Tag: Law and Order

Visiting the Butler County Jail: What it takes to maintain a free society

It was great for me to get a chance to tour the Butler County Jail.  I have had a lot of questions about it and its use, how much it costs, and what its helpful role in society is.  The Butler County Jail is one of the most expensive in the state, and it’s certainly significant, with around 1000 inmates being held at any particular time.  As part of the obligation of a grand jury where I was the foreman, the prosecutor’s office in Butler County arranges for everyone to see where the people in the cases considered for indictment are going or being released.  For me, it was important to have context on several fronts.  And, of course, you can’t go to the jail without seeing Sheriff Jones.  Overall, my experience was very good, and I think in regards to Sheriff Jones, it has been a rough couple of years.  But I have seen in him a lot of seriousness in establishing himself as one of the biggest MAGA supporters in Southern Ohio.  We might have disagreements that have significant consequences on people we mutually know.  But I have seen him work hard to establish himself as an unquestioned supporter of justice and order.  Seeing him in his natural habitat, the jail, was also good for me.  And get a sense of what it’s like living in his shoes.  And why his appearance with Hulk Hogan at the Liberty Township Kroger significantly benefited the big picture of law and order in Butler County.  I’ve had a chance recently to see Sheriff Jones at his best, and I certainly have an appreciation for good work, which he has displayed with seriousness.  The whole experience was very beneficial in that I have an excellent understanding of what it takes to run a prosecutor’s office, what their challenges are, how it relates to the inmate system, and what it takes to essentially maintain the criminal conduct of a small percentage of a population of over 400,000 people.  Competition is good for everyone, and some people step into the challenge while others crumble under pressure.  And to that point, I am glad that Butler County, Ohio, hasn’t lost its way and has some of the country’s best people when the pressure is applied.  Politics is a blood sport.  It’s good to never get to a point where you can’t at least be friendly with people.  Because, in the end, it’s all about serving a public need.  And once the rubber hits the road, we can all be proud of our Butler County Jail.

The reality of any free society, especially when there are so many people in it, is that there will always be 1-2% who fall off the rocker and can’t live in a free society.  For whatever reason, they can’t function in a world where free people need to be free.  Crime threatens that freedom and has to be dealt with.  This means you either have capital punishment and get rid of those people, or you lock them up so they can’t hurt anybody and perhaps hope to reform them.  But if you do that, you must feed and house them.  And doing that with other people who are also on the fringe of society is difficult.  I’ve been to the Butler County Jail several times but only seen Sheriff Jones’ office, the conference room, and their press conference area.  I’ve never been past those front office areas into the booking area and the general population, which is a vast complex.  It doesn’t look like a county jail; it resembles a prison system on a large scale.  After visiting the jail, it is easy to see why the federal grants are essential and why the operation would cost over 80 million dollars.  It’s a prominent place with a lot of moving parts.  And you have to have it.  Police work is not like a school where you can debate the merits of education and what it provides to society.  When you have criminals who can’t be roaming around causing trouble, you must put them somewhere.

So, as I was walking around with the jail staff, I was thinking about how many people it takes to staff a place like that, three shifts a day, seven days a week.  I did tour the cell pods, specifically a cell within the pod where a couple of inmates were removed from their daily routine and placed in the laundry room to see how they lived.  Their cell was not much larger than a closet.  It had a little sink and a toilet, with a bunk bed beside it.  There was a tiny television and a little table where two people could sit and play a game or talk.  There is little room to walk around and do anything else.  And to imagine being in there for more than a few hours would be devastating to a human mind.  And there are many cell pods for as far as the eye can see.  Each of them has to have at least one officer to maintain the population of that triangular pod.  In each pod is a shower, a rec room, and a place where they can make phone calls to the outside world or receive visitors, all of which must be monitored by jail staff.  One thing that surprised me, and I was curious about, was the recreational areas attached to the jail pod.  They have a little screen window that allows fresh air into a half-court basketball court.  But there isn’t any accurate indicator as to the outside world.  An inmate could go for a long time without seeing if the sun was out or the day was sunny. 

Touring the jail, you could feel the hatred of the inmates.  They see you coming and going, but they have lost that freedom and hate you for it.  While I was touring, the inmates were placed in their cells, and they gazed out at the inspection with ruthless hunger.  It’s hard not to feel sorry for them, for everyone, even the jail employees.  It’s a rough job, but yes, somebody has to do it, and for the staff there, everyone I talked to, it takes a unique person even to want to do a job like that.  It’s not like they can call off work.  Somebody has to be there to deal with so many inmates, who are always just a fringe moment away from chaos and mayhem.  It does help that Sheriff Jones has such a big personality because it does take that to pull all those elements together.  Human beings and emotions can be messy, but intent goes a long way.  And to run the Butler County Jail and the criminal justice system so that ordinary people, the rest of the 400,000 people of Butler County who expect to roam about freely without impediment, without the Butler County Jail and a system of prosecution, there is no mechanism to have a free society.  If anything, the jail should be more prominent and have more employees because running a place like that takes a lot of time to hold so many people who have fallen off the rocker in society.  I spent a lot of time talking to the guards and getting my mind into their shoes, and I appreciate their work.  It takes money and personality to bring attention to these things.  I would like to see a lot more people going to jail.  But you can’t put everyone there.  And I’m glad people who want to do it work at the jail.  It’s essential work that is taken for granted all too often.

Rich Hoffman

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Throw the Gangs in Jail: Having the courage to prosecute criminals under 2923.42 in Ohio

It’s always good to be proactive, and I am thrilled with the police work I have seen lately in my community.  There are many reasons for it, but driving around the last couple of days, I saw many patrol cars with their lights on doing good police work.  Just this week alone, Sheriff Jones has had press conferences on some of the results of that good police work, and I am thrilled to see the nature of those contents without getting into specifics for reasons that are well justified but cryptic because the law demands such respect.  I know it’s a tough job to go out there and collect much evidence for multiple crimes that bad people are committing, only to have weak prosecutions through it all out before ever presenting it to a grand jury because socially our society has gone soft on crime as it has lost connection with a biblical context.  Fear not, for a lot of good reasons.  We don’t need to turn to vigilantes of fantasy, busting the wrong people without the support of law enforcement as rogue agents of justice, bringing chaos to the matter without the respect of an orderly society.  All we have to do is enforce the laws on the books, and if we do that, we will have a much better society.  And I say all this because one of my favorite books I carry around with me everywhere I go these days, the 2024-1 Ohio Criminal Law Handbook, has all the goodness of a prosperous society if only we had the courage to utilize it to full effect.  And to not care about the temperament of the courts who define a business day as 9 am to 3 pm, barely Monday through Friday.  Load them up.  Fill up the jails.  And keep the bad guys off the streets aggressively.  Stop being so permissive and accommodating of criminals and their dumb feelings. 

