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Chris Lee’s Millennium Falcon: Journey to the Corporate Sector

It is such a pleasure in a world that has seemingly gone mad politically, philosophically, and economically to see the glorious gumption of Chris Lee and his entourage of dedicated Millennium Falcon builders.  I have covered the exploits of Full Scale Falcon.com before—but that was upon the original announcement that Chris and company had dedicated themselves to building a full sized Millennium Falcon on an 80 acre lot outside of Nashville, Tennessee.  CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW.  For me and millions of other Star Wars fans the Millennium Falcon represents rebellion, freedom, and hope.  It is impossible to step into my home and not see something relevant to Star Wars—but in my bedroom there are Millennium Falcons everywhere.  For me it represents more than just a nice plot point from a cool movie—the roots of the Falcon represent far more—and those roots are obviously driving Chris and many others to spend their own time, money, and effort on making a real Falcon that people can see and touch—and walk through.  The Millennium Falcon is about more than just escapist fantasy—I would argue it is the direct result of laissez-faire capitalism, and people deep down inside know it—which is why they love the iconic space ship.  It was because of laissez-faire capitalism that The Millennium Falcon was able to nearly single-handedly beat a galactic empire with speedy modifications, powerful weapons and raw guts born out of a Star Wars invention called the Corporate Sector.

When I was in the fifth grade my mother used to put together a gift bag of goodies to play with and read while taking long vacations that required many hours in the car.  That year my family went to Myrtle Beach and inside my gift bag was a novel just published by Del Rey called Han Solo at Star’s End.  It was the first book published after the 1977 release of the first Star Wars film and it featured my favorite character and I couldn’t wait to read it.  My mom purposely kept the book on top of the refrigerator out of my reach but positioned it so that I could see it.  I was salivating for weeks to read it.  I was looking forward to our family vacation not for the opportunity to go to the beach, but to read that book.

Finally on a hot summer morning after a devastating thunderstorm that nearly delayed our trip, we left.  The moment we were on I-75 south, my mother gave me the carefully constructed gift bag with all the goodies in it to keep me occupied for the long drive.  There were lots of neat things in the bag, but only one thing I wanted and the moment I put my fingers on it, I was in love for life.  I devoured Han Solo at Star’s End.  I read the book all the way to Myrtle Beach, at every restaurant we stopped at, on the beach, at the hotel room, everywhere that I could hold a book.  When I finished I read it again, then again, then again.  I lost count of how many times I read that book.  I was in love with the Millennium Falcon not because of the movie—which was great, but for deeper reason that I couldn’t quite put my finger on.  It was the Corporate Sector and specifically a guy named Doc Vandangante who could have only been employed by such an experiment of laissez-faire capitalism that had sent my mind ablaze for some unknown reason.

On my family’s Myrtle Beach vacation I read in Han Solo at Star’s End that while in the Corporate Sector, the Falcon was damaged after Solo and Chewbacca attempted smuggling weapons to insurgents on Duroon. They did collect payment from the insurgents and went to pay off Ploovo Two-For-One, but in a rather creative manner. Given the prickly relationship and even outright disgust they had for each other, Han bought a foul, irritable, putrid dinko, attached the payment to it, and unleashed it on the unfortunate employer. Although Corporate Sector Security arrived at the establishment where they were, Han and Chewbacca escaped their grasp relatively unscathed. Payment completed, they went off to find the outlaw tech “Doc” Vandangante‘s hideout, only to discover he had been taken to the Corporate Sector Authority prison at Stars’ End. Doc’s daughter Jessa offered upgrades and repairs to Han’s ship, and a Corporate Sector waiver, in exchange for Han helping rescue Doc and the other prisoners. Before Han could take off, the outlaw techs were attacked by IRD-A Fighters. Piloting a Z-95 Headhunter, Han led the other techs and Jessa in defense of the base. Despite heavy losses, they were successful. To complete their rescue mission for Jessa, Solo and Chewbacca were given two droids, Bollux and Blue Max, and went to the agriworld Orron III to meet up with a group led by Rekkon planning the prison rescue. Though Solo was initially only interested in getting the repairs for his ship, his motives became personal when Chewbacca was captured. After dealing with a traitor in the group, Solo and the others arrived at Stars’ End. In order to gain entry, Han, Atuarre, Pakka, Bollux and Blue Max posed as a troupe of entertainers. The rescue proved successful; freeing Chewbacca, Doc, and the other prisoners and destroying the Stars’ End in the process. After the Falcon was repaired, Solo and Chewbacca left the Corporate Sector for a time, taking Bollux and Blue Max with them in future books…….all of which I read with the same enthusiasm.[18]

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Han_Solo

The Corporate Sector was formed in 490 BBY[9] to free the Republic lawmakers and the Corporate moneymakers from their differences, after being exiled from the Inner Rim to the Tingel Arm. The Corporate Sector originally had a few hundred systems all devoid of intelligent life. Its creation came in the aftermath of the disastrous experiment with corporate control in the Outer Expansion Zone. The new experiment was tried under more careful supervision, the Republic sent the equivalent of a full subsector’s worth of ships to protect the rights of the workers in the sector and to ensure the companies preserved the basic integrity of the environment on the planets in the sector. The corporations were allowed to operate in the sector and could purchase entire regions of space, but were supervised by the Galactic Republic. A general tax was paid directly to the Republic government which enabled the companies to avoid the morass of sector, system, planetary and local taxes found on most worlds in the Republic.  The Corporate Sector thrived because of deregulation and low taxes.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Corporate_Sector

Doc was born on Coruscant to Carmilla Vandangante, a corporate viceprex and widow who doted on her only son. He rebelled against his life of luxury and privilege at the age of seven, reprogramming his droid nanny to discard such unpalatable foods as kibla greens, flangth, and stewed gwouch into a living room vase. This demonstrated his technical gifts to his tutors, who soon tailored their lessons to these skills.[1]

Upon graduation, Doc accepted a position at Alkherrodyne Propulsions as design systems team leader. He soon became disenchanted with the corporation’s shoddy workmanship covered with flashy marketing, but swallowed his pride and remained with the company. However, when the Azaria 66 began exploding in minor accidents, Alkherrodyne’s slicers framed Doc. The countless lawsuits wiped out the multi-billion credit Vandangante fortune, and left the name slandered.[1]

Doc became a drifter, eventually making his way into the Corporate Sector, where he met an outlaw tech by the name of Shardra. They immediately fell in love, and when introduced to her profession, Doc found his calling, repairing smuggling ships and souping them up to be some of the fastest in the Corporate Sector. Shardra bore the couple a daughter, Jessa Vandangante, but soon died in an unfortunate fuel dump explosion. Doc found raising a daughter to be a difficult task, especially as the free-spirited woman grew older and started catching the eye of younger smugglers like Han Solo.[1]

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Klaus_Vandangante

The Millennium Falcon was a direct result of very creative free enterprise by a number of previous owners but culminating in the exploits of Han Solo who ran into Doc Vandagante.  In a very large galaxy of ideals, some parts of it ruled by peace-loving pacifists, some ruled by ruthless crime lords, some ruled by sinister agents of tyranny, some just trying to preserve their heritage among the intermingling of many races and species—it was the Corporate Sector that made The Millennium Falcon such a special starship.  Much like today’s world in real life, government and business could not get along—so government gave business free rein on the outer edge of the galaxy away from their control in exchange for the benefits.  The equivalent in the real world might be the Caribbean, Las Vegas, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, Hong Kong, or even Disney World where politics leaves the areas alone with their overly intrusive rules and regulations.  The direct benefit is the vibrant economic activity of creative minds such as the fictional Doc Vandagante.  My question as a young fifth grader on Myrtle Beach was why wasn’t the rest of the galaxy the way the Corporate Sector was?  Why would the government within the core worlds want the benefits of the Corporate Sector not on the outer rim of the galaxy, but within the core near the capital planets?  Well, the sad answer was power.

