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The Media Controversy: What Trayvon Martin and Barack Obama have in common

There are a lot of problems with Barack Obama’s past, which don’t matter much anymore as he won a second term with the help of the media that refused to report on those tribulations.  Their reasons were ideological and cohesive as they have displayed an alarming collectiveness about them that is like a symphony reading sheet music for their individual instruments.  The author of that sheet music is Karl Marx and before him it was Immanuel Kant.  The media learned this collectiveness in their education institutions that universally accept statism as the future of the human race—after all controlling the media was one of the strategies outlined in the 1958 book The Naked Communist, which has been fulfilled—make no mistake about it.  Barack Obama should not be president if the law were followed correctly.  He is however a concoction of that media control for the reasons they stated, so that a president like Obama could sit in the White House and bring to the world, global socialism.  But is what I’m saying just another “rant” from a disenfranchised voter who doesn’t like Democrats?  No, it’s a deeper problem than that.  The situation is far more sinister.  To understand how sinister, examine the latest media cohesive display of the Trayvon Martin case as articulated by Bill Whittle.  Watch this video and you will begin to see the problem.

The media, collectively from The View, to Ellen, to the CBS Nightly News read from the same Civil Rights sheet music, the same talking points which where practically invented as a work of fiction—yet reported as fact.  George Zimmerman was found not guilty even with all the other aspects of the Martin case that were left out such as the drug abuse, the violent Facebook postings, and the social demeanor of the young man just short of his 18th birthday.  The media wanted to believe that Martin was just a child going to get a harmless drink and some Skittles from the corner convenience store, not that the kid was an MMA obsessed drug experimenter.  Collectively the media projected the same Civil Rights message to the weakened masses which the typical person had little patience to understand.  They were caught wanting to trust those media sources because they were simply too busy in their lives not to.

The trouble with collectivism is that there is no individual thought, and the obvious evidence that so many in the media participated openly in the Trayvon Martin conspiracy as an attempt to sacrifice George Zimmerman to the altar of a progressive Civil Rights power grab shows how effective their propaganda machine is over just one court case.  Imagine what they can do on a large-scale, when Presidents and their administrations are involved.  A glimpse behind the collective façade has been seen with the IRS Hearings, the Benghazi killings, and the unconstitutional appointments that received very little initial reaction from the media until whistleblowers put the issues in front of the worlds’ eyes.  The hypocrisy was very obvious, and millions of Americans aren’t sure what to do with the information now that they know they’ve been lied to.  The Martin case and the Obama administration are connected not just in casual observation, but in this case Obama and his Justice Department activist Eric Holder personally became involved in a states’ rights issues for the simple attempt of inciting race wars in hopes of grabbing more group based power—with the media at their backs to blow wind into their sails.

To understand how this happens one simply needs to understand what kinds of things are taught in high schools and colleges all across the country, especial liberal arts type courses which often dangle from journalism degrees.  Collectivism is taught at these institutions and blind acceptance of memorized information.  Individual thought is rejected as critical applications are paid lip service to, but tucked out of sight in all reality.  If there are federal grants involved, or federal money of any kind such as Race to the Top, or Common Core instruction, that institution is teaching the desires of the government, and that is statism.  When over 90% of all journalists come from colleges particularly with liberal arts degrees, they were all taught the same methods of following orders and sacrificing their individuality to the good of the collective which is why they report the way they do.

Further, the culture on campuses, “the party life” is designed to rob away innocence and individual integrity so that the mind of the campus students can be brought into line with concepts of statism which is taught in the class rooms.  Wonder not why the campus presidents do not fret about the hundreds of rapes that occur every day at their colleges because the personal invasion of a woman’s personal space by sexual predators who are also students are part of the design of the campus experience.  When a young female journalism major wakes up in a strange apartment without her cloths facing people she has never met before at escapades that occurred the night before, when that young student gets a job at the New York Times, or The Washington Post she will avoid the stories of scandal about disgraced political interns who have been black mailed, or the many prostitutes who men of statist power utilize to allow extortion to move their mouths like marionettes, she will report on environmental concerns and social collectivism instead.  The idea of sin will stay in the back of her mind and she will pursue altruistic stories as social redemption might wash away her past, and all the mistakes she made in college.  The collectivism is a natural human reaction to individual shame, so statist desire to see individuals shamed so that they can gain control of individual actions in service to the collective is the typical social strategy that is learned in virtually all education institutions where government money is present.  That is how it starts.  The mistakes in college through drunken orgies are designed to remove individual identity from the participants and therefore critical thought generated from their mind.

After 10 to 15 years of this kind of practice, soon the marketplace of the media is filled with thousands of like-minded professionals who are ready to accept their marching orders from their editors who are promoted based on their left leaning philosophies.  The editor gives the slant and the reporter finds the angle and cuts up the story to fit the direction.  That is what happened clearly in the Treyvon Martin case, and is why President Obama is still president.  The withheld evidence about Treyvon Martin shows to what extent the media can work together without a lot of shared information to arrive at a universal collective strategy.  Critical thought has been stripped from their minds, and they cannot be trusted to provide the truth.  This has always been a problem, but it is worse today than it has ever been because the amount of social penetration progressives have had into college campuses since the 1950s has finally produced virtually every range of influence in the media from those about to retire, to those just entering the business.  For the first time, all ages of media employee have been through the college system after The Naked Communist established the desired strategy, and they all think the same way.

Bill Whittle made a compelling case about the Trayvon Martin evidence, and he was right to end his piece contemplating to what extent the same has happened with Barack Obama.    In an honest world where the media used the First Amendment to pursue truth, justice, and the American way there wouldn’t be a President Obama in The White House, and the Martin case would not have been reported the way it was—and George Zimmerman most likely would have never had to spend a single day in jail.  But the media isn’t honest, and we do have to worry about those types of statist strategies seen in Whittle’s video.  The evidence is audacious and the proof is beyond refute.  But the behavior continues because most people lack the courage to face the truth, even though it is painful.   And for many people their past is laced with the same shame that haunts many journalists—and hampers their decisions from one of individual value instead to collective embrace where judgment is vacant, and sins are revered, in an empire of statism that is protected by the modern gate keepers of the truth.

Rich Hoffman

“Justice Comes with the Crack of a Whip!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

“Duty”: A statist concept detrimental to America

Eric Holder said some things about the Zimmerman acquittal the other day that bothered me deeply.  It wasn’t his obvious activism as head of the Justice Department under President Obama, or the obvious lies, deceit, and manipulation that has occurred under his control.  Rather, it was his reasoning against Florida’s Stand Your Ground law where he reflected Obama’s belief that people have a “duty” to retreat from a conflict when conflict occurs.  This implies of course that public safety is more important than individual lives.  Holder referenced that the laws of The United States routinely reflect that citizens have a “duty” to always look for a way out of a conflict before engaging in self-defense.  For instance, a story I have told before, CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW, where the police came to the office complex where my wife was working as a receptionist at the time and asked her to cheat on me because she was such an attractive young lady meant that I had no right to engage those cops on any grounds of honor because all they had really done was utter some verbal communication.  They didn’t place any hands upon her, or force her into a car.  If they did, then I would still not be allowed to pull a gun on the police and defend our life together because they represented the state as representatives of the law, and they may not be using guns to apply the force.  The state’s position is that there is more honor in sacrifice, even if that means losing a wife, or the sexual molestation of her, than in the honor of defending our marriage and her matrimonial sanctity.  The burden of the law fell on me, the citizen because of some ridiculous ideal of “duty” to some cause that is greater than my individual interests, or my relationships that might only be valuable to me.  My thoughts about this matter are essentially what my novel Tail of the Dragon is all about.  CLICK HERE TO REVIEW.

