Miraculously, there was a “surge” of enrollment in the closing days of Obamacare March 31st 2014 leaving President Barack Obama to announce a total of 7,041,000 during a Tuesday April’s Fool’s Day a press conference, heralding it as proof that the Affordable Care Act was successful and here to stay. Only Obama never said………”April’s Fools.” He actually expected to sell that line to the public and to not be questioned about it. After months of avoiding hard numbers, the moment The White House got the figures they were looking for they took them expecting as all Keynesians do, to use belief and faith to make fiscal assumptions.
The White House had not provided answers to key questions about the numbers, including how many enrollees were previously insured, how many Americans have actually paid their first month’s premium or how many Americans have seen their costs increase. They just took the target number of enrollees off their website, held a press conference and declared victory without having any idea if they had in fact had a victory of any kind.
The big problem for Obamacare is that the numbers from the RAND Corporation study reportedly has suggested that just 23 percent of enrollees had no insurance previously. Further, the study reveals about just 53 percent of previously uninsured Americans have actually paid for their new plans. If the numbers hold, the actual net gain of paid policies among Americans who lacked medical insurance in the pre-Obamacare days would be just 858,298, the Daily Mail reports. That is hardly a victory considering that for such a system to work, more people have to pay into it for it to be sustainable. It’s not hard to give away free things. But it is hard to get people to pay money so that other people can have free things—and The White House has simply ignored the hard task and taken the figures off the easy task. What the Obama White House has done is essentially give away health care on a street corner and considered that everyone who took it was a viable vote in favor of success—and the truth is far from it.
What is more troubling is that people operating at such a high level of authority with so many eyes about the world watching them are so easily willing to deceive the public. The press conference about Obamacare on April’s Fool’s Day was quite aligned with the spirit of that Holiday, but had nothing to do with the truth—and that should be troubling to everybody. Obama and his supporters wanted to see good news about their socialist health care mandate so they did everything but give away the kitchen sink to get people to sign up for it. Their hope is that by preserving the law, future presidents and congressional houses will restore the portions of the law that Obama had to give up on in order to get the numbers where they wanted them.
The goal of The White House was not to provide a health care system, but to enroll enough Americans so that repeal of the law would be difficult. Their entire goal in this whole fiasco has been to make the law stick and let future law makers figure out how to make it viable. Their goal was to simply change American culture toward socialized medicine, not to actually fix health care. That is the deceitful application of their manipulative forecast numbers and why they have been so disingenuous.
If Obama and his supporters will lie and cheat on such small and obvious issues—just imagine what else they are lying about. When it comes to really big topics that are much murkier, just imagine the level of manipulation they are willing to pursue to preserve themselves. That is why it is so shocking that obvious con artists are in such positions of power and voters are so apathetic to it. Obama believes, because he does not respect the electorate—that he can give press conferences on Obamacare and nobody will question him—because nobody really has the courage to stick to the real issue of their intentions—the alteration of American culture further down a path of socialism at the expense of economic viability. And it’s no April Fool’s joke.
On a previous article that I did on this topic there is video of the Tri-State Warbird Museum firing up its big Allison 1,12 hp 12 cylinder V-1710 engine. My wife and I had the privilege of being inside this aircraft early in its restoration, and it is delightful to see it completed and functional. Of the 13,738 P-40’s of all variants produced between 1938 and 1944 only around 85 exist today—one at Wright Patterson and one at the Tri-State Warbird Museum. I am so proud to live within 40 minutes of those two famous planes.
When General Stilwell came to China where Claire Chennault was the proven authority—yet outranked the Flying Tiger leader, the expectation was one where Chennault was expected to bow to authority and respect the chain of command, which of course didn’t happen. If Stilwell had his way America would have lost in China and Japan would have occupied and dominated Asia. When Chennault was called from China at the end of the war it was then that communists overtook the country. Chennault wanted to stay and fight the communists after the Japanese were defeated but American command wouldn’t allow it—and their folly cost America its soul from the Korean War to present. Of course the Soviet Union was pushing the Vietnam War advancing communism which was overtaking all of Asia and was also feeding the counter-culture movement at American schools through KGB subversive penetration. The “hippie” was a KGB creation and they are largely forming American foreign and domestic policy to this very day as they are now of age to be in senior management positions. The pinnacle mistake that sent America on a downward spiral was when the defiance of Chennault was removed and the bureaucrats got their way. That is when the problems started for The United States. The key to American success is in defiance. When that defiance is suppressed, America is just as worthless as every nation that does exactly what they are told by pinheaded fools and worthless politicians.
In the 1986 film Heartbreak Ridge by Clint Eastwood the film opens with his character in trouble with the law—particularly for urinating on a police car. This is to establish that Eastwood’s character is defiant, and something that American movie audiences can relate with. In that film, Eastwood was essentially playing a variation to the kind of leader the real life Claire Lee Chennault was. For a long time I wanted to write a novel about The Flying Tigers and have Eastwood play the role, but he’s too old now, and I am still working out the story details. I don’t want to just write another World War II novel, I want to explore this theme of American defiance as the most important ingredient. I would say that defiance is as important to American success as sugar is to cookies—it is a must have.
The rest of the world struggles because they are too structured, too compliant, and too obedient to worthless bureaucrats. The reason that communism, socialism and every big government attempt does not work, is because institutional systems produce too many people like General Stilwell and not enough like General Chennault. If General Patton had done as his superiors had instructed him to do, World War II would have been lost in Europe. Britain, France, and all of Africa would have been dominated by the Italians and Germans. It was Patton’s defiance that made him great, not his ability to follow orders.
In American music we like our artists defiant to the rules—that is because it is deeply inherit to the American psyche. We do not admire compliance. American heroes are not good soldiers who go down with the ship of sacrifice—but the ones who bark back at their chain of command and do what they think is right as individuals, not cogs in the wheel of society. There are a lot of competing ideals floating around which confuse the issue, but for me it is quite clear whenever I see a P-40 Curtiss-Wright airplane what the key to American success was, and continues to be. It is defiance like that of the Flying Tigers who were terribly outnumbered, and up against superior airplanes to paint that gaping mouth on the front of their planes to represent the swagger of American ingenuity, and defiance. The Japanese would have never done anything like that to the planes of the Emperor. German pilots would have never conceived of defacing the planes of Das Führer. And even American pilots under Stilwell would have been frowned upon if Chennault had not let his men express themselves creatively before his arrival. Chennault had set a standard that carried over into just about every branch of service for the next 60 years, as orthodox military generals frowned upon it.