Star Wars is of course a fictional story, but it has so many references to our current life that the mythology accurately reflects many competing ideals that are in actual conflict.  The concepts introduced through the story are familiar to us all.  The Imperials love statism, the Rebels love freedom, and then there are those who might otherwise find sanction in the Corporate Sector with all the good and bad that comes with it.  Some of the planets in the Corporate Sector are ravaged with pollution, and corrupt board of directors just out trying to make money at the expense of others.  It’s not all good in the Corporate Sector—it’s not safe—fair, or even remotely nice.  But, the Corporate Sector was responsible for much of the technological innovation that the rest of the galaxy enjoyed and there is a philosophical argument there worth noting.

The Millennium Falcon is a direct product of the laissez-faire capitalism of the Star Wars universe.  When I returned back to the real world after reading Han Solo at Star’s End it was clear that my public school was intent to teach the politics of the core worlds, what we might call in the real world—socialism.  The public schools were intent to preach the merits of statism—rules and regulations, federal control of everything.  Not me. I wanted a Millennium Falcon—I wanted something like it in my lifetime, and it quickly became clear to me that the kind of education that the public schools were offering would not take the world where I wanted to go.  When John F Kennedy dared America to go to the moon, he tossed at NASA a bit of laissez-faire capitalism to make it happen—and beat the Russians to space.  Stanley Kubrick watched this progress and built is movie 2001: A Space Odyssey around that type of progress.  But once the Berlin Wall came crashing down in 1989, America took its foot off the gas and started over regulating everything once again to give politicians something to do—and that space race progress came to a halt.  Now there has been over 20 years of blatant and gradually increasing socialism coming out of WashingtonD.C. because that’s what everyone was taught in their public schools, and there are no real plans for space under the Obama administration going forward.  They are instead focused on solar panels, street cars, public transit, and a communist care health system.

NASA if turned loose with laissez-faire capitalism could likely build a real functional Millennium Falcon within a decade.  The technology is close enough that at least a vessel that could take off and fly into space with artificial gravity, ion propulsion, life support and other forms of sustainability could be achieved quickly if the real life Doc Vandagantes were turned loose of government regulation.  I know a few of them, I know people who have invented flying cars that could take off from one driveway and land in another half a world away, but has no real interest from large aerospace companies facing gigantic liability concerns, and mountains of paperwork in compliance to purchase—and advance.  I know of people who have cured most cancers, but the FDA has tried to throw them in jail to keep the technology off the market so pharmaceutical companies can continue keeping people sick and addicted to their products.  I know of scientists who have started the process of regenerative growth—who can re-grow fingers lost, or legs amputated.  They are solving the problem of aging and whether or not human beings actually have to die.  They are a threat to the companies who make prosthetic limbs, and ADA legislation that wants more ramps for wheel chairs, elevators for the disabled, and generally more handicapped people to use for political advancement in the here and now.  Those types of people will gladly sacrifice the opportunities of tomorrow for power today.

Statists inside the beltway of Washington D.C. are the first to say that if people never got sick, never died, and had unlimited freedom of transportation, then the world would become over polluted, over populated, and a menace to itself.  They are still thinking small, because they obviously never read anything like Han Solo at Star’s End as kids—an act I’m sure Chris Lee shares with me.  People like Chris and I ask ourselves why can’t I have my own Millennium Falcon to take off and go to work in orbit around earth where all the pollution and byproduct of production could be dumped into space preserving planet earth forever.  When work was completed at the end of the day, we would just fly home and land in our back yards with our Millennium Falcons.  Why can’t we have it–because we live on earth with restrictive governments that hate laissez-faire capitalism?

I’ve read many of the European classics and compared to Star Wars, they are boring.  I love Shakespeare, but I would take any Star Wars book over William Shakespeare any day of the week.  Shakespeare was a better writer than Brian Daley who wrote Han Solo at Star’s End without question.  But Daley is much more positive as a thinker than Shakespeare, and that optimism about what’s possible is what Star Wars is all about.  Yet much of the modern statism that is infecting the world is because of European culture, Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, Dante’s Inferno, or the master himself James Joyce of Finnegan’s Wake fame, which I have read and understand. Give me Star Wars over Finnegan’s Wake and give me the Millennium Falcon over a fu**ing street car.  Give me a manufacturing plant floating around earth dumping its garbage into space or on the surface of the moon as opposed to the socialism of Brazil where everyone lives in a card board hut.  Give me a Corporate Sector that can build a Millennium Falcon in America so that I can have one as opposed to the dying towns of Detroit choking on socialism and feel-good progressivism.

What Chris Lee is attempting to do is no different from what Doc Vandagantes did in the book Han Solo at Star’s End for The Millennium Falcon. Chris isn’t working for NASA, or some other group building Falcons for the general population.  Government will not get behind such an effort, so Chris is doing it on his own.  I was a bit skeptical at first even though I wanted to see the results.  But after Chris showed off the latest cockpit construction after many months of meticulous effort, I can see clearly that he will be successful so long as he can continue to fund the project. It is for that reason that I am starting an icon on my side bar here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom encouraging my readers here to help Chris with his project.  I think it’s important.  Is it as important as sex trafficking in the world, or the sad state of current politics———-no, but yes.  Yes because Chris’s Millennium Falcon project is about the most important ingredient to human society—imagination—and the gumption to make things happen.  Chris wants like I do to walk inside a real life Millennium Falcon—and he’s making it happen on his dime, with his time, and his effort.  And now that I’ve seen it, I can’t help but wonder what our world would be like if government simply got behind people like Chris and allowed them to function in a Corporate Sector of America where inventions like the Falcon could flourish, instead of trying to heard people into cities through progressive politics and force them onto government sponsored mass transit.  The Millennium Falcon is a larger symbol than that—it is the result of laissez-faire capitalism and a hope for mankind that resides in the spirit of ideals and innovation—and a lot of perspiration.

That old Han Solo at Star’s End novel still sits near my reading chair.  It’s now torn, and very worn out from years of handling—but it still evokes in me boundless imagination opportunities and optimism.  Many people look at what Chris is doing in Nashville and read what I have said here and think that we are grown up kids who love the escapism of cinema, or fantasy which has a grain of truth to it.  But what do we want to escape from—and to what.  Speaking for myself, I wish to escape from the clutches of those with undeveloped imaginations—people who avoid thinking rather than thriving from it. For me, a personal Millennium Falcon would allow me to leave those sluggish minds behind in a flight for the stars and the endless possibilities available outside of the laws comb-over politicians have constructed just to increase their power base.  My wife has read Han Solo at Star’s End—in fact she’s read every Star Wars book ever written up to this point which is in the hundreds—and she understands why there are Millennium Falcon’s all over our bedroom.  Many don’t because they failed to let novels like Han Solo at Star’s End capture their imaginations at a young age, or failed to enjoy a film like Star Wars for whatever reason.  They lack the mechanism to enjoy those kinds of things and it is they who are weights on minds like mine.  I want to escape from their limitations, their restrictions, and their lives stuck in quicksand of self-construction.  The Millennium Falcon to me is freedom from all that, and a symbol against restriction because The Falcon is a pirate vessel built by illegal components that’s faster than anything regulations in the Republic or Empire would allow.  And that’s why I love it, and why people like Chris are dedicating their lives to see a real life Millennium Falcon—even if they have to build the damn thing themselves.  I sleep better at night knowing that there are people like Chris and his friends out there—beyond the reaches of those who use rules and regulations to mask the lack of imagination that plagues their thoughts like a cancer—and the democracies of tyranny that they create with good intentions imposed from faulty thinking.  The Millennium Falcon is an escape from those who don’t understand and a celebration by those who do.

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

Hoffman Vs. Dixon: David “Kern” and a Goliath “Commissioner”

There is a good reason that I stand with Roger Reynolds and David Kern over the recent controversy surrounding Butler County Commissioner, Don Dixon.  Before I tell this story remember that I’d rather deal with Republicans who are fighting each other over what’s right than a bunch of collectivist Democrats.  But then again, Don Dixon was a Democrat all through the 80’s and 90’s and only decided to become a Republican in the year 2000, when it was obvious that conservative politics ruled Butler County.  When politicians use their public office in an abusive way—to obtain benefits for their friends, family, and political allies, right is right—and its not always easy to tell who is telling the truth, or even what “right” is.  In the recent case of Don Dixon, he obviously gave his son Brent benefits from his political holdings over the years—to the direct benefit of his family.  Don’s angry because Kern and Reynolds called him out on it—finally.  Here is the story from the newspaper.