I grew up wearing primarily military clothing that routinely was unkempt on purpose.  My army pants had large holes in the knees from all the crawling around that I did—and still do.  My shirts were always un-tucked and I have worn a cowboy hat with that attire since I was in the fifth grade.  My reason was that I planned to rebel against the government if they ever drafted me into the military and I wanted to be always in a state of readiness in case I was forced into combat by a statist government.  The military was always known for their rigidity with military uniform, and my position was to get used to the uniform without the formality.  It was my way of thumbing my nose at statist philosophy.  When I was a kid, the drafting of citizens was still on everyone’s mind from the Vietnam era where the government decided that individual citizens could be compelled into service to their country for something politicians called “duty,” and I never planned to participate in that activity.  I had many uncles, cousins, and other family members who swore to me that if I were drafted into the army that my rigid independent streak would be broken by the drill sergeants.   By the stories they told, there was no choice.  You either did what they told you, or you were thrown into the brig for insolence.  I had no problem with the danger, with shooting at other people, or having them shoot at me.  I found that part very exciting.  But I was never going to allow myself to get on a bus, get my head shaved, and have a drill sergeant yell at me for six weeks until I surrendered my individuality to the cause of collective salvation calling it “duty to my country.”

Statist use more frequently now than ever this term “duty” when talking about the military.  This is why it has become custom to tell military veterans “thank you for your sacrifice and service” when speaking to them.  I do not do that.  I have known a lot of people who went into the military, mostly because they couldn’t figure out what they wanted to do with their life, or they wanted money for college.  They decided to surrender their individuality in trade for security.  In high school a Marine recruiter was heavy after me knowing some of the dangerous escapades that I had been involved in, and the court cases that I had attended.  He told me that I would self-destruct in a few years with my attitude and that the Marines would bring discipline to my life that I needed.  Of course I didn’t buy into the scam, but some of my friends did, and they were never the same after four years in the military.  They came out of the military nice little foot soldiers who followed orders without question as they had learned to participate in life with a sense of duty, instead of thought and the statists of government wanted the world to thank them for it so more people would follow in their wake, without having to impose a government mandated draft.

My idea of military life was the flight group, The Flying Tigers during the early days of World War II.  If that was what the military was offering I would have signed up in less than a second just so I could fly planes and participate in danger.  CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW.  But the whole “yes sir, no sir” thing was not for me and I don’t respect those who give up their individuality to surrender thought to any group behavior—including the military.  When I attend events where I see formations, salutes, and blind recital of chants I feel sorry for the participants.  Yet I have witnessed that the usual emotion from my peers is envy.  They envy the sense of purpose that serving in a group the “duty” defined by a statist government provides them.  The government might say that soldiers in Afghanistan have a duty to defend American interests, or that soldiers have a duty to defend the world against failed political policies in the Middle East.  That duty means a sacrifice of life, limb, or at a minimum–time from their life based on the definitions of statist politicians.  The reasons are never considered, only the act.

The idea of a draft in America during the Vietnam era broke the conscious of many Americans.  Many men learned as 18-year-olds that the government can do as it pleases with the individual lives of their citizens, and this mentality carried over to the statist policies which came out of the sixties, the counter-revolutionary movement, the rise of labor union influence, collective bargaining legislation, and many other aspects of idiocy that were sold as a social “duty.”  The idea of duty had been driven into these men who were broken from the idealistic kids of the Howdy Doody Show growing up in the 50’s by their drill sergeants without a choice available but from their government to say that their life was owned by the federal government, and that the government was more important than their lives.    This has affected this entire generation for the rest of their lives and the children they spawned.  Eric Holder and Barack Obama know this and invoke the subconscious memory of America’s sense of “duty” when they speak.

When these draftees came out of the military they were told that it was their “duty” to help the poor.  They were told that it was their “duty” to help the middle-class.  They were told that it was their “duty” to send their children to public school.  They were told that it was their “duty” to vote for Medicaid and to sustain Social Security.  They were told that it was their “duty” to raise children who would serve their country with sacrifice and that honor was in paying the ultimate price—death.

Today the word “duty” is thrown around by statists of all ranks.  People like Eric Holder use the word “duty” which has been ingrained in most of the population through one of two methods, from a drill sergeant, or a college professor to justify a statist policy against self-defense even if sometimes the best defense is a good offense.   By invoking the idea of “duty” Holder attempts to overcome the Bill of Rights of The Constitution which are centered on individuality and slides under the door of the American mind an ideal of collective salvation that is artificially created by statists for statist principles.  By creating a social concept of thanking service men not with the money they were paid but with the honor of sacrifice, statists like Obama and Holder who stand opposed to traditional American concepts rooted in pure capitalism can advance their philosophy of collectivism by touching the psychological paralysis that is built into most Americans by the statist system of sacrifice in the name of “duty.”

It is clear to me these discrepancies because I have rejected such a sense of “duty” my entire life, including my childhood.  But it is not so clear to people who have had to negotiate in their minds the ideal of a military draft which took away their individual rights for the good of the “state” without question.  These same people find themselves unable to understand why they feel disarmed when Eric Holder invokes the concept of “duty” in relation to Florida’s Stand Your Ground law so to build up public consensus against the measure.  Resonating in their minds are the drill sergeants from their early years who stripped away all their thoughts, all their childhood memories with six hard weeks of basic training so that the mind of the soldiers thought not as individual Americans, but as cogs in a military machine that did not think, but simply followed orders.  When Eric Holder states that it is an American citizen’s “duty” to follow the orders of the state, this is what he means, and why such statements are the roots of tyranny established to advance the causes of the left through carefully selected phrases planted in American minds through statist philosophy.

Rich Hoffman

“Justice Comes with the Crack of a Whip!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Labor Unions Caused Detroit Bankruptcy: Michael Moore’s lost sense of purpose

I spoke about this a bit the other day, but now that the dust has settled more details are necessary in regard to the Detroit bankruptcy.  Darryl Parks during his Saturday program on 700 WLW did a wonderful couple of segments about the Detroit situation which deserves to be highlighted, and can be heard below.  Darryl as he usually does comes to these types of topics armed with many facts and in this case many I did not know about the Motor City.  I have family who lived in Michigan and worked in the auto industries who were big union supporters.  Every year my family visited them at least once, so I learned a lot about Michigan during these childhood adventures, especially during the 70s and 80s when I was growing up.  I watched firsthand the decline that Darryl Parks articulated during his program.  I watched Detroit go from the richest city in the United States in 1965 to currently the poorest.  I knew that Detroit was at one time a source of entertainment as The Lone Ranger radio program was launched from Detroit and the city still owns the rights to the Howdy Doody puppet.  Detroit at one point in its very recent history was a center for art, entertainment, and manufacturing—which drove the entire economy.  But what destroyed Detroit is a reoccurring theme everywhere in modern America, the notion of collectivism framed within the labor union movement which is failing on a massive scale.  Click Darryl’s broadcast below to begin to understand how many labor unions are listed as creditors in the Detroit bankruptcy and it will quickly become clear how destructive unions have been on the American economy, the role they’ve played in wage inflation, and the way they’ve prevented the proper management of Detroit’s resources.

