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Intentions of a Lakota School Board: A blood thirsty attack driving a “head shot”

I kept a lot of this quiet until after the election.  I’ve spoken about the results often, and the actions on behalf of Lakota, but I have purposely left out a portion of the story….until now.  This is Part II of a short two-part series.  CLICK HERE to review Part One.   After the election of 2011 No Lakota Levy had defeated the school at the ballot box, and there was persistent discussion that Lakota would become just like Little Miami and continue putting up election after election until they won.  But I had told our group at No Lakota Levy that if Lakota chose to do that, they were truly after results that had nothing to do with rationality—and we would deal with them on that basis.  I also told them that if Lakota tried for a fourth attempt in 2012, that they’d have to find someone else to be the spokesman, because I had a book coming out called Tail of the Dragon which had nothing to do with education and I didn’t want to fight a school levy while promoting the book.

As recently as the last school board meeting of 2011 Linda O’Conner reached out to my wife and me in the parking lot of the administration building off Princeton Road to wish us a Merry Christmas and to let us know that there were no hard feelings.  I told her that I left the meeting early because they were boring me to death—but that it was a Christmas present of sorts, I was going to spare them having to listen to me speak publicly.  I didn’t want to rub their nose in the No Lakota victory, but I did expect them to listen to what over 18,000 voters had said—and at least propose a salary reduction to the teacher’s union for the sake of the community.  She smiled and said that she’d present it to the board, and we parted for the last time on civil terms.  Because immediately after that, in the winter of 2012, Superintendent Mantia showed that she was going to play the radical progressive, just like President Obama, and cut away all the aspects of the public school that people actually valued—not out of fiscal concern, but with the intention of extortion.  In the coming months, Lakota did nothing upon the recommendations proposed by No Lakota Levy—the victor in the last election by a sizable majority—much greater than in the last election where Lakota won by less than 1%.

This presented a problem for me.  700 WLW approached me about being the education pundit, sort of what Mike Allen is currently regarding legal issues.  The popular radio station wanted me to be The Big One’s education specialists.  This sounded good, but at the time my publisher was having multiple fits about my controversial stance against public education.  My novel, Tail of the Dragon was set to be released during the fall of that year and all the media contacts I had from years of building relationships suddenly saw me as the face of the anti tax movement in Lakota.

I offered myself as the face because I’m in a unique position to carry the title.  To me it was a job that needed to be done, and nobody else wanted to do it, and the controversy actually helped some of my side projects so I took on that role from 2009 to 2012.  However, I needed separation from that role prior to the release of my novel because I was too known as an education reformer, and my book was about a car chase which was intended to appeal to a NASCAR audience.  Lakota, was proposing another levy attempt right in the middle of my book’s release—and that wasn’t going to work for me.

So I had to get No Lakota Levy self sufficient—where it could act without me, I had to separate myself from the education stuff, and I needed to strike at the heart of the tax levy push and show people what was really going on at Lakota—and stop dancing around the edge of the bowl.  It was time to jump into the middle and show what was hidden there.  When I talk about this period being a trap set by me for the Lakota school board to jump at, this is what I meant.  Once Doc Thompson was fired at 700 WLW there was awkwardness that persisted in the wake of his departure.  WLW had thrown him under the bus while he was on his honeymoon so they could make good with Eddie Fingers and I couldn’t remain a friend to Doc and resume my relationship with WLW—so a lot of things were lining up in a bad way.  This is the primary reason I didn’t do the requested interview that Russ Jackson tried to set up with Eddie, Tracy and me on March 15th, I felt it was because of Eddie that Doc lost his job, and I couldn’t betray Doc. This made Jackson mad, and things degenerated from there.

In early January 2012 I knew I had to break things loose the best way possible.  I began turning up the rhetoric against Lakota letting my true feelings about them be known because they were obviously going for another tax increase in spite of the election results—and it pissed me off in a big way.  When I learned that the Community Foundation refused to work with No Lakota Levy after I set up a deal with The Enquirer to give them a story exclusive on a check-mate story, it enraged me because not only was the donation of money that No Lakota Levy was proposing to kids who couldn’t afford the sports fees a good thing to do, but it was strategically powerful forcing Lakota to reveal what they were really about as an organization.  When the Community Foundation backed out, No Lakota Levy had to start their own charity group called Yes To Lakota Kids which delayed our announcement by several key weeks.  I had been targeting the middle of February and was working with Michael Clark to get the story out, but when the Community Foundation pulled out of the deal—which they had been entertaining up to that point, it sucked the life out of the story, which seemed all too coordinated.

After the election instead of working with No Lakota Levy, Lakota went on the offensive, members of the union began going around town attempting to dismantle my name and it was around the middle of February when learned about it.  Doc Thompson had also just been fired from 700 WLW which left me in a strange place with them.  And my publisher was very concerned about my political beliefs and questioning whether I would be dragged into another levy fight right in the middle of the novel’s release.  So I wrote my article about the Latte sipping prostitutes.  I wanted to empower No Lakota Levy to proceed without me while I released my novel, and I wanted to see what Lakota would do with it and see how things progressed.  Even though I spoke about “women” in general my comments were directed at a few major tax advocates and they knew who they were.  I knew things about their home life, and pointed my comments in that direction.  After all, if they were going to smear my name, I had the right to do the same to them.  They were the primaries behind the mudslinging instead of taking the olive branch that Linda proposed at Christmas time.  They chose that course of action.

This led to the events discussed in Part One.  CLICK HERE TO REVIEW.  What I put up on my articles I certainly stood behind, otherwise I wouldn’t have written them.  I wanted Lakota to take a shot at me in a literal way so I could flush out the architects that were smearing me behind the scenes and I needed the names of the perpetrators.  Julie Shafer who debated me on 700 WLW wanted to be the hero of the school board and eliminate the biggest resistance to the board’s tax increases.  She worked with Superintendent Mantia to eliminate me from the scene.  They didn’t know the things I just revealed about my novel, or my desire to see No Lakota Levy develop a new spokesman freeing me of the job, at least for the fourth levy attempt.  This is the first time I’ve discussed these things publically—so they wouldn’t have known.  They instead used my statements in the worst way possible.  They knew who I meant specifically, yet chose to use the collective tendency of women to rally their base—another progressive trick, and they hit as hard as the possibly could.

Their actions were of the type that I intellectually anticipated they’d take.  The same thing basically happened to Arnie Engle over in Fairfield, the levy supporters kept poking and poking and poking until Arnie snapped, and then they prosecuted him to the furthest extent of the law.  The courts forced Arnie into probation and anger management classes to “deal” with his temper.  As soon as they thought they had Arnie out-of-the-way, Fairfield tried for another school levy, which thankfully in 2013, lost.  The public knows the games that are going on.  However, conceiving such a ploy and feeling the wrath of it are different things, and it did surprise me how ruthless Lakota’s levy supporters truly were as human beings.  What they did and how they did it showed me that they didn’t care what the results were to me personally, they simply wanted me out of their way politically.  If I were the kind of person who had a traditional job, what do they think would have happened to me if I worked for a woman who day when every radio station in town was calling me a sexist, even the FM stations–literally?  What about the effect on my wife and daughters or my mother—sister and other family members?  What Lakota through their school board orchestrated, coming directly from Julie Shafer and Karen Mantia was the kind of thing that could have ended careers, marriages, or even residence.  Several women from Julie’s circle of friends wrote me directly and actually stated that they were going to run me out-of-town, the fires of fury coming directly from the Lakota school board.  And they felt entitled to do it—that is what my thousands of dollars spent every year on the stupid Lakota school system buys me—those kinds of people representing that kind of institution.

When I say it was a trap, I suspected it would happen in the way that it did and I had braced myself for it.  I knew that Michael Clark was playing both sides against each other, and that he was telling the school board that Rich Hoffman had big plans against Lakota, referring to the exclusive story about Yes to Lakota Kids.  This looked to have a lot to do with why the Community Foundation backed out in the middle of the announcement postponing the endeavor.  And I knew that Julie, Mantia, and Powell would look for ways to come after me, and instead of them doing it in the shadows, I wanted to get it out in the daylight for all to see.  They bit, and showed what they were all about, and people noticed. Shortly after the debacle of March 15th Lakota through my friends at No Lakota Levy asked for a cease-fire because things had not gone as they planned.  I had rallied the anger vote and they knew there was no chance of passing a levy in 2012.  In June of 2012 I did an interview with Channel 19 saying that I agreed with the school board’s decision to not pursue a tax increase.  I told Cory Stark that the deal was for two years and that we’d be ready to fight again in 2013/2014.  Lakota had projected surpluses so it wasn’t worth the public relations nightmare, and they needed time to lick their wounds.  This suited me just fine because I was sick of Lakota and their constant attempts to raise taxes, and it allowed me to put my efforts behind the release of my book—just in time.  Just prior to the Fox 19 report, I had approved the cover for my novel ahead of a release date of September, the first Tuesday after Labor Day.

However, when the novel came out, I was still known by everyone in the media as the anti-education guy—and it was hard to shake that off.  Most likely, I will always be known as that—so my current thinking is that if it’s going to stick to me, then I’ll just make the best of it.  My book came out and for 8 months out of the last 12 stayed sold out on Amazon.com.  It did well as an initial offering and my family celebrated by going to Disney World over the summer.  I needed to get away from publishing and politics for just a few weeks—which I cherished.  But there have been complaints of late that Tail of the Dragon is not being carried at Amazon—it’s there, but out of print.  Well, beginning at the start of October 2013 American Book Publishing closed their doors as a publisher—so they are no longer restocking my novel at Amazon.  They were a small publisher and carried a lot of diverse titles, and a majority of them did not make much money.  The writing for this was already on the wall in the winter of 2012 along with all the other issues mentioned, and I was concerned that they’d stay open long enough to publish my book.  I think they hoped that things would turn around for them if a production house showed an interest in making my novel into a movie.  But after my anti-union comments on this blog, there was a fat chance of that happening which was the real source of their frustration with my political beliefs.  So they folded up, and I am searching for a new publisher to re-release Tail of the Dragon as a special edition.   For American Book Publishing I had a 120,000 word manuscript that was edited down to 63,000 words, so nearly half the book was cut away.  My current thoughts are to release a version of the book that was eliminated in the editing process specified by the PG rating that American Book desired.  The special edition will be a rated R version of that same story, which dives even deeper into the freedom loving antics of Rick Stevens—some much harder edge concepts.

