Tag: Ayn Rand

The Intent Behind Amnesty: Why enemies of America want open borders

As I was doing research for my novel Tail of the Dragon I was shocked to learn that a major public relations firm that was heavily utilized in New York City had been owned by a British organization.  Since the dangers of public relations are one of the themes in my novel, I wrote about it in the context of the story, but in the process, my editors had removed the direct references during subsequent revisions of the draft.  For obvious reasons, my publishing company did not want to anger a public relations firm that is so instrumental in shaping the way Americans view the world around them, which I can’t blame.  But during the process, I learned first-hand how media is censored quietly with implied threats instead of direct ones, and how truths are suppressed while fluffy dialogue is used to propagate complete falsehoods.  Such is the true story of treachery that is centered on the very real issue of amnesty for current illegal immigrants in The United States.  There are many wealthy forces in the world who have spent a lot of money on public relations promotion to advocate why it is important for America to give illegal immigrants a fighting chance at freedom, as those same forces do everything they can to undermine American freedom by replacing the Constitution with a new document created by The United Nations.  These powerful forces support a borderless world where no country is any better than another, as all nations on the face of planet earth would be equal in every way that equality is measured.  What those forces do not say is that their method of government would be socialism/communism and that rich nations like America would be made to be poor nations like Uganda, and that the immigration policy they advocate is designed strategically to overwhelm America to the point that it is suffering from the same problem as the rest of the world which is described in the following video.  Watch closely:

Those globalist oriented European elite, who have seduced the wealthy of The United States with a kind of country club desire to be among their own kind, have mistakenly designated themselves as the equalizers of justice, in bringing to the world such equality as displayed in the video above.  Their failure is one of philosophy as they deeply wish to hold down the human race by maintaining their grip on power.  This is why these capitalists who made their wealth with free enterprise advocate government that is socialist in nature.  They want their country club to remain intact with people they understand, and wish to exclude competition to their accepted order.  However, it is their policy of socialism that has given all those indicated nations such abysmal poverty and living conditions not much better than a common insect.  So to purify their crime, but still maintain their elite status, they hope to destroy America so that no place on earth can stand against their socialist supported governments.

If you’ve ever witnessed a group of politicians meeting one another in a private setting, the ass-kissing and back slapping that permeates is ridiculous.  But at the core of the strange ritualistic behavior is the deepest, darkest desire of the human mind—an infantile desire to be accepted by one’s peers.  This is how evil is conducted in politics, and this is how a handful of wealthy donors can control the political process from top to bottom. When a politician takes money from a donor, they are like a common whore who sells their body and mind to the donor, and forgo their private action in exchange.  In this way Barack Obama is no better than a common whore on K-Street and neither is John Boehner.  In countries where socialism functions fully, it is unmistakable that the poverty level of all those countries is the ones that are the most governmentally restrictive.

In capitalist countries the poor are even rich by the standards of the Ugandas, or the Chinas.  The poor in capitalist countries are poor because of their failure to participate in capitalism.  They are poor because they allow socialism into their lives.   Socialism and political systems rooted in any form of collectivism produces financially poor people.  Countries that embrace capitalism are much wealthier; in fact the degree to which they are rich depends on the level of capitalism present in their society.  More capitalism, the wealthier the social culture.  Less capitalism the, the poorer.

But the advocates of amnesty in America–the wealthy donors who contribute fortunes of their money to political candidates too stupid to know any better believing they will gain votes from illegal immigrants if they provide amnesty, support socialism among governments so to maintain their exclusivity to wealth.  They do feel bad that their method of government creates poor people, so they rationalize their sin by making such a condition “equal” across the world.  They hope that God in whatever form they worship will see their actions as noble, buying their way into the heaven of their choice with global sacrifice.  They spend vast fortunes on public relation firms convincing Americans that illegal immigration, amnesty, and socialism are good for them.  For an example of how this is done, investigate the review of the recent Superman movie Man of Steel from the Empire Online.

“There is dramatic tension to be wrung from this: not only is he (Superman) an illegal immigrant, he’s a man-sized weapon of mass destruction. Of course the US government will distrust him.”

Notice how the immigration issue ended up in a movie review for a summer blockbuster? You can read the whole review at the link below:

http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?FID=137126

The immigration issue is placed on the mind of virtually everyone with such methods, especially newspaper reviewers and other progressive think-tanks with their hand in the entertainment industry.  The thoughts were placed there by public relations professionals who received the thoughts from clients–the wealthy radicals who want global socialism.  This is how amnesty appears to politicians as a good thing when in fact it is a Trojan Horse for global socialism advocated by a wealthy elite terrified of competition from their betters.

People have been battered into apathy though constant public relations with a monotonous insistence on insane propositions – that a valuable country like America should have an open border, and that anybody who wishes could enter the country and sign up for its entitlement programs.  Those same public relation firms paid for by the same wealthy elitists also wish the world to believe that entitlement programs can be supplied to an infinite amount of people for an infinite amount of time—which of course is false.  What the public relation firms never ask, or seek is the real meaning behind the message—global collapse of capitalism so that socialism, misery, and a world of equally poor inhabitants can permeate the modern age removing competitors from the international market using government to preserve financial empires while at the same time appealing to God almighty in bringing equality to an impoverished world they created through a philosophy of sacrifice.  Impoverished citizens make wonderful subjects willing to kneel before the gods of religion and politics—or so such evil is always justified.