I have told many stories about the original Pirates of the Caribbean led by Henry Morgan, another personal favorite of mine. The privateers in early Jamaica were really no different from the Flying Tigers of China, the Henry Morgan pirates were essentially hired guns by the English Crown to prevent Spain and France from acquiring too much Aztec gold. Morgan let his men be as free as possible and the results were staggering. America was born on Morgan pirate vessels as Thomas Paine observed the antics first-hand and how much gold the King of England received from Morgan’s adventures. The key again was in defiance. The real Pirates of the Caribbean were so bold, and able to win against impossible odds because they were fighting for profit, and spitting in the eye of compliance.
I love the Flying Tigers and specifically the P-40 airplanes they used, because it is the most obvious example of why capitalism, defiance and free thinking destroy the rigid chain of command adhered to by the rest of the world. There have been other successes since—many, and they all share an element of pushing against authority, not yielding to it. Statistically, there isn’t any real evidence that any other way of thinking but that of the American is successful time and time again. It is the only proven method of achievement that has a real track record of success. So the million dollar question, or otherwise, the $17 trillion, which is the current U.S. debt, is why would America copy off the rest of the world’s stupid submission to authority—because time and time again those authorities are corrupted with human error and not qualified to make the best decisions at the best times? Why do we teach our children to follow orders, when they should be taught to give them?
Why would we teach blind submission to compliance when history proves that is the quickest way to personal and national destruction? And why would we teach military generals to be more like Stilwell when they should be more like Patton and Chennault? The answer is that we shouldn’t. We need to rethink our entire thought process in America and start with following what works, while setting to drift that which doesn’t. Compliance to authority will not take anybody where they need to go and this needs to be embraced openly for the first time in American history instead of around the edges of our movies and music. It is time that our schools teach defiance, our colleges teach conservative capitalism, and our businesses seek the renegade manager who wears business suits without soaks and has no interest in being in charge—except for the freedom to execute their individual visions and follow their blissful passions to the ends of the earth running over all the opposition that gets in their way. It is time to admit that this is what it means to be an American, and to embrace it fully for the first time without the shameful judgments by the idiots who run the rest of the world.
Police put out their signs for the upcoming May 6th replacement levy vote trying to convince homeowners to further accept high taxation as an acceptable means of community management of resources. To be honest, I have lived in Liberty Township for most of my 46 years, give and take a decade or so here and there, and have never had to call the police except to file a report. So long as I have the Second Amendment, they don’t do anything for me except show up after a crime is committed. I noticed that the big tax local Rino Republicans like Christine Matacic are supporting this tax along with my old friends the Terrys at the Carriage Hill development. They are conservatives of convenience. Carriage Hill is openly trying to bring in more people to the community so they can make money off them. Those outside investments enjoy police cars sitting around especially if those voters come from California or the New England states—it makes them feel safe. And Matacic is running for Butler County commissioner and wants the backing of the FOP in whatever form she can get it. But that doesn’t mean the rest of us should pay for their desires. This is what I submitted to the Today’s Pulse as a “Letter to the Editor” which should appear in the upcoming weekend edition on the matter.
Save Money; vote “NO” on Liberty Township Police Levy
There have been some complaints about how high the taxes are in Liberty Township especially after the Lakota levy took effect in 2014. Sheriff Jones supported that levy saying that some of the money gained from levy approval would go toward police in Lakota schools. Now just a few months’ later Liberty Township trustees are supporting a “replacemet” levy to pay for those same additional Lakota police officers coming up on the May 6th ballot. The signs from the police are already up.
Of course the argument is that taxes will not increase but will in fact cost $94 per $100,000 in property assessment to fund $2.5 million in projected spending for the 2014 police fund. Clearly the police and the school are double dipping in their projection numbers. The sheriff lives in Liberty Township and since he came out in favor of the Lakota levy, then it should be his task to figure out how to provide police coverage for his community without additional taxes.
This time they won’t be able to say that the tax is “for the kids.” This election is a chance to take back some of the money wrestled away from us during the Lakota election of November 2013. It is a chance to lower our taxes during a time when that’s what most everyone needs. I will be voting a big, “NO.” Elections have consequences and by voting NO, voters have a chance to let the police shoulder that burden instead of the homeowners.
Lt. Morgan Dallman is the division commander for Liberty Twp and stated in favor of the levy that deputies responded to 16,000 calls for service in 2013, so to justify all the needed police activity. That comes out to approximately 43.835 calls per day in little bitty Liberty Township covering every domestic violent episode, every car wreck, every kid who tries to burn down their house with their parents in it, every bomb threat, every vandalism case–everything. What he failed to point out was that many of the calls probably went something like this, “hey Bill, where are you?” Bill answered professionally on his radio leaning in to his left shoulder looking very serious, “I’m at United Dairy Farmers getting a milk shake.” The caller then says, “Hey, some of the fire guys down at the 747 south house have a good game of Call of Duty going. You up for it?” Bill looked at the cashier hoping she didn’t hear, which of course she did, because she told me about it hoping that I’d write a story in Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom. “I’ll be right there,” Bill says making his voice sound urgent and professional. The cashier holding back a smile gives him back his change and the cop leaves as the UDF attendants break out laughing. That is just a sample of the 16,000 calls mentioned by Lt. Dallman. Sometimes the call is for Halo, or Madden football—so it’s not always the same thing—to be fair.
My friends down in West Chester are doing it right. The trustees down there have already told voters not to pass a tax increase for their police department because the cops make too much money. In response, the police are suing the president of the West Chester trustees. CLICK TO REVIEW.In Liberty Township there is no such courage. Instead, they just lay down and let the FOP run right over them making up facts, inflating their statistical numbers to include every cat rescued, and every time a neurotic levy supporting husband and wife fight over the television remote. When it comes to actual crime, there isn’t any because bandits have come to learn that Liberty Township residents—at least the older ones tend to paint their cars with the blood of criminals. Later the police show up to file a report—but they certainly aren’t the deterrent to crime. Gun carrying homeowners are, and there is a LOT of guns in Liberty Township. A lot of GUNS. Enough to equip a small army if needed. Word gets around and it will stay that way unless the police actually drop off criminals hoping to instigate crimes to gain support of a levy. I’ve seen it done in Mason, so it’s certainly not beyond imagination.
I doubt people will vote themselves a tax savings on May 6th 2014. Liberty Township has too many new—weakened, neurotic, insecure parents who are still in their early 30s doubting their ability to handle the Second Amendment the way it was designed, so they look toward the police to protect them. But this is a chance to actually take back some of the tax money stolen from us through past manipulations if enough people would stand up for themselves. We’ll see, I know how I’ll be voting—and it won’t be for more police. Too many cops around isn’t good for anybody but their union numbers. They are too expensive, always behind the action, and simply represent the arm of politics and their authority—which is obviously deeply flawed. Cops are like weeds in a nice garden, the more you water them, the more of them you get until eventually they overrun the beauty of all the nice flowers and trees planted there. One of the reasons that Liberty Township is so nice is that there are fewer cops—weeds. Giving them more money will just make more of them and that isn’t good for Liberty Township’s future, or the people who live here.
