Miguel’s Pizza at Red River Gorge: The best pizza I never had a chance to taste

IMG_8640 PART 2 When we celebrate birthdays we are celebrating the joys of life. The whole point of any kind of birthday ritual is the act of acknowledging the value of life and the direct impact that life has on others who share your values. Usually, this comes from family, who are attuned to the peculiarities of an individual’s value. This was exactly the situation when my family elected to celebrate my 45^th birthday in the rugged mountains of Red River Gorge. My wife organized a day when my two daughters and their husbands could free themselves up at the same time to go rappelling with us on a journey to one of my favorite lands of adventure. Before leaving, my wife stayed up late well after I had gone to bed and finished prior to my 4 AM wake up baking me a cake which she presented to me at the peak of Chimney Rock. The road to Chimney Rock was rugged, featuring a 5 mile dirt road after a 4 mile paved stretch located at the entrance. It is the only way to arrive at Chimney Rock unless of course a climber scaled up the side. The presentation of the cake in such a place was unique and a nice touch by my family, which can be seen in the video below.

Among the many adventures and miles of hiking we did on this trip, it was my daughter and her husband who coaxed me into visiting Miguel’s pizza joint just down the road from the entrance to Natural Bridge. As they suggested the meal I found myself between a rock and a hard place. They were very adamant about wanting to take me there because they figured I would appreciate the style of the pizza place. However, my wife had worked very hard to pack a wonderful meal that we planned to eat in picnic fashion. The Miguel’s idea was something that my kids came up with spontaneously and upon hearing it, I was skeptical. I was very concerned that I would not like the experience because Miguel’s pizza place looks like the dream of a deranged hippie. The building is way too small, it’s bright yellow, only has one bathroom, and most of the dining room is outside the building scattered among beat up picnic tables and well-worn dirt void of any grass. But most noticeable of all is the bizarre artwork that is displayed all over the building which looks like it belongs to an old “flower child.” But after some urging, my daughter had talked me into it, so after celebrating my birthday on top of Chimney Rock, we headed to Miguel’s across the valley nearly an hour away.

Rock climbers from all over the world come to Red River Gorge, and their absolutely favorite place to dine is Miguel’s. There isn’t even a close second. Miguel’s in the rock climbing world is a Holy Place. The owner of Miguel’s is Miguel Ventura from Portugal. He describes himself as a pizza maker, an artist, a family man, and social servant. Ventura, now aged 56 bought himself a slice of backwoods real estate in 1984, opening the Rainbow Door, an ice-cream shop the next year catering to the handful of climbers in the area. Now, 24 years later he slings pizza and climbing gear instead which is sold in the store with the pizzas. On a busy spring or fall weekend there are upwards of 80 tents in his campground out back. (Miguel’s wife, Susan, and three kids, Dario, Sarah, and Mark, help run the bustling business.) Miguel makes large wood carvings, also, and if you’ve eaten his pizza, you’ve eaten from his garden.

The Red River Gorge area is not a heavily populated area. In fact, the area of Slade, Kentucky is considered remote. So I was slightly stunned to see that the parking lot to Miguel’s was so large for such a small building, and it was full with cars belonging to adventurers from all over the world. Naturally, the small restaurant never planned to hold every customer inside the little yellow shack, so there are tables set up haphazardly all around the building. Behind the structure a basement was discovered which had additional seating and a small game room. Directly behind Miguel’s was a large patio area for additional seating. At these picnic tables were a wild array of climbers and campers cooking food of their own on Colman stoves and other propane driven portable units.

http://www.climbing.com/climber/miguel-ventura-pizza-maker-artist-family-man-social-servant-red-river-gorge-kentucky/

While we waited in line, I watched the employees rush around attempting to serve everyone. There was a sense of urgency that was strangely calm. In many ways, the place reminded me of all the reasons I love Key West, which I spoke about in a recent article. CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW. After the climate of the place sunk in for me, the kitchen reported that everyone in line, which went out the door, were out of luck. They had run out of food. They couldn’t make one more pizza. All they had left in the kitchen were three sandwiches. Once we elected to leave and return some other day, the people behind us bought up the remainder of the kitchen’s offerings. Looking into the kitchen one name came to my mind, Hugh Akston from the novel Atlas Shrugged. Miguel’s Pizza restaurant nestled in the mountains of Kentucky reminded me of the small café where Hugh Akston worked as a cook in that famous fictional novel. Akston was the college philosophy instructor of the three main characters in Atlas Shrugged and it was clear that Miguel Ventura had a quality of mind that has only been attempted in any novel the human mind has ever produced but Atlas Shrugged, and maybe The Fountainhead.

It was for this reason that my kids wanted to take me to Miguel’s Pizza. Even though many of the visitors to the restaurant might find themselves repulsed through social conditioning to the concepts of Atlas Shrugged and Miguel himself clearly sees himself as a public servant, which is not how characters from the novel see themselves, there was a quality to the food and the place in general that was so exceptional that it has become a thriving world-wide business. My kids wanted me to see first hand the thriving success of such a national treasure. Miguel’s is the perfect example of how magical capitalism is. Miguel from another country was able to move to the mountains of Kentucky where consumer traffic is about as poor as anywhere in the world, and build a thriving business because his product was superior. In such a place if everyone had the ability to open a pizza place near Natural Bridge State Park and generate the kind of business Miguel does, they would. Many have tried, and many have failed. The fact that Miguel has succeed where others have fallen short speaks specifically to the kind of definitions attributed to the classic novel Atlas Shrugged–such examples that are so clear to the human eye and obvious no matter what their political affiliation is are not easy to find. This was the gift my children wanted to give me for my birthday—an example of quality and capitalism that is unique and obvious defying confusing ideologies.

