For me the situation is clear, I’ll support J.D. Winteregg to run against John Boehner in the primary coming up as opposed to the other challenger who spoke at the West Chester Tea Party in a short introduction and debate against my neighbor Eric Gurr—a very nice guy, smart man, but too much of a political insider. J.D. has a new penny feel about him, and after hearing him speak, I believe he is incorruptible. I’ve known a few people over the years that can walk through the valley of sin without falling to temptation, and Eric has that presence about him. It will take that kind of person to knock off Boehner, and do what is required in Washington D.C. in the seat that Boehner vacates. But don’t just take my word for it, watch the debate for yourself—where both J.D. Winteregg and Eric Gurr introduce their basic platforms and do a bit of Q & A at the end through debate fashion. Both guys did a pretty good job at this early stage. Neither are slick politicians—but that’s a good thing when it is considered that the task at hand is to knock off the Speaker of the House—the third most powerful job in the entire world.
John Boehner has been in Congress representing the 8th District since 1990. He’s been in that position my children’s entire life, and they are now both married and having kids of their own. He’s been in Washington too long. I know he’s a nice guy, but I’m sure the same could be said of Obama privately. Boehner is just bad for the job. It became clear to me that Boehner had fallen in love with Washington D.C. when he was caught on a hot mike talking to Joe Biden about golf before the President addressed the nation with a yearly speech. Obama obviously has intentions to grossly expand government which is a real and serious threat to everyone’s livelihoods who actually work at real jobs—and hob knobbing with the powerful elite while they do it is just neglectful. It has become obvious that Obama and John Boehner are not that far apart on many issues. Boehner plays the Republican act for the cameras, and fundraising speeches, but it is obvious he doesn’t believe what he says because he doesn’t act on his promises—such as someone’s going to “jail over the IRS.” Boehner like Obama just delivers lines of dialogue and seems to believe in nothing.
When a politician like John Boehner “compromises” he’s done, not because compromise is a dirty word, but because the implication of that task states clearly that a person is willing to yield their values for the collective good of democracy. The trouble with that is the other side does not function from a value system, so compromise to them costs nothing—because they have nothing to yield. The compromise exclusively comes from those who do have value—people like Boehner—and he has for over twenty years compromised, and compromised, and compromised until he has allowed the Republican right to be pulled so far to the political left that he could likely hold a job right now in the Clinton White House of the 1990s.
Boehner plays too many Washington games, and he loses most of them. Whether it’s the government shut down, the debt ceiling, Health Care which was rammed through Congress on his watch, his failure to go after Obama on several potentially impeachable offenses—Benghazi, the IRS, the NSA, the political appointments, Boehner has shown that he’s comfortable in Washington. He likes it and for a representative from Ohio, he is not representing it in the Belt Way—giving politicians like Obama leverage in all negotiations. It is obvious that in the poker games of Washington, John doesn’t know what he’s doing, or what his opponents are doing to him. Boehner is continuously out-maneuvered by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid for God’s sake—and those people are complete idiots. I am convinced that Boehner was elected Speaker of the House not for his skill as a Speaker, but for his naive complacency—his aloofness toward the crimes going on in the House under his nose which is enriching its members. Boehner is Speaker of the House to keep the status quo functioning with excuses and promises while the trio of Reid, Pelosi, and Obama run him down over and over like Enos on the old television show, The Dukes of Hazzard.
On a rainy January in 2011 I went down to John’s office during lunch to speak to his “people,” the same guys who were in the audience scouting the competition trying to knock off their boss in the video above. I wanted to give Boehner a formal letter, and actually hoped to catch him in town, as I knew he was back home at the time. When I got to the office, they hadn’t seen Boehner even though he lives right down the road—and that little aspect of Boehner’s management style spoke volumes about the current Speaker of the House—he’s out of touch. Boehner after 20 years in Congress has been out-witted one too many times and the way he attempts to overcome his intellectual naiveté is to play golf with his enemies and compromise. When Boehner compromises with Obama it is always the GOP which gives up something because Obama is a classic thief—a looter who gains everything he has in life by taking from others. Obama never gives up anything because he never earned anything. John Boehner on the other hand has always done for himself—but he gives Obama equal value at the bargaining table with a compromise. It’s like going to a garage sale and buying a new television in exchange for a pack of stolen laundry plucked off a neighbor’s cloths line. Boehner has the television; Obama has the bag of laundry. Boehner gives Obama the television, and Boehner gets a bag of laundry that the owner eventually comes looking for and thinks that it was Boehner who stole it in the first place, because it’s in his hands. Obama goes home and watches football on the television while Boehner defends himself in court for stealing laundry from people’s back yards. That is what Democrats call “compromise.”
The Speaker of the House should know how to defend himself from those types of political games, but Boehner clearly doesn’t. Like Enos in The Dukes of Hazzard, John Boehner is a good man pushed around constantly by the Boss Hoggs of Capital Hill, and he falls for just about every scheme imaginable. He has been kept as Speaker because the thieves, looters and barons know that they can continue their crimes against the tax payer so long as John Boehner is in charge—and that is just an insult to the people of the 8th District, and to himself. It is painful to watch Boehner struggle through all the various controversies that the Obama administration has served up to him, and he misses again and again the opportunity to deliver a spike. It’s like watching a child in tee-ball who can’t swing a bat and hit the ball set up on a tee. It’s just pathetic.
So it’s time for Boehner to go and send a message to Washington that an established (powerful) Republican can be knocked out of his seat by someone new—someone like J.D. Winteregg. If the Republicans fail to gain seats in the House after the Obamacare debacle, then they are complete idiots anyway—and hopeless beyond repair. Obamacare is not just a ball placed on a tee for the GOP to hit, but it’s already been knocked out into the field for them. All they have to do is run the bases. So losing Boehner in the primary is of little consequence to the GOP. We can afford it as an investment into a new kind of government where the Speaker is actually in his office when he’s in town, and doesn’t think first of playing golf while the other side is pulling his underwear up over his head like a Three Stooges skit. It’s time for someone else to take John’s seat, and for me it would be J.D. Winteregg.
It is such a pleasure in a world that has seemingly gone mad politically, philosophically, and economically to see the glorious gumption of Chris Lee and his entourage of dedicated Millennium Falcon builders. I have covered the exploits of Full Scale Falcon.com before—but that was upon the original announcement that Chris and company had dedicated themselves to building a full sized Millennium Falcon on an 80 acre lot outside of Nashville, Tennessee. CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW. For me and millions of other Star Wars fans the Millennium Falcon represents rebellion, freedom, and hope. It is impossible to step into my home and not see something relevant to Star Wars—but in my bedroom there are Millennium Falcons everywhere. For me it represents more than just a nice plot point from a cool movie—the roots of the Falcon represent far more—and those roots are obviously driving Chris and many others to spend their own time, money, and effort on making a real Falcon that people can see and touch—and walk through. The Millennium Falcon is about more than just escapist fantasy—I would argue it is the direct result of laissez-faire capitalism, and people deep down inside know it—which is why they love the iconic space ship. It was because of laissez-faire capitalism that The Millennium Falcon was able to nearly single-handedly beat a galactic empire with speedy modifications, powerful weapons and raw guts born out of a Star Wars invention called the Corporate Sector.
When I was in the fifth grade my mother used to put together a gift bag of goodies to play with and read while taking long vacations that required many hours in the car. That year my family went to Myrtle Beach and inside my gift bag was a novel just published by Del Rey called Han Solo at Star’s End. It was the first book published after the 1977 release of the first Star Wars film and it featured my favorite character and I couldn’t wait to read it. My mom purposely kept the book on top of the refrigerator out of my reach but positioned it so that I could see it. I was salivating for weeks to read it. I was looking forward to our family vacation not for the opportunity to go to the beach, but to read that book.
Finally on a hot summer morning after a devastating thunderstorm that nearly delayed our trip, we left. The moment we were on I-75 south, my mother gave me the carefully constructed gift bag with all the goodies in it to keep me occupied for the long drive. There were lots of neat things in the bag, but only one thing I wanted and the moment I put my fingers on it, I was in love for life. I devoured Han Solo at Star’s End. I read the book all the way to Myrtle Beach, at every restaurant we stopped at, on the beach, at the hotel room, everywhere that I could hold a book. When I finished I read it again, then again, then again. I lost count of how many times I read that book. I was in love with the Millennium Falcon not because of the movie—which was great, but for deeper reason that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. It was the Corporate Sector and specifically a guy named Doc Vandangante who could have only been employed by such an experiment of laissez-faire capitalism that had sent my mind ablaze for some unknown reason.
On my family’s Myrtle Beach vacation I read in Han Solo at Star’s End that while in the Corporate Sector, the Falcon was damaged after Solo and Chewbacca attempted smuggling weapons to insurgents on Duroon. They did collect payment from the insurgents and went to pay off Ploovo Two-For-One, but in a rather creative manner. Given the prickly relationship and even outright disgust they had for each other, Han bought a foul, irritable, putrid dinko, attached the payment to it, and unleashed it on the unfortunate employer. Although Corporate Sector Security arrived at the establishment where they were, Han and Chewbacca escaped their grasp relatively unscathed. Payment completed, they went off to find the outlaw tech “Doc” Vandangante‘s hideout, only to discover he had been taken to the Corporate Sector Authority prison at Stars’ End. Doc’s daughter Jessa offered upgrades and repairs to Han’s ship, and a Corporate Sector waiver, in exchange for Han helping rescue Doc and the other prisoners. Before Han could take off, the outlaw techs were attacked by IRD-A Fighters. Piloting a Z-95 Headhunter, Han led the other techs and Jessa in defense of the base. Despite heavy losses, they were successful. To complete their rescue mission for Jessa, Solo and Chewbacca were given two droids, Bollux and Blue Max, and went to the agriworldOrron III to meet up with a group led by Rekkon planning the prison rescue. Though Solo was initially only interested in getting the repairs for his ship, his motives became personal when Chewbacca was captured. After dealing with a traitor in the group, Solo and the others arrived at Stars’ End. In order to gain entry, Han, Atuarre, Pakka, Bollux and Blue Max posed as a troupe of entertainers. The rescue proved successful; freeing Chewbacca, Doc, and the other prisoners and destroying the Stars’ End in the process. After the Falcon was repaired, Solo and Chewbacca left the Corporate Sector for a time, taking Bollux and Blue Max with them in future books…….all of which I read with the same enthusiasm.[18]
The Corporate Sector was formed in 490 BBY[9] to free the Republic lawmakers and the Corporate moneymakers from their differences, after being exiled from the Inner Rim to the Tingel Arm. The Corporate Sector originally had a few hundred systems all devoid of intelligent life. Its creation came in the aftermath of the disastrous experiment with corporate control in the Outer Expansion Zone. The new experiment was tried under more careful supervision, the Republic sent the equivalent of a full subsector’s worth of ships to protect the rights of the workers in the sector and to ensure the companies preserved the basic integrity of the environment on the planets in the sector. The corporations were allowed to operate in the sector and could purchase entire regions of space, but were supervised by the Galactic Republic. A general tax was paid directly to the Republic government which enabled the companies to avoid the morass of sector, system, planetary and local taxes found on most worlds in the Republic. The Corporate Sector thrived because of deregulation and low taxes.