The J-20 Dragon fighter jet’s key features from China resemble those of the top-of-the-line U.S. F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning. In fact, the official Communist Party newspaper Global Times bragged about how key technologies used for the F-35 Lightning were “completely obtained” by China and how the J-20 is equipped with these technologies and features. China admitted that they stole the technology and seemed happy to live under that premise. In a Jan. 20th article titled “Six of F-35’s Crucial Technologies Have All Been Obtained by China; J-20 Epitomizes All the Six Technologies,” the Global Times confirmed that the advanced designs and features include a diverterless supersonic inlet, an electro-optical distributed aperture system, an electro-optical targeting system, an AVEN nozzle, and a fire-control array radar system—things that were developed by The United States under capitalism. Does this surprise anyone? It shouldn’t.
Under communist and socialist regimes, or collective based societies the first casualty is individual creativity, and it is creativity that allowed The United States to develop those six primary technologies mentioned in the Washington Times article. This is exactly the reason only The United States makes blockbuster films while no place else in the world can even grasp them. Collective based societies do not freely think—and therefore have their creativity severely limited, which of course destroys their manufacturing base. Most companies in the orient have as a standard policy the dissemination of western creativity looting those efforts and trying to improve them with collective based manufacturing techniques—which they are quite good at. But they cannot create from scratch things—they must copy off the West first to show them the way. Communist countries do not invent because the minds of their people are controlled by the state so there is no incentive to do anything but be a social parasite.
China as a communist country is helpless when it comes to innovation. If they want wonderful airplanes to expand their military muscle, they had to steal the technology from the F-22 and F-35. Lockheed Martin and other American aerospace manufacturers can always go back to the drawing board and develop new technology because they have creative people working for them who are able to do such things—but China with all their billions of minds available cannot—because their people are not free. Without freedom creativity in arts and science do not flourish. Technology does not advance, and their societies remain stifled.
Sure its insulting that China so openly copied off American fighter craft designs—but only because China has been considered equal on the world stage. France, Russia, Spain, India, China and many other countries functioning from socialism and communism are creatively stifled yet have been allowed to play as equal partners to the United States within the eyes of The United Nations. But the equality is an illusion—they are far inferior to American innovation in virtually every economic category because their commitment to communism has destroyed their people’s ability to think creatively. This is also why Russia is so good at deception because much of what they hope to gain on the world stage is obtained through theft—as their history with communism has destroyed the minds of the Russian people. In order to do anything from a manufacturing perspective they must copy western techniques in order to have a prayer. They aren’t doing anything new; they loot off others and use force to advance their cultures.
Invention is developed under less restrictive government intervention. Creative minds hope that there is a payoff for their thinking, so they are incentivized to do so. In communist countries where wealth is stolen from the capable there is no reason to do anything but show up for work and do what some incompetent bureaucrat tells you to do, so nobody makes anything, nobody thinks, and nobody invents. But to appear equal on the world stage to maintain the illusion of equality Russia and China must steal American technology the same way they steal wealth from their own people—each according to their needs. They need the technology America has, so they steal it—rather than figure out why they have to steal it in the first place, and lack the ability to generate their own fresh ideas.
Without America, who would Europe, Russia, China, or Malaysia copy off of? How would they do anything? The answer is they wouldn’t, instead we would see a gradual inclination of society back to the tribal huts of African villages because that is where communism takes countries. Anywhere where collectivism is present, social regression will be noticed—in every case. There isn’t one country where collectivism doesn’t either hold down their culture from making technical leaps forward, or the actual country regresses. The only way countries like China, Russia and other collective based economies from the Orient can prosper is to steal intellectual property from those who have it. Readers here who are outraged by my statements from those other countries cannot dispute this fact. They can be angry that I brought it up, but they cannot refute it.
This is why Americans should not copy off those ridiculous cultures—they should not attempt to compete directly with the Chinese school children or the socialist European families and their screwed up tendencies. When I was angry that my local public school of Lakota proud that China was copying off their education methods it was not something to brag about. It is not a gift when an inferior culture copies off a superior one—it is theft. What’s even dumber is when that same school of Lakota beat on its chest that it was keeping pace with those idiots. That is like saying that children are learning to keep pace with turtles instead of horses. Americans premier attribute is their creativity and their educations should embody large doses of such thinking so to make them better inventors, better job creators in the future, and a better people. Anybody can be a parasitic copy-cat like the Chinese and Russians, but not anybody can create something from scratch the way we do in The United States. And it is about time that we stop apologizing for being so good, and stop letting the world copy off us, then lecture America how to conduct their affairs. That burden rests on them and them alone.
Too often there is very little to talk about but what we don’t like—and when you’re picky, or expect competency when dealing with people, all too often what we get is disappointment. Every day for over 6 years now I have put on a leather flight jacket from US Wings. I ride motorcycles all year, and there are maybe a handful of days over that span of time that I don’t have to go somewhere. And when I do travel it is usually by motorcycle. So my leather jacket has to be tough, withstand all the elements and be extremely functional. Even on the hottest days of summer a leather jacket is needed—the mornings are often cool, too cool for naked skin and large bugs pelt you in the torso area while riding. The leather is an offering of armor and is essential riding equipment. Even during a motorcycle ride from Key West to the Everglades 50 miles west of Miami where the real temperature was 107 degrees the early dawn sun was pleasant to the naked skin, but once the day hit 10 AM, it was punishing. The jacket was needed just to stay hydrated and prevent the skin from burning under the sun. Then from Miami to Orlando, afternoon thunderstorms are common, it may be intensely sunny and 15 minutes later a thunderstorm is upon you dropping rain the size of a small fist as hundreds begin hitting you by the minute. Without the leather the pain would be intense, probably unbearable. So because I ride a motorcycle every day of the year I wear a leather jacket every day as well. I have an additional problem, I often meet people where my leather jacket has to go along with a suit and tie. It would be disrespectful to the people I see to show up in a biker jacket with studs looking like I’m going to Sturgis—so I need my leather jacket to look as good as the cloth underneath it. So with all that in mind I have only found one company in the entire world that made a jacket fitting for me and that is U.S. Wings outside of Cleveland, Ohio founded by Sgt. David D. Hack, the Purple Heart recipient and Nation’s #1 US Army recruiter from 69 to 73. He’s been Chief of Police in Sebring, Ohio, and in his spare time founded U.S. Wings in 1986 to the present. His company knows how to make cloths that fit my very intense lifestyle. So you can imagine dear reader how disappointed I was when I went to zip up my well-worn flight jacket a few weeks ago and the teeth were so worn out from use that they no longer gripped each other.
