the wife of his most honored advisors and believe that he can spit in the face of God while doing so.  They wish to believe that they are like Samson, that they can fall in love with Philistine women and engage in reckless relationships so long as they don’t cut their hair and still have the strength to tear down the temple upon their enemies at will.  Yet once in office they find that they are like the Biblical King Saul in that they don’t have the courage to be the whole package and seek instead to destroy their rivals who are closest to their heels in competition in order to maintain power for their family lineage.  The stories of religion no matter what the faith are littered with failed men and women who sought to have dominion over others, and faltered to the doom of those serving under their leadership.  Kingship is the great fantasy of almost every human being—to be walking Gods on Earth and to stand between mankind and the afterlife.  Progressives seek to eliminate religion for the same reasons that Kings of old did, so that the people who they believe they lead will seek the King as the highest form of worship, not a mysterious God from some other existence.  If the lessons of the past are erased, people are more prone to forgive the faults of those who currently want to be king and allow their rule to continue without analysis.

The biggest problem with Medicaid expansion, Obamacare, Social Security, and all the other big government entitlements is that like the kings and queens from the stories of religion the authors of the entitlements have kingship in the back of their minds when they sell the programs to the public for social benefit.  This has never been so clear in the modern sense as what Mayor Bloomberg has attempted to do in the city of New York with his crusade against soft drinks.  Bloomberg as a radical progressive wants to ban soft drinks within the city under the mantra that the health impact will cost the state millions in Medicare payments.   The Mayor feels he has a valid point because it is true that soft drinks lead to diabetes and other diseases, and as the state of New York does have a financial stake in the health of its people due to entitlement programs that politicians work to keep funded, healthier New Yorkers are in the interest of everyone.  Mayor Bloomberg wants to pat himself on the back at night like King Saul did many times in his audacious love of glory.  Nobody wants to contemplate that New York should not have a stake in the lives of all New Yorkers though entitlement programs and the real secret behind the motivations of people like Bloomberg is that he wants to spread such programs to more people so that he can have more power in his city and state.  The real desire is not to help people, it is to gain control over them.

When the Prophet Samuel struggled with the idea of anointing a King for Israel it was because of the tendency kings had in committing evil once they became drunk with power.  Saul was no different.  And the favorite servant of God, King David the harp player for Saul who waited in patience for many years to gain the crown also became seduced with that power when he sent the husband of the woman he most desired to his death under David’s command to hide the King’s adultery as she was carrying his child.  Bloomberg who sees himself as King of New York has the same faults.  He uses the mask of safety and concern for New Yorkers to hide his desire for power, and social redemption.  He wants to believe that he is righteous, and that his people will thank him someday for his concern for their lives.  For the same reasons that Saul sought to kill David, politicians like Bloomberg seek to destroy capitalism because it threatens their progressive encroachment on the lives of those they believe they rule over.  Soft drinks are symbols of capitalism and the freedom to live unhealthy lives away from the kind of teachings that “good Kings” like Mayor Bloomberg or “Queens” like Michelle Obama wish to impose on their “subjects.”  It is through entitlements that the progressive politician seeks to gain power over individual New Yorkers.  Michelle Obama is already salivating that Obamacare will have the same ability on a national level—to tamper with the lives of all Americans—for their own good, as defined by the corrupt, power-hungry ruler.

Ohio’s John Kasich is probably one of the most religious governors currently in The United States, so he knows all these bible stories.  Yet even so, he could not stop himself within two years of gaining the governor’s seat to ignore the Tea Party’s Health Care Freedom Amendment and expand Medicaid which would bring in dollars from Obamacare into Ohio and help him balance his budget under the flag of helping the poor, which he is now very concerned with since he wants four more years of Governorship in the 2014 election.  You would think that Kasich would have learned in Sunday School the corruption of King Saul when he sent his troops out to kill David because his subjects loved the valiant warrior—and former harp player.  Yet, Kasich is doing exactly what Saul did, he seeks to align himself with the corrupt and powerful so he can gain access to Obamacare money, and at the same time buy the votes of women and the working poor in Ohio so he can run for President in 2016.  Saul wanted the crown to pass on to his son when he died, so he feared that David would destroy his family line.  Kasich wishes to gain the Presidency for himself using entitlements to buy votes—and therefore gain control of all Ohioans by forcing them into Obamacare and all the rules, and costs that come with it.

Even the best politicians behave like King David, and his son Solomon.  They all have well intended ideas, and believe they are doing social good through their rule.  They all fantasize that they are Gods on Earth whether they admit it or not and are acting on behalf of the greater good.  So it quickly becomes clear why secular progressives want to destroy all signs of religion from people’s minds.  They wish to conceal the lessons learned from Bible studies and religious metaphors the world over so that the kings and queens of politics can have their chance like gamblers at a slot machine to hit the jackpot and become Gods on Earth for the first time in history.  If there is any truth to the world domination theories that come out of the Bilderberg meetings and other elitist encroachments on personal liberty it is this “God-rule” desire that is at work, the right and will of some to rule over others for a kingdom in the making with high-minded aims at eternal salvation.  It’s been done before in history and will be attempted again and again so long as mankind is on Earth or anyplace else.

All collective based policies have these root causes draped behind well-intended consequences.  All government expansion leads to people like Mayor Bloomberg wishing to control the population through gun legislation forcing people to “get along,” or soft drink bans forcing them to “stay healthy.”  People who desire to dish out “social justice” by the kings of politics think they are doing God’s work when they expand government for the good of all as they define “good.”  But what they fail 100% of the time to do is prevent the faults of their limited thinking from corrupting their intentions with fallacies plagued with deficiency.  Mayor Bloomberg may be rich, but that doesn’t’ make him “good.”  He seeks to add “goodness” to his résumé which he will present at death’s door upon admittance by forcing New Yorkers to do “good” under his rule. In this way Bloomberg like the many kings from the Bible wish to believe that they are doing God’s work.  But in reality they are only tyrants, and corrupted whores who lack understanding that it is freedom which is the highest moral premise and is the guiding light behind all spirituality.  Knowing some of these people up close and personal over the years they all come to realize that they may have entered politics with the ambition of King Solomon but they leave it under the pretense of the whore in Jericho who helped reveal the temperament of the city to the attacking Israelites.  At the end of their life politicians like Bloomberg and Kasich will simply hang a little ribbon on their doorways and hope that the afterlife is kind to them in forcing the people they ruled to cut down on their soft drinks or help the poor through wealth redistribution through Medicaid, which hopefully will pass them into the gates of heaven.  But they will be horrified to learn that they should have listened to the Founding Fathers in America all along—which is why Thomas Jefferson created his own Bible of only passages from Jesus Christ—because the Bible lessons intend to teach that power corrupts and that the truly strong walk away, and do not fall in love with their political offices.  What is truly good is when people act on their own volition and do good not because they want a more powerful office, or wish for dancing-girls to perform at their feet—but because they are truly good, and spiritually correct in embracing the freedom to live and think by learning from the lessons of history for an improved tomorrow without corrupt leaders and would-be social slavers.  The secular progressive wishes to not only hide these messages from the people they wish to rule, but from their own eyes, because to know and understand history is to have the inconvenient burden of correcting the behavior.    For Mayor Bloomberg it is far easier to just ban soft drinks.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Why Government Isn’t Needed: The unspoken honor of the American Biker

DSC04543This little story is for the politically left leaning supporter who believes that government brings fairness to the world by taking from those who have and giving to those who don’t, and that security is provided under an umbrella of policing authority.  Every single day of my life I am engaged in a science experiment that has technical and behavior science ramifications which involves the motorcycle seen in the picture above.  I seldom ever part from that motorcycle as it goes virtually everywhere I do every single day of a calendar year.  I ride that motorcycle in the worst rainstorms, heaviest winds and even in the snow and ice.  One time this past year of 2013 it snowed so badly while I was out and about that I couldn’t even turn my front wheel to change direction from one road to the next.  I was regulated to only traveling in a straight line and then could not stop because the roads were so slick.  Needless to say I did not crash.  Part of my experiment is to see how much the human body can take in endurance while still performing at a high level.  The nature of riding motorcycles means that there is no room for mistakes, so they cannot be made.  By riding my motorcycle all year I get to break all kinds of perceived rules that society believes they must function under, and it gives me fresh perspectives that are useful elsewhere.

