I’m still on the fence about professional football; my interest in it has declined greatly over the last several years because of how it facilitates collectivism, and education institutions supported by left-winged radicals. Football is a fun game that is cool, yet serves as a cover for the content being taught in these institutions, and the general collectivism exhibited by them. For instance, a graduate of Ohio State University generally says “we” when referring to the school they attended—and they do this in the same way that people say “we” when referring to their favorite sports team. “We scored a touchdown in the third quarter,” or “we lost a close game,” are just a few examples, and the behavior is learned in the education institutions. Because of its “coolness” football serves as cover for all the bad things happening in the class rooms being taught by liberal leaning educators. Society accepts the bad so that they can have the good, the entertainment of high school football under the Friday night lights, or a Saturday NCAA game between Ohio State and Michigan, or the fabulous Sunday afternoon football of the professionals—who are all the best and brightest of the college and high school players.
To compound matters, my favorite team the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have had a bad year—a new coach learning his way around the NFL has struggled to find his niche as he pushes out the last remnants of the Raheem Morris era—targeting specifically Josh Freeman—the starting quarterback. So there hasn’t been much to cheer for on my end, however, as I’ve stated emphatically on several occasions I would be a fan of the Buccaneers if they never won another game—because I support the ownership—not specific players and coaches. I support the culture that the Glazer family attempts to create around their Tampa football franchise, and admire the grit of their ownership.
This grit was on full display during Monday Night Football against the embittered Miami Dolphins on the night Warren Sapp’s jersey was retired at half time. Sapp was drafted by my favorite coach of all time, Sam Wyche who also drafted John Lynch and Derrick Brooks—three guys who could have only found themselves brought to the same place at the same time by someone like Wyche. Since that period of time, Tampa has tried to duplicate that chemistry again, and have relentlessly tried various options trying to find that same intense spark. They have had some small fires, but no explosions they way they did in 2002 when they finally won a Superbowl by the team that Wyche built-in 1995. Wyche was at the front of Pirsig’s train. Up until that Monday Night game the Bucs had lost all their games, most of them by narrow margins, but a loss is a loss and they were looking for their first. They played with a passion that was entertaining, and admirable and reminded me why I have always loved that team—they have a never say die attitude which I find enchanting—even when they lose. That mentality comes from the ownership.
I would rather be a fan of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers who lose every game they play so long as they played like they did on Monday Night Football the night that Warren Sapp’s number was retired. If they lose, it’s OK with me so long as they take off their rivals head while doing it. That is why I like the Bucs—and always have. It will continue as long as the Glazers keep the spirit of that team with a philosophy which embodies that behavior.
Maybe it was something Sapp said to Greg Schiano the head coach of the Bucs prior to the game when the two had dinner, but on the following Sunday Tampa beat the crap out of the Atlanta Falcons with an effort that looked Superbowl worthy. Football is that kind of game; it’s a game of capitalism that has many socialist tendencies looting off it for their own survival. I love the capitalist elements of football, but I despise the socialism. And of all the football teams in the world the only one I actually enjoy with any sense of loyalty is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
But I never say “we” when referencing the Bucs………….it’s always “they.” They do the work, they do the hitting, they take the chances, and they win or lose the games. I do not share in that activity with them. I simply enjoy watching them try. And that is the biggest difference between how I see football, and most everyone else. For those others, they have an unhealthy relationship with football that opens their minds to statism coming through their education institutions that cause them to say “we” when dealing with the actions of others. When the word “we” comes into play, football is a bad thing—because it allows those who do not actually contribute to the victory to believe that they helped win a game—and that is socialism.
When the beer belly father cheers on the kids of a high school football team, generally such onlookers are reliving the days that have passed them by—with their advanced ages they can no longer run, jump and leap through the air—so they cheer on the young little saplings with great enthusiasm and say “we” because that is the only way they can touch such memories—is through others. When the middle-aged guy makes a bet over a college football game with his cubical all decked out with paraphernalia of his alumnus and declares that “we” will bet “you,” he is living his life through the college students of that college team with a dangerous form of collectivism. His most glorious days are now behind him and only the college football team can recapture them for him. Or when there are drunken fights at a professional game over whose team wins or loses, the participants are really fighting over the lack of control the team outcome has reminded them really occurs in their actual lives. So the reminder is something to fight over—to suppress the knowledge that all their cheering and prayers had no bearing on the outcome. I don’t watch the Tampa Bay Bucs for any of these reasons. I watch it for the warfare displayed on the game field; I watch it for the capitalist gains of better players suppressing those at a tactical disadvantage. I watch it for the hard hits, the strategy, and the passion of winning—or trying to. I watch it for the spectacle……..purely. In that regard, Tampa could lose the rest of its games for the next 10 years and I would still be a fan so long as they played the way they did on Monday Night Football on a November evening when Sapp was memorialized and the Bucs won their first game of 2013. If it were the last, it would be fine with me, because my love of them extends beyond any tentacles of collectivism, but the joy of living, bleeding, fighting and surviving to fight another day and wrestle from an opponent a hard-fought victory that is as elusive as a purple moon in a sun blazed sky.
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.
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.
For those who have read the novel Atlas Shrugged and have an appreciation for it, let me share with you my own private Galt’s Gulch—the Atlantis found in the novel where an intrusive government gave the best minds in the world little choice but to simply go on strike and let the parasites of society rot on the vine. My paradise does not exist somewhere in the real world. I know many people, some with considerable amounts of money who are making arrangements in the wake of the Obama administration to re-establish themselves in places like Belize and Argentina to run from the encroaching governments that exist in the world. That is not my plan, as I see it as pointless, because eventually, the scum bags will be knocking on my door there as well. So for me—physically, I will stay in the real world and fight them, I’ll fight them in court, I’ll fight them in politics, or I’ll fight them with fists and guns—but one way or the other, I will not comply with governments hell-bent on individual destruction in the name of socialism. The distinction is a simple one; I support unhampered capitalism while my political enemies support degrees of socialism—through Social Security, health care, and various proposals of wealth redistribution. Most politicians alive in America today are some variation of a socialist because they seek to advance their power and influence artificially with looted money consumed by taxes—and they create more laws and policies as ways to extract more of my money.