So that is the behind the scenes story of me and the Lakota levy.  As a result of their approach to me and their desire to pretty much end my life with a ruthlessness that is unforgivable they have made a mortal enemy out of me—and the media personalities who played in that game with them—at this point we all know who they are.  I will never forget it, I will never forgive it, and I will remind people of it the rest of my life.  I will be 80 and 90 years old still talking about Julie Shafer, Joan Powell, and Karen Mantia.  They had no idea what my relationship was with my family, that my wife understands me and that I am very close with my kids. But if I wasn’t, an event like what Lakota did could have ruined me—and they didn’t care.  In fact, they wanted it to happen.  Lakota took a head shot at me.  They missed, part by design, part by luck—but it gave me a clear viewing of where they were hiding in the shadows loading their guns.  Prior to that event in the Enquirer, they were shooting at me from the darkness and I could never tell where the bullets came from.  After the Enquirer event, I could see the fire flash and direction of origin—and it was the Lakota school board.

So when they play innocent, like what was in Joan’s letter to Graeme, it is an act.  They know the games, and where the bodies are buried.  What it comes down to is money—the school board has no control over the management of their money because of the teacher’s union, and so long as  they pass school levies, they can avoid the harsh reality that they are simply a body of government designed to raise taxes, because that is their only measure of balancing a budget.  Instead of using their powers of manipulation against the union, they used it against me because they saw me as less of a threat than the teacher’s union, and I take that as a direct insult.  So I will dedicate my time, life, and otherwise to ruining theirs.  They will learn that there are greater things to fear than their teacher’s union, and if you take a head shot at me and miss, that you have earned an enemy for life.

That is the state of the union in Lakota in the wake of the 2013 Election.

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

Meet Lakota Jim: Why school levy supporters are “stupid”

It is important to understand the kind of person who voted in favor of the school levy at Lakota, and many other places during the latest election.  Once the results were in at Lakota, I received a parade of arrogant emails by statist pro tax supporters, and one of them I found particularly fascinating.  Below I included a couple of days of comments that Jim from Lakota left me so to examine the mentality of the typical levy supporter.  I have displayed only Jim’s comments as they were given to me omitting my responses so not to confuse his dialogue and the psychosis behind it.   Jim below was so happy that he had gained the legal ability to steal my money.  He resorted to name calling and rhetorical statements which centered on the standard labor union positions of—greed, statism, and “majority” democratic rule.  It is not by accident that Jim said virtually everything that Superintendent Mantia said after the election because they are all functioning progressives—which is a direct allusion to classic communism.  The fascinating aspect of Jim at the end of his comments is that he actually calls himself “pretty conservative.”  He is the kind of person that is destroying our modern world, and he actually feels entitled to be as parasitic as the government will allow him.  He supports aspects of American life that would have been despised 60 to 70 years ago, yet he is now representative of a “majority,” and he is proud of it.

His first comments begin of course after the election results were confirmed.  He couldn’t wait to inform me he had gained through democracy the ability to steal my money, then when pressed on that statement, he resorted to the “greater good” mentality by framing me as “greedy.”  The conversation only became more revealing from there.  Read for yourself.

jim
jimzillion@yahoo.com
72.49.131.31		 Submitted on 2013/11/06 at 3:24 am | In reply to overmanwarrior.Been waiting 5 years for this….ha ha hahaNovembra, LOLFinally, the majority has come to their senses and no longer want to see their community suffer because of no good politicians that haven’t solved this problem.Call you local congressman. Get him on this , try putting energy into making real changes that don’t hurt our children.Later, you have no issue to get attention anymore. We know you won’t he contacting our local rep to actually do something.

 

jim
jimzillion@yahoo.com
72.49.131.31		 Submitted on 2013/11/06 at 12:09 pm | In reply to overmanwarrior.Yeah, greed, your last statement proves it. As long as you want something from ME.Yep , you are greedy and could Cate less about the children of Lakota.Have “fun” paying those taxes. LOL

 

jim
jimzillion@yahoo.com
72.49.131.31		 Submitted on 2013/11/06 at 9:31 pm | In reply to overmanwarrior.Does the divorce mean you are leaving? Good riddance…LOL

 

jim
jimzillion@yahoo.com
72.49.131.31		 Submitted on 2013/11/06 at 9:32 pm | In reply to Dan.Yeah, excellent with distinction for so many years just isn’t good enough…LOL, waaaahhh

 

jim
jimzillion@yahoo.com
72.49.131.31		 Submitted on 2013/11/06 at 9:36 pm | In reply to overmanwarrior.Oh and by the way, you love the roads that the group hug democracy created. You like the military that the group hug created. How about the freedoms your group hug democracy has created and protects. Funny, you hate the excellent with distinction school district that helps your property values. Someone is greedy and miserable…

 

jim
jimzillion@yahoo.com
72.49.131.31		 Submitted on 2013/11/07 at 12:53 am | In reply to overmanwarrior.Well since you’d rather fly than drive and don’t need the military. You probably don’t need the group hug created by the police and fire. So, please call them both. Tell the fore department that if your house catches fire, you got it covered with your garden hose.
And if someone commits a crime against you, you’ll do the detective work.
No need to use those group hug union thugs.
Go for it Mr. I don’t need govt. Give them a call. Let us know when you’ve done it.
Divorce the police and fire. They can leave you if you get in a wreck too.Nice thinker..Hmmmmm.LOL

 

jim
jimzillion@yahoo.com
72.49.131.31		 Submitted on 2013/11/07 at 1:08 am | In reply to overmanwarrior.And further more. I don’t want to pay for your protection the police provide. I want a divorce from them. they should not patrol your Neighborhood. Why should I pay for the gas and their salary? If the fire dept pulls you out a bad wreck with the jaws of life. Heck, I shouldnt pay for that! Why?Same logic you are using against the schools. And yes, valuable educated people that benefit society are providedby the lLakota schools. So , you are benefitting from their products. Now , if you live in Cincinnati, I would sympathize somewhat.

 

jim
jimzillion@yahoo.com
72.49.131.31		 Submitted on 2013/11/07 at 2:03 am | In reply to overmanwarrior.Ok, make sure you contact them to make them aware. Also, put a note in your car to make sure they don’t transport you no matter what condition you are in.
And while your at it, don’t use any roads crested by the govt, nor buy products created by people that went to public schools, products of the government.
And, get off the internet, that was created by a govt funded university.
Oh, and any medical advancements found by govt dollars, don’t use those.
Just go live somewhere put in the woods you rebel, eating totally off the land.
Yeah, the government really sucks.
Funny, you use George Lang as a promotion for your book about corrupt politicians. LOL, irony

 

jim
jimzillion@yahoo.com
72.49.131.31		 Submitted on 2013/11/07 at 2:48 am | In reply to overmanwarrior.Oh and to further make you look Luke the liar and delusional fool you ate.Prefer to fly huh?He and his wife enjoy marathon motorcycle trips and is most recently proud of a trip to Key West where they covered over 3000 miles in less than 7 daysGet off the PUBLIC WORKER created roads Rich.Divorce the all public services.I’m tired of paying for your road use for your marathon motorcycle trips causing wear and tear on roads.LOL, stick a fork in you rich. Youll never publish this comment, you are done!

 

jim
jimzillion@yahoo.com
72.49.131.31		 Submitted on 2013/11/07 at 11:47 am | In reply to overmanwarrior.Excuse it away. You want the govt services that only YOU see as a benefit to YOU.
Does govt get way too involved, hell yeah. I’m pretty conservative. I don’t vote either party because they are both morons.
You don’t see how educating children benefits our society. You bash teacher unions. Why? Because they make 60,000 average?? Seriously?Don’t tell me you are one of those tea party hypocrits. You’ll bash unions but go and watch major league baseball or football which have union “thugs” too.
Guess some athlete making millions playing a game is more important than some “bitchy” teacher. Again, this thinking is selfish and about YOU., your enjoyment.Stick a fork is an expression. Not a threat, not sure how in the world you’ve never heard that before.

Jim obviously chose to ignore all the facts that were presented to him as a voter and favored instead the progressive ideology of public education, that they are the care takers of children, and that endless supplies of money should be thrown in that direction in order to support his beliefs.

Many facts contrary to what Jim cited as reasons to vote for a school levy were provided yet he ignored them all.  He chose ignorance so that he could believe what the so-called majority believed, which is an opinion shaped by years of labor union practices.  Those labor unions were brought to America under a communist plot—the evidence is indisputable.  Yet Jim believes that it is perfectly alright to steal my money because he along with others wish to take it.  I do not pay higher taxes to Lakota by choice. I didn’t move to the district knowing the tax rate—they have been changed by outsiders through elections migrating to the district from progressive parts of the country over many years.  Yet Jim feels entitled to insist that I move out of the community because he wants higher taxes, yet I was here first.  I have been a stable force at Lakota; it is people like Jim who have been the variable.  When I protested that theft, he then called me greedy—which is the standard progressive argument for everything.  Jim is not part of a progressive conspiracy—but he has been instructed to become part of one through his education, his associates, and his politics.

The case has been made clearly; the most dangerous predator against young people is the public school system where pedophile teachers have a smorgasbord of innocent young minds to feed off of, and all too often they do.  One of the most dangerous and destructive things a parent could do to a child is send them to a public school.  Yet the government school of Lakota sold itself as a safe haven for children—and that more money would only guarantee more safe learning for kids.

What many don’t question is that it is not the corrosive teachers who are most dangerous; it is the things that the poor little kids learn while in public school.  The bright minds of children with infinite possibilities before them moments before they attend their first day of kindergarten are destroyed bit by bit with each day that they attend public school.  Why, because of Pirsig’s Metaphysics of Quality.  CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW.  Children naturally want to be at the front of the “train.”  Public education teaches them to place their minds, and imaginations into the back and this ruins them for life.  What people like Jim, Joan Powell and Mantia think are good, are only good for their political beliefs.  What’s good for a human being is totally different.  Public schools destroy minds, they don’t enhance them.

Think of all the people you know dear reader—how many of them are really alive—I mean REALLY alive?  Yet they all started as bright-eyed young children.  What happened to them?  Public education…………the kind of public education that Jim supports.  It only leads a mind to the kind of thinking shown above, a mixed up contraption of conservative politics, communism, labor union thuggery, statism, followed by tabloid entertainment driven by small mindedness.  The people who succeeded most at public education are not happy adults.  Look around and name one successful, happy example.  Name one!  Name one greatly successful person who got that way because of public education.  Nobody can do it……….because they don’t exist.  Yet Jim swears by it and feels entitled to write me to rub my nose in his victory.