Most days riding that motorcycle is uneventful.  But over the course of 365 days a year there are always 5 to 6 days where something potentially devastating happens.  One such thing that wasn’t dangerous so much as it was technical was that I had a battery that was failing.  After so many starts through a hard winter it wasn’t holding a charge, and when temperatures dropped to under 30 degrees, I was having a hard time getting it started.  Well, one day toward the end of February I had barely managed to get the bike started at its destination for the return trip home and my fuel was extremely low.  I was worried that if I got gas on the way home, that I wouldn’t get the bike started again because it didn’t have enough amps to crank the engine over.  So I urged the bike to get as close to my home as possible.  With luck I’d get to the gas station that was about a quarter-mile from my home—but I had serious doubts.

The big bike did run out of gas about a half mile from that sought after fueling station so I put it in neutral to coast the rest of the distance.   My bike stopped rolling at the entrance to the gas station and I was able to push with my feet the motorcycle into the parking lot and up to the pump without too much extra trouble.  I filled up my tank, but as I suspected the bike wouldn’t crank over more than a couple of times, not enough to start in the cold weather.   The battery had not charged enough on the way home because I kept my RPMs down to save the gas.  So I was a quarter-mile away from home but couldn’t start my bike.  I didn’t want to call my wife because she was watching our grandchild for one of my daughters and I didn’t wish to bother her.   So I started pushing the motorcycle that weighs about 800 pounds up the busy roadway toward my home.

There is a slight hill that I had to go up and along the way twice two motorists stopped to help me.   Both men were summertime bikers and wanted to help a fellow motorcyclist.  They offered me a ride or gas without any pretension of inconvenience.  I asked them if they had jumper cables as my bike has a computer and cannot be kick started, or push-started in the usual way.  It has to be started off the battery.  Neither man had jumper cables with them so they wouldn’t be able to help.  The second guy who stopped was a die-hard Harley Rider with a long beard that hung down over his stomach.  He had a very nice warm truck that I could feel the heat coming out of as he spoke to me.  It was very tempting to get into his passenger’s seat and have him take me home.  Yet I didn’t want to leave my bike on the side of a busy road, even though my home was very nearby.  Instead I waved the help along and thanked them for their concern.  I decided to push my big bike the rest of the way home, which is what I proceeded to do in small intervals up the hill.  It took me an additional 45 minutes, but eventually I was in my driveway and safe in my garage where I could make the necessary repairs and get the bike ready for the next day’s travel.

The guys who stopped to help me were not told by government to assist.  They did it out of mutual respect.  Being bikers themselves, they wanted to help a fellow motorcyclist.  They didn’t know me from anybody else, they only saw that I was pushing my motorcycle up a hill and they wanted to help—because as both men said—“I’ve been there a time or two myself.”  But I did not accept their help because I did not want to abandon my motorcycle in favor of comfort.  So I struggled to push the bike up the hill in the freezing cold because if I hadn’t I would have wished later that I had toughed it out.  Both bikers looked at me a bit odd when I reported to them that I’d push the bike the rest of the way home, but neither found the information alien.

It never even occurred to me to call the police, or Triple AAA or any organization for help with my predicament.  I ride the motorcycle every day to solve problems like that from time to time.  People under their own volition wished to help me, and I didn’t need government to get home.  I picked as I always do, the most “self-reliant” option there was, and because I challenged the bike to get close to my house before running out of gas I gave myself the option of pushing it home if all systems failed—which they did.

In the absence of government Americans naturally want to help each other.  Charity comes from respect and occurs because people want to do good things.  The bikers who wanted to help me didn’t do it out of fear of being struck down by God if they drove on by, and they didn’t do it because they were paid by the tax payer to help stranded motorists.  They did it because they too were bikers and they respected another biker to the level that they wanted to help if they could out of their own free-will, no government involvement at all.  The same happens wherever government is not–even to this day.  The good is easy to see in people where government has not stepped in to be the un-necessary mediator of disputes—which I get to see a few times a year because of my tendency to ride motorcycles beyond the safety net of normal society.  All government systems could fail, as they do during emergencies, and people help each other without being told to out of sheer respect for their fellow human beings.  Such behavior is not driven from fearful submission to authority, or altruistic compassion, but out of a sincere desire to help a fellow-man in their plight to do their daily activities.  In the case of the bikers they are acting on self-interest ultimately.  They hope that I or somebody else will do the same if they get into trouble, so they offer up the help so the network is nonverbally maintained.

In life if all government was shut down, and all tax payer funded activities were removed, my journey home that day would have been the same.  The gas station would have still had gas when I needed it because it’s to their financial incentive to have what I need when I need it.  And those two guys would have still stopped.  But because of my tendency toward self-reliance I didn’t need their help, although it was appreciated.  As for the roads and my use of them, I paid an enormous amount of state tax at the pump when I bought my gas which more than paid for my use of the pavement that day.  I got my bike home and fixed without the intrusion of any government representative even in the form of a police officer.  That is a trend that will continue.  It is because of such realizations that I have less and less respect for those who vote in large government programs to provide a “safety net” for their lives.  I avoid such safety like a man on fire seeks water.  I stay as far away from them as possible, which is the primary reason I ride a motorcycle every single day of the year no matter what the weather.  It is good to know these kinds of things, and most of the time they can only be seen by doing what nobody else is willing to do.  It rests in my mind the argument that government could be greatly reduced and America would actually improve instead of decline, because the will to do good is still in people like the two guys who stopped to help me in a quarter-mile stretch of road.  Such good people are still out there, but we just don’t see them because government stands in the way of us discovering such facts about each other.  Government wishes to maintain the myth that they are needed, when in fact they are simply in the way.

And by the way, if the goof balls in The United Nations ever think they can get control of the people shown in the videos above, they are on “crack.”  Most of those people are just now becoming aware of the problems I write about here everyday.  And when they realize they have been scammed……………….they are going to be VERY, pissed off.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Production Pictures From Atlas Shrugged Part III: Philosophy to save America

I heard from Harmon Kaslow just prior to the meeting below where David Kelly from the Atlas Society was meeting with the producers of the Atlas Shrugged films to pound out script details established by Duncan Scott.   Harmon told me he had some cool ideas for the Galt’s Garrison which is a group who have rallied behind the Atlas films to bring their contents to the public at large.  Atlas Shrugged is not for everyone, but for those who understand it, the job of the Galt’s Garrison is to get the word out to a hungry public.  It is called a “garrison” because it is literally like fighting a war.  The progressive opposition is well entrenched against the message of Atlas Shrugged so the fight in front of the Garrison is a steep one.  But it’s a fight worth doing never-the-less.   The pictures below are from the Galt’s Garrison taken from this milestone meeting to advance the production of the third, highly anticipated film.

From left to right Pic 1: David Kelley, Joan Carter, Scott DeSapio, Harmon Kaslow, John Aglialoro
From left to right Pic 2: Harmon Kaslow, John Aglialoro, David Kelley, Laurie Rice, Duncan ScottAtlas III script meeting

Atlas III meeting 2To follow more details about Atlas Shrugged Part III you can join me in Galt’s Gulch by CLICKING HERE.  If you’d like to help as a member of the Galt’s Garrison, let us know. 

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The Pole Dancing Reporters: Prostituting themselves to the Empire of Public Education

It is truly funny, yet pathetic at the same time to see reporters like the one in the article link below prostitute himself to the local school systems around Cincinnati.  That particular reporter is the education correspondent for the fledgling Cincinnati Enquirer and over the years has made a living building up the levy fighting antics of school reformers in various districts through his articles, then attempting to tear them down in defense of public education where he has served as a lap-dog for many years.  Few people could blame him for prostituting himself in such a way as most perform similar concessions against their personal beliefs in exchange for a paycheck.  A prostitute after all is not always a being who performs sex acts for money; they can be merely one who uses a skill or ability in a way that is considered unworthy, usually for financial gain.  Last year when that same reporter came after me directly in a hit piece he did for The Enquirer, CLICK FOR REVIEW, he thought it would be cute to use an article where he took pictures of me for a piece he did two years prior in an entirely different context, and apply them to a very salacious article he did as a favor to the Lakota School System.  His intentions were quite obvious.  He went for my jugular, and was betting that I’d never recover.