The solution to the world’s problems would not be to destroy America so that the poor will have brothers and sisters to share their misery on the North American continent, but to spread the message of America to those countries so that they too could have wealth, by giving them the joy of capitalism.  If the do-gooders of the world really wanted to rid the world of poverty, they would expand capitalism and abandon socialism.  Upon such an action by the governments of the current impoverished nations, whose citizens make less than $2 dollars a day, poverty would be defeated if capitalism was practiced, instead of tyrannical control and micromanaging of their citizens.  Instead public relations firms—because they are paid like whores to do so—are advocates for more poverty, more control by the wealthy elite shielding them from unwanted competition, and the attack of the only free country on earth which happens to be the premier destination of all who hope to have a life of some worth.  The public relations companies are paid to convince Americans to give up their worth so that it will cease to be a destination of desire.  And part of that removal of worth is by taking away the value of border control, so that no such borders exist leaving value to be determined by chaos.

It may now be obvious why the reference to public relation firms in my novel were removed during the editing process.  I was able to accomplish the same thing without naming the names once the final draft went to print.  But a window to how the process worked at many different levels was available to me.  Knowing that much, it is easy to conclude then what is behind the amnesty for current illegal immigrants.  The action is not one of justice, fairness, or even hope that such people will become productive voters within the American system.  The goal is collapse of America by those who hate the country and pay homage to their European ancestors of the past who tried to destroy the freest nation on earth with guns, tanks, and politics.  Instead, the new attackers of America are using bankruptcy backed by political socialism to destroy their greatest competition on the world stage with a secret desire to keep everyone dirt poor, and hopeless so that the destitute masses will chastise themselves to sacrifice themselves to their wealthy masters.

Rich Hoffman

“Justice Comes With The Crack of a Whip!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Bill Clinton, Father of the Year: What an insult to all fathers

It is an absolutely appalling joke that Bill Clinton has been named Father of the Year by the National Father’s Day Committee.  I would consider the former president who was impeached by congress during his term, to be the anti-father compared to many of the fathers who were celebrated during the 2013 annual Father’s Day recognition ceremonies.  Clinton like the typical notion of a progressive “anti-concept” represents the undoing of fatherhood much more than a pillar of strength that most children wish for in the male portion of their parenting role-models.  Clinton is virtually everything a good person is not—so naming him “Father of the Year” is equivalent to calling the stupid family on the old Fox television Married with Children the family of the year.  Read more here:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/11/guess-whos-been-named-2013s-father-of-the-year/

The National Father’s Day Committee, an entity of the Father’s Day/Mother’s Day Council, each year confers Father of the Year Honors on contemporary lifestyle leaders of our culture whose lives are dedicated to family, citizenship, charity, civility, responsibility and reverence. The funds raised by our Annual Father of the Year Awards Presentation are directed to the support of worthwhile concerns affecting men, fathers, and families. The objective of our program is to enhance the meaning of Father’s Day and encourage universal observance.

http://www.momanddadday.com/about_fathers.htm

Apparently the National Father’s Day Committee has no idea what a good father is, otherwise they would have never put Clinton on the list, let alone giving him such a perceived honor.  I know something about fatherhood, and I am a fantastic father.  Saying that Clinton is an exceptional father is simply an insult.  Fathers are not habitual liars, womanizing punks, or call out hits on political opponents.  They also don’t eliminate whistle blowers, or have women who are the same age as their daughters perform oral sex on them in the Oval Office.  Good fathers are the opposite of all those traits, yet the NFDC named Clinton anyway.

Back in the 90s when Married with Children was on the air, and Slick Willie was in the White House, my wife and I refused to watch that show, even though it was very popular.  We watched a few scenes of it here and there just to see if we were missing the great wave of popularity that the show garnered, but I never completed a full episode.  The show was incredibly demeaning to traditional families and helped pave the way to a lot of the terrible attitudes people have toward their families in this more contemporary age.

Of course the cat is out of the bag now as to why shows like Married with Children were made in the first place getting money while programs like Little House on the Prairie went off the air, and weren’t being invited back on traditional networks.  The progressive age was in full swing and presidents like Bill Clinton were committed to finishing the task that Woodrow Wilson started making sons as unlike their fathers as possible.  The progressive statists entered politics, founded and ran the Department of Education and immediately created curriculums that degraded traditional parenting which paved the way for audiences to desire programming like Married with Children and electing the Al Bundy of politics, Bill Clinton.  Most of America during the 90’s could not relate with the old-fashioned ideas of John Wayne westerns but rather Oliver Stone through his cocaine trips of left leaning films.  America had lost its moral compass through its public education system, and shows like Married with Children reinforced the insecurities taught to them by government schools.  Politicians like Clinton simply brought to the real world the kind of characters millions of Americans had grown familiar with in Married with Children.

