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How ‘Star Wars’ Can Save Society: An Ewok Village Birthday Cake

It is highly likely now that Barack Obama is president for a second term that I may make more Star Wars comparisons since much of what is happening reminds me of a list of books that I read from that popular film series.   Increasingly my friend Matt Clark and I have been using Star Wars metaphors to discuss current events in a way that young people can understand since they have been taught to dislike the American Revolution in their public educations and media culture.  So to provide the proper context that is needed for a voting republic, Star Wars is an excellent reference of why responsible participation in government is necessary.   Below is the bumper clip that WAAM Radio in Ann Arbor, Michigan has been using during their broadcasts of Glenn Beck, Denis Miller, and Laura Ingraham featuring a recent discussion that Matt and I had on his radio program. 

Star Wars is not a political party driven philosophy.  I would doubt that Star Wars creator George Lucas would call himself a Democrat or a Republican or even a Libertarian.  I would say he is a story-teller with an excellent grasp of history and technical innovation.  And I see Star Wars as an offering that can redeem society in ways that are currently unimaginable.  For my daughter’s 23rd birthday she wanted a special cake, something that really meant something to her personally, so my wife made her a Star Wars cake complete with an Ewok Village created out of all edible elements.  Only the Lego Ewoks were parts of the cake that couldn’t be eaten.  Star Wars many times in my family’s past has served as a backdrop for unlimited imagination and teaching values that were family oriented.  The trees were made out of ice cream cones, and also the huts.  The trees were made out of pretzels.  The bridges were made out of candy and graham crackers.  Of course she loved it. 

A message to my Tea Party friends and social reformers deserves mention, no matter how dark things may seem it can always get worse or better depending on the quality of the people who make up a republic.  In fact I look very forward to Disney’s ownership of the Star Wars franchise because there may come a day real soon that the series of books spawned from the movies may be made into television or movie formats in the future similar to how today’s Clone Wars series is presented on Cartoon Network—which my wife and I watch—religiously————and I mean religiously every Saturday morning at 9:30 AM.   I find them visual beautiful to look at, but at the same time intellectually stimulating.  I disagree emphatically with the clip below of Adolf Hitler’s assessment of the Disney acquisition of Star Wars from George Lucas.

The following books tell the story better than anything available of religious peril, the invasion of a galaxy by a very hostile unknown species, political upheavals, family tragedy, scientific mystery, social redemption, life after death—(in great detail), personal conquest, spiritual enlightenment, galactic civil war, quests for freedom, the origins of evil, justification for violence, and in essence the entire meaning of life in a span of books that runs 42 novels long each about 500 to 700 pages in length.  I consider them to be the most encompassing gathering of literature ever done on a subject of any kind and I say that with my hand on one of my favorites, Leo Tolstroy’s War and Peace.  While the Star Wars books are not the most artistic as they are designed to be read by young people from the 7th and 8th grade on up, the content of the stories is truly significant and beneficial to anyone who takes the time to read them.  They are in order:

Vector Prime, Dark Tide 1: Onslaught, Dark Tide II: Ruin, Agents of Chaos I: Hero’s Trial, Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse, Balance Point, Recovery, Edge of Victory I:Conquest, Edge of Victory II: Rebirth, Star by Star (one of my favorites), Dark Journey, Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream, Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand, Traitor (one of my all time favorites), Destiny’s Way, Ylesia, Force Heretic I: Remnant, Force Heretic II Refugee, Force Heretic III: Reunion, The Final Prophecy, The Unifying Force (an absolutely stunning story), The Joiner King, The Unseen Queen, The Swarm War, Betrayal, Bloodlines, Tempest, Exile, Sacrifice, Inferno, Fury, Revelations, Invincible, Outcast, Omen, Abyss, (very spiritually bold in that half of it takes place in the afterlife), Backlash, Allies, Vortex, Conviction, Ascension, and Apocalypse.

I believe with all my heart and soul that because those books are not politically motivated, and they take place in a galaxy a long time ago, far, far away, that they have the chance to shape our society in a unique way that is yet uncharted in human existence.

Let me explain—most of the work that shaped the American Revolution consisted of small works, such as the literature of John Locke, Adam Smith, Plato even Shakespeare—all of which I’ve read.  The thoughts about communism that are so prevalent today were shaped by Karl Marx’s little book The Communist Manifesto and the left has used the methods of Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience to organize support during the Civil Rights Movement.  That is another small book that has had a big impact on the world around us.   All those works combined do not equate to the amount of work and effort that Lucas Publishing has expended in telling the marvelously epic story of Star Wars described in the books mentioned above.  But the story doesn’t end with just those books—not even close–there are over 100 books that take place during a 6000 year span of time that displays vividly the violent rise and fall of many generation’s governments and how different species of beings interact positively and negatively against each other.

When I think of the book burning rituals that took place whenever dictators rose to power to assert their strength over the previous cultures, I think of the attempt by those despots to erase from the minds of mankind the knowledge they need to question reality—which is the point of burning books.  Most of the time because of the cozy relationship business often has with government out of the necessity of survival books like the Star Wars series could never have been even conceived let alone achieved, but under George Lucas he has pulled off the feat and done human kind a tremendous service.

It is only a matter of time before the young people who have read these Star Wars books are in a position socially to act on what they’ve learned, and I can say that when that day arrives, the world will be much better off.  Star Wars is about fighting and winning personal freedom in the context of social responsibility.  It’s a big concept that has tremendous potential philosophically, and socially and the best of Star Wars is not in the films, which simply plant the seeds of story for curious minds to follow, but is in the books which takes readers deep down the Rabbit Holes of life for a journey that holds many of the keys to all the possibilities that exist.  The impact of this literature has yet to be felt, but in time it will.  The literature of Star Wars is the key to understanding many of the complex issues of our modern age in the context that they must be taken in—and within that knowledge is a security that can only come to an increased intellect.  For that, I will always be a fan—and be eternally grateful.  It is for that reason that I suggest to all those feeling hopeless and desperate in their lives to take a few years off life and read all those books in the order that I presented them, and you will discover within yourself a life of unlimited potential and everlasting joy that cannot be taken by any government or social parasite.

