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The Phantom Menace of Jack Smith: Yes, you can indict a ham sandwich

It’s a question that comes up all the time, especially in regard to the federal prosecutor and United Nations lap dog, Jack Smith: can you indict a ham sandwich?  Well, I have much to say on this topic from many perspectives.  Recently, I received a card in the mail to report to jury duty.  So I went on the day it indicated and sat in a courtroom with about 100 other people.  I happened to know a lot of the people putting the whole thing on, and we had some discussions beforehand about what was happening and what everyone expected.  I went to court expecting the judge to let me go because honestly, my life is too busy for these kinds of things.  But during a conversation, I got a good measure of just how vital the grand jury was.  I had many questions about what happens on that side of the legal profession.  All the judge needed were 15 volunteers; they needed nine jury members, and the rest alternants, in case someone couldn’t attend one day, would be called in as a reserve for the proceedings.  During that process, I was made the foreman, which meant you had to swear everyone in and put your name on all the indictments and other paperwork that would be generated during the process.  Out of those 100 people, there were only 15 volunteers who put their hand up to commit to several weeks of grand jury activity.  The judge had a way of getting 15 jurors out of that group of 100.  But he had just enough volunteers, so he let everyone else go, much to their relief.  Throughout the process, the prosecutor, all the assistants, and everyone in the Butler County Courthouse went out of their way to make everyone feel important.  But a thin veil here took me a few days to sort through.  In that sorting, I learned a lot about our court system, which would allow people like Jack Smith to take advantage of it and make a weapon out of the law for pure political activism.  And to answer the question, yes, you can indict a ham sandwich.

I like Michael Gmoser, the Butler County Prosecutor, and all his assistant prosecutors, and I found things I liked about them all.  I would say that Butler County, Ohio, has a lot of good people working in it, especially in the criminal justice system.  We have an affluent county with many people in it, so we can afford to have jobs for the right people who want to do those jobs.  It’s not like the prosecutor’s office has a bunch of losers like Jack Smith working at it or the other radicals who have presented legal cases against President Trump.  The Butler County prosecutors were all good and engaging as if they wanted to do their jobs and work with a grand jury to put cases in a courtroom before a judge through the indictment process.  But the problem quickly presented itself, and I asked many questions to flush it all out.  The purpose of a grand jury is to provide civilian oversight over the government in the traditions of the American Constitution, which is to preserve the individual rights of people not proven guilty yet by the evidence presented to the court.  It was the grand jury’s job to ensure the government didn’t get out of control.  Now I know that Michael Gmoser believes in that process, politically and practically.  I see many politically active people attached to this law and order process believe the same thing.  But in the trenches of everyday activity, between the prosecutors and the cops working the streets, there is a lot of tired sentiment toward the process that is well deserved.

A grand jury is just a bunch of everyday people who suddenly have to jump into this legal world with people that work every day in that world and know their business.  A prosecutor or assistant can present just about anything they want to a grand jury, and the civilian oversight doesn’t know better than to scrutinize what the evidence tells them about the state’s revised code.  In my particular grand jury, we had all volunteers who wanted to be there, so we had engaged people who asked a lot of questions. When the door was closed for deliberations, we had good debates on the merits of the cases.  To ensure that the process went better, I went out and bought the legal book that the prosecutors were using so that we could flush out the crimes with accurate definitions in context.  And I would say our group was optimal because it had very engaged jurors.  If a judge had to drag people, kicking, and screaming to form a jury pool, as they often do, then the process for the prosecutors would be straightforward: have a jury rubber stamp their recommendations, which was the case in the cases against Trump.  A jury without much experience in law, or even a curiosity to get to know some law in a short grand jury gathering, will be entirely at the mercy of prosecutors who use the process of civilian oversight to impose government overreach against an unsuspecting public filled with lazy people who want to get back to watching television at home. 

So, for much of the summer, I had my criminal law handbook, and I have marked hundreds of laws that I think should be enforced but aren’t because the legal process works against justice by lots of invisible strings that have seeped into our society from a variety of scandalous characters over a vast period.  In Butler County, the prosecutors, as I said, are mostly good.  But in a community with fewer good characters, this process could quickly become a runaway train toward the slippery slopes of corruption. Not enough people know civics, and the prosecutors can manipulate them at will.  Looking through my book on criminal law, I see that if I were a prosecutor, I could prosecute thousands of laws on just about anybody on any given day.  And suppose I had to present evidence to a jury to overcome a defense attorney. In that case, I am sure I could do it successfully on almost anything, including prosecuting a ham sandwich.  The whole process opened my eyes to many more significant problems, but I am very grateful at this stage in my life to have had this experience.  Because it’s one thing to wonder about, it’s quite another to see it for yourself, and in my tenure, I learned a lot of valuable information that moved from the speculation category into fact.  I would say that being on a grand jury is one of the most important things a person could do in their community life.  It’s very much needed.  But it requires even more people to take that job very seriously because many lives depend on it to be done well.  But there are a lot of characters working now in criminal justice who do know how to take advantage of ordinary people on a jury and who don’t know which way is up or down.  And a slick, progressive prosecutor could easily have their way with such people.  In the case of Jack Smith, that makes him even more dangerous in my book, now that I’ve seen the process up close, and with the doors closed for weeks at a time.  I left my experience very proud of the work that was going on in Butler County, Ohio.  However, on a larger scale, these notions of United Nations world courts and Jack Smith’s role in them, openly working against our Constitution to subvert it for some globalist objective, became all too clear.  And for me, perhaps it was just the right thing at the right time to uncover this phantom menace while we still can. 

Rich Hoffman

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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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Why Thomas Hall is so Great: If only everyone was so lucky

Fight, fight, fight was the theme of the evening at the GOP tent at the VOA Country Music Festival, where several officeholders and some running for the first time gathered together ahead of the upcoming elections.  It was an excellent time to catch up with everyone. I could speak to many people in a way that I hadn’t done for a long time, which was good.  But what do we mean by fighting and winning in politics?  When I think of such a thing, I think of the young man Thomas Hall, who is the Ohio Representative in my district and is running to hold the seat he currently has.  But he wasn’t always in my district; he used to have the Middletown area, but now, in District 46, he represents Liberty Township and the surrounding areas, which I’m thrilled with.  I’ve seen Thomas Hall in the pressure cooker for a while now, and I supposed he’s not as much of a young man as when he first started in politics.  But I think a lot of him, and for good reason.  I have been meaning, and we didn’t quite get there during this event, to talk to him about his recent trip to Israel, which I am very interested in.  But behind the politics, Thomas Hall is just a good person, one of those cases where he’s better than the package you see.  He’s just a promising young man who has survived the fires of Hell and come out on top, and he looks poised to stay there.  This is a good thing for anybody he represents in the Ohio Statehouse.  He takes his job very seriously, and it shows.  I’ve seen him in Columbus work a room, and if he didn’t have a great foundation to work with, it would be easy to be swept away by lobbyists and other scandalous characters.  But with Thomas, you get the feeling with him that he’s always savvy and under control.  And that any malicious intent that comes his way can easily be handled. 