It would seem that the criteria for judging Father of the Year by the NFDC is in comparing all candidates to Al Bundy from that old Fox comedy.  With that as the criteria, I am proud to not be a part of the judging process because fathers like Bill Clinton and I are on opposite ends of the earth, as apparently the morally lost souls of the NFDC committee are too.  Their award to Bill Clinton is just further evidence of how treacherously lost our society has become in identifying good from bad, and right from wrong.  Anyone who can see what is wrong with the world will quickly see what a terrible father Bill Clinton is no matter what poor little Chelsea Clinton thinks.  She’s stuck with being born to such a low-life, so she’s not the best judge of character—no fault of hers.

Next year when the NFDC decides that they want to award another Father of the Year I would suggest that they not look in the local strip joints, lobbyist back rooms, and married women’s bedrooms for the sacred honor of a father.  The first step would be to look outside the political scene of New York and Washington D.C.  There is a big world outside of those very small places, and in it are a lot of fathers who are truly great, and their families love them for it.  They are Father’s of the Year not for the fanfare, the political spot light, or the social status gained from some trivial social recognition.  They are great fathers because they truly love their children, and their families know it with the greatest honor that can be bestowed upon a man, the recognition from his family that they appreciate all that he does without a single outside soul knowing anything about it.IMAGE_617

As for my own father’s day, my wife and kids treated me to a nice day at our local amusement park of Kings Island to visit the Dinosaurs Alive exhibit with my new grandson.  They gave me as gifts a picture collage of some of our past adventures together and personal notes of fond recollection.  They also gave me the soundtrack to the new Superman movie which meant a lot to me.  As I loaded the soundtrack onto my iPod I thought of what the music was saying to me………………….and it doesn’t bring to mind images of Bill Clinton, unless of course the musical theme is that of the villain.  I doubt Chelsea thinks of Superman when she thinks of her father, the supposed Father of the Year!IMAGE_626

But my kids do.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

How Public Schools Cause Alcholics and Drug Addicts: The need for healthy epistemology

Many of the failures experienced in modern society are the improper understanding of how to create a proper epistemology for the philosophy of their lives.  By epistemology it is meant to know what sort of things we can know and how we know it.  Most people these days are so uncertain of themselves, lacking self-confidence that they are unable to properly think and this is due to the notion that they have been taught by their public education institutions that nobody can know anything unless a professional tells them first what to think and how to think it.  This is why government schools are so terrible for our present society.  It is because they are providing generations of people an epistemology that is wrong, deliberately not teaching people how to think, but instead regulating their thought to “professionals” who can provide those epistemologies for the masses as centralized leaders of collective sacrifice.

This is a big problem.  Human beings in the year of 2013 seek with mind numbing tenacity to continue a destructive practice of mental evasion.  For instance, when it is asked what a particular person is going to do over the weekend, and the person responds, “I’m going to get ‘shit-faced’ drunk,” the person is really saying that not thinking is more preferred over a “thinking” exercise.   They wish to get drunk so that they can escape the process of thought.  This mentality was given to them by public education laying a foundation of philosophic epistemology that dictates surrendering thought to government employees who know better.  The conflict in the individual who wishes to get drunk comes from the persistent thoughts which come to their mind telling them that the world is different from the one they are living.  So for them, to get “drunk” so that they can be eased of the burden of thinking it is a vacation from their conflict which is highly desired.

Identifying this failure in epistemology can than explain why so many teenagers drink so heavily as part of their assimilation to the adult population.  It is expected that young people will between the ages of 15 to 22 drink themselves into mindless bliss, and this is a direct result of the public education system providing a philosophic epistemology that states thinking should be done by “the experts” and not individual citizens.   The result is that culturally, society must develop a method to turn off their minds to escape thought—because their minds tell them that what they are learning is wrong.   So drunkenness is their only escape.

Public schools do not preach drunkenness, but it is the result of their failed epistemology which creates the problem in the same way that public schools do not preach sexual deviance, but it is the direct result of their teaching as the epistemology is created by a curriculum designed to place no responsibility on individual behavior.  Such a system was designed by statist governments to advance programs for the working poor, welfare recipients, and down-trodden who are secretly desired to remain in such a state forever, for the benefit of the state.  In a state-run school, a public education curriculum cannot make the people it wishes to target for state supplied services feel bad for their bad decisions in life, so the goal of school curriculums is to make all right thinking people think like the bad ones and preach that sex has no consequences, and is not the responsibility of the participants.  The epistemology that is taught is a kind of Kantian remoteness, which sex just happens biologically without the thinking participants having any say.  The epistemology that is given to the students in public school then has the unintended consequences of sexual promiscuity that lasts their entire lives.  The teachers did not teach children to have reckless sex in their teenage years, but were socially unable to condemn the behavior that is conducted routinely in poor communities so that food stamp qualifications can be enhanced.  So the teachers instruct an epistemology that destroys the lives of all students in every community because their instruction does not teach that personal responsibility is the key to life success, planned families, and a healthy existence.