When Michael Moore made his first big film Roger and Me, I enjoyed it as I shared with Moore a love of the Midwest.  His film was about the decline of the auto industry in Flint, Michigan and the loss of entire neighborhoods becoming a gigantic ghost town.  But Moore lost me all those years ago in 1989 when he assumed that General Motors CEO Roger Smith had a duty to the people of Flint to give back to the community his large wages so that fewer jobs would be lost.  Moore’s position in the film was typical of most union households in Central and Lower Michigan from the 70’s to the 90’s that was raised on soft communism disguised as American patriotism.  Moore’s beliefs were harder than socialism, and shy of Russian, or Chinese communism but were certainly anti-capitalism in their nature.  Moore failed to understand that it was capitalism that brought jobs to his town of Flint which is just north of Detroit.  It was communism that had infiltrated the labor unions and made Moore believe that Roger Smith owed Flint, Michigan anything.

The film launched Moore into the national spotlight as a left leaning media was hungry to team up with someone who could capture their instructed beliefs into a film format.  But the parasitic nature of the type of contracts the unions negotiated for themselves continued.  Jobs left the Detroit area for destinations that were not friendly to labor unions, like China, and Mexico, countries already utilizing a social philosophy of socialism and communism.  I liked my family members, but found myself in contention with the adults who had cars in the driveway with bumper stickers stating, “Buy American” which was a typical union slogan at the time even though the Japanese were making better cars cheaper.  Their assertion was the same as Michael Moore’s, and that was people had an obligation to buy an American car built with union labor because of some misguided patriotic duty.  All those elements never added up to my mind, even at the ages of 8 through 15 when my years in Lower Michigan were most active.  No matter how much the adults from that side of the family yelled their philosophy never made sense to me.

When I was 18 years old I worked in a metal stamping plant while I was majoring in economics in college.  The economic professors didn’t seem to understand the real world of manufacturing the way I did because I worked in a real metal stamping plant known as the meat grinder at the time.  I saw many very serious injuries and I learned quickly that the parts we made at this facility required salesmen to sell them to a distributer somewhere in the world and that purchasing had to find the metal coils somewhere so we’d have materials enough to manufacture the goods.  I worked with some tough, rough neck people and fights on the shop floor were common.  When I first started at this place a man older than me by about 10 years picked a fight in the break room.  I launched a full can of Coke at his head and luckily missed his forehead by only a few inches.  The can exploded against the wall and after the man saw how serious I was about winning the fight decided to befriend me, and we remained friends for all the years I worked there.  There were many other fights that involved serious cuts, broken bones, knocked out teeth and eyeballs that were actually removed from their sockets.  The foremen would look the other way, especially in my case because I without question out produced everyone in the building.  My manufacturing rates were very high.  I didn’t work so hard because of fear for my job, or to earn praise from the foremen, but because I enjoyed it.  I liked working fast—I enjoyed pushing myself with sweat pouring off my body.  The fights came from the workers who were trying to unionize this facility and wanted to bring me in line with everyone else.

The college professors had no advice for my young mind as they leaned toward labor’s position in the matter when I asked about it.  Their arguments I know now were Keynesian in their nature and rooted in European socialism, but at the time, I assumed they knew what they were talking about.  Because of the economic professor at the college I was attending I tried to understand the union mentality so I listened to the advocates instead of fighting them.  This led them to ask me to present a list of union demands to the company president.  Even though everyone in the company was much older than I was, they wanted an 18-year-old kid to approach management and negotiate on their behalf.  So I did.

I sat across from the President and gave him the grievances from the workers but as I sat there I saw the man who ran the company with his hands that were too smooth from lack of work, a belly that was too fat from eating in too many nice restaurants and was having an affair with his secretary who was half his age.  But I also saw a guy who was taking all the risks in the company.  If sales were down, it was his fault.  If supply could not be meant, it was his fault.  If he didn’t grease enough wheels at OSHA politically, then it was his fault.  In essence I felt the grievances from the workers were stupid, short-sighted and childish.  At the end of the day the “workers” were able to go home and forget about the work they did while the president was always tuned in to what was happening, even when he was on the golf course—because he was the risk taker.  For the employees to declare that their labor was worth the same as those who took the risks it was preposterous.

I gave the demands back to the union organizers and told them I would not represent them.  They attempted to reorganize without my help and fell flat on their face.  Whenever they tried to cut back on their labor hours to force reductions in manufacturing rates the foreman would give me extra overtime to cover their slack.  When they tried to paint me as a “scab,” we went out in the parking lot and solved the problem, and a lot of people got hurt.  But I never yielded my beliefs on the matter and everyone ended up shaking hands in the end, even over broken bones and busted lips.  It was these types of people who made America a manufacturing powerhouse—but only as individuals.  The collectivism of labor unions destroyed this trait, which makes America less competitive globally, which is why the labor movement was introduced to America by European insurgents wanting to level the playing field for all economically.    And this is what happened in Detroit.  The unions got what they wanted and nobody fought them on it.  When the companies gave a little, the unions asked for more.  The companies became frustrated and just packed up and voted with their feet and behind them all the competent workers left to follow the jobs and Detroit went from being the wealthiest city in America to the poorest in just a few decades of bad policy and bad social philosophy.

To this very day I despise labor unions because they fight against individual responsibility and merit.  They are simply gangs of thugs who attempt to extort away from the companies they work for values they have not earned.  Collective bargaining is the absolute dumbest idea in economic theory.  All people are not of equal value, some workers are faster, stronger, smarter, more efficient, more technically savvy—and they are not all deserving of equal pay.  To force companies or governments to pay wages on collective bargaining takes away the incentive of the very good to perform well, because slugs, malcontents, and the ungifted receive the same wages for doing much, much less.  This is what killed manufacturing in Southern Michigan and more specifically destroyed Detroit.

The disease of economics that destroyed Detroit is the same idiocy that is at work in our public schools, the IRS scandal, and virtually every branch of government as it is only in the public sector that unions have managed to survive as they have embedded themselves on financial supply that cannot pack up and move out of the country to flee the parasites of economics.  This put the burden on tax payers to cover the labor costs and in Detroit’s case, smart people moved leaving behind a city of dependents that did not pay taxes.   In just the last five years Detroit went from having a balanced budget to being billions of dollars in the hole—because they do not have a tax base to support their unionized legacy costs.  They ran tax payers out-of-town with tax rates that were too high and attempting to sell the concept with “shared sacrifice” which is to say, “wealth redistribution” stolen from the earned and given to the unearned.

Detroit is the first major city in modern America to see such an impact of their mismanagement, but many cities are short in toe.  Michael Moore in his film Roger and Me stumbled around revealing his utterly failed philosophy about the way life works as his arguments are only based on observations and not the cause.  Further, Matt Damon’s new film Elysium set in the year 2154, where the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined earth, never really covers what ruined earth.  Damon like Moore has been given the progressive task to communicate the union message to mainstream America which continually falls short on logical thinkers who know better.  In Damon’s film he takes on a mission that could bring equality to the two polarized worlds.  The nature of the story might as well be the same as Detroit versus the suburbs where smart people of value flee the type of people who make themselves social parasites and consume much more than they contribute productively.  Progressives somehow think the math will just work out in the end, but it never does.  Even as a child I saw what was happening to Detroit and I wanted no part of it in my life—and I have lived by those terms.  But not everyone is as combative as I am on issues they believe in, and most will think what I do, but they will not fight.  They will simply pack up and move to someplace else that offers less imposition on their lifestyles, which is the root cause for why Detroit has failed as a city.  Detroit imposed themselves on the productive, forcing them out-of-town leaving behind only the destitute like Michael Moore to look about their neighborhoods and wonder what happened.  The only word their failed philosophies have for the tragedy is “greed” but it is much more complicated than that.   The real villain is “financial incentive” and in the case of Detroit, the lack thereof.