Levy supporters are horrible people.  They support a structure of learning that is destroying our world and they are proud of the path to hell they are paving.  They are even pompous about it.  Jim and his people are happy to have been given by government the ability to steal my money for a product I don’t support, which actually perpetuates violence and the destruction of children’s minds.  Normally I would be very angry with Jim for his arrogance, but the next day after the election I was watching my grandson learn to climb the steps of our house and was amazed to watch all the little neurons in his brain kicking on.  Everything is an adventure to a child, and I reflected how much I wish that human beings maintained their childlike curiosity well into their adulthoods.  That they don’t can only be blamed on public education which seeks to put weights on the wings of learning.  The moment a child enters those vile institutions, their learning ability becomes stifled.  It won’t happen to my grandson, he will have no choice but to reach for greatness and see adventure with every breath of his life.  But for people like Jim, he is the total of more than 20 years of mental destruction and I suddenly felt sorry for the poor fool.  My thoughts of painting the sides of buildings with blood went away when I thought of how sad and pathetic Jim sounded in his comments to me, and could see clearly the source of his thinking.  It would be terrible to be trapped inside the mind of a person like Jim—the typical school levy supporter who has lost the ability to think, process data, and learn.  It wasn’t that Jim didn’t read the information No Lakota Levy provided, he just couldn’t because his mind had been turned off by public education. The information against the levy was placed before their very eyes and they were not only unable to read it, but not willing.  Their minds were so sluggish that they simply allowed other people to think for them.  People like Jim just repeat like a parrot what modern politicians say, what the unions write down as bullet points, and whatever Hannah Montana from The Pulse happens to write in the newspaper.  They are non-thinking slugs inept by their own faulty minds and I feel bad for them the way I’d feel bad for the victims of a terrible car crash, or the trapped occupants of a burning building unable to see for themselves how to escape.  Jim is doomed to a terrible life because his mind is broken, and his thoughts fragmented concoctions.  Like chirping birds hungry for a new worm from their mother government Jim and his clan of levy supporters screamed for a new tax.  They didn’t care where the money came from—that it was stolen from someone else.  They only care that it goes into their mouths to fill their bellies.  They didn’t care because their mind as adult’s no longer think—and that in itself is a terrible tragedy.

My anger at public education can be traced back to this solitary trait, that I see it not enhancing the lives of children, but destroying them.  It saddens me to speak to an illiterate adult that has actually devolved from the average 4-year-old mentally.  Due to this observation it is impossible to endorse public education unless you are a brain-dead sloth—which it appears Jim is.  That is the only conclusion that could be made after reading Jim’s comments and studying critically the meaning behind his thoughts.  School levy supporters are not just bad people who are metaphorically stupid—they are literally stupid, victims of minds that have been destroyed by public education.  And they are too stupid to even know better the way an insect doesn’t understand that it’s caught in a spider’s web, or caught in the current of a swimming pool to be consumed within the filtration system forgotten forever to the world.  Minds like Jim’s are no different, they have degenerated year by year from age five to arrive an illiterate mess to adulthood with Frankenstein ideals, none of them self-motivated.  It is just tragic.  I do forget sometimes that not everyone is awake, that many people like Jim are happy being blissfully ignorant and led about by the stupid, corrupt, and tyrannical because their minds have long left them.  It is to the stupid that public schools like Lakota appeal to, and they know how they think, because they taught them.  School levy supporters like Jim are simply trapped by government into believing anything they are told, because they are witless to question their reality—and that is even more tragic than a new tax of stolen money from the unwilling.  At least people who are robbed of their money by people like Jim still have minds to become outraged and see it as an imposition.  It is the biggest difference between the levy supporter and the non levy supporter; one still thinks for themselves, the other allows institutions to do that thinking for them.  Instead of wanting to pummel people like Jim for their aggression against me and obvious attempt to rub in a victory from his type of voting slug, I can only watch Jim trapped in a system of his own ignorance as he lives his life consumed like a bug in a spider’s web by the mental acuity which placed him there in the first place.  For a fleeting second I feel sorry for him because it must be terrible to be so damn stupid.

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

The Hope That’s Coming: A Star Wars mythology to change the world under Disney for the better

It looks like I’ll get to see the next Star Wars Episode 7 with my family at the new Liberty Center movie theater as the release date is now December 18th 2015.  This is exciting news for me as my family loves Star Wars.  Philosophically, Star Wars if very healthy stuff full of optimism for human potential.  George Lucas has done something quite marvelous with it, he has combined the raw selfish energy of Han Solo—who is unquestionably Randian, and merged his usefulness with all the comparative religions of the world embodied in The Force.  I have said many things about Star Wars and the impact it has on our society upon these pages because I see it as a cultural phenomena that has the potential to produce a seismic shift in human consciousness, and I’m going to say things here that I think will give people a lot of hope.  I’ve been holding off until after the election to address some of these exciting developments, but I know you dear reader need a shot in the arm—so I intend to give it to you.

As I’ve discussed on several occasions I would say the most formal schooling I had which I didn’t consider a waste of time was the ten years I spent studying comparative religion and world mythology.  The most important person in my life and primary motivator of my ideals has been and will always be Joseph Campbell.  My parents did a good job of giving me value, but my intellectual development came from Campbell.  What he did in the middle of the progressive era was quite astonishing.  He was a conservative who had a following of radical hippies in search of meaning, and Campbell was able to transcend all those ideologies with an intellectual pursuit that has shaped our modern world.  One of those nutty hippies was George Lucas—who wasn’t like the rest of the drug induced film makers studying under Francis Ford Coppola in San Francisco.  He was a race car driver who had nearly died in a car wreck and had his life flash before his eyes with an intellectual hunger that was moving at a million miles an hour.  It was in this period that Lucas discovered Campbell’s epically important book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, the most important book in my personal library.   I spent ten years reading Campbell and was for a time a member of The Joseph Campbell Foundation while George Lucas sat on as a board of director.   Campbell had died in 1987 but ten years later we had a big meeting in Washington D.C. which for me was a personal odyssey similar to The Wizard of Oz.  Upon arriving at “OZ” I discovered that everyone was far from epic in their intellectual standards and had become mere cult-like followers of Campbell, which left me feeling as if I pulled back the curtain of an entire intellectual industry and discovered a decrepit old man attempting to appear greater than he really was.

I always took my kids to these kinds of things, which pissed off everyone as Campbell’s wife Jean had never had a child.  There were no kids at the big meeting of the minds and they resented me for bringing them.  But as a father, I always delivered to my kids the opportunity to live their own life of adventure without restriction of intellectual limits, and I wanted them to meet the kind of people who molded public sentiment.  After the meeting, my family broke off to do our own thing and we didn’t socialize further with the Campbell followers.  It was Halloween in Washington D.C. and my plan was to take my kids Trick or Treating.  We went to a neighborhood in Chevy Chase, but my kids refused to go up to a single door because they didn’t trust the neighborhood and felt out of their element.  So we went back to our hotel and I improvised.  Using lessons learned from Joseph Campbell I decided to give my children a mythic experience, since that was what Trick or Treating was supposed to entail.   While the Joseph Campbell Foundation members were down the hall trying to resurrect his dead spirit with chants and hand-holding, my kids went trick or treating at our hotel door.  They were only 6 and 7 years old at the time and my wife was worried that we were ruining one of their precious Halloweens of their youth by being on the road.  So I dressed up as a different character that opened the door each time my kids visited.  I’d give them candy then they’d run down the hall of the hotel giving me time to change into a different costume, then they’d come back.  I used everything I could find inside that hotel room to try to appear as a different person, or (creature) each time they arrived at the door proclaiming, “trick or treat!”

To this day, as recently as this latest Halloween where they are now girls in their twenties, they still talk about that Halloween in Washington as being their favorite—and it was a one man show put on by me exclusively.  My wife did help a couple of times as I struggled to find new costumes with what was inside our room.  The reason my children loved that Halloween so much was because I gave them a mythic experience, something that was representative of reality but spoke of higher ideals beyond temporal existence—which is what most everyone in one form or another yearns for.  Some people look for it in sex, love, career, drunkenness, financial power, or in eating—but everyone is looking for meaning to each breath they take.

Star Wars is the best embodiment in the modern world of human meaning.   It is mythology that goes well beyond a simple blockbuster film intended to make money for the Disney Company.  It has an importance that is unfathomable to contemporary thinking, and is a gift from George Lucas that only he could have come up with after surviving his devastating car wreck.  He lived a life of extremes; he was a race car driver, and an avid reader who wanted to be an anthropologist.  Those two radically opposite ideals are what make Star Wars so important to the human race.  The reason is that Star Wars is about values, and conveying those values through a story, which is the heart of all mythologies.  Star Wars because it was set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away is able to transcend religious temperament here on earth and explore the meaning of value with conflict removed.  Such an example would be of whose version of religion is correct Muslims or Christians.   Star Wars explores the same values without violating people’s religious beliefs which is all too often the greatest hindrance to understanding.  So it is far more than just another movie, it has the power through its story to transform culture—and I predict that these new films will do just that.

When the first Star Wars film came out in 1977 America was in the middle of the Carter administration, Nixon had just been impeached, and gas prices were too high causing long lines at the pumps.  Iran was moving aggressively against America on multiple fronts and the USSR was trying to inject communism into America through every open sore.   A New Hope followed quickly by 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back changed Hollywood and by their own merit kick started the 1980’s and the Reagan presidency.  The way those movies captured the imagination of the world was a form that only mythology could generate.  Star Wars is bigger than Star Trek which explores ideals in an interesting way.  Star Wars is purely about mythology and the power of it to convey complicated messages.   For the same reasons that my daughters loved that particular Trick or Treat event in Washington D.C. as little girls, Star Wars for many people no matter how jaded, is their “mythic experience,” and they can’t get enough of it.  Star Wars is about values.

When George Lucas wrote the character of Han Solo played by Harrison Ford, he thought of all the motor heads he knew from his racing days.  Lucas unquestionably had read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, and Han Solo was his answer to a Randian archetype.  He meant for Han Solo to be won over by altruism conveyed through Luke Skywalker during the course of the movies and learn how to think of others first—it is the classic sacrifice and the bliss stuff so crucial to Joseph Campbell’s writings.  That was before Lawrence Kasden got a hold of Lucas’ script and made Han Solo one of the most compelling characters in the history of film—unintentionally becoming the ultimate hero of the entire saga.  In fact, what is missing from Return of the Jedi and the prequal films is a Han Solo type of character.  Lucas attempted to humble Solo a bit by the third film, and it came out a bit flat.   Even though Lucas intended to make an altruistic film out of Star Wars, the values of the characters took on a life of their own and became their own mythic experience.  Lucas being enough of a lover of capitalism wisely let the story take on the form that THE FORCE intended and let things develop along their market value.  Harrison Ford went on to become an international sensation while Mark Hamill even though he was the star of the films, got lost in the shadows.

