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How to Stop Racism: Who cares what Eric Holder says?

Who cares what Eric Holder said about the George Zimmerman acquittal or Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law?  Isn’t Holder a criminal?  Isn’t he guilty of deaths from his own actions, and destruction of individual rights performed on a mass scale?   If Holder were not the top cop of the United States Government wouldn’t he find himself in jail for the same types of crimes he accuses others of?   Of course a criminal is going to wish that “Stand Your Ground” laws were obsolete, so that their crimes can be committed against others more easily.  So his comments have no merit as he should be the one on trial, not George Zimmerman, who already had his day in court.  But Holder’s foolish comments were not the most ridiculous comments that came forth in the wake of the Zimmerman murder trial in Sanford, Florida.  The dumbest comments of all came from those crying for an end to racism in America upon the Zimmerman acquittal.  Out of all the news outlets and commentators who make millions upon millions of dollars giving statements and providing opinions no one has delivered a way to rid America of racism when the accusations have been so extreme once Zimmerman was found not guilty.  So I will provide the answer where others have failed.

The way to end racism is to stop using skin color as a weapon to advance collective causes and level the playing field for all individuals by allowing merit to determine all benefits in society.  When any collective group demands “equality” they are asking for thuggish democracy to take away resources from someone and give to another so that all can have equal value.  This allows people of low value to make themselves appear to have a higher value by lowering the value of others through legalized theft (income redistribution).  People of low value may have such a status because they made bad decision in life—such as drinking too much, smoking marijuana so that they cannot hold good paying jobs that require drug tests, or having children where there is not a responsible male in a household to help provide family structure.  People who do dumb things in their lives often seek the protection of social collectivism to hide their crimes and the only way vacant personalities can find value where they have squandered it away is to take it away from someone else.

Racism has given such collective groups the illusion of value.  By seeking equality they really mean “wealth redistribution.”  This is why such groups who advocate racial inequality always fail to identify the value of human beings as a criterion for equality.  Rather the true meaning of equality is to allow all races, all sexes, all shapes, sizes, and backgrounds of all people to have equal access to success.  Racial groups wish to stack the odds of success in their favor with democratic force through collectivism rather than individual merit.  This is why racism advocates for more power and so-called “equality” do not support political candidates like Herman Cain, or Dr. Ben Carson.  In the racism debate men who have achieved success based on individual merit no matter what their skin color are always overlooked, because the goal of the equal rights movement is not equal access to success, as men like Carson and Cain represent, but in the ability to level the economic playing field of society by cutting down the high spots and filling the low spots with displaced value.

To end racism tomorrow, all society would need to do would be to recognize the value of merit.  Those who work to achieve good merit in their lives would all have equal access to value, while those who chose not to work in such a way would find themselves lacking.   If the entire world functioned from a desire to be good ethically, morally, socially—good in every respect of the  word, there would be no racism because there would be no advantage of one gang of thugs over another.  No group would have dominance over any other, as they would all be irrelevant.  After all, isn’t it the desire of the black groups to take power from the perceived, “white man” or the “white supremacists” to take power from the “one world order” or the women from the men, or the men from the women, or the children from their parents, or the public sector worker from the private—all the mentioned are aspects of society that are lacking individual merit and seek their value in the safety of collectivism.  That is where the trouble begins and ends.  The way to end racism is to judge others on individual merit, not by any group affiliation.  When the incentive to gang rule is removed, the issue of racism will be put to rest.

In the wake of the Zimmerman verdict, gangs took to the streets at all political levels to exploit the tragic death for their own social positions, using democratic imposition to force rules on society that is ultimately designed to rob value from once social sector to provide another what it’s missing.  The behavior is as stupid as a village of hunters and gathers fighting over the watering hole of an animal both are hunting, or a bunch of foolish Europeans fighting over one version of religion over another.   Collective groups are the source of the trouble because they seek to hide individual merit behind their social blanket allowing poor behavior and decisions to be supplemented by the value of others in their group.   In every case, such as the would-be criminal Eric Holder, or the members of the Black Panthers, or any of the radical demonstrators who took to the streets to vandalize property like a bunch of malcontents when Zimmerman was found not guilty—the demand is not for justice of a slain kid, the demand is for an improvement in social status without the work of actually earning it.  Behind the actions of the hoards who are declaring “equality” are drug addicts, womanizers, jobless buffoons, welfare recipients, child molesters, victims of the molested, and a whole host of characters who are lacking personal value for one reason or the other and find it is much easier to steal value from others to fill themselves than actually doing the work of being good people of good merit.  That is what racism is all about, and why it will never go away so long as groups of any kind are given sway over other groups in a perpetual battle for value that is unearned.

Rich Hoffman

“Justice Comes with the Crack of a Whip!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

George Zimmerman Found Not Guilty: Why the “State” is dangerous

In spite of the “State’s” attempt at virtually every opportunity to prosecute George Zimmerman for the tragic shooting death of Trevon Martin in Samford, Florida the jury found him not guilty of murder on all accounts.  I first wrote about this back when the event happened, and my comments can be reviewed by CLICKING HERE.   Even the judge in the case seemed desperately to want a prosecution of Zimmerman based on her behavior during the trial and President Obama personally injected himself into the tragedy at the very beginning.  My statements about progressive groups using the Martin death as a power grab were accurate and thousands of commentators in the days to come will reiterate what I said a year ago now that Zimmerman is a free man and hindsight can be viewed so clearly.

For my own concern on the case, which I never thought should have been brought to trial as it is hypocritical at best given the amount of black on black crime that goes on in America,  the aggressive prosecution of Zimmerman in the first place reflects what I say here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom often, and that is the power of “the state” is too great and is focused on collectivism, and not individual rights which makes it a predatory entity.  The State of Florida pressed charges against Zimmerman after the Justice Department backed radical activists like Jessie Jackson and many other political heavy weights to protest the Samford legal system into taking on the case to avoid the anti-concept name calling of “racism.”  When the authorities prosecuted Zimmerman they essentially did so to appease the mob of democracy which had been hijacked by emotionally driven power grabbers who wanted to use tragedy to gain power for a demographic sector of human beings not based on individual merit, but collective identification.

The prosecution, the judge, the President of The United States, virtually everyone who collects a paycheck from the tax payers wanted to throw Zimmerman to the wolves not following any rule of law, or even the principles of logic, but to keep the mob from becoming unruly.  The law is not supposed to be shaped by gangs of influence builders who use force as a way to achieve their tactical objectives.  Law is supposed to be built on the philosophy of justice.  In the case of the Zimmerman trial, the jury system worked as the evidence was able to come to the surface and the prosecution’s case fell apart under scrutiny, as it had only been built off emotional principles to begin with.

The behavior of those prosecuting Zimmerman in Florida was disgusting, and was simply proof that if the state must pick between individual well-being, and statist protection of the system of which they benefit, they will pick openly sacrificing individuals to the jaws of an unruly mob every time.  When Jessie Jackson attempted to organize the “Million Hoodie March” in Samford he was not interested in the facts of the case, he simply wanted to use racism’s force to impose his will upon the “state” with a show of democratic strength that would make emotional decisions instead of logical ones.  It didn’t matter to Eric Holder’s Justice Department what the rules of Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law was under the Tenth Amendment.  The White House wanted to capitalize on the Martin death as much as anybody to remove guns from society and attack the idea of Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” premise.  The individual represented by Zimmerman was to be sacrificed for the good of the collective, as the protestors assimilated Trevon Martin into their hive of collectivism.  The death of Martin was an attack on their hive, the way they were portraying it, and the individual responsible had to pay, even if the law was on his side.  The masses were intent to change the law by force of will and the state was willing to play along out of self-preservation.

The case of George Zimmerman should alarm all American citizens to the dangers of collectivism.  Americans do not live in tribes or gangs of thugs who can march around and impose emotional whims on justice—at least the ideal of America refutes such a notion.  When such a thing happens it must be rejected from the outset.  George Zimmerman should have never been prosecuted.  He did what he was allowed to do under Florida law, and no gang from The White House, from any Rainbow Collation of Civil Rights wannabes, or lobby group has the right to change a law that they do not have a right to vote on.  Florida’s laws are not federal law, yet the federal government attempted to apply its influence through collective identification to achieve political party goals that are not good for any individual, but for the good of machine politics only.   In Samford, Florida two people struggled in a street fight.  One of them had a gun.  The one with the gun had control of the fight’s outcome, and that is the end of the story.

Entire generations who have been taught the “statist” approach to justice and believe that just because a person has a skin color, or a particular gender that their assimilation into a collective identification allows them to say and do whatever they want so long as the masses have their back, and this is not the spirit of any kind of rule of law in America.  Such behavior might be seen in some third-world dump where collectivism rules over individual merit, but not in America.  Yet out of kindness, Americans have put up with the introduction of anti-concepts by the political establishments who wish to grab power on the backs of every tragedy, and over time, the impositions have mounted.  And those anti-concepts where values are replaced with emotional judgments came crashing down in the George Zimmerman trial.