Rich Hoffman

“Justice Comes with the Crack of a Whip!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The Failure of Detroit: Going bankrupt and the primary reason why

It was not a surprise that Detroit filed for bankruptcy.  I reported it here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom many months, ago.  There was nothing stunning about it, yet the reaction of some of the public workers in the system such as County Circuit Judge Rosemary Aquinlina was.  Detroit was being crushed financially under their legacy costs negotiated by labor unions adhering to a failed Keynesian economics plan.  The unions led Detroit to a financial reality that was not based on any kind of successful logic.  Nobody wanted to associate the math of so many pension requirements with the decline of business in the city that was driven away by high taxes, union mandates, and unmanaged government.  They just hoped that the money needed to sustain government and its workers would magically fall from the sky and into their laps like some tribal god granting the campfire dancer’s uttering war chants their requests.

A Michigan judge ruled Friday July 19th, 2013 that Republican Gov. Rick Snyder’s Detroit bankruptcy filing was a violation of the state’s constitution and that it fails to “honor” President Barack Obama who “took (Detroit’s auto companies) out of bankruptcy.” County Circuit Judge Rosemary Aquilina said she hopes Gov. Snyder “reads certain sections of the (Michigan) constitution and reconsiders his actions.  I have some very serious concerns because there was this rush to bankruptcy court that didn’t have to occur and shouldn’t have occurred,” Aquilina said.

More on that topic can be seen at the links below:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/19/mich-judge-rules-detroit-bankruptcy-unconstitutional-claims-it-fails-to-honor-president-obama/

(Related: Melissa Harris-Perry’s ‘Delusional’ Analysis of Bankrupt Detroit May Stun You)

Judge Aquilina is obviously out of her mind, and a functional drone of the Obama administration.  Obama did not take the auto companies out of bankruptcy; he simply stole tax dollars to pay union supporters of his campaign money they did not deserve as their union’s legacy costs were destroying the auto manufactures.  The money Obama gave to the auto companies only delayed their bankruptcy.  The foundations that the unions built their union pension system in the private sector were entirely unsustainable and rooted in sheer communism, which should have never happened in the first place.  It has destroyed auto manufacturing in Detroit, and therefore—Detroit.  Then to make matters worse, the government of Detroit through their public sector unions applied the same economic theory to their own pension system—which obviously has failed.

We often consider judges wise—but obviously Rosemary Aquilina is lacking due to her beliefs that bankruptcy in Detroit can just be pushed under a rug.  Currently, both pension funds in Detroit have claims to roughly “$9.2 billion in unfunded pension and retiree health care liabilities,” the Free Press reports.  Where does Judge Aquilina think that money will come from—the ghost businesses in Detroit, the ghost residents of the neighborhoods who have moved away to flee the poorly managed city, or the ghost money that is flowing through the revenue collection system?  The answer is far worse than just being stupid, it is ideological and therefore rooted deep into the core of her thinking which should disqualify her from any decision-making authority as her personal philosophy has eliminated her from logical consideration.

Judge Aquilina is not alone; in my school district of Lakota the same progressive union mentality is present.  If left unmanaged, unchallenged, and completely to their own devices, they are just as stupid.  In a recent levy attempt to put their money-making scheme on the ballot, they want a tax increase on property against residents while enrollment is on a declining path—which makes no sense.  Like Detroit, there will be fewer contributors to the tax system in the years to come, so Lakota like Detroit believes that they can increase taxes on those who are left to balance the books, while they continue to raise the costs of their positions with wage increases, more public employees drawling from the system and continued mismanagement.  The public employees involved are behaving like brainless zombies who have no idea where the money comes from, they only care to fill their endless desire for more.  It was that type of short-sightedness that destroyed Detroit, and now that the time has come, the contributors to moral bankruptcy cannot see that it was their mentality that bankrupted their city, school districts, and destroyed the lives of millions.  They believe even as the world burns around them, that their system of collective government is achievable, and that the Cloward and Piven strategy they all learned in college was actually to benefit the poor, and (middle class) instead of the real intention—to destroy American imperialism by cutting off its financial legs with slow brewed communism.  People like MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry and Detroit’s Judge Aquilina and Lakota’s Karen Mantia are the foot soldiers of the Cloward and Piven strategy of destruction that intentionally has used Keynsian economic theories to destroy American wealth for the global aims of a one world middle-class designed to bow at the feet of the elected elite described in Plato’s Republic.

But what is stunning is that people like Judge Aquinlina even as the world burns around her is in complete denial and expects that nobody can see the flames licking the sky about her talking head pronouncements.  The ultimate villainy of progressive theory is the denial of reality, which is typical of their kind.  They are so practiced in the art of self-deception that they actually believe what they are saying.  Aquinlina actually believes that President Obama saved the car companies with some kind of magic money, and that Detroit’s bankruptcy can be suspended till some future date perhaps after her own retirement from the system.  She believes that magically Detroit’s finances can be balanced by doing the same things that drove the city into $9.2 billion in unfunded liabilities which is obviously false.

Detroit is bankrupt, and it was the first large city of its kind to find itself in that situation.  But it won’t be the last.  As a state, California is collapsing under the same pressures, and nobody wants to face the music.  California boomed with three major economic expansions, the Gold Rush, the movie business, and the technical advances of Silicone Valley.  Without a way to continuously make money with sustainable jobs, the government which erupted in the wake of capitalist success like parasitic flees sucking the blood of a dog, California has driven away it’s positive money creation endeavors into other states with excessively high taxes leaving the pornography industry and what’s left of the film industry to carry the entire state’s finances.  But like all bankruptcies, Detroit included, the film industry is about to collapse on itself.  The studios there cannot continue making routine billion dollar box office pictures to pay for all their labor costs, which is why production budgets on films are so high.  Within a few years, only a few films will have the ability to generate so much box office money to cover their extraordinarily high production budgets—budgets that are driven up by union wages and legacy costs that are built with the same financial philosophy which has destroyed Detroit.  And when it happens there will be armies of people like Judge Aquinlina who will not understand because the essence of their very beings believe in these large statist ideologies and the very notion that they were always unsustainable means that they must analyze their entire philosophy about life, liberty, and happiness.  They will discover tragically that they were always wrong, and terrible liabilities on the success of tomorrow as they have been functioning for years as parasites to progress when their party of progressives fulfilled the exact opposite of everything they ever thought was possible with a grim reality of bankruptcy.

Rich Hoffman

“Justice Comes with the Crack of a Whip!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Sex in Lakeland Florida: Police abuse women because statism allows them to

Just a few years ago criticizing public employees like cops, firefighters, and teachers was considered extremely taboo.  If you did it, you were called names by the statist establishment.  Prior to getting involved with the Zombies of Lakota I was like a lot of people, I suspected that bad things were going on in the world, especially government, but I didn’t know to what extent.  Once I discovered to what radical measures public employees would embark to protect their social image, I became more outraged with each passing week culminating in the writing of my most recent novel, Tail of the Dragon which is becoming something of a libertarian cult classic as it is extremely critical of public employees.  It is so much so that my editor thought a lot of the behavior described in the book was made up, when in fact I had done extensive research into the behavior of the Tennessee Highway Patrol to make sure I did not unfairly portray them in my massive car chase story.  Now, more people are starting to feel more comfortable talking about their bad experiences with public employees as the taboo is being removed—justifiably so.  As I travel around Florida quite a lot and consider it a second home, a recent outbreak of stories caught my attention involving the Lakeland police department that deserves extreme criticism.  But before diving into those events, it must first be explored why public employees are prone to corruption.