The new films are being written again by Kasden, and the implications of this are quite extraordinary.  Kasden is a very, talented story-teller who clearly understands mythology in ways that are different from George Lucas and very complimentary.  Harrison Ford, Hamill, Fisher and many of the original cast will be back for the new films, and Ford appears to have a multi picture deal with Disney, so the Millennium Falcon will survive well into the future of the Star Wars franchise it would seem.  The Falcon is the most important space ship ever created, even more so than the Space Shuttle. It is a modern-day pirate ship and symbol of freedom and rebellion in the Star Wars universe, and is one of the most recognizable objects on planet earth.  If I had to take a bet, I would say more people know more about the Falcon than who their local congressman is.  They probably know more about the Millennium Falcon than most of their own family members.  Disney wisely is beginning to flex their mythological muscle already announcing that they are building a full-scale replica of the Millennium Falcon at their Anaheim Park in California prompting this guy below to declare:

Robobob

This has been my life long dream… to walk in a full-scale replica of the Millennium Falcon. After this, I can die a content middle-aged man.

http://www.theforce.net/story/front/New_Rumor_Has_Disneyland_Getting_A_Millennium_Falcon_Ewok_Village_And_More_154601.asp

Well, I reflect his sentiment.  I’m right there with him and the hundreds if not thousands of others who share his opinion.  I have not been shy about my love for the Millennium Falcon.  My current favorite place in the whole world physical and virtual is aboard the ship I have on the game The Old Republic which is very similar to the Millennium Falcon.  I understand why people are so excited about a full-scale Millennium Falcon at Disneyland, it is for them a mythic experience.  I will love taking my grandchildren aboard a Millennium Falcon looking up at it from the foot of the loading ramp.  That will be magnificent.

After eight years of Obama no matter what their political affiliation, people are tired.  People don’t like communism and socialism, and for nearly 16 years, the United States government has forced heavy doses of socialism upon America growing government in ways that modern mythology has failed to capture.  Television shows reflect too often statism, music is too political, and our court system is loaded with greedy lawyers trying to make mountains out of mole hills taking advantage of ACLU cases.  Millions of online gamers have retreated from the real world to the virtual one to escape the tyranny of statism—because no place else is dealing with the mythic experience they require to comprehend the forces at play in their lives—except Star Wars.

When the next wave of Star Wars hits in 2014 with the Disney XD television show titled Rebels, it will have all the familiar signs of the past, the positive social impact, the economic stimulation, the cultural desire for goodness and fighting evil on behalf of justice.  But this time a Disney financial machine in need of a new wave of revenue will use its considerable power for good because for the first time in decades the market need for goodness will line up with the needed greed of corporate interests and will benefit society in countless ways.  It won’t be just a movie that comes out, but a mythological experience that will engulf most levels of human existence, and will be one of the greatest vehicles of capitalism displayed in a number of years.

Hollywood as a whole is in trouble.  Labor agreements with the various entertainment unions will paralyze the industry in the coming years—within four years to be specific.  Several studios will go out of business like the many steel and auto manufacturers of the past—collapsed by the labor unions and their collective bargaining agreements.  Money men won’t risk their money if they have to share too much wealth and will move on to other forms of revenue streams—likely oversea investments.  The reason Star Wars moved to December 18th, aside from gaining an extra 6 months to do post production work, was to avoid soaking up the money that can be made off the next Avengers film, and other big movies like Jurassic Park 4, and the Superman VS. Batman.  Once Warner Brothers and Disney have played out the superhero films, and the stars demand larger fees under union rules, there won’t be many other large projects that can carry the type of box office numbers these big action films produce.  The union wages being so high forces great box office turnout, and people aren’t going to line up to see the newest Oprah film, or romantic comedy getting box office numbers that justify the investment.  This is going to crush Hollywood, because the revenue stream won’t keep going.  Disney however has Star Wars, and they can hedge their labor costs with theme park revenue.  Without those theme parks, Disney would be victim to the same kind forces that the other studios are going to face—parasitic labor union practices.  Because of the vacuum of power that the Hollywood left will have in this period, they will be forced to compete with Star Wars, which is a force for good—or they will be financially crushed.  The string of progressive films that have been projected upon the silver screen for two decades now will abate, because capitalism will force their hand to abandon their liberal ideals the same way that Lucas had to re-think Han Solo as a character—because the market drove the character’s importance.

Behind all this is a rather solid formula that Joseph Campbell outlined in his life’s work on comparative mythology. That work directly shapes the kind of stories that are told in the various Star Wars formats, whether it be film, television, books, gaming, or comics—the need for the stories are what matter most, and the reason for the need.  Once those things are understood, they can be explored in the story telling process.  That is precisely what is going to happen when the first Star Wars film hits in 2015.  A market need is going to be fulfilled in a big way, and that need was created by anxiety driven through lack of mythological coordination.  Statist governments have attempted to suppress that mythological need and reshape it in their own image—and they have foolishly attempted to force it down society’s throat without listening to the market needs.  In the Star Wars equivalent, if government had been in George Lucas’ shoes, they would have forced the Luke Skywalker angle and suppressed the Han Solo one—and what they would have ended up with would be something along the lines of the prequels—entertaining, nice to look at, but lacking the kind of meaning that makes grown men want to walk through a full-scale Millennium Falcon as their life goal.  It says a lot that a fictional space ship that is over 30 years old has more mythological meaning than any other creation proposed over that same span of time.  The Falcon represents rebellion, defiance, speed, and freedom—that is why people love it.  And as long as those symbols exist in our society, statist government will not succeed.  So when Star Wars hits the new theater at Liberty Center, and a wave of excitement emits in a way that few people have seen in their lifetimes, more than a movie will be presented.  A mythology will be offered, and that is more powerful than all the weapons of the world—because weapons are built to destroy the will of an enemy with fear.  Mythology is designed to build a mind up to withstand the fears they are presented with, and in a perpetual game of tug and war between those two forces one that is generally regulated to only religions and some mild forms of entertainment, the other is supported by large governments with the endless ability to steal the money of their tax payers to support their grip on power.  Star Wars does what only mythology without the congestion of focus on the afterlife can achieve, and that is to bring the mind to what it truly craves which is freedom, innovation, and rebellion against those who seek to suppress it.

I can’t freaking wait!

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

The Pornography of Joan Powell and Micheal Clark: An unholy alliance of media and government

Another lap dog of the Lakota school system during the election of 2013 was Michael Clark of the Cincinnati Enquirer whose interview with Joan Powell prior to the levy vote was so close to pornographic that it should have been rated XXX.  CLICK HERE TO SEE IT.  Those two should have at least gotten a room and not done their dirty deeds under the roof of a tax payer building.  By definition, pornography in this case is:  the depiction of acts in a sensational manner so as to arouse a quick intense emotional reaction.  We already knew what kind of guy Clark was.  His wife is employed by public schools, so all his articles have a pro-government school slant.  He did give No Lakota Levy a little coverage, just to keep the story line compelling, but nothing that would cause any danger.  No Lakota Levy spent thousands of dollars on Enquirer ads, and Clark did seek out opposing opinions like the one below where he did confirm what I had said on election night, that many NO Voters did not show up at the election—because they took it for granted.  Here is a quote from Clark’s recent article on the matter:

Bob Hutsenpiller, a local business exec and a leader of the No Lakota tax campaign, also cited the sparse ballot:

 

“That was part of Lakota’s strategy, with not a lot of things for (voters) to vote on. Sorry to say, but I have heard it from many seniors already who say ‘I should have gotten more involved.’”

 

Ron Lumpkins, a longtime resident of Liberty Township whose children graduated from Lakota decades ago, said the few local issues and races weren’t compelling enough to get him to vote. “When you get older and your kids have graduated years ago, you aren’t that involved with the schools,” he said.

Anti-tax sentiments were also active among some school parents.

 

“We’re already taxed to death so I wasn’t for it,” said Robby Smith of West Chester Township, who said he did not cast a ballot Tuesday.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20131110/NEWS0102/311100042/Past-losses-large-turnout-gave-Lakota-rare-levy-win

Those guys were not alone, it appears that there were many anti-tax people who simply thought that the No Lakota Guys had this election in the bag, and they did not show up to vote.  They took the effort against the levy for granted, and as Hutsenpiller said, it was part of the Lakota strategy……….or as Joan Powell uttered………“It is a sum of all the efforts from this campaign and all the work done on previous attempts that set the stage.  The community campaign volunteers did a great job of contacting individual voters through phone calls and person-to-person canvassing. That personal contact was essential.”  Part of that “setting the stage” was to force No Lakota Levy to prove they weren’t a bunch of “meanies” putting them on the defensive with insane accusations and boycott threats.  This kept No Lakota Levy from tapping into the “anger vote” which played into the Pro Levy Lakota strategy, and kept turnout low from the anti-tax faction.  Lakota also sought to win over all members of the media………..particularly 700 WLW which No Lakota Levy had a forum in the previous three elections.  Through Willies in West Chester and Sheriff Jones, Lakota attacked that format not so they could communicate why Lakota schools needed a tax increase, but to keep No Lakota Levy from having a platform to tell the truth.  Lakota sought to keep the truth away from people.  They certainly sought to control the information which reporters like Clark willingly obliged.

After the election the pro tax people were beating on their chests proclaiming that the “majority had spoken.”  I covered this in another article.  CLICK HERE TO REVIEW.  If Lakota really wanted to know what the majority thought, they’d support another vote giving people like Robby Smith, and Ron Lumpkins another shot to defend themselves from Lakota.  Statistically, the election was that close and if anybody really cared, all the votes would be heavily scrutinized which would close the gap even further.  The election is a statistical tie as it stands today, and another election would be justified if the “will of the majority” were really desired……….but its not.  Lakota doesn’t care what the majority wants, they simply want a higher tax, and they will do anything and destroy anybody to get it.  That’s all they stand for and ultimately what they are teaching children at Lakota.

