I’ll be unusually brief on this article to encourage regular people into reading and watching it. The following video was shot at the West Chester Tea Party forum at Butler Tech hosting the candidates running for John Boehner’s old seat. I know a few of the guys, but not much detail, except what we learned in the video. So prior to the March 15th primary vote—which will this year be extremely important—more so than most years—you should watch this video and determine who you want to vote for based on this candidate forum.
For those who are not particularly up-to-date on what the 8th District is, it’s the congressional district John Boehner formally represented. It’s a large district that encompasses the wealthy southeastern portion, and extends all the way up through the farms of middle Ohio into Darke County. The next congressman needs to be someone who can deal with a president that will be extremely unconventional—as mainstream politics is on the way out. So keep that in mind when voting. Hopefully, there is something in this video that leads you to the correct answer.
Remember to vote on March 15th, 2016 and pass this along to a friend so they can become educated on who the candidates are, and how they might represent the 8th District in Ohio.
If there was any doubt about what I said about Millennials, CLICK HERE TO REVIEW, Cam Newton after the Super Bowl confirmed it for all time. Watch his press conference below, the dynamic Superman character who sold himself all this years as an invincible indomitable spirit sat slouched and pitiful near tears and pouting about his embarrassing loss to the Denver Broncos. The kid learned a hard lesson at Super Bowl 50—something he should have learned by his parents many years earlier. But as a coddled Millennial, he used his natural ability, and his race to advance through the ranks of life and he arrived as the MVP at the Super Bowl haughty and having fun. He should have known that the Denver players would want to knock his head off, yet he thought he was going to cruise to a win. And instead of taking it like a man, stoically, he pouted like a child who had just been told by him mom that he couldn’t have candy at the grocery store check-out line.
I’ll admit that I was rooting for the Broncos to win, but to my family I had been talking Cam Newton up as one of the best players in the NFL. I watched many of the Carolina games this year and thought they were the best team in football. Honestly, I wanted to see Cam Newton do well in the Super Bowl. Really, Carolina hadn’t been tested much until they played in the Super Bowl and the Denver D decided to blitz the hell out of Newton to throw him off. That’s part of the game and the young Carolina quarterback clearly wasn’t prepared. He showed up at the game planning to dominate and cruise to a victory—because everyone seemed to be telling him that he was the greatest gift to mankind. And he obviously believed it. Cam didn’t account for the fact that everyone on the Denver defense wanted to personally mount the MVP’s head to their headboards. For Newton, it was easy for him to appear dominate when his team was winning, but he didn’t have the same swagger when they were losing and that’s the heart of the problem.
When he lost he didn’t stand up and take the licks. Everyone understands how hard it must be for him to lose such an important game, but what he did was reprehensible. Rather than take responsibility for the loss, like he should have—because he had lost the will to fight by the fourth quarter, he blamed others. That much was evident when he lost the last fumble of the game, when he didn’t dive into the pile to retrieve it. Newton had spent the entire season playing with the mind of every player that opposed him with audacity and magnificent aggression. But he couldn’t show the same confidence when it came to working from behind. The Denver Broncos noticed that and turned Cam’s tactics against him—thoroughly embarrassing the MVP of 2015.
If you are going to wear the Superman symbol, you better be super even in the worse possible circumstances, otherwise people who want to knock you off your pedestal will crush you at the first opportunity. I can sympathize with how Cam feels. I’ve felt that kind of disappointment for other things. On a different stage, but very similar circumstances—Donald Trump went though it over the results of the Iowa election. Even though many might say he acted poorly after that defeat, his first reaction was to be gracious and maintain a mountain of security. Supporters of such people want to see confidence in the people they admire. Cam didn’t give his supporters confidence that he’d be back and better than ever. He just pouted because things didn’t work out in his mind the way he wanted and somewhere in his past someone taught him that sobbing like a child wasn’t disgraceful—it was acceptable. He didn’t look like a 6’ 5” Superman; he looked like an eight year old child who had been told no by his mother. Granted, at only 26 years old, that wasn’t that long ago. In many ways, Cam Newton is still a child—he is compared to me. I remember being his age and having the screws of life turned down on me so hard that it was hard to lift my hand to put food in my mouth, the pressure was so great. I understand. But I never cried about it. I put on my inner Superman and took on the world, and eventually won time and time again.
Cam the Millennial should have known that what makes you a legend is not just winning. Payton Manning is a legend, and he has not always won. It’s about getting back on the horse and fighting harder, and harder, and harder until you wear out and dominate everyone against you. Honestly just sitting at home I was thinking like Wade Phillips. My thoughts were that if the Broncos could knock Cam on his ass that they’d gain leverage on the young kid and take him out of his game. The dabbing that Cam does after a touchdown has become the leading news story of the 2015 NFL year. Phillips obviously used that motivation to drive his players to a froth of aggression. Watching Phillips body language during the game it was obviously he said something. He confirmed it after the victory by saying to Newton on Twitter:
“A little too much Dab will undo you!” Phillips tweeted from his @sonofbum Twitter account before the Broncos headed to the airport in San Jose.
His defense was tired of the Panthers’ dancing antics and wanted to shut them down.
Broncos coach Gary Kubiak was asked about Phillips’ tweet during his Monday morning news conference. While a reporter read the text of the tweet aloud, linebacker Von Miller nearly fell off the chair he was sitting in just off the stage.
Kubiak said he had not seen Phillips’ tweet but acknowledged it was not out of character for Phillips.
“He gets carried away with that Twitter sometimes,” Kubiak said.
Cam built up that anger against him and when it mounted, he couldn’t deal with it. Instead of saying something bold, he simply retreated into a petulant child. It will be really difficult for Cam Newton to return to his former glory now that the scouting report is out on him. Hundreds of NFL players saw the same thing I did in the young man at his press conference. Cam surrendered his swagger, which is part of his game, and it will change him for the worst. I felt bad for the kid, but the blame falls on his parents. Cam Newton has obviously been a spoiled child given most everything in life because of his natural ability and skin color. Once he gets older and losses some of that natural ability he’ll have to rely on his mind, and that is obviously something the kid will struggle with. The wise old Wade Phillips exposed it. Next year, everyone else will too.
What is kind of scary is that a decade and a half ago, Payton Manning would have never done something so immature. He’s been disappointed and short with the press, but he never acted like Cam Newton. I can’t think of anybody who ever has pouted like that who was considered great. There are personalities who lose it, and get aggressive when they lose from the anger they feel, but they never just sit there and pout like a child. What we are seeing is a new breed of grown-up, a generation of Millennials who have been told all their lives they are great, and that they are the best—without ever really being tested, or working hard to become great. Life isn’t about dominating with physical attributes and dabbing to intimidate opponents who are not so gifted. It is about still being great even when you don’t feel like it. Because sometimes that’s the hardest thing to do, and the most important ingredient to greatness that there is. Cam Newton obviously doesn’t have it.
The Kardashev scale is a method of measuring a civilization‘s level of technological advancement, based on the amount of energy a civilization is able to utilize directed towards communication.[1] The scale has three designated categories called Type I, II, and III. A Type I civilization is able to utilize and store energy available from its neighboring star which reaches their planet, Type II is able to harness the energy of the entire star (the most popular hypothetic concept being the Dyson sphere—a device which would encompass the entire star and transfer its energy to the planet), and Type III civilization are in control of energy on the scale of their entire host galaxy.[2] The scale is hypothetical, and regards energy consumption on a cosmic scale. It was first proposed in 1964 by the SovietastronomerNikolai Kardashev. Various extensions of the scale have been proposed since, from a wider range of power levels (types 0, IV and V) to the use of metrics other than pure power.