All appeared to be working in favor of the prosecution in the Zimmerman trial until they called their star witness Rachel Jeantel.  The world was tuned in to the Zimmerman trial and saw firsthand the reality of modern America guided by the hand of progressive politics when she spoke.  Jeantel was the product of Jesse Jackson’s collectivism and a public education system that has been shaped by illogical sensitivity and fear, instead of wisdom, performance, and common sense.  When she started speaking the reality behind the mob was seen by all, and a new direction needed to be pursued.  It was obvious that the prosecution was hoping that an emotional case presented by them would trump any facts, and once their star witness blew that strategy, they had nothing left to present to justify malicious murder by Zimmerman.  Any person of logic would fear the ignorance of a society that functions from such primal motivations, and even though Martin was a youth carrying a box of Skittles mainstream America got a glimpse into how Travon Martin saw the world outside of black America with Jeantel’s testimony of what was said over the phone calling Zimmerman, a “creepy-ass cracker.”

All across the nation black communities have been enslaved by politics to continue living in poverty by beholding ideologies that are destructive to their well-being.  Young people have been led to believe that they can think such things about other races as calling them names like “cracker” and other derogatory terms without feeling the teeth of ramifications.  They believe such things because campaigns like Jesse Jackson’s protests have been successful in the past of excusing bad behavior behind the mask of collectivism, and they assume that it will always be the case.  So they ignore the rules of gated communities, of private property, of private rights, and impose themselves at will upon a population that has been paralyzed by fear of the anti-concept of racism.  But if there is a lesson to the case of George Zimmerman it is that laws do, or are supposed to overcome emotional testimony, so long as a jury is wise and uses the rule of law constructed by good philosophy to trump mob like imposition.  And that the laws of a state such as Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” rule cannot be manipulated by federal influence even with a gang of emotional zealots sent to Samford to change public perception with mass consensus in a direct attempt to override logic into a stew of collectivism that is destructive to the idea of American independence.

Rich Hoffman

“Justice Comes with the Crack of a Whip!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Sex in Lakeland Florida: Police abuse women because statism allows them to

Just a few years ago criticizing public employees like cops, firefighters, and teachers was considered extremely taboo.  If you did it, you were called names by the statist establishment.  Prior to getting involved with the Zombies of Lakota I was like a lot of people, I suspected that bad things were going on in the world, especially government, but I didn’t know to what extent.  Once I discovered to what radical measures public employees would embark to protect their social image, I became more outraged with each passing week culminating in the writing of my most recent novel, Tail of the Dragon which is becoming something of a libertarian cult classic as it is extremely critical of public employees.  It is so much so that my editor thought a lot of the behavior described in the book was made up, when in fact I had done extensive research into the behavior of the Tennessee Highway Patrol to make sure I did not unfairly portray them in my massive car chase story.  Now, more people are starting to feel more comfortable talking about their bad experiences with public employees as the taboo is being removed—justifiably so.  As I travel around Florida quite a lot and consider it a second home, a recent outbreak of stories caught my attention involving the Lakeland police department that deserves extreme criticism.  But before diving into those events, it must first be explored why public employees are prone to corruption.

The trouble with tax payer funded jobs no matter what level they are provided is that they encourage employees to comply with rules and regulations that are not constructed by their own minds.  Public employees, most likely every one of them, hope to bring meaning to their own lives by sacrificing their efforts to social causes—like teaching, fighting fires, or doing police work.  However all those positions are often controlled by labor unions, which are driven toward liberal politics by generating revenue to support progressive social policies.  The duality of this problem informs the workers that they are simply cogs in the system and that the statism of that system is more important than their individual needs.  Young employees tend to be deeply ideological toward statism while older employees are often broken mentally by their retirements.  This leaves employees in the in-between phases—somewhere around the 7 to 15 years of employment mark–to be deeply corrupt morally, and ethically and it is this group of public employees that often get involved in the sex scandals that are raging in public schools and on police forces.  Their minds are bored as their wages are often very good, yet the contents of their jobs are not stimulating.  Cops spend a lot of time waiting for something to happen and most weeks of the year, there isn’t much to do especially in a community like Lakeland, Florida which is a direct benefactor to the Disney World boom of Orlando.  Because of the extra tourism dollars that come to Lakeland from Orlando, the cops there have nice new cars, a nice police station, and more employees on staff than they really need which of course is sold to the community as “safety.”  But the reality is that there are a lot of public employees who are paid a lot of money to not think, and to simply go with the flow of the system—put in their time and retire with a wonderful pension.  In the meantime, they look for some way to live out their individualities through acts of rebellion prior to surrendering to the statism of the systems they work for.

In Lakeland Sue Eberle, aged 37, has told officials that she had consensual and sometimes coerced sex with police officers and firefighters, and that she once was propositioned by a city worker in Lakeland. Eberle’s accounts of the liaisons were largely corroborated by her sexual partners and others within the police department, and published in a graphic, 59-page report written in an incredulous tone by the county’s top prosecutor. It said the department’s problems investigating crimes might be caused by some high-ranking officers being more interested in having sex with Eberle than doing their jobs.  In essence Sue Eberle was the victim of sexual abuse as a child so she had boundary issues apparently, and once the police department found out about it as Eberle was also a public employee, they psychologically took advantage of the woman to have frequent sex with her all over Lakeland which the entire police force including superior officers knew about.  Read more at the link below:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/10/moral-bankruptcy-shocking-number-of-fla-cops-entangled-in-deplorable-sex-scandal/

Eberle is married to an understanding husband who seems to really want to help her with her issues, and most of the police were married also.  Apparently in Lakeland nobody cares about such promiscuous sex.  But what is worse is the massive display of collectivism that occurred within the police department which can only be compared to a bunch of high school kids who wish to exploit the class slut to experiment sexually so they can gain experience. The Lakeland police were sharing the body of Sue Eberle without a care in the world to the impact it might have on her husband, or even their own families and they all knew that each other were involved in sexual liaisons with the woman.  The practice was so common that it was a joke within the department where even senior officials blew the behavior off as commonplace.

Yet the abuse was not regulated to just the public employees in Lakeland where police were able to live out their individual fantasies of imposing their manhood upon a yielding female, because the target was too easy.  Some of those police officers looked for ways to turn up the heat on the civilian population.  The cause of all this sexual deviancy of course is the modern trend of confusing men who biologically are alpha males and telling them that in the context of their spouses they are supposed to be betas.  Men are told to yield to women who are convinced that they are supposed to be alpha as well.  Two alpha’s in a sexual/business relationship like marriage causes conflict which both parties avoid by living separate lives within the household sexually and emotionally.  Men who know they cannot be alpha males in their own homes will seek to create a caricature of themselves elsewhere where they can at least pretend to be strong alpha males even as they may appear to be yielding beta males socially.  Visit any gentleman club, or check the client listing of any escort service and hundreds of thousands of such men will be discovered.  For more on this read my article about Fifty Shades of Gray.  CLICK HERE. The problem is one of the most destructive trends in modern society and is exacerbated when public employees who are crippled psychologically are given power over other human beings as authority figures.

A Lakeland, Florida police officer recently asked a woman to lift up her shirt, bearing her midriff, and shake out her bra during a traffic stop that is being investigated for the “highly questionable” and “demeaning” search method, the Ledger, a Lakeland newspaper, reported.  Zoe Brugger was pulled over by Lakeland Police Officer Dustin Fetz on May 21 for driving with a broken headlight. She was then found to be driving without a valid license as well. But the Ledger reported State Attorney Investigator Mike Brown’s report saying what happened during the stop was a violation of Brugger’s constitutional rights.  It is obvious the Officer Fetz enjoyed having power over the very compliant Brugger, and her compliance fed the ego of the officers prompting them like drug addicts to pursue more investigation to get their mental, and sexual fix.  Read more at the link below:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/21/police-officer-has-woman-perform-highly-questionable-and-demeaning-bra-shake-during-traffic-stop/

It is obvious that Lakeland, Florida has too many police officers as there isn’t much to do but to have sex with other employees, and harass citizens during routine traffic stops.  The cause of the corruption was government convincing the voters of Lakeland that for their own safety they needed to hire a large police force that they didn’t need to feed off tax dollars so that they could harass the tax payers with authority given to them by the state.  Because the police jobs were created to fulfill the desires of statism and not logical need, the positions were filled by employees that are dangerous psychologically and given authority over the innocent by means that violate individual rights.  The acts of sex that have been discovered in Lakeland are rampant in virtually every community.  I know a lot of cops, and have known many more in communities from West Virginia to the upper counties of Ohio and the stories of what has happened in Lakeland can be found in nearly every policing district to some extent.  Lakeland is not the exception, but the general rule.  Anytime there are state employees that are given authority over others, abuses are found.