Two board of election employees – including the son of a county commissioner – resigned in the wake of allegations that they were receiving full-time benefits for working part-time jobs.

The county made about $200,000 contributions toward their medical and dental insurance and also paid toward their pensions.

Republican Brent Dixon, 44, and Democrat Garry Hicks, 61, resigned this month after Butler County Prosecutor Michael Gmoser became involved and issued a “cease and desist” letter to the board of elections.

Brent Dixon was hired 22 years ago during the tenure of retired elections director Betty McGary, who has had a long-time relationship with Don Dixon. McGary quit in 2011 after 33 years.

“That’s the most lowdown sleazy, nasty comment I’ve ever heard. If you want to talk about me and you want to talk about my political history that’s one thing. Stay out of my life, out of my personal life. Roger Reynolds doesn’t have a millionth of the integrity she’s got,” he said. “I don’t pick on his wife.”

He threatened to sue Reynolds and Kern.

Don Dixon, who has led a crackdown on county spending since the economic downturn, was outraged that Reynolds had dragged McGary into the flap. He referred to McGary as his wife. He said the allegations were politically motivated.

Don Dixon said county commissioners have no control over the board of elections even though county commissioners approve the board’s annual budget.

Reynolds said Butler County contributed more than $156,000 towards Brent Dixon’s medical insurance over the years. Hicks was hired in 2001 and the county contributed about $35,000 toward his medical insurance premiums. Hicks recently was only taking the county’s dental insurance. Reynolds did not have figures for how much the county contributed toward their pensions.

With changes in the state pension effective Jan. 1, 2014, the 14 percent raises put Dixon’s and Hicks’ monthly wages over the $600 benchmark that enabled them to continue to earn a full month of credit for pension benefits. Before the changes, employees had to earn a minimum monthly salary of $250 to receive one full month of pension credit.

“There’s a lot of questions related to how Betty McGary would go along with this and authorized this as a director when it directly impacted Don Dixon’s son,” Reynolds said.

http://westchesterbuzz.com/2013/11/18/commissioners-son-got-pension-benefits-for-part-time-work/

Don Dixon can cry foul all he wants, but the bottom line is that his son was given help by government through his father which is an abuse of power.  It doesn’t mean that Dixon is a bad person, but has simply done what many politicians fall victim to, they abuse their power for personal benefit which ultimately cost tax payers a lot of money.  When there are many tens of thousands of people like Don Dixon doing for his son Brent what he did, the cost to tax payers is catastrophically high.

I have some experience with the Dixons that is a bit of a precursor to this kind of behavior which I have never forgotten.  Way back in 1979, I was in a Soup Box Derby race with Brent in the finales of the Hamilton Jaycees sponsored event held behind Fort Hamilton Hospital.  Back then, the race was a big deal in the Hamilton/Fairfield area and my car The Beast, seen in the picture above dominated the event.  CLICK HERE FOR A REVIEW OF HOW “THE BEAST” CAME TO BE.  Brent and I raced in what was one of the closest races ever done in that event.  We raced three times in the finals which was a climatic centerpiece that had a good part of Hamilton on the edge of their seats.  I won the first race convincingly.  During the second race it was so close that nobody could agree whether or not Brent won or I did.  So we raced a third time.  Many believe that the results were much closer the third time than the second—but by rule, they couldn’t declare a tie, so somebody had to make a decision.  After 15 minutes of grueling review, Brent was declared the winner to the roar of a cheering crowd.  The Dixons were well-known around Hamilton and very politically powerful—so people knew their name.  I was an unknown living on a country road in obscurity.Derby 79

I wasn’t unhappy with the results.  I was proud of my efforts.  Brent had a slick car that many people believe was built by his father’s people.  Brent had a car that was built to win.  My car was one that my dad and I built-in our basement and back yard over many months.  A lot of sweat and love went into my car and it showed.  Brent’s looked professional, mine looked like it was made by an 11-year-old—which it was.  But even so, I had won 9 out of 11 races including the final—which wasn’t bad.  But my dad swore that I had won both photo finishes as he had placed himself on the sight line.  He was outraged.

Naturally, I thought that my dad was just cheering for his son the way all proud parents do who believes that their children are the best at everything.  Brent’s dad Don was near my father with his entourage of ass-kissers and of course Don believed that his son had won.  The two dads were looking at the situation from opposing positions.  I didn’t care.  I was happy to have done well, but my dad was furious on the way home.  The entire time we loaded my car onto the trailer and drove home he talked about Butler County politics and declared that the race was so close that politically the officials gave the win to Brent because of who his dad was.  I wasn’t so sure, but what he was saying made sense.

The BeastAfterwards, the media seemed more interested in my story than Brent’s including the Journal News story seen above—because I was the underdog and as the reporter declared, people like the underdog.  People liked my car, they like the David and Goliath story, they liked reading about Hoffman versus Dixon—where obviously Dixon was Goliath.  As the reporter concluded his interview with me and took his pictures at a spot that is now a sports bar where my home used to be located, he winked at me and said…………”you won kid.  I was there………I saw it with my own eyes.  But politics is more powerful than heart.  You have a lot of heart, just not enough politics.”

I watched that reporter leave and thought hard about what he said, and it likely sent me on a journey that has been over 30 years in the making.  I value my heart and the products of my mind over the connections that I could make kissing ass through politics.  I have avoided politics my entire life, likely because of my experiences against Brent Dixon at the Hamilton Soap Box Derby in 1979.  I’ve watched Brent grow up in the shadows of his father his entire life and I would never trade positions with him.  Brent has to look in the mirror every day and know that much of what he has obtained in life he gained through his father—whether it was the decision of a photo finish victory against me, or a cute little job with the Board of Elections and all the perks that came with it.  If I live a hundred more years I would never wish to trade places with Brent Dixon.

When I was 11 years old and my soap box derby car was parked next to Brent’s slick black and gray professionally constructed Dixon winning machine I wouldn’t have traded him my car for his—even though they were both equally as fast.  The reason is that I built mine with my dad with a lot of hard work and that made my victories that day much more cherished.  Brent won in the end, but like many things in his life, he won with the help of politics, which cheapens such victories to the point where they’re worthless.

Now many years later, on the fallout of a Lakota levy election loss where the politically connected won over the rag-tag efforts of those standing against tax increases, I wouldn’t trade places with those people for the same reason that I wouldn’t trade with Brent.  Dixon the son won at many things in life because politics helped him get over the top.  I have watched this happen to many people, and I have fought against it as I always will.  It didn’t surprise me at all to see that Brent had eventually found himself in trouble over such a thing because it wasn’t the first time.  What did surprise me is that David and Roger stood up to a respected Republican Commissioner who has his roots going back decades into Butler County politics.  The fact that they did speak out against Dixon speaks volumes about a wave of politics that is about to hit Butler County in the years to come—a political system that the levy supporters will not like, and the power brokers like Dixon who have spent a life-time nurturing their name so that they could help their loved ones with looted money and resources gained through government offices.

I have been in many photo finishes, and many of them were lost the same way that my rendezvous with Brent Dixon ended—with politics defeating raw heart.  But………..in the end, even after all these years the results of two lives shaped by a Soup Box Derby race proved drastically different because one found their life shaped by who their dad was and the other shaped by the kind of man their dad allowed them to be.  That subtle difference leads to winning a war by letting the battles go to the politically connected and otherwise manipulative causing a result that always ends with self-destruction over a span of decades.  A war won is more valuable than battles shaped by political influence, not for what the spoils of victory can give to pad a bank account, but for what it brings out truly in a heart and soul.  Battles are won by people like the Dixons.  Wars are won by those with heart…………..and a mind that still feeds it.  In confronting Dixon, Reynolds and Kern showed a lot of heart, and I admire them for it.  David Kern specifically has spent a life-like the biblical David, overlooked and quietly residing in the background for the most part.  Commissioner Dixon represents all the high-profile prestige of the Biblical Goliath, who expects to use his power and prestige collected over many years to crush his enemies.  What happened over the board of elections scandal is that an actual David named Kern cast a single stone against Goliath, and the results were predictably epic.  Because the David of Butler County—Kern and Roger Reynolds are out to win a war—as they have for years endured the battles won by Don Dixon.  And if Goliath was not guilty to begin with, the single stone would have had no effect.