The trouble with tax payer funded jobs no matter what level they are provided is that they encourage employees to comply with rules and regulations that are not constructed by their own minds.  Public employees, most likely every one of them, hope to bring meaning to their own lives by sacrificing their efforts to social causes—like teaching, fighting fires, or doing police work.  However all those positions are often controlled by labor unions, which are driven toward liberal politics by generating revenue to support progressive social policies.  The duality of this problem informs the workers that they are simply cogs in the system and that the statism of that system is more important than their individual needs.  Young employees tend to be deeply ideological toward statism while older employees are often broken mentally by their retirements.  This leaves employees in the in-between phases—somewhere around the 7 to 15 years of employment mark–to be deeply corrupt morally, and ethically and it is this group of public employees that often get involved in the sex scandals that are raging in public schools and on police forces.  Their minds are bored as their wages are often very good, yet the contents of their jobs are not stimulating.  Cops spend a lot of time waiting for something to happen and most weeks of the year, there isn’t much to do especially in a community like Lakeland, Florida which is a direct benefactor to the Disney World boom of Orlando.  Because of the extra tourism dollars that come to Lakeland from Orlando, the cops there have nice new cars, a nice police station, and more employees on staff than they really need which of course is sold to the community as “safety.”  But the reality is that there are a lot of public employees who are paid a lot of money to not think, and to simply go with the flow of the system—put in their time and retire with a wonderful pension.  In the meantime, they look for some way to live out their individualities through acts of rebellion prior to surrendering to the statism of the systems they work for.

In Lakeland Sue Eberle, aged 37, has told officials that she had consensual and sometimes coerced sex with police officers and firefighters, and that she once was propositioned by a city worker in Lakeland. Eberle’s accounts of the liaisons were largely corroborated by her sexual partners and others within the police department, and published in a graphic, 59-page report written in an incredulous tone by the county’s top prosecutor. It said the department’s problems investigating crimes might be caused by some high-ranking officers being more interested in having sex with Eberle than doing their jobs.  In essence Sue Eberle was the victim of sexual abuse as a child so she had boundary issues apparently, and once the police department found out about it as Eberle was also a public employee, they psychologically took advantage of the woman to have frequent sex with her all over Lakeland which the entire police force including superior officers knew about.  Read more at the link below:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/10/moral-bankruptcy-shocking-number-of-fla-cops-entangled-in-deplorable-sex-scandal/

Eberle is married to an understanding husband who seems to really want to help her with her issues, and most of the police were married also.  Apparently in Lakeland nobody cares about such promiscuous sex.  But what is worse is the massive display of collectivism that occurred within the police department which can only be compared to a bunch of high school kids who wish to exploit the class slut to experiment sexually so they can gain experience. The Lakeland police were sharing the body of Sue Eberle without a care in the world to the impact it might have on her husband, or even their own families and they all knew that each other were involved in sexual liaisons with the woman.  The practice was so common that it was a joke within the department where even senior officials blew the behavior off as commonplace.

Yet the abuse was not regulated to just the public employees in Lakeland where police were able to live out their individual fantasies of imposing their manhood upon a yielding female, because the target was too easy.  Some of those police officers looked for ways to turn up the heat on the civilian population.  The cause of all this sexual deviancy of course is the modern trend of confusing men who biologically are alpha males and telling them that in the context of their spouses they are supposed to be betas.  Men are told to yield to women who are convinced that they are supposed to be alpha as well.  Two alpha’s in a sexual/business relationship like marriage causes conflict which both parties avoid by living separate lives within the household sexually and emotionally.  Men who know they cannot be alpha males in their own homes will seek to create a caricature of themselves elsewhere where they can at least pretend to be strong alpha males even as they may appear to be yielding beta males socially.  Visit any gentleman club, or check the client listing of any escort service and hundreds of thousands of such men will be discovered.  For more on this read my article about Fifty Shades of Gray.  CLICK HERE. The problem is one of the most destructive trends in modern society and is exacerbated when public employees who are crippled psychologically are given power over other human beings as authority figures.

A Lakeland, Florida police officer recently asked a woman to lift up her shirt, bearing her midriff, and shake out her bra during a traffic stop that is being investigated for the “highly questionable” and “demeaning” search method, the Ledger, a Lakeland newspaper, reported.  Zoe Brugger was pulled over by Lakeland Police Officer Dustin Fetz on May 21 for driving with a broken headlight. She was then found to be driving without a valid license as well. But the Ledger reported State Attorney Investigator Mike Brown’s report saying what happened during the stop was a violation of Brugger’s constitutional rights.  It is obvious the Officer Fetz enjoyed having power over the very compliant Brugger, and her compliance fed the ego of the officers prompting them like drug addicts to pursue more investigation to get their mental, and sexual fix.  Read more at the link below:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/21/police-officer-has-woman-perform-highly-questionable-and-demeaning-bra-shake-during-traffic-stop/

It is obvious that Lakeland, Florida has too many police officers as there isn’t much to do but to have sex with other employees, and harass citizens during routine traffic stops.  The cause of the corruption was government convincing the voters of Lakeland that for their own safety they needed to hire a large police force that they didn’t need to feed off tax dollars so that they could harass the tax payers with authority given to them by the state.  Because the police jobs were created to fulfill the desires of statism and not logical need, the positions were filled by employees that are dangerous psychologically and given authority over the innocent by means that violate individual rights.  The acts of sex that have been discovered in Lakeland are rampant in virtually every community.  I know a lot of cops, and have known many more in communities from West Virginia to the upper counties of Ohio and the stories of what has happened in Lakeland can be found in nearly every policing district to some extent.  Lakeland is not the exception, but the general rule.  Anytime there are state employees that are given authority over others, abuses are found.

My anger at this statist system of thought is the underlining theme of my novel Tail of the Dragon.  For those who share that anger, I would suggest reading it and enjoying with great fanfare the act of rebellion that reading that book represents against the statism of our modern age which values beta men who would rather cry over spilt milk, than to show any level of grit in the face of danger.   The sexual deviancy of the police in Lakeland is endemic of the type of people who are attracted to public sector jobs, and those types of people should not be given authority over others.  So long as it continues abuses will continue.  The dialogue that is currently present is only touching the tip of an iceberg as these corruptions have persisted over many years.  Only now are people beginning to admit that they do not enjoy trading their individual sanctity for security.  However, there are more than ever due to social breakdowns, people like Sue Eberle who might appear as a perfectly rational human being at the grocery store, but has within her mind open doors imposed upon her as a child by trusted family members who taught her that open coercive sex is the norm.  Those people vote, and in a democracy since they have no moral barriers against statist behavior do not see the fallacy of their involvement.  They vote for every school levy, every fire levy, and every police levy because they believe that their society will be safe if those employees are present when exactly the opposite is true.  Society is safer when public employees are reduced and statism is kept out of communities allowing individuality to reign as the ruling factor over the tyranny of the power-hungry public employees who have been given authority to act out their deepest, darkest fantasies while being paid by the tax payer to be social deviants all in the name of justice.

Sue Eberle is not alone…………………….