My anger at this statist system of thought is the underlining theme of my novel Tail of the Dragon.  For those who share that anger, I would suggest reading it and enjoying with great fanfare the act of rebellion that reading that book represents against the statism of our modern age which values beta men who would rather cry over spilt milk, than to show any level of grit in the face of danger.   The sexual deviancy of the police in Lakeland is endemic of the type of people who are attracted to public sector jobs, and those types of people should not be given authority over others.  So long as it continues abuses will continue.  The dialogue that is currently present is only touching the tip of an iceberg as these corruptions have persisted over many years.  Only now are people beginning to admit that they do not enjoy trading their individual sanctity for security.  However, there are more than ever due to social breakdowns, people like Sue Eberle who might appear as a perfectly rational human being at the grocery store, but has within her mind open doors imposed upon her as a child by trusted family members who taught her that open coercive sex is the norm.  Those people vote, and in a democracy since they have no moral barriers against statist behavior do not see the fallacy of their involvement.  They vote for every school levy, every fire levy, and every police levy because they believe that their society will be safe if those employees are present when exactly the opposite is true.  Society is safer when public employees are reduced and statism is kept out of communities allowing individuality to reign as the ruling factor over the tyranny of the power-hungry public employees who have been given authority to act out their deepest, darkest fantasies while being paid by the tax payer to be social deviants all in the name of justice.

Sue Eberle is not alone…………………….

Rich Hoffman

“Justice Comes with the Crack of a Whip!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The Zombies of Lakota: Voting NO on tax increases to turn a nightmare into a dream

Lakota has projected declining student enrollment for the next 7 years and the $20 million that has been cut out of the budget over the last 3 years reflects the roughly 9% enrollment decline that has occurred at Lakota over that span.  Yet, the school board is pursuing a tax increase anyway in spite of the downward demand for their services and is ignoring all the economic facts of reality.  To sell the levy this time around in 2013 the administrators are using tested buzz words like “security” and “technology” as a way to justify their excessive spending, but there is something more sinister behind the ploy that I have just now identified.  I have called the levy supporters at Lakota everything from “looters” to “prostitutes” because of their desire to steal money from the community with coercive tax increases but neither of those definitions properly captures the cannibalistic nature of the Lakota levy addicts.  Calling them “latte sipping prostitutes” was actually a compliment compared to the actual reality.  A prostitute makes a conscious decision to sell themselves in exchange for something—but these modern levy supporters at Lakota seem to not even have that much conscious thought about the matter.  With the announcement of this 2013 levy, that leaves only one option for the nature of the levy supporters.  They are simply mindless zombies addicted to the financial resources of the Liberty Township and West Chester communities and like their movie counterparts who roam about half dead looking to suck the life out of any human being that crosses their path, these Lakota Zombies wish to do the same but on a massive scale attacking businesses, and property values to feed their unfathomable appetites for destruction.

The Zombies of Lakota are mindless drones who march about without a thought in their minds and simply repeat slogans created for them by the organized labor force to gather up enough funds to feed their democratic politicians.  The slogans are designed to make them appear like everyone else in the community so that they can get close enough to suck the life out of another taxpaying victim.  They utter phrases like “it’s all for the children,” “schools are operating efficiently,” and “technology is needed to teach children in a global marketplace.”  But the real intention is to get close enough to voters so that they can suck the life out of them through taxation for mindless teacher contracts that only feed more mindless political drones in Columbus through lobby power, a lobby that will place more tax paying victims upon an altar to be consumed by the Zombies of Public Education.

There simply isn’t any other explanation for the type of people who are not cognizant to the facts of reality.  Zombies move about like normal human beings, yet they don’t ever seem conscious of any mode of living beyond the mindless consumption of others to sustain themselves, and this is what the Zombies of Lakota are doing.  They have been told how to balance their budget by people who are good at such things, and they have ignored all the advice.  In the case of Lakota in 2013 they need to have major labor reductions to deal with the reduced enrollment, but the Zombies of Lakota only know to consume.  Talking to them is like speaking to a zombie that just looks blankly at you and drools not hearing a word that is spoken unless it involves the consumption of tax dollars.  Then they grunt and get excited at the prospect of higher taxes the way movie zombies crave blood.

The Zombies of Lakota feature an endless parade of drones that speak absent-mindedly in support of higher taxes to feed their spawns.  With each new levy there have been new zombies to take up the argument constructed for them by organized labor to justify the community sacrifice of their wealth for the construction of more zombies perpetuating an endless cycle of Obama voters and environmental wackos that are produced by modern public education.  They say the same thing year after year, levy after levy, even when the conditions have changed.  It is incomprehensible to them to consider proper budget management by means of wage reductions, employee reductions, or by actually using technology to save on labor overhead.  Instead they simply utter their slogans and grunt for higher taxes.

In the movies zombies are usually defeated easily in the daylight hours and can be easily outmaneuvered as they lack independent thought.  They are only dangerous if you let them get too close and get caught in one of their traps.  The Zombies of Lakota are defeated by presenting the facts to them which makes them shrivel up in pain like a demon that has had Holy Water thrown upon their foreheads.  Facts destroy the Zombies of Lakota, facts like their need to lay off workers in the years to come instead of paying the staff they have currently for a job that isn’t needed do to the declining enrollment.  But the traps the zombies set are in their campaign slogans where they attempt to appeal to the rational and sane by exploiting children for their endless desire for consumption.

The Zombies of Lakota can appear to look the same way as any sane voter who will typically vote NO on all tax increases.  They can look like normal people by dressing like them, walking like them, and even smelling like them…………..but they aren’t normal.  The dead giveaway is when the zombies declare that the district has done all it can, and that children are suffering as a result.  If a persona says something to that effect, they are a Zombie of Lakota, and they are looking to suck the life out of you without a care for your well-being.  They are mindless automatons unable to think outside of their own hunger for tax revenue.

This fall of 2013 when Halloween howls haunted fantasies into the chilled night air the Zombies of Lakota will be out in full force looking to pass a tax increase on voters for the November ballot.  They will hit the streets walking from door to door attempting to consume more victims, they will be out in full force at football games, at grocery stores, on street corners attempting to suck the life of the people who live in the district with no thought of what comes on the day after, but their never-ending hunger for more…….more……..and more tax money.  The Zombies of Lakota are coming, and they are looking for victims.  The ways to beat them is to Vote No on the upcoming levy and send them back to the places where dreams become nightmares.  A failure to do so will only make more of them until sooner or later the world will be filled with the Zombies of Lakota who are parasites to everything that is good and profitable.

Rich Hoffman

“Justice Comes with the Crack of a Whip!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The Wonderful ‘T-Rex Cafe’: Refusing to honor “Mother Earth” with one more mass extinction

T-Rex1I enjoy fine dining and have rather high expectations in regard to food.  In my home town of West Chester when I want a nice dining experience, my wife and I go to Jags.  For power dinners it is the Montgomery Inn Boat House downtown along the river that most suits my taste.  So with those qualifiers I must report that I had one of the finest dinners I can ever recall at the T-Rex Café in Orlando, Florida.  This was unexpected as I thought the restaurant featuring animatronic dinosaurs that howl at you while eating would be just another gimmicky eatery that would fall short of anticipated hope.  My family was with me at Downtown Disney recently so I had the opportunity to treat them to a nice dinner in a unique place, so we headed to the T-Rex Café which is only one of two in the entire country.  T-Rex5The other establishment is located in Kansas City.  As expected the interior of the restaurant was fabulous looking resembling more a dynamic museum than a place to eat.  The hostess seated us in a corner table next to the fire pit cooking area directly underneath a pterodactyl dinosaur and flaming licks that emerged from a volcano.  Our large booth was situated inside a geode that looked out into the dining room as a meteor shower flew by violently overhead.  Across the room was the ice cave complete with fossils embedded in the walls.  Everywhere around the large dining room which held over 600 people were spectacles of science and ancient biological history.  But better than that, the food was as good as the environment.  The appetizers were seasoned wonderfully, the service was top-notch, and the feature plates were excellently prepared, and delivered.  For the climax of the dinner we had a Chocolate Extinction which was delivered as a flame spewing volcano that was absolutely fabulous.

As I ate my dinner and spoke with my family I had a persistent thought–the restaurant was just another miracle of capitalism.   Only capitalism could produce such a place, and even though the cost of the meal was certainly on the high side, it was well worth the price as the environment cost an enormous sum to maintain daily.  Only an economic system of capitalism could hope to produce the resources to make such a place possible.  Yet in our current time, capitalism’s greatest predator is socialism, and the current incantation of political socialism is the “green movement” that attempts to take mankind back to the roots of earth worship and primitive rituals in an effort to preserve the world for eternity.T-Rex4

As I looked around the room at the T-Rex Café I thought of a conversation I had with one of my nephews the day before—a small argument that we had in a swimming pool over the merits of personal Thorium reactors for sustainable, cheap power at each home in the world.  His position was one of concern for the radioactive waste generated by nuclear fission taught to him by the six digit debt he incurred in college that had steered his thinking.  I tried to sympathize with his view-point as he spent a lot of money on his education and wanted to believe that the things he learned were valid.  But in the scheme of things he was taught by left-leaning college professors the mystical trend of primitive sacrifice to the goddess Earth and were wrong.  The entire environmental movement is built on mysticism and a primitive need to sacrifice to the gods that are now representative in New Age doctrine as a love for the great Goddess Earth.  The mentality is the same as the Mayans sacrificing human beings to Kukulkan, or a bunch of Native Americans (displaced Chinese people) doing a rain dance to bring water to their crops.  The idea of sacrifice to a deity is a primitive concept that is rooted in ignorance which is wonderfully portrayed in one of my favorite books, The Golden Bough by James Frazer.  Human beings have evolved for the most part beyond that ridiculous mentality rooted in ignorance with the advances found in the philosophy of capitalism.  The T-Rex Café was a direct product of capitalism and was a celebration of life forms on earth that had become extinct for natural reasons.  Because of capitalism, children can share with their parents a celebration of a world long gone so that hopefully they can all learn something from the process while enjoying the roots of our own evolution.T-Rex2

Yet there are thousands of young people like my nephew who have been taught that preserving the earth is more important than the products of the human mind which is in essence a dedication to the primitive nature of human beings before the invention of capitalism.  Those human beings who hate capitalism tend to support socialist tendencies either directly or indirectly and it is they who have perpetuated the myths about global warming, and the sacrifice of human advancement to the benefit of the earth—which is just ridiculous.