Doc was born on Coruscant to Carmilla Vandangante, a corporate viceprex and widow who doted on her only son. He rebelled against his life of luxury and privilege at the age of seven, reprogramming his droid nanny to discard such unpalatable foods as kibla greens, flangth, and stewed gwouch into a living room vase. This demonstrated his technical gifts to his tutors, who soon tailored their lessons to these skills.[1]
Upon graduation, Doc accepted a position at Alkherrodyne Propulsions as design systems team leader. He soon became disenchanted with the corporation’s shoddy workmanship covered with flashy marketing, but swallowed his pride and remained with the company. However, when the Azaria 66 began exploding in minor accidents, Alkherrodyne’s slicers framed Doc. The countless lawsuits wiped out the multi-billion credit Vandangante fortune, and left the name slandered.[1]
Doc became a drifter, eventually making his way into the Corporate Sector, where he met an outlaw tech by the name of Shardra. They immediately fell in love, and when introduced to her profession, Doc found his calling, repairing smuggling ships and souping them up to be some of the fastest in the Corporate Sector. Shardra bore the couple a daughter, Jessa Vandangante, but soon died in an unfortunate fuel dump explosion. Doc found raising a daughter to be a difficult task, especially as the free-spirited woman grew older and started catching the eye of younger smugglers like Han Solo.[1]
The Millennium Falcon was a direct result of very creative free enterprise by a number of previous owners but culminating in the exploits of Han Solo who ran into Doc Vandagante. In a very large galaxy of ideals, some parts of it ruled by peace-loving pacifists, some ruled by ruthless crime lords, some ruled by sinister agents of tyranny, some just trying to preserve their heritage among the intermingling of many races and species—it was the Corporate Sector that made The Millennium Falcon such a special starship. Much like today’s world in real life, government and business could not get along—so government gave business free rein on the outer edge of the galaxy away from their control in exchange for the benefits. The equivalent in the real world might be the Caribbean, Las Vegas, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, Hong Kong, or even Disney World where politics leaves the areas alone with their overly intrusive rules and regulations. The direct benefit is the vibrant economic activity of creative minds such as the fictional Doc Vandagante. My question as a young fifth grader on Myrtle Beach was why wasn’t the rest of the galaxy the way the Corporate Sector was? Why would the government within the core worlds want the benefits of the Corporate Sector not on the outer rim of the galaxy, but within the core near the capital planets? Well, the sad answer was power.
Star Wars is of course a fictional story, but it has so many references to our current life that the mythology accurately reflects many competing ideals that are in actual conflict. The concepts introduced through the story are familiar to us all. The Imperials love statism, the Rebels love freedom, and then there are those who might otherwise find sanction in the Corporate Sector with all the good and bad that comes with it. Some of the planets in the Corporate Sector are ravaged with pollution, and corrupt board of directors just out trying to make money at the expense of others. It’s not all good in the Corporate Sector—it’s not safe—fair, or even remotely nice. But, the Corporate Sector was responsible for much of the technological innovation that the rest of the galaxy enjoyed and there is a philosophical argument there worth noting.
The Millennium Falcon is a direct product of the laissez-faire capitalism of the Star Wars universe. When I returned back to the real world after reading Han Solo at Star’s End it was clear that my public school was intent to teach the politics of the core worlds, what we might call in the real world—socialism. The public schools were intent to preach the merits of statism—rules and regulations, federal control of everything. Not me. I wanted a Millennium Falcon—I wanted something like it in my lifetime, and it quickly became clear to me that the kind of education that the public schools were offering would not take the world where I wanted to go. When John F Kennedy dared America to go to the moon, he tossed at NASA a bit of laissez-faire capitalism to make it happen—and beat the Russians to space. Stanley Kubrick watched this progress and built is movie 2001: A Space Odyssey around that type of progress. But once the Berlin Wall came crashing down in 1989, America took its foot off the gas and started over regulating everything once again to give politicians something to do—and that space race progress came to a halt. Now there has been over 20 years of blatant and gradually increasing socialism coming out of WashingtonD.C. because that’s what everyone was taught in their public schools, and there are no real plans for space under the Obama administration going forward. They are instead focused on solar panels, street cars, public transit, and a communist care health system.
NASA if turned loose with laissez-faire capitalism could likely build a real functional Millennium Falcon within a decade. The technology is close enough that at least a vessel that could take off and fly into space with artificial gravity, ion propulsion, life support and other forms of sustainability could be achieved quickly if the real life Doc Vandagantes were turned loose of government regulation. I know a few of them, I know people who have invented flying cars that could take off from one driveway and land in another half a world away, but has no real interest from large aerospace companies facing gigantic liability concerns, and mountains of paperwork in compliance to purchase—and advance. I know of people who have cured most cancers, but the FDA has tried to throw them in jail to keep the technology off the market so pharmaceutical companies can continue keeping people sick and addicted to their products. I know of scientists who have started the process of regenerative growth—who can re-grow fingers lost, or legs amputated. They are solving the problem of aging and whether or not human beings actually have to die. They are a threat to the companies who make prosthetic limbs, and ADA legislation that wants more ramps for wheel chairs, elevators for the disabled, and generally more handicapped people to use for political advancement in the here and now. Those types of people will gladly sacrifice the opportunities of tomorrow for power today.
Statists inside the beltway of Washington D.C. are the first to say that if people never got sick, never died, and had unlimited freedom of transportation, then the world would become over polluted, over populated, and a menace to itself. They are still thinking small, because they obviously never read anything like Han Solo at Star’s End as kids—an act I’m sure Chris Lee shares with me. People like Chris and I ask ourselves why can’t I have my own Millennium Falcon to take off and go to work in orbit around earth where all the pollution and byproduct of production could be dumped into space preserving planet earth forever. When work was completed at the end of the day, we would just fly home and land in our back yards with our Millennium Falcons. Why can’t we have it–because we live on earth with restrictive governments that hate laissez-faire capitalism?
I’ve read many of the European classics and compared to Star Wars, they are boring. I love Shakespeare, but I would take any Star Wars book over William Shakespeare any day of the week. Shakespeare was a better writer than Brian Daley who wrote Han Solo at Star’s End without question. But Daley is much more positive as a thinker than Shakespeare, and that optimism about what’s possible is what Star Wars is all about. Yet much of the modern statism that is infecting the world is because of European culture, Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, Dante’s Inferno, or the master himself James Joyce of Finnegan’s Wake fame, which I have read and understand. Give me Star Wars over Finnegan’s Wake and give me the Millennium Falcon over a fu**ing street car. Give me a manufacturing plant floating around earth dumping its garbage into space or on the surface of the moon as opposed to the socialism of Brazil where everyone lives in a card board hut. Give me a Corporate Sector that can build a Millennium Falcon in America so that I can have one as opposed to the dying towns of Detroit choking on socialism and feel-good progressivism.
What Chris Lee is attempting to do is no different from what Doc Vandagantes did in the book Han Solo at Star’s End for TheMillennium Falcon. Chris isn’t working for NASA, or some other group building Falcons for the general population. Government will not get behind such an effort, so Chris is doing it on his own. I was a bit skeptical at first even though I wanted to see the results. But after Chris showed off the latest cockpit construction after many months of meticulous effort, I can see clearly that he will be successful so long as he can continue to fund the project. It is for that reason that I am starting an icon on my side bar here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom encouraging my readers here to help Chris with his project. I think it’s important. Is it as important as sex trafficking in the world, or the sad state of current politics———-no, but yes. Yes because Chris’s Millennium Falcon project is about the most important ingredient to human society—imagination—and the gumption to make things happen. Chris wants like I do to walk inside a real life Millennium Falcon—and he’s making it happen on his dime, with his time, and his effort. And now that I’ve seen it, I can’t help but wonder what our world would be like if government simply got behind people like Chris and allowed them to function in a Corporate Sector of America where inventions like the Falcon could flourish, instead of trying to heard people into cities through progressive politics and force them onto government sponsored mass transit. The Millennium Falcon is a larger symbol than that—it is the result of laissez-faire capitalism and a hope for mankind that resides in the spirit of ideals and innovation—and a lot of perspiration.
That old Han Solo at Star’s End novel still sits near my reading chair. It’s now torn, and very worn out from years of handling—but it still evokes in me boundless imagination opportunities and optimism. Many people look at what Chris is doing in Nashville and read what I have said here and think that we are grown up kids who love the escapism of cinema, or fantasy which has a grain of truth to it. But what do we want to escape from—and to what. Speaking for myself, I wish to escape from the clutches of those with undeveloped imaginations—people who avoid thinking rather than thriving from it. For me, a personal Millennium Falcon would allow me to leave those sluggish minds behind in a flight for the stars and the endless possibilities available outside of the laws comb-over politicians have constructed just to increase their power base. My wife has read Han Solo at Star’s End—in fact she’s read every Star Wars book ever written up to this point which is in the hundreds—and she understands why there are Millennium Falcon’s all over our bedroom. Many don’t because they failed to let novels like Han Solo at Star’s End capture their imaginations at a young age, or failed to enjoy a film like Star Wars for whatever reason. They lack the mechanism to enjoy those kinds of things and it is they who are weights on minds like mine. I want to escape from their limitations, their restrictions, and their lives stuck in quicksand of self-construction. The Millennium Falcon to me is freedom from all that, and a symbol against restriction because TheFalcon is a pirate vessel built by illegal components that’s faster than anything regulations in the Republic or Empire would allow. And that’s why I love it, and why people like Chris are dedicating their lives to see a real life Millennium Falcon—even if they have to build the damn thing themselves. I sleep better at night knowing that there are people like Chris and his friends out there—beyond the reaches of those who use rules and regulations to mask the lack of imagination that plagues their thoughts like a cancer—and the democracies of tyranny that they create with good intentions imposed from faulty thinking. The Millennium Falcon is an escape from those who don’t understand and a celebration by those who do.
As recently as the last school board meeting of 2011 Linda O’Conner reached out to my wife and me in the parking lot of the administration building off Princeton Road to wish us a Merry Christmas and to let us know that there were no hard feelings. I told her that I left the meeting early because they were boring me to death—but that it was a Christmas present of sorts, I was going to spare them having to listen to me speak publicly. I didn’t want to rub their nose in the No Lakota victory, but I did expect them to listen to what over 18,000 voters had said—and at least propose a salary reduction to the teacher’s union for the sake of the community. She smiled and said that she’d present it to the board, and we parted for the last time on civil terms. Because immediately after that, in the winter of 2012, Superintendent Mantia showed that she was going to play the radical progressive, just like President Obama, and cut away all the aspects of the public school that people actually valued—not out of fiscal concern, but with the intention of extortion. In the coming months, Lakota did nothing upon the recommendations proposed by No Lakota Levy—the victor in the last election by a sizable majority—much greater than in the last election where Lakota won by less than 1%.