Rich Hoffman

“Justice Comes with the Crack of a Whip!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

“You’ll Be Hearing From Mr. Rich Hoffman”: Sharon Poe talks to Darryl Parks about school levies on 700 WLW

Sharon Poe is a tax fighter in the Mason City school district and a personal friend of mine who was on 700 WLW with Darryl Parks recently as they discussed the ridiculousness of the local school levies that are emerging for the November 2013 ballot.  Darryl Parks and I used to have very similar views of public education and the stupidity of school levies as a way to fund learning for children.  But that has changed over the years.  My fight with Lakota has been intense at times and they asked me through members of No Lakota Levy for a cease-fire in the spring of 2012, which I gave them.  The terms of the deal were that I wouldn’t continue to expose their inefficiencies on national radio stations and television, and they wouldn’t ask for a levy for 2 years.  The deal was made two months after the famous “Latte Sipping Prostitute” comments that I made about the typical levy advocate at Lakota and I told Channel 19 the specifics of the deal when they interviewed me for the announcement of the levy truce from Lakota.  CLICK HERE to review.  During the broadcast on WLW Sharon told Darryl that Lakota was getting ready to put another levy attempt on the ballot because she knew what I had told her, about the 2 year deal with Lakota.  Basically Lakota made a deal with their teachers union in 2011 to take a pay freeze and that deal expires in June of 2014, so they need money to pay their teachers long promised raises.  But my argument all along is that the teachers and administration at an average pay of over $63K per year in wages were making too much money to begin with, and needed to slash their wages by at least 5% to properly balance their budget which has been ignored by the administration.  Instead the school board chose to spend a lot of money rebuilding their public relations image and disregarded any attempt to reign in their extraordinary wages and hoped that the community would go back to sleep in time for them to pass another levy in 2013, ahead of the new teacher contract.  Their actions were known all along, and Sharon warned over the 50,000 watt flame thrower of WLW that Darryl could expect to “Hear from Mr. Rich Hoffman” once Lakota made their announcement, which they now have.  For me, this officially breaks the cease-fire, and now the campaign against their tax increase can begin.  They won’t like the results.

Unlike Darryl Parks, where he supports public education because it is attached to property values, I have evolved into thinking that government should not be involved in education in any capacity.  The more I learned about the kind of characters in public education, the more I am convinced that those types of people should not be teaching the next generation.  My position has moved from one of pure logic centering on cost to one of philosophy.  The game plan of public education is wrong, and I cannot support it knowing what I do after my experiences in dealing with Lakota administrators, then comparing those observations with districts all over Ohio.  The failure of public schools repeats in virtually every district no matter what the wealth demographic, or population density.  I see that competition needs to be introduced to the education process, and that property values need to be divorced from school districts if such values can ever be expected to stabilize over time.  To continue to participate in the reactionary nature of school aged real estate catering is to destroy communities over the long haul, and Lakota is a prime example of how this process needs to implement such changes in public perception.

So I have no desire in any way to preserve the current education system.  Nothing Lakota says is important as far as rationalizations for their monetary needs.   I am not sympathetic to their issues.  Lakota has become arrogant in their assumption that they are the center piece of a community, and they were only allowed to become such a thing because of the government monopoly of public education that is tied directly to property values.  The arrangement is a government scam that ends up teaching children liberal oriented values using money from conservatives to pay for instruction they fundamentally don’t agree with.  As a tax payer, I do not support Common Core education, I do not support Global Economies, and I do not support global warming greenie weenie philosophies which are so persistent in public education.  I do not support an education system that teaches the earth is more important than a human being.  I support an education system that teaches that the human being as a thinking, conscious creature has dominion over the earth and can use the tools of the planet, and rules of nature to fashion a better life for themselves.  This is not the teaching of public education, and children should not be forced to learn such anti-concepts.  Tax payers who do not agree with the voodoo ideology of the philosopher Kant, the economics of Keynes, or the fuzzy science of AL Gore should not be forced to pay for their own philosophic destruction in a social context.  A couple of years ago when I called my political critics “prostitutes” I did so knowing that I was finished supporting public education as a legitimate social mechanism, because I was tired of supporting with my tax dollars people who were hostile to my outlook on life.

During the span of time that Lakota agreed to a ceasefire I decided that upon the next levy, I would do what I could to get more people involved in the levy fight.  Prior to my experiences at Lakota the number one concern that anti levy advocates had was the constant social abuse they received from levy supporters who clearly use peer pressure to override logic during elections.  My reasoning for calling the bullies of Lakota the names I did was to demonstrate to the many hundreds if not thousands of Lakota residents the limits of the pro levy supporters power, so that they could see for themselves that the bullies had no real weapon beyond name calling.  In that way, upon the next levy attempt, more people than me could speak out against them without fear of boycotts, vandalism, or social castigation, which are all tactics of school levy supporters.  Over the last two years, this has been the case.  More people than ever are feeling comfortable speaking about their displeasure of school levies.  More of them are willing to go on the record in the local newspapers, and speak on television, and that is the key to defeating a fourth attempt by Lakota.

I have argued every logical angle there is against the need for any levy, and Lakota doesn’t listen and has no desire to start.  So further broadcasts of logic on the radio which are recorded for all time online, did not teach the Lakota administrators anything, so to continue to do the same kind of thing would be a waste of time.  Instead, I promised that when Lakota did propose a new levy that I would have something special in store.  I will leave the conventional arguments to others who can take the place of what I used to represent.  My new position will be much different, but every bit as sensational.  The intent won’t be this time to just examine the foolish nature of public education funding methods that are based idiotically on Keynesian economics, but on the utter debacle that the statist philosophy of learning under the United States Department of Education has created, and continues to ask for more money to perpetuate.

I welcome the help from other anti-tax resisters, yet recognize that new strategies must always be utilized if fresh ideas are to be injected into any given argument.  For the Lakota Levy of 2013, it is time to take those fresh ideas to a new level which represents my true feelings of what the levy represents to the community, and to the poor minds of the children who are subjected to such progressive education that teaches chaos, irresponsibility, and perpetual government dependence from unionized public workers who disguise their greed and lust for power behind the innocence of children who have been abandoned by short-sighted parents, and exploited by statist public school administers to be delivered into adulthood as shells of their true potential all in the name of tax increases.

It’s time to turn things up a bit now that the truce has been called off by the Lakota school system.  Sharon was correct when she told Darryl Parks that he’d be hearing from me.  But to what degree has been a secret that I’ve kept close and thought hard about over the last two years.  And its time to let that secret out of the bag…………………….

Rich Hoffman

“Justice Comes with the Crack of a Whip’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Map of the New World Order: What does tomorrow look like as it stands today?

What does the New World Order look like once all the forces at play today have their way tomorrow? Have a look at the map Glenn Beck assembled with a couple of his guests as they put together the pieces of a world few are willing to acknowledge is a possibility.

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Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

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

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

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Congressman Thomas Massie: What a Washington politician is supposed to look like

I normally spend a bit of effort when  I’m filming video making it as interesting as possible with depth of field changes, camera rotation, and any other means of capturing a still image—especially during a public speech.  But during the Cincinnati Freedom Expo I had put out the notification to readers of my Overmanwarrrior’s Wisdom blog that they were welcome to come up to me and say hello.  I wore my traditional hat so that readers would know who I was, and the result was a constant stream of readers who took me up on my offer.  The result was that I found myself away from the camera for most of the evening, so I missed some of the stage movement while filming speakers like Congressman Thomas Massie as seen below.  The camera work was not my best, but the audio captured from the event was classic, so much so that Matt Clark of WAAM radio used some of these video clips during his weekend show.  Massie as a sitting congressman has a reputation for voting NO on Capital Hill bills which has earned him the derogatory diagnosis of a politician who doesn’t understand “compromise.”  Yet upon listening to Massie, it is not hard to wish that every politician in Congress thought the way he does.  He appears to be one of the very good guys in politics and his speech was like a pleasant breeze on a comfortable spring day.  Check it out for yourself.