A proper epistemology is the key to living a successful life and if the education system creates an improper philosophy, then failure is imminent.  Government workers, political theorist–particularly those who wish to believe that communism is viable to the human mind, believe that any kind of politics can work so long as a society believes something.  This is simply not true.  That “something” must be good, and goodness is determined by a proper epistemology.  If the epistemology is bad, then the philosophy of a person and thus the society will also be bad.  There is no way to avoid the catastrophe of a bad epistemology.  In this way, public education institutions are bad for the human race not because their intentions are not good—they often are, but the epistemology of what they teach is terribly insufficient which makes them detriments to the human condition.  Methods of philosophy cannot be changed in and out of a person’s life like socks on the feet of a human being each morning before they are placed in one’s shoes.  A personal philosophy is the most important part of anyone’s life, for if one does not believe in anything, they will fall for everything.  But due to the catastrophe of a thinking mind being in drastic contrast to the types of epistemology that have been taught to it by institutions of modern learning, drunkenness is pursued to escape from the duality of the thinking mind being required to not think in order to survive the political stresses of the day which inform the world of an epistemology that is faulty.

When one considers what makes a person become an alcoholic, or a drug abuser this duality is always at the core.  A weak mind is the first step to not surviving the duality of an improper epistemology that is in conflict with one the thinking mind wishes to live by.  The weaker the mind, the easier it is to surrender mental evasion to alcoholism and other forms of intoxication.  This is the product of our modern institutions and why many consider drunkenness to be a vacation worthy of pursuit in their leisure time, because they wish to be free of the epistemological conflict given to them by a society which seeks to impose on the mind a system of thought that is not productive to individual welfare.

Solving the problem of individual epistemology is the key to solving many of the social ills our society currently suffers from.  Identifying a proper epistemology is the first step to solving all social problems.  Problems do not happen to people’s lives like some mystical voodoo card of chance happening.  Everything starts from a source and like simple addition and subtraction, one thought leads to another, then another.  If a person has a bad life, if they are poor, if they are jobless, if they are alcoholics, drug abusers, bad parents, bad people, the failure comes from their poor epistemology.  The fault is theirs for not living their lives with values that their minds agree with.  Surrendering their thoughts to others who create their epistemology for them will not improve their life.  “Getting drunk” will only exasperate the situation further and cause failures in life instead of giving the relief a mind in conflict with itself has from an epistemology that is imposed upon it from sources that are not from one’s own mind.  Until individual people realize that the source of their failures are their trend to not take responsibility for their own thoughts, then misery will continue to riddle their life with duality.  No individual can make the society happy with their collective desire, and yet make themselves happy.  When the decision to make society happy supersedes the individual then a crushed, suppressed and miserable life ensues.   And to date, it is public schools that most create the epistemology of the greatest number of people, and for that, they are in drastic fault.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Doc Thompson Hosts Glenn Beck’s Television Show: Explaining the “gang of eight” scenerio regarding illegal immigration

My friend Doc Thompson covered for Glenn Beck on his television show during the June 6th 2013 broadcast.   The U.S. Senate voted 82-15 on a motion to begin formal debate on the so-called Gang of Eight immigration bill that would affect 11 million unauthorized immigrants and U.S. employers.

“There are 11 million reasons to pass common-sense immigration reform that mends our broken system — 11 million stories of heartbreak and suffering that should motivate Congress to act,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said

In reference to the millions of immigrants currently in the country illegally, President Obama said, “Yes, they broke the rules; they didn’t wait their turn. They shouldn’t be let off easy. They shouldn’t be allowed to game the system.”  Doc Thompson covered this complicated issue at the video below, with more detail at the following link:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/11/u-s-senate-advances-gang-of-eight-immigration-bill/

Doc did a great job with the show.  He has come a long way from the work he did as a local radio personality in Cincinnati.  And I am very proud of him!

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Home Schooling Jumps 75%: Colleges recruit homeschooled kids to boost their academic success

If you’ve ever had to deal with a government school employee, be it a principal, teacher, or even a simple secretary, you surely know by now that they are typically arrogant, presumptuous, bastions of mundane complacency that act as though they are perpetually doing you a favor by giving you the time of day when forced to speak with them.  Occasionally, there is a sincere teacher who is quite good, but the systems they work within handcuff them to an institution that relishes poor performance the way middle management executives relish the Golf Channel.  Public school employees are generally horrendous at customer service, because they work for institutions that do not have to compete with anyone else for your business.  They know that if a parent owns a home in their school district, then the parent has no choice but to send their child to that particular school or suffer prosecution by law.  Public school employees really don’t care if they make their customers happy, or satisfied.  They are able to put on a good show for the parent teacher conferences, or other meet and greet events so long as the parent doesn’t attempt to get too involved in their kid’s life at school, but this quickly erodes once the business of teaching migrates beyond formality.  Then the real teeth of the wolves show as the not so subtle ownership of the children’s lives becomes clear.  Public education employees believe that they are co-parents with the real parents, and they treat those real parents as an incompetent spouse that has eyes on an affair finding fault with everything the real parents do.  The education professional believes their teaching methods are superior to that of parents, and they are not shy to make it known.  That is why it brings my heart great delight to see that some parents are fighting back.  Since they have no choice but to send their child to the public school of their home real estate, and typically cannot afford private instruction for their child, more and more parents are home-schooling their children at a rate that is justifiably alarming.