With such a social position, it makes for awkward dinner conversations. Even though I appreciate that some of my well-to-do friends continue to invite me to all the big events around town, the charity extravaganzas where all the powerful minds of media, business and politics gather to stroke each other and feel important. I despise many of those people because of what they represent as entities openly advocating altruism not for what it does for the unfortunate, but for their own power base–and don’t make an effort to disguise it leaving such evenings fruitless. Taxation is often advanced through altruist schemes, and it disgusts me. I’d rather spend my time in my personal Galt’s Gulch where pure capitalism is alive and well, where I can do pretty much what I want when I want to do it, and I can fly around from point A to point B without the stupid FFA getting in my way, or the FCC trying to regulate everything I say and do, or the TSA trying to frisk me just because I want to make a regional flight to a city two states away. Or nearly half of everything I earn going to the IRS forcing me to run faster and faster on a treadmill that the government controls so they can take my money and give it to some slug who grew up doing drugs, slutting themselves around having babies out of wed-lock, or genuinely abusing themselves physically and mentally. In my leisure time I look for ways to be away from all those elements, and I have found it in the video game The Old Republic—and my current excitement is that they have just created a new expansion seemingly just for people like me who love to fly, but don’t want the extra cost of housing an actual airplane at a hanger that is marred down in more rules and regulations. The enjoyment of real-world flying is buried in paperwork, fees and taxes. When the new combat space simulator opens in December, I may never see anybody in the real world again, because I simply love such things, and will likely never leave the virtual world of The Old Republic again. I’ve flown in real life, and over the years I’ve played hundreds of thousands of hours of flight simulators and aerial combat games—and the brain really doesn’t know the difference. So I am very much looking forward to this new element in my current favorite game Star Wars: The Old Republic.
On that game my wife has over 2 million credits and I have about half that. She is very rich in that virtual world, because we spend a lot of time in The Old Republic doing things that earn credits—which is the money system exchanged. I also spend a fair amount of time on the Bioware website following the complaints of other gamers playing the game. I find their reasons for paying a monthly fee to play the game to be fascinating as many of them are raised by public education to believe in altruistic practices—so many expect Bioware to give away things for free, but many of the hardest core gamers are very much capitalists—people who are very innovative and expect to keep what they earn as they play. This leaves Bioware always looking to create incentives to keep game players pushing to do more things and stay interested enough that they pay their subscriptions and spend hundreds of hours a month playing. The incentives are credits and other rewards such as leveling up, earning certain titles, and acquiring unique items.
The Old Republic is what they call an MMO, a Massive Multiplayer Online game. As you play the game online, thousands of other people are playing with you in the same environment. It is similar to popular games like World of Warcraft in that the big distinction is that the worlds within the game are truly massive inspiring people to play together or against each other on a truly epic scale. Something that everyone who plays these games understands is that they expect to keep what they earn—and they get very angry at game developers who short change them with restrictions. If in The Old Republic Bioware taxed some of the credits my wife and I have earned at the same rate that occurs in real life, and gave those credits to new gamers who only played a fraction of the time that we do, most people playing The Old Republic would find that imposition absurd—unfathomable even. If Bioware did something like that, they would lose players by the hundreds. The players would leave to play another game where rewards were not consumed and distributed to those who don’t have the same level of commitment. Most people understand that it is unfair to tax in-game credits and give them to players who didn’t earn them.
Gamers who play these kinds of MMO products universally are raw capitalists. They totally get it and when it’s asked why they play so many games so often, the reason is similar to mine—because it is their own Galt’s Gulch. They know they don’t have the same opportunity in the real world to be successful because they either don’t have the political connections or access to capital because it’s been stolen from them by government. So they play video games because at least there, they can keep what they earn. I know this culture very well. Both of my daughters worked for Gamestop for a while, my oldest was actually a manager at several stores all over Cincinnati. When I’d go to see her for lunch I would get the opportunity to study these people and explore what motivated them. They are a relatively new market demographic that nobody in government knows what to do with. They as a generation from age 40 down to age 10 have pretty much dropped out of life. They don’t care to join country clubs to socialize, they don’t waste their time trying to get rich in the real world because it’s nearly impossible with all the government looting, and they don’t trust the media or their education institutions because they’ve been lied to and are disappointed. They don’t typically vote, they eat a lot of pizza, and they are happy to drive a piece of crap car because they don’t care if they meet a spouse. Most of those things take them away from their game environments, so they don’t participate. The game awards mean more to them, even though they are virtual. I was seldom ever at Gamestop with my daughter where she wasn’t slammed with business. It’s a gigantic industry. For instance, the new Call of Duty video game just released made a BILLION dollars in just a 24 hour span of time. A billion with a “B” which is a tremendous amount of money spent on a product of any kind in just one day.
The Old Republic video game I play with my wife cost $240 million just to produce the original content which launched with the game two years ago. If I had to guess, I would say they’ve invested at least that much more in the game since the release, and they are of course expecting to make the game profitable which means they have to make enough revenue off subscriptions and other revenue streams to justify the expense. With a half a billion dollar front loaded investment, Bioware understands that more than a few overweight geeks playing the game in their basement are needed. It has to be somewhat mainstream to have financial viability at that level of investment.