In 1964, Kardashev defined three levels of civilizations, based on the order of magnitude of power available to them:
Type I
“Technological level close to the level presently attained on earth, with energy consumption at ≈4×1019erg/sec (4 × 1012 watts).”[1] Guillermo A. Lemarchand stated this as “A level near contemporary terrestrial civilization with an energy capability equivalent to the solar insolation on Earth, between 1016 and 1017 watts.”[3]
Type II
“A civilization capable of harnessing the energy radiated by its own star”–for example, the stage of successful construction of a Dyson sphere–“with energy consumption at ≈4×1033 erg/sec.”[1] Lemarchand stated this as “A civilization capable of utilizing and channeling the entire radiation output of its star. The energy utilization would then be comparable to the luminosity of our Sun, about 4×1033 erg/sec (4×1026watts).”[3]
Type III
“A civilization in possession of energy on the scale of its own galaxy, with energy consumption at ≈4×1044 erg/sec.”[1] Lemarchand stated this as “A civilization with access to the power comparable to the luminosity of the entire Milky Way galaxy, about 4×1044 erg/sec (4×1037 watts).”[3]
Michio Kaku suggested that humans may attain Type I status in 100–200* years, Type II status in a few thousand years, and Type III status in 100,000 to a million years.[4]
Carl Sagan suggested defining intermediate values (not considered in Kardashev’s original scale) by interpolating and extrapolating the values given above for types I (1016 W), II (1026 W) and III (1036 W), which would produce the formulawhere value K is a civilization’s Kardashev rating and P is the power it uses, in watts. Using this extrapolation, a “Type 0” civilization, not defined by Kardashev, would control about 1 MW of power, and humanity’s civilization type as of 1973 was about 0.7 (apparently using 10 terawatt (TW) as the value for 1970s humanity).[5]
In 2012, total world energy consumption was 553 exajoules (7020553000000000000♠553×1018 J=153,611 TWh),[6] equivalent to an average power consumption of 17.54 TW (or 0.724 on Sagan’s Kardashev scale).
In 2015, a study of galactic mid-infrared emissions came to the conclusion that “Kardashev Type-III civilizations are either very rare or do not exist in the local Universe”.[7] On October 14, 2015, the realization of a strange pattern of light surrounding star KIC 8462852 has raised speculation that a Dyson Sphere (Type II civilization) may have been discovered.[8][9][10][11][12]
Type I civilization methods
Large-scale application of fusion power. According to mass-energy equivalence, Type I implies the conversion of about 2 kg of matter to energy per second. An equivalent energy release could theoretically be achieved by fusing approximately 280 kg of hydrogen into helium per second,[13] a rate roughly equivalent to 8.9×109 kg/year. A cubic km of water contains about 1011 kg of hydrogen, and the Earth’s oceans contain about 1.3×109 cubic km of water, meaning that humans on Earth could sustain this rate of consumption over geological time-scales, in terms of available hydrogen.
Antimatter in large quantities would have a mechanism to produce power on a scale several magnitudes above our current level of technology. In antimatter-matter collisions, the entire rest mass of the particles is converted to radiant energy. Their energy density (energy released per mass) is about four orders of magnitude greater than that from using nuclear fission, and about two orders of magnitude greater than the best possible yield from fusion.[14] The reaction of 1 kg of anti-matter with 1 kg of matter would produce 1.8×1017J (180 petajoules) of energy.[15] Although antimatter is sometimes proposed as a source of energy, this does not appear feasible. Artificially producing antimatter – according to current understanding of the laws of physics – involves first converting energy into mass, so no net gain results. Artificially created antimatter is only usable as a medium of energy storage, not as an energy source, unless future technological developments (contrary to the conservation of the baryon number, such as a CP violation in favour of antimatter) allow the conversion of ordinary matter into anti-matter. Theoretically, humans may in the future have the capability to cultivate and harvest a number of naturally occurring sources of antimatter.[16][17][18]
Renewable energy through converting sunlight into electricity — either by using solar cells and concentrating solar power or indirectly through wind and hydroelectric power. There is no known way for human civilization to use the equivalent of the Earth’s total absorbed solar energy without completely coating the surface with human-made structures, which is not feasible with current technology. However, if a civilization constructed very large space-based solar powersatellites, Type I power levels might become achievable–these could convert sunlight to microwave power and beam that to collectors on Earth.
Now, a lot of people don’t think currently in the proper way to comprehend a Type I civilization. They figure that they get 70 to 80 trips around the sun on planet earth, and then they die to reside in some heaven of their chosen religion. But that is a choice relative only to the experience of life on earth and the mythologies of our evolution. There is no rational reason as a human being to die or to be limited to the kinds of scientific limits we currently experience. If the miracles of capitalism were to be unleashed with people like Donald Trump who would not allow special interests and old national desires for ancient bloodlines to guide their decision-making, which is what is happening right now, our global society could move toward a Type I civilization as opposed to following the Vico cycle back toward a collective swarm of nomads running from anarchy.
We are truly on a unique precipice in history. A lot of what Sean Stone is talking about is potential that is available right now. The reason those things are not available to us are for the same reasons that established politicians are still reluctant to accept that Donald Trump or Ted Cruz are leading the Republican field for President of the United States—because the established order wants to keep things the way that they are now—which benefits them. Most of them are like Plato’s cave, also shown above and told by Alex Jones—they believe in certain things, whether it’s their version of an afterlife, or that some superior species of aliens runs the universe and that they must surrender to their whims, or perhaps they believe that their bloodline is their version of eternity and that the way to stay in power is to preserve the organized world around the same power structures that existed when their grandparents were kings. But in reality all those limits are stupid. They are archaic. I wrote about the Plato metaphor a long time before Alex Jones used that allegory described above—but that’s OK, people come to things in their own way. Most of our society has been trained to look at the shadows on the wall. They have no idea what’s really behind them, or even more so, what’s outside the cave.
Now here we are. What Sean Stone is saying is actually quite true regarding the restricted science and the reasons for it. Everywhere I look I see people ready to go back to what they know—back to the beginning of civilization because they don’t have the courage to step into a Type I. They are like alcoholics who cannot stay off the bottle or fat people who know they have to lose weight but cannot stop eating comfort food whenever they are sad about something. Mankind is addicted to the Vico cycle and that is exactly what socialists are advocating. The good Illuminati that Stone was referring to was a point in the history of the world where thinkers like Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin questioned the reality of the day and tossed it out for the world to consider—which it has struggled with for a few hundred years. Now there are a few people, like Sean Stone, myself, and a few others who have seen what’s outside the cave and are holding flashlights for those staring at the shadows to turn their heads and follow the light out of the cave—so they can finally see reality. But that takes courage, and for most of them—that is too great of a task to master. Will it be a Type I society, or will it be the Vico cycle. Socialists have already picked anarchy and we all know what follows that.
This is really embarrassing. The next thing we will likely learn about Sheriff Jones, my neighbor and local sheriff, who sells himself like a modern John Wayne, is that he’s getting pedicures and facials at a local Wal-Mart nail salon. I really didn’t want to believe this when I first saw it. I was hoping that it was some kind of Hollywood special effect. But no, it’s true—it’s really him and a reasonable number of public employees who are wearing the uniform of the Butler County police. Using the Super Bowl as an excuse to send what they thought was a “hip” public message, Sheriff Jones and his rag-tag team of highly paid ass kissers put out a video dancing to show how metrosexual they were which I thought was astoundingly childish. It’s the kind of thing you’d see from a bunch of stupid kids, not a sophisticated sheriff’s department that is supposed to command the respect of the world because of his national platform. Of course here’s how the local media covered the story. Women naturally think it’s cute, men aren’t sure—it is awkward.