As I watched the meteor showers strike each other across the ceiling of the T-Rex Café restaurant I thought of the future of the earth as we know it now.  Part of the ongoing supercontinent cycle, plate tectonics will probably result in a supercontinent in 250–350 million years. Some time in the next 1.5–4.5 billion years, the axial tilt of the Earth may begin to undergo chaotic variations, with changes in the axial tilt of up to 90°.

During the next four billion years, the luminosity of the Sun will steadily increase, resulting in a rise in the solar radiation reaching the Earth. This will cause a higher rate of weathering of silicate minerals, which will cause a decrease in the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In about 600 million years, the level of CO
2 will fall below the level needed to sustain C3 carbon fixation photosynthesis used by trees. Some plants use the C4 carbon fixation method, allowing them to persist at CO
2 concentrations as low as 10 parts per million. However, the long-term trend is for plant life to die off altogether. The die off of plants will be the demise of almost all animal life, since plants are the base of the food chain on Earth.T-Rex7

In about 1.1 billion years, the solar luminosity will be 10% higher than at present. This will cause the atmosphere to become a “moist greenhouse”, resulting in a runaway evaporation of the oceans. As a likely consequence, plate tectonics will come to an end.[11] Following this event, the planet’s magnetic dynamo may come to an end, causing the magnetosphere to decay and leading to an accelerated loss of volatiles from the outer atmosphere. Four billion years from now, the increase in the Earth’s surface temperature will cause a runaway greenhouse effect. By that point, most if not all the life on the surface will be extinct.[12][13] The most probable fate of the planet is absorption by the Sun in about 7.5 billion years, after the star has entered the red giant phase and expanded to cross the planet’s current orbit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_the_Earth

And at any time during this cycle of destruction, a meteor, an alien race, or even the collision of the Milky Way galaxy with another galaxy may occur destroying not just the earth, but all the millions of planets in the galaxy.  The idea of not installing a Thorium reactor on every home, every car, and every need for power that the human race desires seems insanely stupid when it is realized that the sacrifice of technical achievement to short-sighted preservation of the earth is currently occurring.  Humans would be wise to blast the radioactive waste of such nuclear fission into space to dump among the stars, but such things are of secondary concern to the efforts that are produced by the human mind.  Whether the earth ends in 100 years or in 7.5 billion years, the earth will end, and the human race will need to evolve into a type 3 civilization by that time, or it will go out like a light in the universe that has been turned off by its own short-sightedness.  When the earth ends, human beings need to be elsewhere.T-Rex3

To avoid extinction, human beings not only must develop an ability to move from one galaxy to another, but from one universe to another, because the universe is not exactly stable.  Mankind through capitalism has the ability to solve these problems but the trend of the current environmentalist is a dedication to the failures of mankind’s past, the sacrifice of humans to the gods of speculation—to the mystic desire to shun personal responsibility for ones own life to a deity of convenience and hide their lack of courage behind group behavior.

The T-Rex Café is an excellent example of capitalism at its absolute best.  The food is great, the environment, the service, the location was absolutely spectacular.   But more importantly were the thoughts that the place was able to invoke in the imagination.  Dining with my family at a big comfortable table with good food to ease the tensions of the day allowed for the possibility of thoughts that were stimulated by the dynamic environment.  For me, the conversation I had with my nephew at the pool came rushing to my mind as the meteor shower overhead violently erupted.  Everything on earth was created from violence and force.  Every mountain is the result of earth’s crust violently being shoved upward.  Every river is the result of massive rain fall.  Every drop of ocean water is the result of crashed comets millions of years ago.  The dinosaurs of which the T-Rex Café was dedicated to had lived and died over a much longer span of time than human beings have even been a thought on earth, and in all that time no dinosaur ever invented a way to draw energy from a Thorium reactor, yet the audaciousness of the modern-day environmentally conscious religious zealot is to assume that the earth will always stay just as it is now in the year 2013 and never become hotter or colder, or violently upset by a planetary collision of any kind.  They assume that humans are equal in value to all other life forms on the planet, and that’s not true—only humans have developed complicated thoughts that enable them to leave earth, extend their own life spans, and create their own future.  For the greenie weenie environmentalist the small mindedness of their short-life spans is unfathomably foolish and insecure.  They hope to revert mankind back to a cave man building fires and barking at a bolt of lightning streaking across the sky as some mystery delivered from the gods, instead of understanding the science of static electricity and using that power to carry them off earth for good, to destinations not yet discovered.T-Rex6

A good meal not only fills the belly, but the mind, and I left the T-Rex Café full in both regards.  It was worth the money of a 5 star restaurant because the combination of food and environment was so extremely magnificent.  I won’t soon forget the place because long after the food was enjoyed the experience continued to give me fresh ideas that are invaluable to proper perspective.  It was clearly one of my favorite dining experiences to date anywhere in the world, in part because of the restaurant itself, but mostly in the recreation of a time long-lost to history that was recreated as an honor, and a warning to mankind’s own doomed fate if it fails to embrace the proper philosophy of reaching for the stars instead of the jealous confines of mother earth and her selfish desire to doom all humans to the same fate she will surely suffer.

Rich Hoffman

“Justice Comes with the Crack of a Whip’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

In the “Rabbit Hole” at Hollywood Studios: The best that the world has to offer metaphysically

I don’t turn down media requests often, but I did the day I was visiting Hollywood Studios recently with my family.  We had just parked for the day as swarms of people were migrating to the entrance when an interview request came over my cell phone.  I told the producer that I was at Disney World and that I would not be giving any interviews for the entire day.  Hollywood Studios for me was more than just a visit to an amusement park; it was a life centering expedition that was the climax of a vacation where I turned off everything for one week, including personal email correspondence.  I had some difficult problems to work through and the best place to do it was at one of the most creative places on earth, Disney World, and more suitable to my personal tastes was Hollywood Studios.  What sets Hollywood Studios apart from every other theme park in the world is that they go to the extraordinary trouble of having so many live performances as part of their attractions.  Hollywood Studios has all the showmanship of a Vegas stage show, with the purity of imagination and family entertainment that is specific to Disney, and I relish those environments as a way to recharge my own creative impulses.  So I spent the week leading up to our trip to Hollywood Studios reading books on the balcony of our Cape Canaveral condo, eating 24” pizzas, playing board games with family members till late in the night, playing miniature golf, visiting local tourist spots, throwing football on the beach, and preparing to see two of the greatest live stunt shows anywhere, the Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular, and Lights, Motors, Action, Extreme Stunt Show.  My footage from these events can be seen in the video below.  Media interviews were forbidden as my thoughts were pretty far down my own personal rabbit hole.

The reason for my self-imposed media exile was that I was thinking of a controversial and complicated thought that I had been wrestling with for about 6 months, and I needed to confirm my suspicions by visiting a known refuge for dreamers, and social statists alike who all desire the same thing.  At Disney World no matter what the political affiliation, no mater what the personal philosophy, no matter what the demographic background, every visitor at least wishes to touch the face of greatness for just a moment, and at Disney World this experience is very expensive.  But the Disney Company uses the money they make to purchase paradise from the hands of tyranny which exists just out of reach from the Disney Properties in Central Florida.   I have said that my favorite place on earth is the Epcot Center located on the property, but very close to it is my love of Hollywood Studios, which holds within it the magic of imagination in the purist form that came directly from the mind of Walt Disney.  Located on the Hollywood Studios property is the regional airplane that Uncle Walt used to buy up the Central Florida property in small increments to create his Magic Kingdom.  If Disney had not bought up all that “worthless” property and had the vision to build all the wonderful things that are currently at the Disney World Complex, the earth would be on a march back toward the primitive tribal tendencies of mankind’s origins.  It was the work of one man who made Disney World such a great place with the solitary intention of giving all human beings in the world the hopes that can only be created with thoughts produced from the mind.DSC04794