What all those MMO games have in common is capitalism as the primary driver. Game developers understand that it is incentive that drives game participation and the more restrictions placed, the lower the game sales. The reason that online gaming is such a current phenomena is because it is a refuge for people who love capitalism, and most young people do. Socially through their educations they have been taught socialism, which they find unattractive—but are intellectually unarmed as to how to deal with it. So they go to the online world of their choice and invest their time and energy into virtual capital instead of the kind based in reality because the virtual stuff is more real to them. (Think about that.) Most modern gamers find the fantasy world of World of Warcraft and The Old Republic to be more real than the REAL world. What does that say about our society?
The FCC would if they could regulate this gaming industry. After all, the NSA probably knows everywhere I’ve been and what I have done within The Old Republic just as they are tracking everyone playing all games online. And that is what scares them, because in their giant mega computer that comprises all that data and studies the behavior patterns of the modern America—or global video game players as there are people from all over the world playing The Old Republic they know what I just professed, and they are terrified to name it publicly. They cannot turn off such games through regulation as much as they’d love to because of the riot of anger that would ensue. People have found refuge from the statist world within video games, and once that is gone, there is no place left to run. The Obama statist types had hoped by now through education, taxation, and government employment to have “changed” the nature of the human being to more of an altruist and less of a capitalist. But it hasn’t worked and all that they achieved is they pushed people into a form of activity that doesn’t generate any taxes for them. The government can’t tax the millions of credits my wife and I have earned in The Old Republic. The IRS has no power there. I can’t use that money to buy a new condo, an airplane, or a car either. But who cares, because all those things force me further entangled with a government that simply wants to steal from me at every opportunity. So I gladly give up those material objects in trade for virtual ones that actually have more value—because within the world of The Old Republic, I earned them and can keep them.
The video game industry is about raw capitalism in its purest form. The economic theory of Keynesian thought would not work in The Old Republic or any other video game, just like it doesn’t work in real life. Wealth redistribution doesn’t work in a gaming world, so why would government statist types believe it would work in the real world? The answer is that they are in denial of what motivates and makes human beings viably functional. Governments have instead hoped to nudge and shape the world into artificial yearnings that have no basis in reality—and they’ve done it at great expense to human development. The test bed to these theories have been in the explosion of online gaming—particularly the MMO. It is also why I’d rather spend my time in The Old Republic than anywhere else because there at least I am free of the types who expect to mooch off my energy and effort because they are too lazy to do for themselves. And if that sounds like a harsh statement consider that I’m not alone—and it is that trait which drives an entire video game industry offering a kind of freedom that no longer exists in the real world—the freedom offered through capitalism.
The thugs are going to get their stolen money from the community because 13488 people were stupid, and passed the Lakota school levy, on the fourth attempt. Voter turn-out was the key. Too many people stayed home while the pro people voted. There were over 18,000 NO voters in the last election, and they obviously thought their vote wouldn’t matter, and stayed home. As a result, they will now have to pay higher taxes because of their lack of participation.
LAKOTA SCHOOLS ISSUE 7
Total
Number of Precincts
70
Precincts Reporting
70
100.0%
Times Counted
26804/64844
41.3%
Total Votes
26735
FOR THE TAX LEVY
13488
50.45%
AGAINST THE TAX LEVY
13247
49.55%
Now it is time to begin campaigning against their 2017 levy attempt, because it’s coming.
Everything they do at Lakota, every dollar wasted, every scandal they are involved in will be reported—because if I have to blow more money on these idiots with higher taxes, I’m going to get my money’s worth.
Since 2010 I have given many reasons why a voter should turn away the Lakota levy of 2013 with a NO VOTE. It should be as obvious as rain during a hurricane, higher taxes do not make a better school district, help with property values, or even make children smarter. All those claims are manipulative statements designed to trick voters into imposing higher taxes on themselves with the same audacity that it is generally reported taxes will only be $16 dollars a month. Most people who don’t pay close attention will believe that the cost is small, because they will miss that the media generally only reports the lazy $100,000 of property assessment, but the reality is in the Lakota district almost nobody has a home valued that low. Generally, the cost of the Lakota tax increase will be about $30 dollars a month adding up to around $360.00 per year, which is a sizable amount of money considering the taxes are already high.
Most people who read here every day are already Voting NO. But to make it easier to spread the message, here is the NO LAKOTA LEVY ad which appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer with a full-page placement, which was obviously extremely expensive. It contains most of the information of why voters should VOTE NO on the Lakota levy. So send it around to your friends, family and social networks to ensure that they show up and vote against the levy to protect their homes from the villainy of Lakota’s terrible management.
I can think of a lot of things my $30 dollars a month will go to besides another tax. Likely for me, it will be consumed in the increases I will see resulting in Obamacare. But my cable bill, various subscriptions, and even fuel costs could all use that $30. I don’t want to throw away nearly $400 more a year on a stupid teacher’s union. For $400 dollars a year I could buy my children Season Passes to Kings Island for Christmas, or a flat screen television to watch football games in my garage. I could book air travel to Florida, or pay for my family to attend Disney World each year. There are a lot of things that my money could be spent on other than a tax increase for the Lakota levy.
Even for people who also read here who aren’t in Lakota, pass this flyer around anyway. There are a lot of school levies on the ballot and pretty much all of them are driven by the same insanity. The cause of the tax increase is the collective bargaining agreements imposed upon tax payers by the teachers unions, and what they expect in wages and benefits is simply disgusting. Even worse, they hide their mechanisms behind the next generation of youth, and they have to be stopped. It’s currently ridiculous and getting worse.
As for the work done by No Lakota Levy, I am very proud of what they have accomplished this time around. The organization has grown into a legitimate political force of some wonderful minds who are defending the way of life we love in West Chester and Liberty Township from truly corrosive parasites, and every homeowner and business investor should thank God that they see those familiar signs on the side of the road standing against the Lakota Levy. Back in the winter of 2012 there were discussions about how much I hated the people who ran the Lakota administration and I wanted to do my own thing letting new faces step in and freshen up No Lakota Levy. I am very happy to see the results. More people have participated this time around, and there has been some fantastic work done. The website is very good, the ads, the media comments, the amount of signs on the streets has been top-notch, and this campaign was the best one yet as far as logistics. The tireless efforts of the usual cast of characters are evident, and it has been good to see. Their work has been noticed, and the message has gotten out.