People of little personal value are always asking for more money because they seek riches to prop up their failed personal essence, which is how they become prostitutes to their careers.  When they enter into financial debates involving children they are not qualified to speak because the money they seek is not for the children but a meager attempt to bring value to their lives, whether it be in passing a school levy, building a new school, or hiring a new round of employees.  The people involved in tax increases are almost always trying to fill a personal void in their lives with other people’s money, which makes them prostitutes to the education system.  In this way, reporters behave like prostitutes because they put objective reporting on the shelf and simply offer themselves up as patsies dancing to the education industry–attempting to preserve a failed system with kind words and propaganda.  Check it out for yourself and be sure to watch the video:

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130315/NEWS0102/303150035&Ref=AR?nclick_check=1

Before my relationship with that reporter I had been warned about him from other school reformers like Mark Sennett who was spokesman for No Lakota Levy before I entered into the picture, Arnie Engle in Fairfield and former school board member, Sharon Poe in Mason, Jennifer Miller who was also a school board member, and many, many others.  They had all been screwed over by the antics of that reporter many times in the past and were concerned that I was too close.  I assured them that I had a plan and that when the reporter came to collect, I would change the game in a way that he wasn’t prepared to deal with.

I always felt sorry for reporters who work for newspapers that have taken such a noticeable progressive stance, so for a time I genuinely liked them—even though I knew they were prostituting themselves.  I thought of them similar to the way I might think of a stripper someplace working the poles in a swank gentlemen’s club trying to put herself through college off the tips she gets teasing men with lap dances.  You respect the effort since she’s trying to make money, but you know that she will never be able to live down her actions once she has a family of her own, so you feel bad for her.  Reporters writing for a paper where the school levy supporters only read the box scores to see if their child made the news are in a similar situation.  The overzealous parent often cuts out such box scores and articles so they can build up a notebook portfolio in hopes of proving to college recruiters that their athletic children are worthy of a scholarship, which ends up saving the parent many thousands of dollars.  Those same parents don’t care about education articles so they don’t read them.  The only people who actually read the newspaper are the type of people who typically voted in favor of my positions—people who are 50 and over—mature–and have kids who have grown up and moved out of the house.

Newspapers today make huge mistakes not understanding their demographic base.  When Lakota laid down the gauntlet with reporters as they did through their highly paid public relations staff—where tax money well into the six figures were allocated in attempts to overcome my levy fighting antics, reporters had to make a decision as all prostitutes do when they find themselves stuck between two customers.  They had to choose between me, who only gave them small tips, or the school who basically paid their salary—but expected favors in return.

Readers of The Enquirer wanted to see a fight—one that I was providing to the benefit of The Enquirer.  So the articles against me isolated their audience and the result has been terrible for The Enquirer.  Just last week The Enquirer was forced to cut 1/3 of their workforce—not just because of the situation with myself, but because hundreds of bad decisions added up to a failed business model.  Too many ads in the paper that nobody read, and nobody read because The Enquirer decided to do progressive articles in a conservative town, and it has cost them dearly.  They were so arrogant that they ignored the desires of their subscribers who actually read their articles and instead catered to the idiots who pass school levies and cut the paper up in search of sports stats on their children.

My levy fighting network is larger than ever, so losing contact with The Enquirer has not hurt me at all.  Instead it has freed me in many wonderful ways.  Unfortunately betrayal is usually the result when dealing with those who prostitute themselves to a cause like reporters do in public education.  But that doesn’t prevent me from feeling sorry for reporters whose small byline at the end of their articles look like a prostitute advertising themselves on Craigslist.

I watch out for the interests of families, students and residents in Butler and Warren county schools. Find me at: (This is from the linked article, and is real)

That speaks for itself; there is no shortage of people willing to use the efforts of prostitutes in any form.  That leaves one only to laugh at the attempts since the other emotions are cast against a backdrop of shame.  The sadness comes from the desire for real reporting, and a career that means something, instead of being whatever the customer wants when they want it.  That is what reporters in newspapers are for public education, and the problem is epidemic.  But that is also why newspapers are failing everywhere, and cutting their costs, because they have sided with the wrong portion of the public.  They have allowed themselves to be used and abused and dumped on the side of the road with a few bucks in their pocket and the promise of returned business.  But in the end, they have nothing but shameful deals, and scandalous practices to carry them from one moment to the next in a decline that points to the end of an era where new media will overtake the consolidated antics of reporters who are prostitutes to a system that is corrupt, and collapsing under the weight of sheer cynicism.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The Cheating Obama Voter: Three Cincinnati residents caught tipping the election

Within a short time reporting she would plead guilty to a voter fraud charge, Sister Marguerite Kloos resigned as Dean of the Division of Arts and Humanities at the College of Mount Saint Joseph. Melowese Richardson, also admitted to Channel 9 WCPO in Cincinnati that she voted twice and submitted absentee ballots for several other people as well. If convicted, the prosecutor says she faces up to 12 years in prison.  And Russell Glassop is charged with voting on behalf of his deceased wife.  Sister Marguerite Kloos, faces up to 18 months in jail if convicted. She is accused of voting on behalf of another nun who had already died. She was indicted based on information from the prosecutor. Her attorney contacted the prosecutor and said she intends to plead guilty, so a grand jury indictment wasn’t necessary.  What all these Hamilton County citizens have in common is that they all voted illegally on behalf of Barack Obama in the 2012 election and point to an alarming tendency—the militant behavior of their kind, and a complete disregard for the rules in favor of idealistic desire.

As of noon on the Friday after the 2012 election, with nearly all votes in, Obama won the popular vote, leading Mitt Romney by a count of 61,173,739 or 50.5% to 58,167,260 or 48.0%.  Approximately 3 million more people voted for Obama than Mitt Romney which might sound like a lot, but if considered how much election fraud was rumored to take place, and how difficult it was to gather indictments on the three people in just Hamilton County, Ohio seen above it is possible that there was so much election fraud in the election of 2012 that the election could have swung 4 to 5 million votes from Barack Obama to Gary Johnston or Mitt Romney.  It is unlikely even with a vigorous investigation that voter fraud would be discovered in any way with the Gary Johnston camp, or Mitt Romney supporters as the actions appear to derive from the type of activism specific to the Obama ground game—where rules and the truth are only interpretations to be glazed over by legalized maneuvers and strong-arm labor union tactics.

As media outlets praised the re-election of Barack Obama making the entire presidential race a value of civil rights agenda items, and not showing any interest in economic policy with a reckless disregard for reality, Obama supporters showed in the election of 2012 that they didn’t care how they won, so long as they won.  They didn’t care if they had to cheat, stuff ballots, destroy ballots, intimidate voters, suppress voters, or obtain votes in any manner possible to put their candidate over the top in an election.  The three voters caught in Cincinnati appear to be only the tip of a gigantic mountain that is so large that nobody is willing to step back far enough to view the entirety for fear of what they might discover.  The militant manner which voters for Barack Obama were willing to break the law and disregard reason in favor of a sitting President should be deeply alarming—and if absent from the election process, might have been an entirely different election.  But we will never know, as it is obvious from the multiple precincts in large municipalities where Mitt Romney didn’t get a single vote—which is statistically, nearly impossible, that nobody cares.

The Election of 2012 was like playing a board game like Candyland or Monopoly with another player who refuses to play by the rules of the game.  If the dice say move 4 spaces, they move 8.  If the board says to go around the board in a regulated pattern, the cheaters in such games might be inclined to leap to the spots of the board that they wish to be on, so they can collect whatever bonuses await them there.  It is impossible to play an honest game of anything with such players, and this is what dealing with the Obama administration has been like.  A fair competition against such rivals is not possible, as they have shown clearly that they have no desire to play by any rules except the ones they make up as they go.  That very same attitude was exhibited boldly by Melowese Richardson who saw no problem with voting twice and submitting absentee ballots for several other people.

I have worked in neighborhoods like the one Melowese Richardson lives in.  I have worked extensively in Avondale, Lincoln Heights, Over-the-Rhine as well as Price Hill and the area around Fort Washington Way and I would bet that a majority of the residents in those areas are just as bold in their private beliefs as Melowese and show much of the same value system.  I do not believe that Melowese was at all an isolated incident, but that her behavior was common on Election Day in every densely populated area across the entire country.  And given those factors, Obama’s victory doesn’t seem nearly so well defined, and is certainly not a mandate to do as he pleases legally.