It is hilarious that so many of these reporters believe they are fighting a moral crusade to pass a higher tax just because people like Joan Powell—who is a realtor, wants to use Lakota schools to sell easy homes to a bunch of panicky 30 something parents with school age children.   The levy for people like her is to make money for her profession, and most of the staunchest levy supporters have their hands in real estate from the residential side—because it helps fill their pockets with money.  The crimes against children are obvious yet people like Clark continue to support public education because ultimately he benefits from it.  That’s OK; time will confirm all these accusations.  The writing is on the wall, and history will prove what I’m saying to be right.  Many people like Robby Smith and Ron Lumkin are not quite yet ready to admit to themselves what a corrosive force public education is in our communities so they don’t feel passionate enough about it to vote during off-season elections.  They regret it now, but in the future they will act on their impulse much sooner, because it didn’t take long for the Lakota thugs to show their true colors.  No Lakota Levy warned everyone, the media sought to suppress the message, but the information was on websites free to everyone.  And that information will be true tomorrow as it was yesterday, and we will be there for the next time………….because you better believe it…………..there will be a next time.

Meanwhile, now that the levy is over, maybe Lakota will consider raising more money for the future by selling the pornography between Joan Powell and Michael Clark.  Then again, after looking at the pictures of Joan during the levy party at BW3’s……….maybe not.

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

“The Majority Has Spoken”: Lakota Schools brags about their tax increase

“The majority has spoken,” Lakota?  Are you fu**ing serous you low life scum bags?  Where was “the majority  spoken” quote on the last three elections?  You idiots have a very selective memory……..but rest assured, I will continue to remind people 5 years from now, 10 years from now and 20 years from now what a bunch of fools, crooks and manipulators you were in 2013.  I have never met such bad people as you who run Lakota in my entire life and I have known drug dealers, hit men, organized crime pawns, crooked cops, and corporate crocodiles.  You people are the worst because you openly lie yet seek to deceive while pretending that you are angelic.  I have already given my statements about the levy and how I feel about Lakota which has not abated after the election.  CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW.  And my opinions about public education are worse than ever.  Lakota refused to listen to the other three election results and simply took some time off from the levy attempts while they rebuilt their public image and tried again in an off-election year.  You didn’t listen to the “majority” of the voters from the previous elections and cut teacher salaries.  You simply went for another levy attempt again and again until people said “uncle” and caved in to you losers.  You people at Lakota are vile parasites.  You won an election through extreme—and I mean extreme coercion, and you call it “the majority has spoken!”   Well, to that I have a five-finger salute with four fingers missing, and only the middle one paying Lakota any attention.  You people are absolutely unreal and I will NEVER forget it.  I kept my temper in check until I saw this Pulse Journal article by Lakota official reporter Hannah Poturalski  the lap dog of Superintendent Mantia. Lakota levy-page-001

My 80-year-old good friend Graeme George sent the following letter to the Lakota School Board.  Unlike me, he still believes public education can be saved.  He has been hopeful and optimistic over the years as I have only become angrier and angrier with each new scandal.  Maybe when I’m 80 I’ll cool off enough to put up with these idiots the way Graeme has.  Graeme has used his years of maturity to quell me quite a bit, and I appreciate him.  He and my wife are probably the only two people in the world who can calm me down once I get pissed off.  So I’ll take a cue from him and let him speak out against the DISPICABLE comments by Mantia and the Lakota gang in the Pulse Journal article by Hannah.   Here is Graeme’s answer to the Lakota School Board, so that the people who wisely voted NO understand how things work behind the scenes and know what’s really been going on.

Lakota School Board,

 

You WON the levy vote Tuesday, the 5th, the only way you could.

At taxpayer expense, you put out, or had put out, THOUSANDS of “YES LAKOTA” signs.

But, you stole, or had stolen, or allowed to be stolen, HUNDREDS of “NO LAKOTA LEVY” signs.

Those NO signs were paid for by taxpayers who don’t want HIGHER taxes.

You WON by less than 1% of the vote.

Putting out THOUSANDS of YES signs, and stealing HUNDREDS of NO signs, was how you WON the LEVY VOTE.

It will cost taxpayers FOURTEEN MILLION DOLLARS in HIGHER TAXES, because you employed thieves to do your work.

The Today’s Pulse of Butler County, November 10 – 16 quoted you saying “the majority has spoken.”

No!

The majority was cheated by criminal activities of people who stole our “NO LAKOTA LEVY” signs.

I put out NO signs several times after they were stolen.  Many signs were destroyed and were replaced.

Some of us will appear in Butler County Court Wednesday, the 13th, when Joe Behm will be charged with theft.

He was photographed stealing our sign, and the license plate of his car was also photographed as he made his getaway.

Some of us will appear in Butler County Court Wednesday, the 20th, when Dillon, Devon, Levi, and Robert will be charged.  Who do you think they will say led them to steal our signs?

Taxpayers won’t forget the methods used to get an LSD levy passed, and the amount taxes were raised as the result.

We must assume you will use these tactics every time you want to gain more money for the District.

What are our kids learning by these tactics?  What are they learning by DOING these tactics?

With the money spent on the “Communications with the Public Program” about what the public wants in their Lakota School District, what did you learn?

Apparently not enough to SELL the levy.  You had to resort to the methods described above to accomplish your goals.

Graeme George

During the recount, attorneys should check the ballot seriously. I would not put it passed Lakota to stuff the box, and every vote should be disputed.  If Lakota really wants to see the “Majority” then we should vote again, and see how many people show up to protect themselves from higher taxes!  But Lakota hasn’t got the guts……….because they know how they won…………..and it wasn’t straight.

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

The Capitalism Of MMOs: Uncharted demographic numbers that spell doom for socialists

For those who have read the novel Atlas Shrugged and have an appreciation for it, let me share with you my own private Galt’s Gulch—the Atlantis found in the novel where an intrusive government gave the best minds in the world little choice but to simply go on strike and let the parasites of society rot on the vine.  My paradise does not exist somewhere in the real world.  I know many people, some with considerable amounts of money who are making arrangements in the wake of the Obama administration to re-establish themselves in places like Belize and Argentina to run from the encroaching governments that exist in the world.  That is not my plan, as I see it as pointless, because eventually, the scum bags will be knocking on my door there as well.  So for me—physically, I will stay in the real world and fight them, I’ll fight them in court, I’ll fight them in politics, or I’ll fight them with fists and guns—but one way or the other, I will not comply with governments hell-bent on individual destruction in the name of socialism.  The distinction is a simple one; I support unhampered capitalism while my political enemies support degrees of socialism—through Social Security, health care, and various proposals of wealth redistribution.  Most politicians alive in America today are some variation of a socialist because they seek to advance their power and influence artificially with looted money consumed by taxes—and they create more laws and policies as ways to extract more of my money.

With such a social position, it makes for awkward dinner conversations.  Even though I appreciate that some of my well-to-do friends continue to invite me to all the big events around town, the charity extravaganzas where all the powerful minds of media, business and politics gather to stroke each other and feel important.  I despise many of those people because of what they represent as entities openly advocating altruism not for what it does for the unfortunate, but for their own power base–and don’t make an effort to disguise it leaving such evenings fruitless.   Taxation is often advanced through altruist schemes, and it disgusts me.  I’d rather spend my time in my personal Galt’s Gulch where pure capitalism is alive and well, where I can do pretty much what I want when I want to do it, and I can fly around from point A to point B without the stupid FFA getting in my way, or the FCC trying to regulate everything I say and do, or the TSA trying to frisk me just because I want to make a regional flight to a city two states away.   Or nearly half of everything I earn going to the IRS forcing me to run faster and faster on a treadmill that the government controls so they can take my money and give it to some slug who grew up doing drugs, slutting themselves around having babies out of wed-lock, or genuinely abusing themselves physically and mentally.  In my leisure time I look for ways to be away from all those elements, and I have found it in the video game The Old Republic—and my current excitement is that they have just created a new expansion seemingly just for people like me who love to fly, but don’t want the extra cost of housing an actual airplane at a hanger that is marred down in more rules and regulations.  The enjoyment of real-world flying is buried in paperwork, fees and taxes.  When the new combat space simulator opens in December, I may never see anybody in the real world again, because I simply love such things, and will likely never leave the virtual world of The Old Republic again.   I’ve flown in real life, and over the years I’ve played hundreds of thousands of hours of flight simulators and aerial combat games—and the brain really doesn’t know the difference.  So I am very much looking forward to this new element in my current favorite game Star Wars: The Old Republic.

On that game my wife has over 2 million credits and I have about half that.  She is very rich in that virtual world, because we spend a lot of time in The Old Republic doing things that earn credits—which is the money system exchanged.  I also spend a fair amount of time on the Bioware website following the complaints of other gamers playing the game.  I find their reasons for paying a monthly fee to play the game to be fascinating as many of them are raised by public education to believe in altruistic practices—so many expect Bioware to give away things for free, but many of the hardest core gamers are very much capitalists—people who are very innovative and expect to keep what they earn as they play.  This leaves Bioware always looking to create incentives to keep game players pushing to do more things and stay interested enough that they pay their subscriptions and spend hundreds of hours a month playing.  The incentives are credits and other rewards such as leveling up, earning certain titles, and acquiring unique items.

The Old Republic is what they call an MMO, a Massive Multiplayer Online game.  As you play the game online, thousands of other people are playing with you in the same environment.  It is similar to popular games like World of Warcraft in that the big distinction is that the worlds within the game are truly massive inspiring people to play together or against each other on a truly epic scale.  Something that everyone who plays these games understands is that they expect to keep what they earn—and they get very angry at game developers who short change them with restrictions.  If in The Old Republic Bioware taxed some of the credits my wife and I have earned at the same rate that occurs in real life, and gave those credits to new gamers who only played a fraction of the time that we do, most people playing The Old Republic would find that imposition absurd—unfathomable even.  If Bioware did something like that, they would lose players by the hundreds.  The players would leave to play another game where rewards were not consumed and distributed to those who don’t have the same level of commitment.  Most people understand that it is unfair to tax in-game credits and give them to players who didn’t earn them.

Gamers who play these kinds of MMO products universally are raw capitalists.  They totally get it and when it’s asked why they play so many games so often, the reason is similar to mine—because it is their own Galt’s Gulch.  They know they don’t have the same opportunity in the real world to be successful because they either don’t have the political connections or access to capital because it’s been stolen from them by government.  So they play video games because at least there, they can keep what they earn.  I know this culture very well.  Both of my daughters worked for Gamestop for a while, my oldest was actually a manager at several stores all over Cincinnati.  When I’d go to see her for lunch I would get the opportunity to study these people and explore what motivated them.  They are a relatively new market demographic that nobody in government knows what to do with.  They as a generation from age 40 down to age 10 have pretty much dropped out of life.  They don’t care to join country clubs to socialize, they don’t waste their time trying to get rich in the real world because it’s nearly impossible with all the government looting, and they don’t trust the media or their education institutions because they’ve been lied to and are disappointed.  They don’t typically vote, they eat a lot of pizza, and they are happy to drive a piece of crap car because they don’t care if they meet a spouse.  Most of those things take them away from their game environments, so they don’t participate.  The game awards mean more to them, even though they are virtual.  I was seldom ever at Gamestop with my daughter where she wasn’t slammed with business.  It’s a gigantic industry.  For instance, the new Call of Duty video game just released made a BILLION dollars in just a 24 hour span of time.  A billion with a “B” which is a tremendous amount of money spent on a product of any kind in just one day.