I’ve met his parents several times at some of these events, but we had more time to talk in August of 2024 than we have in the past.  In some of those previous times, things looked so dire that nobody was sure what would happen next.  Politics, as I have said, is a blood sport; things can and do get pretty wild.  Many people who came to the Country Music Festival at the VOA needed to talk to each other.  It’s been a tough four years since Trump left office, and people have lost focus in some respects.  It’s tough when you are trying to grow the tent of the party to accommodate more people, but those people don’t have the same foundations and strength; when the pressure of politics emerges and moral necessities come into play, it’s easy to drift into decay.  And as a political party, Southern Ohio Republicans needed to break some bread together.  A lot of people get into politics for different reasons, and it’s up to each person to find some reason to have common ground with others for the sake of party politics.  Authenticity can often get abused in such cases, but that was never the case with Thomas Hall, and in some of those times, I referred to his parents as good people who made a good kid.  Thomas’ dad was a former police officer, now a firefighter chief.  His mom is a wonderful enthusiast of the men in her life, her husband and son, and when I see them all together, it’s usually a big family affair.  Thomas has, of course, a love interest who I see around town a lot, and she is always supportive and doing the extra work it takes to run successful campaigns.  When you speak with them, you can tell that they all have good foundations that give them firm ground to stand on no matter what is happening in the world. 

So Thomas always tells me he’s grateful to me for getting through some of these tough times of turmoil where rough campaigns got very heated.  My help pushed him over the top and put him in office so he could do the excellent work he is doing presently and, I hope, well into the future.  And I tell him that he’s the one who did all the hard work, and indeed, there are very few people who work as hard at politics as Thomas Hall.  He gets out and knocks on doors and is very tenacious.  And I’ve seen him working directly with Governor DeWine on legislation that was difficult to make happen, so the elbow-twisting part of politics takes a hard worker, and he has deserved all the success he has had and more.  He doesn’t have to throw appreciation my way.  What I have done for him, I do for many people. He’s referring to a lot that goes on behind the scenes, but I’m happy to do it because I like seeing good people get a chance to do good things in the world.  Like a gardener who pulls up the weeds of a garden to protect the good plants, you are trying to grow while preventing the parasites from destroying everything.  I do what I do because I like seeing the good stuff grow.  And Thomas Hall has grown into a lot of good things. 

So when his parents thanked me for all I have done for their son, I had to tell them what I thought of them, which shows up in Thomas, and I think about it a lot.  They were good parents to him.  Thomas Hall has a great foundation that other people in the world don’t have because they, as parents, gave him a great place to start.  If things get too hot, at least Thomas has a nice family that cares for him.  And it shows.  So, while they intended to thank me, which they did, I would give the credit to all of them.  Thomas is a sincerely good person who is not wasting his talent.  But to his parents for raising a good kid who has grown into a good man, a lot of people would love to be so lucky.  The sense of service that Thomas has picked up from his dad is being applied to Ohio positively.  I’m happy to defend and support anybody like that, and there are others.  Perhaps not as good as Thomas, but in my experience with these kinds of things, a lot of similar personality traits emerge in these kinds of people who get involved in politics and want to represent people in government.  Not everyone has the advantage of a good family on which they can rely.  But Thomas Hall does, and as I told his parents, if anybody should be thanking anybody, the world should be thanking them for producing such a nice young and honest man in the world.  I am personally very proud of Thomas Hall.  But I’m also very proud of his parents.  I wish there were more people in the world like them.  And maybe in the future, there will be.  There is hope in the world that people will follow their example and do better for themselves and others.  Usually, when you meet people who are as well put together as Thomas Hall, good parents at the foundation make it all possible.

Rich Hoffman

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Kamala Harris and Her Communist Democrats: Trying to escape the burden of what has been

One of the important things that Kamala Harris says repeatably in her public appearances is “what can be, unburdened by what has been.”  It is her most consistent statement and is the essential political platform of “progressives.”  They want change from their present condition, into what “can be.”  Usually, that consists of bad decisions that they have made and allows them to erase the implications of failure and replace it with some form of comfortable group acceptance. What Kamala is talking about is the summary of the Karl Marx book, The Communist Manifesto and has been the mantra of those types of people for well over a century now. Yet, in the most successful country in the world, which has empowered the most people over the longest period, why would we want all this change? Because what she is saying is that she and her kind want to change from the best country to the worst. That is what Barack Obama’s Hope and Change always was essentially, the hope of the communists of the world that America would change its practices and become just as bad as everyone else. When you are a loser, as Kamala Harris clearly has been, and made terrible decisions in life that are embarrassing, of course you would not want to be burdened with that memory for the rest of your life. So, for Democrats, this idea of not being burdened by what has been, is a chance to reinvent themselves away from all their mistakes. And that is what we are up against with the global Marxists, which Kamala Harris is their clear representative. What she is talking about in her radical political platform is an appeal to the losers of the world to hit a great reset and tear away the standards of success, so that she can make way for that unburdened judgment of social norms, such as not having reckless sex, and aborting the child as a result so that they can be unburdened from their mistakes.  Or using drugs to become unburdened by the impact of reality. Or going on welfare to be unburdened by the pressure of a need to produce income to support your family. That is the world of Kamala Harris and her Democrats of Doom in America.

It was not always easy for people to admit that there was a communist party platform in America that was seeking to undo all our lives. We always thought that the threat of invasion would be as it was presented in movies about war, such as The Longest Day with John Wayne. Or Red Dawn. But I have warned for years that much of what the Democrat party does is communist. And there has never been such an overt communist running for office than Kamala Harris and her VP pick the China loving Tim Walz. And yes, he loves China and has quite a long history with the communist country. These are not our friendly neighbors. These are hostile insurgents seeking to undo the American way of life, which is to say, a successful life of liberty and happiness for which we are all entitled to pursue under the freedom of self-assertion. I can say that I have seen a lot of stuff. And recently as part of an experience on a grand jury, I can say that I have seen a grotesque underbelly of what is really going on in society, and I will have a lot to say about it. But my opinions do not come from a vacuum of experiencing the world from the safety of my own peer groups. I have always stepped out of that comfort zone looking for added information and I can say that I have seen the worst of what people can do.