Republicans and other liberty leaning conservatives have the difficult task of admitting to themselves that there are laws that must be adhered to in order to have an elected President.  But for the laws to be effective there must be a will to defend the law with action.  In Hamilton Country, Melowese Richardson had such a disregard for the law that she went on a Channel 9 camera and admitted to election fraud assuming that nobody in their right mind would prosecute her.  Obama in office shows the exact same arrogance.  He has been caught in many lies, and he knows that nobody will come after him legally because he will simply hide his crimes behind Civil Rights bullet points. Obama supporters know that the public at large does not have the resolve, or conviction to stand behind the law, so they continue to break the rules at every opportunity.

Republicans are playing a game with the progressive Democrats equivalent to playing Monopoly with a cheater, where the unruly player ignores the dice in the game and simply moves their game pieces on the board where they wish and collect their $200 for passing Go as often as they please.  Republicans instead of calling out the behavior are attempting to play fair and set a good example.  They are reaching out to the Obama demographics that have been deliberately built to house bloc votes of stupidity, which is a futile task for the Republicans to win elections where the opposition will cheat in any manner possible anyway.  A fair game against such people is not possible.

We get the government we deserve and right now because there are so many cowards afraid of their own shadow, and fear throwing rocks in the glass houses they all reside in, Obama supporters are expanding government at an alarming rate.  President Obama is giving away entitlements like Santa Clause to the mob that supports him and will do anything to keep him in power so the gravy train keeps stopping at their station.  Obama is a legalized looter who is stealing the wealth of America and redistributing it with a socialist ideology that believes it supersedes all the rules of all the games ever made.  The crimes continue because good people sit by and do nothing—allowing themselves to be seduced by a smiling con artist that clearly says one thing to the face of his opponents and does entirely different things behind their backs.  Such villainy is beyond the comprehension of most people, but its happening.  The Book of Revelations seems to be entirely true to our own age.  The Mark of the Beast is in our house.

If the election had been a fair one, and not had so much fraud of which the three people mentioned here were just a very small part, Obama would not be President today.  That is not to say that Mitt Romney would have been all that much better, but a Republic that is built on such flimsy philosophy cannot last, and a society of Melowese Richardson types will destroy it with their lack of understanding.  The issue is not one of color, because if it was, Melowese Richardson would have supported Presidential candidates like Herman Cain, and Alan Keys like I have, or Ohio politicians like Ken Blackwell.  The real issue is the desire of a growing number of philosophically deficient human beings to yield their honor to government entitlements in trade for perpetual security.  To have that security they will break the law, lie, cheat or steal in any fashion available to get what they think they have coming and place in the White House a legal looter who will break into the wealth of a nation and drop wheel barrels of goods at their feet for the cost of a vote…………..a practice that is highly illegal, and a direct attack on everything that America stands for.  If left unchecked, why would Republicans ever think they can ever win an election by playing fair against opponents who so openly cheat?

This is why increasingly; the pirate flag I display at the end of my daily signatures is beginning to become a grudgingly accepted reality for many.   The way to beat the other side is not with fairness, but a rigid almost pirate like morality  for the law, where a swashbuckler’s disregard for the dangers of glass top dancing is regarded as a waste of time, and aggressive action is utilized.  In a world of looters the pirates of our day are the law bidding, and the sad irony is that they must stand for the law through the new rebellion of good over the detrimental.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Save Your Child From “Common Core” in Public Education: “The Lucifer Effect” and how it works

To understand what Glenn Beck is saying in the videos below one must reflect backwards in time to the seemingly bizarre rantings of Charlotte Iserbyt who was the second in command at The Department of Education during the first term of the Reagan presidency.  I have covered her here complete with interviews before.  CLICK HERE TO WATCH THEM.  She is not crazy, in spite of what you will read about her in the following paragraphs.  When Glenn Beck talks about Common Core in public education he is discussing the design established for The Department of Education when it was created in 1979 for the intentional dumbing down of the world population for a collective cause that can best be explained in the last video shown on this article featuring The Lucifer Effect.  Iserbyt’s comments are based on inside experience and real life events and access to President Reagan himself.   I would suggest that all these videos be watched carefully.  There is a lot of information that is critical to our current time, and they need to be understood fully.  Take some time to watch them after you’ve read all the text, and be sure to pass this on to a friend.  They need to know this information too.

Common Core on the surface is supported by Bill Gates and his wife as part of their retirement philanthropy.  I believe they genuinely desire to help children and are not directly part of a sinister plot created by The Department of Education in the early 1980s.  Their involvement is indirect and is driven by “attributable charity.”  Gates as often happens is highly sought after for his money, and it is in charity events and political schmoozing where the ideas generated to shape Common Core education practices in America were given to him over dinner parties and wine glasses.  The desire to do good in the world for one of its richest men is a tempting prospect.  This is how good people are recruited to do bad things which is explained in the two-hour lecture by Dr. Philip Zimbardo, author of The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. 

Common Core unlike Adolf Hitler’s book burning rituals in the 1930s where a central dictator seeking dominion over the minds of his subjects to keep them from being intelligent enough to challenge their authority, is designed to destroy children’s minds in a slow regression.  It is not designed to advance any society.  Unlike the dictators of the past, the villain is not a central figure like Barack Obama, or Fidel Castro, but the idea of collectivism itself which manifests in a collective evil that his hard to comprehend.  Common Core is designed to do precisely over a long period of time what the Soviet Union tried to do in the Great Purge of the 1920s.  Common Core seeks to reduce individual ambition, intelligence, and self-reliance into collective identification.  It is because of Common Core and the products of education so far that have caused me to no longer support public schools and encourage people with small children to home school as the only safe option.  However, even homeschooling won’t protect your family from Common Core as it is set to become a state requirement for the entire United States.  Homeschooled children will at least have the opportunity to learn traditional education methods alongside Common Core if the worst case scenario occurs—where all 50 states are forced into the federal program through The Department of Education.  Now, before I get into greater detail about Common Core and The Lucifer Effect, more needs to be known about Charlotte Iserbyt which can be seen as follows from Wikipedia.  The reference notes are active and can be traced back to their sources for ease of research.  I am aware that much of this will sound far-fetched, but it is quite real, and can only be seen clearly by pulling far away from the mountain so that vision can take in the collective whole.

Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt is an American freelance writer and whistleblower who served as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education during the first term of U.S. President Ronald Reagan, and staff employee of the US State Department (South Africa, Belgium, South Korea).[1][2][3] She was born in 1930[4] and attended Dana Hall preparatory school and Katharine Gibbs College in New York City, where she studied business.[4] Iserbyt’s father and grandfather were Yale University graduates and members of the Skull and Bones secret society.

She is known for writing the book The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America. The book claims that changes gradually brought into the American public education system attempt to eliminate the influences of a child’s parents (religion, morals, national patriotism), and mold the child into a member of the proletariat in preparation for a socialist-collectivist world of the future.[3] She alleges that these changes originated from plans formulated primarily by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Education and Rockefeller General Education Board, and details what she says are the psychological methods used to implement and effect the changes.[3]  It should be known at this time that Andrew Carnegie and John Rockefeller were both competitors in business against each other and committed many sins which they sought to reconcile through philanthropy, especially in Carnegie’s case.  They shared with the modern-day Bill Gates the classic struggle of proving to the proletariat of the world defined by Karl Marx in such a way, that they are not greedy bourgeoisie—which provokes them into “situational forces” that inspire their “attributable charity.”  Again, refer to The Lucifer Effect at the end of this article for much greater detail.  Reading these claims made by her keep an open mind and take note of the world around us right now.  A few years ago, she may have seemed crazy, but more and more, she appears to be 100% correct in everything she has said.

In an interview[2] concerning secret societies and the elite agenda she disclosed that in the early 1980s she had a chance to meet with Norman Dodd who had been the chief investigator for the United States House Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations commonly known as the B. Carroll Reece Committee. In the video interview she claims that Dodd discussed a ‘network’ of individuals including Carnegie who planned to bring about world peace by means of rapid changes in society. These changes would be brought about by involving the populace in various wars and military conflicts. She further claimed that Dodd had discussions with Rowan Gaither, the president of the Ford Foundation in which he revealed that directives from the President of the United States compelled foundations related to the Ford Foundation to direct their funding into bringing about the merger of the USA with the Soviet Union.[5][unreliable source?][6][unreliable source?][7][unreliable source?]