George Lucas has always been much more of an advocate of education than a mindless capitalist like he’s been accused of.  He used his money to educate the world in a way that was so cleaver that the worst of the tyrants never knew what was happening, until it hit critical mass and entered the subconscious of the world in an unstoppable force that now has a life of its own.  The first of that education miracle is Angry Birds Star Wars, the game of time, distance, trajectory and impact strategy!

Rich Hoffman

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

  

The Hostess Company Folds: Government in bed with communist labor unions

The unions in America have had it all wrong from day one. When Andrew Carnegie had to endure one of the first labor strikes from a worker’s union in one of his Pittsburg steel plants, he was guilty of working his employees too long, too often in a bloodthirsty quest to compete with J.D. Rockefeller in Cleveland as the richest man in The United States. In business, competition is what drives the flow of money, and between Rockefeller and Carnegie there was a brutal competition between the two men that almost single-handedly ushered America into the modern age with innovation and wealth. Billions of people world-wide benefited directly from the ruthless competition between those two men. But Carnegie had crossed the line pushing his workers too hard. This caused the desperate workers to look toward the fairly recent writings of Karl Marx for a solution in much the same way that the Bolsheviks roughly 20 years later would use Marx to overthrow the bourgeoisie class in Petrograd under the banner, “workers of the world unite!” The steel workers at Carnegie’s Pittsburg steel mill went on strike and took possession of the plant which was their mistake. They had a right to walk off the job leaving the task to new workers to fill, but they did not have the right to take possession of the plant, believing themselves inaccurately to be equal owners in the company’s assets simply because they were employed at the plant.

Carnegie owned the mill as the workers simply sold their labor to him for a price. If the workers did not like the price, or thought they could do a better job, under capitalism they have the right to walk away from the job and go into direct competition with Carnegie if they wished. But under socialism—which the labor unions functioned under then, and to this very day—they believed they were equal partners with ownership in the companies they worked for simply because they showed up for work. Carnegie’s response to the labor strike was to call in the Pinkerton boys.

Allan Pinkerton (1819-84), was a Scottish-American detective. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Pinkerton came to the United States and settled near Chicago in 1842. While engaged in business as a barrel maker in 1846, he captured a gang of counterfeiters and was consequently elected county sheriff. In 1850 he organized Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency and was appointed the first city detective in Chicago. The recovery of a large sum of money stolen from the Adams Express Company and the discovery of a plot to murder Abraham Lincoln in 1861 made his reputation. During the American Civil War he organized the secret service of the U.S. Army. During the railroad strikes of 1877, his agency provided strikebreakers. His books include Strikers, Communists and Tramps (1878) and Thirty Years a Detective (1884). After the Civil War Pinkerton put together a band of mercenaries who would go around the country for hire and attack unions who attempted to seize American businesses. Carnegie hired Pinkerton to break up the strike at his Pittsburg steel plant where the workers barricaded themselves across the entrance. Pinkerton in defense of Carnegie’s ownership of the plant gunned down the workers to break the strike and retake possession of the plant from the theft induced by the labor union.

Eventually over the next 100 years labor unions would embed themselves into many companies and would stop work in an attempt to extort more pay and benefits from corporate owners with the threat of violence under the banner of communism. Government climbed into bed with the communist movement migrating through American capitalism and made such actions as Carnegie utilized by hiring Pinkerton illegal—which allowed communism to mix with American capitalism in a contentious century long stand-off. The result has been the decimation of the steel industry, that started in America, the destruction of the car industry, which has been artificially propped up by government to prevent the inevitable bankruptcy imposed by the auto worker legacy costs, and a destructive spread of organized labor into government positions such as firefighters, cops and teachers—fulfilling the undercurrent strategy of the communists all along to attack private property in America by taxing it to fund those infrastructure government labor jobs excessively. Even though Carnegie pushed his workers over the edge with poor wages and intense hours—his workers did not have the right to take his property. Labor unions function in modern times with the same foolish belief, that it is they who own part of a company simply because they are employed.

We see the same things happening today. Witness the statement provided by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union that was supporting the strike of its members against the Hostess Company and witnesses their response to the demand by management that they report to work on Thursday November 15th. “Our members decided they were not going to take any more abuse from a company they have given so much to for so many years. They decided that they were not going to agree to another round of outrageous wage and benefit cuts and give up their pension only to see yet another management team fail and Wall Street vulture capitalists and ‘restructuring specialists’ walk away with untold millions of dollars.”

The strikers are functioning communists whether they know it or not by definition. FOR FURTHER PROOF OF THIS HISTORY, CLICK HERE. The Hostess Company had to figure out where they could afford to operate as a company as the marketplace had changed for their products over the years and their legacy costs had made their profit forecast impractical. The strikers believe that the owners of Hostess should take all the risk of providing jobs, and shoulder all the responsibility involved without having the opportunity to become wealthy. They believed that the wealth created by Hostess should be shared equally, which is absolutely incorrect. Such a belief is clearly outlined in their statement to Hostess management.

Communists have always made war against what they perceive to be the bourgeoisie class (owners) against the proletariat (workers). In fact, President Obama made his entire re-election campaign based on this labor argument, hoping to stir up the communist seeds that had been planted in America by labor unions for over a century. This is why Obama is viewed as a socialist and outright communist advocate. Communism is the antithesis of capitalism—and America became the wealthiest country on Earth because of capitalism.
Hostess is now out of business because the labor unions crushed the company with demands by the workers that the company could not provide. As I write this, labor unions are trying yet again to infiltrate the retail giant Wal-Mart on Black Friday with a worker walkout right in the middle of the busiest time of year, intentionally hurting the employer at a critical time. Wal-Mart knows that if they allow unions to break through their management ranks, the company will never survive. Wal-Mart must fight off union take-over constantly to allow them to continue to do what has made them successful, and that’s provide many retail items at a low price to consumers. Once organized labor gains the ability to shut down production, or shopping hours with labor stoppage, customers will turn away from Wal-Mart and go to Target or some other retailer that does not have radical workers harassing them at the front door. People shop at Wal-Mart because they want to purchase items cheaply, and without hassle. If Wal-Mart cannot provide that, then their company, like Hostess, will be over.