Let me give a little context, tough guys don’t dance. They don’t sit around crying over things, they don’t wallow in emotion, and they don’t dance. Young men do sometimes when they are looking for a female to mate with, but men—real men secure in their testosterone driven utterances—don’t dance. It’s not cute. It’s not hip. It doesn’t earn “cool” points with the younger generation. All it does is compromise authority. It makes no sense.
Of course modern women who embrace feminism love it when men dance, because it shows them that their male counterparts are willing to be more open-minded and expressive with their bodies. People who dance show that they are willing to compromise their individual integrity for collective rituals of expression—and women tend to be naturally included toward more social acceptance than men. Women seem quite at home dancing in a club or at a wedding touching each other in expressive ways as men tend to stand along the wall with their hands in their pockets. Men would rather be shooting guns or playing cards—doing something mildly competitive that they can beat another man at—just for fun. They don’t typically enjoy shaking their bodies in suggestive ways to evoke the approval of collective consciousness.
When Donald Trump danced on Saturday Night Live he did it with a strategy to appeal more to women who currently find him “too scary.” But Donald Trump isn’t a sheriff—he’s a businessman. He did lose points with me on that SNL skit—because I would never do something like that under any kind of pressure. Dancing for men is off-limits. It’s not something any man should ever do. It’s stupid. Now slow dancing with a woman may be acceptable so long as the man doesn’t have to rock their hips in some sexually provocative fashion. Even then, it’s not something I would do. I’ve danced with my wife at our wedding, 25 years ago, one slow dance. I danced with a family member at my brother’s wedding a few decades ago-the same-because I was a member of the wedding party. And that’s it. At both of my daughter’s weddings, we skipped the daddy/daughter dance. I’m sure they’d like it sometimes if I was more physically expressive–but that’s just not appropriate for a man to exhibit. Prior to meeting my wife, I went to a few dance clubs to meet girls, and I was good at it. I was even a fashion model for a period of time and was hired to dance around a swarm of really attractive women on stage to David Lee Roth’s “Just a Gigolo.” Yet the moment I met my wife, I dropped that life in less than a second, because I didn’t like it. To me, the only reason a man would dance would be to land a female into his bed. That is absolutely the only reason. Once you are married, or even have a steady mate, men should never dance in public or private.
Dancing is a form of collectivism and it’s a disgusting enterprise. Surrendering the mind to the beat of the music is not a smart thing to do. Letting the music take control of your mind and body is to surrender your individual sovereignty. Dancing is not a thinking endeavor. When a room full of people surrender thought to the beat of the music it is not a beautiful thing. It’s a thing of disgust. It’s tribal—and in an American capitalist society where thought should be king, dancing is a treacherous social value that leads its participants toward collectivism instead of individual merit.
I’ve heard the saying, real men are not afraid to express themselves. Those are the same idiots who say that men should not be afraid to wear pink, and that it’s OK to cry in public—or private. Let me tell you something dear reader. Real men don’t wear pink, they don’t cry—ever, and they certainly don’t dance. Never. Metrosexuals dance, gay guys dance, and men who have had their testosterone evaporate from their bodies dance to show that they aren’t too old to be like the cool young people at weddings. But real men don’t dance. Dancing is not an activity of thinking. It is an act of collectivism, of yielding to whoever the artist is. A dance floor is a socialist enterprise where sweaty bodies mingle in collective effort toward the goal of assimilation. It’s not cute or funny.
Sometimes people think I’m too hard on public employees such as the local police. Sheriff Jones and his staff obviously didn’t have anything else to do with their time but to coordinate that video—which obviously took some time. I’m sure he’ll say that the whole thing was done on a volunteer basis and everyone was off-duty, at least I’d hope he’d lie to me about that. Because if any of those people were on duty at the time, we have some big problems and the staffing levels need to be adjusted—because we are paying too much for our police department.
There is another element to dancing that involves race. People of color, particularly from the African continent do have a natural inclination to dance. This is not good. I am not impressed with Cam Newton’s “dance moves” on the football field. A quick look economically at Africa indicates that what I have said about dancing is one hundred percent correct. Every country in Africa is suffering under some form of socialism—or collective based social interaction. On their own, the people of Africa are not inventing things, building businesses, or advancing their lives forward away from the dances they use to invoke spiritual aid and mystical persuasion. People from those cultures may dance well—but that is not a skill that advances mankind toward individualism and invention—because invention does not come from collective effort, only individual aptitude. So pandering toward people of race as a “stiff” whitey only makes people like Sheriff Jones look like an idiot—not a man of compromise in showing that he’s not too good to “bust some moves” so to appeal toward members of our community who still think men dancing is cool.
Men, it’s not OK to dance. Women may want you to, and race groups might put peer pressure on you to do so—but it’s not acceptable. Sheriff Jones made a serious mistake toward the institution of manhood in doing what he did. He may be socially confused, or his testosterone levels may be dropping to the point where he’s more estrogen these days than testosterone, but either way, it was very embarrassing. If I were a goon, a punk or a creep looking to sell drugs in Butler County, or to traffic stolen young girls—or even to loot the wealth of homes in the area—Sheriff Jones and his Super Bowl antics would invite me toward indiscretion instead of providing a deterrent. Having a bounty on your head from Mexican drug lords is a manly thing to have. But dancing like a metrosexual from the Butler County Jail—that is just not acceptable.
Immigration is not the problem, where people from other countries come to the United States to live out the American dream of freedom from oppressive government so that the fruits of their labor can be used to purchase private property under a capitalist banner. The problem is where elements of incompetent American government that seeks to mirror other oppressive nations desires to overwhelm the traditional American values of hard work, and a yearning for that dream, with mass illegal immigration by bringing the values of those faraway places to domestic courthouses fundamentally changing the nature of United States ethics. That second scenario is the objective of progressives who have been embarking now for decades a military like strategy of a Trojan horse insurrection using a Cloward and Piven tactic to overwhelm and change traditional regions into something the United Nations can’t manage as a result of chaos. Thus, that is the situation in the remote Missoula County Courthouse in western Montana—a remote outpost far removed from the noise created by progressives in virtually every North American city.
More than 120 people braved the snow and ice Monday to rally in front of the Missoula County Courthouse, protesting an effort by the Obama administration and its army of community organizers to plant foreign “refugees” into small cities in western Montana.
One of the speakers was a woman who moved recently to Montana from Amarillo, Texas, which has been inundated with thousands of refugees over the past 15 years.
“Amarillo is overrun with refugees,” said Karen Sherman, who stood and spoke to the crowd amid blowing wind and falling snowflakes. Sherman just moved to Missoula, a college town that serves as home to the University of Montana.
It’s a far cry from Amarillo, which she described as a city of rampant crime and cracking social fabric, thanks to the heavy influx of refugees sent there by the U.S. State Department in cooperation with the United Nations.
“Our city is failing because of the refugees. We have 22 different languages spoken in our schools. We’ve got 42 languages being fielded by our 9-1-1 call centers, and crime is just through the roof. We need to exercise caution, especially for the sake of our children,” she said.