A little known fact since home schooled children represent only 4% of all school aged children is that home schooling enrollment has increased by 75% since 1999.  Homeschooling has become increasingly popular as common myths that have long been associated with the practice have been debunked.  Any concerns parents had about the quality of education children receive at home can be put to rest by the consistently high placement of homeschooled students on standardized assessment exams. Data demonstrates that those who are independently educated generally score between the 65th and 89th percentile on these measures, while those in traditional academic settings average at around the 50th percentile. In addition, achievement gaps between sexes, income levels, or ethnicity—all of which have plagued public schools around the country—do not exist in homeschooling environments.  If you want to meet a smart child no matter what their background, you will almost 100% of the time notice that a parent is active in their life, and the best students come from homes where the parent does all the instruction, and does not send their child to a concentration camp called public school out of convenience in needing a tax payer funded baby sitter.

Recent studies laud homeschoolers’ academic success, noting their significantly higher ACT-Composite scores as high school aged students and higher grade point averages as college students. Yet surprisingly, the average expenditure for the education of a homeschooled child, per year, is $500 to $600, compared to an average expenditure of $10,000 per child, per year, for public school students.  This is because the parent is invested in their child in a way that is biologically compatible.  The public school attempts to defy the way human beings naturally learn with an artificial instruction that is rooted in radical labor unions that are too expensive not just monetarily, but mentally.  In real dollars it costs ten times more to teach a child in a public school getting mediocre results at best, than the same child taught at home getting superior results.

The high achievement level of homeschoolers is readily recognized by recruiters from some of the best colleges in the nation. Home-educated children matriculate in colleges and attain a four-year degree at much higher rates than their counterparts from both public and private schools. Schools such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, Stanford, and Duke Universities all actively recruit homeschoolers.   They do this so they can bring their averages up in academic accountability and artificially show superior education results compensating for all the lack-luster students they are supplied with coming from public schools.

Similarly, the common myth that homeschoolers “miss out” on so-called “socialization opportunities,” often thought to be vital aspects of traditional academic settings, has proven to be false. According to the National Home Education Research Institute survey, homeschoolers tend to be more socially engaged than their peers and demonstrate “healthy social, psychological, and emotional development, and success into adulthood.”  A home schooled child is more likely to be the leader of their “pack” than just a blind participant as their egos have not been crushed into mashed potatoes in public school for social assimilation into a collective.

Based on recent data, researchers such as Dr. Brian Ray (NHERI.org) “expect to observe a notable surge in the number of children being homeschooled in the next 5 to 10 years. The rise would be in terms of both absolute numbers and percentage of the K to 12 student population. This increase would be in part because…[1] a large number of those individuals who were being home educated in the 1990’s may begin to homeschool their own school-age children and [2] the continued successes of home-educated students.”

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/06/07/Report-Growth-in-Homeschooling-Outpacing-Public-Schools

I have said it more than once, if a parent sends their child to public school, they must not care much for the child.  Public schools are government schools, and they are not healthy places to raise children.  Parents should never completely surrender their children to a public school and the employees who work in them, as the customer service is terrible, and the social implication is quite destructive.  Based on the results, all parents should make it their number one objective in raising their children to instruct those children at home under their care, and to forego the public education entirely.

When parents look at their 16-year-old child and wonder what happened to the sweet little youngster they gave birth to, most of the fault can be placed at the feet of the public school which has sought to reshape children’s minds into some Frankenstein social experiment designed to make good citizens as unlike their parents as possible as viewed by the government.  The rest of the fault rests on the parent who was too lazy, self-centered, or too stupid to instruct their own children, denying them an opportunity to be the best human beings they could possibly be.  Years ago when I was deep in fighting Lakota schools which is in my local district I was told by the arrogant teachers and PTA Kool-Aid drinkers that if I thought teaching was so easy then I’d come and teach their classes.  Well, on national radio, in the newspapers, and on television, even to members of the school faculty, I said I’d be happy to teach not just one class, but four at the same time.  When I gave an interview to the Lakota East Spark Magazine, I told the young lady who interviewed me that I would be happy to teach all their classes at the school if anyone wanted to take me up on it.  Ironically, that article never made it to print.

There are times when I truly do wish that I could home school everyone’s children, and teach them real knowledge, not the crap they get in public school.  The public school employees and their followers thought they stumped me when they challenged me to teach their classes.  They thought I would decline out of fear that I couldn’t match their “massive” intellects.  Please…………….they think this way because they have no competition and do not know, or care to know that most people functioning in the world successfully know a whole lot more than they do.  And thankfully for 4% of all school aged children, they have parents who understand that they are better qualified to instruct their own children than some arrogant government employee who is trying to use children to cash in on a cushy job.  I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, if you love your children, you’ll take them out of public schools, and teach them yourself.  If you want to raise a social malcontent, a diabolical menace to society, a pot smoking, future alcoholic, a liar, a cheater, and unstable social bully, then send them to be instructed in public schools where those are the skills of the instructors.  If you want a smart young adult who is kind, thoughtful and reliable to their future spouse and the children that come from that union……………..then teach them yourself!