What happened to Hostess has already happened to countless steel mills, and many traditional American businesses. It is because of labor unions that businesses have moved overseas and taken their jobs with them. In America, government has sided with labor unions, not American business—unless that business sends a lobbyist to Washington. With the help of labor unions, congressman and senators have learned that they can make capitalism in America be a “pay-to-play” sport, just like many public schools are doing these days when they don’t get their extortive school levies passed. Ten years ago Fidelity did not have a lobbyist in Washington. Today they do. Microsoft in the 90’s learned the cost of not having a “man in Washington.” They were sued by the government for being a monopoly—because they didn’t have someone greasing the wheels. Today they do. Labor unions today work with government to shake down American companies for everything they can and at a certain point, when the profit just isn’t worth it any longer, the companies just sell, move to a less hostile environment, or just go into bankruptcy like Hostess is doing now taking with it foods that we all know and love.

The labor unions are functioning under a communist philosophy intended all along by the writings of Karl Marx to destroy the wealthiest country on the face of the planet with a slow bleeding attack on capitalism. The government got into bed with labor unions by making actions like Pinkerton illegal. Companies can no longer defend their property from communist insurrections—but instead must call in a federal mediator who is almost always on the side of big labor—unless the company can hire an army of lawyers to do through the government court system what the Pinkerton’s did with a gun—and destroy the lives of the attackers.

Either way the looting government employees make their way off into comfortable retirements and island condominiums as they profit off the battles of communist labor unions and capitalist corporations. The sad thing about the whole mess is that nobody gave a damn until they learned they might not be able to buy Twinkies any longer at their local grocer. But believe me—Hostess is just the tip of the iceberg. Hundreds of similar companies are in the same boat, and if parasitic labor unions are allowed to destroy them, they will all be gone soon—and in London, England from his ratty grave, Karl Marx is laughing at the havoc he reeked upon the world with the most corrosive economic theory ever devised—one that would ultimately stop the economic engine of America so slowly that the people wouldn’t even realize it had happened, until they lost something they deeply treasured, like the Hostess Company, and the snack cakes that came to define entire generations.

Rich Hoffman

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

  

Save America by Breaking the Law: Rebellion starts by shrugging regulations

With the times that are coming it must be said that my advice to you dear reader is to get used to ignoring the laws created by half-baked politicians and scheming attorneys who impose their selfish maneuvers into public service.  Speaking for myself, should the NDAA Act be called upon me or my family, the hides of the perpetrators will find themselves decorating the trees of my front yard.  CLICK HERE TO REVIEW THE NDAA ACT.  At some point people have to decide what kind of world they want to live in and if the political class no longer represents the core of the people who make up a country, changes must be made, and those who currently reside in power will not give it back until forced to either with violence, or the money runs out—which will then of course lead to violence from the riots that will take place much like what Europe is going through presently.

I am aware that my statement may sound radical to those who have not been paying attention, and my suggestion that my friends, family and neighbors should openly break the law seems insane.  But before the news hits the wire that I went on some crazy rampage of law breaking, be it known that I placed my thoughts about the balance between law and order, and the pursuit of freedom in my book Tail of the Dragon, which contains my opinion about the legal system’s merit, national and world-wide politics, and the rights of the individual to live a good life—and I will allow that book to speak on my behalf and support with much greater detail what I’m saying now.

Break the law—and do it openly.  Shrug off the laws of politicians and their pages upon pages of regulations they produce and send them the message that their laws have no meaning.  Buy radar detectors to cheat the speed limit, buy license plate frames that throw off speed camera detection, find ways to legally shelter your tax dollars from your local public school, find a way to work around the EPA and every other regulatory agencies.  Find a way to break every law that restricts your freedom for the health of the liberty movement in America.  Do it in the spirit of protecting you and your families from the “takers” so that the “makers” can live to produce again at some future time.

Ironically, I suspected that this time would come many years ago, and I know the question that will be asked next—what gives me the right to decide what right and wrong is?  What gives me the right to decide what laws I’ll follow and which ones I’ll discard as worthless?  If everyone does what I plan to do, the world will fall into anarchy and people will be killing each other for no good reason.  Well, I examined this very issue in my 2004 book The Symposium of Justice—so before anyone claims that I am a crazed radical who does not have a right to drive too fast on the nation’s roads, or come and go where I please in any manner that I wish, or avoid corrosive taxes denying the needs of the many in protection of my self-interest, my thoughts are published in those two books and should settle the argument better than any court case, or media blitz that attempts to paint my future behavior in a negative way.  The reason behind my actions is there in those books for all to read and cannot be edited by any spin masters in public relations, or online editors who might attempt to paint a picture of me that isn’t true.  My true statements are copyrighted with the Library of Congress and cannot be altered easily.

I’ve been in every kind of trouble one can imagine, I know the court system, I know lawyers, I know politics, I know business, I know the darkest aspects of the human heart, and I know history—I know where we are headed and how difficult it will be—and I will not follow fools to that destination under the shackle of law.  My family will not follow and I will take up arms with the intention that there is no retreat.  And when that time happens, I will not allow my name to be smeared the way that Randy Weaver was at Ruby Ridge. CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL ABOUT THAT SITUATION.  That is why I published my public statement not in a court of law, but in the books that live forever and are openly available to the public through Amazon.com and can by-pass the media that would attempt to paint me as a lunatic as we all suspect happens a lot to other untamables.

There comes a time when people have to decide what side they are on, because taking a neutral position is no longer possible.  Pleading ignorance isn’t funny any longer.  People must decide if they are social “makers” or social “takers” and the battle lines are drawn right there.  I will not adhere to laws that are designed to create more social “takers” at the expense of the “makers.”  I won’t do it any more, and when the “takers” come to extort my participation, there will be big trouble, because I will not yield.

So break some laws and feel good about it, the more of us that do such things the better.  I would prefer if I wasn’t the only one, but I will proceed regardless of mutual participation.  Talks of revolution are toothless unless there is a willingness to push back in some way, and America is on the cusp of another revolution.  It would be wonderful if such a revolution could be done peacefully without death and violence—but I am beginning to doubt it.  The personalities in modern government are not equipped to govern my life, and that is why I declare that laws should be openly broken as a rebellion against corrupt authority.