I contacted U.S. Wings to price a new zipper and liner and they responded quickly. The zipper replacement was $60 and the liner replacement was $90, plus shipping the jacket to the New Jersey plant where most of the construction takes place. It was still winter where the nights are often in the mid 20s so I had to be able to zip up the jacket—it simply couldn’t wait. But after careful consideration, even though the stitching all over the jacket was still very much intact it was decided that it was time to retire that jacket and buy a new one. A new jacket from U.S. Wings costs about the same as a good firearm but considering my use, a new one was better than fixing the old one so I placed an order for one of their Signature Series flight jackets with nearly the exact specs.
The order was placed and a few days later the jacket arrived on my doorstep ready for battle. I literally took it out of the box, tried it on for fitting and left the house on my motorcycle. When you meet with people they can tell instantly whether the jacket is a cheap rip-off from some shopping mall vender selling “club” clothing or some piece of crap made for the herds at various coat suppliers destined to be sold in the future at a flea market. It doesn’t matter so much if the jacket is stained from sweet, rain, bugs, or heat streaked, they can tell if it is of quality and if it’s not it won’t look right with a suit and a $500 dollar watch. But U.S. Wing jackets are just fine for this kind of thing and suit both necessities perfectly. The jackets are of a quality where their value never comes into question.
When I bought the first jacket six years ago Hack’s company sent with it some bonus items free of charge—a book about Hack’s life which was actually quite good and a free Moko Man hat which I wear often. As this new jacket arrived I expected him to send something extra, but wasn’t all that shocked when only the jacket was inside. The economy had been hard for everyone, so I figured that U.S. Wings had given up on those kinds of perks to save money. Two days after the arrival of the jacket it was a Saturday and one of my nephews was at my house playing Star Wars: X Wing with myself and one of my son-in-laws as we noticed the mail man driving up our driveway. He dropped off a package and neither my wife nor I expected to receive anything. We took the usual protocols when examining something unusual which arrives at our home, but my concerns quickly alleviated once I saw the U.S. Wings logo on the box.
U.S. Wings had sent a special delivery of free items, a DVD music video titled “The Ballad of Sergeant Hack” by Erica Lane and a special single song CD by the same musical artist called “Believe in America.” Inside also was a special bag designed to protect expensive garments while traveling, such as U.S. Wing jackets and tailored suits. It was a cost that U.S. Wings did not have to incur, they could have just sent the jacket, but as usual they went above and beyond.
The song, “The Ballad of Sergeant Hack” can be heard on the first video on this article along with other videos which give an ideal who David Hack is, and why he is one of those unique people whose personality inevitably comes out in his company U.S. Wings. Hack is a guy who personally wrote President Johnson complaining that he wanted to go to Ranger school. He volunteered for Vietnam during a time when many people were dodging the draft and was a recruiter on the active front designated to reenlist soldiers who were set to rotate out of the combat zones. Needless to say, Sergeant Hack is the real deal and that personality certainly comes out in the clothing line of U.S. Wings.
Hack’s patriotism is genuine. He’s obviously not happy with the direction of the country currently—and his sentiments are much older than the Tea Party. He’s not a “come lately” to the ideal of patriotism and is truly one of the unique people of American culture. I purchase my leather jackets from U.S. Wings because there simply are not better jackets made by any other manufacturer in the world when it comes to military clothing and rugged apparel. I would not trust my jackets to be made by a roving communist from the East or a socialist from Europe or a conquered soul in Russia. U.S. Wing jackets are purely American and made for American lifestyles, and they are the only kind of jacket that I’ll wear.
As is often the case, the company U.S. Wings is the embodiment of its creator, Sergeant Hack and the quality he has directly infused into a great American company. In a day where most things are imports from other countries done cheaply out of necessity, U.S. Wings jackets have an emblem inside all their garments which actually sends a chill up my spine every time I see it—which is every day because I put those jackets on every day. U.S. Wings is a company that I trust because I trust Sergeant Hack and know that he puts a lot of extra effort into the reputation of his company. Most companies that make coats, shoes, boots, or even farm equipment have fallen from grace because the personalities of their creators, the Chief Executive Officers who utilize capitalism to bring joy to the world lose touch with their initial passions. When it comes to U.S. Wings, even after many years of existence, over a long-span of time, their quality and effort are matched by their past performance and it is one of the rare honors that I have had to open a package from them and see what’s inside. Often it is the little things that matter, and when it comes to U.S. Wings a lot of little things add up to greatness, from the quality of their stitching to the measurements of their segments—to the quality of the actual leather. And even when they don’t have to—because the product speaks for itself, David Hack wants his customers to know more about him, so that they know what they are getting is the real deal that won’t falter when they need it most. And when it comes to leather jackets there aren’t any better made.
And now that you’ve read all this, watch all the videos completely and know that what you are seeing is a deep tap-root into American exceptionalism and be damn proud of it.
I know it is hard to get a hold of me and many of my readers here have complained that I do not have time for social engagements, particularly over the last year. I have been busy—very, very busy—15 to 20 hour days busy just doing the things I’m required to do every day. But I can name one event that I will be at soon where my friends from the Doc Thompson Show, Atlas Shrugged III and several in the trenches freedom fighters will all be gathered at the same time and place. The event will be the 2014 Tax Day Rally on Tuesday, April 15th, at 7p.m.-9p.m. I plan to be at this event, so for those who want to touch base and meet with other like-minded people the 2014 Tax Day Rally should be a destination for you.
Ann Becker who is deeply involved with a lot of local “liberty” activity and has been on 55 KRC with Brian Thomas every Monday issued a press release about the event with all the pertinent information. These events are always very well done, and are worth a road trip for those who are my readers from out-of-town. So don’t be shy. The new preview for Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who is John Galt will be shown for only the second time ever at this event prior to the Fall 2014 release. That alone is worth the trip and will be a very special privilege. Hotel rooms will be available at the site making it very easy for the sometimes late night clashes of beer mugs that happen after these kinds of events. For those following the film, the premier will be shown in Las Vegas and will be quite a spectacle. So for the preview to be shown at this point in time is a real treat.
Here is what Ann issued:
Liberty Leaders,
We are starting to get our 2014 Tax Day Rally together and we would love your help to make it a success! If you could pass the information along to your members and friends, we would appreciate it.