The Old Republic video game I play with my wife cost $240 million just to produce the original content which launched with the game two years ago.  If I had to guess, I would say they’ve invested at least that much more in the game since the release, and they are of course expecting to make the game profitable which means they have to make enough revenue off subscriptions and other revenue streams to justify the expense.  With a half a billion dollar front loaded investment, Bioware understands that more than a few overweight geeks playing the game in their basement are needed.  It has to be somewhat mainstream to have financial viability at that level of investment.

What all those MMO games have in common is capitalism as the primary driver. Game developers understand that it is incentive that drives game participation and the more restrictions placed, the lower the game sales.  The reason that online gaming is such a current phenomena is because it is a refuge for people who love capitalism, and most young people do.  Socially through their educations they have been taught socialism, which they find unattractive—but are intellectually unarmed as to how to deal with it.  So they go to the online world of their choice and invest their time and energy into virtual capital instead of the kind based in reality because the virtual stuff is more real to them.  (Think about that.)  Most modern gamers find the fantasy world of World of Warcraft and The Old Republic to be more real than the REAL world.  What does that say about our society?

The FCC would if they could regulate this gaming industry.  After all, the NSA probably knows everywhere I’ve been and what I have done within The Old Republic just as they are tracking everyone playing all games online.  And that is what scares them, because in their giant mega computer that comprises all that  data and studies the behavior patterns of the modern America—or global video game players as there are people from all over the world playing The Old Republic they know what I just professed, and they are terrified to name it publicly.  They cannot turn off such games through regulation as much as they’d love to because of the riot of anger that would ensue.  People have found refuge from the statist world within video games, and once that is gone, there is no place left to run.  The Obama statist types had hoped by now through education, taxation, and government employment to have “changed” the nature of the human being to more of an altruist and less of a capitalist.  But it hasn’t worked and all that they achieved is they pushed people into a form of activity that doesn’t generate any taxes for them.  The government can’t tax the millions of credits my wife and I have earned in The Old Republic.   The IRS has no power there.  I can’t use that money to buy a new condo, an airplane, or a car either.  But who cares, because all those things force me further entangled with a government that simply wants to steal from me at every opportunity.  So I gladly give up those material objects in trade for virtual ones that actually have more value—because within the world of The Old Republic, I earned them and can keep them.

The video game industry is about raw capitalism in its purest form.  The economic theory of Keynesian thought would not work in The Old Republic or any other video game, just like it doesn’t work in real life.  Wealth redistribution doesn’t work in a gaming world, so why would government statist types believe it would work in the real world?  The answer is that they are in denial of what motivates and makes human beings viably functional.  Governments have instead hoped to nudge and shape the world into artificial yearnings that have no basis in reality—and they’ve done it at great expense to human development.  The test bed to these theories have been in the explosion of online gaming—particularly the MMO.   It is also why I’d rather spend my time in The Old Republic than anywhere else because there at least I am free of the types who expect to mooch off my energy and effort because they are too lazy to do for themselves.  And if that sounds like a harsh statement consider that I’m not alone—and it is that trait which drives an entire video game industry offering a kind of freedom that no longer exists in the real world—the freedom offered through capitalism.

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

Darryl Parks Earns the Uber Man Card: Standing up to the FCC in a big way

Here is the official explanation from 700 WLW as to why Darryl Parks is no longer employed by Clear Channel, or hosting his Saturday radio show.

Darryl Parks has stood by me in tough times, especially when saying controversial things were needed.  When 700 WLW desperate to separate themselves from the memory of Doc Thompson supported the antics of a bunch of Lakota Levy supporters to assassinate my name, Darryl was there to stop it.  Darryl Parks built the modern-day 700 WLW and he was a much respected executive at Clear Channel.  Darryl made Clear Channel a lot of money.  So it meant a lot to me that he put an end to the hit pieces against me from his employees on the radio following things I wrote which took an uber-man card to write.  Darryl is one of the few people still working in the media that appreciates, and gives out man-cards when a man stands for something he believes in.  So it’s my turn to support him for standing up for himself, and his radio industry in the face of an imperialistic FCC imposition that is being launched against AM stations in 2014.  Darryl after a series of executive meetings wrote a blog posting that took an uber-man card to write because not a single other soul working in the radio industry had the guts to call out the FCC for what they are trying to do—which is another topic that we will explore in much more detail in subsequent articles.  Not long after that blog posting, Darryl Parks was fired from not only 700 WLW, but from Clear Channel.

Below is the blog posting Darryl had written, as he wrote it.  Knowing a bit about Darryl, I have a pretty good idea what he was thinking.  The radio industry is under attack by the federal government through the FCC.  Darryl likely rationalized that he could end his career quickly like a man, or quietly like a mouse—slowly over time the way the other people in his industry have chosen.  The FCC is making dumb decisions based on the opinions of a very successful radio man—and he wanted to make sure they knew what a bunch of idiots they were.  So he told them in a way that only Darryl Parks could.  It took serious balls to do what he did—it took an uber-man card, which is very rare in this modern world of sell-outs, pussies, beta men, and back-stabbing social climbers.  Most people attending these meetings with Darryl would likely agree with him, but all of them lacked the courage to say anything about it—because it might cost them their career.  This is how evil spreads, when good men do nothing—especially when they know better.

I will miss Darryl on the radio at 700 WLW.  But he knows what Doc Thompson already is doing, and my friend Matt Clark at WAAM, that the future of radio is not in FCC controlled stations.  Popular media personalities like Parks, Thompson, and even Ben Swann from Fox 19, have all had to make personal decisions in the face of comfortable careers where good pay and security might otherwise shut their mouths.  Swann left television in Cincinnati by his own decision.   Thompson was fired from 700 WLW as one of the last hires of Darryl Parks before Darryl was promoted to an executive job that was a nationwide deal.  And Darryl probably didn’t think that Clear Channel would fire him for what he said, but he likely didn’t care either because his industry under the current FCC policies will end anyway.  He was simply meeting the tragedy head on.  So read what Darryl said and consider the implication of his termination.  The posting which appeared on his 700 WLW blog site is shown below.  It is well written and full of interesting facts.  The worst thing he said about the FCC was that they were a bunch of “circle jerks,” which they are.  Darryl made an observed fact metaphorically speaking.  Should that cost him his job?  Of course not, especially when members of The White House have openly lied, cheated, and in some cases allegedly killed others to advance their agenda.  But when the FCC controls things and don’t like the views of those who refuse to “play along nicely” terminations will occur in a New York minute because the goal is not justice, but compliance, and the best way to hurt a person like Darryl Parks is in the check book and take away his voice.  It’s not like it was a conspiracy theory against Parks where the Obama White House or anybody else declared that Darryl had to go.  Rather the infestation of the FCC by Obama type federal employees is going after certain types of characters the way the IRS went after conservative groups.  In a publicly traded company that is very concerned about perception, the safe money is to keep your mouth shut and put up with the intrusion of know-nothing FCC “circle jerks.”  Well, not Darryl, he is a man who loves his man card, and won’t give it up in trade for a corporate suit, and the security of a “circle jerk.”  That is why I will always like Darryl Parks even if I can’t hear him every Saturday morning on 700 WLW.

Last Blog Entry by Darryl Parks at 700 WLW:

If you would allow me the indulgence of being the radio suit that I am in real life for just one blog, because something has me irritated in a major way.

There is finally a call, as the Federal Communications Commission put it recently, to revitalize the AM band.  You know create and ease rules to allow station owners to be relieved of horrible burdens.  You may have read about this in the press or online.  If you’re in the broadcast industry you may have read about it in one of the industry rags.

You think just one of these industry rags would speak the truth about the FCC’s ideas, suggestions and concepts?  Nope.  As Kevin Bacon’s character in Animal House said, “Remain calm.  All is well.”  What a joke the FCC is.  And sadly, what a joke the people in the radio industry are who are nodding along without thought or the ability to intelligently reason the basic concepts of physics.

While AM radio may suffer from numerous other issues, this will focus on technical limitations of the broadcast band and the ideas the FCC has moving forward.

AM radio or “amplitude modulation” was first.  Even back in the 1920’s and 1930’s companies like RCA which sold radios, owned stations and had the NBC Radio Networks knew of limitations on the band, limitations such as “static.”  RCA was so concerned about static they, through a really smart guy they employed, invented FM or “frequency modulation” and then buried the FM technology because they had too much money invested in AM stations.  The “static” you hear on AM radio is interference.

The AM signal travels farther at night than during the day.  Most AM radio stations change their signal patterns and/or reduce power at night to keep from interfering with other stations on the same frequency or adjacent frequencies.  Stations like 700WLW are considered a “clear channel” station, meaning the station’s signal is broadcast in a non-directional pattern and is the only station on that frequency at night.  The power is a booming 50,000 watts.  Stations such as WSM-AM, WGN-AM, WLS-AM and WCBS-AM are also “clear channel” stations.

Today, besides interference from other stations, the AM band is also being interfered with by computers, cell phones, even those new energy savings light bulbs.  This is why it may be more difficult for you to receive a good signal from an AM station these days.

Just last week at the yearly “circle jerk” gathering of broadcasters called the NAB/RAB Radio Show, FCC Acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn announced a “Notice of Proposed Rulemaking” with 6…count ‘em…6 ideas to rid station owners of horrible burdens.  What do these 6 ideas do?  Increase interference!  And no one.  Not one freaking person in the industry press will talk about this.  Obviously, they’re too busy copying press releases for their publications and pretending to be Kevin Bacon’s ROTC character.

Here are the 6 ideas proposed by the FCC.

Opening a one-time filing window, limited to current AM licensees and permittees, which will allow each to apply for one new FM translator station to fill in its service area.

An FM translator is a very low power FM signal, normally about 99 watts.  The FCC figures there’s so much interference today on the AM band, as stations interfere with each other, why not spread the pain and cause more interference on the FM band.  BRILLIANT!

Relaxing the AM daytime community coverage rule to allow existing AM broadcasters more flexibility to propose antenna site changes.