I say all that because of the proactive need to get control of the criminal elements out there ahead of the next election.  As we saw in 2020 especially, there were lots of “gangs” who harassed Trump supporters and other members of MAGA and shut down cities with communist revolts, such as we saw in Seattle and Portland, where mobs of anarchists took over actual sections of towns and started their own criminal zones.  This behavior is mainstream, as we saw with the new vice presidential pick of the communist Kamala Harris in Governor Tim Walz, who openly and gleefully let his cities burn in Minnesota over race riots provoked by criminals operating illegally in the United States under several laws.  But nobody did anything about it because they feared being accused of violating the “free speech” of the criminals, leaving our society paralyzed by indecision.  Well, we have learned many lessons since then, and knowing that Democrats are going to do anything to win this upcoming 2024 election and the globalists behind them have trillions and trillions of dollars invested in the outcome, we have to recognize that crime in our communities is not organic but provoked for a political battleground.  It’s not something that just happens; it is fueled by political behavior and investment and must be punished wherever we observe it.  To eliminate many problems before they occur, I recommend thoroughly enforcing 2923.41 (42) regarding criminal gangs in Ohio.  Most states have similar laws on the books, but they are not implemented because the scope of compliance is too broad, and socially, law enforcement fears that the public won’t support them.  And prosecutors are undoubtedly weary of such ramifications.  But we have allowed criminal gangs of thugs and misfits of all kinds to disturb our peace, and if we want to have a good society, we will dust off this revised code and put it to good use.

Ohio Law, 2923.41 defines criminal gangs as (A)(3) the persons in the organization, association, or group individually or collectively engage in or have engaged in a pattern of criminal gang activity.  Which essentially means conspiring to break any law in that excellent, wonderful book I mentioned.  We have a state legislature that has filled that book with all kinds of great options to maintain a civil society of individual property protection from the hands of criminal conduct, and we should use it to full effect.  Throw the violators in jail and destroy them every legal way possible, but do not put up with their horrendous behavior.  By enforcement of this one law in Ohio, people like the George Soros types could be prosecuted for their involvement in funding illegal gang behavior, which extends well beyond the typical drug dealer and peddler of smut.  Those politically active who conspire to use force to protest with hints at violence outside a judge’s home to inspire them into a particular judgment could be prosecuted as a member of a gang, which is defined further as involving three or more members intent on such criminal inspirations.  Further, in 2923.42 under “participating in criminal gang” activity, it states in (A) No person who actively participates in a criminal gang, with knowledge that the criminal gang engages in or has engaged in a pattern of criminal gang activity, shall purposely promote further, or assist any criminal conduct as defined in division (C) of section 2923.41 of the Revised Code, or shall intentionally commit or engage in any act that constitutes criminal conduct, as defined in Division (C) of section 2923.41 of the Revised Code.  (B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of participating in a criminal gang, a felony of the second degree, which holds with it 2 to 8 years in prison.  Load those prisons up.

Many of the strategies that are essential parts of the Democrat playbook of harassment of civil society could be easily prosecuted under just 2023.41 (42) in Ohio.  Other states have similar definitions.  And the antagonizers who fund these gangs of all forms are betting that nobody will prosecute them, for lack of will, lack of jail space, and the lack of social support in the court system.  Many people are very wishy-washy these days regarding law and order.  But that isn’t because they are necessarily bad people. Instead, they have been inundated with so much bad social conduct that they have forgotten which way is up and down.  And even that is the result of various gang activities that have saturated society with criminal conduct so vast that people have grown numb to it.  But before we allow gangs of thugs such as Antifa to molest our streets in protest of Trump in the upcoming election to cause chaos and destruction, we should round them up and put them in jail.  And if we run out of prisons, let’s build more jails.  With the garbage we fund these days, don’t say we can’t afford more jails. Just in the amount of money lost to illegal immigration with bad Democrat policies, we could build more jails.  But first, we must be willing to fill them to the brim, and then some.  We must show a resolve to deal with criminal thugs in their gang associations at the root of their operations, which are often connected to political scandals and funded by hostile agents who must also be prosecuted at their root cause and done so ruthlessly, as is well deserved. The bad guys, criminal gangs of international communists, have taken over our system of law and order, and it’s time that we rip it away from them and bring justice to their doorsteps.  Ruthlessly!

Rich Hoffman

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Removing the Bible From American Society Should Be Considered a Military Grade Weapon of War: The Foundation of All Law and Order

I would say it’s one of the best things I have done in a while, and that is being a foreman for a grand jury.  I can’t imagine why people wouldn’t want to do it or would like to get out of jury duty because I have found the experience vastly rewarding.  And it has confirmed an aspect of human life I have long thought about.  Fortunately for me, I have traveled the world and seen firsthand how other people do things, and what’s different in the United States that works best for most people is the traditions of the Bible as a Judeo/Christian sentiment and the foundation of all law and order.  And, of course, we all see what’s going on with the separation of church and state arguments; global communists advocate the concept of internal destruction of our country.  Rip away the foundations of American life and the value systems that built it, and the rest of the country topples quickly.  I have had religious discussions with people all my life. I think of God significantly, not as a Zeus-like character from Mt. Olympus or a rival deity from the pantheon of Mesopotamian Gods.  I don’t think of Heaven as a place of pearly gates; I believe there is much more to it and that our grasp of it was miraculously chronicled long ago in a surviving document we call today the Bible.  There has been a lot lost to history, but we have a very functioning way of looking at the world and building a concept of law and order in society that was directly inspired by the Bible.  And it works and is suitable for the human race no matter what background people come from. 