Text about the event is below. Feel free to copy it and email it out. Attached is a logo if you want a picture to go on your websites or email. There is also a Facebook event, if you want to send it out to your friends personally…..https://www.facebook.com/events/355504824590622/
A second issue we need your help with, we are going to have a signing of the 2014 Tea Party Pledge. We did this in 2010 when a bunch of us ran for Central Committee. We are going to ask all the people running for Central, State Central and office in 2014 to sign the pledge to uphold our three core principles if elected. If you could spread the word to all the candidates you know and ask them to attend the event and also let us know they are coming by sending a message to http://cincinnatiteaparty.org/contact-us/
We will have tables for rent at the event if you know of a group that would like to spread the message about what they are working on, they are $100. Ask the coordinator of the group to send a message to the contact page, http://cincinnatiteaparty.org/contact-us/ .
Lastly, we are going to do a call for people to send in their pictures of Cincinnati Tea Party events of the past to coincide with our fifth anniversary. We will ask that they put them on our Cincinnati Tea Party Facebook page… I am sure some of you have a few great photos, please share…. https://www.facebook.com/CincinnatiTeaParty
Any questions or comments, please let me know… text is best 513-375-3864.
Join the Cincinnati Tea Party as it celebrates our 5th anniversary with a rally, remembering how far we have come as a movement and where we go from here.
Tuesday, April 15th, 7p.m.-9p.m.
Cincinnati Tea Party 2014 Tax Day Rally!
Where: Holiday Inn Eastgate
Speakers will include national talk radio hosts Doc Thompson from the Blaze Radio. Doc will talk about his experiences in the Tea Party Movement and give us a preview of his upcoming Tea Party documentary, “Intolerable!” It debuts May 6th at www.Intolerable.us.
Also speaking, Rusty Humphries, nominee for Talk Radio host of the year for 12 years and fresh off his role in the upcoming movie Atlas Shrugged Part 3.
Mike Wilson and Chris Littleton, former Presidents of the Cincinnati Tea Party, will speak and present how the Cincinnati Tea Party got here. They will look back at our amazing five-year history. Also speaking, former Ohio Liberty Coalition President Ted Stevenot on where we go from here.
One of the highlights of the evening will be the signing of the 2014 Candidate Pledge by all those running for Central Committee, State Central Committee and elected office in 2014. This pledge will ask candidates to adhere to the Tea Party principles of fiscal responsibility, limited Constitutional government and the free market. If you are a candidate and would like to sign the pledge, please send us a message here.
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The same thuggish intentions which those officers displayed against Lewis are now being applied to their boss, George Lang, only this time without the police batons and “chemical irritants.” Instead, the cops are using the legal system to attempt to beat Lang into submission. The situation is just as ridiculous as a French labor union suing Goodyear for wanting to leave France over their unproductive workers—who only work 3 hours a day, the West Chester Police expect financial compensation, promotions, and community merit even when they exhibited errors in judgment. The West Chester Officers actually expected to be promoted, compensated financially and treated with respect after their disastrous mistake—which is laughably out-of-touch with reality.
Lang presented the reasons for the $265,000 settlement publicly. The lawsuit against him contends that Lang slandered the officers when he let it be known that the officers were “bragging about the beating back at the patrol room,” that the victim was taken to the hospital with severe injuries and that his face was very puffy and bloody—as if that fact could not be verified by the doctor who attended Lewis. The suit maintains all those statements were false and caused the officers to lose an opportunity for promotion. The township has not yet filed a response to the lawsuit alleging defamation, slander, “tortious” interference with a business relationship, intentional infliction of emotional distress and civil conspiracy. (Tortious interference, also known as intentional interference with contractual relations, in the common law of torts, occurs when a person intentionally damages the plaintiff‘s contractual or other business relationships. This tort is broadly divided into two categories, one specific to contractual relationships irrespective of whether they involve business), and the other specific to business relationships or activities (irrespective of whether they involve a contract).
In other words, the West Chester Police want to teach Lang a lesson for breaking ranks with them and are seeking to punish him with any means available. It wouldn’t look good to attack Lang with batons, as they did Jeremy Lewis so they are using the legal system instead. This is a long time tactic by labor unions to teach governing officials such as their bosses to shut their mouth. In this case, the West Chester Police conducted an internal investigation which essentially states that the training the officers received were in accordance with policy and that the beating was justified leaving the officers innocent. That is just as ridiculous as the many times Lakota teachers have been caught trying to have sex with students, or flirting with students only to be protected by the union with virtually no punishment—because the school board doesn’t want to get sued by the union—so they let the actions go without discipline. The same situation applies in this police case against Lang. The reason these crimes by public employees happen is because these unionized government employees believe they are above the law and exempt from ramifications for their bad decisions. In the case of Lang, he is the first public person in a long time to actually stand up to them—and the police are acting violently toward him as a result.
Nobody can ever know what really gets said behind closed doors, and when gangs of thugs get together and whisper off the record about things, they expect that those things cannot be used against them in court—because unless there is a recording, or it is written down—then it cannot be presented as evidence in court. Police unions because they control the legal process—at least the public interpretation of it–believe they have all their loose ends tied up in this case against Lang and that they have a right to attempt to ruin his life for standing up against them.
But there is always more to the story which will not come out in court—most likely. Lang as a trustee has voted against the mindless pay increases the FOP union wants out of West Chester, where the officers are already some of the most highly paid cops in this part of the country. If a bet had to be made in what the real motivation behind this lawsuit was, it would be that Lang would be discouraged to stand against future labor negotiations with the FOP union. The cops are using this law suit as a way to soften him up—to remove his opposition toward their upcoming contract negotiations. Most likely, this lawsuit has nothing to do with what the cops are saying it is—but rather its all about their contract. CLICK HERE TO SEE HOW MUCH THESE OFFICERS MAKE. The police are simply acting like a band of thugs who are above the law. Their behavior against Jeremy Lewis is obvious. But their behavior against their boss, George Lang is even more so—when the totality of the story is known. Whether the weapon is a police baton or the legal system the goal is suppression of the truth and the desire to inflict the desires of the Fraternal Order of Police upon a society of victims living in fear underneath their tyranny. If such desires are left unchecked, the situation will spiral out of control. This is why we must all stand with George Lang. If he goes down, we will all go down and the police will turn on private citizens like they did Jeremy Lewis in less than a moment. This lawsuit is about power and control and who really has it—and by the evidence presented by the West Chester Police against Lewis and now against Lang their lust for power is undeniable.