Filmed interviews of Iserbyt have her detail her story that lead her from school board trustee/administrator to becoming a Ronald Reagan administration staff in the U.S. Department of Education, and discovering further to her complete disbelief how these policies of a socialist-collectivist nature originated all the way to President Reagan, Vice President George H. W. Bush, and their policy advisers.

Up until 1960 Reagan, a leading member of United World Federalists (whose purpose was to merge America into a world government), was a charter member of Americans for Democratic Action. Reagan was also a member of the National Advisory Council of the American Veterans Committee[9] that was supposedly “under communist influence.”

Not listening to warnings provided to her in a book about Ronald Reagan (as California Governor, written by United Republicans of California (UROC)) given to her by a friend, Iserbyt dismissed the seemingly outrageous claims made in the book a short time prior to her accepting and leaving for the government position. In 1982 Reagan relieved her of her duties after leaking an important technology grant for computerized learning—Project BEST: “Better Education Skills through Technology”[10] brought about by the scholarly writings and a large study by an education specialist named Dr. John I. Goodlad at the Center for Educational Renewal at the University of Washington originally from British Columbia, Canada.[11] One book Iserbyt was critical of was “Schooling for a Global Age” edited by Charlotte C. Anderson, James M. Becker, Institute for Development of Educational Activities, New York 1979, that Iserbyt cited as having less to do with fostering learning and mainly to do with psychological manipulation of students possibly against the teaching of the child’s parents, for example, in arts classes.[12]

Through her father Charlotte Iserbyt was able to gain possession of the complete listings of the members, living and dead, of the Yale University Skull and Bones secret society, fashioned into a three-volume set: living members, deceased members, and complete listing of both[citation needed]. She cooperated in the writing of Dr. Antony C. Sutton’s book America’s Secret Establishment – The Order of Skull & Bones by providing the list of members obtained from her father.[14]

Fifteen Yale juniors are invited to join the Skulls each year in a process called “tapping.” A couple of thousand Yale graduates have been Skulls—WASP males from wealthy Northeastern families: Bush, Bundy, Cheney, Dodge, Ford, Goodyear, Harriman, Heinz, Kellogg, Phelps, Pillsbury, Rockefeller, Taft, Vanderbilt, Weyerhaeuser and Whitney were among its membership.

Iserbyt believes that the Bavarian Illuminati hid inside the Freemasons, and that the Skull and Bones Secret Society is derived from these Illuminati-degree Freemasons from Bavaria whose goals were documented in an original edition 1798 book Proofs of Conspiracy by John Robison in Iserbyt’s possession that she claimed was originally owned by the first president of the United States of America, Freemason, George Washington. The ideas of a ruling elite date back prior to Plato’s writings about the hierarchical plutocracy. Among the goals of the Order of the Illuminati were to destroy religions, and governments from within, merge the destroyed countries, and to bring about a one world government, a new world order, in their secret control.[15][16]

In the secret societies interview she states that virtually all of the Carnegie Foundation agreements with the Russian education system were still in place, as well as the U.S. Department of Education programs that Iserbyt claims brought about the downfall of American prosperity since the turn of the century, especially post World War II.[citation needed]

The reason Charlotte was able to walk away from her job and blow the whistle on this plot is because she had the rare ability to resist The Lucifer Effect.  Few people have the ability to resist The Lucifer Effect even those like Bill Gates who believe that their actions are for the greater good.  The way that people like Bill Gates get pulled into such schemes is through “attributable charity.”  It is in the belief that through peer “behavior compliance” in the work of philanthropy that good work can be done by investing many millions of dollars into programs that no tax payer would fund through elected offices.  The evil at work is not a single person, but the adherence to a system of belief that passes from one generation to another through “situational forces.”  All those terms will be explained in greater detail in the video lecture below by Dr. Zimbardo.

Without a doubt, for the casual reader running across this information for the first or even second time, these facts are inconvenient.  They force the mind to accept things that it has long regulated as conspiracy crack-pot theories.  However, the villain is in the collectivism which is shared across all spheres of influence mentioned in this article—no matter if it is the Bavarian Illuminati, the National Advisory Council of the American Veterans Committee, or the crazy radical Bill Ayers–they all share in common the seduction of their individual essences to The Lucifer Effect.  The Common Core that all public schools are implementing so that they can obtain federal money for their shrinking budgets is driven by “behavior compliance,” provoked by labor unions into focusing “situational forces” to the door step of Bill Gates so he’ll throw money at Common Core and advance the program through “attributable charity” by-passing the politics of the American republic to fulfill strategic goals designed in 1979 as reported by the whistleblower Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt.

The first defense a family has is to pull their child from their public school.  The second is to take away the money that funds the public education monster.  The third is to elect politicians who will support School Choice and bring Right-to-Work legislation to states so that the labor unions can be broke up and removed from educational influences.  The individual players in education are not necessarily aware of the evil they bring to children, but through The Lucifer Effect they are but small cells in the body of evil that seeks to rule the minds of mankind well into the future, toward a goal that involves less of a mind tomorrow than a child has today, and mankind one chain link closer to self-imposed slavery that could last centuries.  CLICK FOR MORE INFO.

If you love your children, you’ll home school them as soon as possible.  Public education cannot be trusted at all.

Rich Hoffman
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Atlas Shrugged Part III Coming in 2014: John Aglialoro’s tenacious commitment to freedom

No matter how bad things appear to be in modern politics, there are philosophical debates occurring that have never before been so accurately debated as they are currently, and John Aglialoro and his team of film makers working on the Atlas Shrugged films are at the heart of that push.  While traditional media views box office results as the most important measure of success, many of them are oblivious as to why John Aglialoro after two box office failures of the Atlas films in Part I and now Part II, he is in script development on Part III which is scheduled for a summer 2014 release.  In fact, his target date is the Fourth of July.

What many casual observers have failed to account for is that we are currently in an age of new media, where blogs and independent film have access to mass audiences through their computer screens.  So while Hollywood attempts to hedge their products to the known markets carefully studied by studios run by mostly progressive investments injected into the studio system and filmgoers still show a willingness to spend $10 to $15 for a movie experience in a neighborhood multiplex, film makers like John Aglialoro are making his films for the new media market.  While critics blasted the opening of Atlas Shrugged Part 2 in October of 2012 hoping to kill the film for its conservative messages, the DVD sales are sizzling in the spring of 2013 as audiences concerned with being seen in public viewing such a controversial film are more than willing to watch the movie in the privacy of their own home.

I think Aglialoro is at a similar place that George Lucas was at when he released his film THX-1138 to theaters in 1973.  Nobody knew what to do with the film studios tried to cut the hell out of it.  It took a long, long time for people to even accept THX-1138 which I believe was based closely on Ayn Rand’s novel Anthem, although I doubt he’d admit it in the light of day today—for fear of being lynched.  Aglialoro is making an independent film in the Atlas pictures with a message that will upset a major portion of the American population, and he knows it—which is the point of the film.  Art is not supposed to always be didactic stimulation of pleasurable emotions.  Sometimes, it’s a mirror that we must look at which reflects the kind of society we are.  This was the case in one of my all time favorite independent films that Francis Ford Coppola produced called Koyaanisqatsi (English pronunciation: /koʊjɑːnɪsˈkɑːtsiː/)[1] also known as Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance.  It’s a 1982 film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke.  Koyaanisqatsi is one of my favorite films; I love it so much I have the soundtrack on CD.  But, it could be said that much of the “green movement” was launched because of such films as progressives took the message to radical extremes which we see in the modern age 20 to 30 years later.  Koyaanisqatsi as a film released today would be lucky to make $1 million dollars at the box office because it is just too heavy, and obscure for the average viewer.  But, because of VHS video tape, and now DVDs, Koyaanisqatsi has been able to build up a kind of cult following over the last 30 years, and Coppola and Godfrey Reggio understood this when they produced the film. The goal was not to make money, although there does need to be a financial model that recovers the cost of making the film, the point was to make a statement about a “life out of balance.”