In the end, heart crushes politics.  Sometimes it just takes decades to achieve victory. Most of the time, it takes more than a photo finish, but enough time provided for Goliath to overlook a single stone that could bring him down, and the will to cast it when the rest of the world believes it to be unwise.  That is what I learned in my race with Brent Dixon in 1979 and the lives of two people who moved from there into radically different directions.

Here’s more on Don Dixon and a good indication of the deeper politics involved.  CLICK HERE.  

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

Even Losing The Bucs Are The Best: What is really behind team sports

I’m still on the fence about professional football; my interest in it has declined greatly over the last several years because of how it facilitates collectivism, and education institutions supported by left-winged radicals.  Football is a fun game that is cool, yet serves as a cover for the content being taught in these institutions, and the general collectivism exhibited by them.  For instance, a graduate of Ohio State University generally says “we” when referring to the school they attended—and they do this in the same way that people say “we” when referring to their favorite sports team.  “We scored a touchdown in the third quarter,” or “we lost a close game,” are just a few examples, and the behavior is learned in the education institutions.  Because of its “coolness” football serves as cover for all the bad things happening in the class rooms being taught by liberal leaning educators.  Society accepts the bad so that they can have the good, the entertainment of high school football under the Friday night lights, or a Saturday NCAA game between Ohio State and Michigan, or the fabulous Sunday afternoon football of the professionals—who are all the best and brightest of the college and high school players.

To compound matters, my favorite team the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have had a bad year—a new coach learning his way around the NFL has struggled to find his niche as he pushes out the last remnants of the Raheem Morris era—targeting specifically Josh Freeman—the starting quarterback.  So there hasn’t been much to cheer for on my end, however, as I’ve stated emphatically on several occasions I would be a fan of the Buccaneers if they never won another game—because I support the ownership—not specific players and coaches.  I support the culture that the Glazer family attempts to create around their Tampa football franchise, and admire the grit of their ownership.

This grit was on full display during Monday Night Football against the embittered Miami Dolphins on the night Warren Sapp’s jersey was retired at half time.  Sapp was drafted by my favorite coach of all time, Sam Wyche who also drafted John Lynch and Derrick Brooks—three guys who could have only found themselves brought to the same place at the same time by someone like Wyche.  Since that period of time, Tampa has tried to duplicate that chemistry again, and have relentlessly tried various options trying to find that same intense spark.  They have had some small fires, but no explosions they way they did in 2002 when they finally won a Superbowl by the team that Wyche built-in 1995.  Wyche was at the front of Pirsig’s train.  Up until that Monday Night game the Bucs had lost all their games, most of them by narrow margins, but a loss is a loss and they were looking for their first.  They played with a passion that was entertaining, and admirable and reminded me why I have always loved that team—they have a never say die attitude which I find enchanting—even when they lose.  That mentality comes from the ownership.

I would rather be a fan of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers who lose every game they play so long as they played like they did on Monday Night Football the night that Warren Sapp’s number was retired.  If they lose, it’s OK with me so long as they take off their rivals head while doing it.  That is why I like the Bucs—and always have.  It will continue as long as the Glazers keep the spirit of that team with a philosophy which embodies that behavior.

Maybe it was something Sapp said to Greg Schiano the head coach of the Bucs prior to the game when the two had dinner, but on the following Sunday Tampa beat the crap out of the Atlanta Falcons with an effort that looked Superbowl worthy.  Football is that kind of game; it’s a game of capitalism that has many socialist tendencies looting off it for their own survival.  I love the capitalist elements of football, but I despise the socialism.  And of all the football teams in the world the only one I actually enjoy with any sense of loyalty is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

But I never say “we” when referencing the Bucs………….it’s always “they.”  They do the work, they do the hitting, they take the chances, and they win or lose the games.  I do not share in that activity with them.  I simply enjoy watching them try.  And that is the biggest difference between how I see football, and most everyone else.  For those others, they have an unhealthy relationship with football that opens their minds to statism coming through their education institutions that cause them to say “we” when dealing with the actions of others.  When the word “we” comes into play, football is a bad thing—because it allows those who do not actually contribute to the victory to believe that they helped win a game—and that is socialism.

When the beer belly father cheers on the kids of a high school football team, generally such onlookers are reliving the days that have passed them by—with their advanced ages they can no longer run, jump and leap through the air—so they cheer on the young little saplings with great enthusiasm and say “we” because that is the only way they can touch such memories—is through others.  When the middle-aged guy makes a bet over a college football game with his cubical all decked out with paraphernalia of his alumnus and declares that “we” will bet “you,” he is living his life through the college students of that college team with a dangerous form of collectivism.  His most glorious days are now behind him and only the college football team can recapture them for him.  Or when there are drunken fights at a professional game over whose team wins or loses, the participants are really fighting over the lack of control the team outcome has reminded them really occurs in their actual lives.  So the reminder is something to fight over—to suppress the knowledge that all their cheering and prayers had no bearing on the outcome.  I don’t watch the Tampa Bay Bucs for any of these reasons.  I watch it for the warfare displayed on the game field; I watch it for the capitalist gains of better players suppressing those at a tactical disadvantage.  I watch it for the hard hits, the strategy, and the passion of winning—or trying to.  I watch it for the spectacle……..purely.  In that regard, Tampa could lose the rest of its games for the next 10 years and I would still be a fan so long as they played the way they did on Monday Night Football on a November evening when Sapp was memorialized and the Bucs won their first game of 2013.  If it were the last, it would be fine with me, because my love of them extends beyond any tentacles of collectivism, but the joy of living, bleeding, fighting and surviving to fight another day and wrestle from an opponent a hard-fought victory that is as elusive as a purple moon in a sun blazed sky.

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

‘Killing Kennedy’ The Movie: Why there are conspiracy theories…………..

It took me over a week to watch Killing Kennedy, the film done by the National Geographic Channel and produced by Ridley Scott based on the best-selling novel by Bill O’Reilly.  But I’m glad I finally got around to it on my DVR because I learned a few things.  I am usually turned off by the whole Kennedy assassination issue because I think it took American focus off our self-reliance at a critical point in our history and I don’t like the collective sorrow that came out of the event.  Also after Oliver Stone’s film from the early 90’s, there are a lot of questions surrounding Kennedy.  Kennedy was a good president but he made a lot of mistakes, just like in his real life where he was too fast and loose with women, too connected to organized crime, opened the door for public sector unions to organize in government, but he did well during the Cuban Missile Crises, and setting the stage for the Space Race.  So Kennedy is a mixed bag, and certainly wasn’t the worst President America ever had—but I don’t feel energized by him enough to study too deeply.  When I think of Kennedy, I think of the struggle against communism and the 60s in general, and I hate both of those things, so I typically avoid references to the period except when they scream out for attention.  O’Reilly’s book, and now the movie have successfully done exactly that—brought that attention to my eyes with screaming fury.

After watching Killing Kennedy it became obvious to me that many of the conspiracy theories floating around about the assassination come from the left—from sources like Oliver Stone.  I did not know that Lee Harvey Oswald was such a staunch Marxist, even going to Russia to live and work for a while.  Oswald had a Russian wife that he brought back to Dallas, and the source of his anger at Kennedy was in his hope that Cuba would succeed as a communist country.  I have spoken often about this period in American history and how persistent communism was by many people—particularly the universities, and seeing Oswald behave the way he did toward communism was something I did not know, but fit perfectly into what I already knew about the period.  The political left obviously does not want Oswald to be at fault for the Kennedy killing because they share with him a sympathy for communism, so they are looking for every other excuse they conger up away from the reality that Oswald was a communist nut case.

There were still many unanswered questions that will probably never be properly answered, as to why the FBI was so involved in Oswald’s life, and why Jack Ruby—a strip club owner was so passionate about the Kennedy killing to assassinate Oswald but O’Reilly like he does so often only looked at the evidence the way a journalist does, and those facts put on the shoulders of Lee Harvey Oswald a fanatic for Marxism who wanted the communists to succeed in Cuba and elsewhere in the world.  Oswald saw Kennedy as a threat to that reality because of his stance against Cuba.