Sadly, I have always loved Middletown, Ohio, where J.D. Vance is from. It is a shame what has happened to it. But it is what happens to cities that end up with leadership like what Kamala Harris proposes, where too much communism is brought in to manage what used to be a thriving community. In the case of Middletown, diversity was brought in where shared values were not normalized. And the well-paying jobs of their economy were shipped away through policy to the needs of globalism. And what’s left is an entire community that cannot go on vacation without the burdens of society wanting to accept people taking over your home. I can say that I have seen a multitude of examples in just Middletown of the worst that people can do to each other where social collapse has happened as a direct result of communist policy hidden behind the political party of Democrats. And there are homes where drug use is as common as eating cereal for breakfast. People come and go from these homes wondering aimlessly through life and they seek drugs to bury their pains of horrendous decisions made through life in great abundance. And the weight of their bad decisions, unpaid for, brings the world around them into a landscape of misery. That is precisely what Kamala Harris, who has been a drug user herself, means when she wants to be unburdened from the past to make way for what can be. Whenever a society is running from their past where they did not achieve success due to bad decisions, you end up with a result of failure compounded because behavior was never inspired to change for the better. They just ran from the results of their failure, which never fixes anything.

What Democrats leave in their wake is the kind of nightmares that you see in high crime areas, what Democrats have essentially done to California, and communities like Middletown, Ohio. The way people who seek to unburden themselves from the mistakes of the past live is incredibly detrimental and the world would be shocked if forced to look at it for too long. It is one thing to hear about sad things going on in the world, its quite another to see and hear the details of a criminal underbelly that is the net result of lives lived under the mantra that Kamala Harris is uttering for the entire country. To be unburdened by the past to make way for what can be. She is not talking about success, because America has been successful with the most opportunities for the most people that there are in the world. Rather, Democrats want people to fail in life, because their entire platform is to replace that failure with the stolen redistribution of value that they use the government to steal from good people, and to give to desperate people who have lived their lives in horrible ways. And they seek to spread their influence on every corner of the globe with communism, because through shared guilt and penalty, the burden of a life lived poorly can be shared, so that those most guilty don’t have to be crushed by the burden of bad decisions for the rest of their lives.  Kamala Harris and her communist Democrats want people to make mistakes because she is offering redemption from those errors which then gives centralized government more power. And a world of individuality is destroyed as a result, which is the change that communists want to evoke in the world, especially in America.

Rich Hoffman

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Bernie Moreno is Poised to Win Ohio: Among voters over 50, he holds a 2-point lead

While discussing polling, let’s discuss the Bernie Moreno senate race in Ohio against Sherrod Brown, the entrenched Democrat who many have thought is unbeatable.  Based on current polling in August of 2024, there is a lot of very encouraging news ahead of significant media buys by Moreno in the fourth quarter to seal the deal.  Among voters over 50, Bernie Moreno is ahead of Sherrod Brown by 2.  Across the state, with all voters considered, Brown is up by 4, but he has had to spend many millions of dollars to lose a lot of ground to Bernie essentially.  I’ve talked about all that before, but these tight polls this early are very encouraging.  Because the over 50 numbers fall into what I have been saying are the keys for Bernie to beat Sherrod Brown and take from the Democrats that long-held senate seat.  If we’re going to make an honest pitch to defeat globalism, defeating Sherrod Brown’s seat in Ohio is essential.  So this is good news because when it all comes down to boots on the ground, and the too big to rig campaign that all MAGA Republicans have to understand is a factor that works against them, we know that people over 50 tend to vote more than those under.  So when we look at total voter engagement, things look very good for Bernie Moreno to swipe that senate seat away from the tentacles of the Democrat party.  Trump hogs all the air when talking about politics, but stories like this one in Ohio with Bernie Moreno say the most about what is happening.  When thinking about Bernie Moreno and the long history of Sherrod Brown, the first thing people think of is whether Bernie can win.  Is he worth the campaign donation?  Should I even knock on the doors trying to advocate for him to win?  Should I even put out a yard sign?  The answer is yes because not only can Bernie Moreno win, but he can win big, and the Sherrod Brown people know it. 

There is a lot going for Bernie Moreno.  He got into this race through his friendship with J.D. Vance who gave him an endorsement early in the process, well before Charlie Kirk and other national names did the same.  Bernie also has a personal relationship with Don Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle that extends beyond politics into a real friendship.  These are good names to know and point to a MAGA senate that would be unlike anything we’ve seen in our lifetimes as far as accountability and competence.  When you look at some of the other senate seats across the country and what J.D. Vance has already been able to do during his first few years, many Trump family picks could make a Trump White House spectacular.  Nothing like what was working against Trump in 2016-2020.  I mean there is a reason that “they” want to kill him.  Nothing else has stopped Trump and he is poised to win as his own polling shows him beating Kamala Harris without much of a fight.  There is some media fanfare, but again, when we talk about the reality of engagement, many more people are excited to vote for Trump than Kamala Harris.  She is a media creation designed to sell ad revenue to a horse race that appears much closer than it is.  And on the back of that effort, there are many senate seats that will get Trump voters to vote for them, like Bernie Moreno.  And there are opportunities for Republicans to pick up a massive majority in this upcoming senate. 

If the media doesn’t try to keep these political races looking closer to reality, they will lose a lot of ad revenue they count on for their sustainability.  And in Ohio, the close race between Brown and Moreno will be one of the most expensive in the country.  But at this point, the Moreno team has not spent much money.  I spoke to Moreno about this the other day, and he told me their plans for September and October, but Sherrod Brown will not be able to match them.  The Democrats have already spent a small fortune in Ohio to get the weak results we discussed in the opening of this article: a 4-point lead across the state but with voters over 50 leaning toward Bernie by 2 points.  And among independents, about a quarter of them are over 50.  So, in an election where engagement between the parties is not equal, Democrats don’t have much to be excited about, whereas Republicans do; they just had the head of their ticket almost killed on live television, and being the tough guy he is, took the shot to the head in spectacular fashion and got up and pumped his bloody fist in defiance to the sky.  And that guy has personally endorsed Bernie Moreno who is very close to the Trump family.  Sherrod Brown is distraught, perhaps for the first time in his long political career.  People are excited about Bernie Moreno’s potential.  But they know what they get from Sherrod Brown and the Democrat achievements over this last decade is something people are running from, not running to.

