I often get called a sexist by idiots who have swallowed the hook of feminism without consideration. I have traditional values in regard to the roles of the sexes in domestic life and in the upbringing of children. Critics of mine draw their terminology from low intellect sloths with assess the size of their mouths—and they do it to attempt control of my behavior when they discover that they can’t out maneuver my strategy. That type of name calling is not about correctly labeling a dire social position or old-fashioned neurosis, but in gaining control over another person. It is often an offensive tactical maneuver to attempt to play a race or sexism card created by progressives to leverage control over the powerful. Similarly I have watched this whole issue involving Donald Sterling who was obviously jealous of his mistress girlfriend V. Stinviano’s enjoyment of men with color—and didn’t want to be made a fool of at his Los Angeles Clipper games of which he was the owner. After all, he’s 80 years old and left his wife of many years to hang out with young women like Stinviano—so he doesn’t need her bringing around young studs to public settings where people know that he’s sexually engaged in the same young woman only not for his prowess, but his money. That’s what I heard when listing to the tapes accusing him of racism—of which Stinviano recorded to gain power over her sugar daddy—which worked. Now Sterling is destroyed as the machine of progressivism has went to work at removing his property ownership of an NBA team and virtually everything he ever was by accusations of being a racist. Even Snoop Dog weighed in to give his two cents about the Donald Sterling case.
Many of those opinions have been formed by progressive influences that have dumped billions of dollars into years of shaping the parameters of social terminology. George Soros for one, Bill Gates for another along with thousands of others who are excessively wealthy and seem intent to help shape the world toward progressivism have been bold about their assertions regarding feminism and racism advocating an open society where the government does the child raising while all able-bodied adults work and pay taxes to supply the state with the money it needs to properly fund the kind of socialism that progressives are such large supporters of.
However, in the recent case of the 329 schoolgirls from northern Nigeria stolen in the middle of the night from a boarding school in the Chibok region currently being sold as sex slaves to members of the Boko Haram—there doesn’t seem to be the same kind of anger from the Snoop Dogs of the world—the progressive social shifters who are so inflamed with rage over the Donald Sterling racism issue. After all, in regards to the 329 little girls, they are female, so feminist groups should be outraged, they are young ladies of color, so civil rights leaders should be even more angry than they are over Sterling, and every human being in the world should be upset that the girls are being forced into slavery—sex slavery at that. Yet there doesn’t seem to be any desire to help the little girls from the George Soros types—those with bottomless pit money. A few news outlets have written about it, but nobody has any desire to help the girls or their families with any real action.
The Boko Haram literally means in Nigerian “Western education is sinful,” and members of it are associated with the Taliban movement from Afghanistan. From the perspective of those Islamic radicals, they are intent to make all of Nigeria a strict Muslim country operating under Sharia Law and they don’t care who dies or what individual liberties must be trampled on to achieve their global vision. For the people who have jumped against Donald Sterling and support massive feminism in American society, or stand against the history of The United States slavery issues, and wish to advocate civil rights for all people in every corner of the world, these young girls in Nigeria need help. But none is coming. Their parents have been pooling their money together to conduct a search to locate their daughters but the region is so poor that buying a tank of gas to operate a motorcycle costs a small fortune. So the parents of the girls are helpless losing their children to the vast evils of Sharia Law.
If I were in Snoop Dog’s social position, or George Soros, Bill Gates or any progressive billionaire claiming to really care about civil rights issues, feminism, or slavery, I’d be organizing right now a mercenary group to go into Nigeria and rescue the little girls from their slave trade masters. After all, Ross Perot did something like that when he rescued his own employees from Iran who were arrested on suspicion of bribery. It’s been done before—and could certainly use the same kind of American boldness now. The book talking about that Iranian case was called On Wings of Eagles and was published in 1983. The story was made into a miniseries in 1986 and starred Burt Lancaster who played the real life role of a retired United States Army officer who organized the EDS employees into mercenaries to sneak into Iran and rescue their own people from harm.
As bold as Snoop Dog talked regarding Donald Sterling it would seem he’d be the first to organize a rescue mission to Nigeria to save those little girls from their attackers. Why not pass the hat around to his Hollywood friends to cover the cost of organizing a mercenary group to go into Nigeria, attack Boko Haram and return the girls to their families so that they don’t have to become sex slaved wives to radical Muslims ruining their lives until the end of time. Anyone who supports women rights and a world without racism should be able to get behind this effort. I have my passport right next to me and would gladly join in an effort with George Soros and the Hollywood elite if they wanted to send mercenaries to Nigeria since it is obvious that no government on earth is capable of dealing with the situation.
But nobody will take me up on the suggestion. Nobody in the entire world even though many people quite capable of funding such a thing will read this article—they’ll shake their head, and will move on to something else plagued with inaction. Most people, most feminists, most race baiters, most civil rights advocates and progressive spawns are hypocrites who know not what they demand of society. They have not thought things through to their natural conclusions. Any supporter of a one world government and open boarders for all needs to be concerned about this Nigerian situation because this is what they want to see in America. In their attack against American capitalism, they too hope that someday soon a tank of gas will cost four chickens and a mule—which in Nigerian currency might as well be a fortune. Nigeria’s problems today will be American problems tomorrow. So why not help them now in their hour of need, because if America doesn’t—specifically billionaires who support progressive causes, nobody else will help those little girls and their fate will be a lot worse than the members of the L.A Clippers NBA team or Stinviano who had sex many times with an 80-year-old man purely for money. The poor girls in Nigeria won’t even get paid to do far worse with the Muslim radicals who will cut off their noses and lips in less than a second if they believe they are honoring Sharia Law with their stolen brides taken at gun point.
The world sits and talks tough about equal rights for all—yet they don’t even lift a finger to help people who really do need it. They’ll call me a sexist because I think women should stay home with their children and actually raise them—because I believe motherhood is the most important job in the world. They’ll call Donald Sterling an ignorant racist because of private conversations leveled jealously at a girlfriend 50 years his junior who has the intellectual capacity of a box of dry cereal. A billionaire destroyed by a mixed race woman just because of progressive posturing, but when it comes to destroying a real villain, like Boko Haram—nobody does anything but talk.
That is shameful……………………………. The world is in desperate need of courage. Reports are that the girls are being raped up to 15 times a day, and it’s now been several weeks. Justice needs to be done. A rescue mission could likely be done for under $10 million. Any takers? Watch all these videos, particularly the On Wings of Eagles movie. Then decide what you are willing to do.