Because Miguel’s ran out of pizza, we packed up and left, going down the road to Natural Bridge State Park to have the fabulous meal that my wife prepared for us after. We had the picnic area to ourselves which is how I like it, so we were able to enjoy a wonderful spring evening in the mountains discussing the philosophic reason that Miguel’s was such a successful enterprise. We had hiked a lot, repelled a lot, climbed a lot, drove a lot and we were so hungry that the food my wife packed tasted like it came from a 5 star restaurant. The cake on the mountaintop was something that I will never forget. But intellectually, my trip to Miguel’s for some of their famously fresh pizza was the best event of the day. Even though all I was able to do was smell their pizza from the kitchen, witnessing their success in the deep mountains of Kentucky was the best present I could have received, because it was an example of my foundation beliefs which I constantly preach about to my family. This was why my kids were so obsessed with their desire to take me to a small yellow shack covered with hippie imagery, featuring a small unisex bathroom that was so small I had to duck my head to enter, a dining room stuffed with dirty, sweaty visitors and a sea of dust-covered cars parked outside with clientele that would look more at home at a Grateful Dead concert. My children’s present to me was in showing how the heartbeat of capitalism beats hardest and fastest where government is GONE, and the rules are kept to a bare minimum. If Miguel’s had tried to locate in any city, or township filled with looting politicians, they would have been put out of business years ago. Yet, because of where it is, Miguel’s is one of the greatest, and most pure examples of lassie fair capitalism that could have been presented to me, and that is the kind of birthday present my children know to give me when the years become filled with wisdom, and the spontaneity of youth becomes more of an inconvenience. Seeing Miguel’s run out of food due to too much business when the world outside of the Red River Gorge area is struggling under the red tape of government regulation made my dinner at Miguel’s Pizza the best pizza that I have never had the opportunity to eat.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Donna Campbell’s Fight in Lebanon: “The Power of Pull” attacks capitalism with a “Sign Czar”

Why is the Tea Party always fighting for smaller government, fiscal responsibility, and free markets? Why is the Tea Party categorized by thugs, goons, government looters, despots, scum bags, rent-a-cops, union leaders, progressives, Fabian socialists, communists, school teachers, scandalous judges, kangaroo courts, money grabbing attorneys, left-leaning reporters, Obama supporters, and greenie weenies as being a terrorist organization? Because the Tea Party wants to do the right thing in government, they want to stop the corruption and otherwise scandalous behavior that normally is associated with government and return America to a time of mythical honesty conceived by The United States Constitution. Thus begins the story of Donna Campbell, one of the founding members of the Lebanon Tea Party, entrepreneur of the Liberty Tax Service for 7 straight years and area developer who has been so successful that her aggressive marketing strategies have allowed her business to out produce her local rival H&R Block which has been in business for more than 50 years and is a much larger company. Donna has found herself in court on and off for over the last year not because she robbed a bank, or urinated on a police car—but because she has been successful, and there are powers in the City of Lebanon who wish to see her put out of business and crushed because she’s a threat to them.

Not that a rival company in Lebanon would put money into the pockets of the political machine to set in motion the story of Donna Campbell, but it wouldn’t be the first time it’s happened under similar circumstances. Such happenings are difficult to prove and most of the parties lie under oath in a court of law anyway, so there is no way to bring such information to the light of day. But the evidence speaks for itself, and is incriminating enough to paint a picture of how government colludes to pick winners and losers using their power and influence to put people like Donna out of business if they discover that she is not part of the power structure they wish to support. The unspoken rule among many business owners is that they feel they must contribute to politicians in some fashion or another through charity events or direct campaign funding so to keep the parasites off their backs in some future time. In the case of Liberty Tax Service the success of her business has caught the eyes of power in a negative way, and they have come after her in a very aggressive manner. The story you are about to read happens all the time. It has happened with Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski who invented a cure for cancer and has had to fight for 15 years against the FDA, it has happened to car companies who go up against the Big Three auto manufacturers, it has happened to Microsoft. What has happened to Donna Campbell has happened to just about anyone who comes up with a better way of doing something where more established organizations who contribute more money into the political machines of local, state, and national politics use their power and influence to crush their rivals because they can’t compete directly. SAM_0423

I have written about Liberty Tax Services before as the West Chester location was recently pulled across the coals for violating the sign ordinance in that community, a case that ended up being the topic of much debate on the Scott Sloan show with trustee George Lang defending Liberty Tax Service. The issue was that Donna’s businesses have been using human billboards to dress up and engage motorists at the roads urging them to file their tax returns at her establishments. The method worked as Liberty Tax Service has enjoyed thriving results. In West Chester the zoning commission determined that Liberty Tax Service was violating their signing regulations by using human billboards. Click the link below to review that case and listen to the WLW broadcast.

https://overmanwarrior.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/west-chester-trustees-hurt-a-business-george-lang-speaks-out-in-defense-of-capitalism/

Well the same thing has occurred in Lebanon, which is roughly 15 miles to the east of West Chester, Ohio, only to a much more aggressive extent. Lebanon as a small city still enjoys the political pull of small town America as most everyone in political office knows each other, so collaborations are common in such places. It didn’t take long after Donna’s Liberty Tax Service Lebanon location caught the ridicule of the city’s “Sign Czar” after posting more tax returns than H&R Block according to IRS data, to begin to feel the heat of city government. Lebanon actually employs a retired police officer with the full-time position to regulate signage within the city complete with a car, computer and lots of time to take pictures and send out certified letters regarding violations of sign ordinances. SAM_0420

The Sign Czar began engaging in harassment of Liberty Tax Service by exchanging dialogue with Donna’s marketing employee who did not show the retired officer much respect, according to court documents. The Sign Czar took it upon himself to deliberately target Liberty Tax Services marketing strategies for reasons only the Czar can understand leading to the exchanges with the Liberty Tax Service employee who boasted at times how successful their efforts were. This made the Czar even more vigilant. The Sign Czar under the authority of the City of Lebanon began to confiscate Donna’s signs all over town and dispose of them.

The final straw occurred when Donna had a sign maker print up 100 signs which went out over night before the Sign Czar began his shift at 7 AM. This angered the Czar and he used the offices of politics to execute his desires convincing the City to proceeded attacking Donna with a summons to municipal court for sign violations and a fine of $500 per day. This left Donna to hire the legal services of Eric Deters to defend herself along with the support of city council member Matt Rodriquez who informed her that Lebanon City Hall was awaiting the outcome of the West Chester/Liberty Tax case concerning the sign wavers. If West Chester Township was successful in removing the sign wavers from Liberty Tax Services, then Lebanon intended to follow. But the harassment of Donna did not stop as the Sign Czar intensified his efforts without a care for the 10-15 employees who directly worked for Donna. The intention by the Sign Czar was to put her out of business, his actions made that clear. The Sign Czar over the last year determined to confiscate any sign put out by Liberty Tax Services any time anywhere. Even when Donna had permission from other business owners to put a single sign in front of their buildings, the Sign Czar determined that it went against the city code. This same Sign Czar allowed H&R Block and Jackson Hewitt and other non-competing businesses in Lebanon to have signs out that were not directly in front of their businesses as can be seen by the photos. The city has kept the case alive to monitor what Donna did for the 2013 tax season. Donna attempted to legally comply with the unusual restrictions by saying “Aaron’s Rent recommends Liberty Tax” and place the signs in front of Aaron’s place of business. The City called Donna’s attorney and stated they wanted those removed also. The city also notified Donna’s landlord in a direct attempt to manipulate the landlord’s relationship against Liberty Tax Service. The City of Lebanon appeared to stop at nothing to put Donna out of business in their city, and West Chester has shown nearly the same animosity………but why. SAM_0429