This presented a problem for me. 700 WLW approached me about being the education pundit, sort of what Mike Allen is currently regarding legal issues. The popular radio station wanted me to be The Big One’s education specialists. This sounded good, but at the time my publisher was having multiple fits about my controversial stance against public education. My novel, Tail of the Dragon was set to be released during the fall of that year and all the media contacts I had from years of building relationships suddenly saw me as the face of the anti tax movement in Lakota.
I offered myself as the face because I’m in a unique position to carry the title. To me it was a job that needed to be done, and nobody else wanted to do it, and the controversy actually helped some of my side projects so I took on that role from 2009 to 2012. However, I needed separation from that role prior to the release of my novel because I was too known as an education reformer, and my book was about a car chase which was intended to appeal to a NASCAR audience. Lakota, was proposing another levy attempt right in the middle of my book’s release—and that wasn’t going to work for me.
So I had to get No Lakota Levy self sufficient—where it could act without me, I had to separate myself from the education stuff, and I needed to strike at the heart of the tax levy push and show people what was really going on at Lakota—and stop dancing around the edge of the bowl. It was time to jump into the middle and show what was hidden there. When I talk about this period being a trap set by me for the Lakota school board to jump at, this is what I meant. Once Doc Thompson was fired at 700 WLW there was awkwardness that persisted in the wake of his departure. WLW had thrown him under the bus while he was on his honeymoon so they could make good with Eddie Fingers and I couldn’t remain a friend to Doc and resume my relationship with WLW—so a lot of things were lining up in a bad way. This is the primary reason I didn’t do the requested interview that Russ Jackson tried to set up with Eddie, Tracy and me on March 15th, I felt it was because of Eddie that Doc lost his job, and I couldn’t betray Doc. This made Jackson mad, and things degenerated from there.
In early January 2012 I knew I had to break things loose the best way possible. I began turning up the rhetoric against Lakota letting my true feelings about them be known because they were obviously going for another tax increase in spite of the election results—and it pissed me off in a big way. When I learned that the Community Foundation refused to work with No Lakota Levy after I set up a deal with The Enquirer to give them a story exclusive on a check-mate story, it enraged me because not only was the donation of money that No Lakota Levy was proposing to kids who couldn’t afford the sports fees a good thing to do, but it was strategically powerful forcing Lakota to reveal what they were really about as an organization. When the Community Foundation backed out, No Lakota Levy had to start their own charity group called Yes To Lakota Kids which delayed our announcement by several key weeks. I had been targeting the middle of February and was working with Michael Clark to get the story out, but when the Community Foundation pulled out of the deal—which they had been entertaining up to that point, it sucked the life out of the story, which seemed all too coordinated.
After the election instead of working with No Lakota Levy, Lakota went on the offensive, members of the union began going around town attempting to dismantle my name and it was around the middle of February when learned about it. Doc Thompson had also just been fired from 700 WLW which left me in a strange place with them. And my publisher was very concerned about my political beliefs and questioning whether I would be dragged into another levy fight right in the middle of the novel’s release. So I wrote my article about the Latte sipping prostitutes. I wanted to empower No Lakota Levy to proceed without me while I released my novel, and I wanted to see what Lakota would do with it and see how things progressed. Even though I spoke about “women” in general my comments were directed at a few major tax advocates and they knew who they were. I knew things about their home life, and pointed my comments in that direction. After all, if they were going to smear my name, I had the right to do the same to them. They were the primaries behind the mudslinging instead of taking the olive branch that Linda proposed at Christmas time. They chose that course of action.
Their actions were of the type that I intellectually anticipated they’d take. The same thing basically happened to Arnie Engle over in Fairfield, the levy supporters kept poking and poking and poking until Arnie snapped, and then they prosecuted him to the furthest extent of the law. The courts forced Arnie into probation and anger management classes to “deal” with his temper. As soon as they thought they had Arnie out-of-the-way, Fairfield tried for another school levy, which thankfully in 2013, lost. The public knows the games that are going on. However, conceiving such a ploy and feeling the wrath of it are different things, and it did surprise me how ruthless Lakota’s levy supporters truly were as human beings. What they did and how they did it showed me that they didn’t care what the results were to me personally, they simply wanted me out of their way politically. If I were the kind of person who had a traditional job, what do they think would have happened to me if I worked for a woman who day when every radio station in town was calling me a sexist, even the FM stations–literally? What about the effect on my wife and daughters or my mother—sister and other family members? What Lakota through their school board orchestrated, coming directly from Julie Shafer and Karen Mantia was the kind of thing that could have ended careers, marriages, or even residence. Several women from Julie’s circle of friends wrote me directly and actually stated that they were going to run me out-of-town, the fires of fury coming directly from the Lakota school board. And they felt entitled to do it—that is what my thousands of dollars spent every year on the stupid Lakota school system buys me—those kinds of people representing that kind of institution.
When I say it was a trap, I suspected it would happen in the way that it did and I had braced myself for it. I knew that Michael Clark was playing both sides against each other, and that he was telling the school board that Rich Hoffman had big plans against Lakota, referring to the exclusive story about Yes to Lakota Kids. This looked to have a lot to do with why the Community Foundation backed out in the middle of the announcement postponing the endeavor. And I knew that Julie, Mantia, and Powell would look for ways to come after me, and instead of them doing it in the shadows, I wanted to get it out in the daylight for all to see. They bit, and showed what they were all about, and people noticed. Shortly after the debacle of March 15th Lakota through my friends at No Lakota Levy asked for a cease-fire because things had not gone as they planned. I had rallied the anger vote and they knew there was no chance of passing a levy in 2012. In June of 2012 I did an interview with Channel 19 saying that I agreed with the school board’s decision to not pursue a tax increase. I told Cory Stark that the deal was for two years and that we’d be ready to fight again in 2013/2014. Lakota had projected surpluses so it wasn’t worth the public relations nightmare, and they needed time to lick their wounds. This suited me just fine because I was sick of Lakota and their constant attempts to raise taxes, and it allowed me to put my efforts behind the release of my book—just in time. Just prior to the Fox 19 report, I had approved the cover for my novel ahead of a release date of September, the first Tuesday after Labor Day.
However, when the novel came out, I was still known by everyone in the media as the anti-education guy—and it was hard to shake that off. Most likely, I will always be known as that—so my current thinking is that if it’s going to stick to me, then I’ll just make the best of it. My book came out and for 8 months out of the last 12 stayed sold out on Amazon.com. It did well as an initial offering and my family celebrated by going to Disney World over the summer. I needed to get away from publishing and politics for just a few weeks—which I cherished. But there have been complaints of late that Tail of the Dragon is not being carried at Amazon—it’s there, but out of print. Well, beginning at the start of October 2013 American Book Publishing closed their doors as a publisher—so they are no longer restocking my novel at Amazon. They were a small publisher and carried a lot of diverse titles, and a majority of them did not make much money. The writing for this was already on the wall in the winter of 2012 along with all the other issues mentioned, and I was concerned that they’d stay open long enough to publish my book. I think they hoped that things would turn around for them if a production house showed an interest in making my novel into a movie. But after my anti-union comments on this blog, there was a fat chance of that happening which was the real source of their frustration with my political beliefs. So they folded up, and I am searching for a new publisher to re-release Tail of the Dragon as a special edition. For American Book Publishing I had a 120,000 word manuscript that was edited down to 63,000 words, so nearly half the book was cut away. My current thoughts are to release a version of the book that was eliminated in the editing process specified by the PG rating that American Book desired. The special edition will be a rated R version of that same story, which dives even deeper into the freedom loving antics of Rick Stevens—some much harder edge concepts.
So that is the behind the scenes story of me and the Lakota levy. As a result of their approach to me and their desire to pretty much end my life with a ruthlessness that is unforgivable they have made a mortal enemy out of me—and the media personalities who played in that game with them—at this point we all know who they are. I will never forget it, I will never forgive it, and I will remind people of it the rest of my life. I will be 80 and 90 years old still talking about Julie Shafer, Joan Powell, and Karen Mantia. They had no idea what my relationship was with my family, that my wife understands me and that I am very close with my kids. But if I wasn’t, an event like what Lakota did could have ruined me—and they didn’t care. In fact, they wanted it to happen. Lakota took a head shot at me. They missed, part by design, part by luck—but it gave me a clear viewing of where they were hiding in the shadows loading their guns. Prior to that event in the Enquirer, they were shooting at me from the darkness and I could never tell where the bullets came from. After the Enquirer event, I could see the fire flash and direction of origin—and it was the Lakota school board.
So when they play innocent, like what was in Joan’s letter to Graeme, it is an act. They know the games, and where the bodies are buried. What it comes down to is money—the school board has no control over the management of their money because of the teacher’s union, and so long as they pass school levies, they can avoid the harsh reality that they are simply a body of government designed to raise taxes, because that is their only measure of balancing a budget. Instead of using their powers of manipulation against the union, they used it against me because they saw me as less of a threat than the teacher’s union, and I take that as a direct insult. So I will dedicate my time, life, and otherwise to ruining theirs. They will learn that there are greater things to fear than their teacher’s union, and if you take a head shot at me and miss, that you have earned an enemy for life.
That is the state of the union in Lakota in the wake of the 2013 Election.
It is righteous to provide updates to the latest correspondence by the Lakota school board, especially when misdirection is involved. Below is a reply to a letter that was sent last week by my friend and No Lakota Levy supporter Graeme George. CLICK HERE TO REVIEW. The letter that Joan sent, who is the current president of the Lakota school board and one of the strongest advocates for higher taxes in the Liberty Twp, and West Chester area, indicates that the school board played no part in the levy antics that went on prior to the election which they won by less than 1%. The letter from Joan is a declaration of innocence and a statement of neutrality of any wrong doing in a close election. Yet it is clear from the Pulse Journal picture on the link above with Joan framed on the far right she was extremely active in pushing for levy passage. Since the school board is regulated by many laws preventing them from levy activism, they often rely on an inbred chain of command that does the dirty work for them, so that they can always have deniability—such as what Joan proclaims in the letter. So read the document for yourself dear reader, and then I’ll explain how the process works from my personal experience.
From: Joan Powell [mailto:joanpowell@fuse.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 10:42 AM To: ‘Graeme C. George’; ‘Mantia, Karen’; ‘Dibble, Benjamin’; ‘Murray, Ray’; ‘O’Connor, Lynda’; ‘Powell, Joan’; ‘Shaffer, Julie’ Subject: RE: Lakota School District Levy – November 5, 2013.