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The PRISM Program: How government hopes to “PURGE” the world of challengers to statism

Dear reader, I hate to say I told you so, but…………………..I told you so.  I stated many, many months ago that the government was watching everything you were doing, and that America was headed down a direction of the dystopian novel, Brave New World, and 1984.  CLICK TO REVIEW.   Now it is obvious to all that the government led by the NSA and many other organizations have been looking at phone records, email accounts, video conferencing between businesses and virtually every aspect of life of all Americans under The Patriot Act for the thinly disguised notion of bringing safety to the nation.  But like the IRS, the Justice Department, and virtually every government agency including the local teacher at your children’s school they are filled with incompetent employees operating with faulty minds.  The NSA is spying on the nude pictures of our children that are recklessly sent to their budding relationships, not for the protection of the nation, but for their own pleasure.  The NSA enjoys knowing the social connections of every adult of the American population because such knowledge is power and can be used against targets at their discretion.  Read all about the PRISM data collection scandal at the following link:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/06/bombshell-report-govt-also-tapping-servers-of-top-internet-companies-to-collect-americans-emails-photos-messages/

Maybe now skeptics won’t question what has been reported about Common Core education, Obamacare, Agenda 21, Muslim penetration of our government, global consensus effort to collapse the American dollar, communist influence of labor unions, a socialist take-over of American government, and many other controversial topics that have been regulated to conspiracy theory.  “They” are watching and “they” have their fingers in virtually every aspect of your life dear reader, and you let them do it.

For further proof of their vast network of manipulation and influence, let me draw your attention to the film released this weekend previous called The Purge.  I can personally attest that there are thousands of wonderful projects on the desks of Warner Brothers, Paramount, 20th Century Fox and Disney right now yet Hollywood is in lock step with government statism for the same reason that the PRISM program has companies like Google, Yahoo, and MSN under their thumb, because of the power and reach of the Justice Department and tyranny of the IRS to make life miserable for large profitable companies.  It is easier for such companies to bow at the feet of their destroyer to preserve themselves and their small fortunes than to fight them toe-to-toe on idealistic premises.  Extremely creative filmmakers like Christopher Nolen have been able to rebel against the system while at the same time appearing to adhere to the rules, like Batman who plays Bruce Wayne in public, but becomes Batman at night.  But most Hollywood types regulate themselves to ass-kissing the statist regime of present government in the same ways that Mayan priests sacrificed prisoners of war to the god of feathered serpents.  In The Purge the movie is set in the year 2022 and the United States is governed by a group of multinational corporations called “the New Founding Fathers of America.” Because the nation is overwhelmed with crime and prisoners, the society allows an annual 12-hour period where all crimes are legal: theft, violence, murder, anything goes.  During the so-called “purge,” all emergency services are suspended and the only rule in place is that harming high-ranking government officials using “Class 4″ weaponry is not allowed.  The film is an obvious attempt to demonize the Tea Party and the arguments against small government by displaying a nightmare scenario illuminating what government services do for society. For confirmation on the film’s intentions, examine what the director James DeMonaco said about his motivations.

“I layered in these New Founding Fathers, this regime that we voted into power at some point, some kind of NRA-thing that took over the country…But I kind of left that to the audience. I think sometimes in my writing I try to spoon feed too much, it’s better to let the audience make their own decisions on things.”

DeMonaco knows that as a “B” movie director if he wants his projects funded, he must adhere to the rules.  Those rules dictate that statist oriented stories should be told in Hollywood.  CLICK HERE TO READ AYN RAND’S WARNING ABOUT THIS ALONG WITH WALT DISNEY AND JOHN WAYNE.  Clearly the criteria is not one of quality, as nobody in their right mind would ever declare that DeMonaco’s The Purge has more box office potential over my own Tail of the Dragon.  The difference is DeMonaco wrote a story against Tea Party ideas where I wrote a story in favor of them.  Through the labor unions of Hollywood, the statist network is already put in place and works lock step with the aims of the federal government.  Further, investors in such projects know that they are being watched, so they give their money to projects like The Purge over projects like Tail of the Dragon hoping that the IRS will not audit them for their other business dealings, and that the NSA will not reveal to the media the affair they are having with a Las Vegas showgirl.  Should such investors give their money to a project like Tail of the Dragon, suddenly their private emails from years ago would be passed along to their wife, their tax records blasted into the media, and harassment  from federal agents would cost them many times more their investment in progressive films through the legal fees incurred.  That is why the PRISM program by the federal government is so dangerous and why crappy movies like The Purge get made while better, and more conservative projects sit on the shelf in Hollywood.