This is why there is a Tea Party and why they stand for the kind of things that they do. Donna should not have to butter the bread of city officials in either Lebanon or West Chester to do business in those communities. If her signage is a turn-off to her customers, then she will go out of business, it’s as easy as that. Yet her sign wavers standing in costume out in front of her businesses have worked, making Liberty Tax Service exceed the filings of her rivals which is what productive businesses should always endeavor to do. But Donna didn’t grease the gears of the political machines, and for that she has paid dearly. To her credit, rather than cave under the pressure and offer the Sign Czar some extra money on the side, free tax services, or any other type of activity that might be considered bribery, she instead helped start the Lebanon Tea Party to help combat these kinds of evils which stand in the way of free markets where better ideas like hers can thrive under a capitalist system serving as the cornerstone of the American economy. This activity has made her an enemy of government instead of an asset. The government using the Sign Czar as the public mask of civility targeted Donna for elimination for the simple fact that she did not share in the beliefs of their brand of kangaroo court justice, where winners and losers are picked by the gods of government and the puny brains of retired police officers who do the job not for money, but the thrill to impose their will of enforcement upon the lives of innocence to fill the personal void of character for which they seem to lack. SAM_0433

In America, people like Donna should be celebrated, not drug through court with fearful arm twisting and threats of $500 a day fines because she didn’t try to go out of her way to make the Sign Czar happy. The public servants in the case of Lebanon and West Chester against Liberty Tax Services forget that it is they who serve Donna, not the other way around. Donna creates real jobs with real worth by offering a service that her customers truly desire. The young people who dress up in costume to advertise with dances and other vigorous ambition to direct business into Donna’s establishments are paid by their performance. On the other hand the City of Lebanon can only offer a job paid for by the tax payers to create jobs that are not needed, such as in the Sign Czar who has nothing to do but collect a pension from his years as a cop, and make more money from the government by harassing independent business people whom he decides he does not like for whatever reason. It is because of stories like this one that the Tea Party exists, still—and stands strong against the kind of anti-capitalist behavior exhibited above. People do not exist for government to live, thrive and enjoy lives of liberty under the toils of entrepreneurs like Donna Campbell. Rather, it’s supposed to be the other way around. The Sign Czar if he wanted to make himself useful should help Donna put out her signs and if the marketplace decided that she did not use discretion and restrain herself, then her business would fail as a result. It’s not up to some pin head bureaucrat to decide if Donna fails at business or not, which is the case in the City of Lebanon. It is for this reason that the Tea Party is still strong, and actually growing because people like Donna are sick of being pushed around, and they just aren’t going to take it anymore. And they shouldn’t have to. Government does not dictate to the people who elect them, they are not divine leaders with infinite wisdom. They are public servants and nothing more. If they do not help people like Donna they are an immoral impediment to the health and well-being of any economy, therefore marking themselves as threats to human civilization. For that reason, the Tea Party strives to crush such opposition to capitalism and return America back to an era where freedom is enjoyed, and the best and brightest can succeed in a marketplace not controlled by government sloths, but by the will and limitations of the individual and their private ambitions to drive the engines of society ever more toward horizons only imagined in the entrepreneurial activity of Americans always looking for a competitive edge. Building a better mousetrap that can succeed where before there was nothing but an empty building and a landlord who needs to lease the space to a brilliant mind willing to forge a path through the labyrinth of red tape known as the modern age of doing business, is what makes unemployment figures decrease. It is in this that America is successful or individuals like Donna are flourishing. The City of Lebanon instead evoked The Power of Pull to determine success or failure, and that is a violation to logic that cannot be tolerated. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE ON “THE POWER OF PULL”) Thank goodness Donna Campbell has decided to fight back, because it is due to people like her that the America Flag still is red, white and blue with fifty stars and stripes instead of a red hammer and sickle evoked from a long vanished enemy that never went away after the Berlin Wall fell in Eastern Europe during 1989. Rather, they moved to Lebanon, Ohio in an attempt at a new regime against capitalism—but instead ran into an immovable force in the spirit of Donna Campbell and her Liberty Tax Service.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Agenda 21 Attacks Butler County, Ohio: Freedoms lost by ignorance, greed, and arrogance

Agenda 21 has been injected into the daily business of virtually every American for many years and can be seen most directly in conservative communities like Liberty Township and West Chester Township in Butler Country, Ohio. Within one week apart the Board of the Trustees from each township met to discuss applying for a new federal grant intended for bike paths and sidewalks. Out of those two small government organizations only two of the trustees seemed to understand what Agenda 21 was even though many speakers showed up to voice their concerns and opinions. George Lang from West Chester and David Kern from Liberty Township voted against the proposed federal grants. Both men were witty enough to have done their homework on Agenda 21 which is a set of mandates created by The United Nations way back in the early 90s, at that start of the Clinton Presidency, to impose itself on United States sovereignty. When any local government takes federal money of any kind whether it is for a school or even a sidewalk what is not understood by typical politicians is that they surrender management control to the federal government which in turn answers to The United Nations. The federal grants are simply camouflaged power grabs by the U.N. to bring the entire world under their legislative influence which is the essence of Agenda 21. It starts with a sidewalk and ends in totalitarianism. For politicians hungry to do something meaningful with their political lives, the temptation of money dangled before their eyes is too lucrative. In spite of the parade of public speakers which can be seen below from the West Chester Township meeting, the vote was 2 to 1 in favor of applying for federal grants in both townships leaving David Kern and George Lang to cast the sole votes against the measure. Watch this meeting carefully. This is how freedoms have died in America for nearly a hundred years, one small grant at a time, and federal aid for public schools.