Not a single dime of Lakota money was spent on signs in this campaign. Every sign was bought and paid for by a community committee who raised money from individuals. Nor do we condone the stealing of signs in any way and as a Board/District has no knowledge of these activities. These young men made poor choices and if proven guilty should pay the price of their crime. Sign stealing or damaging is not condoned or considered acceptable behavior.
Unfortunately every election is tainted by unwise actions by individuals, some young and some old. We allow the police to investigate, and the courts to dole out appropriate punishment. So far we have heard nothing that indicates that these incidents were coordinated in any way.
Superintendent Karen Mantia then got on the phone and applied heavy pressure to what she considered “leaders of the community” with Patty Alderson being one—one of the wealthiest and most influential people in West Chester, and Cathy Stoker the West Chester trustee being another hoping to build a consensus against me of high-profile “women” a well-known progressive trick, the same one used against Mitt Romney during the latest presidential election—not because of what I said about levy supporters, PTA moms, or anything else, but because Mantia didn’t have an answer to the Forbes article. No Lakota Levy had reached out to the Community Foundation, which is a good group to partner up with because several No Lakota Levy people were on it, but well before March 6th they declined to be involved with No Lakota Levy because I was too divisive. This was before I ever said anything about them being prostitutes to their husbands or having asses the size of car tires. That came after the refusal to team up and the reasons provided, and was part of my pissed oftness in the blog posting which I couldn’t reveal without throwing some of my friends under the bus. So No Lakota Levy started their own charitable group which led to the Forbes article causing major political issues. It didn’t take much at that point for Mantia to call in support and convince Alderson to speak against me at a school board meeting that following Monday, as reported loyally by The Cincinnati Enquirer. Patti Alderson, board chair and CEO of the Community Foundation of West Chester and Liberty Townships, complained about my comments publicly to the board, which she had never done before until right after the Forbes article. Alderson said she wanted to clarify that her group, which also raises money for needy Lakota students, had no affiliation with Yes To Lakota Kids. Then West Chester Trustee Catherine Stoker said to the Enquirer that “the language used by Mr. Hoffman is not only egregiously offensive, but reflects badly on the No Lakota group that Mr. Hoffman supports.” From there a host of other women stoked directly by the Lakota school board said about me, “I was very disgusted by the blog Rich Hoffman posted,” said Lakota school mother Kim Hesselgesser. “I was also very saddened for this extremely disturbed man. To me it is evident that he has some agenda that goes far beyond increased school taxes. Although I hate the fact that he is getting exactly what he wants – a lot of media attention. I feel it is worthwhile to make the public aware of who they are truly supporting when placing No Lakota signs in their yards. Pro levy or no levy…is that the type of person you want leading a group in our community?” said Hesselgesser. Then there was another, Laura Sanders of Liberty Township said “Mr. Hoffman uses misogynistic and vile language when addressing women and mothers because most teachers are in fact, women and mothers. “He wants the public to think that he is merely attempting to rein in public school spending, but his underlying mission is really one of hatred and fear of women earning decent salaries. He alone is the destructive force behind the last three levy failures, and I hope this … convinces the women in our community that he is not a rational or credible source for the counterpoint argument,” said Sanders.
Again, nothing I said in those particular blog postings were things I haven’t said before publicly, and privately. Yet the timing is important because it all centers on the positive press that Yes To Lakota Kids received particularly after the Forbes article. The school board had no comment for the paper; they instead let Patty, Cathy, Kim and Laura do their talking for them. But, all those people were brought together by Karen Mantia and the antics of Julie Shafer indirectly from the Lakota school board. They could not win the debate, so they took a page out of an event that had just happened to Rush Limbaugh over the Fluke controversy. I know this first-hand because people close to Julie have told me; Lakota hoped to force me into a weakened public apology the same way Limbaugh was forced to do, as I was using a similar strategy as Rush Limbaugh. However, I’m not Rush Limbaugh. As No Lakota Levy did want to distance themselves for predictable reasons in a similar way that sponsors left Rush Limbaugh’s show Julie and the gang do not know of the events that led up to my comments in the first place where I told my friends that the “fat assed bitches were hurting children to extort money from the Lakota community and they needed to be stopped!” I made that comment when I learned that No Lakota Levy would be on their own in helping kids with their sports fees, about the same time that I learned a bunch of levy whores gathered at the Kroger Marketplace smearing my name to everyone who entered the building that they could get to talk to them. The phantom hand of the Lakota school board was involved in all these activities, and I could either take it, or tell them what I thought of them. Regardless, Lakota was going to try to go for a new levy because they refused to deal with their teacher’s union collective bargaining contract which was causing the tax increase requests. Lakota had already been beaten in several elections and never did answer the questions posed by No Lakota Levy. They simply did as Obama does, and that is ignore all unpleasant information and cover up their involvement with perpetual deniability. So what did I have to lose? Nothing. I had a book coming out soon unrelated to education and I wanted separation from education issues, and the controversy helped sell a few extra copies. So it was no skin off my back, and the fan fair delayed the levy vote for two years, which was very good for the Lakota community.
So when Joan says that the school board had nothing to do with the sign theft, and the pro levy activity regarding money and other pro levy activity, what she means is that their hands didn’t directly participate—but that they do passively participate through the channels described above.
That story is just one of many. It is not the exception, it is the rule. I have no doubt that through similar channels, the Lakota school board encouraged fundraising for the pro tax position, they encouraged sign theft, and they helped create a culture of maliciousness through their inner circles. They have legal deniability, but they are indirectly guilty. When Joan said in her post-election comments that many things “set the stage,” part of what she is talking about is described above. She has done a lot of table setting. On the fourth attempt, I did my own thing while No Lakota Levy tried to be fair and righteous, which was a Lakota strategy, to take the edge off the rhetoric which they couldn’t match. And the sign stealing was just as bad as it always was. The media were in Lakota’s corner, and the money flowed into the Pro Levy movement through channels shaped by the school board. Joan didn’t do the work directly through the board, but around the edges in the way that Julie put out the article I had written with the same intentions to create activism among their supporters.
That event I was involved in was the most personal example I have of how these kinds of things occur, so I can speak from the authority of experience. That is why I can call “bullshit” on Joan’s comments in her letter. Legally, she and her school board are covered. They have done no wrong under the law—but through whispers and notes under the desk, they’ve had others do it for them, so that the evidence could never be traced back to them. That is how they pass school levies—not through proper justification of income management, but through manipulation, deceit, and an arrogance that is socially destructive. It is important to remember that it is these people who run the schools that teach our children, and these are the measures they think are acceptable to get what they want. It should then come as no surprise when some of the students under their care try to hurt other people with coercion, or find themselves on the bad side of fate, because the kids are learning it somewhere, and the guilt falls squarely on school boards like the one at Lakota. They want the responsibility of being the center of the community. They can take the fall when things go bad. Letters like the one Joan wrote mean nothing to those who actually know how things work, and now you dear reader know it too.
I felt sorry for a number of Americans when President Obama attempted to apologize for the health care debacle over this last week. I know many people who have already lost their insurance plans, and this is before the employer mandate. Many more will be coming. My wife and I lost ours, but it really doesn’t affect us—because we never use it. We don’t go to the doctor. Over the years, we have practiced self medicine including major repairs to lacerations. I practically Super Glued my children together as they were growing up so to avoid the entanglements of the health care system which at the time was the best in the world.
Ben Franklin lived into his 80s with no medical industry, and my grandparents lived into their 70s seldom ever going to the doctor, and this is the position my wife and I have taken. We’d rather live free or die. If a major illness hits us, we’ll take the later to preserve the former. And we don’t live sheltered lives. I ride a motorcycle every day of my life, and I ride it very fast. I ride it even in the snow and ice. She and I both live our lives dancing on broken glass knowing that it could break at any moment—and we’re OK with it. We carried health insurance at a premium of a few hundred bucks a month just in case—and now with the Obamacare issue; it is no longer worth it. I don’t like waiting in lines at the TSA controlled airports, I don’t like lines at the state controlled license bureau, so I’m sure not going to stand in line to have some state controlled doctor stick a thermometer in my ass. It wasn’t going to happen before Obamacare, so it certainly isn’t going to happen now.
However, many people do go to the doctor which these days are basically sales reps for the pharmaceutical industry. I find it rare to have a conversation with anybody in 2013 that isn’t on some sort of prescription medicine whether it be heart disease, cancer, or some sort of depression—and most of those are contrived by a doctor to simply bring cash flow into a pharmaceutical company that offers a drug for the ailment. Once such drugs are introduced to the human body the cell structure just like welfare recipients in real life become dependent and start to rely on the pharmaceutical drug. This is good for Walgreens and the Kroger Pharmacy, but it is bad for the bodies of the people taking the drugs. Drugs are welfare for the body, and once they are addicted to the supplement, the immune system no longer functions the way it was designed to. My position on medicine is the same as my social policies against welfare—hand outs, social safety nets, and third-party care make people weak, and the best way to overcome tragedy and illness is to fight through it as an individual. However, many of my friends do have bodies that are addicted to these drugs, they have cancer, and other diseases that the pharmaceutical companies offer relief in the form of medicine, and they are now addicted to those companies and the doctors who prescribed them. So Obamacare is a very real fear they have because incomes have not gone up, food prices are out of the roof, fuel costs have been too high, and health insurance has cost too much. To me, $200 dollars a month is too high, however at the start of the New Year 2014 many of my friends with cancelled policies will pay $500 to $600 dollars for their needed health coverage which is in essence a car payment—except they won’t get the car.
If many of my friends could have bought a new car prior to 2014, they would have—but didn’t because they couldn’t afford the $300 dollars a month extra on top of all their other obligations. So what makes President Obama believe that everyone will be able to pay $300 more a month on insurance? Where is that money going to come from? The answer is that he knows in the back of his mind that they don’t have it. He is using the classic Cloward and Piven strategy of fiscal collapse in order to bring about massive social changes which is a strategy created at Columbia University where Obama supposedly went to college. Obamacare is designed to crush the lives of the people who will have to pay $600 a month or more to get the same coverage they were getting at $300 a month. The extra money is going to pay for the policy of those who didn’t have insurance to begin with—it is wealth redistribution to the maximum extreme.
My wife and I will pay the penalty of $90 and we will get nothing—absolutely nothing for that money. Before Obamacare, I at least had some health coverage in case something really bad happened, but now I don’t. And where will the $180 dollars in penalties that my wife and I are forced to pay go—to the insurance of some destitute scum bag, crack whore, or obese food addict that purposely lived their life poorly—made bad decisions which made them dependent on government. I don’t want to help those people make their lives worse by helping them do it—yet through the government; I am being forced against my will to give money to those idiots for some ridiculous “greater good,” as defined by government.
