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Why You Should Vote and Attend Jury Duty: The enemy wants you to sit down, shut up, and hide from all responsibility

Years ago, in a book I wrote called The Symposium of Justice, I had a detailed plot about a sinister global organization that used a kind of radio wave embedded in water towers to manipulate the pituitary gland of residents to control their minds in a commercial way.  It had attracted some attention from Hollywood, but by the time the Santa Monica Meat Grinders were done revising the story into the kind of movie they wanted to make of it, the story was completely changed, and I realized that it wasn’t science fiction, but fact.  This was before 5G technology and what we have since learned about the power that the NSA has.  However, the concept is the same: large, powerful, global organizations want to control people through technology.  And I thought of that as I have suddenly had a rash of people tell me they aren’t voting during this election because the system is so corrupt that it’s useless to them.  I’ve seen these patterns all my life, which is why I wrote the book I did.  I don’t think it’s an accident at all that some kinds of people are suddenly anti-voting. I have been in this business for a long time, and it has hardly ever come up.  Occasionally, you get a person here or there, but it’s not like this.  It’s as if some 5G broadcast was penetrating the minds of millions of people and discouraging them from participating in our republic.  Also, I have heard more than ever the word “democracy” instead of what we actually are, a “republic.”  Something is going on, and when I have seen this kind of thing in the past, I always look for some sinister organization that has figured out how to penetrate a brain with some radio wave that changes the decision-making of the recipients.  And with this voting thing, I think it’s just another form of election fraud, making people feel like their voice doesn’t matter, so they sit on the fence during a critical election, frustrating a participatory environment.

Several weeks ago, I reported for jury duty, and I showed up with the card they mailed me and joined about 100 other people in a big courtroom in Hamilton, Ohio.  I talked to a few people I knew there from different things and asked them immediately if they could get me out of the experience.  I told them I had work to do and couldn’t afford to spend so much time sitting in a courtroom.  The people I talked to recommended that I stick around and even volunteer to be the foreman.  They told me that I was precisely the kind of person who should be on a jury, with my love of law, order, justice, and all.  And that I would see why in a minute.  So from there, the judge overseeing this particular session of the grand jury selection asked out of all those 100 people for volunteers so that he would not have to compel anybody to be there.  After some hesitation, 15 hands went up.  He needed 9 for the grand jury and about five alternates.  So he had just a bit more than he needed for his grand jury.  And of course, I was one of the volunteers.  The judge put us all in the box and picked the alternates and once that was set, he let the rest of the people go, like fish caught and thrown back into the lake.  These people should have all been in the Olympics because they left at record speed to flee the courtroom and return back to their lives of normalcy, whatever that may have been.  They were gone much faster than they had come in. 

As I did my term as the foreman, I found the experience very rewarding.  I was selected for jury duty with the initial card because I voted so much.  I tend to vote for every election issue, so my name was in the hat for selection for that reason.   Many people in society don’t vote much, and they keep themselves out of processes like jury duty because they never have time.  And those who do get selected work to get out of it.  I could have gotten out of it.  But I have a life where I can manage everything.  I work 24 hours a day, so my life is not judged so much by a nine-to-five job or even an eight-to-four.  I certainly don’t work banker’s hours.  So I listened to what the people I knew at the courthouse told me, and I didn’t try to get out of jury duty, and I’m happy I had that experience.  Even though it was work and a lot of it was very unpleasant, I felt like much of it was something I could bring to the table that helped the community function better, and it was good to do.  But it was sad that our entire Republic depends on people participating in things like jury duty and voting to get your name in the hat.  We are not a democracy, as the communist losers from the left keep trying to call it.  We have a democratic process where majority votes select our government management systems.  But we are supposed to populate those roles with people committed to the task who represent us so we can do other things with our lives.  We don’t pick people to rule over us.

What was strange is that while I have been having this experience, I have heard from more and more people indicating that they weren’t going to vote, that Trump is part of the problem, and that they can’t bring themselves to participate.  And I wondered if there were nearby water towers with signals penetrating people’s brains run by the CIA, making them not want to vote so that the Deep State might get away with another stolen election.  I would advise everyone to fight through whatever is holding them back; their thoughts may not be their own.  But people who want to control your life may be trying to frustrate you by not participating so they can take it over.  That may sound like a science fiction consideration, but I have learned over the years that it’s more of a science fact than anything.  And I saw that same trait in that courtroom for jury duty.  People acted like they had something better to do than to be on a jury of their peers and shape society the way only good people can, with their direct input.  What were they rushing away to do, to watch a movie on Netflix?  Get milk at the store?  Complain about taxes?  I would advise everyone with those little doubts in the back of their mind to use that mind to overcome negative thoughts, especially about a participatory government.  Participate, go to jury duty, and make sure you vote.  Don’t sit on the sidelines because the bad guys are counting on you sitting out.  Into frustrating you from action and judgment.  They want our world to collapse from a lack of effort so they can rule over the remains, and they hope that a democracy of the mob will give them that power, not through force, but through laziness, apathy, and fear of relevancy.  These people wish to rule by making you think that none of it matters and that the way to conquer you is through a lack of participation.  It is not a frontal attack by an engaged community defending their republic one vote at a time.  And our form of government requires that good people show up, and participate.