I do not feel that way about all government.  It gives me great hope to see that Sharon Kennedy from my community recently ousted a former radical Ohio Supreme Court Judge in Columbus.  Sharon was a former police officer, yet the FOP did not endorse her for the election in 2012.  For anybody who has read the Ohio Constitution it is a good document that is even purer and liberty loving than the Federal Constitution, but it is ignored and manipulated by many greedy lawyers looking for a way to game the system, especially at the federal level.  The battle of our day is the fight between judges like Sharon Kennedy at the state level and those appointed by presidents at the federal level.  The federal government believes that they trump state law and seek at every turn to make their intentions known.  I respect the law that Sharon Kennedy provides.  I do not respect the law that comes out of Washington politics.  That is where I draw the line.

So break the law and do it with American pride.  Don’t make yourself a pawn to the chess players of life in politics.  Fight back by rejecting their laws and letting them know that you think they are irrelevant.  Do it for the good of the country, and for your own sanity.  But if you don’t do it for any other reason, do it for your own sanity.  Breaking unjust laws is healthy for the liberty movement.  If liberty is the goal, then more laws is the enemy, and it is time to declare such things so with more than just talk.

Rich Hoffman

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

  

A New Star Wars Theme Park: Rich Hoffman and Matt Clark discuss Disney’s new property on WAAM Radio

The picture above is a fan design shown at Star Wars Celebration V of a future theme park that appears to be much more than fantasy now that Disney has purchased the long treasured franchise.  This is significant because as I stated in my previous article about how George Lucas is the greatest anthropologist ever, I discussed why Star Wars is so important to the advancement of mankind.

If there is a great hope that I have for the future of civilization, it is in the philosophy advocated through Star Wars to the mass population, and specifically the youth.  My views on this prompted Matt Clark and I to discuss the issue on WAAM Radio in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

In the story arch of Star Wars it is not about just one character, or even one family.  It is a very encompassing idea that is nearly as complicated as Greek Mythology and is about the fundamental conflicts of a philosophy that embodies pure aggression and conquest against another focused on understanding.  Within the story arcs done up to this point not only in the movies but the novels governments and the politicians behind them rise and fall many times, but always the heroes prevail through tenacity to give rise to another day.  The one primary consistency in Star Wars is the prevalence of the Jedi Knights to always be present to offer logic and solutions, even when they find themselves enemies of the current political regimes.  Sometimes they are on the right side of history as honored heroes, and sometimes they are fugitives fighting for their very existence, so whenever a long view is needed, Star Wars is a great mythology to partake in.

Under Disney it is my hope that Star Wars explodes culturally, not to make everyone sick of it, but in today’s tumultuous political climates and social atmosphere there really isn’t any other story that paints such a clear picture of right and wrong than Star Wars.  At its roots, Star Wars is an old-fashioned story that paints the picture of moral dilemmas exceptionally well.   It is my great hope that Star Wars under Disney ends up on cartoon stations, live action television and as many feature films that can be churned out from now till the end of time—because the essence of what Star Wars is about is good for society—because it invokes “thinking.”

So a theme park like the one shown above is not far off, and when it comes, I see big—positive things happening on a scale never seen before in any entertainment venture.  To my thinking there is nothing more powerful in human society than the myths people live by.  No invention of the human mind—be it cars, airplanes, electricity—anything, has the power of a great story.  And Star Wars is a big story about big ideas.  When the theme park is built, it will allow for the first time visitors to not only live out these big ideas within the context of a movie, or a book, but to walk around in these environments in a way that has never before been possible except with the massive resources of a big company that does great good like the Walt Disney Company.

When the new Star Wars Park opens, I will be one of the first in line with my entire family and I will be extremely excited to be there among the magic that perpetuates great ideas, and wonderful philosophy placed in a context that has significant social application.  In my house we have over 265 novels and junior novels that capture the epic story of Star Wars with a literary legacy that is unparalleled.  I have read most of them, my wife has read them all, and we will use those books to bring huge ideas to our growing family.  It is a great relief to us to see that Star Wars will always be there for the decades to come and will become more of a reality than the fantasy that it currently is within our lifetimes.

Rich Hoffman

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

 

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A New Strategy for Republicans: Fund a porn actress for President in 2016

I will readily admit that my view of America is traditional and I see Democrats dragging my country progressively to the left using the Overton Window concept. I do wish to erase the political gains they have made over the last 60 years. I do not say such things to bring harm to other races, or sexes. America through a Republican ended slavery, and was the first country on Earth to actually free anybody. Time would have taken care of the rest in spite of any interference by looting politicians. But Democrats have taken the credit over the years for the good deeds done by many strong Americans and they have continuously manipulated our country toward socialism acting as an internal enemy, and I am ready to see their influence upon my life diffused.

For many years the threat of a third-party candidate in Presidential politics has weakened the Republican Party considerably and forced them to adjust from the image of the party of “rich angry white guys” to one that is more inclusive to other ideas and people. This is in no small part a strategy cooked up in the minds of the worst, most diabolical progressives, as they have helped fund such third-party candidates so to split the will of the Republican Party.

The same should be done to Democrats, the very wealthy donors who have spent fortunes propping up candidates like Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich should instead pour their money into a fourth party candidate that will divide the votes of the Democratic Party. Republicans will always have to deal with Libertarians who naturally contain discontented Republican voters. The Democrats need their own menace to erode their stranglehold on American politics.

My suggestion would be a porn actress such as seen below. Pouring money into such a disrespectable candidate would pull away many of the votes that Democrats currently get. It would specifically target the drug users, the sexually addicted, the labor unions, the politically illiterate, and the diabolically stupid. There is no question that many in the Democratic Party would vote for a porn actress with the same enthusiasm that they have for Barack Obama, or the future candidacy of Hillary Clinton. In fact, a porn actress would help split the women vote who overwhelming cast their ballots for Democrats.