Obamacare is a communist backdoor attempt. History will view it the same way as the Russian Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd—only the cries for communism won’t come from the city streets of a working class looking for equality against the perceived bourgeoisie but from the government addicts who want Obama to steal from the smart, wise, and healthy to fix the broken, sick and stupid. Nationalized health care is a progressive—(communist) dream and is designed to collapse the economy of America with the same ideology that was supposedly behind the World Trade Center bombing. American health care was the best in the world and was driven by the finest economy on planet earth. To attack it is to strike at the symbol of economic health that it once represented and to slowly destroy the American economy from the inside out. The $300 dollars that most people will have to pay extra for health insurance in 2014 is outright theft, and a nudge further to the political left of the entire nation. Obama and his minions know that many people currently addicted to pharmaceutical drugs will become more ill, they will even die because of his decision—but he doesn’t care—because he knew in the beginning as did the rest of them, that there would be casualties in this progressive advance. They only care if the causalities happen to their political enemies as opposed to those who support them.
So when you get your insurance bill in 2014, you are seeing an all out assault on American life—and more specifically your life. You are seeing the results of communism coming through the back door instead of the front and trying to catch you while otherwise distracted. And Obama knows what he’s doing. He might feel the bite of it presently when he has to speak to the press, or the people, but he knew from the beginning what Obamacare was—and it isn’t American. It is good to be nice, and civil to others. It is even nice to be compassionate. I do feel sorry for the street-walker, the homeless degenerate, and the typical gas station attendant. I stopped in a convenience store the other day to buy a Mello Yello for lunch and paused to watch the intellect of the cashier and a line of destitute souls buying lottery tickets. If I could have captured the intellect of the 7 people talking I might have been able to power an old IBM 386 computer between all of them. I felt sorry for those people, but I also realized that they were who they were by their own decisions. They chose to smoke too many cigarettes during their teen years, they chose to not read books and instead develop leisure time activities centered on drugs and alcohol. They chose to live off of government instead of trying to earn a real income because they are generally lazy. They chose to ride a bus instead of driving a car, or to live in government housing when they could own a home. They chose not to build their intellects, but to live as parasites off others who do have developed intelligence. I feel sorry for them not for what they are, but for what they could have been, and in their lives, it’s too late. Most of them could not redeem themselves within a lifetime, so they don’t even try. They effectively ruined their lives before ever getting started and it is these people who the government wants to chain the rest of the country to out of compassion. That is a bad strategic decision, nationally.
I won’t be participating in Obamacare. I’ll pay my fine like I throw money at a toll booth driving through Chicago, or paying taxes to a stupid public school but I won’t participate further and I’ll find a way to get my wasted money back through some tax dedication that is perfectly legal. I’ll get my money back one way or the other—but I won’t participate. I do however feel sorry for those who are trapped; their bodies are addicted to pharmaceutical drugs and have conditions that their immune systems can no longer fight without Walgreens help. Obamacare will sink them, and it is quite on purpose.
Barack Obama knows it—he is feeling the pain of it, but collapse of American health care was the goal from the beginning—and nobody should kid themselves otherwise. He can apologize, lie, manipulate and otherwise deceive, but the truth is coming out ever so slowly, and it will have a major impact on virtually everyone who lives in America. The only way out at this point is to replace the members of the House and Senate during the 2014 election so that a total repeal is possible. But short of that, 2014 will be very painful financially for nearly everyone we know as neighbors, friends, or otherwise. And there is no escape this time.
My stance about public education over time has changed from primary concerns about finance, taxes, and teacher unions to the safety and preservation of young minds.Young people are the future of our country and the mind that drives young people is vastly more important than any other economic or social element. So great care needs to be applied to promoting the most aggressive growth of their world outlook—and in public education when a trusted teacher or administrator uses children as a sexual outlet—not only is the act despicable, but it stunts the wonderful growth that might otherwise occur in a young person. This kind of thing happens too often in public education because teacher unions prevent proper accountability giving refuge to the vile and evil among our human populations. Even worse than the high cost of education, teacher unions are allowing too many sexual deviants to be employed in close proximity to children.
Sex trafficking of children is something I feel very passionate about. I have talked about it here many times, and I find it to be the most horrendous human endeavor currently occurring. People who seem rational, sane, and logically good are buying plane tickets to Southeast Asia too often to engage in sex with under aged children. Too many grown adults deep into the corruption of their depleted ages seek out to psychologically destroy the innocence of youth as though they unconsciously are aware that they are out to eradicate optimism in the world because they can no longer touch it. Like parasites they seek to steal it sexually through children—and it is one of the vilest practices currently happening anywhere.
Glenn Beck told his audience Wednesday November 13th, 2013 that they helped raise $300,000 in a single day to combat child sex trafficking after a broadcast and promotion of the new group Operation Underground Railroad, which I deeply support. Thanks to the efforts of The Blaze readers, two Operation Underground Railroad jump teams have already been deployed to rescue more victims. Operation Underground Railroad is a group of freedom fighters intent to end the worst aspect of modern slavery, funneled through the sex trade industry. Some of the primary members have been working undercover for the American government for many years, but are sick and tired of just going after the effect of sex trafficking, the poor kids stolen all over the world to be used as sex slaves to punks, drug dealers, scum bags, and dick-heads. However, those efforts have not been enough. So Operation Underground Railroad members have decided to treat the cause, not the symptom and go after the losers who support human trafficking directly with assaults going straight to the door of evil.
Needless to say, I am a fan. If they want any help busting those scum bags they can give me a call anytime. It would be MY PLEASURE. But these guys at Operation Underground Railroad are professionals fully capable of taking care of these perpetrators on their own. What they need most is MONEY. It costs a lot to send up a plane and go on a mission to a far away land to rescue children from the evil that seeks to consume them. Endeavors like what Operation Underground Railroad are embarking on often take six figures to launch at a minimum not because the guys are getting rich off the effort, but because air plane operation and residence in a foreign country is extremely expensive. So money is needed to launch missions to the doors of evil and rescue the children enslaved under the architects of evil. The slave holders of the sex trade also need to be punished. They do not respect the court systems of the world and believe that their money can always purchase lawyers who will keep them out of trouble. This has allowed abuse in a similar way as the teacher unions have in public schools to advance the sex trade industry at an explosive rate.
No child anywhere should ever have to worry about becoming a sex trade slave. No child should ever have their innocence robbed from them to fulfill the fantasy of some bloated adult corrupted by their mismanaged lives. No child should ever grow up in fear of anything—because that is a direct failure of the adults who care for them. It is preposterous—and unforgivable! No child should be bullied, should have their mind stagnated, or worry that some stranger might sweep them up and whisk them away to have their lives ruined to satisfy the sexual hunger of a social parasite.
So please do support Operation Underground Railroad. Modern slavery is happening right under our noses. It might even be your next door neighbor. It might even be you dear reader. If you participate in pornography chances are, you are supporting the sex trade industry. If you hooked up with a chick in Vegas who was a nude dancer, chances are she was a used up victim of the sex trade prior to turning 18. If you went to one of the Nevada whore houses, you are supporting indirectly the sex trade industry which dangles not too far behind the antics of legalized prostitution. But worse than that, if you went out of the country for the purpose of having sex with a child, you are scum. You are a vile human being that deserves punishment far beyond any court system of bureaucratic pin heads. It’s not because you paid money to have the exchange, but because your money went to a slave holder against a child’s will that will impact them for life. For those types of people, Operation Underground Railroad is targeting and I applaud the effort not just with a standing ovation, but atop the tallest ladder I can find and as high as my hands can reach! CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO LEARN MORE.
The sex trade industry is driven by a demand piloted by evil. There is nothing redeeming about sex with innocent children……….nothing. There is no forgiveness of stealing away innocence from a life that has not yet had the privilege of making decisions about their life. Unlike the adults who seek out sex with children, a trafficked child does not have a choice. They can either be killed or allow the imposition upon them—because once they have been taken from the safety of their family environment—they are vulnerable and the crime is against the future potential of that child. It is wonderful to learn that there are people in Operation Underground Railroad who feel as deeply about this topic as I do. It is even better to see them seeking out to punish this vile evil where they live—in the darkness of the earths furthers corners.
As for the teachers of public school, if you confiscate cell phones with the hope of seeing topless pictures of your students, or you are texting sexual innuendo to young people fulfilling a deep dark fantasy that you think is carefully hidden, you are flirting with the crimes of the sex trade industry that Operation Underground Railroad is directly fighting—and are part of the problem. By giving money to Operation Underground Railroad the support structure to defeat such evil is put in place by good honest people who still recognize evil for what it is, and have the back-bone to confront it directly. There are few organizations that are worth such support these days, and I feel privileged to know that Operation Underground Railroad is out there doing what I wish I could do—beat the sex trade industry at its doorstep, and give a few more children hope for a tomorrow that they wouldn’t otherwise have.
It looks like I’ll get to see the next Star WarsEpisode 7 with my family at the new Liberty Center movie theater as the release date is now December 18th 2015. This is exciting news for me as my family loves Star Wars. Philosophically, Star Wars if very healthy stuff full of optimism for human potential. George Lucas has done something quite marvelous with it, he has combined the raw selfish energy of Han Solo—who is unquestionably Randian, and merged his usefulness with all the comparative religions of the world embodied in The Force. I have said many things about Star Wars and the impact it has on our society upon these pages because I see it as a cultural phenomena that has the potential to produce a seismic shift in human consciousness, and I’m going to say things here that I think will give people a lot of hope. I’ve been holding off until after the election to address some of these exciting developments, but I know you dear reader need a shot in the arm—so I intend to give it to you.
As I’ve discussed on several occasions I would say the most formal schooling I had which I didn’t consider a waste of time was the ten years I spent studying comparative religion and world mythology. The most important person in my life and primary motivator of my ideals has been and will always be Joseph Campbell. My parents did a good job of giving me value, but my intellectual development came from Campbell. What he did in the middle of the progressive era was quite astonishing. He was a conservative who had a following of radical hippies in search of meaning, and Campbell was able to transcend all those ideologies with an intellectual pursuit that has shaped our modern world. One of those nutty hippies was George Lucas—who wasn’t like the rest of the drug induced film makers studying under Francis Ford Coppola in San Francisco. He was a race car driver who had nearly died in a car wreck and had his life flash before his eyes with an intellectual hunger that was moving at a million miles an hour. It was in this period that Lucas discovered Campbell’s epically important book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, the most important book in my personal library. I spent ten years reading Campbell and was for a time a member of The Joseph Campbell Foundation while George Lucas sat on as a board of director. Campbell had died in 1987 but ten years later we had a big meeting in Washington D.C. which for me was a personal odyssey similar to The Wizard of Oz. Upon arriving at “OZ” I discovered that everyone was far from epic in their intellectual standards and had become mere cult-like followers of Campbell, which left me feeling as if I pulled back the curtain of an entire intellectual industry and discovered a decrepit old man attempting to appear greater than he really was.