So send this article to a family member or friend so that they will have the facts on Election Day, and be sure to encourage them to vote, because in an election, every vote matters, and nothing should be taken for granted.
It should be easy to determine who wrote the note on a bathroom stall and if everyone did their jobs, an arrest would have been made by Friday instead of a press release going out to all the parents warning of impending doom on Monday. But let’s pretend Lakota really wants to know who did it, here’s what they should have done. A quick review of who was in the hall moving toward the girl’s bathroom during Wednesday would help narrow down the suspects. Investigators should then use a handwriting expert to compare all known females who went into the bathroom that day with samples taken out of their personnel files. Once this was done, the search would be narrowed down to roughly ten suspects who would then be interrogated to measure their responses and the perpetrator would be discovered. This should have happened already. But it hasn’t.
What most likely happened based on my experience with the institution was a crazy progressive leaning teacher went into the stall on her own accord after hearing about the terrible showing for the early voting numbers and wanted to push public sentiment toward the For Lakota message. So she went into the bathroom probably between the 9 and 10 o’clock hour while the students were in class and wrote the message on the stall wall. She hoped that a student would then see the message later and report the threat to authorities, which is what happened provoking mass hysteria, panic, and ultimately a spike in voter turn-out, better than what current numbers are showing for Lakota. The reason the Lakota employee picked that particular time period is because they were nervous and wanted to get the act out-of-the-way early in the day, and also to provide time to let a student discover the message in time to alert authorities.
Of course Lakota officials wanted the message, and they don’t want to know who wrote it, because it gives them the fearful dialogue that fits their levy campaign—more security to capitalize off the Sandy Hook shootings. In the back of their minds they actually worry about learning who wrote the letter because it would explode into another terrible school scandal right before the election. That is why Lakota was quick to rationalize that it was a student looking for a free day off school, because that particular Monday, November 4th was originally scheduled as a day off for students. It takes the edge off the impending doom just a bit. But if the situation were legitimate, Superintendent Mantia and all the school board members, especially those running for re-election would be scrambling to get some face time on the various news outlets. Instead they just turned the story over to Randy—who is running cover as usual, doing what he gets paid a lot of money to do—contain stories.
But nobody was fooled and even on the Lakota administration side, they fear the same thing I just proposed. The very first comment when this story was reported in the West Chester Buzz:
More likely the note was posted by the school board to help get there levy attempt to pass on Nov 5th. Nothing like a good emotional scare to get people to vote the way you want them to.
As it has been well documented, my experience with Lakota indicates that they will do anything to get their way. I have seen them participate in open extortion, boycotting, and personal character assassination attempts. I watched the network first-hand and learned how information flows through the political structure of Lakota when first they organized a direct attack against me with the famous Lakota Survey. CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW. When I lashed back, it was entertaining to see how school board vice president Julie Shafer working directly with superintendent Karen Mantia pulled the political strings of Trustee Cathy Stoker to launch an attack against me in the Cincinnati Enquirer, hoping that it would put an end to No Lakota Levy. CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW. On more than one occasion I have watched these same people go after the individual lives of the people who stand against them and they will stoop as low as they have to in order to perform the task. I have watched them cover up sex scandals with the same slick tenacity, and watched them openly defy the law on several occasions because like the police, they represent the authority of the state—and feel they are above the law. So it doesn’t take much imagination to conclude that it was a teacher who wrote the message on the bathroom wall because they needed a boost in the exit polling. No doubt they know the same information that I do regarding exit numbers from early voting. I haven’t talked about it much because for me the election isn’t over until after Tuesday, and the NO voters have to hold their ground and show up. They have to VOTE NO and not take it for granted that the election won’t even be close. But so far the numbers have not been good for Lakota, and without question this has them worried enough to attempt some crazy extremist plot to win 2% to 3% of a gullible public during an election.
If the Butler County Sheriff’s department led by Sheriff Jones does find out who wrote the letter it won’t be a student that they will take to jail, it will be a teacher—or possibly even an administrator, and Lakota will experience its deepest embarrassment yet. It will be a national story—I’ll make damn sure of it—you can place the bets now. I think the people who currently run Lakota are vile human beings, I have seen their ugly side, and I don’t want to pay them the tax money they already extract from me against my will, let alone more. In my opinion, they are bad people up to no good and I don’t want them teaching the next generation. That position may seem extreme now, because not everyone has experienced them quite the way I have, but over time, most people will arrive at the same conclusion by default. But from then to now it is important to not let Lakota get away with this public relations stunt that is criminal in nature. The authorities cannot be trusted to do the right thing because they are all on the same team. The only defense there is against Lakota is to keep more money out of their pockets. And you can do that dear reader by voting NO on the Lakota levy on November 5th, 2013. Don’t forget, and don’t take it for granted. Let Lakota know what you think of them with a vote that will send a message more powerful than any legal action could possibly achieve. The best form of justice is when the bad guys do get punished, and the way to do that in Lakota is to keep money out of their pockets—and in yours with a VOTE NO!
I know Sheriff Jones reads here, so if I’m wrong………….prove it. The burden of proof falls on the Butler County Sheriff’s department because the track record at Lakota says I’m right.