 

The Purge sucks by the way, it’s a horrible film which hopes that millions of dim-witted teenagers will grow up and vote for more government into their lives so that they won’t have to suffer through the grim reality of The Purge.  It is unbelievable that this title actually got a summer release!  It belongs in the first week of February, or around the third week of October, a terrible decision that only demonstrates to what effect Hollywood is willing to sacrifice for the gods of statism.  What is most disconcerting is that such a terrible film could be made, and that statist government has penetrated the blank philosophies of America’s story tellers to such a reckless extent.   Filmmakers like DeMonaco have learned to shape their personal beliefs around those of statism because they lack personal philosophic principles.  They have weak epistemologies that are shaped by where the money for their projects comes from.  That money is influenced by programs like project PRISM who linger behind all of our lives threatening to reveal our secrets if extortion proves faulty.  In this way statism has taken control of many industries under the guise of personal liberty.  But the choices are really between suffering and living, and such choices are not those of free people, but of existing slaves, of which filmmakers like DeMonaco are a part.

You have been told dear reader how the world works, and now you are beginning to have proof that these things I have stated are not conspiracy.  So what are you going to do about it?  Will you continue to be an empty vessel of a mind seeking to defer your thoughts to the popularity which has been shaped by your friendly neighborhood statist government who has the reach to enter entertainment with an obvious film attempting to incite fear toward Tea Party causes?  Or will you fill your head with your own thoughts and fight for the right to have them against a statist regime that uses safety and security as excuses to look at your sexual habits, and personal interests for the sheer aim of gaining a tactical advantage over your very soul?

Is the decision so difficult?  Is it so scary?  Or are you just too lazy to care?  If so, take another drink, get “shit faced” at the local sports bar, and enjoy the fact that some pin headed geek at the NSA has nude pictures of your children and spouses pinned to their cubical, and they are enjoying their anonymity from your wrath.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

RUSH LIMBAUGH: There’s A Coup D’etat Taking Place In The United States, Being Done By The Obama Administration

Reflecting on the administration’s recently-discovered massive domestic surveillance programs, Rush Limbaugh argued on his radio show that there is a “coup” taking place to subvert the kind of country the United States has always been.  Listen for yourself.

Welcome to the party Rush.  Many have been right where you are now for a long time.  But there is room on the bench for new faces who are just now coming to understand how sinister the Obama administration truly has been all along.  Pass along to a friend.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

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

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

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

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

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

The HAARP Conspiracy: What is it?

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

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

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

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

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

Read more here:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

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

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nice job guys!

Rich Hoffman

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

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

“To Walk in the Woods Where There is No Path”: Understanding the need to live a little dangerously

I am not used to as of yet reading through arguments where people I don’t know quote things I have said to validate their opinions.  Yet I ran across just such a quote by accident seen below from my 2004 Symposium of Justice novel.

“Walk in the woods where there is no path. Live in conflict with those that are superior to you. You will learn, hopefully not too late, that life’s greatest fruits come to those who live a little dangerously. You’ll also find that if you make batters work for a hit, they’ll respect you more as a pitcher. If they get a home run off of you, it will mean more if they earn it.”

– Rich Hoffman, The Symposium of Justice.

I often write the things I do and move on to the next topic never thinking about what impact those statements might have on a reader.  I simply offer the words in hopes of provoking thought in those who place their eyes upon my work. I told recently the story of how Peter Facinelli and I came to work on a project together and it all started with us meeting at a film festival.  I was at that film festival because a college professor had read my book and wanted to do a film version of the story which matched my own intentions, so he came to my house for a weekend of picking at my thoughts regarding his screenplay version of my novel.Fan photo2

While staying with me during this visit, he continued to compare my work to Nietzsche extensively, which I thought was nice, but not relevant.  I made only a passing reference to Nietzsche in The Symposium, but he had taken the dialogue to a whole animated level, which I thought was out of some inner need to attached meaning in his life to important things collected by his mind for the benefit of inner mythology.  So I dismissed his appreciation for my work and instead wanted to focus on the shooting schedule for his film and how we would go about it.  In my mind I had moved on from the intellectual concepts and onto something productive.  That probably has something to do with why he was so shattered when I told him he was a terrible film director when he missed our film festival deadline with footage that was too dark, poorly cut together and virtually worthless.  For me, it was just business.  I didn’t think at the time that the entire reason he wanted to make the film in the first place was that The Symposium had an effect on him, and he wanted to live out a fantasy of becoming a film director with material he felt passionate about.

At another event that I was at a few years later, I had a fan who wanted my autograph and a picture because The Symposium of Justice had impacted him in such a way.  As a person who never seeks autographs or pictures next to celebrities I wasn’t sure what all the hoopla was about.  I had recently just returned from Los Angeles where I did the thing with Facinelli and noticed that everyone was taking pictures next to everyone else.  So I stood next to whomever wanted to stand next to me for a picture.  I didn’t understand it, but I played along.  The good thing about Peter is that he made a point to drive me back to my hotel each day after the film shoot, so when we were in the car away from the set I asked him if he got tired of all the celebrity stuff.  He laughed and said that he did sometimes, but that it was a necessary part of the job.  So when I was at an event promoting the completion of my Symposium project called The Overman I signed autographs and posed for pictures playing along still not sure why anybody would want to do such a thing.  An article about that event can be seen from a Yahoo News piece shown below.