I always took my kids to these kinds of things, which pissed off everyone as Campbell’s wife Jean had never had a child. There were no kids at the big meeting of the minds and they resented me for bringing them. But as a father, I always delivered to my kids the opportunity to live their own life of adventure without restriction of intellectual limits, and I wanted them to meet the kind of people who molded public sentiment. After the meeting, my family broke off to do our own thing and we didn’t socialize further with the Campbell followers. It was Halloween in Washington D.C. and my plan was to take my kids Trick or Treating. We went to a neighborhood in Chevy Chase, but my kids refused to go up to a single door because they didn’t trust the neighborhood and felt out of their element. So we went back to our hotel and I improvised. Using lessons learned from Joseph Campbell I decided to give my children a mythic experience, since that was what Trick or Treating was supposed to entail. While the Joseph Campbell Foundation members were down the hall trying to resurrect his dead spirit with chants and hand-holding, my kids went trick or treating at our hotel door. They were only 6 and 7 years old at the time and my wife was worried that we were ruining one of their precious Halloweens of their youth by being on the road. So I dressed up as a different character that opened the door each time my kids visited. I’d give them candy then they’d run down the hall of the hotel giving me time to change into a different costume, then they’d come back. I used everything I could find inside that hotel room to try to appear as a different person, or (creature) each time they arrived at the door proclaiming, “trick or treat!”
To this day, as recently as this latest Halloween where they are now girls in their twenties, they still talk about that Halloween in Washington as being their favorite—and it was a one man show put on by me exclusively. My wife did help a couple of times as I struggled to find new costumes with what was inside our room. The reason my children loved that Halloween so much was because I gave them a mythic experience, something that was representative of reality but spoke of higher ideals beyond temporal existence—which is what most everyone in one form or another yearns for. Some people look for it in sex, love, career, drunkenness, financial power, or in eating—but everyone is looking for meaning to each breath they take.
Star Wars is the best embodiment in the modern world of human meaning. It is mythology that goes well beyond a simple blockbuster film intended to make money for the Disney Company. It has an importance that is unfathomable to contemporary thinking, and is a gift from George Lucas that only he could have come up with after surviving his devastating car wreck. He lived a life of extremes; he was a race car driver, and an avid reader who wanted to be an anthropologist. Those two radically opposite ideals are what make Star Wars so important to the human race. The reason is that Star Wars is about values, and conveying those values through a story, which is the heart of all mythologies. Star Wars because it was set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away is able to transcend religious temperament here on earth and explore the meaning of value with conflict removed. Such an example would be of whose version of religion is correct Muslims or Christians. Star Wars explores the same values without violating people’s religious beliefs which is all too often the greatest hindrance to understanding. So it is far more than just another movie, it has the power through its story to transform culture—and I predict that these new films will do just that.
When the first Star Wars film came out in 1977 America was in the middle of the Carter administration, Nixon had just been impeached, and gas prices were too high causing long lines at the pumps. Iran was moving aggressively against America on multiple fronts and the USSR was trying to inject communism into America through every open sore. A New Hope followed quickly by 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back changed Hollywood and by their own merit kick started the 1980’s and the Reagan presidency. The way those movies captured the imagination of the world was a form that only mythology could generate. Star Wars is bigger than Star Trek which explores ideals in an interesting way. Star Wars is purely about mythology and the power of it to convey complicated messages. For the same reasons that my daughters loved that particular Trick or Treat event in Washington D.C. as little girls, Star Wars for many people no matter how jaded, is their “mythic experience,” and they can’t get enough of it. Star Wars is about values.
When George Lucas wrote the character of Han Solo played by Harrison Ford, he thought of all the motor heads he knew from his racing days. Lucas unquestionably had read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, and Han Solo was his answer to a Randian archetype. He meant for Han Solo to be won over by altruism conveyed through Luke Skywalker during the course of the movies and learn how to think of others first—it is the classic sacrifice and the bliss stuff so crucial to Joseph Campbell’s writings. That was before Lawrence Kasden got a hold of Lucas’ script and made Han Solo one of the most compelling characters in the history of film—unintentionally becoming the ultimate hero of the entire saga. In fact, what is missing from Return of the Jedi and the prequal films is a Han Solo type of character. Lucas attempted to humble Solo a bit by the third film, and it came out a bit flat. Even though Lucas intended to make an altruistic film out of Star Wars, the values of the characters took on a life of their own and became their own mythic experience. Lucas being enough of a lover of capitalism wisely let the story take on the form that THE FORCE intended and let things develop along their market value. Harrison Ford went on to become an international sensation while Mark Hamill even though he was the star of the films, got lost in the shadows.
The new films are being written again by Kasden, and the implications of this are quite extraordinary. Kasden is a very, talented story-teller who clearly understands mythology in ways that are different from George Lucas and very complimentary. Harrison Ford, Hamill, Fisher and many of the original cast will be back for the new films, and Ford appears to have a multi picture deal with Disney, so the Millennium Falcon will survive well into the future of the Star Wars franchise it would seem. The Falcon is the most important space ship ever created, even more so than the Space Shuttle. It is a modern-day pirate ship and symbol of freedom and rebellion in the Star Wars universe, and is one of the most recognizable objects on planet earth. If I had to take a bet, I would say more people know more about the Falcon than who their local congressman is. They probably know more about the Millennium Falcon than most of their own family members. Disney wisely is beginning to flex their mythological muscle already announcing that they are building a full-scale replica of the Millennium Falcon at their Anaheim Park in California prompting this guy below to declare:
Well, I reflect his sentiment. I’m right there with him and the hundreds if not thousands of others who share his opinion. I have not been shy about my love for the Millennium Falcon. My current favorite place in the whole world physical and virtual is aboard the ship I have on the game The Old Republic which is very similar to the Millennium Falcon. I understand why people are so excited about a full-scale Millennium Falcon at Disneyland, it is for them a mythic experience. I will love taking my grandchildren aboard a Millennium Falcon looking up at it from the foot of the loading ramp. That will be magnificent.
After eight years of Obama no matter what their political affiliation, people are tired. People don’t like communism and socialism, and for nearly 16 years, the United States government has forced heavy doses of socialism upon America growing government in ways that modern mythology has failed to capture. Television shows reflect too often statism, music is too political, and our court system is loaded with greedy lawyers trying to make mountains out of mole hills taking advantage of ACLU cases. Millions of online gamers have retreated from the real world to the virtual one to escape the tyranny of statism—because no place else is dealing with the mythic experience they require to comprehend the forces at play in their lives—except Star Wars.
When the next wave of Star Wars hits in 2014 with the Disney XD television show titled Rebels, it will have all the familiar signs of the past, the positive social impact, the economic stimulation, the cultural desire for goodness and fighting evil on behalf of justice. But this time a Disney financial machine in need of a new wave of revenue will use its considerable power for good because for the first time in decades the market need for goodness will line up with the needed greed of corporate interests and will benefit society in countless ways. It won’t be just a movie that comes out, but a mythological experience that will engulf most levels of human existence, and will be one of the greatest vehicles of capitalism displayed in a number of years.
Hollywood as a whole is in trouble. Labor agreements with the various entertainment unions will paralyze the industry in the coming years—within four years to be specific. Several studios will go out of business like the many steel and auto manufacturers of the past—collapsed by the labor unions and their collective bargaining agreements. Money men won’t risk their money if they have to share too much wealth and will move on to other forms of revenue streams—likely oversea investments. The reason Star Wars moved to December 18th, aside from gaining an extra 6 months to do post production work, was to avoid soaking up the money that can be made off the next Avengers film, and other big movies like Jurassic Park 4, and the Superman VS.Batman. Once Warner Brothers and Disney have played out the superhero films, and the stars demand larger fees under union rules, there won’t be many other large projects that can carry the type of box office numbers these big action films produce. The union wages being so high forces great box office turnout, and people aren’t going to line up to see the newest Oprah film, or romantic comedy getting box office numbers that justify the investment. This is going to crush Hollywood, because the revenue stream won’t keep going. Disney however has Star Wars, and they can hedge their labor costs with theme park revenue. Without those theme parks, Disney would be victim to the same kind forces that the other studios are going to face—parasitic labor union practices. Because of the vacuum of power that the Hollywood left will have in this period, they will be forced to compete with Star Wars, which is a force for good—or they will be financially crushed. The string of progressive films that have been projected upon the silver screen for two decades now will abate, because capitalism will force their hand to abandon their liberal ideals the same way that Lucas had to re-think Han Solo as a character—because the market drove the character’s importance.
Behind all this is a rather solid formula that Joseph Campbell outlined in his life’s work on comparative mythology. That work directly shapes the kind of stories that are told in the various Star Wars formats, whether it be film, television, books, gaming, or comics—the need for the stories are what matter most, and the reason for the need. Once those things are understood, they can be explored in the story telling process. That is precisely what is going to happen when the first Star Wars film hits in 2015. A market need is going to be fulfilled in a big way, and that need was created by anxiety driven through lack of mythological coordination. Statist governments have attempted to suppress that mythological need and reshape it in their own image—and they have foolishly attempted to force it down society’s throat without listening to the market needs. In the Star Wars equivalent, if government had been in George Lucas’ shoes, they would have forced the Luke Skywalker angle and suppressed the Han Solo one—and what they would have ended up with would be something along the lines of the prequels—entertaining, nice to look at, but lacking the kind of meaning that makes grown men want to walk through a full-scale Millennium Falcon as their life goal. It says a lot that a fictional space ship that is over 30 years old has more mythological meaning than any other creation proposed over that same span of time. The Falcon represents rebellion, defiance, speed, and freedom—that is why people love it. And as long as those symbols exist in our society, statist government will not succeed. So when Star Wars hits the new theater at Liberty Center, and a wave of excitement emits in a way that few people have seen in their lifetimes, more than a movie will be presented. A mythology will be offered, and that is more powerful than all the weapons of the world—because weapons are built to destroy the will of an enemy with fear. Mythology is designed to build a mind up to withstand the fears they are presented with, and in a perpetual game of tug and war between those two forces one that is generally regulated to only religions and some mild forms of entertainment, the other is supported by large governments with the endless ability to steal the money of their tax payers to support their grip on power. Star Wars does what only mythology without the congestion of focus on the afterlife can achieve, and that is to bring the mind to what it truly craves which is freedom, innovation, and rebellion against those who seek to suppress it.
It’s not like Lakota won by a large margin in the election of 2013. With the narrow margin of just a few hundred votes out of 26,000 cast, the begging needy levy supporters of Lakota earned through government force the legal ability to steal more money from the pockets of property owners. Leading up to the election Lakota had spent over $100,000 to create reports they used for their campaign, Delphi Technique community conversations by Jeffery Stec, and funneled money through PTA groups to fund a fourth levy attempt. They captured the media having virtually everyone in town eating out of their hand. CLICK HERE FOR AN EXAMPLE, AND BE SURE TO WATCH THE VIDEO. Scott Sloan and Bill Cunningham from 700 WLW helped Lakota with a ridiculous argument about property values, which we will deal with in greater detail in the coming days. Rick Jones, the Butler County Sheriff came out in favor of the levy, and all the television news outlets carried the story framed exactly as Lakota framed it, “the school hadn’t passed a levy since 2005.” Reporters didn’t consider if the money was needed at Lakota, they didn’t explore the graphs shown by No Lakota Levy as to why; they simply formed their reports based on the press releases given by Lakota.