Translation:  Stations that are non-viable can change their tower locations.  (1) Non-viable stations probably don’t have the money to move a tower site, which will cost in the millions.  (2) If a non-viable station does change its tower site, rules would be relaxed on these stations allowing for more interference with other stations.  (3) If a non-viable station simply changes its daytime pattern at its current site it will cause more interference with other stations.  BRILLIANT!

Relaxing the AM nighttime community coverage standards, which will also provide broadcasters, who may have difficulty finding suitable sites, relief for towers and directional arrays.

Remember what I said about the AM signal traveling farther at night?  More AM band interference and more difficulty for the consumer to receive and hear programming.  BRILLIANT!

Also, does the FCC really think a non-viable AM station will be moving its tower site?  700WLW’s tower site is 40 acres.  Two towers, one almost 900 feet tall.  What do you think this would cost to build?  This is a non-starter.

Eliminating the AM “ratchet rule,” which requires an AM station to “ratchet back” its nighttime signal to reduce interference to certain other AM stations.

Here’s where I worry about the FCC and attendees at the recent NAB/RAB “circle jerk.”  Really?  You applauded this idea?  They are saying they are in favor of increasing interference on the AM band and making it more difficult for listeners to listen to stations.  WOW!

Permitting wider implementation of Modulation Dependent Carrier Level or MDCL control technologies, which allow broadcasters to reduce power consumption.

I know.  What the f*** does this mean?  Basically, by controlling the algorithms of modulation with the main carrier and the side-bands of the signal the station can reduce its electric bill.  But, as with every immutable law in physics there is give and take.  (1) By reducing the power and use of electricity needed, it makes the signal weaker and creates more interference on the listener’s end.  (2)  The FCC has noted that a reduction in signal power at certain modulation levels “inevitably exacts some penalty in audio quality.”  This means if an AM station uses the MDCL control technology audio distortion is created on the signal.  You guessed it.  More interference.

Modifying AM antenna efficiency standards by reducing minimum effective field strength values by approximately 25%, thus allowing the use of shorter towers.

“Reducing minimum effective field strength values” means a weaker signal.  700WLW’s main tower is what is called a “half-wave tower.”  That’s why it’s so big.  Stations that have shorter towers have what are called “quarter-wave towers.”  A half-wave tower creates a better and stronger signal.  The shorter towers proposed mean?  Yep.  More interference.

Hey FCC.  The answer is not MORE interference.  The answer is LESS interference.  And you do that by turning off non-viable stations.  And before station owners start crying poverty, many of these non-viable AM stations have one thing that is worth a ton of money.  The land their towers sit on.

What do you think those 40 acres in Mason, Ohio are worth?

http://www.jacobsmedia.com/parks.htm

Darryl doesn’t have to worry about his man card.  They can take his job, but not his uber manhood!  He can get another job with all his talent, but manhood can’t be earned back once lost.  The blog posting was captured and posted with derogatory comments about Darryl by Fred Jacobs, CLICK THE LINKS ABOVE AND BELOW. Jacobs was one of the speakers at the “circle jerk.”  It seems he didn’t like Darryl’s opinion of his performance.  Click here to review.  It took a month for the “circle jerks” to read the blog posting and figure out what it meant.  Just like they don’t understand that more quarter-wave towers mean a message gets to fewer people because of the cluttered noise–yet that is just what the FCC intended all along because conservative political values are primarily communicated over AM radio, specifically large half-wave towers like 700 WLW.  Bravo Darryl Parks, for voicing your opinion against the FCC.  Fred Jacobs lost his man card a long time ago.  

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

Mark Welch Wins In West Chester: A bright spot in the November 2013 elections

Elections for me are often not happy moments.  My opinions are in the silent majority, and that silent majority doesn’t always stand up for themselves and vote.  After the Issue 2 defeat a few years ago, it was sad to see the labor unions get their way once again.  After Obama was elected last year to a second term, it was sad to see that bad guys win—and Obama is a BAD guy.  He’s bad not because of the color of his skin, or the fact that he’s a communist by definition, but because of the conduct of his life and the imposition he creates against individual lives.  Then there is this last election with Lakota.  It’s close, too close, and will go to a recount, but for me just having a close vote is not enough.  No Voters took if for granted that everyone else would vote on their behalf—and that is a major let down.  Most of the time I am terribly disappointed after elections because it shows how little thought human beings care to put into the operation of their lives.  They are quick to let other people—often corrupt—rule them through law, and taxes, and it disgusts me.

But every now and then something good does happen, and in this 2013 election Mark Welch knocked out Cathy Stoker as West Chester Township Trustee.  Mark was my guy.  I liked Matt too—quite a bit, but my money was on Mark.  I suppose it’s no longer a secret that I think a lot of George Lang—in fact, I’ll go so far to say that he’s a friend of mine.  And it delights me greatly to see that George now has a pro-business trustee working with him as a West Chester Trustee.  With those two now having two votes to one against Wong—who I think is a socialist—literally—the gridlock against West Chester business imposed largely by the democratic leanings of Stoker is over.  Thank God!

I don’t live in West Chester, I live in Liberty Twp, and cared much less about that race than the one in West Chester primarily because the politics in Liberty is still too entrenched in traditional Republican politics—which I like more than a damn Democrat, but even they are too far to the political left for me.  Christine Matacic lives in the house my grandmother grew up in when England gave my ancestors a land grant to settle the “wild west” ahead of the French who were fighting for Indian loyalty during the French and Indian War.  At least Matacic is a pro business politician even though I don’t like all the deals and government intrusion she tends to support through zoning tyranny.  There’s too much Agenda 21 in Liberty Twp and the trustees there have drunk the Kool-Aid, so I turned my attention toward West Chester.  It has been my plan for a number of years to help Lang gain a majority so that he can force Liberty to stay on the up and up with straight-up competition.  I know where Lang stands on things, and the best way to keep Liberty Township honest is to force them to compete with West Chester.  The politics in Liberty are too controlled by the Republican Party, so stalemates are the norm when it comes to reform.  But the language everyone speaks is money, and who will get what from whom.  For that, business should drive development, not government through zoning regulations.

Now that West Chester has the ability to drop the stupid bike paths and sidewalks and other Agenda 21 United Nations issues, businesses will want to deal with Lang and Welch forcing Matacic and the gang in Liberty to match their efforts, or lose out on opportunities.  So with the election of Welch I see that Liberty will benefit more than if the trustees had changed seats in my home district.  And that makes me happy.

Liberty Township is different from West Chester—it is still a community about vast open land and green space—aside from the latte sipping prostitutes who support school levies moving in with new money from transfer jobs originally stationed in New England.  Those types of people do not represent what Liberty Township is—which as I stated, I have a long vested interest in protecting.  But Liberty does have the Carriage Hill deal which is being built by the guys I used to play with as kids running motorcycles and shooting guns in their back yard off Princeton Rd.  I don’t like the loss of green space and potential ugliness of apartment buildings coming with their Carriage Hill project, but I am rooting for them to have success by bringing in high quality Indian Hill style homes to Liberty Township.  I’ve made parallels between Liberty Township and Indian Hill for years, and the Carriage Hill development moves everything in that direction.  I am also excited about the Liberty Center project.  That will be magnificent, and will give Liberty Township a unique opportunity to be something truly special, if it can manage to maintain its original character.  It will be a tough balancing act.

However, down in West Chester, there are huge opportunities for business development that will directly feed the viability of Liberty Center.  The Streets of West Chester has a potential under Welch and Lang to explode, especially with the announcement of Bass Pro Shops moving into a free-standing store near that location.  That is tremendously exciting.  My wife and I love to dine at Mitchells, and buy books at that particular Barnes and Noble, and more business in the area helps that book store stay viable, which is very important to me.  When I go out into town there is typically only one destination that I routinely visit, and that is book stores.

All this development is going to explode the amount of revenue Lakota schools will obtain in the next four years.  The dumb asses who run the district were so short-sighted that they only could see the money they wanted to throw at the teacher’s union in 2014 so they pushed their tax agenda through in spite of the wonderful opportunities that are coming, which takes money right out of the pockets of local residents to help support those businesses, and that is just flat-out stupid!  History can thank Joan Powell who wanted to pass one more levy before she left office, and Superintendent Mantia who was in the pocket of Cathy Stoker—the exiting West Chester Trustee.  They all think alike, which is why they couldn’t see the forest for the trees, and these are the idiots we trust to educate the next generation?  There will be HUGE surpluses at Lakota in 2015 which the union will see and will seek to grab every last penny, and there will be a levy request again in 2017 because nobody is managing the money—even though there will be a lot of it.

More than anything I was happy to see Cathy Stoker leave office because of the Enquire article she did against me in 2012.  I have held it against her since then and I always will.  Once I get a grudge against someone it lasts forever.  I expected Lee Wong to be voted out and Cathy to keep her seat but it worked out the opposite way which is better.  I hoped that both would be rejected, but Lang only needed one trustee to work with him.  The fact that it was Cathy made a bad night a bit better.  As angry as I am over Lakota and their stupid tax increase, Lang and Welch will show Lakota, Liberty Township and Cincinnati in general what happens when two very pro capitalist trustees control the purse strings of a community—and ultimately it will force those entities to move more toward capitalism and away from European socialism.  The people of West Chester will benefit immensely by the paring—and everyone forced to compete with them will also benefit indirectly—which will make the world a better place for a lot of people.  So one thing did work out on Election Night, Mark Welch gained a trustee seat.

Now, as my friend, George Lang is referred by many of his political enemies as being corrupt—a stooge for big business, consider the source before believing a word of it.  Those same political enemies call me a sexist because I have referred to levy supporters as prostitutes with asses the size of car tires.  The name calling comes from people who are by every definition of political theory communists—people who hate business and support wealth redistribution through higher taxation.  Whenever it is said that George Lang is corrupt examine the political beliefs of the accuser and you will find they support communism, socialism, progressivism, or overall statism.  Those same people have no idea how two pennies add up to make two cents.  They are functionally illiterate when it comes to economic theory, like the idiots who have run Lakota, and they should be discarded with the kind of garbage that is thrown away after a fast food meal—because their opinions are worth about as much.  I’ve known Lang for quite a while, and through some very perilous times, and he is far from corrupt.  He does love business, and money—which is something everyone who supports capitalism should support.  And now he has a buddy sitting with him as a trustee and good things will follow for everyone—except the socialists.

Lee Wong will enjoy finding himself out-voted and ganged up on the way he and Cathy did to George for a number of years.  It should give him more time to visit his favorite haunts in Hamilton, because due to the election of 2013, his relevancy is finally out-voted for the good of West Chester.  That alone made Election Night 2013 a wonderful evening.