During the summer, I do a lot of traveling for competitive shooting events, most weekends through September, and early on, I have seen Bernie Moreno signs all over the place in what I think is too soon for politics.  However, it shows how excited people are for Trump and Trump-endorsed candidates.  There are not many Sherrod Brown signs.  I’ve seen a few here and there, but nothing like what is behind the Bernie Moreno movement, starting in July and moving into August.  I have been to every interstate exit along the Ohio highway system, except for the turnpike, which I avoid in upper Ohio.  So the Bernie Moreno signs are consistent, not just regionalized in Southern Ohio.  One day, I wondered about all this when I noticed a neighbor putting out his Bernie Moreno signs early, so I asked him why.  I hadn’t put mine out yet because I hadn’t been home really enough to do so.  And he said he couldn’t wait to get Bernie Moreno into the Senate with Trump in the White House.  And for him, that process started by putting a sign in his yard three months early.  You do not see people doing that kind of thing for Sherrod Brown.  Like I said, people know who he is.  Bernie is the opportunity for something better, and if everything is pretty even now, by election day, Bernie will only get better, while Brown will have a lot to lose.  Playing not to lose is not playing to win, and that’s where all Democrats find themselves.  So yes, things are looking well for Bernie Moreno.  We can’t take anything for granted, but as things are shaping up, Bernie Moreno has a great chance of beating Sherrod Brown and gaining that critical senate seat.  There is a lot to be excited about.  But take nothing for granted.  And do all the work it takes.  But in the end, everything will work for the better and be well worth it.

Rich Hoffman

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Homeland Security Invades Butler County, Ohio: How federal government seeks to undermine local law enforcement for strategic growth of centralized authority

I’m going to cry foul on the raid by Homeland Security into my community where agents from them, and the IRS went door to door on charges of financial crimes and labor exploitation.  Alejandro Mayorkas, Biden’s loser of a Secretary of Homeland Security, looks to be making some election-year posturing, and it was his policies that brought in so many illegal aliens even to make such a raid possible.  The four homes in Liberty Township and other homes up the highway into Dayton are just the tip of the iceberg.  But who let the iceberg into the country?  It was Mayorkas and the lazy and inefficient Homeland Security people who have made America far more dangerous.  As is consistent with many federal agencies, such as the CIA and FBI, they are picking a white-collar crime to get some news splash to look like they are doing something.  Usually, with such theatrics, they have money on their mind as they are looking for Congress to renew their budgets, and dazzling headlines like this raid are their method.  But honestly, it’s too little too late.  Many of the illegals who are being “exploited” were allowed in by the policies of the Biden/Harris White House and the antics of Homeland Security.  From the way it looks, the entire raid from Homeland Security was a pure PR stunt, and they targeted a Dayton company, Fuyao Glass, which happens to be a Chinese outfit, so there is a lot wrong going on here.  However, the problems are mainly under the water, and what Homeland Security did with their exhibition of home-to-home raids, complete with search warrants, is an abuse of authority and a shell game of smoke and mirrors that cannot be tolerated.  Because they caused the problem in the first place, they used their power and authority to disrupt our community even more, using a show of useless force to establish that the federal government has power and that people should hide in their homes and yield to it.

I’ve never endorsed shows of force like this by federal authorities.  They are corrupt at best and detrimental at their core.  However, before my recent experience as the foreman of a grand jury in Butler County, Ohio, the same county where a lot of this Homeland Security business happened, I would have my opinions shaped by skepticism, but not experience.  Now, I have some knowledge, which I very much wanted as I have heard from many prosecutors, police officers, and persons of all kinds about evidence, crimes, and the day-to-day function of law enforcement.  Now, let’s get one thing straight: I love law enforcement, and I love law.  I love our state legislature.  I love our judges in Butler County.  And I think a lot of our Sheriff.  I love our prosecutor.  I love establishing a law-and-order society built on biblical context as a natural extension of our American Constitution and the state-revised code and criminal law that spawns directly from it.  So, I was happy to say yes to an opportunity to be a grand jury foreman.  For me, that’s like giving Ralphie, the kid from the Christmas Story movie his first Red Ryder BB gun.  I would express my time on the grand jury as one of the best things I have done this year because it satisfied an itch I have had for a lifetime.  I have seen all these cases and read all the indictments in the paper prior, and I want to know why and how cases get prosecuted and how the process works from the top down.  And when you are on the grand jury, you get to be the top cop of your community for your term.  And when you understand the 10th Amendment, that makes you the top cop in the land of the free, and I like that, to say it mildly. 

Yet I could walk any cop or prosecutor straight to the home of many drug sellers and abusers.  I could go around my community as a vigilante like Batman and uproot many sex trafficking cases and drug busts to fill many newspapers, so it is very frustrating to me to see all the cases that don’t get busted.  And it’s been a mystery to me.  I have speculated a lot about why things happen the way they do, but now that I have experience as the grand jury’s foreman, I understand very well what’s going on.  Even if the police themselves aren’t allowed to say it, and let me tell everyone, I will put this experience to good use for years.  To say it mildly. 