One of the functions of a grand jury foreman is to swear in all participants of the process as witnesses.  So I’ve had to swear large numbers of people in at this point, which has only confirmed a long-held thought that I have had; without a belief in the good of God and without a foundation of the Bible, our entire legal system falls apart.  These days, there is an attempt to function without a sense of God in our society, a secular approach to accommodate the religious and political beliefs of immigrants all over the world, as if the fairness of a belief system might be the key to the human race.  It isn’t.  People need more shared beliefs, and we need to build our civilization around the ideas that work.  There aren’t many surviving documents that have come to us over such a vast period as the Bible and what it communicates about the values and functions of human civilization.  All other controversies surrounding the Bible are purposely advocated in order to erode the fundamental truths that have spawned out of those religious faiths proposed by the Bible and its Old and New Testaments.  After personally hearing many hours of testimony by prosecutors, police officers, and people connected to various cases, it is abundantly clear that none of it functions without some biblical context.  If you don’t swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, so help you God.  Without a relationship with God, none of it means anything.  And the entire thing falls apart; liars run your society for the purposes of godless heathens who will commit any malice they think they can get away with through force.  And if you get to the root cause of most crime in our world, it comes from the destruction of a concept of God in polite society to the detriment of all values.  Human beings just aren’t designed to be atheists.  They need to believe in something and unite together under those shared beliefs. 

Because of my experiences, not only in traveling a lot and seeing how the rest of the world does things but in my love and appreciation for our American Constitution, as a work of profound philosophy built around the concept of preserving individual rights, my grand jury experience was probably more profound than most people would experience in the same position.  However, it allowed me to apply some of this process to the realm of truth and justice, and that was vastly rewarding because it answered many questions I have long had about conducting a functioning society.  It’s one thing to question the validity of God and what role eternity might have on the purposes of the here and now.  It’s another to fall for the trap of abandoning all such religious concepts if they pull people away into a path of their social destruction, and that has been happening in America by progressives purposely acting as domestic enemies of America for their malicious purposes of social destruction, and the loot they could skim off that endeavor for themselves.  The level of crime that is loose in society is alarming, but it has a relatively easy fix, and those are issues that are well told in the Bible over a vast period that has cascaded into our modern hands for proper use.  I thought of that often as I swore in witnesses and considered the evidence presented as a foundation of legal cases to be judged by a jury of their peers as head of all law enforcement.  Not the authority figures of centralized government but the people who loom large over them to keep the temptations of tyranny away from their corrupted minds of malice.  In that vacuum of society, many crimes have sprung loose, and it’s clear that the enemies of our culture have wanted to use such mechanisms to destroy us from the inside out, and that is now how we must view religious incursions—not as a separation of church and state but as criminal conduction and the downfall of social discourse, used as a military-grade weapon of war. 

To strip away the value system of a society is an attempt to undermine it, and many of the crimes we are dealing with presently are a direct cause of this purposeful abandonment of social value.  Without a religious foundation, the American Constitution loses a lot of its power, which is why enemies of America have utilized the separation of church and state concept to such a destructive effect.  Then, of course, all the criminal law cases created by the interpretation of the Constitution provide the foundation of our entire society.  What are the punishments for theft?  For trafficking in drugs?  For murder?  We should all agree that we shouldn’t kill people, that we shouldn’t steal from people.  Or that we build a society that doesn’t destroy their intellect with drugs.  Yet that is the argument for removing the Bible from our society.  Judge not least thee be judged.  And with it, the ability to tell right from wrong.  From the perspective of law and order, it is evident from a top-down view of our legal system that the prosecutors present the cases of social regard for judgment based on the facts of the law.  Weapons of intellect have attacked us to remove our ability to have values so our society would crumble under the weight of human selfishness.  Without the pursuit of God and the biblical context that goes with it, society fails quickly, And that was the intentions of America’s enemies, who are clear to see when viewed from the perspective of courts and the chaos purposely placed there to topple our system of fairness and truth, and justice for all, by sheer audacity perpetrated by the down and out of our society, made that way by liberal policies and anti-Bible sentiment for the detriment of American life.  And in that aftermath are the smoking remains of our country and the cheers of America’s enemies, who have hidden their plots of doom behind the legal premise of separation of church and state and the removal of religious concepts out of a pursuit of equality, and fairness for all, knowing full well that in so doing, they would destroy those very same people at the foundation of their very souls. 

Rich Hoffman

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‘Not in Our Town’: Standing against evil as it intends our complete destruction

Sometimes, you run into something special, which continues to be the case with the books from Chilidog Press, following what I considered a wonderful experience with the book by Karen Holcomb on the Ruppert Murders.  That might not sound like good reading, but it was because it captured a time that now seems like a long-forgotten period, only captured by literature.  I had a chance to talk to Michael Gmoser recently, who is the prosecutor for Butler County now and worked on the case back then, which was so obvious, and I have a lot of respect for what a conservative prosecutor has to go through to get a case to court, let alone successfully prosecuted.  It’s not easy; evil has been working in the background for a long time and continues to this day, the forked tongue of many devils, and they have been attacking us over a long period at a rate that human lifetimes typically don’t measure.  Yet their impediment is no less ruthless, and prosecutors have their work cut out for them.  I liked the book on the Rupert Murders so much that I turned to another one that had long been on my list, that also turned out to be a dramatic treasure, and that is Not in Our Town: The Queen City vs. The King of Smut by Peter Bronson.  I don’t think a lot of people realize how important Cincinnati has been in fighting evil on a national stage, but this book by the former Cincinnati Enquirer reporter and editor captured it all very well, from the mob infestation that started a dark path for one of the world’s cleanest cities, to what it is today, a borderland haven of cutthroats and nefarious criminals unleashed by progressive politics for the destruction of all civilization, as presented in the efforts of modern prosecutors Joe Deters and his assistant at the time, the very excellent Juvenile Court Judge Melissa Powers.  And the superb work of another famous prosecutor and sheriff, Simon Leis. 