As a continuation on yesterday’s article about the divorce of America from Europe it is time that we had a heart to heart realization as confirmed by the Dutch speed skating coach from the Sochi Olympics. Jillert Anema said he wasn’t surprised the Americans were doing so poorly in speed skating in Sochi because The United States doesn’t support the sport the way it should be supported. He thinks we don’t support speed skating because we’re too busy watching stupid American football and that we are wasting a lot of athletic talent on a sport that is meant to kill each other. Anema confirms what I said previously, that the rest of the world does not understand American football because they do not understand the nature of capitalism. American football is a game of capitalism as European soccer and rugby are tribal games of domination and socialism. The premier reason that the rest of the world cannot compete with The United States in American football to the extent that they cannot even put a team on the field, is because they cannot grasp the concept of capitalism for which to train and play the game. Americans do think they are right, because they are, and they are better than the European, because they are………….because in America they are free and unconquered and a touchdown is symbolic of industrial success and achievement which prompts cheers from a ruckus crowd.
When I was a kid I played soccer. Later in life I realized I would have enjoyed football much better. At the time everyone told me that soccer was the game of the future and that football was on the way out. That was early in 1980. What I didn’t know at the time was that there was a desire by Europe to lead the world toward global socialism through The United Nations and that they desired to advocate a game that the entire world could play together which represented the economic and political structure of their design. They desired at the time to turn The United States away from American style football and onto European style football known as soccer.
I was so aggressive as a fullback in soccer that my teammates nicknamed me the “animal” because I often head-butted offensive players intentionally drawing yellow cards to prevent the other teams offense from getting set-up down the field. I learned very early that the best way to have a great defense in soccer was to pull our full backs up far away from our defended goal preventing the other team’s forwards from getting too close, because the other team’s offense was not allowed to begin a run at the goal by being behind the other team’s defense. This kept their offense from getting too close to our goalie. If our offense kept the ball on the enemy’s side of the field I could pull up our defense to leave a tremendous gulf between our line and the goal which the offense couldn’t exploit because of the rules. This is how soccer is a socialist game because forwards were regulated to staying in front of a defense. If they did get behind me they’d be called off-sides, so when a well placed ball was punched down the field toward the offensive player, and they would receive it a few steps in front of me, a well placed head-butt would plant them into the ground and make them think twice about doing it again.
By the time I got to high school I was so disenfranchised with the education system that I didn’t want to engage in any battle that the school would benefit from. I hated the coaches and most of the members of the team, so I stayed away even though it was a game I was naturally inclined to. Once I got away from my school days I found I enjoyed the game increasingly over the years and found it to be unique to America in many ways that are positive. In football the receiver can get behind the defensive backs if they are faster. The only off-sides there is goes against the defense. They cannot jump across the line until the offense led by the quarterback starts their play. This is the essence of the difference between soccer and football. In soccer off-sides favors the defense, in American football it favors the offense. In America the offense metaphorically speaking is of capitalism, industry, banking, invention, the defense is regulation, government, and political resistance. The intention is to beat those elements to score a goal. That is why Americans don’t typically cheer in football until yards are gained or a score is obtained. In soccer they cheer collectively during the entire match. In football it is typically when an achievement is obtained—this is a big difference.
I have been a Tampa Bay Buccaneer fan most of my adult life. I fly flags on game day and fire cannons from my porch when they score. I love the hard hits, I love the theater, and I love how it is specifically American. The rest of the world cannot play American Football. Rugby is a pretty close adaption and the players are tough in that they don’t use padding, but the concept of the game is still a version of Europe’s addiction to collectivism instead of an individual quarterback standing behind a battle line and delivering the ball down the field to ultimately score. In American football the quarterback is the CEO of an offense. He is a celebrated hero from Atlas Shrugged in every circumstance and his job is to rally his team to victory as an “individual.” In rugby the closest thing they have is a “fly-half position.” So there is no coordinated effort to get the ball down the field to score a goal—but like soccer it is a kind of chaos where the ball bounces back and forth between offense and defense with no plan or formation on how to execute a task. Soccer and rugby are European games that reflect their cultures, and they cannot grasp the ideal of a Football playbook where offensive and defensive schemes drive the ball down the field toward the promised land of scoring.
Europe cannot put a team on the field that can even remotely compete with an American team because Europe and the rest of the world cannot grasp capitalism. The differences are pure and simple. Who gives a rat’s ass about speed skating around a frozen lake when you can take off the head of an enemy player on the field of capitalism and are given points for ramming the ball down the throat of a defense to gain victory? In soccer and rugby a score just so happens almost by random chance, just like their stupid economic system—which is why the score is often 1 to 0 or 2 to 3 after over an hour of game play. In football you get 6 points plus a field goal attempt for scoring a touchdown. In soccer you get one stupid point. In America when a business hits it big, people often get rich. They get more than a silly point; they get SIX points just for getting across 100 yards of defense. Football is their game, it is the hopes and dreams of every American played out on the battlefield of capitalism. Soccer and rugby are games of socialism, collectivism, and way too many rules reflective of their societies. The difference between Europe and America is clearly evident in their games.
Needless to say soccer did not become a hit in America. I don’t even know where the nearest professional team is, so my teachers lied to me when they said that soccer would suppress American football in the future. They hoped that it would because deep down inside they recognized the differences which are clearly ideological. I would love to see London play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, or socialist bitches from Paris. I’d like to see France find 11 men in the entire country who could meet the Tampa Bay Bucs in Raymond James Stadium—I bet they couldn’t do it. Let the speed skaters of the Dutch even think about putting a football team on the field against even American high school players. They would be destroyed. There wouldn’t even be remote competition, because the people from those places are so intellectually ruined because of their economic commitment to socialism that they can’t even comprehend the role of a quarterback, let alone train a player to perform the task. This is also why they fail economically, because they do not understand what makes industry work, what makes money, and how products are even created. They randomly sometimes get lucky and score a point, but often you have to wait an entire game to see a score—or in the case of Europe, an entire decade.
To Jillert Anema, let’s see you even come close to assembling a team that could play American football. America can at least put speed skaters in an arena with the Dutch but there is a reason nobody in the world can compete with American in football…………………….it’s because they can’t. Just like the battle between socialism and capitalism. It is that simple.
How about challenging the rest of the world to a little wager? Here is the contact page to the United Nations. Send this article to them and let’s see if they have an answer to it. Let’s see if they can pull all of the best players from around the world from soccer, rugby, speed skating—whatever, and see if they can even play against one American professional football team. I bet they can’t.
Better yet contact every country that is in membership at The United Nations from that same link. Send them a request as well and let’s see if all of them put together could build a football team……………American style.
(Shhhhhhh, they can’t.) I offer the videos on this article as testimony. Prove me wrong……………anybody in the entire world.