The filmmakers of Koyaanisqatsi interpreted that “out of balance life” with a progressive lens, but the way they recorded the impact of that balance was dramatic, and wonderful.  However, the Atlas Shrugged films are also about a “life out of balance” but the solution goes several steps further than Koyaanisqatsi in analyzing the answer, which Aglialoro is quite well aware of.  In a recent interview with Politico, Aglialoro explained why there was so much pushback against the Atlas films and why he is proceeding with the third one to an entertainment community that is shocked by his tenacity, “We’re not going to get critics coming on board,” Aglialoro said. “The academic-media complex out there doesn’t want to like the work, (Atlas films) doesn’t want to understand it, fears the lack of government in their lives, wants the presence of government taking care of us. … The MSNBC crowd doesn’t like us.”  He’s right.  Most of our current society the world over wants to believe in social theories that don’t work, and many more have built their lives around the type of balance shifting seen in Koyaanisqatsi only they are the cause of the destruction.  They are the cause of the vacated buildings that were demolished from the public housing projects so famously destroyed in slow motion during the 1982 classic.

The making of the Atlas films are not only an adaptation of the Ayn Rand classic 1957 novel, but a statement about our current society.  “The president said in his State of the Union address something to the effect of how preserving our individual freedoms means we must have collective action,” Aglialoro said. “Well, that’s contradicting the terms of the Declaration of Independence, that individual liberty is what we’re all about. So, there’s a clear opposition between that and Ayn Rand’s principles, based around life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”  When most people are guilty of committing such contradictions, it is highly likely that they will not rush out to see a film that exploits their contradictions.  However, because people are generally good, or at least want to do well, they do watch these movies on their own terms and take in the information slowly over time.

Aglialoro wanted very much to rush Atlas Shrugged Part II out prior to the election hoping that politicians would jump on the bandwagon of the messages articulated in his films.  But even long time Ayn Rand supporters like Paul Ryan pulled a Judas trying to distance himself from his support of the novel Atlas Shrugged which he has given away to staff members for years as presents.  When he joined up with Mitt Romney for a Presidential run they attempted to play it safe and move away from the perceived radicalism of supporting Ayn Rand—to their own demise. “It would have served the campaign well if he would have embraced the natural way to capitalism that Ayn Rand, and I think Romney and Ryan should have quoted [her] over and over and over again during the campaign, that it’s the producers who should be applauded and appreciated and not denigrated, that ‘rich’ is not a dirty, four-letter word. It’s a good, four-letter word.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/atlas-shrugs-forthe-third-time-88775.html#ixzz2NQhpcENo

At a FreedomWorks event prior to the release of Part II Harmon Kaslow, one of the producers and right-hand man to John Aglialoro gave me a lapel pin molded in the symbol of the Atlas Shrugged production company.  It was the same button he was wearing as he spoke to nearly 20,000 people at the Duke Energy Center in September of 2012.  The lapel pin is one that I now wear just about everywhere I go because it symbolizes not a collective connection to the filmmakers, but the understanding that we are part of an exclusive club that “understands” the answer to our modern problems in America are not only addressed in films like Koyaanisqatsi.  It is in the Atlas films that the real solutions are being explored, and the pill is hard to swallow for most people—because it requires them to think completely different about most everything in their life, and they are uncomfortable with that knowledge.  The button that I wear is the official membership pin for Galt’s Gulch where people who think along the lines that I do spend their spare time in the same spirit that it was done in the novel—which will be explored extensively in Part III which is now in production.

To go one step beyond the lapel pin that Kaslow gave me, at the premier of Atlas II buttons in the sign of the dollar were handed out to viewers because those present understood that the film Aglialoro was making had within it the answers America needs.  It is only a matter of time before the rest of the world comes to understand the lessons.  The people with the button were those closest to that realization.  It’s not to say that you must have a button or be a part of an exclusive club to understand the work of Ayn Rand.  But in wearing the lapel pin it lets others know that they are not alone, and that everyone in the world is not a complete idiot.  Objectivism is spreading as the work done by The Ayn Rand Institute and The Atlas Society are helping more and more people deal with the difficulties of understanding the philosophy of Objectivism being introduced to them in the films John Aglialoro is producing.  I personally feel that Ayn Rand’s philosophy is but a first step in a new direction that America should have always been traveling down.  Objectivism is not the end of the journey, but only the beginning.  Ayn Rand does not have all the answers, but the ones she proposes are good first steps in the right direction.  I find that the philosophy of Robert Pirsig takes Rand’s thoughts to another level with his work on the Metaphysics of Quality.   In his two books Zen and the Art of Motorcycle and Lila Pirsig without intending to, he proved Ayn Rand’s theories, and therefore Aristotle’s original arguments over Plato correct with an actual science that breaks down “quality” into definitions that can be understood.  The path of modern philosophy is on that course starting with Rand, being explored by Pirsig and then being further refined in modern and future philosophers.  But the philosophies of Kant, and Marx with the modern Chomsky are going to be rejected over the next two hundred years—mark it on your calendar.  The war we are currently in that Aglialoro is fighting with his Atlas films is one of crawling out from under the failed philosophies of Marx and advancing Rand.  Therefore, Aglialoro’s efforts have been successful, and it is wonderful to see that he is able to produce his third installment after so much tribulation and social resistance.  In the end will turn out to be a work of resurrection for the country of America.

The lapel pins that we wear in public are so that we can recognize one another from the dangerous souls that are still clinging to the failed philosophies of the past.  Like the film They Live (CLICK FOR REVIEW) where the heroes found that the entire planet was plagued with aliens disguised inside of human bodies and they could only tell the difference between them and the aliens by the sunglasses they wore, the pins let us know that the wearer is a person of thought and intelligence who is committed to the future of the human race, instead of the looting destruction of it.  The lapel pins are acts of defiance against a society that has gone mad with stupidity.  But the pins also mean more than that; it is for them that John Aglialoro is making the Atlas films.  As an independent film maker he knows that time will bring more people to seek their own lapel pins, but for now, they are refined to the quiet of their own homes to watch Atlas in stunned silence.  The people who wear their pins proudly in public are those who rush out into the public to see the film in a theater and do not fear public support of such a controversial philosopher in Ayn Rand.  In that spirit, I am very ecstatic that Part III will arrive in theaters in the summer of 2014.  I will be the first one in line and I might well be covered in lapel pins, like the guy below.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The Overmanwarrior Film Festival: Short films dedicated to Ayn Rand’s ‘Anthem’

One of the reasons I have not been to a film festival since 2009 is because of my political stances.  Due to the initiation of the school levy fights and other issues it has become difficult to have cordial relationships with other creative people attracted to the entertainment industry.  When hard lines are taken like the ones I have, it makes friendly lunch meetings with industry professionals impossible, because small talk is out of the window.  And I knew this ahead of time.  The work here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom is a project of journeying down the rabbit hole of American philosophy where most everybody else is uncomfortable.  The result is that I haven’t been to a film festival in a while because the film makers I most appreciate are not being featured.  However, that does not mean that such independent efforts are not happening.  Creative artistic expression is in fact thriving because of the freedom afforded by the internet—as calculated, and voices of Objectivism are making themselves heard in the infant stages of a new movement that will only grow over the next 30 years.  Below are three summaries/scenes from the Ayn Rand classic Anthem which is a short book that can be read entirely over a long breakfast—but is infinitely powerful in it’s articulation of the present human condition.  Please do enjoy these three films shown below, and watch them completely.  If you have not read Anthem the films will be entertaining.  If you have, you will instantly understand them.  The visual presentation is the kind of things that are typically shown at film festivals, and thanks to YouTube, the need for film festivals has been reduced as projects like these Anthem tributes can now be shared without the usual network controls.  A few years ago, there was simply no way the public would have a chance to see films like these, because no festival and no network of any kind would show them, particularly the IFC, or Sundance Channels on cable television.  So film makers didn’t go to the trouble of making these kinds of short films.  But thanks to new media, filmmakers are beginning to attempt these types of projects, which make our culture much “richer” for it.

In the story of Anthem the word “I” has been eradicated from civilization.  Collectivism is so rampant that all personal references such as the word, “I” have been removed from the vocabulary.  The story is about the lead character rediscovering that word first through his attraction to a woman, then by rediscovering the light bulb, then understanding that only he can bring civilization back from the brink of destruction by starting over on his own.  But before he can do this, he must overcome the personal crises of learning what “I” means.  His hero journey is this discovery and is the point of the book which is extremely powerful.

I can see how people would have trouble with the novel Anthem.  Most can’t understand how human civilization can unlearn all that it has learned.  However, if my article about The Nothing is referenced, it is easy to see that our current society is receding.  We are going backwards intellectually and this is due to our media culture and public education systems.  We are less intellectual in 2013 than we were in 1776 even with all the education that is available to us—and that is obvious when the writing of the period is compared to the writing of the modern period.  The intellectual capacity is obvious as over-specialization has permeated our society with intellectual paralysis forcing collectivism to support the specialization tendencies.  This is not having a positive trend economically, or intellectually—but is taking mankind in the opposite direction.