While I can’t talk about specific cases, I can talk about the generalities of the overall experience, and one question I have always had is, if we know there is a drug house selling lots of drugs and poisoning our community, why don’t we storm in and get all the punks and lock them up and throw away the key?  Well, based on many hours of testimony by police who do these kinds of things every day, a clear picture emerges that is part of a larger pattern of concealment for which they are powerless to do anything.  One such hypothetical is a drug enforcement group that knows a drug house is selling, and they are about to make their move for a bust.  They have spent months collecting evidence, getting their warrant, and are about to take action.  But then the Feds come in, such as the FBI, and they beat them to the punch.  In one scenario that I’m thinking of specifically, the Feds kicked in the door, and the local drug enforcement guys lost visibility on the occupants for over 30 minutes, plenty of time to flush all the drugs down the toilet and destroy a lot of evidence ahead of the official investigation.  The Fed then throws their investigation into perpetual bureaucratic hell; the local guys lose their evidence and can only arrest possession of little bits still in the pockets of the perpetrators.  The big picture is never dealt with because Federal investigations often destroy the strings linking them to prosecution, such as what that Homeland Security raid was.  And that’s essentially why prosecutions don’t go further to the drug cartels themselves, and our local agents can only get indictments on the pushers they catch on the street, isolating the big guys from the higher crimes.  The crimes are covered up by purposeful negligence and federal agents trumping local ones with jurisdiction infractions that keep the story of crime from ever being told.  And they count on little raids like this one in Butler County with Homeland Security to hide the significant crimes they are guilty of allowing to happen in the first place.  It’s the same kind of negligence that was seen with the Secret Service that allowed a sniper shooter onto a roof in Pennsylvania to kill President Trump.  It’s a game that federal agencies, very politically motivated, have been playing for a long time.  And it is they who cause most of our troubles.  And our local people in law enforcement are continuously being disrespected by this process.  And I know how and why it’s happening now more than ever because I have seen it up close.  And I’m not happy about it.  So yeah, I’m not keen on what Homeland Security did in my community with their exhibitions of force in raiding homes and taking evidence so that neighbors would see the federal government at work trying to clean up a mess they caused but seeking public adulation for crimes they allowed to happen in the first place, for purely political monstrosities of doom and malice designed to topple our nation from within for enemies both foreign and domestic.  And anything attached to Alejandro Mayorkas should be viewed as a threat to the American way of life, including going door to door to impose federal power on innocent people for a show of force meant to suppress freedom and prosperity among free people just minding their own business.  I would say, based on my experience, those illegal aliens were let into the country to create the opportunity to get a warrant so that the federal government could impose power over local authorities and attempt to diminish local law enforcement in a grab for power and stronger centralized power in government that has as its goal a much more sinister plot unfolding as we speak.

Rich Hoffman

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The Truth of Why Biden is Stepping Down: Bernie Moreno is doing great in Ohio, leaving Sherrod Brown desperate

As everyone is consumed with the Joe Biden news of him dropping out of the race, they have not mentioned the real reason why.  It’s not because they are afraid of losing the White House, which many are.  But that’s not the critical thing.  As we have talked about often, the down-ballot races are starting to show erosion, and one such race is one they are concerned about in Ohio, which is the Senator Sherrod Brown seat.  Ohio is the future of a new economy where the battle plan is to bring jobs back from foreign markets, destroyed initially by globalism, and with J.D. Vance getting the VP pick by Trump, because of the story of Middletown, Ohio that is one of the best examples of this tragic aggression by global finance, Ohio is going to be the centerpiece of the MAGA movement trade policies over the next few years.  And Sherrod Brown, the long-time Democrat stronghold, is not polling well against his challenger Bernie Moreno.  Bernie is 3 points down in July without spending any money. At the same time, Sherrod Brown has spent a small fortune only to see his lead dwindle to a margin that is essentially within the margin of error.  I had an excellent chance to talk to Bernie in the backyard of a mutual friend’s house, fresh off his return from Wisconsin, where he introduced J.D. Vance as the Vice Presidential Nominee for Trump.  Bernie and J.D. have been tied at the hip for the last few years, and there are few political alliances closer to the MAGA movement than J.D. Vance and Bernie Moreno.  Always close in the background is Don Jr. and the next generation of Republicans who will fill the gaps once Trump does finally retire after this next term.  So we had a lot to talk about, and that was good.

I have been impressed with Bernie Moreno. It seems like a long time ago, but it was only September of 2023 when I had a call from a bunch of people who wanted me to have lunch with Bernie at a country club nearby and to hear his pitch.  I was tired after just landing from Japan, and I didn’t think much of what I considered at the time to be a third-place guy in the primary.  But I went anyway, and I was happy I did because I left that meeting thinking Bernie was a fresh shot in the arm which would be great if he could get through the primary process.  Which he did without much struggle.  And I became a Bernie Moreno supporter through his hard-earned efforts.  I have seen him on several occasions since then and have been impressed with his natural charisma and love for hard work.  He’s not a phony but a successful businessman who, like many people associated with President Trump, is getting into politics for all the right reasons.  He wants to Make America Great Again.  At that lunch meeting, I learned that Bernie was associated with Charlie Kirk from Turning Point USA and was personal friends with Don Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle.  So I quickly went from a “he doesn’t have a chance” to “he’s the right kind of guy” quickly, which is why it’s good to get to know some of these people.  We all hear stories of politicians who get into the business for all the wrong reasons and become embarrassed by them once they are elected.  So, I’m always interested in exceptional people who go way above and beyond to break that stereotype, so I came away from that first meeting with Bernie feeling great about him.  There are a lot of bad politicians out there, and Bernie isn’t one of them. 

One of the things we spoke about regarding the events that led up to the RNC Convention and his introducing J.D. Vance to the world as the VP for Trump was the dinner he had with Don Jr. just a few days before as we were talking about sincere people, and Don Jr. had taken the call from his daughter asking to speak at the Convention.  There are many people in the world that Don Jr. could be having dinner with, but he was with Bernie.  So Bernie has turned out to be the center of everything: MAGA.  And as we were talking about all that had happened over the last several months since that first meeting, fresh from my trip to Japan, was how the Ohio race was shaping up.  Sherrod Brown isn’t used to competition and has struggled with Trump’s MAGA movement.  It’s been a problem for Brown for a long time because the unions are influential in the north, and Trump is good with them.  Progressive politics doesn’t hold up well to Trump, leaving Brown to stay close and friendly to the President for his survival.  But the Trump family heavily endorses Bernie Moreno, and Brown knows how difficult that makes things for him.  So there is a panic in the Brown camp right now with the race being that close with several months to go and the Moreno team not spending any money yet.  By September, when the NFL season starts, the Bernie ad money will kick in, and people all over the nation, especially in Ohio, will meet the Bernie Moreno I have come to know, and they will want to vote for him.  He’s a good guy running for one of the most important seats in the nation.  And Ohio is ground zero for MAGA policies that will help Pennsylvania and Michigan become great again as an improved labor market for manufacturing and fossil fuels. 