There are attempts in Europe to be like America. There are teams trying to learn the role of a “quarterback” and play the American game. They can all be found at this link. Building a proper team should start with them. But I bet all of them together would fall short of an American professional team. Because the basic concept of the game eludes Europeans.
Bill Gates is a creation of American capitalism and could only have become the richest man in the world in America. Unlike people like George Soros or Warren Buffet who are also billionaires, Gates became wealthy because of his creation of a superior product. To this very day I still consider Microsoft Excel to be the most important, and powerful invention of the 20th Century. The Microsoft Office bundle has literally changed the world and revolutionized business. I can send a Microsoft PowerPoint to literally any company in the world, and they can open it and view the information effortlessly through a simple email, and that is a real miracle. 20 years ago for a business meeting I would have had to carry a brief case with me everywhere I went, but now I can download all my documents for a presentation on a “stick” and open them on another company’s computer using Excel to show complicated financial formulas and forecasts that would have taken mountains of paper to do in the past. The cell design of Microsoft Excel is just brilliant. It is a real technical evolution for the human species, and is why Bill Gates is often the world’s richest man. I don’t agree with his views on Common Core education which he shares with another person I admire, George Lucas. I think in that category both men are out of touch to believe that any government is qualified to be in charge of a child’s education. But I would attribute their world view to a naiveté bred from their wealth and a remoteness created from their financial security and success in business. They believe that they can apply the same success they had in their business to government sponsored education which has proven incorrect, but I won’t fault them for those moments of faulty thinking, because they are right in their specific fields much more often. And to that assertion, Gates recently warned world governments of an impending crisis that they must get out ahead of, particularly in The United States. A serious shortage of traditional jobs is coming to every country in the world, and the need to reduce taxes, avoid any increases in the minimum wage, and to find ways to inspire entrepreneurs to create jobs that have not yet been invented is becoming the most important thing anybody can hope to do.
Microsoft Excel already does for one individual what a room full of accountants used to perform prior to the computer revolution. All those highly paid jobs have been eliminated and given to people who have not dedicated their life to finance and now perform the same tasks as a mere afterthought—people like me. I’ve always been a creative person, and an in-the-trenches worker, but now it’s not uncommon for me to do complicated spreadsheets in a movie theater before a film begins without much additional effort, because Excel does most of the heavy lifting. This tendency of software substitution will become greater, resulting in millions upon millions of lost jobs over the coming decades. Gates is warning now so that governments can prepare, but most of course will not listen.
Obama’s recent insult of an executive order for salary workers is the most obvious current failure of governments to understand just how behind the curve they are. Obama’s social beliefs were formulated by communists from the 1930s to the 1960s and are why he believes that the profits of the business owner should be shared by the “workers,” which is 100% false. A joke in our family while traveling through remote areas when we hear a song on the radio that is twenty years old is for me to declare that the song just came out in that location. I do this a lot in Louisville, Kentucky where we visit often. My reference is a comment on the backwoods foundations that are built around the city far away from culture centers like Los Angeles, New York and London. Obama’s thoughts are comparable to a song from 1890 just hitting Louisville and them thinking its revolutionary, that’s how far behind the curve, Obama is on what’s happening in the world. But Gates is the one who is writing the songs that aren’t even out yet, and will soon flood the world with their popularity once discovered.
It is only a few years away that drivers for over-the-road trucks will no longer be needed. The trucks will drive themselves. Nurses who monitor patients will be replaced by medical bots, and fast food restaurants will become dramatically automated. Human workers are simply too unreliable, they don’t show up for work enough, and cost too much once there. Insurance companies, financial centers, and most cubical based endeavors will go away. There isn’t enough work to keep workers busy now for 8 hours a day—as Facebook login hours are proving, and as technology increases, this will become much worse. Even manufacturing will change dramatically as 3D printers will increasingly do the task of manual labor for component parts. Gone will be the days where a worker sat in front of a punch press, a sewing machine, or an injection molding unit running production for 8 hours a day 5 days a week. The jobs in the future will be in material acquisition, and inspection, but not in the actual manufacture. Technical assembly will still be a human trait, but every job not requiring human reason which is adaptable by circumstance will be challenged by technology.
It is not that far off that building construction will be done by robots because hiring human workers will be risky and unreliable. It costs too much to hire a human worker with the threat of FMLA benefits, workman’s compensation cases, and the unreliability of momentary lapses in judgment. Software reliability will prove much more attractive to future manufacturing. Governments will strive to suppress technical innovation to protect their taxation structure, but it’s too late for them. A company that wants to make interior car parts for Toyota, Honda, or even Ford will likely move their shop to some African country to avoid the high taxes of developed countries and use 3D printers to make many of their component parts hiring a skeleton crew to perform actual assembly. As McDonald’s workers protest for unionization and a higher minimum wage the same robots working in the medical industry will prepare the food, drop the French Fries and work the drive thru. Humans will load the machines with new food, they’ll do most of the money transactions since intuition will still be required between human customers, and they’ll supervise the sandwich making exercises. But the actual sandwich making will be done by robotic hands. (Do you have any idea dear reader how much money is lost putting too much lettuce on Big Macs can cost McDonald’s per year? Too much! Human error destroys millions of dollars in profit potential.)
Big government people and unionized workers will declare that all this technology is bad for the worker, it’s bad for the human condition, and it is bad for the economy. These same people think that the sun comes up every morning to shine on their faces during their brief visit on earth and are out-of-touch with reality. They are way behind the times that are coming and ill prepared to deal with the realities Bill Gates is warning about. Education will change drastically! Personal pleasure and recreation will change dramatically! Manufacture and product delivery will change dramatically! Service of all kinds will leap into another dimension in just 10 years to something not even recognizable to today’s standards—so the warning as been given—and we’ll see who listens.