We’re talking about the beginning attacks from a global progressive movement that hid behind organized crime and moved through policy and our courts into polite society as a menace always lurking in the background, and the efforts of reporters, police, and prosecutors to stop it as it thrived in Newport, Kentucky and migrated over into the clean image of Cincinnati to destroy the concept of families and conservative politics essentially.  There was a lot of money to be made off evil and the destruction of good community values, so there were many groups that sprang up to take advantage of such an imposition over time, whether it be outright organized crime, or corrupt government officials organizing the killing of American presidents and destroying the lives of media figures like Charlie Keating because they were all American poster boys and had to be brought down.  Just as they tried to with the former NFL star turned sheriff, George Ratterman when they drugged him and tried to ruin his squeaky clean image by drugging him and taking pictures of him in compromising positions with a hooker.  What worked and didn’t work became a playbook of the political left over the years, and much of it happened in Cincinnati, Ohio, because that was the target of much mischief.  And behind all the efforts was a mob-placed hit man of a different killer nature, Larry Flint, who was so evil and vile that he meant to lead a personal crusade of destruction against family values as he draped himself in the First Amendment to temp us all into abandoning the Constitution, just to stop him.  He went so far as to devise plans to blow up the Supreme Court. 

But Cincinnati stopped many of these attacks, which I see as the template for what is happening nationally against the same evil.  It’s not the classic mobs that we know now from movies, but globalists who have taken over, only on a much larger scale.  I always liked Peter Bronson as a reporter, but I’ll admit that I stopped reading it after their hit piece against me in 2012, and I determined to do my reporting for people to take the place of what classic newspapers used to provide with editorials and opinion pages with letters to the editor.  But Peter’s book answered many questions for me regarding what happened to The Enquirer after it was purchased by the Gannett group and lost its local flavor.  It makes a lot more sense to me now what happened, as I had a front-row seat to all this over the last forty years.  Peter Bronson managed to capture it all in that excellent book Not In Our Town, which was quite a trip down memory lane and a perspective that defines the fights of our current age.  Evil is at work in the world in all the ways that it was in the land of Canaan under biblical consideration.  And Cincinnati was the battleground that remains a hedge against its vile menace.  Cities like San Francisco, New York, and Chicago have long fallen to progressivism.  But Cincinnati has resisted thanks to prosecutors like Simon Leis and many others and a public who saw through the smoke and kept electing those kinds of representatives to fight those fights. 

I was able to see Sheriff Jones at a recent event where Attorney General Yost was there putting together a run for the next governor of Ohio shortly after I was able to read these excellent books with regional intentions, but very much defined the fight we are fighting nationally and internationally and I was feeling very reverent.  Not just in Peter Bronson for doing what he couldn’t do at the Enquirer, and that is reporting this whole truth in this battle against Larry Flynt and the way sex and pornography are used as weapons against our Constitution to destroy American society, but in the thin line that prosecutors and sheriffs utilize to fight on behalf of those who elected them.  We might not always agree on every little thing and personal issues creep in and erode the trust it takes to fight crime and prevent an insurrection against our values by vile characters always lurking in the background.  Larry Flynt was a solitary character put in place by the mob to use sex businesses to provide cover for their many other crimes, and to use that cover to keep law enforcement busy while organized crime made a killing with the results.  It worked so well that they took the game internationally, and it’s the mess we see today.  But that doesn’t mean we have to put up with it.  We can and should fight it.  We should put our differences aside and find what does join us, and that is a fight for America to be great because the people who make it up strive to be so.  And are not lured away from the task of pornography and acceptance of crime from a lawless bunch of losers who want to corrupt the world with their evil menace.  It’s the same temptation that was captured in the Bible, to fight for God or not and yield to the forces of evil whenever they corrupt, whether it be Sodom and Gomorrah or the Land of Canaan in general.  The book Not in My Town by Peter Bronson tells the authentic story of how good people fought to keep Cincinnati clean and accessible—and stood against evil when it counted most, which is a blueprint for the world to follow. 

Rich Hoffman

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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

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The Political Left Never Figured It Out: Nobody of any value wants to have sex with Chelsea Handler

It’s not anybody’s fault but their own.  As they look around at the wasteland of their creations, the political left, the “hard left” as they think of themselves, they never figured it out.  When Karl Marx put together their political movement, and when we talk about the “left,” that’s what we mean: they never figured out the essential ingredient of social enterprise; how can we replace God with government and get the whole thing to work socially?  How do you remove the worship of a God, of a higher concept built on the values of religion, and replace that society with the worship of government?  Because that is what they all believe, the political left.  It is the heart of their problem today, in 2024.  They never solved the problem, and now they’ve built an entire society around this philosophy without ever answering the critical issue of their movement.  How can you run a civil society without God?  Or the idea of Heaven and a life well lived being granted access to a prosperous eternal life.  It was like a bunch of dumb kids looking forward to Christmas Day, where they could unwrap that present they were looking forward to.  They never considered what life would be like after they had it.  Once Christmas had come and gone, all that they looked forward to was already gone.  They have nothing to sell their movement but obedience to a terrifying power, and that’s all they have to offer, which, of course, people never get excited about.  There is nothing in their political movement that is beneficial, it’s all built around fear, fear of a higher power as the government can exert it through force.  There is no God to carry any high ideas; it is just a subservience to the powers of ordinary people in government to be worshipped instead.  And it has left an empty existence that people are turning away from by the fist fulls.

This was grotesquely obvious when Chelsea Handler, the typical celebrity bimbo that populates the left, went full Madonna when one of her old boyfriends, the rapper 50 Cent, indicated that he was going to vote for President Trump after the conviction by a corrupt New York court.  Chelsea offered 50 Cent sex to lure him back to her side of the political fence, as that was all she had.  That’s all any of them have because it’s what all lefties turn to when the essential ingredient of their political philosophy comes into question.  Chelsea’s thoughts on the matter were pretty shallow; she couldn’t understand why her former celebrity boyfriend would turn toward Trump because he’s black.  And that was supposed to be the end of the story.  All blacks were supposed to stay on the Democrat plantation just because of their skin color.  And that’s always where things start to fall apart, where authority dominates over merit-based rules.  So when the cows stray too far from the herd, there is always some milk biscuit like Handler offering to have sex with whoever to lure their dumb carcasses back to the slaughterhouse.  And she assumed that she was so attractive that 50 Cent might even take her up on the effort to have a piece of that “white woman booty.”  The essential problem is that they never worked out value with their movement, where people would want to follow them on their own accord because it was something they wanted, which is the problem of their approach all along.  How could any civil society operate without good people wanting to do good things for good reasons?  Especially if they destroy the concept of “good.”