A few days prior my oldest daughter flew into Orlando prompting us to pick her up at the International Airport that was built because of Disney World.  The airport has a gigantic hotel in the center of it and is a marvel of efficiency.  It is one of the busiest airports in the world and has direct flights to it that are only rivaled by places like Hong Kong, London or Paris.  People fly to Orlando for one primary reason, and that is to attend one of the many parks that are in Central Florida—all of which exist because of Walt Disney.  As we waited for my daughter to come down the terminal merge, my wife and I notice how many foreign nationals were filling the unloading area.  There were clearly people from Brazil, Argentina, China, France, and Russia waiting around us as they all had matching t-shirts indicating their origins so they wouldn’t become lost from one another in a strange country.   I saw some of those same t-shirts just a few days later at Hollywood Studios.  They had traveled from around the world to see some aspect of Disney World.  But why…………………that was the source of my quagmire?  It wasn’t enough for me to rationalize that Disney World was just a neat place.  There was more to it than that, and I needed the answer to complete my nagging thoughts.  This is why I had to visit Hollywood Studios with my family and visit some of the attractions that are very dear to my heart.  In some ways visiting Hollywood Studios was like returning home for Christmas to me.  The ideals represented at that particular park are part of my very soul.DSC04777

One of the things that most impresses me at Hollywood Studios is their live shows, the amount of instances where an actor/actress actually handles the attractions.  This is most notable at the Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular and Lights, Motors, Action, Extreme Stunt Show which to me are worth the price of admission by themselves.  The Indian Jones show is housed on a huge stage that takes up nearly a sixth of the entire park grounds and holds 2000 people in the stands.  It is quite a production by itself.  But over at Lights, Motors, Action, that show features a grandstand that puts to shame most seating platforms at any state fair in the country, it is so massive that it rivals some football stadiums, and was built just for the stunt show which only plays three times a day.  Those stands hold 5000 viewers for each show, and are truly colossal when taken into perspective.  Only at Disney World could stunt shows be given these kinds of financial resources, which is why those two features are so valuable to me.  I had my grandson with me and even though he was only 9 months old, the pictures of his visit will mean a great deal to him later.  Plus I have a very strong belief that worldly impressions are written into the brain of children from a very young age, so it is my task to make sure he gets these experiences, even if he doesn’t consciously remember them.DSC04778

Hollywood Studios because of their other theme parks is able to dedicate their attention to these live performances, which would be devastatingly cost prohibitive if attempted on their own.   I did rough calculations of the amount of employees that Hollywood Studios employed on the grounds and the results are unfathomable.   Hollywood Studios does not skimp.  Even on their Great Movie Ride, they have theatrical performances where actors/hosts, interact with animatronics to provide a truly epic performance where they didn’t have to.  The Little Mermaid stage play featured many live puppeteers where most theme parks would have relied on mechanical props that would give repeatability time and time again.  Hollywood Studios is not just dedicated to memorializing the movie business, it is dedicated to the unique human touch that live performances provide and the employees bring a lot of heart and soul to each performance.DSC04781

When my wife and I dined at the Sci Fi Drive In restaurant, the employees were all happy to be working, and projected a feeling of competency.  The same level of attention radiated to even the gift shop attendants.  While my wife and I watched our grandson as my kids rode the Tower of Terror a rainstorm erupted and we sought shelter in a gift store where a nice woman with a heavy Kenyan accent showed us to a nice spot in the store where the air conditioner was running on overdrive so we could cool down the baby and get him out of the direct rain.  She didn’t have to be nice in that situation, but she was.  She was happy to be working there, and it showed.  This was the usual experience, not at all the exception.

But the epic performance that easily could have been shown on Broadway in New York was the Fantasmic firework show that took place in an amphitheater setting behind the Tower of Terror ride.  For over a half hour Hollywood Studios put on a firework show, a light show, a stage show, and a puppet show on a lake of fire with a giant fire-breathing dragon all rolled up into one performance.  They had built another 5000 seat theater similar to the one at Lights, Motors, Action and it was filled with thousands of voices cheering on Mickey Mouse as he battled the dragon from Sleeping Beauty and Fantasia.  A gentle roar emerged from the crowd that was as ambitious as a crowd at a football game.  As I watched it looked like at least a 100 employees where working to make the Fantasmic show work in a section of the park that was only used for one show at the end of the day.  The show itself was just another example of the audacity of Walt Disney World to build huge theaters only to be used once a day.  Hollywood Studios seems to almost show off their vast employment ability by providing jobs that no other place of business could afford to make available.DSC04799

No government on earth at any level of endeavor could create the kind of jobs that are created at Disney World.  Hollywood Studios is able to provide large quantities of jobs to creative oriented people just because they are such a large organization that is so profitable they can provide jobs that require such incredibly large overhead.  And that is why so many foreign visitors packed the Orlando airport and Hollywood Studios.  There is only one country in the entire world and really only one individual from that country that could even envision a place like Disney World.  As I studied the vast packs of people from other countries navigating the streets of Hollywood Studios with great enthusiasm the concept hit me like a ton of bricks.  The countries where these visitors came from are completely unable to produce any version of Disney World on their own.  The only way they could get close to such a place was to save enough money to fly to the United States and visit the place for themselves, a world created by Walt Disney with sheer imagination.DSC04801

Most people come and go from Disney World without any inkling as to what they saw or why they liked what they saw.  They only know as they travel back to their hotels and rest their tired bones in beds that are not their own, leaving them in debt from a vacation that cost between $2000 to $10,000 to do correctly, that they tried really hard to get their families to Disney World for some mysterious reason that dawned on them when they arrived at the front gates in the morning. At Hollywood Studios I took a mental survey all day long counting employees, both in front and behind the scenes, and the general philosophy of the entire place and I realized that the cost of the $90 admission ticket per person was paid for with just two of the major stunt shows, Indiana Jones and Lights, Motors, Action.  The rest of the park was just value added, bonuses if visitors had the courage or wherewithal to understand what they were seeing and how important it was to see.  Most people who I watched leave at the end of the day saw a lot, but remembered very little except what their cameras would reveal to them later as their minds were on information overload.  For most visitors they left Disney World a couple grand poorer, and wondering if it was all worth it because they saw so much that they can’t remember anything.  But I don’t have that handicap, and neither does my family.  I was much honored to see that my kids enjoyed most at Hollywood Studios the exhibit dedicated to Walt Disney: One Man’s Dream and the Animation Art Gallery.  Those two exhibits were hidden in the back of the park and were the least visited areas by far.  My kids didn’t want to leave them as we spent nearly 1/5th of the entire day in that small section of the park as the key to all of Disney World was contained within the displays.DSC04800

Disney World sells hope, dreams and the power of imagination to people who are short on supply.  On the other end, Disney World supplies thousands upon thousands of good jobs to people who wouldn’t otherwise have them.  There is more wealth in just Orlando because of Disney World than most of the counties that visited from across the world’s oceans, and all that activity was driven by one man who simply wanted to open up the minds of all people and plant dreams upon their thoughts hoping to make their life just a little bit better.  Disney World is expensive, but they more than give back the value of their efforts if visitors can maintain the ability to absorb everything.DSC04787

One of my son-in-laws is from England and under the simmering nighttime lights toward the close of the day; he proclaimed how grateful he was to be able to attend a Disney World park.  He stated that like the many visitors I had seen that day from countries all over the world that he feared that he might never make it to such a place in his lifetime. Now he has been to the Epcot Center and Hollywood Studios and his imagination was on overdrive.  It was for people like him that Disney dreamed a dream of creating Disney World.  Disney offered the experience to everyone who could come up with the price of admission, but he knew that only a handful out of thousands would walk away at the end of each day aware of what Disney World was all about.  It is a credit to the company of Disney that they have not forgotten who their founder was, and fight to this very day to keep his dream alive without pretentious input on the behalf of arrogant CEOs who wish to leave behind their own mark of greatness.  For Disney it was never about being great—just being good.DSC04783

When I arrived back to the condo that night sitting by the raging stormy waters of the Atlantic I read the reviews to the new Disney film, the Lone Ranger and saw that like Man of Steel, critics had panned the film a dud.  The modern-day progressive critics can’t stand a clean hero who saves the day with a white hat and stallion which is what the Lone Ranger represents, and they are hoping desperately that the film falls on its face as a financial loss for Disney.  Those same critics chastise the Disney Company for the high cost of their theme parks and their empire-like status over so many treasured stories, like Pixar films, Marvel Comics, Star Wars and of course the great classics.  They despise the Disney Company because they are a successful organization that makes good things for people.  Without Disney, much of the world would not currently know anything of goodness, because it is the foundations that were set by Walt Disney which carry on to this very day that are the only hope for large portions of the world to touch ideals that are bigger than their statist lifestyles could garner for them under any other circumstances.DSC04767

I treasure our visit to Hollywood Studios for deeply personal reasons.  I feel calibrated in ways that are better than what I’ve felt in over a decade.  I felt as at home at the Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular as I do in my own living room.  I feel I know every person who worked that stage, and worked as stunt people even though I have not met any of them.  They knew the same as I did about Hollywood Studios, and they understood how special the place was, and is to the minds of the world.  There are lessons that should be taken from Disney World that government everywhere would do well to follow.  I left the park that day feeling deeply sorry for the people who had to fly 10,000 to 20,000 miles to arrive at a park I only had to travel 1000 miles to attend.  I wish that they lived in a culture that could produce a comparative experience, but they don’t.  Only in America can such a place exist, and only America can produce people like Walt Disney without crushing them out of relevance with statist controls over their very minds.DSC04765