And as to those who thought NO LAKOTA LEVY would be over after that little stunt on March 15th 2012. How do you like the signs all over town, and the ads in the newspapers, and the quotes in the press? Yea………….that’s what I thought. : )
On more than a few occasions during the last week, prior to the November elections, readers, friends and otherwise have expressed to me their concern that things would ever get better—that our current American society seems destined to slide into a communist rot driven by the old hippies of the “Flower Child” generation. I can understand the concern as even forty and fifty-year-olds that didn’t come of age during the 60s but was still infected by communism, such as the current Obama administration, think like they do. But not everyone does. The trouble makers are easy to spot, they are usually academics raised on Marxism, socialism and progressive causes for the benefits of global communism. The closer to modern education they are, the worse they are, and more statist their beliefs. But along those same demographic age groups a ray of hope is emerging that will not tolerate the communist utopia that the modern political left dreams of—and the resistance won’t be pretty.
Many believe that the modern Tea Party was inspired by the Republican Party through the likes of Karl Rove to unify the senior citizens in their party. Because of that and other reasons many Tea Party types are questioning whether the Tea Party should even keep such a name, because a whole new generation of rebel rousers, and freedom lovers is emerging that doesn’t feel driven by reverence for the American Revolution. Instead, they were raised on Rambo movies, Asteroids video games, rock and roll, and large doses of capitalism provided by the Ronald Reagan presidency. I have said often that many of the problems of the early 2000s are due to the failed statist policies of the “Flower Children.” They are currently in charge right now in politics, business, entertainment, and education. But behind them on the age bracket are the kind of people who listened with great reverence to the music of Metallica, Kiss, Judas Priest and many other heavy metal bands. The “Flower Children” had Bob Dylan, the Beatles and other pacifists. The 80s rebel rousers had songs like this one shown below by Metallica called “Don’t Tread On Me.” Listen to the words carefully and watch the video. It contains within it the future of America.
I’ve been a body-guard, a repo man, and a bouncer at times and before or after conflicts I would turn on this song by Metallica to charge myself up. Even now, twenty years later, the song still has reverence for me, it was written well before there was a Tea Party or even a Barack Obama. Back then, freedom was still an illusion and the national debt was manageable—yet Metallica saw the writing on the wall like the rest of the people from my generation do—and they are quite pissed off about it. Metallica songs like this one are representative to how we feel, so any kind of communist utopia that Obama and the wealthy power-hungry billionaires like George Soros intend, will not make any real traction. Instead, it will push my generation into open revolution as they will not yield to statism—once they finally admit to themselves that government is a problem.
I have a long time running joke in my family that my favorite people are those under the age of 12 and over the age of 65, everyone else in between is broken and not worth my time. The reason is that the ages stated that I enjoy are human beings not functioning from a sexual nature. Once the pituitary kicks in and young people become sexually interested, they go into a cloud of misdirected deceit for the next 50 years of their life, until their sexual nature kicks off again and they can resume logical thinking as senior citizens. Most of the people who listen to Metallica along with me are from this broken age where their primary purpose is still power for the sake of sexual gratification—the ability to plant a seed or receive a seed which is the mating custom of human beings. Most of our economy and our entire political structure is built around this ridiculous notion. But once these people move into their senior citizen status, they will still have the music and philosophy of their youth, but not the sexual misconduct to motive their thoughts, much the way today’s communists and Marxists have risen to dominance no longer distracted by drugs and sexual orgies. When the Metallica generation hits this period, there will not be unlimited compliance to statist policies. There will be open rebellion, and the old hippies will have died off leaving this new rebellion to run everything—and their mode of philosophy will be capitalism—the kind they grew up with during the years of Ronald Reagan.
So fret not all who read this. The statism of today will not last. There isn’t money to support communism in America and there is not a will by the public to embrace it. They’ve tasted freedom even if for a brief moment during a Metallica concert, or in a car driving down the highway at over 100 miles per hour with open containers of beer flowing freely between the occupants. Freedom is something people are waiting for—because it is reflected in their art—the songs that are listed on their iPods—songs like Metallica’s “Don’t Tread On Me.”
I can speak for myself, that song reflects my thoughts. I will not yield to communism, statism, socialism, or anything the Obama administration creates. They do not represent me and I refuse their system of beliefs. I want nothing to do with Obama’s view of America, a socialist paradise born in the laboratory of college campuses in love with European hierarchy. And the Tea Party is not so much about today’s senior citizens getting politically active. It’s about them waking up and smelling the coffee and wanting to fix things because sexuality no longer clouds their minds as the logic of youth has returned to their creative minds. At the roots of the Tea Party movement is a much harder core belief system that is angry and ready to direct their thoughts, and those intentions will not move toward communism, but away from it. An entire generation grew up on that song, and deep in their hearts they believe it.
There were not politicians like Rand Paul and Ted Cruz even a decade ago. They are a new emergence and are of the same age as I am–products of the 1980s. It would not surprise me if Senator Ted Cruz does not listen to Metallica on his iPod as he travels through the airport. I would not be surprised if Rand Paul doesn’t still have the Metallica CD in his personal music library. I would not be surprised to learn that they personally liked the song, “Don’t Tread On Me.” The good news is that there are more of these types of people moving into political positions. I can name three who are potentially going to be West Chester Trustees. They could down 10 beers at Jags, put their fist through a window, and then balance a check book all within an hour of each other, and they are not that far off the kind of thinking that I have. They are not statists, but good people who work hard, play hard, and don’t bow to anybody—and they are coming of age.
What’s at stake for the statists is the fantasy of compliance. They will have their victories in this time and place because what we are seeing are the fantasies of the “Flower Children”—a world of forced peace holding hands under the power of government imposition by the leadership of the political left. But tomorrow, they will see their influence erode away into silliness. If and when the bullets start flying, people like me won’t be calling 911. I’ll shoot back—with a much bigger gun, and I’ll crank up “Don’t Tread On Me” while doing it. But compliance to statism is not an option. It’s not going to happen under any conditions.