We are under attack and have been for a long time. Even Fox New’s Rupert Murdoch is a member of an obscure open border network that seeks to devalue American citizenship from behind masks of conservative leanings to collapse national sovereignty. You have a right dear reader to be upset. The poor people encouraged to flock these American borders have deliberately been made into an impoverished state so that they could be used as pawns in this scheme, which was never fair to them. Rather than the leaders of the world allowing countries like China, Mexico, all of Africa and other far-flung places to care for their people with capitalism, they have sought to impoverish them so that they’d seek refuge within America and overwhelm the generosity of our nation so to cripple it into eventual collapse. From there, the United Nations intends to manage the globe in the wake of American dominance—and just about everyone of any merit or power is in on the deal.
Western Montana is not a place of vast immigration. It is extremely rural, and the intention of the immigrants dumped there is to attack the culture of American tradition so prevalent. This United Nations inspired insurrection is an aggressive assault on American culture, and it should be repealed with anger, which those 120 people espoused. The situation is entirely inspired by deliberate mismanagement of people’s lives for the fundamental take-over of a way of life. It is a stunning effort by some of the biggest stars and wealthiest people within the United States who have decided themselves that they would vote to limit access of their way of life to those seeking the American dream. People like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are deep in the well of United Nations strategies and Democrats who hope to have those two stars host and supply funds for their political campaigns adopt the values of the Hollywood left, leading a progressive push to destroy the capitalism that made the movie stars rich to begin with. People like Pitt and Jolie were like lucky lottery winners, so they have a natural guilt about their wealth because unlike people such as Donald Trump, they didn’t have to earn every last dollar they made, they simply were in the right place at the right time. Yet they are able to command respect because of their wealth, but because they are second-handers by nature, they crave United Nations management and are willing to sacrifice capitalism to have safety and security for their docile minds.
Rupert Murdoch is from Australia—which is a socialist country. Most of the GOP candidates have had to form themselves around his Fox News conservative framework making people like Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and many others eat from the hand of Republican donors who are submissive to Murdoch’s open border sympathies—and none of them can be trusted—which is why there is a rebellion currently in the Republican party run for the White House. I trust Donald Trump not because I think he’s a good person—which I do think—but because he is financially independent of “the system” and can operate free of their influence. I think right now in our history that financial independence is the most valuable trait of a future American president. Because the United Nations has its claws in American politics too deeply—and it has to stop–it is the most important issue in this coming election. It will never stop so long as candidates need to raise money and follow a plot that was constructed by the United Nations desire for global socialism. America is under attack with illegal immigration to topple capitalism so that socialism will sweep in and take control of our free market system. The evidence is already clear in cities like Seattle, which is actually run by socialist city council members, Detroit, which has been managed into bankruptcy and complete restructuring by the same type of minds—and Chicago which is on the edge of bankruptcy and is in serious contention under complete command of irresponsible fiscal Democrats. These demographic numbers and the wasteland of their imposition were created by floods of immigration meant to topple logic, consume all the financial resources, and change the voting patterns—leaving in their wake the socialism of the places these immigrants came from.
With immigrants usually comes a very hard-working people who are just happy to make an honest wage in a secure country—where war is not ripping apart the fabric of existence and you typically don’t have to worry about bandits coming into your home in the middle of the night and raping the women and killing all the men. But, because they were raised and taught incorrectly, they bring with them a village mentally that loves communism and is skeptical of capitalism. They tend to vote for Democrats and Bernie Sanders style socialism, which was always the United Nations strategy. Topple America as an independent nation secure its sovereignty with crushing debt, then restructure it from its defaulted loans into United Nations management. Celebrities are on board with this strategy as well as most of the establishment politicians. It’s not a conspiracy, it’s a fact. Just check out the politics of Rupert Murdoch and the boards he sits on. I honestly think Murdoch is hoping to shape that future toward conservatism with his media empire, but he is certainly an open border supporter following the United Nations strategy that has been in place since its creation after World War II.
To show how far-reaching this problem truly is, just consider that Missoula County in Montana has been targeted. The people there know it, and they don’t like it. So the question remains, what are we going to do about it? You can’t trust anybody in authority—they have all sold out. There are no modern actors that I know of in the mainstream who stand against this United Nations strategy, and most politicians want the campaign donations of the wealthy Hollywood types so they go along to get access to the kind of money Democratic activists with disposable income can provide. I propose that we have to think outside the box and cut ourselves off from the corrosion of K-Street lobbyists, because that is the heart of the problem. And for me, that starts by electing someone like Donald Trump. The problem is far too severe to think conventionally. The only way to beat them is by doing the unexpected.
Sometimes the details are not important. To ask why I was in Japan doing something extremely important for my part of it would be to miss the internal reason for traveling there. The mind has a way to unleash whatever it is that you most desire and it will manufacture the circumstances of your contemplation—so it is always good to mind your thoughts—even in the middle of the night in a far away land. The products of your thoughts will manifest into reality at some point in time. If you are skilled enough to keep your thoughts very good then eventually your mind will produce into reality whatever becomes the sum of your contemplations. So be careful what you think about.
I have talked about it before, but I’ve spent well over two decades now studying a pretty small book written by Miyamoto Musashi called The Book of Five Rings. I can’t say that it’s my favorite book but I can say that I don’t think a single day has went by since I first read it that I don’t draw from it. So as fate would have necessitated I was in Japan doing Musashi types of things on a big scale, but that was not the intention of the trip for me. There were a cast of characters who had worked very hard together to bring me to a temple atop the mountain Shosha and specifically to the statues of the Shitennō protectors within the temple Maniden. I was doing the kind of things that were the products of my mind that were very specific to all my lifelong efforts so I was living in the moment. There was nothing for me to pray to standing atop that mountain temple isolated from the world that resided far below in Himeji City. I was very impressed with the Maniden structure, it was massive. I couldn’t help but think of the time when Musashi climbed a similar mountain to confront the Buddhists gods then came down spending the rest of his days as an undefeated samurai conqueror uniquely individually based.
The Maniden temple was dedicated to the national religion of Shinto Buddhism which was an inherited mythology from the long forgotten Indus Valley as far over to the east as India. The gods Shitennō are classic examples of Indus Valley mythology which I believe is a remnant of a long lost civilization predating all known history and religion. During his early travels I believe Jesus Christ ran into aspects of Buddhism and took it back to the shores of his birth with his own spin on Zoroastrianism. That religion would of course be Christianity which would become one of the world’s largest religions. But, it is a watered down version of what came before and there is nothing to say that Buddhism was the first thought of rationality concerning religion. It too just as Christianity experienced, is a hand-me-down religious philosophy. But in Japan Shinto Buddhism works and they revere their ancient heroes like Miyamoto Musashi without apology. After spending many years reading books about all these topics it was quite refreshing to see the spirit of Miyamoto Musashi in everyone I met in Japan—literally. From the airline stewardesses to the cooks of Kobe Beef in some of the highest end Steak Houses in the world, it was Miyamoto Musashi who used a foundation of Shinto Buddhism to become one of the greatest swordsman who ever lived and a mythological rock that all of Japan had been able to cling to empowering them to take a tiny island and make it one of the world’s most dominate economies.