All this would work very well for Republicans and allow them to return to management of the government while the miscreants of society would fight over different versions of sluts to represent the sleazy and disrespectful. Failure to do so will guarantee more losses of more elections and eventually destroy the Republican Party completely under democratic mob rule of a socialist society. Republicans need to play such a game because future elections will be between Libertarians and Republicans forever, leaving Democrats untouched and unified. So it is time to give Democrats some competition within their own party for the good of the country and that needs to happen by funding their demise with a candidate who will split their support in the future—like a brainless porn actress to represent the mindlessly destitute and weaken the power of their vote in future elections.

Rich Hoffman

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Glenn Beck Calls Speaker Boehner “Ball-less”: Companies already laying off to avoid Obamacare

Republicans, this is the cost of not fighting hard enough. This is the cost of compromise, of “playing nice.” Compromise is not a dirty word if you are a progressive, but for everyone else, it’s as dirty as an entire sewage system. One of the great fall outs of Obamacare is that employers must provide the government mandated insurance if employees work over 28 hours per week. This will cause small companies like Target, and Walmart, and Home Depot to only allow their employees to work 28 hours per week. Welcome to the first costs of Obama’s re-election.

John Boehner is a nice guy, and he is my congressman–heck he’s practically my neighbor. I like the man. But Beck is calling the situation the way many Republicans are feeling it, and it is only going to get worse. For all those idiots who voted for Obama, and begged him to steal from the rich to give to the poor, and crush American businesses–good luck at finding a new job. Because they will be harder to come by than ever. Welcome to the OBAMANATION!

Rich Hoffman

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The Trillion Dollar Conspiracy: Why Barack Obama won a second term

To win the fight that we are all currently in, the proper targets must be properly identified, and dealt with.  In this case, the evidence points to an aspect of conspiracy that I didn’t want to believe.  But there is no other conclusion as to what happened in the election of 2012.  The foreign investment in America has spoken against the wishes of United States sovereignty.  In the case of Romney versus Obama, Romney was most prone to strengthening the American currency, which goes against the plan of global planners, who were very much invested in the American election.

So to learn who these people are and how they are all connected; watch this video by Jim Marrs speaking about this topic in Australia.  I personally like Jim, so much so that he is currently reading my book Tail of the Dragon for a cover blurb satisfying a portion of my 2013 marketing plan.  I’ve read many of his books and in several cases did not want to believe what he was reporting, as he has a reputation as a conspiracy theorists.  His newest book is a New York Times Bestseller called The Trillion Dollar Conspiracy.  He’s a great journalist, public speaker, and a damn good researcher and the burden to disprove his theories falls on his critics.  It is evident to me that much of what he says in the video below is the cause of the election that went against American value, and more toward the collapse of American currency purely for the profit of the puppet masters who have their hands in most of our lives.

To be free as we desire in America, we will have to cut our strings to these influences, which reside behind the façade of President of The United States, and must admit to ourselves that the system is broken beyond repair, and must be replaced with a return to Constitutional principles.  There is no compromise with people, who are willing to kill to see their intended results, and those are the kinds of people we are dealing with at the highest level, and they must be the new focus of any liberty movement that is to survive.

Rich Hoffman

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George Lang on 700 WLW: Mitt Romney and Kid Rock blast West Chester with an army of freedom fighters!

There is nothing I like more than to hear new people coming out front and speaking on 700 WLW from the land of West Chester defending liberty, and protecting conservatives from the vile ruthlessness of the typical progressive. Over the last couple of months George Lang has been that person, appearing on WLW a couple of times. His latest was an important one as he spoke of the Romney/Ryan visit that he had a very big part in bringing to West Chester as one of the three trustees and the only one who isn’t a typical do-nothing politician. George was on WLW to discuss the actual poll numbers for Butler County in favor of Romney and the direction Ohio would take in the upcoming election. Entertaining, smooth, and articulate, George didn’t forget to mention his support of Sharon Kennedy for Supreme Court which he and I enthusiastically prop up over the incumbent and former social worker Yvette McGee Brown.

The rally that Lang spoke about turned out to be quite dramatic. West Chester—and Butler County more specifically is one of the most intense hot beds for conservatives in the entire country. Critics will look at the crowd who attended and instantly criticize that there was a sea of 30,000 white faces with little diversity among them, or any poor. Those same critics would be part of the problem that is infecting America right now with an emphasis on all the wrong things that make up a successful society. Diversity, fairness, social justice are the policies of the progressive/socialist and the people who attended the Romney event for the most part support all those types of things, but not at the expense of wealth production and the general pursuit of goodness.

I view the typical resident of West Chester as a member of a lost tribe that has had to move away from their city homes in the past to seek refuge in the suburbs to avoid the abysmal taxation that goes on in dense population centers filled with progressive politics. Even in West Chester there are progressives who are currently attempting to turn West Chester into a city so they can collect more taxes to expand government more aggressively with more hyphenated nameplates on the desks of future bureaucrats. They have an unfathomable appetite for more, and more government services built on the backs of irrational emotion. Lucky for West Chester there are not many politicians who embody these traits. Two of the three trustees do, but George Lang by himself off-sets them dramatically. He will need a partner in the next election to win one of those Trustee seats away from the vile progressives that currently out-vote him. And the public school of Lakota has many progressive minded people running it, consisting of the school board, the superintendent and most of the employees which is typical for a government institution. Public school enterprises attract progressive minded people, which is a real problem.

As Kid Rock played “Just the Good Ol’ Boys” opening up for Romney’s appearance on November 2nd 2012 the crowd chanted “FOUR MORE DAYS” repeatedly in a not too disguised battle cry to oust the diabolical, lying, scandalous, manipulative, small-minded, thieving, parasitic, obtuse, puppet progressive President Obama from the seat of much destruction that he has personally ushered in to America on the backs of the “good” and at their expense. West Chester as a community does make more money than other places in the country and Obama’s schemes target them specifically for tax increases to pay for his progressive re-distribution attempts. It is because of many Obama type politicians in the past that most of the people in the large crowd moved to West Chester to begin with, because they want to be away from crime ridden public housing projects, schools filled with parents raising their kids on welfare programs, away from apartment dwellers who can vote property tax increases without actually owning property. So if the crowd is too much of one color, and has more money per capita than the average crowd, it is not the fault of the crowd, but of the progressive politicians who attempted to loot them in the past causing them to take refuge in West Chester.