The world will not stop evolving just because human beings have not adopted their religions, their politics, and their moral compass to the tools of invention created for the use of advancing society from a perilous past. Every time I open an Excel Spreadsheet I feel privileged to live in such a time that I can use such a thing. What is even better is when I can open a spreadsheet with costs, delivery and material items on my iPad removed from a jacket pocket while waiting for food to arrive while dinning out. Apple Products are not typically compatible with Bill Gate’s Microsoft products but because Microsoft’s Office programs are so heavily used throughout the world, Apple has apps that can interpret them on their platforms. And in just a few years these Excel inventions by Microsoft will seem clunky and barbaric compared to what’s coming. Gates is right; most people are not prepared for those changes. Governments if they were smart would completely reorganize their financial structures to deal with these coming changes and not try to hold the world to outdated and archaic social models where people are chained to programs like Social Security and Medicare. Technology will create nanobots that will allow people to live for centuries instead of decades. Cancer will be cured with a computer program that solves the problem in the human DNA itself—who will retire at 65 or even 85 when they can continue working for 100 or 200 years? Why pay for Medicare when people can just become healthy like they were when they were young? Why pay for a UPS driver when the truck can drive on its own and a delivery bot can drop the package off on a doorstep? Why pay a tractor-trailer driver when it can be driven by GPS and a computer program that will even back the truck up to the dock of a destination? A human driver can only drive so many hours by regulation where an automated driver can continue forever without pause but to refuel. The world is changing–quickly, and Bill Gates is warning everyone as to the specifics of that change. Big government types at this point are way, way…………….way behind and at the rate of technical computation that is now multiplying by the day, they will soon resemble primitive natives throwing spears at airplanes flying 30,000 feet overhead. The choice to be a primitive is one that resists the inevitable and does not heed what Bill Gates is saying—and will be incurred with much peril that is completely avoidable.
There are a lot of things in the world more important than the latest Star Wars news…….but then again, maybe not. I have declared before that The Clone Wars animated series on Cartoon Network is one of the best entertainment venues around. The work that Star Wars is performing in philosophy, science fiction, political science, and culture building I think is being conducted on an epic scale and is extremely important. When Disney bought Lucasfilm one of the first things they did was canceled The Clone Wars series because of the contract the show had on The Cartoon Network. Probably deeper than that, the series had actually become very serious and was dealing with very complicated topics that were clearly not intended for children—but the kind of adults who grew up watching Star Wars. I’ve watched and read a lot of science fiction over the years. I was a tremendous fan of the most recent version of Battlestar Galactica, especially the first two seasons. So I have pretty high expectations when it comes to that kind of entertainment, and I always felt that The Clone Wars was some of the best science fiction being done. So it was sad to see it canceled by Disney—because the show had gone to a very dark place not really suitable for the Disney Channels. The remaining season 6, called The Lost Episodes remained in limbo until Disney cut a deal with Netflix to release them on March 7, 2014 in 13 episodes which were designed to wrap up many of the story arches created through the first five seasons leading into the film Revenge of the Sith. Not expecting much my wife and I sat down together over the weekend and watched the new season and let me just say—it was absolutely fantastic.
Season Six of The Clone Wars is just simply some of the best science fiction ever done. The presentation of the material was just beautiful to look at, the scope of the show was phenomenal, the story lines were deeply complicated, and the content was epic containing many threads of contemporary value. I personally felt very sorry for the character called “Fives” in the series because I know a lot of people who are in his condition presently—conspiracy theorists that have deep inside knowledge to what is really going on in the world and are unable to communicate those concerns because of the sheer audacity of their claims. The fate of “Fives” was tragic, but wow, what a way to tell a story. The whole Kaminio cloning facility plotline was exceptionally beautiful and was science fiction of a top order. It had elements of the old Flash Gordon Republic serials done with modern sophistication and was graphically a thing of wonder. It was not just good stuff……….but great stuff! Nobody is making anything close in entertainment as the people at Lucasfilm have been performing on The Clone Wars television show.
It is easy to become overwhelmed with modern problems and to focus too intensely on all the issues of the day. But I have found that the most effective way to deal with extreme stress and anxiety is with good robust entertainment which is aligned with the things I’m trying to deal with in the real world. To that end I enjoy Star Wars video games, I simply love the Fantasy Flight game X-Wing Miniatures with a passion, and I of course love the movies—but the television show The Clone Wars is deeply sophisticated and a real treasure. I often find I have fresh perspectives on real problems after watching them—because the creative minds at Lucasfilm have the liberty to analyze hard problems without the immediacy of political alignments forged by realities.
One complaint that I read about the Season Six Clone Wars was the plotline about the Intergalactic Banking Clan’s financing of the war. I found that to be the most interesting of just about any aspect of Star Wars in any capacity. The writers of The Clone Wars were clearly drawing parallels between the real life situation that we have on earth with the Rothchilds, the Buffets, and the Soros types and how they play all sides to their own needs.
In Star Wars, according to Darthipedia.com, the Intergalactic Banking Clan, or IGBC, member FDIC, was a commerce guild organization of the Galactic Republic, headquartered on Muunilinst. It was a union of clans of bankers, proving that those anorexic losers managed to get at least three-fourths of their own damn title correct. Sadly for the pasty-faced goths, every single banker had delusions of grandeur the day they decided to name it “InterGalactic”. Honestly, they could be done by the Trades Descriptions Act. Y’know, the Intra-Galactic Trades Descriptions Act.
During the Clone Wars, San Hill was the leader of the IGBC. Hill became one of the founding financiers of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, then celebrated by “making it rain,” which did not amuse Dooku at all. The IGBC pledged its ships and battle droids to the Confederacy… wait, battle droids? Ah, well, the Banking Clan kept battle droids as part of its, er, collections division. Their most potent weapons were Hailfire droids. The resultant debts forced San Hill into hiding on Mustafar. Reports that he gained access to a Chameleon Arch and rewrote his biology to become a Human[1] during the Galactic Civil War are spurious to say the least.[2]After the Separatist Crisis ended, Palpatine offered the IGBC a massive, quadrillion-credit bailout and ended up controlling them.
The Clone Wars dealt with this whole subplot and I found it fascinating. A lot of fans of Star Wars just want to deal with the emotional story points, but Lucas years ago established in the face of much criticism why war often occurs and with his Star Wars, the situation is even more complicated than might be found in the real world of earth. Watching that kind of science fiction allows a curious mind to begin to understand the level of deception that is required to be a villain, which is the first step in solving actual problems. But before that can happen, a mind has to grasp the problem. The politics in Star Wars was always something that I found infinitely fascinating and the Season Six content is nothing short of amazing. If it was not an animated film set in a galaxy far, far away, but here on earth dealing with the Bilderbergers, it would likely win an Academy Award. It was that good.
I could go on and on, but the short of it is this, the Season Six Clone Wars: Lost Episodes are worth watching for a lot of reasons. They are great entertainment, they are involved science fiction, and they are commentary on many contemporary problems. They were a real treasure that took me quite by surprise. But more than anything they were food for inquisitive minds well worth the time to watch. If you have access to Netflix, there simply isn’t a better choice available than that show—so you should watch it and enjoy a work of modern art that is quite healthy and robust for its sheer quality and complexity. That is a series that I will forever miss, but am very glad to have seen the last 6 years worth of wonderful material known as The Clone Wars.
The ending of Season Six, the last three episodes featuring Yoda were deeply touching–and extremely bold. They will give great hope to people everywhere who desperately need it.
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