Many of these elements are present in our American life today.  The political Left and Right back then had to deal with many Americans like Oswald who wanted to give communism a chance—so they bent a bit and moved to the left in both parties to take away the temptation of marching in the streets the way communists gained ground in places like Russia and China.  I think this is why Kennedy gave public sector unions a chance through executive order to thrive—aside from the appeasement of the organized crime elements in his life.  Kennedy’s vice-president LBJ, started the Great Society programs to take the edge off the communist threat rolling through American politics at the time.  The results of this assault are seen today in the statist position of government against the people of the nation.  Communism is clearly present in the modern education system, in the social programs of the 60s and all elements of progressivism.  But Kennedy and LBJ thought they were fighting communism by yielding a bit to it, but what they really did was bend enough to allow elements of communism into American society to prevent more people like Lee Harvey Oswald from rising to prominence and trying to kill American politicians.  Their appeasement took the edge off the hard-line communists, Marxists, and socialists—which were a much bigger problem in America than people think.

Bill O’Reilly is entirely too moderate for me, but I do watch him almost every night because he is as fair and balanced of a reporter as there is.  He does let the facts speak, and it is his brand of journalism that I find attractive, and why he is one of the most successful best-selling authors in American history.  I trust Bill O’Reilly, but I think he is too mild in his views.  He is however a product of the 60’s, just like I am a product of the 80’s and tend to see things the way Ronald Reagan did—at least the act that came out of The White House.  But the facts are the facts, and so long as facts drive the arguments, political ideology—or conviction is irrelevant—and O’Reilly can always be trusted to present the facts that are known, and reveal what they add up to.

I am glad to have seen Killing Kennedy—it was a good production that told a story of a dark period in American history and should be seen by everyone.  It should be shown in schools, it should be shown by parents to their children, and grandparents to their entire clans during Thanksgiving—because it’s an important film that captures a very volatile period which we all share still.  The effects of the politics of that period still resonate like ghosts haunting the house that the American Republic built—and the specters are ideologues of communism who are just as vicious and manipulative as Lee Harvey Oswald, just not as short-tempered and insecure to act on their hopes of violence.  These ghosts act through legislation to achieve the same spread of Marxism to every corner of the globe—a strategy that was well beyond Oswald—a reality that only conspiracy theory can attempt to out-shine, because the Kennedy assassination was about a lot of things—but in the end it was about defending communism from an America that was the enemy of Marxist ideology—and supporters showed then as they do now, that they will do anything and harm anyone to advance their cause.

Nice job Bill “O.”

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

Joe Rehm Pleads Guilty To Stealing No Lakota Signs: Why the 2013 election results should be “recalled”

Just a bit of a recap on the election results at Lakota.  Although it is set for a recount, Butler County officials should scrutinize those ballots heavily, because it is now obvious that there were coordinated efforts to cheat on the election.  That is not the utterances of a sore loser, it is a statement of observed fact.  Just prior to the election I posted the pictures of a person who was caught stealing No Lakota Levy signs.  YOU CAN SEE HIM HERE.  Even though many people especially on the pro tax side believe this is a small issue, Michael Clark in The Cincinnati Enquirer made mention of it saying in his reporting that No Lakota Levy had noticeably less signs out than the pro side.  Subconsciously, this lets readers know that No Lakota Levy is not making a strong political showing, which wasn’t the case.  The direct result, the reason No Lakota Levy spent so much on signs, ads in the newspaper and etc., was to show voters that it was worth their time to vote against the levy.  However, pro tax supporters because they didn’t have an answer to the No Lakota Levy message had to let voters know that it was pointless to resist, so they sought to sabotage the message.  In a close election, such as the situation at Lakota where the public school won a tax increase by less than 1% it was voter turnout that made all the difference, and stealing the Lakota signs was a way of telling No Voters, to stay home.

Well, the guy in that picture was named Joe Rehm and on Wednesday November 13th, 2013 he was in Butler County court as part of the 10 AM cases.  At 12:20 PM Judge McDonough finally called Joe up to find out how he’d plead to the sign theft of No Lakota Levy signs, since he was captured on film and published red-handed here on Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom.    Joe didn’t look as smug as he did in the pictures showing him clearly stealing a No Lakota Levy sign while bragging about it on the phone.  My friend Graeme George spoke to the court against Joe saying to the Judge, “Because of the actions of Joe and others, so many signs of ours (No Lakota Levy) were stolen that we lost the defeat of the levy.

We lost by less than 1% of the votes cast.  Sign thefts made a lot more of a difference than that.

Therefore, people like Joe cost taxpayers 14 million dollars in a tax increases every year.”

Is it an inflated claim to suggest that the sign thefts cost the election of 2013?  Well, we’ll never know because the thefts were just as bad this year as they have been in the past.  No Lakota Levy spent thousands of dollars on signs knowing the importance of having a political presence.  No Lakota Levy didn’t have the benefit of sending home pro levy material directly to parents from the school, or using teachers to twist the mind of the children into stealing signs after football games on cold Friday nights, so No Lakota Levy had to play things straight, and expensive.  In court, Joe Rehm plead guilty but declared that the sign he stole wasn’t worth more than $2, but as we know he’s not the only one.  This upcoming Wednesday, one week later, three juveniles caught stealing signs in a similar way will go through the same process.  They’ll have to explain why they did it, and who put them up to it.  Of course they too will say that the signs were only a couple of dollars each, and they didn’t think it was a big deal.

Judge McDonough because Graeme pointed out the cost to taxpayers of the levy passage, really lambasted Joe for his wrongful actions.  It was a good show, but Joe was only fined $200 plus $40, and $125 court costs, for a total of $365. The judge did not impose the 60 day jail sentence.  Even less will be done to the three kids when they go through the same process.  They’ll be fined, the court will make its money, the election will still be won, the signs will still have been stolen, and the tax payers will still have to pay every year $14 million in new taxes to take care of a teacher’s union contract that wants even more money than they already make.  No Lakota Levy will not be reimbursed for their loses which was thousands of dollars, and they are still on the hook for paying the increases in taxes.

In previous attempts the media covered these sign thefts, which at least put the actions on the news letting people know what was happening.  This time, everyone stayed off the story, the credit to that goes to Randy at Lakota.  The signs simply disappeared keeping the anger from the imposition in the shadows away from unmotivated voters, which helped keep the No Vote turnout, low.  The tax payers were cheated in just about every aspect with the Lakota levy, Lakota used their internal resources of the school to promote the levy sending literature directly home to parents, they funneled money through their PTA groups to outspend No Lakota Levy by nearly 5 times, and they utilized a public relations employee paid for by the tax payers to keep the media focused away from sign theft, sex scandals, school shooting threats, but on the fact that Lakota hadn’t seen a tax increase since 2005………and as Sheriff Jones stated……….”it was time,” time for a tax increase as if there was an invisible watch that says such things without any rationale behind it.

For every Joe Rehm during the election there were likely dozens if not hundreds just like him who stole one sign at a time and called a teacher on the phone hoping to get a piece of ass off them for stealing a No Lakota Levy sign as a badge of honor.  Joe wasn’t even from Lakota but was “otherwise” engaged in the district.  One can only imagine the phone records pulled if Judge McDonough had chosen to pursue that evidence…………what Joe was saying……….”Hey baby, I stole a No Lakota Levy sign………….are you proud of me?  Will you suck my c**k now…………………..please……………..I’m a nice progressive beta man who thinks you work hard 7.5 hours a day.  Hey, I cleaned the passenger seat out of my stupid little hippie car and am ready to take you to Penera Bread for some overpriced soup.  With your low wages of $65K per year you teachers work so hard, and it’s just unfair.  Will you suck my c**k.  Hey, it’s for the kids, those poor little darlings.  This No Lakota Levy sign is stupid; I’m bringing it to your house to prove I did it.  You’ll be so proud of me.”  Looking at Joe talking on the phone and knowing he stole our signs and plead guilty to it, that’s what I think of—and his motives behind it.  It pisses me off because in the end, Lakota got their tax increase, Joe got off with a slap on the hand, just like the kids on Wednesday will, the media didn’t give a damn, and the bad guys won by exploiting children, manipulating the public, and cheating.