Thomas Harold Massie (born January 13, 1971) is an American politician who has been the United States Representative for “Kentucky’s 4th congressional district.”  In 2010, Massie announced his intention to seek the office of Lewis County Judge Executive; he went on to defeat the incumbent by a large margin. In 2012, Massie announced his run for the seat most recently occupied by Congressman Geoff Davis. On November 6, 2012, Massie defeated Bill Adkins in both the special election and the general election.

Thomas Massie was born in Huntington, West Virginia. He grew up in Vanceburg, Kentucky and met his future wife, Rhonda. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a Master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]

In 1993, at MIT, he and his wife started a successful company, called SensAble Devices Inc.[2][3] Massie was the winner in 1995 of the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for inventors.[1] The company was re-incorporated as SensAble Technologies, Inc. in 1996 after partner Bill Aulet joined the company.[2] They raised $32 million of venture capital, had 24 different patents, and 70 other employees.[4]

After Massie sold the company, he and his wife moved back to their hometown in Lewis County. They raised their children on a farm,[3][5] where he built his own off-the-grid timberframe house.[6]

In 2010, after attending several local political meetings in Lewis County, Kentucky, Massie decided to pursue the office of Judge Executive of Lewis County, in order to fight what he considered wasteful spending and intrusion into the lives of the county’s citizens by the government.[3] Massie won the primary election, defeating the incumbent by a large margin,[3] and went on to defeat his Democratic opponent by nearly 40 points.[7] Massie also campaigned for then-U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul, speaking to various Tea Party groups on his behalf.[3]

In December 2011, Congressman Geoff Davis announced his decision to retire from his seat in Kentucky’s 4th congressional district. After several other officeholders announced their candidacies for the seat, Massie announced his decision to join the race on January 10, 2012.[8] Massie has been endorsed by Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky,[9][10] and Rand’s father, Texas Congressman Ron Paul.[11][12] He has also received endorsements from FreedomWorks,[13] Club for Growth,[14][15] Gun Owners of America,[16] and Young Americans for Liberty.[17]

On May 22, 2012, Thomas Massie was elected as the Republican nominee for the 4th congressional district, beating his closest opponents, State Representative Alecia Webb-Edgington and Boone County Judge Executive Gary Moore, by a double-digit margin.[18][19] In his victory speech, Massie thanked “the Tea Party, the liberty movement, and grassroots Ronald Reagan Republicans.”[20] Massie was challenged by Democrat Bill Adkins in the general election, and was widely expected to win the election by a wide margin.[18][21]

Since being sworn in, Massie has voted on and co-sponsored several key pieces of legislation, including voting against the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013, otherwise known as the NDAA,[32] and co-sponsoring legislation in favor of industrial hemp,[33] and repealing federal gun free zones in schools.[34] Massie also voted against the fiscal cliff deal, stating “This plan is Washington kicking the can down the road […] The modest spending cuts agreed to in the 2011 debt ceiling deal are postponed by this bill. This bill does nothing to reform our bloated tax code — in fact the bill perpetuates Obama’s failed stimulus spending within the tax code. Finally, it fails to address entitlement reform or the solvency of Social Security and Medicare.” [35] Massie also broke from the majority of his party by opposing the reelection of Speaker of the House John Boehner, instead casting his vote for Republican Congressman Justin Amash of Michigan.[36]

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Massie

Thomas Massie represents the type of man who is supposed to be in congress.  As a free and independent thinker who was wealthy before ever stepping into office known forever as the inventor and proprietor of SensAble Technologies, being a politician for Massie is the way it should be for every congressional district in America.  Massie has talent and wisdom to offer based on a thus-far successful life, so he is not prone to the pressure of Congressional leadership attempting to force his vote in a whip, or to toe the line as a non-thinking representative of the 4th District.  Congressman Massie is what every member of congress should look like and after a few years of service, they should leave their congressional seats and return to their businesses.

Congressman should not hold a seat to earn the sizeable check or hold office for 20 to 30 years.  They should never seek to become wealthy off lobbyists.  They should 100% of the time vote their minds no matter what party they are from, and should never—EVER—vote as a compromise to collective democracy.  NEVER!  They should never allow their arms to be twisted in a way that their minds reject.  They should never be told how to vote, as was indicated by Massie during his speech.  There should never be a table of people who have read a 2000 page bill instructing congressman who have not read a bill how to vote.  To do so is to surrender the American representational republic to a thuggish mass driven democracy.

Out of the whole event at the Cincinnati Freedom Expo, out of all the wonderful speakers, it was Congressman Massie who spoke to me most clearly.  It was his words as a sitting congressman who confirmed much of what many already suspected.  Congress is corrupt beyond repair due the current trend allowing the philosophy of congress to be one of emphasis on democracy instead of a representative republic.  The former will slowly destroy itself as a mass of collective minds never succeeds, and cannot direct society in a positive direction.  Only independent minds committed to uncompromising truth can do so, and in the fog of the day, it is congressman like Thomas Massie who represents the best and brightest of how congress should operate.

Listening to Massie speak for me was the highlight of the evening, and worth the effort of the entire event.  In a simple 20 minute speech Massie summed up the goals of the Tea Party movement and displayed what is right in government so all could see what it is supposed to look like.  I appreciate all the readers here who approached me to talk and converse in person.  If I was distracted during Massie’s speech, I apologize because I was really enjoying what he was saying.  Congressman Massie represented not only the 4th Congressional District of Kentucky that evening of April 19th 2013, but the hearts and minds of millions of Tea Party Patriots who are hungry for honesty and clarity in a representative republic, perhaps for the first time in American history.  It’s not that the Tea Party wishes to return back to the yesteryear of a bygone era.  The American Constitution was manipulated and corrupted by incomplete minds and power-hungry politicians from the very start, so America has never fully been what it was designed to be.  But people like Congressman Massie are excellent examples of what America should be, and is what the Tea Party expects in elected representatives.  The people who the Tea Party must fight are those who would attempt to paint good people like Massie as radical extremists of “uncompromising” integrity.  Anyone who utters such a thing is a contributor to the looters of modern America, and villains to the lives of billions of innocents across the Earth.  Because as freedom lives or dies in America, there is no light left on Earth for any hopeful being to wake up and live on their own terms but in the shores of The United States.  And such hopes for such dreams are carried on the many strong backs of representatives like Congressman Massie and many thousands of less glamorous souls attending the halls of the Northern Kentucky Convention Center.