Cunningham and Jones are both either married or directly employed by government so their defense of Lakota’s government employees wasn’t unforeseen. But Scott Sloan had shifted his view of support for No Lakota Levy from before in an obvious attempt to give his wife some business as a Realtor. Sloan wouldn’t be the first guy to form his political beliefs around peace in the bedroom, based on the last interview I did with him back in 2012, its obvious something along those lines is going on, even though he would probably never admit it. He called me a sexist several times after our interview and certainly turned on me when he knew damn well that what was going on was a hit piece by Lakota. Sloan played along willingly. I didn’t understand what happened between Scott and me until I spoke to Doc Thompson about the inner politics of Clear Channel, and learned things about Scott personally. I left it alone and we pretty much parted ways after that—which is what Lakota was after anyway. Part of the rush to place this latest levy attempt on the ballot was to have the election during an off-year election, where there were no congressional or presidential races. The ballot was primarily all regional issues, which typically have a low voter turnout. The media ignored the multiple sex scandals at Lakota over the last couple of weeks and the many other negatives which were covered only at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom. Everything was slanted toward Lakota and they still only won the election by a few hundred votes. It was hardly a landslide victory provoking a pompous celebration lap on their behalf. Lakota’s victory was executed with deceit, manipulation, and elements of terrorism performed to use the mob of democracy to steal more money from the entire community. Listen to Scott Sloan the day before the election:
When Sloan asked me nearly two years ago why I was churning up the “angry vote” I couldn’t answer it at the time because I couldn’t give away our strategy. But now it doesn’t matter, the reason was to keep voters focused on the upcoming Lakota strategy to hold an election in an off-season attempt. At the time it was a summer 2012 attempt, but the school wanted to make a deal to let everything cool off so they could rebuild their image, so we let them.
Letting Lakota off the ropes had more value than putting the community through another levy request, so I agreed. I avoided telling stories about specific employees like the high school chemistry teacher who had a student texting his mother at home to help with his in-class assignment because the teacher was too busy playing Minecraft on the school computer. I avoided those kinds of stories so not to further embarrass Lakota as part of our agreement. Once they announced the levy, that deal was off. In 2013 Lakota came out in their new campaign with a strategy of kindness and avoided the mud slinging because they knew their numbers would show up on Election Day with poor voter turn-out from the other side, and they didn’t want the enraged voters into showing up against them. For the No Levy side, voter turn out was always the challenge, and the best way to get it was to get people motivated up off the couch and vote when the only issue in front of them was a school levy and a few trustees. Most people feel that elections do not represent them, so they don’t participate—much to everyone’s peril.
When I first started all this levy business I didn’t hate public education or the system of government schools. I didn’t like it, I didn’t think it was effective, and I wanted to see competitive options, but I didn’t despise the people involved. When I went to school board meetings, I sort of liked the people involved. But the more I learned about the levy passage process, the angrier I became. I’m not an angry person by nature. I like to live well and leave others to live as they see fit. I don’t impose myself on others, and I don’t expect them to impose upon me. But the more I learned about public education the more I learned that the whole system was a terrible scam against innocent people, so it wasn’t hard to get angry. What started as a bit of political theater in the beginning turned out for me to be very real resulting in the present day where the very word public education disgusts me.
After the election I couldn’t help but think of Lakota as a typical relationship that begins between a man and a woman–or a man and a man if you’re an Obama supporter—that starts with nice dinners and genuine joy and ends in a violent divorce where both parties hate each other and can’t wait to be legally separated. Lakota like a typical jealous spouse demands that nobody else be in our children’s life—they have a government guaranteed monopoly of our attention as there isn’t any other choice. Property owners must through government coercion support the public school planted in their community whether they want to or not. They do not have a choice and behave in the same way as the spouse who questions their partners as to everywhere they’ve been and everyone they’ve spoken to. When it becomes obvious that the relationship is corrosive to a healthy dialogue, the guilt driving spouse then tells their partner “we must stay together for our children” using their kids as a bargaining chip to maintain the monopoly status of an unhealthy marriage. Lakota is in an unhealthy marriage with roughly 50% of the community, and they were only able to keep the unity together through manipulation, lies, and open extortion. Like a spouse that knows their partner wants a divorce Lakota was kind during this campaign so to hopefully appease the tempers and keep the discussion of community divorce off the table.
Sheriff Jones, Bill Cunningham, Scott Sloan, Michael Clark, and dozens of other reporters covering the Lakota levy behaved like intrusive family members who were seeking to keep a family marriage together by ignoring the complaints of the abused spouse and taking the side of the school. But the day after the election, all that really occurred was that Lakota managed to entangle more money out of those who want a divorce and kept the tax payers coming back home to maintain the illusion of harmony one more day. Lakota only was able to maintain this illusion of a marriage by playing every trick of coercion known, taking away all options and hoping that enough people voted in favor of keeping a marriage together. What they did was the same as tying up a spouse bound and gagged to a dinner table against their will then sitting across from them declaring how much they are loved. The tied up spouse having no other option must sit there and listen, and they are obligated by law to continue paying Lakota more money, even though all they want is to be free of the coercion, the dysfunction, and the imposition of a government school.
I love every day of my life. I care deeply about a number of people in my life—so many in fact that I often do not have time for everyone. But I hate Lakota, and I want a divorce from them forever. I can’t stand them. I think they are an unhealthy entity that I want no relationship with, and I can’t stand that I am forced to pay them my hard earned money for causes I do not support. I dread my interaction with them the way one might dread having to speak to a person they know they want to end a relationship with. Once it’s over in their mind—it’s over, and for me, and Lakota……..it’s over. I am not proud that I attended there as a kid. I am not proud that my children attended there. I don’t give a damn about their stupid sports scores, their band awards, or their buildings. I hate virtually everything about them the way I’d hate an attractive spouse who looks good from a distance until they open their mouth, because now I have gotten to know them—and have determined that I want them out of my life.
The day after the election they are patting themselves on the back and breathing a sigh of relief because they have the No Voters chained up in their bedroom and the door and windows are locked up tight. They own us through the chains of marriage arranged through politics as match makers of spouses who have no business being in the same room, let alone in a relationship. The tears the levy supporters shed at BW3’s once the votes were counted are equivalent to the spouse in denial of the condition of their marriage knows that they have their marriage partner safely in chains once again, but yet they also fear what might happen if they forget to lock the door, or leave the chains too loose.
Immediately I could feel the shackles of Lakota reaching into my pocket to steal away roughly $40 dollars a month the way a pick pocket might rob an innocent on a lonely sidewalk. Being in a forced marriage the looter Lakota can steal my money while I am chained to them, because government has placed us together. The relationship is good for Lakota, because they need me. The relationship is bad for me, because Lakota sucks as a spouse. They don’t have my values, they don’t have my passion, and they don’t have my love of life. Lakota can steal my money because labor unions in bed with politicians gave the school that right against my will. But Lakota can’t make me love them no matter how many chains and games they wish to play. The right to hate them is the one freedom I truly have, and I will feel that way till the marriage is ended and I am successfully divorced from them forever.
If I am forced into a relationship with Lakota, make note that I will be a royal pain in the ass. When they give themselves raises next year, I will be there two and three years down the road to show on graphs what Lakota has done. I will be there to point out every lie told even ten years from now, and I will name the names of the advocates, and I will make their life a royal hell. I will not move from the community under any circumstances and I have a long memory, and I have a worse temper than any collection of levy advocates, and I will be there with each mistake, lie, and deception they make to chronicle my case for divorce, and eventual freedom from Lakota and the money they seek to steal from me and many others for their own cause. Because the only real freedom we have in these arrangements is the right to hate the advocates, and to that extent, I reserve that right with glorious indignation, and the inner joy of a rebellion that only an abused spouse understands. What Lakota won in the election of 2013 was not for children, or the community—but for their own façade of maintaining a forced marriage with those who despise them, and wanted freedom from the theft of money that can only be obtained in a legal union. And they did it with only 214 votes–less than 1% of the vote. For Lakota, they are breathing a sigh of relief because it gives them the illusion of a sustained marriage. But they better beware of the unlocked doors, and loose chains, because the minute they let their guard down, they will find themselves single and very lonely.
It’s Election Night and likely there are issues that you dear reader are rejoicing about, and others that are making your stomach churn in knots. There were a lot of school levies on the ballot, many from districts that just passed tax increases a couple of years ago, like Fairfield, and Lebanon. Others like Lakota are trying yet again as nearby Mason watches closely with their foot in the water to see if it’s safe for them to try again. Regardless of the ones that pass or fail, the basic concept is flawed and needs to be addressed. All public schools are government-run and are grossly inefficient. They are dominated by government unions that need to be dismantled in favor of competition because they are functional monopolies. Public education is what many fear Health Care is becoming, a government monopoly full of inefficiencies, high costs, and lack of choices. Even worse is the feeling of doom one has when dealing with any government institution. In the case of school levies, the ones that fail will be put right back on the ballot as the administrations will not respect the will of the voters. The ones that pass will be back on the ballot in about four years. I often refer to this ridiculous system as a communist plot, which it was—but the philosophy of this folly deserves deeper analysis.
Most of America is shaking its head right now at the audacity of Barack Obama and the trail of lies that extend behind him for as far as the eye can see. Americans just don’t understand what is going on; they don’t see how a president can lie so much, so often and get away with it. Yet they participate in the process of allowing him to do it by their silent endorsement. Obama is an educator; he is a former instructor at the University of Chicago and a member of the academic elite. Vice President Biden’s wife is a former teacher as many within the president’s inner circle are big government statists who believe that it is their intellectual majority which rules the world tomorrow. But this still doesn’t explain how they can lie so adamantly to the cameras of the press and speak in front of millions openly advocating ideals they know are false.
The key to the beliefs of Barack Obama and every government school in America is that they all subscribe to a political theory debated for centuries called Positivism as the root of human freedom. Positivism is the law that states reality is anything that the government says it is. Positivism requires that all laws be written down and that there are no theoretical or artificial restraints on the ability of a popularly elected government to enact whatever laws it wishes. Positivism postulates that literally, the majority always rules, and always gets its way. Positivism is the primary driver of a democracy. If a majority of the people want it, then law is built around that belief.