To kids like Tommy Vietor, two years ago is a large part of their life. However, for anybody over 40, two years ago is only a small amount of time and a fraction of their existence on earth. I don’t know how the Obama administration ever thought giving a kid who looks like he’s 14 or 15 years old so much power in The White House was a good idea but nevertheless Tommy Vietor was in the situation room the night of the Benghazi attack. When the recent news broke that The White House was directly connected to a cover-up of the Benghazi story, Vietor actually came on Fox News to attempt to spin the conversation on the Bret Baier, World News Tonight program. The reality of the situation set in once the smooth talking kid was painted into a corner by Baier when Vietor actually said, “Dude, this was like two years ago.” At that point the spin doctor had lost his credibility and the deeper roots of the scandal were revealed. Obama and his team at The White House attempted to cover-up the Benghazi story to get re-elected and now they are caught.
This is what people like me have been saying all along, only our voices were ignored as we were told that the information from the investigation was “old news.” We were told that any method of investigation into the Benghazi matter was a partisan witch hunt that was not good for the country, and that it was driven by crazed radicals who were inherently uncomfortable with the skin color of a sitting president. Out of guilt, many conservatives didn’t press the issue any further even though their primary political rival in the future was at the heart of the case, and people actually died during the debacle—and the issue was covered up during a presidential campaign—that if the results had been released earlier America would not have Barack Obama as president. Even with all those conditions present, Benghazi was covered up by many people including the national security spokesman Tommy Vietor.
If the evidence is not clear to what extent established politicians will attempt to go so to preserve their jobs, then the Benghazi tragedy will never make it easier. There was a direct cover-up more treacherous than the Watergate scandal that occurred during a presidential race where people actually lost their lives and if justice cannot be found over this case—it can’t be found for any. America should not have Barack Obama as a president—because he obtained that position through deceit. His administration lied to the American people to preserve his political presence. America should not have Hillary Clinton to worry about in 2016 as her career should be over due to her ineptitude over the Benghazi affair. Instead, The White House actually hired children to present their case to the public because they knew that older people would not be so willing to be spokesman for direct lies as more mature experienced candidates would have too much knowledge to attempt such audacious lies under one of the most critical scandals in American history.
It is 100% conclusive that The Whites House engaged in a cover-up, and that it used naive kids lacking worldly knowledge to conceal their plot. Tommy Vietor looks like he’s still a teenager, but he had the ability to speak in a sophisticated fashion giving the illusion of worldly knowledge which epitomizes the goals of the Obama administration clearly. However, when pressed with the facts, Vietor resorted to the language of his age—“Dude, that was two years ago.”
The Obama administration from the fall of 2012 to the present has been declaring that Benghazi was a thing of the past. And they have used children to advance that logic where literally two years ago in their young lives is a long time. But for the rest of the world, two years is just enough time to get the facts uncovered objectively—in spite of a massive media cover-up unwilling to admit to themselves that their beloved Obama is a deceitful insurgent intent on remaking America into their socialist utopia. These people lied and they all deserve to be punished with a minimum of ejection from American office. Obama’s administration among its many crimes is also guilty of child abuse in that they have hid their crimes behind children right out of college—still too stupid and unable to grasp large world views exploiting them for Presidential preservation. Behind Tommy Vietor’s “dude” statement is a mountain of concealed revelations that will now come forth which not even smart-mouthed teenagers can dress up to shake reality from.
This is the reason that Obama, and Clinton liked to exploit young people in their administrations hungry for career advancement and résumé padding. Not only are young people nicer to look at, but they are more prone to advancing a corrupt political agenda as they have yet to gain enough wisdom through living to decipher scandal from honor. To them protecting the objective takes the highest precedent, not getting to the truth of the Benghazi matter. Young people trained recently with the type of socialism taught in colleges are ripe for exploitation from the Obama types in the world and behind all these more obvious scandals is the one involving the exploitation of young people for personal gain. A kid like Vietor should never have a job like he had in The White House at such a tender age because underneath all the slick Saul Alisnky double-talk is still a child who resorts back to a playground argument when pressed, “dude, that was like two years ago.” Tommy Vietor sounds like a child who got caught peeking at his best friends mom through a crack in a bathroom door and is trying to shake off that memory before a big date during his senior year in high school. “Stop bringing that up, I was like a sophomore back then—now I’m all grown up—and like a senior.” Only in this case we’re not talking about some old lady’s boobs, but the dead bodies and botched management of Americans under attack by terrorists.
We were lied to, the proof is now before us—and it will be up to the adults to take charge of our country from the cult like Obama youth who from the very beginning were intent to lie, cheat, and manipulate any fact about any matter to protect the President from his own stupidity. Their result has given America a parade of scandals and a president who should not be running a nation that couldn’t afford four more years of Obama debacles to begin with. Upon detection of the administration ineptitude they relied on inexperienced young people to advance their Democratic agenda. And it worked until they were caught, and Tommy Vietor certainly was. Now there is no going back. The president can only receive the kind of treatment at the very least that Nixon did—because his actions were far, far worse. The only difference is that Obama didn’t record it on tape; he used young people like Tommy Vietor to preserve the storyline so that he could achieve the highest office in the world and pardon himself from public scrutiny with “executive privilege”
Like headhunters about to cook a captured enemy supporters of longtime Lakota West High School Band Director Greg Snyder showed up at a school board meeting demanding an explanation for his suspension. Their effort was tribal at best and displayed an uneasy byproduct of the ultra levy supporters of Lakota—creations of that same school board designed to pass higher taxes so to increase a revenue stream directly into the mouths of their teacher’s union. The natives turned against the school board when disciplinary necessity was demanded upon one of their own. Greg Snyder was suspended on April 16 and agreed to resign following an investigation that revealed he received unethical compensation for personal gain, and the band fans at Lakota wanted the issue ignored with the same kind of activism that is common among pro public education radicals—a collective display as though their unified input could change the reality of deceit for which Snyder was in trouble to begin with.
Those same tribal malcontents even took a page out of my book and started their own blog—announcing their actions ahead of time. Again, their belief indicates that they wish to alter reality with mass protest and activist support of their beloved teacher. Parents of this kind represent everything that is wrong with the public education system and in their own way government in general. In the Snyder case they are behaving like Washington lobbyists working K-Street for their small section of the political pie. At Lakota there are radicals for the band program, radicals for the art programs, radicals for the football program, radicals for virtually every extracurricular program the tax funded school offers—and they all expect special treatment—especially when impropriety is discovered. Have a look at their site for yourself—it is quite revealing.
What these radicals of public education never indicate is what is really behind their motive. In the case of these band supporters—as it is with most government school radicalism, they are driven by guilt and the peril to them is very real. Since they have squandered themselves in most cases and surrendered their children’s future to people like Greg Snyder hoping that musical futures are on the horizon for their offspring—the threat of that investment losing value for them becomes all too real when trouble is discovered. Instead of doing the work of teaching their children themselves, they pawn that task off to a Lakota teacher then expect magical results. For them when their children are invited to the Macy’s Parade as a representative of Lakota’s famed band by the highly respected Greg Snyder—their dreams of being good parents are fulfilled and they gush with pride because of the experience. For them such experiences are the culmination of years of sacrifice—of social climbing so that they could earn enough money to buy a home in an area like the Lakota school district and send their children to teachers like Snyder.