Rich Hoffman

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The Cincinnati Freedom Expo Speech by K Carl Smith: Ending modern slavery to a government master

One of the most inspiring speeches at the 2013 Cincinnati Freedom Expo came from K Carl Smith founder of the Frederick Douglass Republicans.  Smith as a father and grandfather is an unyielding defender of the Constitution, who has been deeply inspired by the Founding Fathers—a message that has the political left terrified.  As a man of color, Smith has taken the very bold steps of declaring his individuality of thought into advocating his beliefs which unfortunately is unique among African-American demographics who overwhelmingly support the current president Barack Obama not from principle, but due to skin color.  K Carl Smith during his speech to a crowd of thousands was a breath of fresh air as he proudly set the record straight on a number of misconceptions not just related to race, but the little known history of Fredrick Douglass which many in the African-American communities of today are deliberately prevented from learning about in government-run schools.  Such an attempt would logically appear to be one not much different from when slavery in America was practiced, as slave holders attempted to prevent human beings from learning to read, so slaves would not gain the mental capacity to advance their social position.  In the absence of thought, human beings of all color regulate themselves to collectivism and tribal behavior.  Public schools, especially in inner cities are more committed to political preservation and demographic bloc votes than lighting up the young minds of millions with the truth about Frederick Douglass.  That is………..until K Carl Smith came on the scene in 2009 with a message that threatens to ignite a revolution of conservatism in African-American circles and truly end the kind of education slavery that is currently under way in the world of politics.

Frederick Douglass (1817-1895), was an American abolitionist, orator, and writer, who escaped slavery and urged other blacks to do likewise before and during the American Civil War (1861-1865). He was born in Tuckahoe, Maryland, the son of a slave. In 1838 Douglass escaped slavery and reached New Bedford, Massachusetts. Following an antislavery convention in 1841, he became an agent of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. His work for the Underground Railroad, a network that helped slaves escape to free areas, did much to further the cause of the abolitionists and made his name a symbol of freedom.

In 1845 Douglass went to England to escape the danger of seizure under the Fugitive Slave Laws. His lectures on the question of slavery in the United States prompted his admirers to raise funds to purchase his freedom. After returning to the United States in 1847, Douglass became the leader of the Underground Railroad in Rochester, New York. There he established the abolitionist newspaper North Star, which he edited until 1860.

During the presidential election of 1860 Douglass campaigned for Abraham Lincoln. Following the outbreak of the American Civil War (1861-1865), he helped raise two regiments of black soldiers. After the war, Douglass fought for enactment of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. He later served in governmental positions, including U.S. minister to Haiti (1889-1891).[1]

Douglass supported the Republican Abraham Lincoln who finished the work started by Thomas Jefferson and other Founding Fathers in 1770 when Jefferson represented a slave in court arguing for his freedom stating “Under the law of nature, all men are born free.  Everyone comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will.  This is what is called personal liberty, and is giving him by the Author of Nature.” Tragically Jefferson lost the case.  In 1772, he also argued a similar case.  In 1773 and 1774 a number of American colonies, including Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania, passed antislavery laws, all of which were struck down by the King in 1774.  That year according to David Barton in his book The Jefferson Lies, Jefferson penned “A Summary View of the Rights of British America.”  His purpose was to remind the British that legitimate American concerns were being ignored—one of which was the king’s veto of American antislavery laws.  Jefferson wrote, “The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state (by Britain).  But previous to the enfranchisement of the slaves we have, it is necessary to exclude all further importations from Africa.  Yet our repeated attempts to effect this…have been hitherto defeated by His Majesty’s negative (veto).”  It was the King of England at the time who imposed slavery on America against the will and desires of people like Jefferson who inherited his slaves.  As considered property he could not release his slaves to the world to be free, but he could allow them to reside as such on his real estate—which was how many abolitionists were forced to conduct their rebellion against the King and England’s pro slave policies.

Anti-slavery was one of the key reasons for igniting the American Revolution, and if that act of rebellion had not occurred, it is most likely that slavery would still be openly practiced throughout the world.  The Founding Fathers started the dialogue and created the means for patriots like Frederick Douglas to escape slavery and help self-taught politicians like Abraham Lincoln get elected and fight the second part of the American Revolution, the final nail in the coffin of slavery, the Civil War.  It was capitalism that set the slaves free in the north by creating a Constitution that allowed for laissez-faire capitalism.  Machines, innovation, and improved manufacturing techniques allowed the north to show the world that production could be obtained without statism and forced breaking the chains of enslavement on the human mind for the first time in the history of the world, and the revolution of which Frederick Douglass participated in by helping Lincoln become President was one to wipe the last remnants of European slave culture off the North American continent once and for all.

However, jealous Europeans settled America after the War of 1812 and determined to end American independence with education instead of guns—as the later did not work as the British were again defeated in 1815 for good by Andrew Jackson and a band of hearty pirates lead by Jean Lafitte (c. 1776 – c. 1823)  These Victorians entered New England and brought with them the work of Karl Marx and a not so disguised notion of new slavery through the destruction of capitalism in favor of a political system that would preserve European domination of the world through socialism.  As Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln worked to free the slaves, European socialists immigrating into the United States seeking work as educators sought the return of all human beings to the psychological chains of socialism.   The chains of slavery had evolved simply from literal chains to the mental ones of progressivism.   The intent of both was to control the thoughts of mankind in service to collective ideology.

When K Carl Smith spoke in his speech about modern slavery, this was his frame of reference.  When racism is used by the political left and progressive groups to hold as a rally cry historical revision completely made up by left-leaning educators to hold the demographic voting bloc of African-Americans they are practicing modern slavery that is little different from the slavery practiced by the American South sanctioned by the King of England prior to the Revolutionary War.  When public education deliberately attempts to manipulate history, or deny knowledge to young people, especially young African-Americans so that they will vote for Barack Obama because of skin color and loyalty to civil rights causes ignoring the obvious commitment of the American President to socialism, they are guilty of modern slavery.  The practice of teaching revisionist history is no different from the slave owner who prevented their slaves from learning to read so they could keep them ignorant, and thus dependent on the master for their life and earnings.  Any political group that attempts to hold the mind of another in a suppressed state is guilty of slavery and in modern politics, it happens all the time.  This is what K Carl Smith is fighting against, the modern slavery of suppressing the human mind from thinking, and knowing history and the realities of the American Constitution.

When a statist regime, such as what the current American government is, attempts to pay women to have babies, take control of their health care, their financial resources, and even their housing, the government is performing the same task as the slave master who tells their slaves that it is they who puts a roof over their head, feeds them, and gives them life.  The slave master can continue this only if they keep those slaves from knowing the truth, from learning to read or interacting with other minds.  The ghettos of inner cities are in the state they are not because the people who live there are free, but because they are still slaves.  The real shackles and whips that were used in the past to draw blood have been traded in for ignorance preached in public schools, and financial dependency which arrives in their mailboxes in the form of a check from government.   In this way, the chains are not needed, because the minds of the slave have been suppressed so that they never stray too far from their mailboxes, where the money arrives.  In return, the slave holding government gets not labor, but votes so that they can continue to stay in office for the same intimidating reasons that the King of England denied Jefferson the abolition of slaves in 1770.  The goal of all statist governments is to convince their slaves to do their labor under coercion for the strategic aims of the ruling minority.  The slaves can be literal, or figurative, but the behavior and aims are all the same.  K Carl Smith is preaching against modern slavery, and is using the example of Frederick Douglass to bring freedom to all men and women of all colors, and it was a pleasure to hear him speak.  He is a wonderful advocate of freedom that is performing a monumental modern feat that is in essence the third step of removing slavery from the world.  K Carl Smith is attacking through his Frederick Douglass Republicans the notion that slavery of a human being is not being done today in the traditional sense, but through the human mind, and real freedom begins and ends there.  It is his effort to break that slavery once and for all in the African-American communities and for that he is a modern hero that will earn a place in history comparable to the giants of history hitherto mentioned.

Read more at K Carl Smith’s website

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Rich Hoffman

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