I first grappled with this tendency several years ago well before I ever read an Ayn Rand novel.  Two literary achievements started my mind down this rabbit hole of destruction.  The first was the Robert Jordan series titled The Wheel of Time.   That series of books is massive, each book consisting of more than 700 pages and there are 14 books in the whole body of work.  At first I thought I was reading a kind of Lord of the Rings type of achievement because the characters are using magic and riding around on horses.  It takes a long time to get from one village to another and people live in a society where there isn’t even plumbing.  So I imagined that the society depicted in The Wheel of Time books was one that took place in something like a 13th century European setting—like Lord of the Rings.  However, as the story becomes more advanced it is learned that the relics of an ancient civilization begin to be uncovered and studied.  That ancient civilization turns out to be our own time in the distant future where technologies that have not yet been invented are present—but somehow knowledge to that society had been completely lost.

The other book I read was Forbidden Archeology, which I have spoken about before.  This is a fantastic book that chronicles the massive collection of archeological and anthropological evidence that has been ignored by current universities due to “academic collectivism.”  As proven in Forbidden Archeology universities are guilty of molding our understanding of the past due to the collective efforts of previous colleagues.  Anything that falls outside of that collective understanding is ignored.  My first reaction to this very big book was………..NO WAY.  CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW.  That would be impossible.  There is too much written and known for such an open censorship of knowledge to occur.  But then I learned how education works up close and personal with my fights against higher taxes and saw first hand how educators lie to themselves all the time and ignore evidence even when it is obvious to the rest of the world.

When I put on WLW radio the argument that tax increase were driven purely by greedy unions and high salary expectations I wanted to make the problem widely known to see how the schools reacted, so I could prove the theories presented in Forbidden Archeology.  Of course the results have been well documented at this site much to my own anger, because I didn’t want to believe that “academic collectivism” was such a destructive force in our current world.  Now, it is quite clear—our current society is actually regressing, and if left alone for another 200 or 300 years, we could easily become the kind of society that was depicted in Ayn Rand’s Anthem.

When Robert Jordan wrote his Wheel of Time series, the society in the story has recently went full circle—it had risen to a technological height then fallen back into the realm of a primitive and his protagonists are struggling to re-emerge to an age of intellectualism and invention.  In Ayn Rand’s Anthem the hero takes the girl of his choice to the mountains to re-invent society again from the collapse of the previous one that occurred so slowly that nobody even noticed the regression, because the regression took place over a period of hundreds of years.  To measure that regression just examine American history where in the year 1776 there was a declaration for the human race to be free of collectivism so typical in Europe.   The early Americans functioned for a few hundred years without the direct influence of a king, yet had the values they learned from an educated society and for the first time in history produced people like Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson who could function without fear of being beheaded for flying a kite with a key tied to it.  But it didn’t last long.  Europeans continued to move to America and settle on the East Coast bringing little bits of Europe with them, and the regression began.  Now just over 200 years later, the regression of our society is measurable—it can be seen easily that the wisest among our current society can’t hold a candle to the wisest of early American society.  Another two hundred years of such a regression could easily produce a society that is seen in the film clips above—without question.

At the last film festival I attended in 2009 I was beginning to grapple with this problem of “academic collectivism” which was very present in film, especially independent films.  Many of the themes discussed dealt with lower chakra topics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakra) of the primary animal instincts, sex, food, and making money—and I had lost interest.  It hit me like a ton of bricks while dining at a Lakewood restaurant.  My resolution after that meeting, and last film festival was to start this site so to stop the trend toward human destruction through “academic collectivism.”  On my way down the rabbit hole, it started with school funding to prove the tendency of “academic collectivism” then to challenge the public acceptance of that trend so to prevent a society like the one seen in Anthem.  “Academic collectivism” was already in the process of suppressing Ayn Rand after her work had achieved so much in the 40s, 50s and 60s, only to be gradually squeezed out of American culture slowly by the 70s and 80s, and modern art through the same methods had been hard at work focusing mankind on the lower centers of thought and selling it as if it were a revelation.  But the reality is that we are all on a Wheel of Time where all this has happened before, and will happen again if the trend downward is not stopped.  That is the fight of our day, and if addressing that trend causes blacklisting—then so be it.  Yet even with the blacklisting that goes on, we must be thankful that like 1776 the human race is currently undergoing a second revolution of freedom provided by the internet, where communication can bypass all control mechanisms of the old guard dedicated to academic collectivism.  As a recent article of mine recently explored, the statues of Easter Island were just discovered to have had full bodies under the ground, and for years academics had traveled to different conclusions falsely.  CLICK HERE TO REVIEW.  Because of the internet, the story broke, and academics are being forced to amend their previous conclusions about the origin of Easter Island which appears to be much more advanced than a bunch of cannibals living on a remote island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.  Like the characters of Anthem, the cultures of the Pacific Ocean who were moving giant rocks with mysterious methods and building roads on the bottom of the ocean hint at a world that was more advanced than our present one, but has long been suppressed by academic collectivism by a few minds who dare question that reality.  In that context, it is not so extraordinary to comprehend that the main character of Anthem had an extraordinary journey in the book all because he re-discovered the light bulb—something we take for granted today and see happening every day on the nightly news.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The History of Capitalism: A presentation from the Atlas Society

Due to much of the confusion that exsists about the economic nature of capitalism–as the progressive types have so rigorously attacked it, many do not understand what it even is.  So for those who do not understand capitalism, and for those who think they understand capitalism, yet still find themselves destructive agents of human doom I would like the present Guillermo Pineda who spoke at the Atlas Summit in 2012 in Washington D.C. — We hear all the time that “capitalism is the system that has shaped our world.” However, the fact that capitalism is a social system that has never existed in its full, perfect, and unregulated form is never mentioned. As Ayn Rand clearly stated, the only time in history in which we came close to a laissez-faire capitalist society was in the 19th century. The seminar explores the history of capitalism in the last 250 years. How did capitalism function in the past? Does it still exist today? What hope is there for the future? Part 2 looks at the assault against capitalism in the 20th century and considers where we find ourselves today.

Guillermo Pineda is a double degree MA global studies candidate at Leipzig University and Roskilde University. He founded the Center for the Study of Capitalism in Guatemala and has studied and promoted Objectivist philosophy for several years.  Now, grab a snack and enjoy listening to Pineda’s 2 part lesson on capitalism.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Making Ronald Reagan the far Left of Extremism: Progressives attack Rand Paul’s filibuster

Progressives are vile despicable creatures in that they wish to change America from its traditional roots of Excepetionalism and convert us all over into dependents of collectivism.  For clarification all one needs to do is watch The Ed Show from the big labor progressive advocate on MSNBC whose motto is “Lean Forward” which was also seen in President Obama’s last presidential campaign and even school levy attempts by government schools.  I would say the easiest way to understand what progressives mean by “lean forward” is to direct America away from the kind of country that Jimmy Stewart talked about in the 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington—which is one of my favorite movies of all time.  I like it almost as much as Jimmy Stewart’s It’s a Wonderful Life.  When I ask myself why Hollywood doesn’t make movies like those anymore, I already know the answer—it’s because of progressives like what can be seen on The Ed Show who have ripped America so far to the political left with their radicalism leaving traditional Americans wondering where their country went.  Rand Paul obviously shares with me a love for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington—he named his book, The Tea Party Goes To Washington—and performed a wonderfully articulate 13 hour filibuster similar to what Jimmy Stewart did in that classic film, the magic that most people on both sides of the political spectrum felt was fathomable.  It terrified progressives to varying degrees from both parties who rose to the surface quickly in the wake to attack Paul in the usual manner.  Watch, listen and take notes.