With all that said, I would care to guess that the teacher’s union stuffed at least 500 votes that would probably be cast away as illegal ballots if anyone cared to pursue justice in a close election.  But they won’t, because ultimately most people are on the phone with some special someone who works for the Lakota school system and they are asking that someone for the same kind of favor I imagine Joe was asking for when he stole the No Lakota Levy sign.  Everyone wants a favor, but nobody stands for what’s right at any level—which is why children are exploited, and tax payers are on the hook for $14 MILLION dollars a year every year likely forever.

Hope the sucking and whatever was worth it.

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

Lakota School Board Activism: How things work behind the press releases

It is righteous to provide updates to the latest correspondence by the Lakota school board, especially when misdirection is involved.  Below is a reply to a letter that was sent last week by my friend and No Lakota Levy supporter Graeme George.  CLICK HERE TO REVIEW.  The letter that Joan sent, who is the current president of the Lakota school board and one of the strongest advocates for higher taxes in the Liberty Twp, and West Chester area, indicates that the school board played no part in the levy antics that went on prior to the election which they won by less than 1%.  The letter from Joan is a declaration of innocence and a statement of neutrality of any wrong doing in a close election.  Yet it is clear from the Pulse Journal picture on the link above with Joan framed on the far right she was extremely active in pushing for levy passage.  Since the school board is regulated by many laws preventing them from levy activism, they often rely on an inbred chain of command that does the dirty work for them, so that they can always have deniability—such as what Joan proclaims in the letter.  So read the document for yourself dear reader, and then I’ll explain how the process works from my personal experience.

From: Joan Powell [mailto:joanpowell@fuse.net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 10:42 AM
To: ‘Graeme C. George’; ‘Mantia, Karen’; ‘Dibble, Benjamin’; ‘Murray, Ray’; ‘O’Connor, Lynda’; ‘Powell, Joan’; ‘Shaffer, Julie’
Subject: RE: Lakota School District Levy – November 5, 2013.

Not a single dime of Lakota money was spent on signs in this campaign.  Every sign was bought and paid for by a community committee who raised money from individuals.  Nor do we condone the stealing of signs in any way and as a Board/District has no knowledge of these activities. These young men made poor choices and if proven guilty should pay the price of their crime.  Sign stealing or damaging is not condoned or considered acceptable behavior.

Unfortunately every election is tainted by unwise actions by individuals, some young and some old.  We allow the police to investigate, and the courts to dole out appropriate punishment.   So far we have heard nothing that indicates that these incidents were coordinated in any way.

On behalf of the Board,

Joan Powell

President, Lakota Board of Education

I must call attention now to the event which occurred to me personally on March 15th 2012 when I responded to the constant criticisms against me with a scathing diatribe directed at the perpetrators.  CLICK HERE TO REVIEW.  The school board had just suffered its third levy defeat and they had to break things loose.  My affiliation with No Lakota Levy had just delivered a powerful wallop when they started Yes To Lakota Kids  which garnered a lot of press coverage—particularly a Forbes article which got the attention of Lakota in a big way.  CLICK TO REVIEW.  The Forbes article came out on March 6.  Upon seeing it, the school board became very concerned, so vice president of the board Julie Shafer went through my blog postings and found a response I had made in the wake of the Kroger Survey incident that she could use to attempt to smear me personally and posted it on her Facebook account specifically to encourage outrage among the levy supporters.  CLICK TO REVIEW THE KROGER SURVEY.   Up until this point my side and Lakota’s side had been fast and loose with the mudslinging, which was fine.  They called me a greedy businessman and selfish meanie, and I called them latte sipping prostitutes with big asses.   All’s fair in love and war, so it wasn’t a big deal.  I had said far worse about Lakota and their supporters prior to Julie’s Facebook posting, but after March 6th, Lakota got scared—really scared because they saw what No Lakota Levy was up to, and they had to stop it, or fail to exist.  They had to turn up the heat a lot and come after me in a way that was technically illegal, but from their perspective they had to.  They had to maintain their emotional leverage upon the community, which the Yes To Lakota Kids was undermining—articulated in the Forbes article.  The Lakota school board took personal action against me as activists to remove my name from contention hoping to destroy No Lakota Levy so that they could attempt another levy attempt during the summer of 2012.  So Julie put up what I had said with the intent to create activism among the school levy supporters.  That was her entire purpose.

Superintendent Karen Mantia then got on the phone and applied heavy pressure to what she considered “leaders of the community” with Patty Alderson being one—one of the wealthiest and most influential people in West Chester, and Cathy Stoker the West Chester trustee being another hoping to build a consensus against me of high-profile “women” a well-known progressive trick, the same one used against Mitt Romney during the latest presidential election—not because of what I said about levy supporters, PTA moms, or anything else, but because Mantia didn’t have an answer to the Forbes article.  No Lakota Levy had reached out to the Community Foundation, which is a good group to partner up with because several No Lakota Levy people were on it, but well before March 6th they declined to be involved with No Lakota Levy because I was too divisive.  This was before I ever said anything about them being prostitutes to their husbands or having asses the size of car tires.  That came after the refusal to team up and the reasons provided, and was part of my pissed oftness in the blog posting which I couldn’t reveal without throwing some of my friends under the bus.  So No Lakota Levy started their own charitable group which led to the Forbes article causing major political issues.  It didn’t take much at that point for Mantia to call in support and convince Alderson to speak against me at a school board meeting that following Monday, as reported loyally by The Cincinnati Enquirer.  Patti Alderson, board chair and CEO of the Community Foundation of West Chester and Liberty Townships, complained about my comments publicly to the board, which she had never done before until right after the Forbes article.   Alderson said she wanted to clarify that her group, which also raises money for needy Lakota students, had no affiliation with Yes To Lakota Kids.  Then West Chester Trustee Catherine Stoker said to the Enquirer that “the language used by Mr. Hoffman is not only egregiously offensive, but reflects badly on the No Lakota group that Mr. Hoffman supports.”  From there a host of other women stoked directly by the Lakota school board said about me, “I was very disgusted by the blog Rich Hoffman posted,” said Lakota school mother Kim Hesselgesser. “I was also very saddened for this extremely disturbed man. To me it is evident that he has some agenda that goes far beyond increased school taxes. Although I hate the fact that he is getting exactly what he wants – a lot of media attention. I feel it is worthwhile to make the public aware of who they are truly supporting when placing No Lakota signs in their yards. Pro levy or no levy…is that the type of person you want leading a group in our community?” said Hesselgesser.  Then there was another, Laura Sanders of Liberty Township said “Mr. Hoffman uses misogynistic and vile language when addressing women and mothers because most teachers are in fact, women and mothers. “He wants the public to think that he is merely attempting to rein in public school spending, but his underlying mission is really one of hatred and fear of women earning decent salaries. He alone is the destructive force behind the last three levy failures, and I hope this … convinces the women in our community that he is not a rational or credible source for the counterpoint argument,” said Sanders.

Again, nothing I said in those particular blog postings were things I haven’t said before publicly, and privately.  Yet the timing is important because it all centers on the positive press that Yes To Lakota Kids received particularly after the Forbes article.  The school board had no comment for the paper; they instead let Patty, Cathy, Kim and Laura do their talking for them.  But, all those people were brought together by Karen Mantia and the antics of Julie Shafer indirectly from the Lakota school board.   They could not win the debate, so they took a page out of an event that had just happened to Rush Limbaugh over the Fluke controversy.  I know this first-hand because people close to Julie have told me; Lakota hoped to force me into a weakened public apology the same way Limbaugh was forced to do, as I was using a similar strategy as Rush Limbaugh.  However, I’m not Rush Limbaugh.  As No Lakota Levy did want to distance themselves for predictable reasons in a similar way that sponsors left Rush Limbaugh’s show Julie and the gang do not know of the events that led up to my comments in the first place where I told my friends that the “fat assed bitches were hurting children to extort money from the Lakota community and they needed to be stopped!”  I made that comment when I learned that No Lakota Levy would be on their own in helping kids with their sports fees, about the same time that I learned a bunch of levy whores gathered at the Kroger Marketplace smearing my name to everyone who entered the building that they could get to talk to them.  The phantom hand of the Lakota school board was involved in all these activities, and I could either take it, or tell them what I thought of them.  Regardless, Lakota was going to try to go for a new levy because they refused to deal with their teacher’s union collective bargaining contract which was causing the tax increase requests.  Lakota had already been beaten in several elections and never did answer the questions posed by No Lakota Levy.  They simply did as Obama does, and that is ignore all unpleasant information and cover up their involvement with perpetual deniability.  So what did I have to lose?  Nothing.  I had a book coming out soon unrelated to education and I wanted separation from education issues, and the controversy helped sell a few extra copies.  So it was no skin off my back, and the fan fair delayed the levy vote for two years, which was very good for the Lakota community.