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

Why I Want A Divorce From Lakota: The abusive spouse of government run education

It’s not like Lakota won by a large margin in the election of 2013.  With the narrow margin of just a few hundred votes out of 26,000 cast, the begging needy levy supporters of Lakota earned through government force the legal ability to steal more money from the pockets of property owners.  Leading up to the election Lakota had spent over $100,000 to create reports they used for their campaign, Delphi Technique community conversations by Jeffery Stec, and funneled money through PTA groups to fund a fourth levy attempt.  They captured the media having virtually everyone in town eating out of their hand.  CLICK HERE FOR AN EXAMPLE, AND BE SURE TO WATCH THE VIDEO.  Scott Sloan and Bill Cunningham from 700 WLW helped Lakota with a ridiculous argument about property values, which we will deal with in greater detail in the coming days.  Rick Jones, the Butler County Sheriff came out in favor of the levy, and all the television news outlets carried the story framed exactly as Lakota framed it, “the school hadn’t passed a levy since 2005.”  Reporters didn’t consider if the money was needed at Lakota, they didn’t explore the graphs shown by No Lakota Levy as to why; they simply formed their reports based on the press releases given by Lakota.

Cunningham and Jones are both either married or directly employed by government so their defense of Lakota’s government employees wasn’t unforeseen.  But Scott Sloan had shifted his view of support for No Lakota Levy from before in an obvious attempt to give his wife some business as a Realtor.  Sloan wouldn’t be the first guy to form his political beliefs around peace in the bedroom, based on the last interview I did with him back in 2012, its obvious something along those lines is going on, even though he would probably never admit it.  He called me a sexist several times after our interview and certainly turned on me when he knew damn well that what was going on was a hit piece by Lakota.  Sloan played along willingly.   I didn’t understand what happened between Scott and me until I spoke to Doc Thompson about the inner politics of Clear Channel, and learned things about Scott personally.  I left it alone and we pretty much parted ways after that—which is what Lakota was after anyway.  Part of the rush to place this latest levy attempt on the ballot was to have the election during an off-year election, where there were no congressional or presidential races.  The ballot was primarily all regional issues, which typically have a low voter turnout.  The media ignored the multiple sex scandals at Lakota over the last couple of weeks and the many other negatives which were covered only at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom.  Everything was slanted toward Lakota and they still only won the election by a few hundred votes.  It was hardly a landslide victory provoking a pompous celebration lap on their behalf.  Lakota’s victory was executed with deceit, manipulation, and elements of terrorism performed to use the mob of democracy to steal more money from the entire community.  Listen to Scott Sloan the day before the election:

When Sloan asked me nearly two years ago why I was churning up the “angry vote” I couldn’t answer it at the time because I couldn’t give away our strategy.  But now it doesn’t matter, the reason was to keep voters focused on the upcoming Lakota strategy to hold an election in an off-season attempt.  At the time it was a summer 2012 attempt, but the school wanted to make a deal to let everything cool off so they could rebuild their image, so we let them.

Letting Lakota off the ropes had more value than putting the community through another levy request, so I agreed.  I avoided telling stories about specific employees like the high school chemistry teacher who had a student texting his mother at home to help with his in-class assignment because the teacher was too busy playing Minecraft on the school computer.  I avoided those kinds of stories so not to further embarrass Lakota as part of our agreement.  Once they announced the levy, that deal was off.  In 2013 Lakota came out in their new campaign with a strategy of kindness and avoided the mud slinging because they knew their numbers would show up on Election Day with poor voter turn-out from the other side, and they didn’t want the enraged voters into showing up against them.  For the No Levy side, voter turn out was always the challenge, and the best way to get it was to get people motivated up off the couch and vote when the only issue in front of them was a school levy and a  few trustees.  Most people feel that elections do not represent them, so they don’t participate—much to everyone’s peril.

When I first started all this levy business I didn’t hate public education or the system of government schools.  I didn’t like it, I didn’t think it was effective, and I wanted to see competitive options, but I didn’t despise the people involved.  When I went to school board meetings, I sort of liked the people involved.  But the more I learned about the levy passage process, the angrier I became.  I’m not an angry person by nature.  I like to live well and leave others to live as they see fit.  I don’t impose myself on others, and I don’t expect them to impose upon me.  But the more I learned about public education the more I learned that the whole system was a terrible scam against innocent people, so it wasn’t hard to get angry.  What started as a bit of political theater in the beginning turned out for me to be very real resulting in the present day where the very word public education disgusts me.

After the election I couldn’t help but think of Lakota as a typical relationship that begins between a man and a woman–or a man and a man if you’re an Obama supporter—that starts with nice dinners and genuine joy and ends in a violent divorce where both parties hate each other and can’t wait to be legally separated.  Lakota like a typical jealous spouse demands that nobody else be in our children’s life—they have a government guaranteed monopoly of our attention as there isn’t any other choice.  Property owners must through government coercion support the public school planted in their community whether they want to or not.  They do not have a choice and behave in the same way as the spouse who questions their partners as to everywhere they’ve been and everyone they’ve spoken to.  When it becomes obvious that the relationship is corrosive to a healthy dialogue, the guilt driving spouse then tells their partner “we must stay together for our children” using their kids as a bargaining chip to maintain the monopoly status of an unhealthy marriage.  Lakota is in an unhealthy marriage with roughly 50% of the community, and they were only able to keep the unity together through manipulation, lies, and open extortion.  Like a spouse that knows their partner wants a divorce Lakota was kind during this campaign so to hopefully appease the tempers and keep the discussion of community divorce off the table.

Sheriff Jones, Bill Cunningham, Scott Sloan, Michael Clark, and dozens of other reporters covering the Lakota levy behaved like intrusive family members who were seeking to keep a family marriage together by ignoring the complaints of the abused spouse and taking the side of the school.  But the day after the election, all that really occurred was that Lakota managed to entangle more money out of those who want a divorce and kept the tax payers coming back home to maintain the illusion of harmony one more day.  Lakota only was able to maintain this illusion of a marriage by playing every trick of coercion known, taking away all options and hoping that enough people voted in favor of keeping a marriage together.  What they did was the same as tying up a spouse bound and gagged to a dinner table against their will then sitting across from them declaring how much they are loved.  The tied up spouse having no other option must sit there and listen, and they are obligated by law to continue paying Lakota more money, even though all they want is to be free of the coercion, the dysfunction, and the imposition of a government school.

I love every day of my life.  I care deeply about a number of people in my life—so many in fact that I often do not have time for everyone.  But I hate Lakota, and I want a divorce from them forever.  I can’t stand them.  I think they are an unhealthy entity that I want no relationship with, and I can’t stand that I am forced to pay them my hard earned money for causes I do not support.  I dread my interaction with them the way one might dread having to speak to a person they know they want to end a relationship with.  Once it’s over in their mind—it’s over, and for me, and Lakota……..it’s over.  I am not proud that I attended there as a kid.  I am not proud that my children attended there.  I don’t give a damn about their stupid sports scores, their band awards, or their buildings.  I hate virtually everything about them the way I’d hate an attractive spouse who looks good from a distance until they open their mouth, because now I have gotten to know them—and have determined that I want them out of my life.

The day after the election they are patting themselves on the back and breathing a sigh of relief because they have the No Voters chained up in their bedroom and the door and windows are locked up tight.  They own us through the chains of marriage arranged through politics as match makers of spouses who have no business being in the same room, let alone in a relationship.  The tears the levy supporters shed at BW3’s once the votes were counted are equivalent to the spouse in denial of the condition of their marriage knows that they have their marriage partner safely in chains once again, but yet they also fear what might happen if they forget to lock the door, or leave the chains too loose.

Immediately I could feel the shackles of Lakota reaching into my pocket to steal away roughly $40 dollars a month the way a pick pocket might rob an innocent on a lonely sidewalk.  Being in a forced marriage the looter Lakota can steal my money while I am chained to them, because government has placed us together.  The relationship is good for Lakota, because they need me.  The relationship is bad for me, because Lakota sucks as a spouse.  They don’t have my values, they don’t have my passion, and they don’t have my love of life.  Lakota can steal my money because labor unions in bed with politicians gave the school that right against my will.  But Lakota can’t make me love them no matter how many chains and games they wish to play.  The right to hate them is the one freedom I truly have, and I will feel that way till the marriage is ended and I am successfully divorced from them forever.

If I am forced into a relationship with Lakota, make note that I will be a royal pain in the ass.  When they give themselves raises next year, I will be there two and three years down the road to show on graphs what Lakota has done.  I will be there to point out every lie told even ten years from now, and I will name the names of the advocates, and I will make their life a royal hell.  I will not move from the community under any circumstances and I have a long memory, and I have a worse temper than any collection of levy advocates, and I will be there with each mistake, lie, and deception they make to chronicle my case for divorce, and eventual freedom from Lakota and the money they seek to steal from me and many others for their own cause.  Because the only real freedom we have in these arrangements is the right to hate the advocates, and to that extent, I reserve that right with glorious indignation, and the inner joy of a rebellion that only an abused spouse understands.  What Lakota won in the election of 2013 was not for children, or the community—but for their own façade of maintaining a forced marriage with those who despise them, and wanted freedom from the theft of money that can only be obtained in a legal union.  And they did it with only 214 votes–less than 1% of the vote.  For Lakota, they are breathing a sigh of relief because it gives them the illusion of a sustained marriage.  But they better beware of the unlocked doors, and loose chains, because the minute they let their guard down, they will find themselves single and very lonely.

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

Lakota Thugs Get Their Looted Money: Now raises for all the employees in the labor union

The thugs are going to get their stolen money from the community because 13488 people were stupid, and passed the Lakota school levy, on the fourth attempt.  Voter turn-out was the key.  Too many people stayed home while the pro people voted.   There were over 18,000 NO voters in the last election, and they obviously thought their vote wouldn’t matter, and stayed home.  As a result, they will now have to pay higher taxes because of their lack of participation.

LAKOTA SCHOOLS ISSUE 7

Total
Number of Precincts

70
Precincts Reporting

70

100.0%
Times Counted

26804/64844

41.3%
Total Votes

26735
FOR THE TAX LEVY

13488

50.45%
AGAINST THE TAX LEVY

13247

49.55%

Now it is time to begin campaigning against their 2017 levy attempt, because it’s coming. 

Everything they do at Lakota, every dollar wasted, every scandal they are involved in will be reported—because if I have to blow more money on these idiots with higher taxes, I’m going to get my money’s worth.

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com