  JAMESTOWN, OH – Award-winning screen writer, author and stunt performer Rich Hoffman brought his most recent independent film project to Greene County, Ohio in March. Hoffman, originally from Middletown, Ohio, teamed up with Gery L. Deer, managing director of GLD Enterprises & Productions of Jamestown, to make a film that combines live action with the latest in high-definition computer generated imaging.

 

It took more than 12 hours to film the live action for the five-minute film short. Post production will take more than a month to complete and the film is scheduled to be released following its premier at the 2009 Indie Gathering independent film festival, August 14 in Cleveland.

The script is based on characters in situations introduced in Hoffman’s dark, futuristic, action novel, “The Symposium of Justice,” released in 2004. The project is professed to be on the cutting edge of digital video effects.

“Rich had an ambitious production schedule and a deadline that required us to do a great deal of work in a very short time,” said Deer, who is best known locally for his work as an independent journalist and entertainer but is also an experienced stunt performer and producer. “We had everything he needed to meet the production goals and, I have to say, short of a Star Wars movie, I have never seen so much green screen material in one place before; it was quite impressive.” All of the sets and background effects will be added in post production.

Green screen is a common term referring to the Chroma key technique used for mixing two images or frames together on film. In Chroma key, a color from one image is removed or made transparent revealing another image behind. This technique is also referred to as color keying, color-separation overlay, and bluescreen.

This process has been used for many years on weather broadcasts, where the presenter appears to be standing in front of a map, but in the studio it is actually a large blue or green background. In film and television production, the process is used to enhance visual effects or reduce costs on set construction.

Actors working on a green screen set perform among green-colored set pieces and backdrops. In post production, specialized computer software recognizes the green tinted background and makes it transparent and replacing it with digital effects. The actors, set pieces and props then appear to be in whatever setting required. Recent films like “300,” “Sin City,” and “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow,” have used this process to create both characters and settings.

Everyone is donating their time to this independent film project, as so many Hollywood-based productions are doing today. GLD Enterprises & Productions provided the production facility and set crew and stunt performers for filming the live action as well as various engineering and technical services.

The hope is that the final product will draw new business for the cast and crew in this sluggish economy where production capital is hard to raise. “This will be a great way to show what our group can do,” said Hoffman. Fortunately, Deer and Hoffman came into the project with an impressive track record.

In 2006, Hoffman’s script, “The Lost Cannibals of Cahokia,” won the highest award possible for a feature screenplay in the horror category at the Indie Gathering international film festival in Cleveland. Since then Hoffman has continued to develop other projects and recently returned from Hollywood where he worked on another independent production as a stuntman and fire whip specialist. A fire whip is a Kevlar bullwhip which is soaked in a specially formulated combustible fuel used for the visual effect.

Deer’s resume includes multiple performance and contest awards and work as a property consultant and designer for the 2003 Universal Studios movie, “The Rundown,” as well as roles in several independent film productions. A writer, whip stunt coach, publicist, and voiceover artist, Deer has been featured on television programs like NBC’s America’s Got Talent and The Bonnie Hunt Show. Deer is also a registered Writers Guild of America screenwriter.

The work was done on a closed set and the details of the script have been kept secret pending the outcome of the film competitions No title has been released at this time. To see photos or get more information about the project go online to www.gldentertainment.com  and click on Hoffman Collaboration.

Source http://voices.yahoo.com/ohio-production-company-plays-major-role-futuristic-3151948.html

I had to finish what that director had started which is what The Overman was all about.  In reality it turned out to be a sample of firewhip work against greenscreen to demonstrate how those two technologies could be incorporated.  We had to shoot all those scenes outside because of the fire and the intense light from the fire making keying in colors during post-production a nightmare, but it worked well and was an award-winning effort.

The purpose of all this is that I wrote The Symposium of Justice from the heart, and many people came to enjoy it, but I moved on to the next phases of my life without looking back much or taking much time to consider what impact that novel had on people. It does make me feel good that so many people enjoyed it, and wanted to work with me just to be near the person who wrote the words.

Now it is equally strange for me to see quotes of my novel appearing here and there as validation to philosophical positions which is a strange sensation—and I think I like it.  I enjoy it in the same way that The Symposium gave me access to people and places that I wouldn’t have enjoyed any other way but to put a story out to the world which touched lives in ways that you always hope for.

I might have been too hard on that film professor—(wanna’ be film director).  He wanted to make the film because he wanted to bring The Symposium to life even though he lacked the emotional tools to do so.  As more and more people go to the trouble of using aspects of my work to support their growing understanding, I will make an effort to be more facilitating of their expanding horizons.  And if that involves a keepsake, or memento such as an autograph, I will make the effort not to appear so stand-offish.

Rich Hoffman

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

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