The reality of impropriety within that system is simply too great for them to understand, so they ignore the evidence to preserve their illusion. What they perceive to be good parenting is literally all rolled up into building up this grand illusion against reality—and when it comes crashing down, they are dumbfounded like the aforementioned headhunters gazing up at an airplane flying overhead and thinking that it is some kind of god. Their mentality is that of a primitive. They are creations of that same school board encouraged to activism so long as it serves the collective institutional aim of revenue enhancement. When that activism turns on the headhunters of Lakota all the school board members can do is nod in appeasement and smile with sympathy. The levy passed, and the radicalism of those same supporters had already done its job for the good of Lakota.
Too late the band supporters learned that their activism was not wanted or appreciated unless it directly served the needs of the collective whole. The system of Lakota does not care about them, their children, or Greg Snyder. It only cares for Snyder so long as he can take Lakota to the Macy’s Parade and other high-profile venues. Once his usefulness is complete, the collective system of Lakota will discard him and his supporters the way a wonderful meal might be appreciated upon eating it, but once the digestion has taken place it leaves the body uneventfully, and unceremoniously to be flushed away from our eyes and noses.
What often is lost in these cases are the children. The kids usually join these band groups to make their parents happy, to see them proudly watching from the stands during a football game. Kids just want the love of their parents—but often the parents mistakenly believe that love comes from collective experience instead of their direct input. Such mistakes feed the false importance of people like Greg Snyder who are used by the Lakota school board to generate public relations support for their revenue streams of taxation. The children are used by the parents to make their lives seem meaningful—to make all their decisions as adults justified. The school uses the children for the same purpose—but from the other end to achieve community consensus. Once those school days are complete the children enter their post education years empty husks perpetually looking for a way to fill a void in their lives that they can never quite identify. Their lives away from their parents are never quite satisfactory, and without people like Greg Snyder, they are often lost—and depressed because they never learned self-reliance. They were used as teenagers, and as young adults are empty and often directionless.
Headhunters particularly in the South Pacific cultures believed that by consuming the body of an enemy, that the spirit of that enemy would become incorporated in the body of the cannibal. To a large extent, even Native American cultures believed such things—which is why they had elaborate dances to pay tribute to the spirit of the animals they consumed for their sustenance. Like those primitive cultures which progressives have so much reverence for, the band supporters of Lakota believe that the spiritual leaders of the band have power to enrich their children with magical prosperities if only they attend their class. The school board was happy to popularize that myth so that the public would support school levies and give them money to throw at the cannibals of their teacher’s union. But in the end, the lives of the children are simply consumed by all the headhunters involved in public education, especially the ones who protested with cult like reverence the Lakota school board over the Greg Snyder case. The headhunters believe that the fates of their children are attached to a Lakota deity who can magically whisk their children away to New York to perform on Thanksgiving Day, and give them a future that they as parents cannot provide on their own. But in the end, they discover too late that all that Lakota could do for them was taking their money and use their children as sacrifices to the gods of speculative success.
I didn’t see anything wrong with the ad by they guy I will be voting for in the upcoming Republican primary challenge against House Speaker John Boehner. J.D. Winteregg, has received outside support from the Tea Party Leadership Fund in his bid for Boehner’s House seat and produced a really effective video against Boehner that was very cleaver. If Winteregg’s time in congress would be half as innovative as his campaign, we would have very good representation in Congress indeed. He has been an adjunct professor at Cedarville University, a small Christian college in Cedarville, Ohio, for the last three years. Last week however, Winteregg was told his contract would not be renewed because of the controversial elements in a political ad, a video parody of erectile dysfunction advertisements centered around John Boehner’s name. Have a look for yourself.
“They said because of the ad that my relationship with them will be done. It’s over,” Winteregg said Monday. “The ad obviously touched a nerve.”
The minute-long video includes sexual innuendo and shows couples gazing longingly at each other—which is too much for Cedarville University, Winteregg’s former employer.
“Used on a daily basis, Winteregg in Congress will help you every time the moment is right — to have your voice heard at the federal level,” a narrator says in the ad. “If you have a Boehner lasting longer than 23 years, seek immediate medical attention.”
In a statement, Cedarville University spokesman Mark Weinstein said that Winteregg’s teaching responsibilities had concluded for the semester and that Winteregg is not scheduled to teach future classes.
“Cedarville University does not engage in partisan politics and holds a high regard for displaying Christian values in the community. When faculty or staff members participate in political conversations, interviews, advertisements, or endorsements, they are doing so as individual citizens. Mr. Winteregg in his recent political campaign video did not represent the views or values of Cedarville University,” Weinstein said.
So in other words Cedarville University is supporting John Boehner and the established political structure. They are willing to go to the extent of taking away the job of a person who challenges that establishment, yet thousands of teachers every year are protected from their jobs for bad behavior against their students—where sex acts, abuse, and manipulation are rampant. J.D. Winteregg lost his job for challenging the establishment.
Is it a mystery that good people in the teaching profession sit on their hands and keep their mouths shut—just doing what they are told? Who wants to lose their livelihood for participating in political theater? The answer is almost nobody—which is why so many vast evils are conducted right under our noses—because nobody has the courage to confront them. Because when they do, what happened to J.D. Winteregg is the most common result.
Winteregg was not fired from his job for a controversial ad against John Boehner. Cedarville University was not protecting itself from “sin” by standing up for God and lashing out at the Republican challenger. J.D. Winteregg was fired to preserve the status quo by sending a message to others thinking of following the lead of the young conservative. That message is intended to keep their mouths shut—hold their nose and vote for John Boehner and hold the party line against the Democrats. The message is intended to convince them to stay away from radical behavior such as pulling the center of political activity back to the right. The goal is to just hold the ground against the left. Essentially, the message is to play into the battle plan of the progressive which has affected virtually every institutional element of our society. It is this same behavior which has allowed a community activists like Obama to outmaneuver the Speaker of the House in virtually every major matter that has moved through Washington since 2010.
The battle between Boehner and Winteregg, and Republicans against Tea Party Conservatives is essentially the fight between young and innovative against old and sold out. Who knows what kind of guy Winteregg would be as a Congressman from Ohio. He may be great, or he may fall from grace. But we do know what kind of person John Boehner is—he has fallen from grace and is ineffective. He has lost his credibility and he’ll never get it back in political office. He enjoys the pageantry of the Presidency, he likes to golf with President Obama, and he is willing to cut deals surrendering conservativism to progressivism. Clearly Boehner should not be re-elected and a fresh face needs to take over.