So there I was in a remote Shinto temple atop a high mountain just as Musashi had visited well before me, and I had to realize that my thoughts were on my next generation. I was looking for something very unique to bring back to my grandchildren and within the temple as is rather common at such temples around the world, there were little souvenirs that were supposed to bring good luck to those fortunate enough to have them. The story goes that with such items that the god who protected the Buddha years ago would also protect those who made offerings within the temple. So in full ceremony and with the help of a professional guide who said a prayer to the Shitennō on my behalf through the smoke of incense, I brought off the mountain gifts for my grandchildren. For my two grandsons, I brought blessed arrows that will ward off and conquer Jyaki demons—whom I call ultraterrestrials. Different names, same embodiments of corrosive spirits. However for my granddaughter who at this time is still an infant not yet crawling I brought a specific ornament that she can hang in her bedroom for all years to come. The ritual is that you write a wish on the back of this ornament and present it to the Shitennō statues and they will carry out the request. So I wrote my wish on the back and my guide prayed to the Shitennō for me and even carried my items down off the mountain since he insisted that the gods would recognize me as a lord for having a servent to conduct this business between gods facilitating harmony and the fulfillment of objectives. So this is what I wrote.
To rule the earth with grace and persuasion making everything your feet touches an addition to your kingdom without bringing harm to a single person. Make it so Shitennō and bring justice to the world.
The Shitennō are Buddhist protectors of the four directions. They ward off evil, guard the nation, and protect the world from malicious spirits, hence the Japanese term Gose Shitennō 護世四天王, literally “four world-protecting deva kings.” Each represents a direction, season, color, virtue, and element (see below chart). They originated in India as deva generals protecting Lord Indra, but were later adopted into the Buddhist pantheon in China and Japan. Each dwells in and protects one of the four continents surrounding Mt. Shumisen 須弥山 (Skt. = Mt. Sumeru), the mythical home of the Historical Buddha and other Buddhist deities. In China and Japan, they are venerated as temple guardians and protectors of the nation. In China, statues of the four are often placed near temple entrances, but in Japan, effigies of the four are more commonly placed around the central deity on the main altar (the main dais is befittingly called the Shumidan 須弥壇). The four are commanded by Taishakuten (Skt. Indra), Lord of the Center. They are nearly always dressed in armor (yoroi 鎧), looking ferocious (funnusō 忿怒相), and carrying weapons or objects (jimotsu 持物) said to eliminate evil influences and suppress the enemies of Buddhism. They are also typically shown standing atop evil spirits (known as Jaki in Japan), symbolizing their power to repel and defeat evil. Sometimes they are depicted with a fiery halo behind them. Their attributes, however, are not rigidly prescribed and thus differ among Buddhist nations. Shitennō iconography is related to the Four Celestial Emblems (dragon, red bird, tiger, turtle) of China, who also guard the four cardinal directions. In Japanese statuary, the Shitennō are almost always portrayed in animated warrior poses rather than static postures of ease or meditation. Among the four, Tamonten (aka Bishamonten) is considered the most powerful, and over time, supplanted the other three in importance. Indeed, Bishamonten is the only member of the four worshipped independently in Japan, both as protector of Buddhist faith and as one of Japan’s Seven Lucky Gods — one who brings wealth and prosperity. Bishamonten also supplanted Taishakuten (Lord of the Center) as an object of worship, but Taishakuten never enjoyed great status in Japan.
Guardians of the Four Directions, Protectors of Buddhist Law, Protectors of Human Kind, Protectors of the Bosatsu and Nyorai. Most often found standing at the corners of alters. Ferocious looking, sometimes with fiery halo behind them, often stepping on demons called Jyaki. They protect the Buddhist realm for Taishakuten (Skt. Indra), serving as his generals to guard the territories inhabited by humans. Originally from Hindu mythology, and later incorporated into Buddhism. In the Lotus Sutra, they vow to protect those who believe in the Dharma (Buddhist teachings). In Japanese artwork, especially in the mandala form, the four typically appear in a set order, starting with Jikokuten (East), followed by Zōchōten (South), Kōmokuten (West), and Tamonten (North). All four are described in Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese texts, but their attributes, colors, and names often vary.
Jaki is the name of the tiny creatures the four kings stand upon. Classified as members of the Yaksha in Japan; also referred to as the Amano Jyaku (Heaven Jyaku). In a tradition unique to Japan, the Jaki demons are sometimes represented by two creatures known as Tentōki (Tentoki) 天燈鬼 and Ryūtōki (Ryutoki) 龍燈鬼, which translate literally as Celestial-Lamp Demon and Dragon-Lamp Demon. Japanese legends say these two creatures were originally evil, but after getting trampled by the Shitennō, they repented, were saved, and now carry lanterns as offerings of light to the Buddha, or to light up the road in front of the Shaka Nyorai (Historical Buddha). The Jaki and Tentōki / Ryūtoki symbolize the power of the Shitennō to repel and defeat evil. Two wonderful sculptures of Tentōki and Ryutōki can be found at Kōfukuji Temple in Nara.
We carried out the rest of the trip visiting also the nearby Himeji Castle and eating on the grounds of a former Samurai camp. All this put my mind in the proper place to complete the objective of this particular visit. So I have to thank all the many people who made it possible. There were many kind people involved who took such an epic event and played a part in a stage play that had been written by my mind for many years manifesting now at a time in my life where intellect had become the author of reality. It was for these reasons that I think anyone visiting Japan should embark—because within those two monuments is the heart of a culture and the reasons for its massive global success. Unlike Miyamoto Musashi however, I differ in that I have a family that is getting larger by the moment, and I have expectations for them to do better than I have—and I have set the bar very high. But it’s good to have goals so that the mind knows how to formulate reality around the desires that are most embraced in daily thinking.
I don’t believe that the Shitennō will do as the prayer to them instructed. But what I do believe is that my granddaughter will read that wish for years to come and formulate her mind into a reality that will make it so. For that is the aspect of religion that never has quite found itself as a root of contemplation—too often the belief is that something has to give you something to make it happen. That luck and empowerment come from somewhere else and is given based on sacrifice. It’s not. It comes from the strength of thought and the manifestation of those contemplations into reality by the nature of human endeavor. As a very grown man who has read books about such things for years, I understand that the magic of the Shitennō doesn’t reside in heaven; it is within our own minds. So if I could give my grandchildren a way to think largely early enough to still make a difference, then perhaps their lives will reach those lofty peeks with sheer ambition. Sometimes a young, immature mind needs a feather as Dumbo did to convince him that he could fly. Humans need their religions and other emotional crutches to maneuver their thoughts to higher places. But eventually you come to realize what Miyamoto Musashi obviously realized later in life—that we are the authors of our own fate. The story that evolves comes from what we allow ourselves to think and how that manifests into reality. Given that knowledge, it is good to think big—as big as possible. And it is my hope that in the future, my granddaughter will read that wish from the mountain of Shosha and use it as a feather to realize that she can really fly—as far and often as she wishes—for as long as she cares to over the millennia.
Iowa, this is your time on the stage. Really, the next election for President of the United States begins and ends with you. If you were to take a moment from preparing for the spring planting period, from life on your farms and industry to vote in the Republican primary on February 1st, you could put this thing to bed right now. This particular site that you are reading gets particularly busy during election periods because most people don’t have time to pay attention to critical issues regarding politics. Prior to elections they usually do an internet search, and they run across my articles. They read them as opposed to other publications because I usually provide 1500 word articles that cover the details of an issue deep diving into the psychology and politics behind whatever is on the ballot. People have lost faith in the mainstream news, and their local newspapers, but they do tend to trust me and it shows up in voting results usually with a small swing in percentage to the passage or failure of an issue. In close elections—sometimes that’s all it takes. At this point, I’m not sure that Iowa will be close for Republicans but just in case, you should take the opportunity to go out and vote and you should cast your support behind Donald Trump. If you watch the following videos about Trump, you can see easily that he is already more presidential than anybody we’ve had the opportunity to vote for in several decades. And he is the best option for 2016 on either side. But, it takes feet on the ground to actually vote and you should after you’ve watched the following videos completely. Then, pass them along to a friend to make sure they vote for Trump as well.