When I turned down the media request that morning upon arriving at Hollywood Studios, now the answer to why is known—I consider the place to be sacred–that nothing of the outside world should penetrate under any circumstances, and I held to that oath.  My daughters watched me hang up the phone to the producer who had called me, and understood without any words needing to be exchanged.  In our family there is nothing more sacred than the thoughts that the mind produces, and there is no place on earth more dedicated to thought and imagination than Disney World.  When we visit, the rest of the world goes on hold.  When I visit such places I touch the most essential parts of my character, and find thoughts that my mind has been desperately trying to push out into the light of day.  And for that even though Walt Disney has long since left the earth, he has handed to me a baton of understanding that his Disney World complex was designed to invoke.  I know what to do with that baton, and understand the meaning behind the meanings.  DSC04756What is sometimes obvious to all, are simply the contorted images of fatigue that can be seen at the gates of Disney World at the end of the day.  Most people see and hear the same things, but they are unable to absorb the information and understand the value.  They only sense that something important happened and they immediately begin saving their money for the next visit.  But the lesson of Disney World is not that it is to remain an empire in Central Florida, but that the ideas are intended to spread to the far corners of the world to take hold and improve the lives of everyone.  The lessons of Disney World are not to copy the business plan of the Disney Company, but to spread the message that underlies everything that the company represents, the telling of stories that are important to the soul of all human beings and their need of mythology to communicate their hopes and dreams to others representing their innermost values.  For me it is in the stunt shows at Hollywood Studios.  At many levels, I feel an affinity for the danger, the glory, and the explosive hype of the stuntmen who must bring to reality the thoughts of a writer with their finger on the pulse of mythology and the yearnings of the human race fighting against all forms of statism.  At Disney World the fight is in the imagination, but in the reality outside the property borders it is quite literal, and the great quest to attend the parks every year from visitors is to escape for just a few hours that horrific realization that no place but Disney World can provide such a safe haven for those with thoughts in their minds and the courage to use them.

Rich Hoffman

“Justice Comes with the Crack of a Whip’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Home Invasion Shooting In Ontario, California: The hypocrisy of police in a statist society

The hypocrisy by police in regard to personal property defense is often astonishingly audacious.  Such an example has been percolating in my mind for a few weeks now in regard to the Ontario, California man who shot a drunk intruder who broke into his home and threatened his son as they were sleeping.  If the police had been involved in a similar incident the intruder would have been shot and killed with or without a gun.  Just the mere threat of danger would allow a police officer to shoot and kill a suspect, and the police union would circle the wagons around the shooter to protect him from legal harm.  But the property owner and father of a threatened son is being investigated for homicide by the police because the father can’t prove that he was afraid for his life with sufficient evidence.    Here is the story as it appeared at The Blaze.

Police are investigating a potential homicide in Ontario, Calif., after a resident shot and killed a drunk intruder who broke into his apartment and attacked his sleeping son.

In California, citizens have a right to protect themselves and their families, however, there are stipulations in the state.

“The homeowner, the citizen, has to be able to articulate or apply the appropriate amount of force that was done against them,” Ontario Police Sgt. David McBride told NBC Los Angeles, later adding that Manzano was unarmed at the time of the shooting.

Thomas Gilbert Manzano, 24, forced his way into the California residence at around 3 a.m. on Monday, according to police. Manzano had been drinking alcohol for several hours with a friend when they decided to break into an apartment they thought was vacant. They had reportedly been squatting in one of the apartments but got confused as to its location.

Manzano was first turned away from the apartment, but he allegedly threatened the resident and forced his way into the home through a bedroom window and then went after the resident’s adult son. Police say the suspect threatened the son and a physical altercation ensued.

Responding to the commotion coming from his son’s room, the father retrieved his firearm and rushed to protect his son. He then shot several rounds at the suspect.

Manzano was transported to a local hospital with serious injuries. He was later pronounced dead.

The case is now being investigated as a homicide and the district attorney will determined whether the shooting was justified, according to officials.

The resident and his son were cooperating with police.

Manzano’s uncle, “Alfonso,”  told NBC Los Angeles that the shooting was not justified.

“Just because you have a gun and its registered, doesn’t give you the right to kill somebody,” he said.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/24/man-shoots-kills-drunk-intruder-who-broke-into-his-home-and-attacked-his-son-so-why-are-police-investigating-case-as-a-homicide/

There are so many things wrong with that story, first the rights of the property owner are obviously not respected by law enforcement, as they see it as their job to do any and all killing that might need to be done.  The decision for use of force is measured differently by them than a homeowner by society, which is wrong.  Second, the rights of the intruder are superseding the rights of the sleeping son.  This is a left over mentality from statist collectivism which believes that each according to their need is the pillar of modern society.  If he drunk fool who broke into a home needed a place to rest his head for the night, then the property owner has an obligation to provide it, or to call the police and wait for 15 minutes while they arrive—superseding the authority of the father over his son, and over his property, surrendering protection to statist authorities.  Then of course are the comments of the drunken victim’s uncle who declared that just because the homeowner had a gun, it doesn’t give him the right to use it.

On that last statement, where was the uncle in instructing his nephew that breaking into homes was not a good idea?  What about harassing a homeowner while they sleep?  What about living their life irresponsibly and imposing their mistakes on innocent people?  I would argue that the responsibility for the drunken intruder’s behavior is partly the fault of the uncle, yet he purposely shifted the blame for the death on the homeowner who has been nothing but abused in this story, by the police, the drunken intruder, and now social progressive parasitic behavior patterns.  There is no responsibility taken by any of the bad characters in this case, only on the homeowner.  The unsaid mandate by the statist authorities is that homeownership is not of value, and that citizens surrender their rights to personal defense in light of the greater needs of drunks, punks, and scallywags.

We live in a society that does not put value judgments on those who perform bad behavior, only on those who attempt to do good.  This is a direct result of a parasitic progressive philosophy that has been built upon the neurosis of Immanuel Kant’s 1781 Critique of Pure Reason – which is everything but reasonable.  The thinking derived from the anti-concepts introduced by the philosopher Kant is what makes this ridiculous shooting in California such an appalling case.

The facts of American culture dictate that property ownership is the highest form of value in society.  The home owning father has a right to protect that value from an intruder.  The necessity to prove threat assessment is not the homeowner’s responsibility; it is on the drunken intruder.  He made decisions to impair his thinking, to impose himself on home ownership, and threaten the son of the homeowner, which is another form of ownership, the relationship of a father and a son.  If the son is killed, then the intruder takes everything the father worked for his entire life to put into the son – so the father has a right to protect that investment.  In my mind, the son also has a right to defend himself with a firearm just for being awaken from a dream in his own bed.  The dream is his.  The bed is his.  The confines of his room are his.  He does not deserve, or need some idiot to stumble into his bedroom in the middle of the night yelling and screaming because the drunk wants a place to crash and work the alcohol out of his system.

Instead, using the philosophy of Kant’s brand of Transcendental Idealism that attempts to combine rationalism and empiricism in a nutty effort to merge the world of the seen and witnessed with the world of the unseen and inexperienced has created a society of law that seeks to punish value the only place that value exists, on the homeowner.  The drunken thug has no value to be redeemed.  The uncle has no value to be redeemed as he contributed to the behavior of his nephew.  The sleeping son is still building value up in his life so that leaves only the father/homeowner who sought to protect his value to take value from in order to redeem the sins of all involved.

I recently spoke to our local sheriff and heard what he had to say when asked what one should do if a homeowner shot and killed a home intruder.  His response angered me greatly.  He replied that nobody should do that, and that there would be a lot of trouble if it happened.  “But if it did, make sure to report that you feared for your life.”  As he said these things I watched him walk around with a .38 snub nose packed in a holster on his hip, knowing he has the authority to shoot it.  If he were to walk out in the parking lot and someone even made the shape of a gun and pointed it at him, he could gun that target down without any such trouble as the California homeowner experienced.  He wouldn’t have to make any kind of passive cry for relief by declaring that he “feared for his life” like some trivial beta-man lobbying for same-sex marriage.  He would simply be able to gun down the threat to his life and protect the value of it because he’s a police officer, and in a statist society, they have more value than a homeowner.

The California case of the home intruder being shot and killed by a property owner is one of the paramount issues of our time.  It is in essence the battle between not just life and death, but ownership and value, against no value from collective resources.  It comes down to a failed philosophical adoption that no lawyer in the country is equipped to handle.  Because of that, the father is being needlessly prosecuted and ruthlessly drug through a court system that will cost him a personal fortune, when in fact he should have been able to shoot the threat, throw the body out on the front lawn and call the cops to pick up the body.  Then after all the blood was cleaned up, and everyone settled down, the father could have taken his son to get an ice cream to repair the intrusion on his sleep and put the ordeal behind them within a couple of hours.  That would be a philosophy of justice which is not present in this case, and has been eradicated in order to preserve the infantile statism which was born from Immanuel Kant.

To learn more about justice, and the hypocrisy of police versus the individual read my novels Tail of the Dragon, and The Symposium of Justice. Both books are being offered by Amazon.com for $34.06 as a discounted package.  CLICK HERE. 

And if you are not aware of how serious this situation is, then watch all the videos above completely.  It won’t take long to realize.