But like George Lang’s interview on 700 WLW some of the most prominent Republicans in the entire country came to this grand event to partake in a movement that has been a long time and coming. As I watched the participants, Romney and Ryan specifically, on the heels of speeches by Speaker John Boehner, Governor John Kasich, Senator Rob Portman and many, many others I noticed a long—evolving plan that had been many years in the making evolving on stage that was culminating in West Chester.

Way back in 1993 there was a special election for an emergency House of Representatives seat that was coming open that spring and Portman was on 700 WLW fighting for it. He was on-air debating seven other candidates in the studio at Mt. Adams back when the station was located down in Cincinnati, but left to avoid the terribly high taxes—(see a common theme here.) I spoke to the radio host for permission to film the Sunday prime time event for my friends within the Reform Party which was a group that Ross Perot had started. Out of all the candidates Portman was clearly the most qualified and honest and I took an instant liking to him. You could tell upon meeting him for the first time that he was not the typical scum bag politician and that he sincerely cared about becoming a member of the House. I told my friends within the Reform Party that if Washington had more politicians like Rob Portman that America would explode with prosperity and goodness. Portman after the debate actually came to some of our Reform Party events, most notably the one at Longworth Hall where my friend and I hung a giant American flag off the top of the building that extended all the way to the bottom. It was half as big as a football field and it took all our strength to tie off such a large flag without it pulling us off the roof. In 1996 when I was manufacturing t-shirts with the logo, “TAKE AND AX TO OUR TAX” Rob Portman sent me a $7.50 check to buy one, which is what they cost me to make at the time. Over the years Portman had never really buckled as a pinnacle of goodness in the cease-pool of Washington politics, and I always admired him for it.

To see Portman on stage with Romney, Kasich, and Boehner along with all the rest who can all tell similar stories of their own, I saw assembled a great climax that was 20 years in the making. For the first time, Republicans had assembled a group of politicians who could actually push back against the progressive, ever-imposing impositions of parasitic existences, and do it without being equally scummy. The people gathered on stage under the flag of Mitt Romney were generally decent people who had built their lives around good family principles and stood for the values of the people gathered hoping that these men and women could stop those progressives because the planet has become so small that there isn’t anywhere else to run. West Chester is the product of good people running away from parasites—people who insist they must live at the expense of someone else. And for those who don’t wish to get picked apart any longer by such people, they flee, just like WLW did from Mt. Adams to Kenwood, and almost every one of the 30,000 people who showed up in the cold to see Romney and friends speak on a breezy November evening.

For the first time in a number of years I am waking up in the morning after such a rally and I can actually see a light at the end of the tunnel. Under a Romney administration it won’t take much to work with Governor Kasich to get the oil fields in Ohio flowing again, and coal will become a major industry bringing great wealth to Ohio. And I know that technologies like thorium will get a serious look as a future alternative to the dirty fossil fuels. Education will be reformed, because it has to be. And it won’t be the methods of old, which Romney made very clear in his speech, but one that embraces competition between schools to raise the performance and lower their costs to the community, which is what I have personally been fighting to help usher in. Just two years ago School Choice was a dirty word, and teacher unions attacked anybody who criticized them. Now politicians like Romney can give a speech without even caring if it makes the unions angry, because they have been neutralized and seen for what they really are. Their masks have been ripped off, and they will have to adapt to a new way of thinking, and Ohio will play a central role in that change. The best way to avoid the extortions of the past, the strikes, the busing cuts, the sports fees is to give parents the power to pick their child up and move them to another school that isn’t playing that kind of game. I believe that within one year of a Romney/Ryan administration the economy will dramatically improve, because in their case all they have to do is turn on the facet, where Obama and his gangs of thugs have turned it off deliberately to induce wealth redistribution on a global scale.

Listening to George Lang on WLW, then seeing the Romney event for myself, I have the feeling that the angry contentions that I have been a part of for many years may finally be coming to an end. There will always be a need to be vigilant. Even Rob Portman voted for the NDAA Act which is a major concern for me, but like most things, good intentions that are actually quite bad are not so obvious to the people who are up close and personal with such issues. They are only obvious in the long view, which I have made something of a living framing for some of these same people for quite a long time now. But finally, there appears to be a day when we can wake up on the morning and not think about what a scum bag is in The White House, or what kind of looting governor is trying to steal money from the rich and give it to the poor just to get himself re-elected again, or that politicians like progressive trustees would embark on a well-planned smear campaign to lash out at Lang for going on WLW to speak his mind. The momentum is shifting—finally for the better and for the first time since the 1992 election when I sat on the steps of a plush Cincinnati hotel and watched with grimy anger a speech by Bill Clinton that was going to be in The White House, I have the kind of hope that I last felt in 1980 as a young 7th grade student at Lakota who had campaigned openly for Ronald Reagan in my class rooms, giving speeches on how the Soviet Union could be crushed with a military build-up and how Jimmy Carter had screwed up the magic of capitalism. Those same youthful eyes watched on that election in 1980 state by state a national election that was a landslide win for Reagan I have wished for a return to that kind of America—the kind of America that brought hope to the 80’s, made a lot of people rich, and crushed global communism. After watching Mitt Romney and the rest speaking in West Chester, I had the feeling that Mitt Romney was more qualified to go well beyond what Ronald Reagan accomplished and that the reverberations of those actions will propel America in a direction of goodness that hasn’t been seen or felt in well over 100 years.

With all that said, Kid Rock was the perfect musical artist to perform on the cusp of such a moment in a land created out of reaction to the imposing policies of progressives for an offensive that will soon flatten them with their stubborn refusal to see reason through the actions of American goodness that is about to turn from blue states to red states on a massive scale. I’m not saying that everything will be fixed on November 7th 2012 when Romney is the next president. But, it is a step in the right direction. The next steps that meander off into the darkness are ones that will require a whole new way of thinking, but that will come in time, and I’ll help usher it in. But to see where the country has a potential to go in a fight that we have all been involved in for over 20 years is wonderfully exciting, and the “Good O’ Boy’s never sounded so good.  This is not the Republican Party of the Lawrence Welk days.  These are the days of Clint Eastwood passing the torch onto Kid Rock, Mitt Romney and the rest of us who are sick and tired of progressives who want to ruin our lives by giving our freedoms away to the same idiots who cloaked Europe into 1000 years of darkness.  It will not be tolerated and will be met with peaceful elections, and if that doesn’t work, then something else.  Hopefully Romney will give us the former, so the latter won’t become needed.