So yes, there is more to Joe Biden dropping out of the race.  They have seen all these internals, the things we have discussed in these important backyard meetings for a while now.  And the reality is smashing them in the face, which I think is excellent.  Democrats deserve to lose; they have been deceitful and malicious, and their policies have destroyed American manufacturing toward globalism in vicious ways that they deserve to pay dearly for.  And, of course, Democrats can’t look in the mirror and apply blame to themselves; they think it’s because Biden has been a horrible president and that he is dragging down the ticket for all races, even dog catchers.  But the truth is, Republicans just needed good people like Bernie Moreno and J.D. Vance, who were privately very successful before they got into politics, to run as options, and suddenly, MAGA Republican politics is a fresh breath of air for the future.  And there aren’t many others across the country who are more MAGA than Bernie Moreno.  I enjoyed speaking with him again and am excited to see him beat Sherrod Brown in Ohio for that critical Senate seat.  Even Mitch McConnell is excited about Bernie as national fundraising for that seat has caught his eye, and he’s helping aggressively.  Bernie is uniting people; when you meet him, it’s easy to see why.  He’s a very likable person, and he’s smart.  And it will be people like him who hold the future of America in their hands.  After all that we’ve been through, it is wonderful to see.  We deserve Bernie Moreno for all the good he is and will be once he wins that Senate seat from Sherrod Brown and the Democrats of doom and their policies that have destroyed so much.  With Bernie, there is hope and a reason to think of the future in fresh, new ways.

Rich Hoffman

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The Prosecution of Trump is to Hide Election Fraud from 2020: When the crimes stack up until they can’t be hidden any more

I recently watched a complete show trial against Darbi Boddy in Butler County, Ohio, so I know what one looks like.  The judges, lawyers, prosecutors, and other participants know their game and how to play it.  And at the end of the day, they are all lunch buddies.  Crime and justice certainly take a back seat.  So it was not a matter of coincidence that the Trump trial in New York, where Fat Alvin Bragg was the prosecutor, ended on the day it did, at the time of year that it did with considering jury deliberations and the so-called randomness of their duration of decisions.  Much of that timeline was shaped by Juan Merchan, the Biden-donating judge when he gave it to the jury.  So they all knew what was on the schedule for the first week of June 2024, and it was quite something to watch: Hunter Biden’s gun trial, where, guess what, the prosecutors admitted into evidence the famous Biden laptop that the CIA and FBI said didn’t exist, then that it was disinformation.  Yet there was all the sex, drugs, and sold political offices to foreign thugs and bandits for all to see.  Then Merrick Garland of the Justice Department was at hearings for Contempt of Congress.  While that was going on, Dr. Fauci was getting grilled again about COVID-19 and his role in killing millions of people with the bioweapon that was made in Wuhan, China.  As many couldn’t believe, Covid was no longer a dangerous virus; it was a bioweapon managed by Dr. Fauci, the highest-paid government employee in the United States.  Gee, who predicted all these things from the beginning?  Hmmmmmmm?  Let’s see………………hmmmmmm.  ME!  Even in the darkest days of much of what happened, I was telling everyone all about it clearly from the start.  And now that proof is emerging, slowly and surely, people can see what I was warning them about.

And knowing all that, you have to understand that these court cases against Trump are for one purpose only, and that is to cover up of the public learning just how much Democrats and others stole the 2020 election.  I would call it “the great distraction.”  Democrats and progressives who put Biden in the White House cannot afford for what is about to happen, to happen.  That proves Biden never had anywhere close to 81 million votes in 2020.  Because they know, and it’s obvious already, that if people lose faith in them, they won’t be able to hold power through manipulation anymore, as they do now.  They will have to turn to violence, raw violence, as it is in almost all other countries.  Most countries have rigged elections, and they do kill off their political rivals, especially in communist countries.  And the communists behind the Democrat Party in America are certainly trying to do just that with Trump.  I explained all this to a few people the other day who just don’t get it, but there it is.  All this drama in prosecuting Trump is to hide just how much election fraud there was in 2020.  And many thousands of people broke the law to perform it.  It was one of the most significant crimes in the history of the world, and the people who did it know they are guilty. They worry incessantly that the public is going to catch them in 2024 because without cheating, with a somewhat straight election, Democrats cannot win.  That is why they have flooded our border with illegal immigrants, hoping to convince us that we should count those illegal votes as valid ones in this upcoming election.  With their early voting and control over digital machines, there are lots of opportunities to cheat in elections, and Democrats have been doing it for a long time. 

Recently, I have been talking about the mob activity around significant national crimes like the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire and the Kennedy assassinations because they are primarily unsolved and have taught modern criminals, who have moved their activities into government, how to lie until you die and get away with literal murder, by making the crime bigger than the court system can prosecute.  And that is what we have with Covid and election fraud from 2020.  Crimes too big to prosecute, and to cover it all up, to take a famous person like Trump and attempt to make the story all about him as a distraction.  Because they can’t afford a toe-to-toe matchup with two former presidents in a drag race of public sentiment.  Because they will not be able to escape the judgment that emerges.  Trump was never supposed to make it this far in the next presidential election.  He would either be forced into retirement or eradicated.  It’s what the mob used to call “burning you out” before they caused a fire that destroyed the property they wanted to buy but wouldn’t sell to them.  So they burn you out.  We are now seeing crimes on top of crimes committed at the expense of public trust that has grown out of control.  And there is no way to go back and put it all in a bottle of pre-2019 and live a good life together and talk about women’s rights, racism, and global wars like we used to.  These people in the government tried to kill us with COVID-19.  And they stole our president in Trump.  And they were trying to hide those crimes with more crimes.

I was dining with some friends at the S.O.B. (Son of a Butcher) at Liberty Center in Butler County, which I think is one of the finest steakhouses in the city of Cincinnati, and I was showing my companions the “gangster room” where there is a picture of Snoop Dogg there for all to see.  To be on that wall in that place, you have to have been arrested.  And many forget that Snoop Dogg, the guy who does the Corona beer commercials and many other things that kids idolize, the pothead gangster of the rap music industry, was arrested for murder.  It was a gang run-in between Snoop Dogg and his bodyguard and a rival gang, and shots were fired, and a kid was killed.  Snoop Dogg got off the charge with an “inclusive” jury and became one of the rap industry’s biggest stars.  Many people with me at that restaurant had forgotten about that 1995 case that occured in 1993 when the Dogg was only 21 years old.  But that’s a standard way to hide many of these crimes.  People are overloaded with information and then told what to think about it.  Then, by the time everyone figures it out, many decades are gone, and most of the original participants are dead.  But when it comes to election fraud in 2020, the crime is still fresh, and the government that orchestrated a coup against President Trump does not get to deny it until they discover the truth because this next election will expose them with a much less showing of voter turnout, revealing the crime.  So they are going to do anything and everything to hide the crime with every distraction they can.  But look at all these other trials and hearings going on.  The crimes have stacked up to the point where the criminals cannot deal with them anymore, and the public has grown tired of being lied to to cover up the crimes.  They might have forgotten about Snoop Dogg’s murder trial and what it reveals about the pot-advocate rap star who now sells cheap Mexican beer.  However, these crimes, such as COVID-19 and election fraud, are still too new.  And the people who participated in those crimes are still at the height of their careers.  And the public is learning too early just how bad those crimes were.  And they are furious about them. 