So the answer to the question of whether or not things get better—it eventually will. It will get worse because the left is in charge, and they will fall flat on their face with intrusive social policies, bankruptcy, and a weakened society that is tired of a leftist flat line human existence. Once the left fails completely—and they are currently–my generation will be there with Metallica blowing wind into our sails, and we are the calm generation. The generation that comes after us is even less interested in communism, socialism, social sharing, and all the “Flower Child” passivity of the 60s. They are playing Grand Theft Auto and first person shooters till the small hours of the morning and listening to music that is even angrier than Metallica. So as you listen to the song “Don’t Tread On Me” by Metallica think of the world that is coming, not the one that’s currently here. As a friend of mine asked me late last week, “is there hope.” And, “what should be the new name of the Tea Party?” The answer to both is, yes there is hope, defiance is alive in the hearts of millions and they are very close to going over the edge presently. For me, I would call this new rebellion not after the patriots of yesteryear, but after the mythology of the present—I would say that what is happening is part of the Red Pill Rebellion. Over two years ago I spoke about the red pill versus the blue pill as articulated by the film, The Matrix. Our modern age is all about waking up to the truth that has always been there, yet was covered up by an entire society addicted to their blue pills of illusion. More and more people are starting to take the red pill of truth, and they aren’t happy to see what has happened to the world while they slept. CLICK HERE TO REVIEW.
I will enjoy tearing apart the world that the “Flower Children” made for us, the idiots who supported school levies, the advocates of The Great Society, and the nut jobs who brought America socialism through Social Security. The world of Barack Obama deserves to perish in its thinly disguised exploitation of the human race in the name of fairness for the ultimate aim of government expansion and control over every human being. I will laugh as each of their statist policies perishes, and I will laugh with each tear they shed in the coming years. I despise them, and will enjoy watching the framework of their social destruction dismantle under their own power, and when they turn to others to rob them of resources to maintain their illusion, I will proclaim with any force necessary, “DON’T TREAD ON ME.” And I will enjoy it thoroughly.
Yes, there is hope, and I would call it The Red Pill Rebellion, and it is growing in force, and effectiveness, partly by default, and partly by momentum. 20 years ago I predicted this age that we are currently in, and it occurred right on time, just as I always said it would. With the same boldness, I predict the age of The Red Pill Rebellion, and the result of that time is a nightmare to the statists. Trust me…………….
Even some of my most bizarre claims written about here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom will prove over time and lack of emotional investment to be correct. Truth is often stranger than any fiction, and the blackness of the hearts behind politics are more sinister than a conscious mind can often allow itself to comprehend. And this has never been more true than the Lakota levy of 2013 where the claim of necessity has been the safety of students from unforeseen dangers, assistance to the parents by returning some busing privileges, and a maintenance of real estate values to the Lakota community. The reality is much, much grimmer than that, and once it is understood and accepted reveals the true intention of the proposed tax increase, which can be seen in the following chart. Lakota employees stand to make after the acceptance of the tax increase at least $117.50 more per month with the proposed raises lined up for a 2014 teacher’s contract with the LEA. As wages in the private sector have hovered around stagnation, and the economy through government tampering has flat lined, government workers here in the form of Lakota teachers and administrators seek to defy market value with forced tax increases to do nothing but pad their own pockets with looted money—stolen through coercion and deceits.
The coercion and deceits are the emotional pleas and out-right lies about the status of the Lakota finances and the cause of educational failure. Lakota uses children as emotional hostages to move voters into seeing their point of view. As government workers they are using the same strategy that was so evident during the government shutdown where even the Great Smoky Mountains was shut down to inconvenience visitors into voting for politicians who will continue throwing money into a bottomless pit of inefficiency, and unregulated spending. Even when Blount County police offered to keep the park open by doing the job of the park rangers, it was rejected for the same reason that Lakota would never allow a person like me to step in and run Lakota from the teaching side, or the finance side the way it should be properly. The goal is never to solve the problem in government, but only to create more if the terms are not meant. In Lakota’s situation, they propose less pain to the community if they get a tax increase, but the only thing that will change is that the employees will get a raise when their current wages are already too high and most of their positions are completely unneeded. Most of the assistant positions at Lakota could be eliminated completely without having any impact on education. Many jobs at the administrative level were created by government for the benefit of government. Most of the employees at Lakota outside of direct supervision spend most of their day gossiping to one another and playing on the internet. They don’t do much, yet they expect to get a raise in pay when they already average over 30% more in compensation than the average Lakota tax payer.
The Lakota levy is about nothing but money and they are more than willing to use the children of the community as strategic bargaining chips of pure extortion to protect themselves from more economic bad times ahead. 2014 will also bring additional costs to the average tax payer of Lakota through the Obamacare impact that will drive up insurance premiums from one of the largest socialist programs ever attempted against the American people with the most intrusive wealth redistribution scam ever conducted. The exact cost of that intrusion will not be known until insurance companies figure out how much they are allowed to drive up their costs now that they are even more of an oligopoly than they were before, as the federal government has just guaranteed their existence and profitability. Just for being born, every living, breathing citizen is now required to purchase the product of health insurance as choice has been removed. (No wonder insurance companies supported Obama on this matter) It is an arrangement by the federal government for the good of itself. Similarly, Lakota is doing the same thing. Every human being born is required by the federal government to get an education approved by the state. For most children that means the public school that dominates the politics of their local community. No matter how good the school is, or bad, there isn’t any choice in the matter. If school is not attended, and taxes paid to it, coercion will be used to either jail the perpetrators, or seize the property for lack of payment. The threat of coercion keeps everyone paying money through taxes even when they know it’s fundamentally wrong. Lakota knows this, so they can get by with their exploitation of their students and the parents because government has given them a monopoly over the education process, so performance is never the issue. Lakota is free to hire unneeded staff to “create jobs, or go on strike through their education union to drive up their wage rates. But make no mistake about it, the Lakota levy is about nothing other than giving the employees at Lakota an average pay raise of $117.50 per month.