In the games of politics however, I am happy to let George Lang take the high road path of Mitt Romney in the arena of elections. George is very good at it, and it has its place. I on the other hand will be in the dirt with Kid Rock where the blood is spilled because it takes both to win a movement, and is what conservatives have been missing for most of a century. But no longer, and it is good to see both elements finally present at the same conservative rally!

Read what I said about all this one year ago by CLICKING HERE, to see how the plan has evolved.

Rich Hoffman

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Obama Hates Money and those Who Make It: The Masks of Communism

The biggest weakness of the Obama Presidency is his hatred of the wealthy, which was an undeniable fact concluded upon after the presidential debate with Mitt Romney on October 16, 2012. Obama has a real problem–that no matter how much he says in an election year that he loves the free enterprise system, and the art of business—his actions speak otherwise. The gist of Obama’s debate performance against Mitt Romney was that Romney was evil because he’s a “rich guy” and that he only paid 14% of his $13.7 million dollars made during 2011 to federal taxes. Obama painted a picture of Romney as a mean, evil, corporate executive that isn’t paying his fair share. The insinuation from Obama is that “fair share” is determined by some mysterious intelligence of a mythical “middle class” and Romney has a moral obligation to pay taxes at the level determined by that mob of democracy. If Romney tries to pay less tax money through deductions and oversea investments with tax shelters, he is in some way disingenuous—even crooked.

Repeatedly during the aforementioned debate Obama stated that Romeny was paying a tax rate that was less than the average person in the middle class. What Obama declined to mention was that Mitt Romney paid in 2011 $1.94 million in taxes to the federal government. The average “middle class” person would be lucky if they even broke paying $10,000 in federal taxes and around 49% of all American citizens don’t pay any federal income tax. So the comment that Mitt Romney and other wealthy Americans owe more tax money—far more than other people who are equal people in the eyes of the law, all use the same roads, the same government services, yet the wealthy are supposed to be happy about paying over $1 million in federal taxes while many Americans simply don’t contribute equally, is preposterous. Obama thinks that by feeding that fire of guilt Romney should feel guilty and inclined to pay even more than he does now which is absolutely laughable.

I have pointed out on many occasions that the root for this kind of thinking comes philosophically from Karl Marx and is by the most fundamental definition communism. Of course Obama doesn’t call himself a communist, but should not be surprised when people call him a communist, because when an argument is made that the “rich” owe the “poor” parts of themselves, their property, and their livelihoods, it is communism behind the mask of progressivism. It continues to be baffling how and why the media and society at large lets politicians like Obama get away with such criticisms. In the scheme of things Mitt Romney is a much more important person than the average “middle class” union stooge who works 9 AM to 5 PM and expects to be paid six figures to do basic labor work. Those ideas are the fantasies of communists, not capitalists, and America became a great country because of capitalism—not crony capitalism, but laissez-faire capitalism—the more pure, the more powerful the economy. Such statements are beyond dispute, and cannot be refuted by a logical mind not seduced by machine politics and half-baked philosophies.

Obama whether consciously or unconsciously is behaving as a communist because of his severe hatred of the wealthy. I’ve always suspected it, but for me the information was 100% confirmed when I realized that Obama and other political progressives were saying the exact same kinds of dialogue sentence for sentence as was used in the great novel called We The Living covering the events of the Red Revolution in the Soviet Union in 1917 through 1926. We The Living was published in 1936 and to this day is one of the most vivid examples of what life behind the Iron Curtain in Russia was in the beginning days of communism in that very large country destined for economic failure. These events brought to America what was called the Red Decade starting with intelligentsia from 1930 to 1940, which was a period where communism was offered to America as an offering to future economic growth. Out of that communist pressure came The New Deal and Social Security from President Roosevelt. The names were changed at the time to reflect the independence of America but progressivism in America has very few differences from the communism of the early Soviet Union. Is it any wonder that Obama is referred to a “socialist” or a “communist?” People who say such things understand the definition of communism and know they have at their philosophical roots a severe hatred of the “rich.”

Obama’s biggest failure is that he shares with world-wide Marxists, communists, socialists and progressives a lack of understanding of the value of money. Keynesian economics reflect this lack of value in their economic models and the same disconnect can be seen in the Obama Administration. This is why the debt has increased in such an out-of-control manner under Obama’s watch. This is also why he thinks it’s fair that Romney pay millions more in taxes than the average everyday person, even though technically Romney is no better or worse of a person than anybody else. The only difference between Romney and the average “middle class” person is that Romney makes millions of dollars each year. Obama views such money-making ability as though Romney is just luckier than everyone else and the money he made is part of some ridiculous finite resource like fossil fuels, water, or air. To people like Obama, money is a mystery to them, so they believe that Romney has a disproportionate amount of it because he’s greedy. It is completely foreign to communist minds that America could support millions of Mitt Romney’s if all Americans worked as hard and were as creative with their money-making opportunities as Romney has been. That is why in America under laissez-faire capitalism we term acquiring money as “making money,” because it is wealth that is created under capitalism, and money is not viewed as a limited resource. It can be made.

Obama clearly doesn’t understand this, and his anger at Romney for being a “fat cat” is obvious. It is no wonder the American economy is faltering, the President of The United States doesn’t even understand the basics of money or the value of it. All he seems able to do is recite the historical communist argument of his party platform as a progressive from the early days of the Russian Revolution. It is too bad that history is so easily forgotten, because the argument at these presidential debates could be elevated if only people knew what the President truly represented as a politician instead of hiding his hatred of money, and the people who make it, behind what is sold as legitimate politics accepted blindly by the types of people whose knowledge of history is as deep as a dried up-stream in a scorching desert. The hatred for the wealthy is the key to why America has a faltering economy, and is becoming more akin to a mob of fools addicted to government services demanding free money from the gods of productivity, and that people like Romney owe the rest of the world the gains of their investments as a selfless testament to existence for the end result of the destitute.