This is why all roads that lead to leftist, Marxist behavior have to come from authority.  This is why the political left is so tyrannical and obsessed with seeking power.  Because without power, they can’t do anything.  When that power was in the hands of God and mass society tried to appease it with good behavior, the product was a pretty good society.  People did what they were supposed to do with each other because they feared everlasting damnation.  Karl Marx wanted to change all that to the orientation of government replacing God.  But that meant that the government would have to exhibit powers like God to capture the roles of social stigma.  People would need to fear the government the way they feared God, but the government couldn’t give people eternal life.  Where God could.  So once people figured out that all they were doing was appeasing some new god in government, but there was no return on the investment, only obedience so people could live one more day only to serve the same forces tomorrow, the whole contraption fell apart.  In this cheap society, they have made sex easy, and people don’t have to work very hard to get it; Chelsea Handler offering sex is like getting a gummy bear out of a new bag.  All the tastes blend together, and the experience loses its value.  They never thought things through.  If people didn’t live their lives to a higher standard, then what kind of lives would they live?  When that question falls apart, they always point to the sexual revolution and throw the cat nip out, hoping to wash away the lack of an answer with short-term fulfillment.  But now, in the age of porn, they have lost that.

When God was always watching over the world like a big Santa Clause who had a list and was constantly checking it twice for good and bad behavior, people interacted better together.  Laws meant something because they were backed by a higher concept established by a Christian society and by-laws inspired by the Bible.  But Karl Marx and his leftist followers wanted to remove God from everything and replace him with force.  Fear of government force.  To make the effort work, the government would have to gain so much power that people wouldn’t have any other choice but to worship the employees of the government out of fear of what might happen if they didn’t.  There was no respect for living a good life just because it was the right thing to do, and this is obvious in any leftist-run city like Chicago, New York, or San Francisco.  When people only do the right thing because they are afraid of what government might do to them, then self-initiation is gone, and society is left to function without goodness-defining action.  Only fear.  And fear is not a good motivator for productive output.  It’s not a good motivator for social discourse.  And it certainly doesn’t inspire greatness, which is why lefty ideology in politics always leads to such corrupt and detrimental social conditions.  And without sex to sell it, which they have cheapened, they have nothing to offer beneficial to society.  So they get a society that does whatever it has to do to barely get by.  This is why everywhere that leftist politics are utilized, society is degrading rapidly, and they lose people who can still afford to own their own opinions.  And yes, black voters are figuring it out.  They would choose not to fear a master who looms over them from just another version of plantation life, enslaved people defined by a new economic theory.  But not one that is good for them.  And there is nothing to hold people to goodness without the extra element of God in the thought process.  And for the political left, that will never improve because their philosophy is broken from the start, and there is no way to fix it now.

Rich Hoffman

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Yes, I Have Been Having an Affair: Biden is an illegal president, and everything he has done is invalid

I do have to admit it’s been a rough time.  And sometimes even the best marriages are lured by temptations.  Yes, my wife and I just celebrated our 36th wedding anniversary, so that makes this extra hard to talk about because I have hurt her.  And I didn’t want to.  But this has been a time where I have sought the comfort of something outside our marriage, which I think many people are resorting to.  And maybe they should.  Yet even under the worst conditions, no spouse should have to have their marriage compromised with the attention of other elements in their relationship with their husband.  So, for that, I have to come clean.  The whole world will find out about it anyway, so I might as well address the issue before it spirals out of control.  A lot of people pray that I stumble on my own feet at some point and that they can bust me for something, and that constant pressure is part of it.  It’s not easy to run a marriage under these dire circumstances.  But that’s no excuse.  Right is right, and wrong is wrong; there is no way to blend the two.  So yes, I have been having an affair, a love affair.  It has made me feel a lot better about other things, and after I explained it to my wife, she understood.  She was very supportive.  But I had to tell her that I have been having a love affair and spending much time with our American Constitution, and reading precisely over and over again, the Amendments, 4-6, which deals with prosecutions and unreasonable searches and seizures.  Our Constitution is so fantastic and beautiful that it has brought illustrious temptations into our marriage. 

Our law of the land, the Constitution, is quite clear, and everything thrown at President Trump has directly violated his rights under those laws.  One thing that no government in the world has a right to do is interpret what those words in our Constitution mean for us.  We have a Supreme Court that is designed to do that on an exception basis ultimately, but what we have been seeing from our own government for many years, especially these last few where Bide was inserted illegally by a corrupt group of insurgents and has made a real mess of things, so they have continued to break the law by trying to get rid of the Constitution altogether and make up new laws so they can never be prosecuted for the crimes they have already committed.  But the 4th Amendment, the 5th Amendment, and especially in this last case in New York with Trump, the 6th Amendment are specifically important and are designed to limit the powers of government in preserving individual property rights, starting with personal integrity.  A government, for its safety and the powers it has acquired, does not have the right to destroy personal rights under any circumstance.  Ultimately, that is why all the cases against Trump will be thrown out on appeal, and all the attorneys know it.  They did not have the power to do what they did, but this is a classic Soros playbook, and why he should be arrested as a domestic terrorist for attempting to overthrow our country with his financial influence on our legal culture with all these District Attorneys, he has sponsored to destroy our legal profession.  

Some are saying that this quote is not in Ashley Biden’s diary. But this is the same diary that the FBI says doesn’t exist. So what can you believe? But we can judge based on behavior, and there is a lot of bad behavior.