Rich Hoffman

“Justice Comes with the Crack of a Whip!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular: Why I love Disney’s Hollywood Studios

Another one of my most treasured books is a little thing that has old yellow worn pages and a paper back cover that has been looked through so many times that the pages are constantly trying to fall out of their binding.  It’s a little book my mother gave me during an intensely hot Liberty Township summer in 1981.  Our home had no air conditioning and I had to sit in front of a fan to read the flapping pages in order to stay cool enough to comprehend the text.  I have read the book dozens and dozens of times since 1981 but never more than that summer and its contents have stayed with me my entire life.  51lFcc79wvL._AA160_The book is called The Making of Raiders of the Lost Ark by Derek Taylor and was written as a fly-on-the wall reporter from the set of the famous film, which George Lucas knew was going to make movie history.  He knew then what millions all over world soon discover—that Raiders of the Lost Ark as a traditional throw-back to the kind of films that Hollywood used to make in the 1920s, through the 1950s was special so he allowed Derek Taylor to write a book about the making as they went along.   As much as I loved the movie, which I saw 6 times in a two month period during that hot summer of 1981, I loved reading about how they made the film.  And of all my reasons for loving the film, from the story, to the special effects which are still fantastic to this very day, to the acting, to the set design, to the incredibly good music, it was the stunts which most captured my imagination.  More specifically, the stunt co-ordination by Glenn Randall, which had a very distinct look that all films since have been measured against.  Randall was and is simply the very best in his field of occupation and his work never shined brighter than it did in Raiders where Steven Spielberg as the director and George Lucas as the executive producer knew enough about film to stay out of Glenn’s way and let him make movie magic with some of the best stunts that would ever be done on film.

This brings me to the present day where at Hollywood Studios in Florida they have a live stage show called The Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular which is personally directed by Glenn Randall, and has nearly the exact same feel as the stunts from the film performed live 5 times a day every day of the week, year after year since 1989.  The stage show is impressive; the stunt gags are some of the absolute best there is of its kind, and it is the closest that one can get to the magnificent stunt co-ordination of Glenn Randall anywhere.  His trademark style is all over the production and the show is for me a kind of recalibration to my senses.  I absolutely adore it.

The show is getting old, even though it’s still wonderful, there is talk at Hollywood Studios that Disney is going to expand the park to include more Star Wars themed attractions with a $200 million dollar Star Wars land, which will be the largest expansion in the history of the Disney parks.  Even though I cannot imagine Hollywood Studios without The Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular there is a danger that it might be cancelled to incorporate the new Star Wars expansion as the theater is currently right across from the Star Wars: Star Tours exhibit that is technically one of the coolest rides of its kind.  The Star Wars expansion is being viewed by Disney as their version of what Universal Studios did with Harry Potter.  It will be an all-encompassing experience that will be built in conjunction with the new films also produced by Disney, and will be the newest hot thing in Florida going into 2015 and 2016.  So Hollywood Studios is going to be changing, which ignited in my mind a strong desire to take my family to Hollywood Studios to see The Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular while it’s still there.

 

There is a raging debate about which movie themed park is better in Orlando, Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure, or Hollywood Studios, and for me, its Hollywood Studios.  I can see where people, who are into the latest and greatest–the most hip, might be bored at Hollywood Studios, as that particular park focuses on the kind of Hollywood that George Lucas was trying to pay tribute to in his Raiders of the Lost Ark film.  That Hollywood is the cinema experience of Walt Disney, Gary Cooper, John Wayne, and screen writers like Ayn Rand as the entire park is dedicated to that era.  I love the Universal Studio parks immensely, but personally, nothing touches Hollywood Studios as they have went to the extra trouble of performing massive live stage plays like The Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular and Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show while providing the feel of strolling down the city streets that built Hollywood in the first place.  It is that extra touch of detail that put Hollywood Studios over the top of places like Universal which says a lot, given how much I feel for those parks.

I was not disappointed.  The Indiana Jones Stunt Show was spectacular, the fight at the flying wing was there, the temple scene from the beginning of Raiders was there, and the epic fight in the streets of Cairo were done to the live perfection of a dance number.  It was wonderful to share in that experience with my family before things change dramatically at Hollywood Studios forever.  I’m not against the Star Wars expansion by any means.  Star Wars is my very close second favorite film series ever just a hair behind Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Movie stunts often get overlooked in movies, but in Raiders, it was impossible to ignore them.  Glenn Randall and his friend Terry Leonard did some of their best work on that film, which is why I still love it more than any other movie done.  Of course I enjoy the work of Harrison Ford and the direction of Steven Spielberg, but for me, it has always been about the stuntmen in Hollywood that I love so much about the type of films that are celebrated at Hollywood Studios in Florida.

Watching The Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular for me is like going home to that old book my mother gave me as she wanted to encourage me to read how my favorite movie was made, hoping I would fall in love with reading.  It worked as I have read thousands of books since.  I have often thought of becoming a stunt man myself, including playing the character of Indiana Jones at Hollywood Studios when I almost moved there with my family in the early part of the 21st Century.  I have a few friends in Hollywood who are stunt co-coordinators on current film and television projects and I have thought often of taking them up on their offer to work in pictures.  I won’t name their names here as I am taboo among the entertainment labor unions for good reason – as I don’t support any collective endeavor like labor unions.  To me, it is the labor unions that have put the clamps on the kind of Hollywood I love, the kind that Hollywood Studios in Florida celebrates — the kind of Hollywood that Raiders paid tribute to in 1981.  But my brain power is needed elsewhere even though I love the feeling of an achy body that has bounced off the pavement a few times and leaped from high places into an airbag at the bottom.  There are times when I think the best job in the world would be to live in a tent in Florida and report to work every day at Hollywood Studios to play out stunts as Indiana Jones.  Watching the actor who currently plays Indiana Jones at The Stunt Spectacular may have the best job in the entire world in my opinion.  I would be inclined to do such a job untill I was 60 or 70 years old and never tire of it.

But I have too many hobbies as it is, and of course my brain is involved in a complex web of activity that reaches into an all-encompassing strategy that is epic in its own modern-day scope.  A lot of people count on me to do the things I do, and my adventures are over-the-top in ways that are a bit different from Indiana Jones, but perilous in less obvious ways.  However, deep in my mind, I do think often of the stunt work by Glenn Randall as it was communicated to me in the great Derek Taylor book from years ago.  In that way, I feel more attuned to the actors on the stage at the Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular than just about any other place I vacation anywhere in the world.  There is a piece of my very soul that is on that stage and it is wonderful to visit during the scorching hot summers of Florida that remind me so vividly of reading The Making of Raiders of the Lost Ark by Derek Taylor as a little boy sitting in front of a fan at a home that did not have air conditioning in the blistering August month of 1981.

Rich Hoffman

“Justice Comes with the Crack of a Whip!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The Scam at Lakota: Sycophants take aim at community property owners

As of 9:45 on the evening of June 24th Lakota administrators had not called a vote for the most controversial issue of the meeting–whether or not they would attempt a tax increase on the fall ballot.  When the last of the crowd had left for the evening in sheer boredom, only the school board members, Superintendent Mantia and a couple of levy addicts remained for the unanimous vote to consider a 5.5 mill levy.  At that time of the night, Michael Clark of the Cincinnati Enquirer already had his article written, as it was due for the next day’s edition, so he had been given the details before the meeting by the administrators who deliberately held off the vote till the end of the night to avoid any controversy.  The type of deception that took place at the school board meeting is just the tip of the iceberg in the district of Lakota, who like all public education institutions is top heavy with administration and well behind the times of how proper education should be conducted.  In government schools the goal is to create government jobs and pay their employee salaries, not to care for children, and Lakota knowing that there would be push-back to their announcement, waited till everyone had left to make their grand proclamation, which was already printed up by the Cincinnati Enquirer before the meeting was half-way finished.  That article read as follows:

The Lakota Board of Education voted unanimously Monday evening to place a combination operating levy and a permanent improvement tax on the Nov. 5 ballot.

Voters will decide on a 3.5-mill operating levy and a 2-mill permanent improvement levy combined into a single 5.5-mill school tax hike issue.

The board’s vote is the first of two required under Ohio law to place school tax issues on the ballot. Lakota officials have until Aug. 7 to file with ButlerCounty election officials for the Nov. 5 ballot.

If approved, the levy would cost an additional $168 annually in new school taxes on a $100,000 home.

Some of the 2-mill permanent improvement levy money would go to enhancing security at Lakota school buildings, including adding more cameras. Other funds would go to improving student technology.

The 3.5-mill operating levy would largely fund labor and other costs.

In a statement today, Lakota Superintendent Karen Mantia said approval of the combination levy would allow $6.3 million for upgraded security and $13.5 million for a multiyear technology upgrade program.

“Security has always been important,” Mantia said. “But unfortunately, with the world we live in now, we need to do even more.”

She added that the security spending would include tripling the number of police officers and sheriff’s deputies in Lakota schools, as well as physical changes to school buildings.

Lakota’s student and district network of technology needs updating, she said.