However, because of Winteregg’s challenge of Boehner, Cedarville University has fired the young man and robbed him of his livelihood. Instead, they as a supposedly Christian college are willing to stand behind Boehner who has lost tremendous ground to an abortion advocate, a gay community cheerleader, and supporter of the legalization of illegal drugs. By supporting John Boehner they strengthen President Obama. Boehner has been kicked around and abused handedly by Obama and has proven himself unable to compete against a complete idiot—so why should he gain one vote in the May primary? Why would Cedarville University not back a fellow Christian soldier marching off to war in Winteregg, because they are part of the problem—enablers afraid of confrontation and real support of conservative ideals. They are happy to allow themselves to be fed to the lions of progressivism without raising a fist, or defending themselves in the least way, instead, they threw Winteregg to the lions in much the way that the mob in Jerusalem released Barabbas and convicted the “King of the Jews.” That is not to say that J.D. Winteregg is Jesus Christ, but like the Christ he is challenging the authority of his day, and they are treating him the same way. With a crucifixion intended to place the insurgents back into the shadows to lick their wounds and preserve the livelihood of the Pharisees, the Republicans under Boehner are protecting their party from innovation. And they don’t care who they have to sacrifice to do it. Today it is J.D. Winteregg, tomorrow it may be you dear reader. But on May 6th when voters cast their support behind John Boehner, they will essentially be declaring…………………”GIVE US BARABBAS!” And through the election process baffled Pontius Pilot types within the political establishment will quietly be surprised to see Barabbas set free to continue playing golf with the American insurgent—Barack Obama. Meanwhile, J.D. Winteregg will be treated as an outcast, jobless and battered for challenging the orthodox authority of the Republican Party—particularly at Christian Colleges.
Those same minds will then wonder why there is so much evil in the world, and why there are no courageous heroes rising up to fight it. Then they will find themselves following Barabbas to the ends of the earth rolling in the looted wealth of established—legalized theft—and Cedarville University will get its desired donations to keep it funded from the same people who gave Boehner money to stay Speaker of the House—in name only.
My argument as to why Disney World is the happiest place on earth, and why so many people love that popular vacation destination is because of what the films, television shows, and theme parks ultimately represent—traditional American value. One of my most popular articles is about the publication of the Ayn Rand pamphlet sent to filmmakers in 1947 warning them of the communist infiltration in America at the time. Few people these days know what a battle raged in those times which was so pervasive that written works like Ayn Rand’s work was even needed. Communism was so robust that a group of Hollywood film industry professionals got together to form the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals and two of my favorite entertainment personalities of all time were in it, John Wayne and Walt Disney. Disney would continue his pursuit of the values from that alliance the rest of his life and Disney World is the living tradition of his firm commitment to the values of the MPAPAI. You can see the Ayn Rand pamphlet and the values of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of the American Ideals at the following link. They represent my America, and if you are reading this likely your values too. If you enjoy Disney World it is likely you are one of these people. The company of Disney today has been infested by progressives, and lawyers sensitive to progressive causes. But they cannot stray too far from the formula that makes them money and that is their theme parks which are undeniable references to Disney’s commitment to the MPAPAI. Because of Disney, American has not completely lost its way and the message of the MPAPAI has not been lost.
The Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals (MPAPAI, also MPA) was an American organization of high-profile, politically conservative members of the Hollywood film industry. It was formed in 1944 for the stated purpose of defending the film industry, and the country as a whole, against what its founders claimed was communist and fascist infiltration.[1][2]
The initial, immediate purpose in forming the organization was to assemble a group of well-known show business figures willing to attest, under oath, before Congress to the supposed presence of Communists in their industry.[3] And indeed, when the House Un-American Activities Committee investigated the motion picture industry, the vast majority of “friendly witnesses” were supplied by the Alliance.[3][4][5]
John Wayne served four one year terms as president of the Alliance starting in March, 1949.[9]
Shortly after its formation in 1944, the Alliance issued a “Statement of Principles:”
We believe in, and like, the American way of life: the liberty and freedom which generations before us have fought to create and preserve; the freedom to speak, to think, to live, to worship, to work, and to govern ourselves as individuals, as free men; the right to succeed or fail as free men, according to the measure of our ability and our strength.
Believing in these things, we find ourselves in sharp revolt against a rising tide of communism, fascism, and kindred beliefs, that seek by subversive means to undermine and change this way of life; groups that have forfeited their right to exist in this country of ours, because they seek to achieve their change by means other than the vested procedure of the ballot and to deny the right of the majority opinion of the people to rule.
In our special field of motion pictures, we resent the growing impression that this industry is made of, and dominated by, Communists, radicals, and crackpots. We believe that we represent the vast majority of the people who serve this great medium of expression. But unfortunately it has been an unorganized majority. This has been almost inevitable. The very love of freedom, of the rights of the individual, make this great majority reluctant to organize. But now we must, or we shall meanly lose “the last, best hope on earth.”
As Americans, we have no new plan to offer. We want no new plan, we want only to defend against its enemies that which is our priceless heritage; that freedom which has given man, in this country, the fullest life and the richest expression the world has ever known; that system which, in the present emergency, has fathered an effort that, more than any other single factor, will make possible the winning of this war.
As members of the motion-picture industry, we must face and accept an especial responsibility. Motion pictures are inescapably one of the world’s greatest forces for influencing public thought and opinion, both at home and abroad. In this fact lies a solemn obligation. We refuse to permit the effort of Communist, Fascist, and other totalitarian-minded groups to pervert this powerful medium into an instrument for the dissemination of un-American ideas and beliefs. We pledge ourselves to fight, with every means at our organized command, any effort of any group or individual, to divert the loyalty of the screen from the free America that give it birth. And to dedicate our work, in the fullest possible measure, to the presentation of the American scene, its standards and its freedoms, its beliefs and its ideals, as we know them and believe in them.[2]
In 1947, Ayn Rand wrote a pamphlet for the Alliance, entitled Screen Guide for Americans, based on her personal impressions of the American film industry. It read, in excerpt:
The purpose of the Communists in Hollywood is not the production of political movies openly advocating Communism. Their purpose is to corrupt our moral premises by corrupting non-political movies — by introducing small, casual bits of propaganda into innocent stories — thus making people absorb the basic principles of Collectivism by indirection and implication.