So when Joan says that the school board had nothing to do with the sign theft, and the pro levy activity regarding money and other pro levy activity, what she means is that their hands didn’t directly participate—but that they do passively participate through the channels described above.

That story is just one of many.  It is not the exception, it is the rule.  I have no doubt that through similar channels, the Lakota school board encouraged fundraising for the pro tax position, they encouraged sign theft, and they helped create a culture of maliciousness through their inner circles.  They have legal deniability, but they are indirectly guilty.  When Joan said in her post-election comments that many things “set the stage,” part of what she is talking about is described above.  She has done a lot of table setting.  On the fourth attempt, I did my own thing while No Lakota Levy tried to be fair and righteous, which was a Lakota strategy, to take the edge off the rhetoric which they couldn’t match.  And the sign stealing was just as bad as it always was.  The media were in Lakota’s corner, and the money flowed into the Pro Levy movement through channels shaped by the school board.  Joan didn’t do the work directly through the board, but around the edges in the way that Julie put out the article I had written with the same intentions to create activism among their supporters.

That event I was involved in was the most personal example I have of how these kinds of things occur, so I can speak from the authority of experience.  That is why I can call “bullshit” on Joan’s comments in her letter.   Legally, she and her school board are covered.  They have done no wrong under the law—but through whispers and notes under the desk, they’ve had others do it for them, so that the evidence could never be traced back to them.  That is how they pass school levies—not through proper justification of income management, but through manipulation, deceit, and an arrogance that is socially destructive.  It is important to remember that it is these people who run the schools that teach our children, and these are the measures they think are acceptable to get what they want.  It should then come as no surprise when some of the students under their care try to hurt other people with coercion, or find themselves on the bad side of fate, because the kids are learning it somewhere, and the guilt falls squarely on school boards like the one at Lakota.  They want the responsibility of being the center of the community.  They can take the fall when things go bad.  Letters like the one Joan wrote mean nothing to those who actually know how things work, and now you dear reader know it too.

End of Part One, read Part Two in the next installment

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

The Obama Invasion: A 2014 car payment…………..without the car

I felt sorry for a number of Americans when President Obama attempted to apologize for the health care debacle over this last week.  I know many people who have already lost their insurance plans, and this is before the employer mandate.  Many more will be coming.  My wife and I lost ours, but it really doesn’t affect us—because we never use it.  We don’t go to the doctor.  Over the years, we have practiced self medicine including major repairs to lacerations.  I practically Super Glued my children together as they were growing up so to avoid the entanglements of the health care system which at the time was the best in the world. 
Ben Franklin lived into his 80s with no medical industry, and my grandparents lived into their 70s seldom ever going to the doctor, and this is the position my wife and I have taken.  We’d rather live free or die.  If a major illness hits us, we’ll take the later to preserve the former.  And we don’t live sheltered lives.  I ride a motorcycle every day of my life, and I ride it very fast.  I ride it even in the snow and ice.  She and I both live our lives dancing on broken glass knowing that it could break at any moment—and we’re OK with it.  We carried health insurance at a premium of a few hundred bucks a month just in case—and now with the Obamacare issue; it is no longer worth it.  I don’t like waiting in lines at the TSA controlled airports, I don’t like lines at the state controlled license bureau, so I’m sure not going to stand in line to have some state controlled doctor stick a thermometer in my ass.  It wasn’t going to happen before Obamacare, so it certainly isn’t going to happen now.

However, many people do go to the doctor which these days are basically sales reps for the pharmaceutical industry.  I find it rare to have a conversation with anybody in 2013 that isn’t on some sort of prescription medicine whether it be heart disease, cancer, or some sort of depression—and most of those are contrived by a doctor to simply bring cash flow into a pharmaceutical company that offers a drug for the ailment.  Once such drugs are introduced to the human body the cell structure just like welfare recipients in real life become dependent and start to rely on the pharmaceutical drug.  This is good for Walgreens and the Kroger Pharmacy, but it is bad for the bodies of the people taking the drugs.  Drugs are welfare for the body, and once they are addicted to the supplement, the immune system no longer functions the way it was designed to.  My position on medicine is the same as my social policies against welfare—hand outs, social safety nets, and third-party care make people weak, and the best way to overcome tragedy and illness is to fight through it as an individual.  However, many of my friends do have bodies that are addicted to these drugs, they have cancer, and other diseases that the pharmaceutical companies offer relief in the form of medicine, and they are now addicted to those companies and the doctors who prescribed them.  So Obamacare is a very real fear they have because incomes have not gone up, food prices are out of the roof, fuel costs have been too high, and health insurance has cost too much.   To me, $200 dollars a month is too high, however at the start of the New Year 2014 many of my friends with cancelled policies will pay $500 to $600 dollars for their needed health coverage which is in essence a car payment—except they won’t get the car.

If many of my friends could have bought a new car prior to 2014, they would have—but didn’t because they couldn’t afford the $300 dollars a month extra on top of all their other obligations.  So what makes President Obama believe that everyone will be able to pay $300 more a month on insurance?  Where is that money going to come from?  The answer is that he knows in the back of his mind that they don’t have it.  He is using the classic Cloward and Piven strategy of fiscal collapse in order to bring about massive social changes which is a strategy created at Columbia University where Obama supposedly went to college.   Obamacare is designed to crush the lives of the people who will have to pay $600 a month or more to get the same coverage they were getting at $300 a month.  The extra money is going to pay for the policy of those who didn’t have insurance to begin with—it is wealth redistribution to the maximum extreme.

My wife and I will pay the penalty of $90 and we will get nothing—absolutely nothing for that money.  Before Obamacare, I at least had some health coverage in case something really bad happened, but now I don’t.  And where will the $180 dollars in penalties that my wife and I are forced to pay go—to the insurance of some destitute scum bag, crack whore, or obese food addict that purposely lived their life poorly—made bad decisions which made them dependent on government.  I don’t want to help those people make their lives worse by helping them do it—yet through the government; I am being forced against my will to give money to those idiots for some ridiculous “greater good,” as defined by government.

Obamacare is a communist backdoor attempt.  History will view it the same way as the Russian Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd—only the cries for communism won’t come from the city streets of a working class looking for equality against the perceived bourgeoisie but from the government addicts who want Obama to steal from the smart, wise, and healthy to fix the broken, sick and stupid.  Nationalized health care is a progressive—(communist) dream and is designed to collapse the economy of America with the same ideology that was supposedly behind the World Trade Center bombing.  American health care was the best in the world and was driven by the finest economy on planet earth.  To attack it is to strike at the symbol of economic health that it once represented and to slowly destroy the American economy from the inside out.  The $300 dollars that most people will have to pay extra for health insurance in 2014 is outright theft, and a nudge further to the political left of the entire nation.  Obama and his minions know that many people currently addicted to pharmaceutical drugs will become more ill, they will even die because of his decision—but he doesn’t care—because he knew in the beginning as did the rest of them, that there would be casualties in this progressive advance.  They only care if the causalities happen to their political enemies as opposed to those who support them.