Both Liberty and West Chester Township share the same school district of Lakota and have three trustees each, all of whom would consider themselves conservative. West Chester is so conservative that it is the home district of House Speaker John Boehner so the residents unless they are radicalized school teachers or federal employees in some way or another tend to vote conservative. The trustees who voted against Lang and Kern are not bleeding heart hippies and wrung out liberals as they wouldn’t do well in the political structure of Butler Country, Ohio. Yet as could be heard in the video above, Agenda 21 is a plan from a far away land that does not directly affect the trustee’s hometown communities—or that’s what they believe. They are unable to conceive how Agenda 21 is embedded to the federal money that they wish to take, and that’s how the disease of international control is let in the back door of their community and allowed to erode away the management of their financial resources.

The typical argument given in favor of politicians wishing for such federal grants were the same as those given by Cathy Stoker and Lee Wong shown in the video. They understand that there is money on the table which the federal government took from tax payers and placed into a federal grant. If they as a governing body would like the money all they must do is comply with a few federal regulations. What Cathy and Lee do not understand is that those federal regulations were shaped by sympathizers to the United Nations, and that the members of the U.N. who created the parameters for establishing those regulations are sympathizers to a global group called Socialist International. The intent of Socialist International, the United Nations, and all governments in general is to bend to submission of collective aims by default. Since politics in any country tends to be a popularity contest, socialism is the means for politicians to retain their seats. This is why governments always migrate toward socialism—and the more government there is, the more socialism shapes the policies of that government. Local politicians like those seen in the video from West Chester are simply unable to see the big picture of how their actions help feed the monster of socialism. Typically they are short-sighted personalities who simply want to rub elbows with business interests in their communities, and generally want to do good for the people who elected them.

Lee Wong said during the West Chester meeting that he has spoken to other people in the community and they do not agree with the speakers who showed up in protest of the federal funding. Wong has a collective ideology that does not enable him to understand what the speakers were talking about, so he spoke to a few of his neighbors who thought the way he did and concluded that taking the federal money for a sidewalk was morally righteous and that the people who actually showed up to speak against the issue were wrong. He arrived at the meeting with the predisposition of evading the facts in favor of easy money. His bubble of reality is the few people on his street that he associates with, who lack a worldly understanding of what Agenda 21 is. To them the mention of Agenda 21 is regulated to conspiracy since they are too lazy to think too deeply about the inconvenient reality.

There are elections coming up in both Liberty Twp and West Chester for the trustee positions in 2013. David Kern and George Lang could use some help in protecting their communities from the United Nation power grabs and shortsightedness of their peers who serve as trustees. The situation is difficult for many to understand, because the reality is inopportune. But that was the plan from The United Nations when they put Agenda 21 in place. They knew the weaknesses of world democracies and they sought to exploit those weaknesses indirectly by infiltrating the national governments of many countries, then using the natural greed of local politicians to break down the barriers of resistance to their world-wide power grab—destroying the sovereignty of entire countries in the pursuit of a one world government where the United States would simply be one state in a family of global influence. Most can’t wrap their minds behind such a devious plan to understand that the root of evil driving this erosion of sovereignty is behind such fiscal devices as a simple side-walk in a rural community seemingly detached from Geneva, Switzerland or any other palace of United Nation conglomeration. To learn more about Agenda 21, CLICK HERE to begin that journey and watch the video of a man who is very knowledgeable on the topic. Prepare to be surprised by how much Agenda 21 is already in all our lives, and learn what can be done to stop it.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The History Behind “Romantic Love”: How the Troubadours became the foundations of capitalism

For those who have been raised in public education with confused messages of individual achievement suppressed against desires of collective ambition, they are living in very confusing times. When socialism is discussed as it is so often today, many people do not understand that all forms of collectivism are the remnants of civilization’s primitive past and that the world is undergoing a revolution that will forever advance the human mind toward individualism. In America the concept of individualism has been attacked by European influence so to bring the entire world back in line with the same type of collectivist philosophy—which is presently attempting to return the mind of man back to those of the Dark Ages, where sacrifice, altruism, and social peaking order were the primary determinations of success.

As even the staunchest Marxist, communist, greenie weenie, unionized school teacher and left leaning old hippie might cite the aims of collective causes as the highest human endeavor, the basis for all basic human relationships points away toward the kind of freedom that was invented primarily in America through capitalism as an economic philosophy. But the aforementioned freedom actually started in the south of France and northern Italy many years ago starting as a flash of ideas that would change the world. Few today can even fathom the type of collectivism celebrated in most of the world from Asia to Europe prior to the 13^th century in the slow march all human beings have endeavored to escape. Yet the fact that few can remember such a time or even imagine the ridiculousness of the times is accepted in modern America even in regard to same-sex marriage. The freedom, the first among any human being on planet Earth which occurred well before the famed pirate age in the Caribbean, (CLICK FOR REVIEW) is one that we all take for granted in the present day. Someday even the claims of modern communists will fall in similar fashion as the tradition which had occurred before it, and still does in primitive places in the world, the concept of the “arranged marriage.”

All societies which practiced, or currently practice “arranged marriages” are collectivist oriented societies. The idea all through human history prior to the 13^th century was that families would pick spouses from one family or another to join together in matrimony. In so doing the family would then become united as a collective unit. In collective cultures it is not uncommon for a father to give away their daughter to the youth of another family as a way to strengthen their family’s influence politically though the “power of pull.” (CLICK TO LEARN MORE) To some extent this still goes on even in the United States every time a parent tells their daughter, “You should marry that guy, because he has a nice family and he’s going to be a doctor, so you’ll always have money.” This is a collectivist stance on marriage and societies who practice such things are naturally drawn to various forms of socialism as their governing influence. This is how things were done in the world until the troubadours rocked the world of romance with the crazy, maniacal idea that couples should join together because of their “shared values.” This idea of “romantic love” and marriages built upon it is an idea that most in the Occident would consider barbaric when openly advocated in 2013, but was highly rebellious when first conceived by the troubadours.

Troubadours and Trouvères, were lyric poets and poet-musicians who flourished in France from the end of the 11th century to the end of the 13th century. The troubadours were active in Provence in southern France. Written in the Provençal language, the lyrics of the troubadours were among the first to use native language rather than Latin, the literary language of the Middle Ages. The earliest troubadour whose works have been preserved was Guillaume IX of Aquitaine (1071-1127). The majority of known troubadours were nobles and in some cases kings. Troubadour music gradually disappeared during the 13th century but their impact would resonate through European culture for centuries thereafter.

trou·ba·dour (tr¡¹be-dôr´, -dor´, -d¢r´) noun

1. One of a class of 12th-century and 13th-century lyric poets in Provence, northern Italy, and northern Spain, who composed songs in langue d’oc often about courtly love.