Rich Hoffman

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Government is Not Our Boss: The lazy way they manage society with low engagment

I’m not the kind of person who doesn’t like jury duty.  I get a lot of notifications wanting me to do it because I vote for everything.  But I don’t ever get picked; nobody wants me once they realize how opinionated and firm I am in my beliefs.  I consider jury duty a privilege, and I always want to do it.  I’d do them every day if I could because I love law and think working on our issues of crime and punishment would be one of the highest benefits of any high society.  But recently, when I received my latest notification, the whole experience instantly turned me off.  Who writes these things, and who do they think they are?  When they notify you of jury duty, they are so negative and assume that you will be a problem that they instantly turn toward authority dictatorship to drive compliance with their summons.  The first line of their notification to me is, “You are commanded to appear and be available to serve.” Who do they think they are?  Deeper into their notification, they say, “Employers are prohibited from discharging or threatening,” and “if a juror fails to attend,” the court may impose a fine.  No wonder the government has so many problems.  They need to learn some hard lessons about engagement because if that is their default mode, which it is, no wonder they don’t get cooperation from people in a free society.  For a person like me who wants to do these things, that kind of language instantly makes me want to go in the opposite direction.  Nobody commands me to do anything.  The government doesn’t supersede my liberties and cannot compel me to be a part of their ill schemes and detriments. 

This is the general problem with the government and the kind of people drawn to work for it.  The power to compel people randomly and without thought to incursions into their personal lives is disrespectful at best.  To assume that people can rearrange their lives under the compulsion of the court is the wrong approach to what should be willing civil service.  People should want to serve on jury duty.  They should not have to be compelled to do so.  And this assumption that the needs of the court are more significant than the needs of an individual is preposterously horrendous.  That basic premise misses the point of all government.  Government serves us, we do not serve the government.  Notifications like that jury duty utterance show that the government does not know its place and never did.  They started wrong and just continued regardless of what sanity said.  The assumption that society is a low-engagement enterprise that must be ushered around like children fearful of their parents is the first problem in a long list that always leads to the failures of mass society. The power of government to compel people to do things they would never want to do on their own.  Using government power to force people against their will out of fear of punishment is the core of all government trouble.  Then, we are supposed to want to pay more compelled taxes toward a government that grows bigger and more powerful with every dollar they steal from us.  This whole arrangement with the governed is a rat’s nest of irony.  It’s lazy and presumptuous and gives the worst in our society, the most insecure, instant ability with the power of government that assumes it has rights over people it does not have.  “You are commanded?”  That is the wrong choice of words; the government works for us, not the other way around.

Many studies have been done over the last several years on engagement and why people engage in activity by choice.  The cell phone revolution is one of those successful exchanges of how choice motivates behavior.  I grew up in a time when nobody had a cell phone.  I have watched them become as common as shoes; nobody would have ever thought so when they were first invented.  What started as a series of released conspiracies about how the government wanted to survey the actions of all people everywhere with a chip embedded in them, during the 1980s and 90s became cell phones that would track everything we do and spy on us by choice.  We take cell phones wherever we go because we enjoy the companionship.  These days, I am never anywhere where I don’t see a cell phone interacting with a person even when real people are present.  People would rather interact with their cell phones, even during dinner conversations.  That is because the cell phone is polite and offers at least some illusions of choice, and people prefer that option over some dictator presentation.  Cell phone companies figured out how to get high engagement out of their customers by giving them freedom of choice over a long period.  Or at least the veil of choice.  If the goal is to track people and spy on their every movement, then cell phone companies figured out how to get mass society to choose for such an arrangement by the illusion of choice.  All successful enterprises work out some mix of choices to inspire people to engage with their offerings.  That is the key to all advertising, so it’s not like human beings don’t understand the art of engagement.

The government, however, is too lazy even to go that far.  Instead, when they want to accomplish something, they must rely on mass collectivism to inspire fear and drive public engagement.  Whether it’s a case of eminent domain or the draft, the government leans on force to drive participation, the fear of what might happen to you if you do not participate.  But for that to work, they must be bigger and more powerful than you to inspire enough fear that you will be compelled to comply for self-preservation.  That is not how civil service should communicate with people about any issue.  It should be a privilege that people want to participate in willingly.  It’s not something they do because they fear penalties.  No wonder so many people want to get out of jury duty.  And those who serve are not the sharpest tacks in the box because they have nothing else going on.  Who wants to be judged by a jury of their peers when their peers are too fearful to fight back against the compulsion of jury duty?  But rather is some brain-dead slug that doesn’t have a complicated enough life to get out of jury duty.  And then, they survive the lawyers and get picked for jury selection by a top-down parental government that doesn’t respect their time or individuality.  And that all lives must stop for the slow speed of the government.  There is a lot wrong with that simple jury notification.  I would choose to be on a jury every day if I could.  But the way the government asks me to do it makes me want to go in the opposite direction.  The government is lazy and relies on force to impose itself on the people it is supposed to serve.  No wonder the government is always so screwed up.  But it’s by choice, not by science.  They could do better if they wanted to.  But because of the government’s power over people, they don’t feel motivated to do so.

Rich Hoffman

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