The principle of free speech requires that we do not use police force to forbid the Communists the expression of their ideas — which means that we do not pass laws forbidding them to speak. But the principle of free speech does not require that we furnish the Communists with the means to preach their ideas, and does not imply that we owe them jobs and support to advocate our own destruction at our own expense.[10][11]
Rand cited examples of popular and critically acclaimed films that in her view contained hidden Communist or Collectivist messages that had not been recognized as such, even by conservatives. Examples included The Best Years of Our Lives (because it portrayed businessmen negatively, and suggested that bankers should give veterans collateral-free loans), and A Song to Remember (because it implied that Chopin sacrificed himself for a patriotic cause rather than devoting himself to his music).[12]
In the end communism did win. After the McCarthy hearings of which the MPAPAI fueled, the communists won the battle of public relations. Communist infiltration of American education had produced a generation of young progressives not sympathetic to the values of the MPAPAI so McCarty was cast away into irrelevancy; the MPAPAI was disbanded after the deaths of Disney and others from his generation. John Wayne who was such an important part of the MPAPAI died just a few years later, and Ayn Rand a few years after that. Ronald Reagan who was a part of the MPAPAI went on to become President of The United States and brought at least the illusion of the MPAPAI to America once again, but after 1988, the last remnants of this important group lost its political influence as progressive global unifiers like George Bush and Bill Clinton rose to power.
Now few people know what the values of the MPAPAI are. Public schools have sold socialism to three generations of American students and communism has spread into virtually every branch of government through legal case-law. Most law students who filled political offices from the time of the MPAPAI never studied the American Constitution; they instead studied case law from the Supreme Court which was a design by the communist infiltration of law schools as far back as the 1940s to slowly erode away Americans from their “Ideals.” Those lawyers have taken America toward communism in virtually every scenario for which they have endeavored through their extensive progressive educations. The only trace of the MPAPAI today is old John Wayne movies, Disney World, and the hot selling novel Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand.
The continued popularity of both John Wayne and Disney World provides a view into the true heart of America. Even with all the progressive educations which have corrupted their minds, most people still yearn for the ideals of the MPAPAI. Communism has not won the hearts and minds of America—just the policy. And that is as far as they will ever get. Disney World is not about Goofy, Mickey Mouse or Cinderella castle—it is about American value and tradition which is not at all disguised there. Disney World is a popular vacation destination because of how it makes people feel—because it is about American ideals and visitors want to be close to those ideals. Every time I think of Disney World it reminds me that communism did not get its way—that they did not win completely. It also reminds me that the good work done by the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals is still alive. And I intend to help keep it that way.
It was kind of a funny story that took place at the 2014 Cincinnati Tea Party Tax Day Rally in Eastgate, Ohio. Doc Thompson was brought in to perform as emcee, however, when the event began he was outside the crowd filled room on the radio with Matt Clark leaving Ann Becker standing at the podium waiting. So I had to get Doc off the radio and fill in for him during the broadcast so he could begin the ceremony. You can hear that exchange below as Doc and Matt were involved in an interview for WAAM Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Doc as usual came in and did several segments of ad lib, with no notes to speak of. He didn’t even know that he was emcee for the event as he had just returned from Dallas, Texas where he was hanging out with Glenn Beck’s group at The Blaze—where they are moving into film and television production. Doc and his radio partner Skip LeCombe had just finished the post production duties for a new documentary they are producing about the effectiveness of the Tea Party over the last five years—and are planning many more projects. Glenn Beck is in production on three motion pictures at his Dallas studios, so things are moving quickly for Doc Thompson. He came to the Cincinnati event on a whirlwind fresh off an airplane and didn’t know that Ann had slotted him to be emcee. When I told him that he was the emcee he was surprised, but happy to fill the role. Then he forgot about again it during his radio segment with Matt Clark.
As can be seen below, Doc doesn’t need notes. He does so much radio every day from 6 AM to 9 AM on The Blaze Radio Network that he can just rattle off statistics and current events from memory. He occasionally does television on The Blaze, so he has become very proficient at public speaking. He was always good at it, but now it’s effortless for him.
During Doc’s radio segment with Matt he hit on something that is at the core of a huge modern problem. Doc is moving beyond just providing radio commentary. If you are a conservative, there are not film production venues out there that can currently represent our viewpoints. Not that long ago in Hollywood conservatives like John Wayne and Clint Eastwood were openly attending Republican conventions in Los Angeles—but now, a Republican cannot be found in mainstream Hollywood—until very recently. One of the reasons the Atlas Production Company had to be formed was to actually produce the novel, Atlas Shrugged—because Hollywood was not interested.
I have been to film festivals and at those events, there are seldom openly conservative films because it is well-known that projects with those kinds of messages will not get play—there is nowhere to distribute those types of creations—until now. Prior to Glenn Beck’s Blaze television station, there was not a single conservative distribution outlet for a conservative project. Anyone who wanted to make such a thing these days had to invent not just the product, but the production company as well, making funding of those types of projects even more difficult. For instance, when my novel Tail of the Dragon hit the market the people who read it all agreed that it would make a great movie, it had product placement tie-ins, a strong NASCAR type storyline, and had its roots in traditional American film. I would thank them, but in the back of my mind was—who would make it—Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, Paramount……………Amblin, would Harvey Weinstein at Miramax make a movie of the novel—of course not. As a progressive Harvey would be repulsed by my material. Not even Jerry Bruckheimer was able to overcome the hatred of conservative values in Hollywood with the Disney backed The Lone Ranger starring Johnny Depp. The Hollywood machine hated the ideal of a modern western taking America back to the good ol’ days, so they attacked the film out of the gate. It is nearly impossible to produce conservative projects like movies and documentaries unless a production company is created to make them. Even then, distribution outlets are even scarcer—until now. Perhaps Depp’s heart is changing with time and wisdom, his new fiancé is Amber Heard, who is a bisexual and would otherwise be touted among the Hollywood elite with welcome arms—except that she is a huge Ayn Rand fan. That represents part of an emerging undercurrent that cannot be stopped and Hollywood is not happy about it.
Among conservatives like Doc, Beck, the Atlas Shrugged guys, and me we are all approaching our projects from the ground level. The Steven Spielberg’s of our day are not able to provide the kind of mentorship that he had learning from Hitchcock and other notable directors from the past, because they are afraid to be associated with conservatives—for fear of blacklisting. Some great filmmakers like Gerald Molen have broken loose from Hollywood and are now associating with Glenn Beck’s studios—and more are on the way. But things are now changing because technology has given power to conservatives to bypass the studio system if they can figure out the distribution issue—and now that Doc has The Blaze at his back, he is making his move.