2. A strolling minstrel.
[French, from Provençal trobador, from Old Provençal, from trobar, to compose, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *tropâre, from Late Latin tropus, trope, song, from Latin, trope. See trope.][1]

The verse forms included the canso (stanza song), tenso (dialogue or debate), sirvente (political or satirical canso), planh (complaint or dirge), alba (morning song), and serena (evening song). The musical accompaniments were generally played on stringed instruments such as viele (medieval fiddle) or the lute.

The trouvères were court poet-musicians of northern France. Their songs were strongly influenced by those of the troubadours. The northern poet-musicians eventually developed their own genre, which placed more emphasis on heroic epics. The trouvères wrote in the northern French language. The most famous trouvère was Adam de la Halle.[2]

The Middle Ages, a period of European history spanning roughly a thousand years, has not been well represented in most high school history curriculums, and indeed is frequently neglected in undergraduate history programs as well. It is because the Middle Ages are so poorly studied, even in European education, that many of the influences that shape the world today are lost as to their original meanings. Many modern students of history assume that romantic love was always the primary motive of marriage, but it wasn’t. Marriage unions prior to the troubadours had collective social concerns as the primary motive.

The way the troubadours envisioned romantic love threatened the entire family structure of organized society and the collective aims of surrendering individual happiness to the needs of a family, a region, or even a nation dominated social concerns. Yet after seven centuries in Occidental cultures, romantic love is now expected – even mandated. It is because of the troubadours that Hollywood’s most successful products are romantic comedies as the yearning in America and Europe for authentic love relationships – relationships built from the shared values of two people in “love” otherwise known as the chemical reaction produced in the brain desiring to bring the sexual organs of two people together with the added spice of common likes and dislikes in a mating partner drive the motivations of relationship forming. Sex or the promise of it is the basis behind such “romantic love” and is wholly inspired by the need for pleasurable gratification. In such relationships if the self-interest of one party is not fulfilled by the other, the relationship tends to disintegrate if more aspects of the relationship are not introduced into the more complicated union, such as children, real estate, or mature friendships which bloom from the satisfaction of shared values. Most of these relationships begin as the primary desire for sexual gratification which is not sacrificial, but pleasurable.

In arranged marriages, or marriages where attractive females marry men many years their senior for what such arrangements may do for their career or financial well-being the woman will allow her body to be used for sex in a similar way that a prostitute sells her body, but is unlikely to enjoy the experience herself since she is not attracted physically to her mate. In Europe this led to the Victorian Era promiscuity that has become so well-known to the period where affairs were rampant, but suppressed for fear that the Church might look poorly upon the behavior. It was these same Victorians who settled New England from the period of the War of 1812 to the Red Decade Period and brought with them the work of Karl Marx and progressive politics. The ghosts of these Victorians are in every mother who says to her daughter, “Marry him because he makes a lot of money,” meaning the marriage partner will have the kind of “political pull” to bring success to her family. It is unlikely that the women in such “arranged marriages” will enjoy or sympathize with individual endeavors since they have sacrificed their will to the collective desires of other influences. These types of families tend to look toward political socialism to bring attempts at happiness to their lives. If they can’t be happy, or didn’t fight for their right to be happy in the most basic aspects of their lives which is their sexual relationships, then they will seek government that will eliminate other options of free will so that the limited choices in they have made won’t be so obvious.

Yet such advancement in individuality cannot be undone. Romantic love is here to stay and with it over many years the traces of collective oriented government will eventually fail totally as human beings come to realize that they wish in their governments the same options that they have in their sexual relationships. Currently, many people who grew up on romantic comedies are the same people desiring socialism or at least aspects of it because they don’t understand how the two things are connected. People today expect to pick their spouse of their own free will, and if the lover does not fulfill their needs, then the relationship ends and a new lover is typically found until the right fit occurs. The premise behind the “romantic love” is the alignment of values with another individual which acknowledges that the happiness of individuals is more important than the happiness of collective groups. The same debate is currently happening economically and politically; the socialist and communists are at war with the capitalists and Constitutional purists. The idea of capitalism is the “romantic love” of finance and it was invented in The United States by the mythical Americans who like the troubadours have made a move against at least 10,000 years of human history and the economical means of exchange that have occurred during that time. The result has been explosive, which is why America has so much current wealth. Just like the arranged marriages from the 13^th century, there was a lot of resistance to the “romantic love” proposed by the troubadours. Capitalism like “romantic love” is opposed by collectivists and the established order of yesterday who desire communism and socialism as the way to quell threats of free will in means of government and national management. But such governments are moving out of fashion, and will eventually be as rare 200 to 300 years from now as arranged marriages are rare in the modern age. America as an experiment rocked the world with its radical new ideas regarding capitalism, and the world closed up around it hopping to squeeze it dead with progressive politics, but they are too late. Human beings have tasted such freedom as “romantic love” and now “capitalism” which are one and the same. Mankind will not be happy until the two systems are in harmony in the light of daily life where “romantic love” rules the bedroom and “capitalism” rules the means that such couples make their livings.

[1]Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from INSO Corporation; further reproduction and distribution in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United States. All rights reserved.

[2]Encarta® 98 Desk Encyclopedia © & 1996-97 Microsoft Corporation.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The ‘Cold Dead Hand’ Video From Lost Thoughtless Brains: Hypocritical ideas from those “comfortably numb”

The Jim Carrey satire against Charlton Heston, southern culture, and the Second Amendment titled Cold Dead Hands is a blessing in disguise for those of us on the more conservative side of politics. It is good to see the mind of opponents for what they truly are without the public relations facades that often conceal the true activist nature of the subject in question. The radical goof balls on the left expect conservatives to take it when they dish out character assassinations, but they don’t expect it in return. In Carrey’s case he took a shot at a majority of America and their love of freedom guaranteed by The Second Amendment. The public knows Carrey has made a living off violence in his films, namely his use of guns in the film The Mask and a film career that really got off the ground when he appeared as a drug addict in the fifth Dirty Harry film with Clint Eastwood titled The Dead Pool. Guns have been good to Carrey, and watching him turn against them speaks openly about the hypocrisy of the left and the current culture of progressive Hollywood and the types of things they believe. The left will never attack Carrey’s radicalism shown in his video or the disgraceful rendition of asserting that Charlton Heston is trapped in some eternal purgatory because he is still holding onto his guns. Even when progressive leftists attack members of the conservative right, the right is attacked even further when they express outrage.