Most every tax payer in Lakota during 2014 will pay a lot more in either taxes or health insurance premiums—likely both. Most families could easily be paying more than $150 per month in 2014 for the same level of insurance as they had in 2013 just because of the wealth redistribution plan enacted by the government against them and on top of that, Social Security is set to increase as well. Then there is the Lakota levy where yet another inefficient government blob of incestuous public employees wish to raise taxes on the same tax base that is already hurting—and the only reason they are doing it is because the employees at Lakota want a pay raise, when most of the tax payers contributing to the school have no prospect of any kind of raise in the foreseeable future. Some of them will likely lose their jobs once Obamacare kicks in. Employers will not be able to afford carrying them any longer due to the cost increases. But Lakota doesn’t care because whenever they get into trouble they can afford to carry all their employees even when declining enrollment states they should have a massive layoff. Lakota can do this because the federal government has given them coercive power over property owners due to a monopoly status. When Lakota needs more money they just propose a tax increase and promise that the children of the tax payers will not be harmed if the money is paid.
Meanwhile the umbrella of the federal government through now health care, through Social Security, and especially education hits the same tax payers year after year with cost increases where they nickel and dime every productive citizen until there isn’t anything left—and they don’t care whether or not the system is sustainable or not. They are government, and they only want what they want and don’t care about the expense. Lakota is a government entity—nothing more or less. And they want their minimum pay raises of $117.50 per month and they could care less what it does to the rest of their community. For that reason alone, every person of right mind should VOTE NO on the Lakota levy, and they should not feel ashamed in any way. Saying NO is the only measure of fiscal restraint that there is against such a system that is parasitic in nature, and destructive in every way conceivable extending well beyond the wildest conspiracy theory. Saying NO is a responsibility dedicated to good judgment in the face of an encroaching evil known as the federal government which looks to feed off the innocent for the benefit of its own growth and social imposition.
I previously wrote about Sheriff Jones and his support of the Lakota school levy of 2013. But it is important to understand the context of the Letter to the Editor he submitted to Today’s Pulse on Sunday, October 20, 2013. In it Jones addressed his concern for increased school security that many government workers such as cops and teachers have sought to exploit in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting. Some of those exploitations are genuine concern, but most are parasitic attempts to pad the yearly budget approvals of their positions. In Jones’ case if the Lakota levy is passed, the school has designated that $350,000 per year will go to security which helps employ more police officers, so as Sheriff of Butler County, and opponent of Senate Bill 5 and a major union supporter, Jones is looking out for his union brothers in law enforcement by aligning them with his friends in education. Have a look at the Jones letter in favor of the Lakota levy.
Lakota is Taking security Seriously
School levies are never an easy topic to talk about and, as sheriff, it is not really part o my duties to actually deal with them. But there is on levy coming up on the November ballot that I am willing to talk about – the Lakota School District levy. Most of the funds from the proposed levy will go for things that it seems all schools have to contend with — like academic programs, technology hardware and software etc. That’s all fine and good, but this levy also goes further, and actually sets aside funds for a topic that is of much greater concern to me – security!
Our nation has seen several tragic in-school shootings over the last few years. I have been very vocal in expressing my personal thoughts on how to make our schools safer by either putting more deputies/officers into the schools, or arming specially trained school personnel. There are those who say that costs too much money, or is going too far in wanting to arm civilians. I have proposed several other options, but a lot of school districts seem to have failed to even attempt to beef up security.
The Lakota School District has been one of a few that have sought input from my office concerning school security. Several recommendations were made. I am proud to say that Lakota actually listened, and put together a plan that incorporates what I believe are several key components.
While not publically discussing the intimate details (for security reasons) of that plan, it does call for one-time funding of physical changes within the schools themselves – upgrading alarms, cameras, retooling doors and entry areas, and the like.
Most important, in my opinion, the plan also calls for tripling the number of on-duty uniformed sheriff’s deputies and West Chester Twp. Police officers assigned to work specifically in the Lakota schools. Unfortunately, no plan in the world can ever guarantee absolute safety. Yet you can’t just say, “I hoe something terrible never happens here.”
When it comes to school security, there comes a time to take action, not just talk about it. I like that Lakota is taking security seriously and wants to take action to make our school, students and teachers safer. I use the word “our” because both of my children graduated from Lakota, and I am still a taxpayer within the Lakota district. This levy is important to me personally.
The economy in general has suffered greatly the last several years. Everyone has had to learn to “do more with less.” It seems everyone has had budget cuts. But you just can’t cut forever. Sooner or later, you have to realize that some things are important enough to pay for. Only the voters will actually decide the outcome of the Lakota school levy and everything that it will fund.
I support the Lakota school levy and urge everyone to do the same. Pass this levy, it’s time.
Richard K. Jones
Liberty Twp
Spoken like a real government worker. In the world of Jones, as an authority figure, and popular local politician who has is fingers deep in the Republican party and attempts to curry favor with Tea Party types while also saddling up to unionized interests he represents everything that is wrong with government. His support of the Lakota levy, especially this time is to get the proportionally small amount of money that has been promised to him if the levy passes for his police officers. Lakota has a deal with Jones – they are essentially buying his support to employ more police officers and using a school tragedy to advance both positions. Parents are concerned about safety after a highly covered mass school shooting, and these government workers are looking to exploit it.
But the real problem here is a little less obvious, and might seem minor if not looked at on its own. When I submit a Letter to the Editor the word count limit is 300 words. Those are the rules. When anybody else submits a Letter to the Editor, the word count is 300 words. I often compose my letters right at 300 squeezing everything I can out of the space—the way the rules dictate. The Jones letter shown above is 489 words, 189 words over the limit. This small little detail says everything.