Trump is a successful person and as just a candidate he has shown that he can hold massive rallies. It is easy to see what kind of president he would be—all encompassing and hard-working taking up the charge personally to jump-start our economy in America once again. The best way to do that is to make the American brand something of value again just as Trump has made his family name nearly household recognizable before he ever ran for president. If Trump can repair the American brand across the world, instantly, many of the things he is declaring that he’ll fix will resolve themselves. Part of the concept of building a wall between Mexico and America is to make entry into the United States more valuable. Any time there is market saturation of something its value goes down. Open border advocates do not like the American concept so they count on lowering the value of the United States so that Mexico can diffuse Constitutional limits through elections and changing demographics. Trump has the experience to ensure that limited access is the best way to command respect of a nice penthouse apartment in one of his buildings in New York. Nobody respects something they get cheaply, or even worse for free. Trump is the most poised of anybody to restore value to what being an American truly should have always been.
There are other good candidates running in the GOP primary. But they just don’t have that next level of ability that Trump has. Not only can Trump identify a problem, but he knows how to talk to people, even those who don’t like him. I think he alone would make the House and Senate work properly with his sheer charisma. I do not think I will always agree with him, but I think he will be very close to what all conservatives have always wanted because as a private sector guy, who owes nothing to any lobbyist, he can actually afford to resist the temptations to enrich himself with K-Street deals where every other candidate must acquiesce to some extent making them much less effective on a day-to-day basis.
The great power struggle in the beltway–what they really fear about Trump, is in losing power to a person elected by a majority of the voters for really the first time in over a century. K-Street truly rules the beltway of Washington. It’s not the House and Senate—it is the lobbyists who run our government and nobody has an opportunity to end that rule better than Donald Trump. For the sake of our country this process of lobbyists controlling our politics in a constitutional republic has to stop. If we don’t end it during this next election cycle, we will lose our country. There is only one way out of our impending fiscal crises—which $19 trillion on the United States debt clock is looming over all our futures—and that is tremendous GDP growth that can only come from a dynamic personality like Trump.
Just prior to the Iowa vote the conservative publication National Review committed an entire edition to hit pieces against Trump from people like Glenn Beck Dana, Loesch, Bill Kristol , and other so-called conservatives. Let me tell you something dear Iowa voter—nobody on that list is more conservative than I am. Not a single person writing for the Nation Review beats me on conservative values. I like a lot of those people the way I might like a typical liberal. I might talk to them about a football game, or a popular movie, but they don’t want to talk politics with me. They are not more conservative than I am. I am extremely pro Second Amendment, anti-abortion, anti-entitlement, pro-American exceptionalism, anti-drug, and I’m against men crying…………..Bill O’Reilly to me is a bleeding heart hippie liberal. My wife is a happy housewife who brings my dinner to my chair every night and we are happy in that traditional role. I’m so conservative that I don’t even show up on a graph measuring conservativism—because I’m to the right of even that. And I’m too smart to be considered a right-winged loon so that description doesn’t fit either. These people, many of whom came into the national stage through Glenn Beck and are simply backing his vision of a constitutional republic that falls in behind a George Washington presidency—and that’s just not realistic or relevant in 2016. Beck thinks he’s doing the work of God, but in reality he’s a former drug addict who is trying to rectify his past with a born again Christian optimism that does not have the ability to combat the problems on K-Street. You can’t throw Bibles at the crooks and loons in Washington—you have to beat them at their own game. The National Review is the proof of why conservatives have been losing for years—because they fail to identify the proper targets to attack and when they do they cannot come up with a strategy to deal with it. Like Beck, they look for guidance through prayer instead of with their own eyes paralyzing them to act properly against evil. While religious values are fine, the reality must be confronted that fewer people than ever can identify with religion and the 2016 election has to be about fiscal issues, not religious ones. One thing certainly comes before other things and their priorities are strategically off at the National Review.
Being a conservative I’m also quite accustomed to being around people who make things in business and I understand why they donate money to politicians. Because of the socialist polices embedded in the United States business people have to pay politicians off otherwise they won’t get their zoning approved, government regulators show up to shut down their businesses, and even worse the IRS shows up to destroy a company through the audit process—so job providers have to pay the troll or face serious ramifications. I see in Trump a person so sick of that process that he has an opportunity to destroy it from within. Aside from inflating his brand I think this is the other big reason that Trump is running for president—to take away the crony shackles that he had to navigate around in New York politics—and replace it with a more free market option. Trump had to support democrats in New York, particularly the various mayors he’s had to deal with over the years otherwise his real estate investments would die awaiting approvals that those politicians had the power to control. For the first time in his life, Trump is truly free—he has enough money that he doesn’t have to depend on anybody for his sustenance, which has allowed him to publicly discuss his politics. Most people during their money-making years—30s through their 50s–avoid public declarations of their political leanings because it gets in the way of dealing with other people. Older people can afford to make people angry with their opinions, so it is usually they who are the most vocal. Trump is now one of those older guys who has all the money he will ever need, so he can afford to let his tongue fly which is why a lot of his opinions are now clearer on things than they used to be. Why would Trump give money to Hillary Clinton—because she was a senator from New York and she could help him get things passed? If he needed a New York mayor to get out of his way, he could call up Hillary and apply some pressure. That’s the way it works. It should say a lot about Trump that he’s been willing to attack the Clintons to get this far in the race. It’s just business for Trump and he has shown that he’ll put American business in front of everything.
So it’s up to you Iowa. You have the facts, you’ve seen the videos. You know what you have to do. Go out there and vote for Trump. Put an end to this election from the very first vote. Be the first and last state to decide who will be President of the United States in 2016. If Iowa goes for Trump the rest of the states will follow and that will be it. All you have to do is show up and cast your ballot for a real opportunity—the one last hope of saving America from a fiscal crises and a detrimental political system that is imploding as we speak. Trump has accomplished more than any of the individuals writing for the National Review. Trump is a conservative because of the way he runs his businesses and manages his family. His actions tell the truth about who he is. The interpretation of his actions are often read by people who aren’t smart enough or conservative enough to see what he is up to behind the curtain. But it’s not hard for me to see. And hopefully, Iowa, you are smart enough to see it to. History is in your hands—so make the right decision.
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CITIZENS UNITED V. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION
Argued on March 24, 2009 and Decided on January 21, 2010, the United States Supreme Court held that the First Amendment prohibited the government from restricting independent political expenditures by a nonprofit corporation, more specifically – by a Political Action Committees.
SOCIALIST CENTRAL COMMITTEE, LTD. WAS ESTABLISHED.
Anticipating the outcome of the Court’s decision, a select group of socialists in Indianapolis established the SCC as a political action committee (PAC) to promote socialist political issues in January 2010. The original committee consisted of a member of the Socialist Party USA, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, and two independent socialists.
IGNORANCE ATTACKS THE UNKNOWN
Immediately upon the Central Committee’s initial public efforts in March 2010, poorly educated members of the Socialist Party USA, which included its National Secretary – Greg Pason, began to disparage the Central Committee’s promotional efforts of socialist issues by inflicting the SCC with a constant barrage of false rumors, innuendo and outright lies.