Over the last couple of days I received two emails from people who frequently read my work here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom and took note of some of my recent articles where I expressed outrage of my own. In both cases, they feel that indignation on my part is misplaced—and uncivilized, and that I should just suppress my thoughts for the ridiculous common good. Here are those emails along with my response.

C’mon Rich,

Looked at a recent blog of yours and found this
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As a reader here, and casual participant, you can trust that I will not disappear into a void of oblivion because I set out in this war to win it, not to come to a drawl, or shake hands and make a deal. I set out to destroy my enemy—those who openly exploit children for their own selfish progressive desires.
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Why so violent?

And quit crying over the “Kroger survey” and stick with arguments that have some logic.

Maybe Kelly Kohls gets so much flack from friends of educators because she aligns herself with you. She loses me in her presentations as soon as she looks to you, manning the video camera, for backup facts.

I do think you need to change the tenor of your rhetoric. You seem to begging for physical confrontation and the search for educational solutions needs to avoid that.

William Schmidt

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I told you I am done with public education. I see them as a threat to our next generations because of the left leaning tendency of what they teach. If there were more balanced world views, I’d feel differently. But that’s not the case. Profit based strategies need to be the future of education as it tends to root out the good from the bad.

Since people have the memory span of paper clips, I have to remind them of the Kroger Survey for context. You are likely to see and read it at least 100 to 200 more times in the months to come. That was my bench mark of the type of people who support public education where I realized who supported the education system as it is and why.

You seem to ignore the comments of Becki in the Kelly Kohls incident. You pick what you want and paint things up the way you wish them to be. I don’t like to see people pushed around, and I see that happening a lot in public education from employees who forget that the tax payers are their boss.

Kelly or anybody else has their choice whether to align themselves with me. Obviously you are used to dealing with other types of people, because I don’t have a shortage who wish to do so.

You can speculate on my aims, but you can bet that there is a reason for everything.

Thanks for writing and showing me your mind. There is a lot there; I can understand your frustration.

Have a nice Easter,

Rich

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Dear Rich Hoffman, (as written spelling errors and all)

I do empathize strongly with Gen X.

1.But you people claim to have manners whilst minimalising racism?

2.You claim to have class while bashing on LITERALLY ENTIRE GENERATIONS?

3. You claim that Gen Z is the end of humanity, based on what? Your interpretations of the potential of a bunch of >10 years-olds?

4. You mock science for modern warnings about global disaster, but you long for the days of the cold war when nuclear annihilation was imminent?

You’re a bunch of jackasses. For a guy who mocks younger generations for being weak, you seem to have some pretty strong “mommy” issues. Newsflash, your generation was neither the first, nor the last generation to have broken families in it. Pussy.

Jason Ibanez

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Who me? I am what I eat. And you are a snot nosed punk.

Rich

There are a lot more of those types of emails, but they happen to have come through within a short time of each other the other day while I was thinking about the Jim Carrey video. They are derived from the same kind of culture where the progressive left steps up and punches the conservative right in the face then runs off not expecting to be hit back. In the case of those emails when I am called derogatory names, or a union representative uses the word “war” to describe their plight against the tax payer it makes me angry, and I direct the anger where appropriate.

The Carrey video and the video above where progressive analysis is given praising the anti gun message, the commentator is happy and dancing on the grave of Charlton Heston because Carrey represents the progressive beliefs of that particular pundit. So it is only fair that those of us with conservative beliefs do the same when necessary and beat on the war drums ourselves when provoked. In that regard it is healthy to give progressives back what they dish out and then some, to teach them that it is not appropriate to use force, or coercion of any kind to advance a political agenda, which is what progressives are adamantly committed to. However it is not my fault that the generations before me who happened to be conservative were as Jason Ibanez declared above, allowing progressive to punch them without getting it back. Those days are over.

Jim Carrey probably does believe what he says about The Second Amendment. He does not connect the dots of his career with the rights of the First Amendment to play characters that speak out of his butt (literally) and to use guns like he did in The Mask to boost his career. The Hollywood culture which has been consumed by progressive Democrats, just as Ayn Rand warned about with Walt Disney and many others (CLICK HERE TO SEE FOR YOURSELF) is awash in hypocrisy in much the same way that public education believes they are on the moral side of goodness by teaching forced collectivism and anti-private property instruction against community tax payers. Most of the time the activists like the two email writers above, or Jim Carrey in his attack against the image of Charlton Heston fail to see how their actions in the microcosm are shaped by events in the macrocosm. They only look at their small piece of the pie and expect all of society to adhere to their viewpoint even if the cost is a loss of personal freedom, Constitutional revision, or the destruction of a movie legend’s memory.

When Hollywood attacks itself, as Carrey is doing against the recollection of Heston, the battle lines are clear. The difference is that now conservatives have learned that taking the abuse and mockery from the progressive left will not be tolerated. Carrey may not see the immediate impact of his actions against his next couple of films, but he has changed the way people see him. Before this incident I was a fan of his. I doubt I’ll ever watch another one of his films just as I haven’t seen a George Clooney film in about 10 years. I cannot watch those types of actors anymore knowing that they stand against the personal beliefs that I have, and when they remind me of it in such a glorious fashion, they dig their own grave—because I’m not alone. Many people think the way I do; they just don’t speak their thoughts. And if I didn’t know that, I wouldn’t even bother with this site.

The flyover states that Jim Carrey insulted in his video made him the star that he is today and those people will reject Carrey in the future. It will have an impact on his box office totals. Jim Carrey has successfully taken himself as an A List actor and put himself in the mind of America as an activist equivalent to Sean Penn, an actor that is impossible to watch without thinking of his communist oriented politics. For the same reason, Jane Fonda will always and forever be known as Hanoi Jane because of her support of communists in North Vietnam—no matter what she may have done in the rest of her life from playing in On Golden Pond with her father, to her workout tapes. In the history of her legacy, she will always be known as a communist, which most Americans reject when the word is not hidden behind the mask of progressivism. 70 percent of Americans have a genuine mistrust of government. About 20% of those people are willing to overlook that mistrust because government pays their paycheck—and pays them quite well to remain “comfortably numb.” Because the government cannot be trusted, The Second Amendment will always be needed in case the tragic worst case scenario should ever reoccur, which is another American Revolution. The Second Amendment is not for hunting, or target shooting, it is for warding off the government if government imposes itself too arrogantly upon the personal liberty and freedoms of the American people. It’s a unique concept in the world, and progressives in love with Europe find it appalling. In Hollywood where European culture is so revered and noticeably out of step with the rest of the country, Jim Carrey is just another activist showing off for his liberal friends so he can stay relevant. But in so doing he created his own legacy that he will come to regret. He won’t be known as the actor for the Truman Show, or even Ace Ventura. Rather, he’ll be known as the progressive stooge who danced on the grave of a Hollywood legend and took aim at the heart of America with a blind attempt to appease the extreme minority in Hollywood who holds the purse strings of the Hollywood money machine. In the end, Carrey will wish that he had said something as bold as Charlton Heston did, and that some future loser would attempt mock him in death with a song titled Cold Dead Hand, because when Carrey is no longer on earth, it will go as un-noticed as a fart lost in the wind of a career built of childish jokes and frail beliefs.