So when you get your insurance bill in 2014, you are seeing an all out assault on American life—and more specifically your life.  You are seeing the results of communism coming through the back door instead of the front and trying to catch you while otherwise distracted.    And Obama knows what he’s doing.  He might feel the bite of it presently when he has to speak to the press, or the people, but he knew from the beginning what Obamacare was—and it isn’t American.  It is good to be nice, and civil to others.  It is even nice to be compassionate.  I do feel sorry for the street-walker, the homeless degenerate, and the typical gas station attendant.  I stopped in a convenience store the other day to buy a Mello Yello for lunch and paused to watch the intellect of the cashier and a line of destitute souls buying lottery tickets.  If I could have captured the intellect of the 7 people talking I might have been able to power an old IBM 386 computer between all of them.  I felt sorry for those people, but I also realized that they were who they were by their own decisions.  They chose to smoke too many cigarettes during their teen years, they chose to not read books and instead develop leisure time activities centered on drugs and alcohol.  They chose to live off of government instead of trying to earn a real income because they are generally  lazy.  They chose to ride a bus instead of driving a car, or to live in government housing when they could own a home.  They chose not to build their intellects, but to live as parasites off others who do have developed intelligence.  I feel sorry for them not for what they are, but for what they could have been, and in their lives, it’s too late.  Most of them could not redeem themselves within a lifetime, so they don’t even try.  They effectively ruined their lives before ever getting started and it is these people who the government wants to chain the rest of the country to out of compassion.  That is a bad strategic decision, nationally.

I won’t be participating in Obamacare.  I’ll pay my fine like I throw money at a toll booth driving through Chicago, or paying taxes to a stupid public school but I won’t participate further and I’ll find a way to get my wasted money back through some tax dedication that is perfectly legal.  I’ll get my money back one way or the other—but I won’t participate.  I do however feel sorry for those who are trapped; their bodies are addicted to pharmaceutical drugs and have conditions that their immune systems can no longer fight without Walgreens help.  Obamacare will sink them, and it is quite on purpose. 

Barack Obama knows it—he is feeling the pain of it, but collapse of American health care was the goal from the beginning—and nobody should kid themselves otherwise.  He can apologize, lie, manipulate and otherwise deceive, but the truth is coming out ever so slowly, and it will have a major impact on virtually everyone who lives in America.  The only way out at this point is to replace the members of the House and Senate during the 2014 election so that a total repeal is possible.  But short of that, 2014 will be very painful financially for nearly everyone we know as neighbors, friends, or otherwise.  And there is no escape this time.

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

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

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

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

Operation Underground Railroad: A hope for tomorrow that too many children need

My stance about public education over time has changed from primary concerns about finance, taxes, and teacher unions to the safety and preservation of young minds.Young people are the future of our country and the mind that drives young people is vastly more important than any other economic or social element.  So great care needs to be applied to promoting the most aggressive growth of their world outlook—and in public education when a trusted teacher or administrator uses children as a sexual outlet—not only is the act despicable, but it stunts the wonderful growth that might otherwise occur in a young person.  This kind of thing happens too often in public education because teacher unions prevent proper accountability giving refuge to the vile and evil among our human populations.  Even worse than the high cost of education, teacher unions are allowing too many sexual deviants to be employed in close proximity to children.

Sex trafficking of children is something I feel very passionate about.  I have talked about it here many times, and I find it to be the most horrendous human endeavor currently occurring.  People who seem rational, sane, and logically good are buying plane tickets to Southeast Asia too often to engage in sex with under aged children.  Too many grown adults deep into the corruption of their depleted ages seek out to psychologically destroy the innocence of youth as though they unconsciously are aware that they are out to eradicate optimism in the world because they can no longer touch it.  Like parasites they seek to steal it sexually through children—and it is one of the vilest practices currently happening anywhere.

Glenn Beck told his audience Wednesday November 13th, 2013 that they helped raise $300,000 in a single day to combat child sex trafficking after a broadcast and promotion of the new group Operation Underground Railroad, which I deeply support.  Thanks to the efforts of The Blaze readers, two Operation Underground Railroad jump teams have already been deployed to rescue more victims.  Operation Underground Railroad is a group of freedom fighters intent to end the worst aspect of modern slavery, funneled through the sex trade industry.  Some of the primary members have been working undercover for the American government for many years, but are sick and tired of just going after the effect of sex trafficking, the poor kids stolen all over the world to be used as sex slaves to punks, drug dealers, scum bags, and dick-heads.  However, those efforts have not been enough.  So Operation Underground Railroad members have decided to treat the cause, not the symptom and go after the losers who support human trafficking directly with assaults going straight to the door of evil.

Needless to say, I am a fan.  If they want any help busting those scum bags they can give me a call anytime.  It would be MY PLEASURE.  But these guys at Operation Underground Railroad are professionals fully capable of taking care of these perpetrators on their own.  What they need most is MONEY.  It costs a lot to send up a plane and go on a mission to a far away land to rescue children from the evil that seeks to consume them.  Endeavors like what Operation Underground Railroad are embarking on often take six figures to launch at a minimum not because the guys are getting rich off the effort, but because air plane operation and residence in a foreign country is extremely expensive.  So money is needed to launch missions to the doors of evil and rescue the children enslaved under the architects of evil.  The slave holders of the sex trade also need to be punished.  They do not respect the court systems of the world and believe that their money can always purchase lawyers who will keep them out of trouble.  This has allowed abuse in a similar way as the teacher unions have in public schools to advance the sex trade industry at an explosive rate.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/13/the-staggering-amount-of-money-glenn-becks-audience-raised-in-a-day-to-combat-child-sex-trafficking/#

No child anywhere should ever have to worry about becoming a sex trade slave.  No child should ever have their innocence robbed from them to fulfill the fantasy of some bloated adult corrupted by their mismanaged lives.  No child should ever grow up in fear of anything—because that is a direct failure of the adults who care for them.  It is preposterous—and unforgivable! No child should be bullied, should have their mind stagnated, or worry that some stranger might sweep them up and whisk them away to have their lives ruined to satisfy the sexual hunger of a social parasite.

So please do support Operation Underground Railroad.  Modern slavery is happening right under our noses.  It might even be your next door neighbor.  It might even be you dear reader.  If you participate in pornography chances are, you are supporting the sex trade industry.  If you hooked up with a chick in Vegas who was a nude dancer, chances are she was a used up victim of the sex trade prior to turning 18.  If you went to one of the Nevada whore houses, you are supporting indirectly the sex trade industry which dangles not too far behind the antics of legalized prostitution.  But worse than that, if you went out of the country for the purpose of having sex with a child, you are scum.  You are a vile human being that deserves punishment far beyond any court system of bureaucratic pin heads.  It’s not because you paid money to have the exchange, but because your money went to a slave holder against a child’s will that will impact them for life.  For those types of people, Operation Underground Railroad is targeting and I applaud the effort not just with a standing ovation, but atop the tallest ladder I can find and as high as my hands can reach!  CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO LEARN MORE.

OperationUndergroundRailroad.org.

The sex trade industry is driven by a demand piloted by evil.  There is nothing redeeming about sex with innocent children……….nothing.  There is no forgiveness of stealing away innocence from a life that has not yet had the privilege of making decisions about their life.  Unlike the adults who seek out sex with children, a trafficked child does not have a choice.  They can either be killed or allow the imposition upon them—because once they have been taken from the safety of their family environment—they are vulnerable and the crime is against the future potential of that child.  It is wonderful to learn that there are people in Operation Underground Railroad who feel as deeply about this topic as I do.  It is even better to see them seeking out to punish this vile evil where they live—in the darkness of the earths furthers corners.

As for the teachers of public school, if you confiscate cell phones with the hope of seeing topless pictures of your students, or you are texting sexual innuendo to young people fulfilling a deep dark fantasy that you think is carefully hidden, you are flirting with the crimes of the sex trade industry that Operation Underground Railroad is directly fighting—and are part of the problem.  By giving money to Operation Underground Railroad the support structure to defeat such evil is put in place by good honest people who still recognize evil for what it is, and have the back-bone to confront it directly.  There are few organizations that are worth such support these days, and I feel privileged to know that Operation Underground Railroad is out there doing what I wish I could do—beat the sex trade industry at its doorstep, and give a few more children hope for a tomorrow that they wouldn’t otherwise have.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/14/nearly-400-hundred-children-reportedly-rescued-after-worldwide-child-porn-bust/

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com