A few years ago I had the very grim realization that only I could make a project I had written into the kind of movie I wanted to see. I had worked with selling to Hollywood for years but they never understood what I was trying to do. I was sitting with some very notable Hollywood types at a restaurant in Glendale where belly dancers were performing and everyone wanted to think of themselves as very worldly. The women were dressed in the latest fashion all perfumed up, and the men looked cut from the pages of GQ. I had on camouflage pants and my outback hat with Gargoyle sunglasses and they accepted me well enough. I cracked my whips in front of a movie theater on Brand Blvd and cut targets out of people’s mouths and everyone was having a delightful time—until someone brought up politics. I voiced my opinion and that was the end of a productive evening. They didn’t want to understand my Midwestern sensibilities, my position against public education, my views on small government, my hatred of Marxism, and my love of traditional westerns.
It’s not that people didn’t agree with me—often they do—but in a town run by progressive labor unions, and Hollywood is, it is hard to get work unless you are properly politically aligned. And it is nearly impossible to even make a movie unless Hollywood is backing the project at least through distribution. I have never known a single independent filmmaker who didn’t enter a film at Sundance or some other place like the Cannes Film Festival and hope that Hollywood picked up the project for distribution. A Tea Party documentary is not the way to get distribution in Hollywood, and neither is a western. Even though Disney has the power and money to produce a film like that, and even distribute it—the town of Hollywood attacked it through their critics and trade magazines to preserve their industry. The same thing happened to the Atlas Shrugged films.
When I watch the Atlas films, or the Dinesh D’Souza’s documentaries, or even Glenn Beck’s documentaries there is something unpolished about them—even though the filmmakers are often industry professionals. I attribute a lot of this to the fresh perspective of conservatism being represented once again in the film industry more than any lack of experience in film production. But the key to reaching a public is through those methods and unless conservatives retake the film industry, the plight of traditional values returning to mainstream America is nearly impossible.
Doc is now moving into that realm. His Tea Party documentary is just the first step. He and I are planning to work on a project together, and I am planning things of my own. It has taken time for me to assemble my thoughts on the matter, but I’m nearly there. Like a lot of things, I had to go through a process of unlearning what was taught to me and that is matching up with the magnificent tools that are now at the disposal of anybody who dares to use them.
As usual, it was good to see Doc, and this year had a different feel to it than in times past—where a sense of desperation was ever-present. This time we all had a presence of veterans who had been around and done most everything before. Like I said on the air with Matt while sitting in for Doc Thompson as he went to emcee the Tea Party event, conservatives are getting better at putting our message out—and that is something that the other side is significantly terrified of. In the future, there will be a lot more conservative competition in visual arts than there has been, and that is something to be very excited about.
All evening there was a constant steam of interviews which went through Matt Clark’s WAAM broadcast table, most of which will be featured over the next couple of days. One of the funniest comments made over the course of the evening was Humphries reference to Hillary Clinton. During his speech he talked about the various RINOs in politics, people like John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, any of the Bush brothers, etc. RINO of course means “Republican in Name Only,” which is to say that those so-called Republicans have been terrible at preserving conservative ideals. They’ve been more interested in compromising with people who want to fundamentally change American life, and have done a great disservice to their nation. This is when Humphries said that Hillary was a “WINO,” a “Wife in Name Only.” That drew quite a laugh and it stuck with me throughout the night.
The “WINO” comment was funny because most people feel that Bill and Hillary Clinton have an open relationship where they have simply pulled a ruse on the American public for more than three decades of scandalous crusade. Their mission as Marxist loving young college students was to deliver America to the doorsteps of the Socialist International controlled United Nations and they pretended to be like every day Americans to concoct the ruse. Part of that deceit was to pretend that they are a traditional married, husband and wife–while at the same time advancing LGBT agenda points and a gradual erosion of American sovereignty to the chaos of the world cesspool. Does anybody honestly feel that Hillary would not do anything to become elected into an office, even if it meant committing herself to a loveless marriage in the typical European style of power arrangement? I don’t doubt it for a moment, and it is likely that she cannot even relate to a typical American romantic comedy because she does not have the kind of feelings in her life associated with “love,” “passion,” or “sexual longing,” as her primary motives appear to be exclusively—for her entire life—committed to social reform built on a progressive reference established by Marxism—which she learned in college.
It was good to hear Humphries say what virtually everyone was thinking—it was therapeutic and was the primary reason that most of the hundreds and hundreds of people came to the Cincinnati Tea Party Rally on a Tuesday night. They needed relief from the insanity of a world spinning out-of-control and into perpetual progressive madness. The people present were awake and all aware of the follies around them—and having so many people in such a state gives hope that the world will not degrade into a bottomless pit from which it will never return.
Matt bought a hamburger for me once the event was over at the bar. We barely placed our order before the kitchen closed as the rally went late into the evening. Humphries had already left as many others were leaving, but Matt and I hadn’t had any food all day, so a well-earned hamburger was just the thing. Kelly Kohls and some of her party joined us in the bar for a bit as the waiter brought us our food. Kelly laughed when she saw the incredible size of my hamburger, complete with everything on it, onions hanging over the edge with huge leaves of lettuce, largely cut tomatoes and a tremendously huge bun sprinkled with sesame seeds. Her son happened to be sitting next to me and I took his mother’s comments and expanded on it by saying that this was an example of American food. “You wouldn’t get a hamburger like that in France, or Spain, or Italy. In those countries they give you some silly little noodles and some crappy vegetables off on the side of the plate—and they consider it art. Their food is like their crappy little Fiat cars, their bad breath, terrible economies, and wimpy sports. Here in America, like this hamburger,” which I had to put all my weight on to smash together to fit into my mouth, “we like V-8 engines, fast cars, violent sports, guns and women in thongs.” At that point Kelly called me a few names and took her 15-year-old son away from my bad influence. I told her that her son was a guy, and that he needed to hear those kinds of things. She laughed and hit me in the shoulder and walked off. I didn’t blame her, after all she is running for a Senate seat, and she needed to maintain her respectability in the eyes of the masses. But I don’t. Hamburgers, fast cars, rock music, football and chicks with thongs are the kinds of things I think of when I think of America—and specifically freedom. So after the evening festivities the gigantic hamburger from the hotel bar complete with Coors beer was the perfect night-cap to a busy day.
Much of what was discussed at the Cincinnati Tea Party could be summed up into not apologizing for what Americans are, but rather, being proud of it. It is clearly time to stop feeling sorry for every other country on earth and to make ourselves less just to make other countries feel equal. I know I’m done with such things, and according to Matt, Doc, Rusty, Ann, and all the others, they are too. The biggest difference between those at the Tax Day Rally and everyone outside of that room is that the attendees have arrived first to a conclusion that is inevitable—that progressives like Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and many others, have taken America to a bad place, and people don’t like it. My friends are the first to express that displeasure—and soon, so will the rest of the nation. The old WINO tricks won’t work this time, as an $18 trillion-dollar deficit looms over the richest nation in the world—caused by progressive mismanagement of American resources. And once the rest of society gets to the level of frustration that the people attending the Cincinnati Tea Party rally displayed on April 15th, 2014 in Eastgate, Ohio—WINO’s like Hillary will be in a whole lot of trouble—and I’ll celebrate with an even bigger hamburger. The secret to American excess is not that The United States consumes too many natural resources, but that it has produced so much—because of capitalism. If more nations throughout the world adopted capitalism over socialism, they’d discover excesses of their own and would be a whole lot less miserable.