Rich Hoffman

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Making The Noose Great Again: Punishing the bad guys with capital punishment

In reaction to many of the things I have been saying and predicting about our present society, people are strongly inclined toward Making America Great Again by Making the Noose Great Again.  The courts have been shown, which I would argue they never were properly working, to be only good for leftist Marxist ideology.  Frontier justice, where hanging for crimes committed against a community, gave people a level of satisfaction that satisfied communities, and their work toward a justice-driven society is being yearned for.  Even though we may look back upon Western expansion with reverence and ideas of romance, in living freely, there were a lot of problems that are much better in our present conditions.  We don’t have to worry about Indian attacks or picking up unknown diseases every few feet.  Our lifespan today is much longer than they used to be.  We have considered that we are much more sophisticated now than when capital punishment was as common as a sunset.  But, the general feeling is that people behave concerning each other if something they might do might come across as an offense that could lead to their untimely death.  If a criminal was caught before Western expansion had traveling judges to enact law and order, hanging the bad guys, happened all the time.  And without it, there would have been no ability to have a growing society.  When people talk about the evils of Western expansion, again, it’s the political left, the same losers who are behind pornography, international financing, abortion, pot smoke, and welfare programs who were against it and think the Indians should still be in charge of a teepee and dancing in some field to make it rain.  Much of what they have brought the world through the pages of Karl Marx has been ridiculously stupid, and people are slowly admitting to just how bad it has been.  And they are ready to make some changes.

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I’ve been to court many times and have known many lawyers and judges.  I want to like them.  I like the idea of a courtroom to be respected.  I love our various state and federal constitutions and think a law-and-order society is the only way. Strict enforcement of the law is how you protect the kinds of values that make a society work.  But, and this is a big butt, a suburban mom who votes for tax levies for corrupt leftist government schools big, we were a better society when we had dueling.  I think of Alexander Hamilton’s duel with Aaron Burr and the many duels that President Andrew Jackson had over his lifetime; we were a much more respectful society when bad behavior was called out to satisfaction and carried out with seconds there to represent the effort.  If people hadn’t worked out their differences before one of them ended up dead, they may have ended up friends for life.  That was a much better way to solve conflicts than what we have now, where crimes are punted to the state, and the state processes their punishment through the legal system.  The state, what happens to most things the government touches, messes everything up, and the only people who benefit are the state in confiscating wealth and redistributing it to people who don’t deserve it.  The courts and their lawyers make all the money off conflict resolution.  Then, the worst thing that can happen to a criminal is they are locked up in prison, which then makes them parasites on society for that duration.  Someone has to feed them, and the general hope is that they might be reformed and let out to inflict crime in the future.  That is the best that our court systems are offering us.  And even that is a rare occurrence. 

These people have no idea how much anger is coming in their direction, for what they have been doing to us for years. De Niro has no idea how much the game has changed.

Most of the time, court cases drag out too long, and it’s always the wrong people getting punished.  These days, as we have seen with President Trump and many others, the courts have been weaponized.  Two local cases in my community, the Darbi Boddy school board case at Lakota and the Roger Reynolds case, were clear examples of a weaponized court system that had nothing to do with justice but political power intent to rob voters of their picks for political office.  It was utterly corrupt, and lawyers were the only people who benefited from those cases.  Replacing gun battles with foes with pinheaded lawyers arguing with words, and not bullets, has turned out to be stupid.  And the bad guys know it.  There is nothing about our present system that inspires people to behave themselves.  So why not rape that innocent person?  Or steal from a family and their efforts at hard work?  Why not be a louse, a drug addict, or an abuser of alcohol?  What in our society inspires people not to be losers, criminals, and leeches off society?  The answer is nothing.  The works of Karl Marx from the early 1850s on, and spread through Masonic orders all over Europe and America, have not been satisfactory, and people have given it a chance and have been left wanting.  We are not a better world because of our courts and a lack of capital punishment.  We have empowered the criminal-minded to abuse innocent people in the pursuit of some great society as the radical left envisioned it.  And we have been left with a society of disaster. 

As I have said many times, I have traveled extensively, and one thing that I do while traveling is pick up books from those areas to read.  While traveling in my RV, I commonly get up before anybody else and read outside in the portable office, which travels with me everywhere I go.  I have read many books from exotic places like Deadwood, South Dakota, Jackson Hole, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and Texas—everywhere, about law and order and the attempts during Western expansion to solve these problems.  The conclusion is that society was worse under court systems than frontier justice.  Once the criminals realized they could hide their acts of villainy behind bureaucratic courts and their processes of pinheaded lawyers and corrupt judges, there was nothing to fear from society, so they performed more crimes as a result.  At least with this Marxist-inspired court system, they were promised a free meal every day and didn’t have to work in society to get it.  Once we stopped hanging people for crimes in our communities and shooting them to defend private property, the criminals started to run our society which is a massive problem to this very day.  And people are beginning to admit how unhappy they are about it.  Crime thrives in a society where courts get in the way of justice and where the courts are used as weapons, which is happening now in our daily news.  A better way to handle many of these cases would be through capital punishment. Nobody wants to see innocent people killed and hung for crimes they didn’t do.  But the fear of getting caught doing something wrong kept a lot of criminals from crossing the line, and we became a much better society.  As people think about it, Making the Noose Great Again makes a lot of sense. 

Rich Hoffman

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The War on Porn and the Hustler Store in Monroe, Ohio: How the political left lied about sex and sophistication–and economic development

Yes, they lied to you when they said that sex peddling was a victimless crime.  When the great argument between Simon Leis and Larry Flint in Cincinnati, Ohio, over smut in the country’s cleanest city became the talk of the world in the 1970s, the crazed owner of Hustler would go to jail for his industry of indecency.  The political left has always tried to use sex as a free speech topic, just as they are doing with pot and transgender issues now.  The radical sex education that we are now seeing in public schools started a long time ago, and the more we let them get away with it, the more they kept coming.  We ended up with a Hustler of Hollywood store in Butler County, Ohio, right down the road from my house.  Larry Flint wanted revenge for all that happened to him as he was prosecuted by Leis and driven in the media over the edge of existence by Charlie Keating.  Flint would do then as he did with President Trump and put out a bounty for any dirt he could get on political figures who stood against him.  And in the case of Keating, he put out publicly, with free speech, a bounty for the rape of Keating’s daughter, which occurred on April 12th, 1977, in Burnet Woods on the University of Cincinnati campus.  I had a front-row seat to all of it, and I remember why Flint said he wanted to put that Hustler of Hollywood at our Butler County Monroe exit.  It was to attack the morality of Cincinnati that they couldn’t stop the porn advocates under the banner of using the First Amendment to undermine our entire society.  And when people traveled down I-75 from the north into the Cincinnati city limits, the first thing they would see was a porn shop run by Larry Flint, which is still standing.