That is the legacy of Jim Carrey, throw him a fish–he’ll perform.
Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The Fate of Cyprus Has Always Been Known: Socialist International list of member countries

After the socially hostile reaction the film Atlas Shrugged II received from mainstream critics and media personalities I decided that when it came to the next film I would write 10 positive articles for every negative one to offset in the world of Google and online forums the intended negative impact of the bleeding heart progressives pointing all civilizations the world over toward the fate of the tiny country of Cyprus. With that in mind, it is likely that my readers here will see many more references to utter my belief that the novel and films of Atlas Shrugged are equivalent to a modern skeleton key of civilization, and that the lessons learned can save mankind from the socialism that has seduced it. The modern forces that are bankrupting Cyprus and the European Union in general are the same who criticized so openly the film adaptations of Atlas Shrugged so to keep that skeleton key out of the minds of man—and therefore perpetuate the aims of destruction intended by the vile workings of an international group called Socialist International. CLICK HERE TO VISIT. I often discuss here many literary endeavors which I admire, but when it comes to predicting the outcomes of world events, declaring the current emergencies for what they are accurately, and providing a light out of the darkness for those unequipped with direction, I can think of no better source than the stories in Atlas Shrugged.

Few people know to what extent Socialist International has penetrated their lives, especially in small town America where they believe the reach of those maniacal tyrants cannot touch them. A quick investigation into the website of Socialist International shows their areas of concern and it will be quickly discovered that the platform points for the American Democratic Party are nearly identical to those of Socialist International which is deeply embedded in all European politics, particularly in The United Nations. Socialist International declares through their motto that they are all about “Progressive Politics for a fairer world.” At first glance especially among the feeble-minded, socialism leading to its big brother “communism” sounds good to those who know they are too lazy, not skilled enough, or simply lacking the intellect to achieve at a high level throughout their lives, so they are attracted to the symbol of Socialist International which is a fist holding a flower—which is to say that the flower is offered to opponents of socialism, but the fist will follow if the flower is not taken. Socialist International intends through global collectivism all the intentions that crushed the Soviet Union many years ago. They will have their “fairer” world by forcing those who have, to give up their goods to those who have not. And in all the literature that I have ever read, I have only seen one source that unapologetically castigates the supporters of socialism as in Atlas Shrugged. All other works of art cower at the feet of socialism out of the long used method of socialists and communists—the power of guilt. The attempt by socialists to make out all who work hard and create wealth, enterprise, and new inventions for mankind to be demons who must contribute their efforts to those who were not so “lucky” is long chronicled.

http://www.socialistinternational.org/

It is because of socialism that Cyprus is failing and the exact method of collapse is the plot of Atlas Shrugged written in 1957. Why should anybody be surprised that the government there is seeking to loot money from the bank accounts of its citizens to pay their bills when socialism is the commitment? When individual rights are sacrificed at the feet of collective rights the product is what is happening in Cyprus, Greece, Italy, France and everywhere Socialist International has had success in their work. Socialism is the cause of the economic failures and Socialist International cannot list by any of their subscribers ONE country that has success with socialism. Even Sweden has been forced to swing their efforts more toward free market ideas in order to avoid the perils seen in modern Cyprus, but at a cost to individual liberty. No country has seen fiscal success for their economy following Socialist International—NOT ONE. I challenge anybody reading this in America or the various other countries who routinely tune in to provide ONE example of where a country is thriving financially under socialism. IT CAN’T BE DONE so there won’t be any. Yet Socialist International as can be seen on the list below has its foot in virtually every country on the face of the Earth. Below is a list of Socialist International members and the names they exist under in those countries. In America, socialism and communism is a rejected term, so the name Democratic is used instead, as it has in other countries as well.