On April 15th, “Tax Day” I woke up with a special sense of pride experienced the night before. Behind the trees of my front yard, seen above, and across the golf course behind them, Jordon Sekulow flew in from Washington D.C. to personally thank the members of the Liberty Township Tea Party for their fight against the IRS. Sekulow is from the American Center for Law and Justice and is handling the civil case against the IRS on behalf of their unjust harassment against liberty groups—specifically the Liberty Township Tea Party. The LTTP had a meeting at The Elks Lodge, which I think is the best golf course in Cincinnati painting a picturesque evening of cold beer with fantastic views out the north windows silhouetting Jordon as he spoke to the large group of Tea Party patriots.
Without the Liberty Township Tea Party sticking up for themselves during the IRS case, it is likely that Louis Lerner would have never been forced to take the “fifth.” The story would have died quickly as it was planned. It was Justin Binik Thomas and The Liberty Township Tea Party who refused to go quietly into the night resulting in the congressional testimony that forced Lerner to implicate herself by default. The primary issue with Lerner is not that she took the “fifth” but that she provided testimony, then took her constitutional right trying to avoid cross-examination. That was a big no, no, and that mistake was forced in essence by the American Center for Law and Justice in its case against the IRS who was able to take the Liberty Township Tea Party case because the issue was pressed. The ACLJ needs clients otherwise they cannot conduct a case—and the Liberty Township Tea Party gave it to them—and the whole battle took place essentially in my front yard. And that makes me very proud.
Without the LTTP this article from Breitbart.com would have never been written: Former IRS official Louis Lerner and her colleagues at the tax agency were under a tremendous amount of pressure from President Obama and other Democrats to scrutinize a Tea Party applicant for public disclosure, despite rules protecting the privacy of unapproved applications, according to a staff report from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
For example, in emails regarding how the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision could imperil the Democrats’ majority in the Senate, Lerner wrote that she hoped the Federal Election Commission would “save the day,” apparently by curtailing political speech.
In another email referencing a news article about the businessmen and benefactors Charles and David Koch, Lerner suggested the IRS should begin a “project” to rein in political speech but to craft it in such a way as to avoid the appearance of focusing on political activity.
“We do need a c4 project next year,” Lerner wrote. While she initially said, “my object is not to look for political activity,” later in the exchange she acknowledged that it will examine political activity. “We need to be cautious so it isn’t a per se political project. More a c4 project that will look at levels of lobbying and pol. Activity along with exempt activity.”
Lerner is the only IRS staffer who refused to testify before Congress, so the report relies solely on information garnered from “e-mails, documents, and other testimony about her cracking down on tax exempt organizations that exercise their rights to free political speech,” the Republican staff on the Oversight Committee says.
One e-mail thread turned to the possibility of whether a Tea Party applicant would challenge the IRS ruling in court. Lerner said that Tea Party groups would litigate because they are “itching for a Constitutional challenge.”
The emails show concern from Lerner about the Citizens United case decision hurting Democrats in the upcoming Senate elections. One document shows Lerner saying the Supreme Court gave the issue to the IRS “to fix the problem.”
She said, “The Supreme Court dealt a huge blow, overturning a 100-year old precedent that basically corporations couldn’t give directly to political campaigns. And everyone is up in arms because they don’t like it. The Federal Election Commission can’t do anything about it. They want the IRS to fix the problem.”
After a senior advisor emailed her about the political danger Democrats could be placed in, she replied in an e-mail, “Perhaps the FEC will save the day.”
The Oversight Committee points out that Lerner mishandled 6103 taxpayer information by dealing with such data from her personal e-mail account. Lerner, however, told Congress under oath in Novmber of 2013, “I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations.” In a November 2013 letter from Daniel Werfel, Werfel writes, “We do not permit IRS officials to send taxpayer information to their personal email addresses.” Werfel stresses that this is the case even if information is redacted.
Ultimately, the Oversight report says, Lerner personally placed all Tea Party applicants through a “multi-tier review.” An IRS employee testified that Lerner “sent [him an] e-mail saying that when these cases need to go through multi-tier review and they will eventually have to go to [Judy Kindell, Lerner’s senior technical advisor] and the Chief Counsel’s office.” A D.C. IRS employee said this level of scrutiny had no precedent.
The head of the IRS office in Cincinnati disputes Lerner’s claim–and President Obama’s Fox News interview with Bill O’Reilly–that the scrutiny on Tea Party cases was only a local issue, saying, “[Y]es, there were mistakes made by folks in Cincinnati as well [as] D.C. but the D.C. office is the one who delayed the processing of the cases.”
All of that investigation started with the same Tea Party group that met at The Elks Golf Course on April 14th, 2014. If not for them, the IRS case would have ended as quickly as it started, and Louis Lerner would still hold her position as an activist for the Obama administration at the front of the powerful government agency the IRS. The evidence shown above that Louis Lerner was corrupt and everything that Tea Party groups feared about their government is extraordinarily clear one year after the story initially broke. Because of the Liberty Township Tea Party, a new day in America is emerging, one where people aren’t so terrified of the IRS and the government—where more people than ever are coming out from hiding and telling their stories of harassment and paperwork terrorism issued against them by the federal government. As usual, such things begin with just a few brave souls who help usher in movements that change the direction of society in general. And for me, I will always live with the pride of knowing that one of the biggest battles in our lifetimes took place in my front and back yard—with my friends and neighbors in a prideful community called Liberty Township who refused to back down when villains presented themselves with overwhelming force, and ever-present determination to impose themselves as the latest dictators in a long chain of human failure. In Liberty Township, those dictators were turned away, and slapped down in embarrassment.
Spending the weekend at The Whip Artistry Studio was a chance to touch base with the skills that mean the most to me. One of the bullwhip tricks of high regard for many of the people who come through Gery Deer’s classes taught at that facility is putting out a candle with the crack of a whip. Most bullwhip artists have their own style in cracking that are subtly different from one another. I am typically very aggressive, and when I put out candles I don’t care if I hit the candle tip, because I enjoy the satisfaction of seeing splashes of wax exploding outward, which can be seen in the following video done over the weekend.
However, Gery Deer is all about finesse. In the next video he instructs one of his students how to put out a candle the technically correct way, by cracking the whip just in front of the candle and using the sonic boom to create a negative pressure vacuum that is followed by a convection current which pushes out the flame like a breath. Gery explains this process to one of his students, and a general audience of casual spectators.