“We can use technology to be more effective and cost-efficient,” she said. “But we need the infrastructure in place to do that, and we’ve fallen far behind. It’s about building a network infrastructure that allows the district to use technology the way it should be used in a large organization.”

Read the rest of the article at the following link:

http://westchesterbuzz.com/2013/06/25/lakota-voters-could-see-tax-hike-on-fall-ballot/

The article was just as deceitful as was the conditions from which the vote was conducted.  Mantia stated that the levy a 2-mill permanent improvement levy would go to enhance security at Lakota school buildings, including adding more cameras. Other funds would go to improving student technology.  The remaining 3.5 mill would go to fund the new teacher contract for the Lakota Education Association which expires in June of 2014.  Attempting to capitalize on the recent fearful circumstances of school shootings, Mantia attempted to divert attention away from their horrendous management of school finances to declare that the new tax increase would make “children safer.”  But Dan Varney, treasurer for NoLakota was quick to call out the ruse saying that “Lakota officials are “trying to exploit the Sandy Hook killings” by including a promise of spending more money on school security if the tax is approved.

“In December, a gunman killed 26 at the Sandy Hook Elementary in New Town, Conn. The shooting deaths of 20 children and six adult school staffers launched a nationwide examination of school security measures.

“That’s the security card they are playing and I’m sure that will be our position as the campaign moves forward,” said Varney.

As stated elsewhere, Lakota does not need more money.  It has a consistent tax base that is already taxed too high.  Yet Lakota’s employee demand is decreasing.  Lakota needs to lay-off workers, not hire more, or even keep the ones they have.  With the student enrollment decreasing every year for the next decade, Lakota schools will only need half their current school buildings before the close of the decade, primarily because the barrier to entry in the Lakota school district for families with school aged children is prohibitively high.  Families with children won’t be buying used homes in Lakota, they will move into communities that have entry level starter homes.  Increasingly the type of people who will live in the Lakota district are home owners without children in the district.  And those people won’t be voting in favor of more taxes, especially for a school district that has no idea how to balance their budget.

Instead of playing things straight the Lakota administration attempted to use even more deceit to sneak the vote in favor of a new levy through once all the residents had gone home for the evening.  The Enquirer had the article already written.  All they had to do was wait for everyone to leave so there wouldn’t be any public record of any comments against them at the meeting.  The attendance was light, as most of the residents at Lakota gave up a long time ago in believing that the school board has any control over the their finances, and the behavior of Lakota on June 24th, 2013 makes it clear why.  The Lakota school board with their superintendent and other administrators cannot be trusted with little things, let alone, millions of dollars more just so they can avoid the hard decisions of laying-off their employees to match the declining student enrollment.  And it is for that reason more than any other that the Lakota school system should be defunded to the maximum amount possible.  Lakota as an organization is built on deceit, and are at best complicit of gross distortion of the facts in order to serve the whims of their teacher union and their employees who make a quarter million dollars a year for playing loose with the truth, and squeezing the community of its every last dime.

Rich Hoffman

“Justice Comes with the Crack of a Whip’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The Education Bubble: Lakota schools leads the way to American collapse of learning

One of the greatest collapses that is headed for American culture is the education bubble, which I would argue burst a long time ago, but is just now being felt by the general population.  Every time I hear the nonsensical statements by my home public school of Lakota demand more money for a teaching profession that is antiquated at best, to provide results for students in their future college endeavors, I think of how sadly blind they are to the conditions of our day.  Colleges are too expensive; the professors charge too much money for teaching children left-leaning political views.  The skills children learn in college are nearly worthless to producing a positive GDP in The United States and with a tuition growth of over 7% a year; the funding model has become impossibly too expensive as it has outpaced the general consumer index that rests just over 3%.  For every parent who has spent their life savings on a child to go to college, they have wasted their money.  They have been scammed by progressive thieves’ intent to reshape American culture from self-reliance, to one of dependency, and they have charged our society into debt to fund our own demise.  An entire generation of children who believed the great college lie that has been advocated by public education institutions to justify their ever-increasing taxes on property values has sold America a car without an engine.  It looked good on the outside, but will take nobody anywhere, except down a hill.  College graduates in 2013 are leaving their schools with debt in the six figures and unable to find jobs that will help them pay back their massive debts.  The problem is articulated well in the below video.  Watch and take plenty of notes.  This information is critical.

Not only are young college graduates from age thirty-five to twenty-five leaving college with six figure debt, they are discovering that they cannot make enough money to buy a home because they cannot find jobs that will pay them anywhere close to a value that would allow them to do both, pay their college loans, and pay for a mortgage.  That means that financing a car is out of the question.  It means that yearly vacations are not a possibility.  It also means that getting married and having kids is the last thing on their mind, as their only means of survival is to hopefully live with their parents until some of their college debt is paid off.  If those same young graduates have to spend $500 to $1000 a month on an apartment, then home buying will be out of the question for them, as they will never crawl out from under the massive pile of debt placed upon their heads by their parents who advocated the Great Society of Lyndon Johnston.  That society turned out to be just another failed progressive experiment, and the debts are coming due on our current college aged graduates.

Recently the government school in my town, Lakota, announced that they were going to try for yet another tax increase even though they are experiencing declining enrollment.  The number one reason that Lakota has for asking for more money is due to the new teachers’ union contract that is coming up in 2014.  In the education field public schools all across America like Lakota are on an unsustainable path of finance.  They have no idea how to pay for their extraordinary teacher wage rates of over $60K per year.  They simply ask for more taxes every couple of years as collective bargaining laws prevent proper management of those rates of pay.  Colleges have been doing the exact same thing, but instead of hitting the tax payers for more money with property levy increases, they have simply raised tuition rates each year by 7% or more.  The cause of the increases is not new buildings, more text books, or better technology, but the impact of having too much staff that makes over six figures per year.  Kind-hearted suburban parents have been conned into saving $50,000 to $100,000 over a 20-year period to basically flush it down the toilet on over-paid liberal teachers who attempt to teach everything those same parents spent a lifetime teaching their children.  Those poor children who do not drop out of college as they quickly discover that higher education is not going to take them where they wanted to go, enter the job market unable to participate in adult society as they are so saddled with debt that the concept of having children, or grandchildren is simply out of the question.  And those who do have children have absolutely no way to save money to pay for college for their grown children.  There is no way they could do what their parents did and save money for twenty years to flush down the toilet on their own offspring once they’ve grown.  These poor saps will still be paying their student loans which are sometimes bigger than their home mortgages.

If educators were so smart, then why can’t they see that the money they are consuming today will not be there tomorrow?  After all, doesn’t it make logical sense?  Well, again looking at the Lakota school system which has for years shown a distinct arrogance toward finance, as though their personal desires and wishes could overcome reality, currently they are asking for a tax increase of an additional $168 annually per $100,000 of home when their student enrollment has dropped 9% since 2010 and is projected to decline at the same rate for the next decade.  That kind of math is why all public schools are failing, whether they are in Lebanon, Forest Hills, Fairfield, or any government school in the nation.  They are all failing because they do not apply value to their employees treating them all with equal pay, which is not tied to results. This mentality has carried over to college professors who see themselves as more important than public education teachers, so their pay is noticeably higher.  At Lakota the average teacher pay is over $63K per year which provides some perspective on why college tuition rates are so enormously high.  The education bubble has expanded just as discussed in the video above, to the point where it has burst leaving everyone with a gooey slime behind to clean up.

There is no way to save the system at this point.  Public education is just as complicit as the colleges in the matter of the mammoth scam performed against the tax paying public.  Both are concoctions of large government sadism as it was devised by command of the Department of Education.  They are the result of failed policies, failed philosophy, and failed politics.  The money wasted on property taxes by the same tax payers who have saved up fortunes to send their children to college have been hit from two directions and there is no savings left for them to spend anywhere.  When Medicaid and Social Security run out of money in 2026 and their children are filing massive bankruptcy for homes they can’t pay for because they can’t pay off their college debts, the parents won’t even be able to turn to their kids for help.  Nobody will have any money…………that is except the teachers who have all retired at age 55 with the vast fortunes they’ve looted from the tax payers.

The bubble has already burst, and the system has already collapsed.  The people who don’t yet want to admit it are the members of the teaching profession who are 5 to 10 years away from that glory day of retirement, and the absent-minded parents who want free education for their children because they either lack the self-esteem to teach their own kids, or the financial horsepower to send them to private schools that do a far better job than the government does.  Everyone else is dealing with the tragic reality of such a terribly failed system that was concocted by such half-baked minds.  For those poor debt-ridden college students who cannot find a job to pay for their educational studies in women’s peer groups, or green-house conductivity, the best jobs they could hope to enter are those that put food on the table for their grandparents, whom they most likely hardly ever met–the plumbers, the car manufacturers, the electricians, and the warehouse workers.  The best thing a prospective worker could do is to work at something that actually has value, and produces something, instead of another worthless benchwarmer sitting in another cubical in a leased building that will rise and fall in business prospects within a 10 year time.  A society cannot be successful in this fashion, and that is what colleges and public schools have been instructing our society and charging a fortune for the service which has collapsed on itself in our present time.

Rich Hoffman

“Justice Comes with the Crack of a Whip’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com