The case in New York with Fat Alvin Bragg and the gang is an illegal imposition on President Trump’s rights for all kinds of reasons, which the Constitution shows explicitly is not permitted by any sitting government, and at that point of recognition, we have a right and obligation to throw off that government and start a new one, which is explicitly stated in our founding documents.  What we have here is a government that stole power by violating the Constitution and inserting a hostile activist into the White House, replacing the one that was correctly and legally elected, and they expect to get away with it by throwing that victim of a government coup in jail to cover the crime.  So this is severe stuff that has not settled on people yet.  And for that reason, I recommend having a love affair of your own with the Constitution.  Read it.  Understand it.  And use it to defeat these terrible people.  These criminals think we are all suckers and don’t understand our laws because they have been such a corrosive element, they expect to get away with everything by stripping our laws away so that their government can continue to grow in power until there is no country left, and the United States can fall toward globalism.  In truth, that is the only exit plan from their current strategy.  They hope to escape their many crimes by destroying the laws that would prosecute them.  And they don’t care what happens in the wake of that activity.  This level of power-hungry behavior is precisely why the Constitution was written the way it was: to prevent the government from gaining this kind of authority over its citizens.  Amendments 4-6 are meant to protect people from their government with unreasonable prosecution and the harassment of private property. 

And perhaps you can see why I have been having this love affair with the Constitution.  I keep the copy I displayed in the video by my reading chair, and I go through it a few times a week, which I have done for many years.  But lately, because of these court cases against Trump and seeing how they plan to attack us all in the same manner, I have been spending too much time with the Constitution, and it has impacted my marriage by not giving me as much time for my wife.  She has been neglected as a result.  But we have talked about it, and we think everyone should have similar affairs, perhaps even to rejuvenate their marriages and the values of their institutional union.  And fear not, this government under Biden, and with the support of the old Weather Underground terrorists who are a radical part of the Marxist left, put him into power hoping that they would be able to destroy the concept of a Constitution before people became aware of it, are not going to get away with it.  They have been caught, and they keep digging their own grave deeper.  After all this, there is no way that they could ever be accepted into polite society with the rest of us.  And that is what my affair with the Constitution has made clear to me.  And it has given me clarity on what to do next.  None of those things involves a life without Trump back in the White House and submission to these criminal scum bags who have taken over our government and tried to destroy our Constitution to get away with the massive crimes they have committed against us all.  For such an indiscretion, my wife understands.  This is why we have been married for a long time and will continue to be.  Sometimes, love affairs like this one are necessary.  And not just a love for our spouses rekindled, but also a love for our nation and the future it deserves.

Rich Hoffman

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The Attack of our Judiciary: How evil works in the background of the Bar Association

One undeniable way that evil moves through the world is in penetrating our society through rules and regulations, making compliance the value of morality while the act itself might be sheer evil. And that is often where our judiciary finds itself. If they follow the law, they often find that it has been corrupted by evil and malice, yet they are compelled to stand by it by law. This was the fatal flaw of the Israelites in what I think is one of the most important lessons of the Bible, in the Book of Judges, where the people of Israel want a king like every other nation and beg for Saul. God rebels against his own people and plucks King David out of the crowd, undermining King Saul for most of his life. Saul becomes a kind of bumbling, jealous figure who, as the first king of Israel, is disgraced by his very existence because, as God tells Samuel, the people wanted Saul; I gave them the God they wanted, which was God’s way of punishing the people for violating his vision for them. Until that point, Israel did not have a king and would not have a king; regional judges managed the affairs of the people, leaving it so that there would be no other God before Jehovah, not on earth or in heaven. It was this notion that was built into our own Constitution, a society that would have a judiciary to balance out the tendency of mankind to be corrupt with equal power over the other branches of government. Such a concept is a slap in the face of the lazy tendency that humanity has had to have a king, something of a representative of God on earth. 

I’ve had the benefit, likely guided by some divine logic, of getting to know a lot of judges over the years, starting with my teenage life. I’ve often talked about the get-out-of-jail-free card I had in some very wild and violent days of my teenage years. A judge offered himself as a mentor to me as I was surrounded by crime and malice. That judge was very much what the kind of people from the Bible had in mind, wise, composed, and a bit defiant against tendencies of social power. He understood my rebellion and didn’t want to see me in jail over it. So, he was there to help keep the doors for my life propped open instead of being thrown in prison for the rest of my life when obviously there was a lot of good life to live. And since that time until just yesterday, I have had judges in my life and have had the opportunity to know them as people; whether it’s a supreme court chief justice or a regional municipal judge, I have a value for them that is unique based on my experience, and the understanding of what the Founding Fathers wanted to do with them while starting America, taking lessons from the Bible on how to start that ideal society. Judges were to be established as protectors of philosophy in a civil and strong society, and it was a great concept.  One of the greatest things President Trump did during his term in office was appointed many conservative judges. But in doing so, he revealed a much more sinister plot that became obvious, the destruction of our judiciary at the level of the Bar Association, where liberalism has been taught for a very long time and has been injected into the concepts of law and order at the start of many judges’ careers. 

The mechanisms of evil we are talking about here have been around for a long time, and it indeed showed itself when the Israelites first founded their country. Human beings are terrified of self-government and want to be ruled, whether by a god, by some regional religion, or by a king. The tendency of the lazy is to allow something to tell them what to do, and for the lazy, they don’t care if that mind is focused on justice or evil intent. So the malice that we find today against a judiciary is the same malice that the people of Israel found when they tried to run their country without a king. Then once kings were established, then we saw a parade of historical references where kings abused their power because power was too focused. The story of King David taking the young woman Bathsheba, getting her pregnant, then sending her husband to the front lines of war to have him killed by circumstance is a good example of how a good person was corrupted by evil and the temptations to abuse his power and authority over innocent lives. God eventually punishes David with even more violence and mayhem, but obviously, the cycle never improves after that, cycling through all kings and emperors around the world until you get to the United States, where our presidency has a check on their power designed to eliminate just this very kind of problem. Yet the enemies of America want that problem to exist, so they have baked into the procedures to judges’ frustrations through the Bar Association that will ultimately get the people of America to give up their judiciary. It is much easier for evil to influence one person in a kingly role than a series of people following the rule of law to protect high society. But if they are stuck following such restrictions, then the second best thing is to corrupt the laws that such a body of government follows, the legal profession itself. 