It is important to watch how the progressive thinks and acts, so the clips from The Ed Show shown above are important.  The perpetrators of progressive doom revealed themselves in the panic that followed Rand’s filibuster.  The attempt by the radical progressives to attack what they believe is the extreme conservative right is to undo the gains that Rand Paul achieved in his filibuster.  Obviously John McCain revealed to what extent he is a left leaning progressive and Lindsey Graham did the same even though they are both Rinos (Republicans In Name Only).  The blood of America trending toward the left is on their hands as they preach pacifism and are continuously outmaneuvered by the likes of Democratic strategists like James Carvel.  McCain was embarrassingly foolish in his post filibuster comments in attempting to invoke that his Republican Party was the party of Ronald Reagan and that Rand Paul was a radical far-right nut job trying to appeal to the young, foolish libertarians who subscribe to conspiracy theories, black helicopters and government assassinations.  When McCain said that Americans have nothing to fear from their government he spoke from the heart of a man who was obviously defeated mentally while in captivity during his own ordeal in the military and has lost his mind.  He helped shape the NDAA Act which is what Rand Paul was specifically addressing in relation to the drone strikes which identified the entire nation of America as a potential war zone.  CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW.  Progressives through their mentality hope that nobody pays attention to the news  from a year ago and connects the dots to the present, and taking the drone program into consideration with the NDAA Act of last year—there is very good reason to be concerned.

I remember listening to the radio in the 1990’s when the Truckin Bozo was on the air at 700 WLW from midnight to 5 AM every night and reports would come in from truckers carrying suspicious freight for the government from one destination to another, which we now know led to the FEMA coffins stationed all over the country and the genuine concern that some converted rail stations have been turned into potential FEMA camps ready to hold domestic prisoners in case of some national tragedy.  The Truckin Bozo was called a crazy conspiracy theorist by mainstream media in much the way that progressives are attempting to shape Rand Paul’s filibuster.  During the Clinton days even as people connected to the Clintons ended up mysteriously dead with mounds of body bags that followed them from one elected office to the next, and Bill Clinton’s brother was involved in a drug trafficking operation at a Little Rock airport which Bill’s governor’s office ran cover for while “Slick Willie” molested many women openly, then smeared them when they attempted to expose Clinton, anyone who pointed out the facts was called a “nut job” a “radical hack” a commentator of “hate speech,” and many other things.  In 1995 through 1998 the prospect of economic collapse in America seemed remote even though conspiracy theorist like Jim Marrs said that the Bilderberg meetings were staging a World Bank takeover of the entire world and that the Bush family was involved in a massive conspiracy with the Tri-Lateral Commission.  Those same theorist said that President Clinton was working toward a goal of a “New World Order” and that much of what we saw in regard to politics was just a show between the two parties who actually held hands and kissed behind the scenes.  All that conspiracy stuff was ruled as crazy to talk in public as the mainstream newspapers, television media, and magazines established the rules of reporting—and anything that fell outside of those boundaries was deemed “radical.”

Then there was 9/11 and a rapid expansion of government under President Bush Jr. as a reaction to the terrorist attack, massive national debt, and a sitting president who stated, “I’ve Abandoned Free Market Principles To Save The Free Market System.”  Then we gained Obama as a president, a guy who mysteriously attempted to suppress his past, made a big deal about his birth certificate, was educated as a child in Jakarta, had communist grandparents who raised him, strange ties to the terrorist organization The Weather Underground, had a strange affection to the known communist Frank Marshell Davis, and seemed willing to mislead the public at every turn like a car salesman trying to sell a car without an engine to a little old lady’s old fashioned gullibility.  Obama is presently on course to run up the national debt to 20 trillion dollars and now stories about the collapse of the American dollar which floated out of conspiracy theory in the 1990s suddenly don’t sound so crazy—because it’s happening.

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So should it come as any surprise that fringe groups in America are on the rise?  Absolutely not, American people have seen that they have been lied to and they no longer know who to trust and they are rather pissed off about it.  It turns out that people like Lindsey Graham and John McCain are the types of politicians who created the present conditions of economic doom and like their progressive allies shown typically on The Ed Show, they are in a tizzy over Rand Paul and the kind of people who are moving toward Paul’s form of conservativism because that is very bad for progressive politics.  Sadly what John McCain does not understand is that people like me, and obviously Rand Paul are not happy with just the party of Ronald Reagan.  Reagan at one point attempted to join the Communist Party and he loved and adored FDR as a young man.  Reagan was a good actor who was able to bring some old-fashioned flair from the kind of movies that Hollywood produced during the days of Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, but his personal politics were too liberal for me.  To progressives, Ronald Reagan was the example of radical right winged politics and to John McCain he was the bench mark of conservativism.  Yet to me, Reagan was an actor who attempted to be a card-carrying communist and was only a shadow of what remained of Hollywood during the era of the Jimmy Stewart films, which he was able to utilize to get America to believe in itself again after the Jimmy Carter years.  The hard stuff like keeping the defense budget trimmed down during a Cold War, and eliminating the Department of Education during his first years in office like he promised to do went unanswered, as those types of management decisions fell outside of Ronald Reagan’s charm and acting ability.

To progressives it’s a “radical” idea to expect government to balance their budgets, stand for personal values, and exhibit a lack of intrusion into the personal lives of American citizens.  For having those expectations advocates like Rand Paul appears to support are called radicals, nut-jobs, and “fringe extremists” by those who are the real extremists—whose social designs intend for American to lean forward to a progressive tomorrow away from the sturdy foundations of tradition that used to view Ronald Reagan as a liberal.  To John McCain’s point progressives have succeeded in moving America so far to the political left that Reagan is now considered a fringe right-winged lunatic—but for an increasing number of Americans who are supporting politicians like Rand Paul, there is a growing desire to turn away from both political parties and return to the love of America that Jimmy Stewart yearned for.  And to date, only Rand Paul seems to understand that yearning—and has enough passion for to speak for 13 hours straight on one subject—and do it well.  Most people can’t speak for 13 hours straight on everything they have in their brains.

Progressives are vile because they have been caught calling the “good” bad, and a “lie” the “truth” as can be seen in any school district in America that is run by government.  They are sinister because they want more of the same, and wish to destroy with increasing frequency everything that traditional Americans value.  They are the apologizers for mass killing, and coercion by force.  Progressives are the same group of people who will seek to use children’s lives to pass school levies or gun control legislation after tragedies but support aborting thousands of babies in government sanctioned murders.  They are a vile, corrupt group of people who are worthless parasites to the human race and they have the NERVE to call anyone who desires honesty, responsibility, and accountability–radicals!  Increasingly, the offerings of modern politics have fallen short, and the manipulations of old are no longer working.  Americans are beginning to demand better–better than John McCain, better than Barack Obama, better than Lindsey Graham, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton or any of the other power-hungry progressive parasites.  Americans increasingly want someone who is more real than Ronald Reagan and who will make that actor look like a radical leftist in comparison to their conservative politics.  In modern politics, there are few politicians who exhibit these traits……………………………..except one…………………….the politician who seems most to exhibit the traits of Jimmy Stewart’s desire for goodness to shine in Washington D.C., who conducted a filibuster, and saved the nation from its own demise with his bold sincerity.    Not since Jimmy Stewart has a politician emerged in real life like Rand Paul.  Paul’s recent filibuster will resonate for many years to come as it has invoked in America a sleeping desire that has long been suppressed by progressives for a way of life in Washington that will be so foreign to its modern inhabitants that the routine guests on The Ed Show might as well broadcast their show from a New Guinea head hunting village in the future.  The America of tomorrow will be that foreign to them, and it has to be.  There isn’t any other option at this point.  The fear that such an idea congers up in the progressive is only hinted at by their reaction to Rand Paul’s filibuster.  Little do they know that this is only the beginning.  If they think things are radical now, wait to they see what comes next.  All the politicians have failed us, both Republican and Democrat, and that failure is not tolerable.

Growing up I loved Ronald Reagan, and I still think he was the best president in well over 100 years, since perhaps Abraham Lincoln.  But Reagan in my eyes was a bleeding heart liberal who was too far to the political left for my liking.  My idea of a president isn’t even on the political stage.  I voted for Ross Perot in both 1992 and 1996, over George Bush and Bob Dole.  I don’t want the stuffy old puppets of the GOP and I certainly don’t want some domestic terrorist who couldn’t even manage a McDonalds sitting in The White House.    Letting progressives set the goal posts of extreme right-winged thought where Ronald Reagan is the border just isn’t realistic, and not on the table of discussion.  The best way for America to advance into tomorrow is to embrace the concepts of its past, before the influence of the vile progressive took hold, and start over with new goal posts where Reagan isn’t the goal post of the radical right, but of the radical left.  That is when we can start solving problems and moving America once again into 200 more years of prosperity.  Until then, nothing else is worthy of debate.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com