But the story doesn’t end there.  What many people don’t know is that the mob bankrolled Larry Flint, the same crime families that had been running the sex shops and strip clubs in Newport, Ohio, and Covington across the river from Cincinnati.  I have talked about my employment by the mob before, from restaurants on Chester Rd in Sharonville to Mike Fink’s on the river of Ohio, and I can say that even in the 80s, the mob was still very active in cleaning their crime money through legitimate businesses.  The smut business was an easy cover for their other crimes because it attracted the attention of the public.  The FBI was in on the game, too; over time, the mobs became tired of running from the FBI, so they became the leaders, and it all went back to the first top cop, J. Edger Hoover, Bobby Kennedy, and the Beverly Hills Supper Club.  But what kept everyone from digging into the blood-soaked streets that might scare away convention businesses across the river in Cincinnati was that people like Larry Flint were valuable distractions so the mobs could operate without fear of prosecution.   It was just another form of a Cloward and Piven strategy that we see now happening on such a grand scale.  That’s because they learned it from the mobs in Cincinnati and the battles with Larry Flint during the early 70s, 80s, and 90s.  But as Clinton was in the White House, the smut kings felt untouchable.  The internet was coming along but was not yet the free porn provider that it is now, so another business moved in next to the Hustler property in Monroe with the same kind of intentions.  It was Bristol’s topless strip club that was right in the heart of Butler County, off the highway, and became an embarrassment that still permeates to this day. 

From around the mid-1990s until 2010, Bristol’s was a little strip club intent on destroying community values in one of the most family-friendly areas of the entire state, and it was an attack.  I knew many people who went there, and I knew people who worked there.  So, I know pretty explicitly what went on.  In the back of the place, there was a sizeable outside playground where clothing was optional, and anybody could play volleyball with topless young girls.  The place was a major blight on our community in Butler County, and it all started with Larry Flint wanting to desecrate the Cincinnati area’s family values purposely.  But even more so, behind all that was organized crime using porn and compromised men to control them politically.  Because who in their right mind could resist the temptation of 22-year-old girls and their boobies?  Not many, and to this day, most people drive by that location and pretend it’s not there.  Because they are ashamed of what they did there, and they’d love to forget about it; these days, with the government learning from the mob how to control mass populations with porn, it’s free and easy to get on the internet.  But that is another story of destruction that we haven’t yet dealt with.  But when we drive by the Hustler Store in Monroe, Ohio, it’s doing what Larry Flint wanted to do, and that reminds everyone that he was in charge because he was the provider of the forbidden fruit human beings couldn’t resist.  And ultimately, he could control society through their vices.  That’s why the mobsters put Larry Flint up as their front guy.  And he did his job well for them. 

By 2018, the Bristol property had closed and was torn down.  Despite being one of the country’s hottest commercial real estate properties, it remains empty.  Every time I look at it, I think it would be an excellent location for a Love’s Travel Center.  I have been everywhere in the country, and few highways stops are as great as that one in Monroe.  I think I have been to every exit up and down I-75 from Michigan to Florida, I-71, and many along I-70, I-80, and I-90.  And the old Bristol property next to the Hustler of Hollywood location is enormous.  There has been talk of a car dealership moving into the site, but there has not been much activity.  Why? Because it’s a scar from the past when strippers compromised many Butler County men away from their wives and families.  Most people now stop by that highway access port and avoid looking in that direction to avoid shame.  And that is the price of smut on economic activity.  What the political left sold as sophisticated free speech was just a mobster’s position of hiding their crime syndicates with vice and immorality.  And you always end up with a society that has fallen from grace and is empty of resolve, which ends up in a degraded state.  People like Larry Flint were purposefully evil and looking to turn the American Constitution on its head for the destruction of our country and to desecrate anybody who might try to save it from people like him.  And to this day, the effects of that war are still constant reminders of what happened in Monroe, Ohio.  Instead of being a thriving place, which Monroe deserves, it has a haze of guilt over it that makes it come across as just another truck stop exit catering to the needs of lonely truckers and their dirty need for unregulated sex.  And it’s messy, and Larry Flint stuck his sign of smut in the ground for us to forever see.  And he laughed at us as he did it while many men who might have stood against it snuck away from their homes to enjoy the temptations of misspent youth playing nude volleyball within view of the southbound ramp to I-75.  And there was nothing any moralist could do about it because it was a legally protected operation.  The mob had moved into the government, and before anybody could dig too deep, most people were compromised and could not stop it.  These guys played for keeps, and we have the kind of government we do today, primarily because of those efforts by Larry Flint and his Hustler enterprise.  There were a lot of casualties in that smut war, and the guilt of that war is still very much alive and well by the lack of good development at that Hustler site, which continues to hold back economic growth in Butler County that otherwise would have thrived.  Which, of course, answers the question about morality and economic activity.  The political left indeed lied, just as the Bible said they would.  But only too late did anybody realize just how much.

Oh, sure, we’ve all heard it before.  Mind your own business.  Don’t stick your nose of morality into my life.  It’s all about free speech and freedom of choice.  Well, I care about my community, and the decisions of these smut peddlers have lowered the value of property in my community, and I have always taken it personally.  As a legal premise, there is no legal “greater good” over “individual value.”  There is case law that leans away from individual value and favors the greater good, but those arguments are rooted in interpretive mistakes.  Because the same kind of thing is going to happen with pot legalization.  There are consequences for bad decisions, and porn was always a bad decision.  And we can see the results of that bad decision at that Monroe exit.  Sure, people own the property and have a right to do what they want with it.  Until they impact the lives of other people, which is what that history of porn in Monroe has left us all tarnished with.  And is a lesson we should all be learning from and applying to legislation and zoning in the future.

Rich Hoffman

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