There are few skills which are as traditional of the American lifestyle as the bullwhip—except for firearms of course. When I speak to people from other parts of the world, the topic of my bullwhip work always comes up, because they usually watch my videos before meeting me. In Japan, their culture is all about the undefeated samurai Miyamoto from The Book of Five Rings. Samurai swords are typical weapons of reverence even to this day in that culture. Elsewhere in the world are similar military celebrities of worship, such as in China with Sun Tzu from The Art of War. Europe has their Napoleon. Every culture has a reverence for how their societies were formed from violence and conquest. However, in America, the art forms of the Wild West were not so much of oppression over a conquered enemy, but over escaping oppression. Progressives have attempted to paint westward expansion in a negative light in America by capturing the plight of the mystic Native Americans and how they were abused under the hand of the cowboy, but this doesn’t pan out within the psychology of America. Most cowboys wanted the same things the Indians wanted—land, freedom, and a love of independence. Both had European style governments as their primary antagonists.
The bullwhip was a symbol of independence because the cowboy used them to herd cattle across the vast plains of ranch living. In remote parts of the world such as Australia they have taken the bullwhip to a high level of art as they still use them to herd livestock. Naturally, cowboys have developed cleaver ways to prove their accuracy with bullwhips, and putting out a candle is one of the highest forms of accuracy that can be achieved. It is proof that such a weapon can be used in a way to not just produce a random noise, but to actually make that noise appear in time and space at the complete control of the handler.
In my life professionally and privately, my work with bullwhips is unmistakably a part of how people see me. I use bullwhip metaphors in almost every facet of my life and no matter what level anybody is dealing with me, bullwhips always come into the conversation. And it gives me great pride to share those metaphors because bullwhips are weapons of precision, not just of brutality. They can be used to kill like a samurai Katana but such violent engagements can be averted almost every time with a carefully placed crack next to the ear of an aggressive adversary. More often than not, violence is avoided when the kind of skill it takes to put out a candle is applied to a contentious situation.
The girl in Gery’s video had never put out a candle before. Her very first time was in front of the camera, so once she had mastered a precise cut, all she needed to do was direct it where Gery told her to, and as can be seen, the flame went out. It really is that simple—but most things are. The bullwhip is a metaphor for some of life’s most complex problems. Once they are understood—they can all be made to look easy. When things appear overwhelming, and too vastly complex, the proper approach has not yet been discovered. In the bullwhip arts, putting out a candle with the crack of a whip is equivalent to declaring that the master has taken various complex elements of physics and simplified them to their desire. And once such things are done between a bullwhip and a flaming candle, they can be applied to everything in life. That is why such things are worth doing—and why I revere the work of bullwhip arts to be among the highest skills performed in reflection of American culture.
I wrote yesterday about Richard Best and his Black Lightning Wild West Show. But the location where we shot the video displayed in that article deserves its own mention, The Whip Artistry Studio of Gery Deer in Jamestown, Ohio is a one of the kind temple dedicated to the art and preservation of the bullwhip. Gery is currently a freelance television producer and writer in Dayton, but his heart centers on the preservation of Western Arts—particularly the bullwhip. Like me, he has worked with whips most of his life, and traveled the world providing shows. Gery and his wife Barb have been on major television shows and have been personally endorsed by “A” list celebrities and stuntmen. Gery’s Whip Artistry Studio is a museum of old westerns, autographs from Halle Berry, Antonio Banderas and many others, and a tribute to the golden age of cinema. Gery’s whip holstering systems were used in a film done by The Rock called The Rundown and it was because of that film that Gery specially designed my Cliffhanger quick drawl holster which I wear every day. My bullwhip holster is the only one of its kind and was made by Gery specifically for my use.
It is sometimes impossible when you know such people to revere them properly for what they are. I have known Gery for a long time, and we have so many things in common that I don’t often consider how unusual his life and his studio are. But in a world obsessed with preserving every species of animal that is on the brink of extinction, Gery is fighting to keep alive something that many more progressive modernists hope to force into distant memory, the American cowboy.
As unlikely as it is, Gery’s Jamestown, Ohio studio is all that stands between extinction and advancement of the kind of America that was so beloved by viewers of old Republic Saturday morning matinees, and wonderful silent films like Don Q, Son of Zorro. As many Hollywood producers these days bulk at such things, it was George Lucas who adopted these very Republic serials and made Star Wars, and Indiana Jones. Students at Gery’s studios want to learn to crack a whip like Indiana Jones, because those films inspired them.
Gery and I share a great reverence for Douglas Fairbanks, particularly the old film Son of Zorro. Of course we’ve always loved Indiana Jones, but that character never went to the whip handlers of old, like Douglas Fairbanks, Lash LaRue, and all the Republic Serials—especially another favorite of mine, Zorro’s Fighting Legion. When I wrote my book The Symposium of Justice I dedicated it to that old Republic serial including naming the restaurant Fletcher Finnegan worked at, “Republics.”
My current love of Star Wars is because Lucas shot those films in the way of those old serials—and that just isn’t done by any other film studio. And all that harkens back to Douglas Fairbanks and his whip tricks from Don Q, Son of Zorro. Gery Deer’s whip studio in Jamestown, Ohio is really the last gasp of air holding on to that past attempting to preserve it. Gery and I both came into our love of bullwhips the same way but he choose to actually move into show business. At age 46 I have lived my life much the way Don Diego did in Zorro’s Fighting Legion, only I haven’t pretended to be foppish to save my family and reputation from villains. Gery has taken a non-violent approach to the art, where I’m all about the violence. Even when I was writing The Symposium of Justice, I didn’t feel comfortable writing about the bullwhip heavy action scenes if I had not done all the stunts in real life to confirm their viability. And with stories like that, I have never felt comfortable writing about characters like Fletcher Finnegan (Cliffhanger) from behind an author’s stories. I always felt a responsibility to actually be those characters in real life, otherwise the task was hypocritical. In that regard, I am a lot more political than Gery. Gery has made his living often with a whip, as I have not. But I have used mine to confirm the stunts of Don Q, so that I could write about them knowing what was possible and what wasn’t and what really went on in the life of Zorro in a quest to fight evil.
But in a confusing world where every other influence is competing for attention, that old past ushered in by Douglas Fairbanks is most alive in Jamestown, Ohio, and I love it every time I get to visit. It is like a farmer returning to his land after plowing a field and smelling the fresh soil, or an artist during a late night epiphany—Gery Deer’s The Whip Artistry Studio is grounding to the roots of cinema, justice, and the genuine pursuit of goodness triumphing over evil. I never get tired of visiting, and I suspect that I never will.