ADMINISTRATIVE DEACTIVATION
Because of the continued disparagement by Socialist Party USA members, the committee decided to allow the SCC to be administratively deactivated in 2014. This move permitted individual committee members to pursue electioneering efforts outside the legal confines of the Federal Elections Commission.
As a fine example of what I have been talking about regarding good management of a town government, no finer example could be found than in West Chester, Ohio with the opening of Premier Shooting & Training Center in just a few weeks of this writing. CLICK HERE TO REVIEW WHY. Typically projects like Premier are crushed through the zoning process where pin-headed liberal activists too often apply the worthlessness of their lives behind a façade of community interest using the power of regulation to provide meaning to their collectivist world vision. Entirely too often developers have to donate huge amounts of money to politicians just so they can have the opportunity to build something halfway decent—and usually what they end up with is a long way off from the original vision once zoning chews up a project into pieces and leaves the consumer public with an end product far less imaginative than when it was conceived. Precisely to the point, since Mark Welch has joined George Lang as a trustee in West Chester things have finally started to move in a positive direction. At the Streets of West Chester a fabulous entertainment facility is about to open called The Main Event, which is essentially a very high scale bowling facility—among many other things. The Holiday Inn just built a wonderful hotel across from IKEA—and the steak house featured at that establishment is great for business lunches. But then there is the Premier Shooting facility which is a game changer for a target range in the Tri-State area. It’s so nice that people will drive into town just to visit it from other cities. It is a top class facility. I was happy to get an invite to a sneak peek that the owners were putting on to tour the facility behind the curtain, and all I can say is that it was extremely impressive—and that three years ago—before Mark Welch was elected as a trustee giving George Lang that critical second vote that he needed for the many previous years of struggle—that the Premier facility could have only have been built within the last year. West Chester has a lot to look forward to regarding entertainment and leisure activity—and the Premier Shooting and Training Center is just the exclamation point at the end of an extravagant pro-capitalist government culture that has been created under the guidance of George Lang. I personally like George, but too often people disappoint me because they don’t walk the talk. George talks a lot—more than most people, but he walks more than he talks—let’s put it that way.
A few years ago a gun dealer and very pro Second Amendment guy named Mike Reed tried to set up shop in West Chester. The zoning people gave the prospective employer a rough way to go so he went north and essentially set up his Right 2 Arms gun shop in my backyard. He is doing well and has a great shooting simulator in the basement of his shop that can get people a concealed carry permit—among other things. I recently bought my Vaquero from Mike and was impressed to learn that it was his parents who essentially put up the money for him to manage—so it was a nice little family business that they were conducting because the family believed very strongly in the values of the NRA and specifically the Second Amendment. In my sport of Cowboy Fast Draw we call that the Cowboy Way.
I was more than a little surprised to learn at the preview of the Premier Shooting & Training Center that it was a very similar story to Mike’s, a mom and dad, Myron and Tommie Rowland had put up a very large amount of money to create a shooting establishment that their son will essentially manage. He has a background in the military and law enforcement and is the martial arts instructor. When I spoke to him he specified to me that his mission was to provide the people least able to defend themselves against aggression the means to do so—which is a tremendous service to the people of West Chester. He could have said to me that he hoped to make enough money to break even after their first year of operating—and in the context of our conversation he could have easily have said such a thing without shame—but he was quite sincere. That’s when it became apparent that the Premier Shooting & Training Center was a dream for this family and that George Lang and Mark Welch had created a business environment that allowed that dream to actually be constructed—along with a determined and well-known developer.
You can see that the dream was easy to share for this determined family because walking into the foyer of the facility is a very proud tribute to the Second Amendment. I included pictures on this article to do the place justice because the entire facility is just a testament to very firm American values. There is nothing like the Premier Shooting & Training Center in the Tri-State area and beyond within several hundred miles. The shooting lanes for target work are certainly on the high-end up range, but down range it is just state of the art. For me the most noticeable luxury was their air evacuation system which was moving a lot of air during my visit. As all shooters know there is a lot of lead in gun smoke so at a range where several shooters are working with their firearms smoke can fill the room quickly. That air has to be moved to keep things fresh because you don’t want to breathe too much as a shooter. It smells nice, but isn’t good for you under sustained conditions.
The first thing I thought of after touring the facility was that the owners of the Premier Shooting & Training Center had certainly taken care of their target audience. The gun retail store in the center of the action will be a place that guns of all kinds can be purchased and shot on the premises in the kind of luxury setting that shoppers would expect to find at Victoria’s Secret. It’s a nice, clean environment that provides access to their stock. For men who love to shoot, it’s a dream come true. But better than that—they can bring their wives without having to worry about the environment being too intimidating for them to feel included. The shooting range is set right off the retail area and is clean and safe. There is even an office for the range master to supervise two separate ranges by looking out a central window to ensure that no trouble occurs for the sake of safety. There is even an armourer on site to help with gun customization or troubleshooting that is equipped for minor gunsmithing duties. Everything about the shooting experience associated with a target range was on the top end.
But that wasn’t all, the facility offers a gun safe so that if you have a firearm that you want to protect while you’re out of town, or that you have purchased and are awaiting a permit for—like a machine gun—or something of that nature—it can be stored at the Premier Shooting & Training Center. I can think of a lot of times where a service like that would be valuable. There is also a combat training area with mats on the ground to protect falling bodies while learning hand to hand combat—with additional physical training equipment typically associated with a gym. Then there are conference rooms and classrooms that can be used to advance understanding of firearms and other topics. One of their meetings rooms would be ideal for renting any event where 100 people or so wanted to gather for an instructional class of some kind. It was a very nice facility.
Of course there was a lounge area designed to get people talking with one another which was a nice touch. Additionally under various membership packages there was a VIP area that was quite nice. The first thought I had was that this was an ideal place to bring business clients. Instead of taking clients out for a round of golf which takes all afternoon, a trip to the Premier Shooting & Training Center was a better option for the kind of bonding that is often required during business meetings and power lunches. The quality of the place made it fashionable especially with the VIP lounge which has the look of Teddy Roosevelt’s living room in South Dakota. There is a very nice patio that looks out over a lake and the setting is luxurious for a shooting range. It was a wonderful place to speak with people and network within the community. It was a very smart idea to include as a bonus to an otherwise fantastic shooting experience.
The Premier Shooting & Training Center was just the most recent example of what the American people can produce if you just get government out of their way and actually help them achieve their dreams. Mark and George, even though they will not take the credit—had a lot to do with making it so that such a wonderful place could actually be built-in West Chester. The owners had been shopping around and were looking at three possible sites. Zoning just a few years ago in West Chester would have forced the Rowlands to go out into a more rural location where there were less college trained leftists actively working against the Second Amendment. For West Chester to now be able to offer such a wonderful gun range within a few miles of Jags, and the Main Event is really an advantage for the entire community. I can easily see a business afternoon with VIPs dining at Jags then swinging over to the Premier Shooting & Training Center to shoot a few rounds—maybe even let them shoot a machine gun—which Premier is licensed to handle—then conduct further business in the VIP lounge before dropping them off at their hotel for the evening. Not only will the Premier Shooting & Training facility help train people how to defend themselves, and to more fully utilize the Second Amendment, but it will also facilitate even more business activity which will proportionally improve the productive output of the entire area. It is the kind of place that makes you feel safely wrapped in the American flag and to realize that we live in the greatest country on earth. And West Chester has one of the best shooting facilities in that country—right in our own back yards.