Rich Hoffman

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The “Pet Rocks” at Lakota: Teachers and their scam against the public

For my national and international readers, you might be confused by this article, but be assured; the contents of this essay do affect you. My conflict with the Lakota School System, which is my home public education institution, has been robust and much discussion has occurred at this site about it. So it must be discussed now that the State of Ohio has issued the report card for public schools over the more than 600 districts, what the intentions and results are of the report. The timing of the report card of course is to help schools who have a November levy on the ballot pass their tax increases, which is the political band-aid expected to perpetually kick the can down the road of public education sustainability. The report card in essence is a complete scam, and does not even begin to tell the story of why public schools need higher taxes on property in order to provide a baby sitting service for thousands of district parents at the cost of tens of thousands to generate the revenue.

The Lakota School District achieved an Excellent with Distinction rating yet again even after tens of millions of dollars have been cut from the budget and dozens and dozens of jobs have been removed from the work force. Superintendent Mantia knowing that I would point out this issue made a public statement, “When someone says we cut the budget by millions and the results are still just as good, we need to remember these results are from last year. We had many teachers who helped our kid’s learn this material who are not here anymore.” She knew that I would say………”see—I told everybody so.”

http://westchesterbuzz.com/2012/10/17/lakota-local-schools-earns-excellent-with-distinction-rating/

The reality is that Mantia is caught between a rock and a hard place. She is paid by the residents of the district nearly a quarter million dollars to play whatever political, and economic game she needs to in order to ensure that Lakota gets whatever rankings it needs, and to preserve a strong bond rating. But she is alluding to her statement that Lakota may be downgraded in the future because of the layoffs—which at some point she will need to do if she wishes to pass a school levy, because people like me will always point out that there is no reason to pay higher taxes if the district is getting more for less. However, if she allows that to happen she will be a failure as a superintendent, so she is literally caught in a perilous political position between letting Lakota become downgraded, or continuing to prove that Lakota can cut, and cut, and cut without losing the quality of its institutional education power.

Cincinnati Public Schools was downgraded by this same report card and they have spent increasingly more amounts of money on their schools, and they are currently selling their November levy as a fix for returning back to the column of a good school. However whether or not a school district is successful or not has almost nothing to do with the teachers or the school as an institution, but rather the schools are a direct reflection of the community. The myth of higher paid teachers’ equally improve schools has officially been busted. If the situation concerning Lakota didn’t prove it to the world, or the lack or performance in places like CPS or Lockland who was recently caught cheating on their performance ratings to maintain their statuses, money spent on education has virtually nothing to do with the end result of good student production.

I have said often that all the teachers at Lakota could be fired and replaced by clamoring idiots who know virtually nothing of the world around them, and the kids of Lakota would still be good, and the district would still be rated Excellent with Distinction. The reason is simple, at Lakota the demographics mandate that successful children will become somewhat successful adults because per capita, there are more homes with two parents in them who care about the quality of life for their children. There are more children not living in poverty. There are not very many apartment dwellers in the Lakota district allowing residents to move into a nice district without having a direct financial stake in the taxes paid. There are fewer welfare recipients per household. There are fewer homes that have step children co-habiting with mixed marriages. In other words, many of the parents at Lakota take an active interest in their children’s lives, they take personal responsibility for the child’s behavior more so than other school districts with much more chaotic family structures, and the average income of the residents of Lakota are higher, meaning the children have a higher quality of life to grow up in. Districts who have the opposite of the above mentioned qualities will tend to have declining results in education performance standards no matter how much money is spent on the school, because the school is only the tail that is wagged by the dog—the parent. The process does not work the other way around as the unionized teachers would advocate. For clarity on this issue all anyone need do is remember the teacher’s strike in Chicago during the summer of 2012. Virtually every school in America that has a teaching work force that is unionized has the exact same problems as shown in Chicago. The reality is that the teachers of these schools have sold the public a “pet rock” making their services sound better, and more valuable than they really are.

The biggest villain of the entire process is the trend (legal requirement) to only hire as Superintendents of these public schools former teachers who were members of the union in the past, and remain loyal to the teachers union even as members of management. Teachers with more than 15 years or more experience tend to become radicalized by their extensive time served in a labor union, and Superintendent Mantia has been shown clearly, and her comments reflect it, that she is willing to toss infinite amounts of money at teachers’ wages, which are the real drivers of tax increases on private property. The situation becomes simply a loaded scam designed to pay teachers for a job that is grossly inflated with value.

Who says that a teacher is worth $60,000 a year, and who says that they must have a Master’s degree to teach a 1st grader when home schooled children perform better than the public educated one in most every instance? Who says that a teacher should be paid so much for fewer than 8 hours of contracted work and summer’s off? Who says that districts should be required to pay for all this nonsense when the real value actually comes from the families themselves and not the school? The school is simply the benefactor of a good community not the driver.

http://www.pulsejournal.com/news/news/lakota-earns-11th-year-of-excellent/nSfnb/

So keep in mind all these facts when you go to the polls to vote for your local school levy. Understand that the school is simply a parasite to the good deeds of your family. And if your family sucks, your child will most likely grow up to suck. Paying more money in taxes will not change whether or not a child grows up to be a low quality person. Success cannot be purchased with a more expensive teacher. It can only be acquired through hard work, family love, and personal dedication toward the art of success. The correct thing to do would be to take away the money that feeds the radical labor unions behind the teaching profession and force them to come back down to reality. It is irresponsible to pass school levy issues for public education and not force the hypocrisy to the surface with the grim measurements of reality. And that reality is it is not teachers who make a student successful, they are only supplements to the work a parent do. The reality is that if the parent does not do the work of raising a child, no amount of money spent on the teaching profession can save them. And with that said, virtually every statement made by public schools is a bold face lie. For the proof, just look at the Lakota School District in Southwestern Ohio and everything else will be confirmed without effort. Click here for a review.

Rich Hoffman

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