This has been most obvious regarding election fraud; whether the case was the Trump case in 2020 or the Kari Lake case in Arizona in 2022, judges find themselves in the strange position of not protecting the individuals involved, as they should be, but in following corrupt laws as established by the rules of wokism coming out of the Bar Association.   I have had discussions with many more lawyers during 2022 than in most past years. This issue has come up often, were following the process was more important to those lawyers than the righteousness of the entanglement itself. And the evil of a matter resides behind the processes. It’s the same trick I have explained to various trustees in rubber stamping United Nations Agenda 21 and 2030 policies at the local level because zoning is filled with progressive planners who learned to be that way in the various liberal colleges. The needs of evil are to frustrate the population in general with their systems of government, whether it’s trustees, judges, or general politicians, and to direct them to the desire for a king, a regional king, a national king, or a king of the world. And in that way, evil would be much better positioned to control that one person. We see this problem in just about every workplace where people don’t like their overpowering boss. The abuse of authority over a population is a continued problem that flourishes where there aren’t checks and balances. And I can promise that the local McDonald’s has all the same issues, and the sentiment is exacerbated by the corporate policies that don’t teach leadership but submission to a process where evil hides its signature. In so doing, the tempers of the population are rallied to the causes of malice. That can take the form of a worker’s revolt crying for communism to make everything fair against the greed of corporate profits. Or in the local judge, who finds themselves rubber stamping election fraud because the pressure from their own progressive Bar Association may never forgive them if they don’t follow the unwritten rules of voting certification challenges that, if utilized, would topple the entire political system. Rather than do what’s right, they help evil conduct its affairs, just as the people did when they begged God for a king. And that’s where the downfall of any civil society starts when the judges can’t judge but are controlled through their fraternal affairs toward the work of malice disguised as justice.

Rich Hoffman

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Marriage is Between a Man and a Woman, Only: Global governments and their war against family

As the same-sex marriage protections were passed in Congress, one common theme essentially said, “you have a right to marry whoever you love regardless of the color of your skin or the orientation, and it shouldn’t be controversial. Our nation was built on the notion of individual liberty.” Yet, and this is speaking from my personal experience, I’ve been married for over 33 years, and I can say that marriage isn’t about sex. You don’t get married to have sex. You get married to start and to raise a family. And it’s hard work. You get married to go into a partnership with another person that lasts for many years. You don’t get married just to get a divorce over silly disagreements, like one of the marriage partners doesn’t like the color of a new car that is bought. You get married to work out problems together and to teach future generations how to approach life. And even when all the kids are grown up and move away, you stay married, so there is a place for them to go on Thanksgiving and Christmas to recharge their batteries and continue fighting for the creation of their own families. In other words, the creation of a family is the first form of government in modern society, and we should do everything we can to protect it, nurture it, and respect it. And all that Congress has done with the passage of their same-sex protections act is desecrate the basic premise of family creation. Government sees the creation of family as a rival to their form of central government, which is the reason for their position, which is insulting to all those who endeavor to have a good family that starts with a good marriage. 

I’ve always liked the Bible, it is the foundation of law and order for western civilization, so it becomes very obvious when rivals to that law and order come along and attempt to erode away the foundations of that understanding. And the efforts to separate biblical understanding through the separation of church and state have really been about attacking the value systems of western civilization in order to create something else, something more “eastern” in its value systems. So a desecration of all that western civilization has been built upon is a deliberate strategy, and those participants reveal their intentions in doing so. That is clearly the crime of this lame-duck congress upon passing a bill of desecration intended for the American family. From every progressive front, our legal system, which encourages divorce, our entertainment culture that has sought to cheapen marriage to the silly vestiges of sex and sex only, forgetting that the purpose of sex is exclusively in the creation of children, not in the expression and pursuit of recreation. Or even the purpose of the internet, which seems solely to have been built to spy on people and to poison their minds with easy images of pornography to appeal to the animal natures of human beings so that they would be easier to control by centralized governments stripped of their primary purposes in life, which was to create good families, the first foundation of a stable society. The war against the American family, and families all over the world, has been going on for a long time by purposeful desecrators intent on eradicating the premise so that people would be vulnerable to the instigations of an all-powerful government that replaces the concept of mother and father so that children would all share the same home, the ultimate collectivism of communism, the China Model. 

What I like about the Bible are passages like this one from Deuteronomy 22:5 “The woman shall not wear that which pertained unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.” To the kind of people who supported what Congress did on that same-sex bill, they would laugh at that statement and would call it old-fashioned and naive. But what they are really saying is that the notions of such divisions of recognition between the sexes have been successfully suppressed by progressive society, where the destruction of Christian ideas has been all but destroyed. And such Bible references are laughable and out of touch. Then I would say, as a person who has been married to the same woman for many years and raised kids and grandkids, that anybody who doesn’t live their life close to that Bible passage has no chance at a successful life in the creation of families, which is the point of the destruction in the first place. Progressives, global liberals, have always intended to eradicate Christian support from the laws of society so that they would not have to acknowledge the primary foundation of all government, which is the formation of the family. Government wants to be an organism of itself, and it doesn’t want to bend the knee to a family of any kind. Government wants to be like the concept of family in China, where the government is the ultimate mother and father, as a unisex tradition, and all of society are its children. And to perform such a desecration upon their primary rivals in the world, The United States, and in general, western civilization itself, the concept of a traditional family must go along with the Christian foundations which supported it in the first place.

When I was first married over three decades ago, I was surprised at how antagonistic people were to my ideas of marriage. Some really hostile people in my life were against the marriage. They had bit into the poison fruit of a progressive society that wanted to follow the rules being applied, and I simply rejected them. My idea of marriage was traditional and Biblical, with clear divisions between the role of men and women. My wife would be a stay-at-home mother and would dedicate her life to our children. I would do all the strong stuff and ensure the family always had what it needed. I did it if that required working three shifts a day, seven days a week. And even if that sounds like an exaggeration, there were several years when I had to do just that. And I did it without a second car, so I rode a bicycle to work so my wife would have the car to care for the children and drive them to school. You don’t complain; you don’t cry. You don’t bend the knee to the pressures of the universe. You fight back, you fight for the right to raise a family, and you let that family know that no matter what, you are a pillar that holds everything up so they can develop safely within your family. And even when they are all grown up, your home is a safe place for them to return to and always find their footing. Even when you are 90 years old and have been married to the same person for 70 years. You don’t get divorced over sex. You don’t spend your time wasting it thinking about some form of sexual discharge. You don’t waste your efforts on stupid stuff that doesn’t make a family great. And that is what a marriage is, and it’s hard work on a good day. And most of the time, it’s not fun and games. It’s picking a person to spend a life with and solving problems within a partnership, and sex is often not even a relevant question or consideration, nor should it be. Sex is for producing children and for that purpose only. We’ve made it into a recreation, and the government has wanted that to distract us from the goals of family, which they see as rivals for their pursuits of control. And that is why this Congressional push for same-sex marriage is an abomination to the American family and an act of war toward the sovereignty of every household that means our total destruction, and nothing less. And in my view, anything that does not promote family values and the sustainability of a family in any way is completely worthless to the human race.