For secular progressives this is why they wish to remove God as any kind of reference of belief. In order for Positivism to work, the collective will of the masses must be held in reverence, not an individual God promoting Natural Law. Positivists must always focus on gaining control of the masses in order to bend the collective will of all human beings toward their desire. This is why The White House believes that Benghazi is no longer relevant, because their public relations machine has turned public sentiment against the investigation of American deaths there. Yet under the same effort, they deny that Americans are against Obamacare, so they continually search for ways to gain majority opinion so that they can use Positivism to override any pending legal questions arising from forcing every human being in America into purchasing a product whether they wish to or not. Democrats in this case can obtain the majority rule by giving away enough free healthcare to put those in opposition into the minority—so they are refusing to look at reality stalling long enough to get a majority of the country signed up on the exchanges. Once that is done statists like Obama can ignore the Natural Law violations of Obamacare in favor of the Positivism of the masses, and their desire for free healthcare from the minority. This is how Obama in good conscience can lie, cheat and deceive so easily, because to him, Natural Law—those given to every human being by God is meaningless in the face of Positivism provided by government through democratic rule—rule by the majority. If the majority is ignorant, and recklessly foolish, that does not matter to the positivists, because the masses always rule. This whole concept of the needs of the many outweighing the needs of the few goes back further than Karl Marx, but it was communism that most aggressively embraced the implementation of democracy. Positivism is the law of thinking that drives the desire for communism, socialism or any form of collective society.
For the same reasons, public schools functioning from the same generally philosophy of Positivism will ignore the results of the school levies if they do not go their way because the collective will of their school boards, the state education boards, and the teachers unions do not support the Natural Law which individual votes cast toward their cause. They, as an education institution have a collectively held desire to obtain higher taxes, and “THEY” will not stop asking until they get it. They think this way because they are functioning from Positivism and believe they are owed something just because they desire it as a mass whole. It does not matter to them that their need is only one of many demographic factors because as an institution they have majority rule within the context of their social structure. This means they will ignore election results until their reality is validated by a majority of the public who tires under constant levy requests.
America was founded on the ideal of Natural Law, meaning that law extends from human nature, which is created by God—whatever form one holds God to be. Natural Law states that all human beings desire freedom from artificial restraint. Because all human beings desire freedom from artificial restraint and because all human beings yearn to be free, our freedoms stem from our nature—from our very humanity. For those who wish to believe that government is the center of the universe, Natural Law is dangerous because it prohibits the majority rule they desire—it muddies up the water keeping a society from functioning as a collective whole. This is why Obama thinks the Tea Party is more dangerous apparently than the Taliban. The Taliban at least is an organization functioning from Positivism while the Tea Party is insisting on Natural Rights.
Regardless of how the election goes, the real battle is not between who wins or loses at the ballot box on November 5th 2013. The real fight is between Natural Law and Positivism. Until a majority of Americans recognize Natural Law as the primary driver of prosperity in their lives, the school levies will not stop, government statists like Obama will continue to lie and deceive, and America will continue on a path toward socialism as opposed to capitalism. The key to solving the problem is in rejecting Positivism and politicians who believe that government is the giver of rights, and embracing Natural Law. Until that happens, every election will be a fight for life or death of not only lives, but entire economies, those at the local level, and of course those flowing out of Washington D.C.
It was good to hear Darryl Parks maintain his position on school levies, and specifically, the Lakota school levy. I have purposely avoided doing talk radio during this latest campaign primarily because the levy fighting going into the future needs to grow and more people must to be involved—and for some talk radio can be an intimidating forum to utilize. Aside from that, there is already a large collection of talk radio interviews that have been done in the past, which are still relevant online. More broadcasts talking about the same topics tend to become counterproductive, so they were avoided strategically. Also involved was the issue that No Lakota Levy wished to maintain their message of fiscal responsibility within the Lakota district where I have evolved into questioning the basic premise of public education and believe that it should be abandoned all together in its current form. Darryl’s position is closer to the No Lakota Levy view, where mine isn’t something that many people are ready to hear, because the answer requires difficult choices—and admissions. Yet Darryl is well aware what is driving the Lakota levy and he talked about it on his Saturday, November 2nd show which can be heard below. The Lakota levy is about wealth redistribution, it is a socialist concept created by progressives, and it’s unconstitutional. It is all about taking from the rich and giving to the poor which is the ugly underbelly of all school levies—but one that gets avoided because of the implications pointing to communist roots. Nobody wants to admit that their school where their children are attending is a socialist concept. Nobody wants to face that the educations they received when they were young was a communist creation, but if they think hard enough, the admission becomes easier once they understand the meanings. CLICK HERE TO REVIEW. Darryl smartly stays off that topic, but discusses the result—the cost of the Lakota levy for people with $300K to $400K homes will be an additional $600.00 to $800.00 a year and that will likely mean no summer vacations, no big purchases of new furniture, televisions, or even air travel to an overseas destination. If the Lakota levy were to pass, the people with the most money would have to make sacrifices that those without so much money would otherwise have to make.
Most of the supporters of the Lakota levy are either people who have ridden the coat-tails of those who do have money yet don’t understand the real value—so they are quick to give it away, or they are simply new parents who want what’s best for their children and they believe that public education complete with busing services is the best way to give it to them. These types make up the vast majority of the levy supporters, and they believe that a “rich man” or a well to do household can afford an extra $800 dollars in taxes a year because they have a $400,000 house. They believe that if a business can afford to carry payroll, or the owners have a net worth of over a million dollars that they are required to pay more in taxes so that the child of a family not so fortunate can have an education. Well—anybody who thinks that way is wrong. That belief is a communist sentiment brought to America through the labor union movement, and it is at the heart of every single school levy.
The levy advocates have a bottomless pit of need and they believe that because a homeowner owns a Mercedes, spends $800 on a meal for business clients, and has a home valued over $500K that they have an obligation toward higher taxes—and they are dead wrong. Because the taxes never stop, one of those wealthy tax payers today might pay taxes at $600 to $800 more a year every four years for the life of their businesses and will find that they will either have to move to a district with less taxes, or let the value of their assets decrease so that there will be nothing left once their children inherit their lifetime of hard work. Lakota business owners and residents have been relatively smart in voting down continued school levies—not passing one since 2005. West Chester and Liberty Township are thriving economic communities where other places like Fairfield, Finneytown, and Evendale are struggling because they are yesterday’s has-beens. They said yes to similar letters from school superintendents in the past and it cost them their livelihoods.
Butler County in general was built on a foundation of lower taxes. Why does anybody believe that Bass Pro Shops is leaving Forest Park and moving to West Chester—or here is a better question—why is the economy at Forest Park so bad that the mall there is a virtual ghost town? One, it is taxes, two it is too much government housing and a demographic population that lives off government money. The people of Forest Park have less value for money because the government sends them a check in the mail. Therefore, they do not enjoy the kind of things that Forest Fair Mall tried to offer them over the years as far as retail shopping. So companies moved out or went out of business. They went to West Chester where the taxes are less, and people appreciate nice things. West Chester is still driven by capitalism where Forest Park is drowning in socialism—a string of unfortunate and unintended consequences. I know this first hand, about twenty years ago I was a personal driver for a Bengal player. It was my job to drive him around and make sure he got home safely while he jumped from bar to bar. If people got too close, it was my job to make sure he was covered. I’d drive this guy all over the city to every hot night spot in town. Since I didn’t drink or do drugs, I was a good candidate for this kind of thing and wasn’t tempted to play along. At the end of the day, around 4 AM I’d take him home to his wife. They lived in a nice part of town full of promise. They lived in Forest Park, and thought of it as a land of luxury. Today, that same home is surrounded by Section 8 housing and a welfare demographic that has very few people officially employed. That is why Forest Fair Mall has failed, and the former Bengal player is no longer married to that woman. Bad investments lead to bad lifestyles. Bad lifestyles lead to failed businesses. Failed businesses lead to empty malls like the one at Forest Fair Mall.
Every resident in the Lakota school district has an obligation to defend their homes and property from the clutches of big government spenders like superintendent Mantia. Failure to say no to them will result in the same kind of declining community as seen in present day Forest Park, Fairfield and many other places where high taxes and demographic changes have destroyed their communities. In Lakota, it is the targets of Mantia’s letter that make the community such a nice place, the restaurant owners, the developers, and the financiers. If they get frustrated with the tax rates and pick up to move, they will leave behind in Lakota a community with crushing tax rates yet no businesses to pay them, because nobody takes the risk of owning something without expected to earn money from it. The value of any money earned goes down with every tax increase. Communists, or those trained in the ways of communism have no value for money—they find themselves seeking government employment because that is the only place they can earn a decent living thinking the way they do. Superintendent Mantia does not understand business. She thinks because she gets a hand shake and a bit of idle chatter at a charity event from many of the people she sent that letter to, she is on good terms with them. But she’s not. What she gets is appeasement the way a person who gets pulled over by a cop tries to appease the cop so that they don’t end up in jail. Business owners want to keep the peace and the looters out of their pockets. Taxes like the one proposed for this November levy permanently change wealth, and gives business owners less money to invest in the community, and that is not a good thing.
The communists who devised this ridiculous plan knew what they were doing. They hated the rich, and sought to level the playing field in every endeavor. Most levy supporters when asked enough question will reflect the communist roots of their belief when they state that everyone could afford to pay just a bit more for the good of the children. Many of them will only pay $30 dollars more a month, and since they have kids in the school, it’s no big deal to them. It’s cheaper than driving their children to school if they are lucky enough to get busing back. They may cut one trip out to eat with their family a month, and pay their higher tax without further complaint. But for business owners with millions of dollars in assessed property value, they will be taxed much higher, and the levy supporters with much less personal value will directly benefit. It’s called confiscation of wealth by the needy majority, and it is a communist concept—and a sickening enterprise.
The school levy at Lakota and every other school district is simply a redistribution of wealth scam that uses children to fulfill a political agenda that as Darryl Parks stated, is unconstitutional. For the same reasons that superintendents like Lakota’s Mantia ignore Ohio Revised Code 3315.07, authorities under state control ignore the unconstitutional nature of the school levy system because they have allowed the monopoly of public education to dominate the political arena with a communist sentiment that belongs in Kazakhstan, not West Chester, Ohio. There is nothing good that comes out of tax increases, but everything bad—an element missing from Mantia’s letter. She likely has no idea what the people who she sent that letter to really think of her, and probably thinks they believe what she is saying as much as she does. But the difference between her and them is that they actually produce things, while she is just another government parasite, a worker living off the tax payers and again advocating more taxes so her ilk can sustain their unsustainable wages for a few more years. If there is no other reason to vote against a school levy anywhere in Ohio, it is because the concept is a flawed one that goes against everything America is supposed to stand for—capitalism. School levies are wealth redistribution attempts by progressive minds for aims that are not beneficial to thriving economies. And every one of them should be voted down because they won’t end in 2013. They will continue well into the future until there is no money left to loot and people finally say no because they have nothing left to give. For the sake of Lakota, and the community that feeds it, the NO VOTES need to come now, while there is still money being produced in an economy that is the envy of Ohio. Voting NO on the Lakota levy goes a long way to keeping that status.
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The Overmanwarrior 