The story follows Brett McBain as he purchased a plot of land in the middle of the desert which nobody otherwise wanted to sink his hopes into real estate that he plans will make him gloriously wealthy. This isn’t the typical story of gold digging or cattle rustling that are so typical of American westerns—this is actually a very intelligent story about something we can all relate with. McBain has made a very calculated risk much in the way that Donald Trump became wealthy—the land he has purchased is sitting on top of a nice aquifer full of fresh water and he knows that steam locomotives need water to run. So he gambles that the railroad will come through his property, and a town called Sweetwater will form around his home making his family rich. This is a very capitalist thing to do and the movie never demonizes that action—in fact it is central to the entire plot.
The value of the railroad itself is provided by the tycoon Morton. Without Morton nothing happens, McBain’s property is just another patch of desert land. The value for the land is provided by Morton’s desire to build a railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Without that intention, McBain’s purchase would be meaningless. However along the way to help make it possible to see his dream, Morton hired Frank—a thuggish gunman to eliminate opposition to his plans. In this way the good intentions of Morton become the bad intentions of the crony capitalist which seeks to destroy their competition with force. Along the way, Frank picked on the wrong guy who comes back from the past to face down Frank along the backdrop of the Sweetwater land deal. The avenger of justice in this western is played by Charles Bronson known as Harmonica.
However Morton is sick and Frank fancies destroying his mentor so he can take over his empire, but he doesn’t quite have the business sense that his boss had. Frank learns too late that he’s really only good as a thug and does not have the sweet touch to walk the fine line between good honest business in a capitalist society and a corrupt regime of crony capitalism. He learns this through his failures invoked throughout Once Upon a Time in the West. Frank decides he wants to stop McBain’s deal to build his contractually obligated station for the railroad so that he can complete his part of the fairly complicated business transaction with Morton. Frank kills off McBain and his entire family to essentially stop them from building the proposed train station. Before that killing McBain was feeling pretty good about his life. He had a good business deal and celebrated it by marrying a first class prostitute from New Orleans. Jill didn’t really love old McBain as she had been emotionally hardened after years of prostituting herself but McBain was offering her a second chance at life. In exchange for whoring herself out to one man instead of many, she was getting an instant family and a prominent social place in a growing town. But when she showed up by train to meet her husband and his family she was horrified to find that they had been slaughtered by some gunmen dressed up as known bandits working for an outlaw by the name of Cheyenne. Of course Cheyenne had nothing to do with the killing; Frank simply dressed up his own railroad men to look like those of the recognized bandit. Cheyenne gets blamed for the killing; Frank destroys the ability of McBain to fulfill his contractual obligations to the railroad allowing Frank to sweep in and swipe up the land at an auction making himself rich in the process.
Jill however decides to keep the land which throws a wrench in Frank’s plans. Harmonica steps in to help Jill deal with what Frank is up. He outbids Frank for the land by using the bounty money on Cheyenne’s head to pay for it. Of course Harmonica made a deal with Cheyenne ahead of time to free him before he gets to jail so that the bandit can be a part of foiling the plans of Frank who was the instigator in the set-up. Harmonica then befriends Frank somewhat to get close to him and helps the villain survive an attack by his own. Morton had hired Frank’s gunman as a means of self-preservation because the crippled railroad tycoon realized that he could no longer trust his long time apprentice. Cheyenne escaping from capture then attacked Morton and the rest of Frank’s men as Harmonica and Frank kill off the rest. Of course Jill is considering making Harmonica a sexual mate because he’s strong, mysterious and powerful. But she also has eyes for Cheyenne for the same reasons. She’s angry at Harmonica for helping keep Frank alive but little does she know that the mysterious stranger has been playing Frank the way she attempted to while seducing the killer herself.
Isolated, Frank confronts Harmonica into revealing who he is and what he’s up to. He no longer has any help and the railroad is nearly completed in Sweetwater. So Frank has failed and just wants to know who Harmonica is. That’s when it is revealed that Frank killed Harmonica’s brother many years earlier and the only thing the mysterious stranger wants is revenge. The two fight it out in a classic gun battle where Frank dies. Jill wants one of the two men to stay with her to live out their days together but both Cheyenne and Harmonica leave to avoid being tamed by civilization. Jill meanwhile embraces her role as the matriarch of the town and she gets to live happily ever after with a completely fresh start. Most of the main characters had died leaving only her in the end and the birth of a town that was created under a premise of pure capitalism. It’s actually a very beautiful story that we don’t get enough out of Hollywood.
The central theme throughout the entire film is that the gun is the deliverer of justice. Noticeably not present throughout the whole film are police officers and government officials. The only justice between all the characters is their shared use of firearms. There is no sheriff who brokers mediation between Frank, Morton, or Jill. The only police we see are those taking Cheyenne away when he was turned into the authorities by Harmonica to collect a bounty. But at no time in the whole movie do the police or the government do anything to help solve any problems. All events were driven by the character’s themselves as the highest possible authority of law and order under the drive of laissez-faire capitalism. It is a minimalist tactic utilized by the director, Sergio Leone—but what’s interesting is that it was his Italian interpretation of what the America West was—a free and open land filled with unlimited opportunities. Harmonica enacted his own justice against Frank, in an honorable way. Jill was able to get a fresh start in life because of the capitalist efforts of Morton and McBain. And many thousands of others were employed because of the struggle. It was quite extraordinary to see the train finally coming into Sweetwater carrying hundreds of new workers to relieve the old ones. Without capitalism and the gun to protect it—nothing would be happening in the film Once Upon a Time in the West.
So my ambition to turn back the clock is not to return to slavery, or to move to a time where women couldn’t vote—it is to make the Second Amendment stronger and to invoke a lot more laissez-faire capitalism. When I think of the Old West I think of unlimited opportunities, very limited government, and the honor of equality that guns gave to the people who carried them. The Sergio Leone westerns are not historically accurate, but it is the wishful dreams of a European filmmaker yearning for a place in the world where such dreams were possible. And to his eyes and the large budget provided by Paramount Pictures—Once Upon a Time in the West was an honest philosophic crack at how an example of laissez-faire capitalism could be applied to the world using the American Western as a backdrop of simplicity to tell the story. It is for that reason that it is one of the greatest films of the 20th Century and one of the most underrated enigmas of art to emerge in a free market.
Film schools across the world study Once Upon a Time in the West hoping to recapture that magical movie. But they all miss the point because they don’t understand what the film is really about. They think it’s about Henry Fonda playing a bad guy, or Charles Bronson’s minimalist dialogue. They think it’s about the music and the cinematography, and the ambitious location shooting. Those are all very good things but not the reason it’s one of the greatest westerns of all time and also one of the great movie classics resting alongside Citizen Kane and The Wizard of Oz as an all time great classic. It’s because the movie was about laissez-faire capitalism and how to achieve justice in that world when things go bad then make it endure with just a bit of extra sparkle of obscurity. I can’t say that Leone was a remarkable capitalist as a film director during his whole life. I’d say he leaned more and more political left as his prestige in Hollywood increased. But for a time between 1963 to 1968 Sergio Leone offered some of the best arguments in favor of capitalism than any director has in movie history. And he did it with his wonderful spaghetti westerns—most notably, Once Upon a Time in the West. For me, that is a key to strategizing where we need to go as a civilization in the future. And we will.
The people of the world look to America for leadership……………and hope. It’s in the music from the very first video. Watch the faces of the audience. They know it without realizing that the tears that fall from their eyes is to feel again what once happened upon a time, in the west.
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