Jones is a public official of noted popularity so obviously the newspaper applied different rules for him. They allowed him to exceed the limit of their word count. Police in general have this luxury in society, they often can speed without being pulled over—when they do, their brothers let them off the hook, and they can break the law anytime they want—all they have to do is flip on their lights and proceed through an intersection ignoring the laws. They do the same thing with budgets. When they need more money, they simply write more speeding tickets to fill up their treasury. They are trolls collecting tolls most of the time, aside from the occasional domestic violence issue that arises every now and then. When the police need their budget approved, or need a public relations victory, they make an occasional drug bust so they can get into the newspapers and make everyone think they are doing a good job.
I’m sure Jones knows everyone in Butler County who buys, sells, or is involved in any notable way to the drug trade. Yet only occasionally are drug busts conducted and even then, it’s always some stupid kids who play into the immigration reform debate. I know that there is a lot more drug activity going on that does not get coverage and if I were the police, they would be busted, but they aren’t – so why is it?
The fact of the matter is that there are different rules in society for different people. People on the political inside, who are part of the accepted system, have one set of rules, and people on the outside have another set of rules. Cops function from different rules than the civilian population. They will argue that they are protecting society, and there is no evidence that they are doing anything other than such an activity, because there is not yet technology that can read minds. But in knowing some of these law enforcement types, they are like the college kids who run around dorm rooms with fake FBI badges telling girls they must inspect their bras and panties for their own good and safety. After they feel-out the girls, they reveal that they are not part of the Federal Bureau of Investigations looking for terrorists, but Female Body Inspectors looking to feel-out hot chicks who are half drunk on a Friday night. For the kids and the actual FBI agent it’s all harmless fun. But for the victim, it’s not so wonderful. They live under different rules than the cops, so even if the authority figure is legitimate or not, they must comply or face arrest. If the cop makes such a mistake, they get off with a warning over beer and nachos.
Putting more cops in schools sounds like a recipe for disaster. It’s like putting a wolf in the hen house. I know of several incidents where cops in Hamilton were relieved of their duty forcing young girls pulled over to perform sexual acts to keep from getting a ticket. How do I know, because one of those two knuckle draggers called me for a referral. I knew their wife who was also a cop, and a network of police that extended from Springboro to Clermont County and the amount of sexual play that goes on between police officers is pathetic. That officer called me after he lost his job in Hamilton from another state needing a good word badly. Of course he didn’t get it.
It might seem like a little thing to Jones and the editors at Today’s Pulse to give the Sheriff an extra 189 words, but what they are declaring is that the Sheriff lives by different rules than the rest of us, and the police generally know it. It is not safe to put a bunch of cops in a school with a bunch of teenage girls, unless they are all retired and have had their prostrates removed. Just having an officer of the law in a school with a gun does not make children safe. It might keep children from getting killed by a deranged gunman, but it might introduce dangers that are nearly as corrosive to the lives of children who really don’t need the hassle.
The TSA was created because of panic by society and a government quick to exploit it. Now it is impossible to fly anywhere commercially without some pencil-neck looking at our private parts on a monitor or feeling out some attractive woman who happens to come through security. And these days, just because a man is checking a man, and a woman is checking a woman, it doesn’t mean the officer isn’t getting a rise out of the experience. As social resistance toward homosexuality lowers, the chances of some guy enjoying feeling out the bulge of a weary traveler increases dramatically, or some lesbian caressing a female passenger’s breasts—all in the name of safety.
Sheriff Jones can go on WLW and declare to his buddy Bill that I’m overacting, and that it’s unpatriotic to question the merit of police officers, but the evidence that cops live under different rules than the rest of us is shown above. Today’s Pulse gave Sheriff Jones 489 words to support a Lakota levy, which is an obvious payoff for his support. And nobody is supposed to question the support because we are supposed to trust law enforcement. Meanwhile, there are drug deals being conducted in the open and in large quantities, the immigration issue is out of control as far as what gets smuggled in and out of Butler County – because of the affluence–and the only way the Sheriff can find to keep $350,000 worth of payroll busy is put them in Lakota schools. Something is very fishy.
What would happen if I tried to write more than 300 words in Today’s Pulse, or anybody else? The editor would call us and ask how we could trim down our submissions to fit the guidelines. If it’s a government worker like Superintendent Mantia who gets her own column, or Sheriff Jones, the rules go out the window.
So what would happen if police were put in charge of watching over thousands of teenagers armed with guns and authority? Most of the police would be sincere—but a few—a few would take advantage of the situation. You can bet on that.
Keep the cops out of the schools……………………for the safety of the kids. This isn’t an isolated problem. Its epidemic. Who in their right mind thinks Lakota can keep abuse from happening when they can’t even keep teachers from sexting students? Knowing Jones a bit, I can say that Jones is not a bad man, and publicly he will defend his officers because law enforcement is all he knows, he’s done it his entire life. To admit anything of the facts presented in the above videos to himself would be a failure in belief of all his intellectual foundations. Jones upon reading this I’m sure will say………….”hey, I didn’t make up the system, I’m just making do with what I’ve got. I’m just the sheriff.” But the trouble is, until somebody questions that system and stands up against it with a mirror, it only gets worse and worse and worse. For that reason, Jones is wrong in supporting the Lakota levy for all the reasons mentioned and more that could fill volumes of books. But the biggest is that Jones is only the sheriff, and he wishes to keep his fellow law enforcement officers relevant in a society that is becoming increasingly weary of the laws politicians created in the first place–so the trend is to grip tighter, which is the wrong thing. It would be wrong to put police in Lakota because cops are human beings, and they are fallible. And that fallibility is more dangerous than the remote chance that Sandy Hook could happen at Lakota, as the random odds of destruction intellectually is much, much greater with more authority figures in place to abuse power unregulated.