Rich Hoffman

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Where the Caves of Lakota Go: The evils of following process instead of logic

At the last Lakota school board meeting, approval on the payout of a lawsuit for $15,000 had to be voted upon over the procedural misconduct to remove public comment from an October meeting that had occurred. It was an easy victory for the person who filed the legal action; everyone knew it at the time, just as there are many explorations into further actions due to the actions of the board. I remember when this whole story about the superintendent of Lakota schools broke and his messy divorce, and his personal behavior that clearly didn’t align with the values of the community he worked in as a public figure, I was curious how the information would flow through the known communication channels of our community. After all, I knew all the characters involved at every level, so I was curious if the dye was poured into the cave water, where it would come out on the other end. Would it be where we expected, or would it duck and dive only to come out someplace surprising? And in the process of these many months, it looks like as the dye moved through the Caves of Lakota, through the various government bodies of our community, we ended up with a new decision, what to do about the obvious case of “intimidation of witnesses” as defined by the “intent to coerce a witness not to report information.”  And perhaps the most audacious exchange at that meeting was not the sudden revelation about financial stability through 2025, suddenly, but the lashing out of board member Kelly Casper toward Darbi Boddy about who board members represent and who they don’t. Darbi got it right, and Kelly had it all wrong when Darbi said of herself that she represented members of the community who had elected her for the purpose of board business in so many words or less. Kelly disagreed and stated that Darbi was elected to represent everyone in the community. And in that simple disagreement, we could clearly see the misunderstandings that had been costing Lakota schools so much mismanagement, expensive mismanagement. And why bad things happened in the first place that taxpayers were always on the hook for fixing. Darbi Boddy was sent to the board by the public to get control of the school board. Not to get along with the people who traditionally screwed everything up. 

In the case of Lakota, the bad, expensive things that have happened to support the antics of their superintendent, who has mismanaged his life and then turned on the community with hostile threats to suppress the information, the most significant faults were in the desire for people in the process to follow the directions that were written by liberalism and that there value system was in obeying the rules, not in deciding if the rules were applicable, or needed to be challenged. We see this in trustee meetings all the time when they rubber stamp the latest Agenda 21 roundabout or a bike path meant to prevent cars from burning fossil fuels just to get a loaf of bread at the grocery. Community planners are all trained at the same liberal sources baked into everything they do; all over the country, progressive policies are then approved by conservative politicians who believe their job is to be good administrators of the rules and to follow instructions. They never seem to understand or question whether liberals or conservatives wrote the rules and if they should be following them. Not that I was surprised, but I watched with great curiosity at every level how all the people I knew, from the police department to the school board, and the media, followed strange liberal rules and procedures right into a situation that escalated everything into a public menace that only enraged the public, and did nothing to quell the original problems. 

And it was that pesky problem again, which always comes up when the rule of law is applied to mass society in the wake of so much progressive influence over several years now, decades, really. As the Bible has been removed from being a foundation of law and order, the values that built America, to begin with, we have seen bureaucratic pinheads stepping in as the administrative state to replace the Biblical concepts of God in society, and therefore all sense of value for what a community can agree on. No wonder Nancy Pelosi could lie to our faces during a press conference about her crazy husband, that keeps getting into all kinds of trouble, or the mass media conspiracy regarding the Hunter Biden laptop. Or that there was no evidence of election fraud, even though the evidence, like this case in Lakota, was dripping everywhere with plenty of things to consider. The liberal denial of a fact was proposed because logic had been surrendered to the values of process control. Value wasn’t based these days on the judgment of an individual mind; it was built entirely in progressive processing around compliance with what was created by controls. Therefore, the value wasn’t in thinking about what was happening, but it was complying with the rules which were created to follow. So long as everyone followed the rules written for them, they could feel that their actions were moral and fulfilled a sense of justice from their point of view. But those in the community who expected community values to be conservative and to respect at least the foundations of Biblical understanding, the glue that holds western civilization together, found the decisions reprehensible.  More and more these days, these Biblical references come up as the source of the solution to our many social problems. I had always considered that everyone, regardless of their politics, functioned from that basic premise. However, I started to notice when I was in a hotel in 2014 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that it was missing the Bible in the hotel room and that more courtrooms, school systems, and even swearing-in ceremonies were going in the direction of the sports players who refused to stand for the National Anthem. There was a real progressive push to remove western civilization from the practice of any value judgments. At the heart of that was the Bible, essentially 1400 years of establishing laws that built western civilization. And once those values were removed from the decision-making process, even conservative people, or people who think they are conservatives, found that value judgments were reduced to just following the rules of a process. And if liberals wrote the processes, then it didn’t matter if the people participating in those decisions were liberals or conservatives; they would all act the same if the path to resolution centered on compliance with a process instead of the judgment of the parties involved. And in that way, we learned that there were many hidden chambers where the dye went before it came out of the cave in strange places. And that information is extremely valuable. Then, looking back at how the community has divided over this issue makes a lot more sense. The compliance track thinks it is permissible to punish the community for deviating from the process that allows public officials to game the system at significant taxpayer cost. While the public functioning from traditional value judgments of right and wrong as established Biblically, as the foundation of our entire society, found the proposals reprehensible. The good news is that while functioning at the Supreme Court level, our court system still lives by such Biblical ideas and that the rule of law is our Constitution. Even while the progressive-minded would like that not to be the case and would love to throw their political enemies in jail, or take them to court over frivolous litigation, the truth of the matter is that in those places, the Bible still matters.   Because if people don’t believe in that, then you can’t have the basic tenants of civil society. And under that view of the law, harassing the public for discussing evidence is witness intimidation, which opens a whole new can of worms.

Rich Hoffman

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