MEMBER PARTIES of the SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL

Full Member Parties

Albania	Socialist Party of Albania, SPA
Algeria	Socialist Forces Front, FFS
Andorra	Social Democratic Party of Andorra, PS
Angola	MPLA
Argentina	Socialist Party, PS
Argentina	Radical Civic Union, UCR
Armenia	ARF Armenian Socialist Party
Aruba	People’s Electoral Movement, MEP
Australia	Australian Labor Party, ALP
Austria	Social Democratic Party of Austria, SPÖ
Belgium	Socialist Party, PS
Belgium	Socialist Party, SPA
Benin	Social Democratic Party, PSD
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SDP BiH
Brazil	Democratic Labour Party, PDT
Bulgaria	Bulgarian Social Democrats, PBSD
Bulgaria	Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP
Cameroon	Social Democratic Front, SDF
Canada	New Democratic Party, NDP/NPD
Cape Verde	African Party of Cape Verde’s Independence, PAICV
Chile	Party for Democracy, PPD
Chile	Radical Social Democratic Party, PRSD
Chile	Socialist Party of Chile, PS
Colombia	Liberal Party of Colombia, PLC
Costa Rica	National Liberation Party, PLN
Croatia	Social Democratic Party, SDP
Curaçao	MAN
Cyprus	Movement of Social Democrats EDEK
Czech Republic	Czech Social Democratic Party, CSSD
Denmark	Social Democratic Party
Dominican Republic	Dominican Revolutionary Party, PRD
Ecuador	Democratic Left Party, PID
Equatorial Guinea	Convergence for Social Democracy, CPDS
Finland	Finnish Social Democratic Party, SDP
France	Socialist Party, PS
Germany	Social Democratic Party of Germany, SPD
Ghana	National Democratic Congress
Greece	Panhellenic Socialist Movement, PASOK
Guatemala	National Union for Hope, UNE
Guinea	Guinean People’s Assembly, RPG
Haiti	Union of Haitian Social Democrats
Hungary	Hungarian Social Democratic Party, MSzDP
Hungary	Hungarian Socialist Party, MSzP
Iceland	Social Democratic Alliance of Iceland
Iraq	Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, PUK
Ireland	The Labour Party
Israel	Meretz Party
Italy	Italian Socialist Party, PSI
Japan	Social Democratic Party, SDP
Lebanon	Progressive Socialist Party, PSP
Lithuania	Lithuanian Social Democratic Party, LSDP
Luxembourg	Luxembourg Socialist Workers’ Party, LSAP/POSL
Malaysia	Democratic Action Party, DAP
Mali	African Party for Solidarity and Justice, ADEMA-PASJ
Mali	Assembly for Mali, RPM
Mauritania	Assembly of Democratic Forces, RFD
Mauritius	Mauritius Labour Party
Mauritius	Mauritius Militant Movement, MMM
Mexico	Party of Democratic Revolution, PRD
Mexico	Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI
Republic of Moldova	Democratic Party, PDM
Mongolia	Mongolian People’s Party, MPP
Montenegro	Social Democratic Party of Montenegro, SDP
Montenegro	Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro, DPS
Morocco	Socialist Union of Popular Forces, USFP
Mozambique	Frelimo Party
Namibia	SWAPO
Nepal	Nepali Congress Party
Nicaragua	Sandinista National Liberation Front, FSLN
Niger	Party for Democracy and Socialism of Niger, PNDS
Northern Ireland	Social Democratic and Labour Party, SDLP
Pakistan	Pakistan People’s Party, PPP
Palestine	Fatah
Panama	Democratic Revolutionary Party, PRD
Paraguay	‘País Solidario’ Party
Peru	Peruvian Aprista Party, PAP
Poland	Democratic Left Alliance, SLD
Portugal	Socialist Party, PS
Puerto Rico	Puerto Rican Independence Party, PIP
Romania	Social Democratic Party, PSD
Russian Federation	A Just Russia Party
San Marino	Party of Socialists and Democrats
Senegal	Socialist Party, PS
Serbia	Democratic Party, DS
Slovakia	SMER-Social Democracy
South Africa	African National Congress, ANC
Spain	Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, PSOE
Sweden	Swedish Social Democratic Party, SAP
Switzerland	Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
Tanzania	Chama Cha Mapinduzi, CCM
Tunisia	Democratic Forum for Labour and Freedoms, FDTL
Turkey	Republican People’s Party, CHP
Uruguay	New Space, PNE
Uruguay	Socialist Party of Uruguay, PSU
USA	Democratic Socialists of America, DSA
Venezuela	Democratic Action, AD
Venezuela	Movement for Socialism, MAS
Yemen	Yemeni Socialist Party
Zimbabwe	Movement for Democratic Change, MDC

Consultative parties

Algeria	National Liberation Front, FLN
Antigua and Barbuda	Antigua Labor Party
Belarus	Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Narodnaya Hramada), BSDP
Cyprus	Republican Turkish Party, CTP
Egypt	Egyptian Social Democratic Party
Gabon	Gabonese Party for Progress, PGP
The Gambia	United Democratic Party, UDP
Georgia	Social Democrats for Development, SDD
Guinea-Bissau	African Party of Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, PAIGC
Iran	Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, PDKI
Kazakhstan	All-National Social Democratic Party ‘AZAT’
Palestine	Palestinian National Initiative, PNI
Paraguay	Progressive Democratic Party, PDP
Philippines	Akbayan, Citizens’ Action Party
São Tomé and Príncipe	Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe/Social Democratic Party, MLSTP-PSD
Swaziland	People’s United Democratic Movement, PUDEMO
Timor-Leste	Fretilin
Togo	Democratic Convention of African Peoples, CDPA
Turkey	Peace and Democracy Party, BDP
Ukraine	Social Democratic Party of Ukraine, SDPU
Venezuela	A New Era, UNT
Zambia	Patriotic Front, PF

Observer parties

Albania	Social Democratic Party, PSD ⁴
Barbados	Barbados Labour Party, BLP ⁴
Belarus	Belarusian Party of Labour
Botswana	Botswana National Front, BNF
Burkina Faso	Party for Democracy and Progress/Socialist Party, PDP/PS ⁴
Burundi	Frodebu ⁴
Central African Republic	Movement for the Liberation of the Central African People, MLPC
Colombia	Alternative Democratic Force, PDA
Democratic Republic of Congo	Union for Democracy and Social Progress, UDPS
Dominica	Dominica Labour Party ⁴
Estonia	Estonian Social Democratic Party
Great-Britain	The Labour Party
Greenland	Siumut ⁴
Haiti	Organisation of the People in Struggle, OPL
Israel	Israel Labour Party ⁴
Jamaica	People’s National Party, PNP ⁴
Kenya	Labour Party of Kenya
Kyrgyzstan	Ata Meken
Latvia	Latvian Social Democratic Workers’ Party, LSDSP ⁴
FYR Macedonia	Social Democratic Union of Macedonia, SDSM ⁴
Malta	Malta Labour Party ⁴
Namibia	Congress of Democrats, CoD ⁴
Netherlands	Labour Party, PvdA
New Zealand	New Zealand Labour Party, NZLP ⁴
Norway	Norwegian Labour Party, DNA
Philippines	Philippines Democratic Socialist Party, PDSP⁴
Poland	Union of Labour, UP ⁴
St. Kitts & Nevis	St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party, SKNLP ⁴
St. Lucia	St. Lucia Labour Party, SLP ⁴
St. Vincent & the Grenadines	Unity Labour Party ⁴
Serbia	Social Democratic Party ⁴
Slovenia	Social Democrats, SD ⁴
Western Sahara	Polisario Front

Fraternal organizations

International Falcon Movement/Socialist Educational International, IFM/SEI

International Union of Socialist Youth, IUSY

Socialist International Women, SIW

Associated organizations

International Federation of the Socialist and Democratic Press, IFSDP

International Labour Sports Confederation, CSIT

International League of Religious Socialists, ILRS

International Social Democratic Union for Education, ISDUE

Jewish Labour Bund, JLB

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, NDI

Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament (S&D)

Party of European Socialists PES

Social Democratic Group of the Latin American Parliament

World Labour Zionist Movement, WLZM

Ayn Rand knew socialism wouldn’t work because she was in Russia when they made an aggressive move to embrace full communism. The effort crushed the economy of the Soviet Union, and Ayn Rand fled to The United States to become a great novelist and write books like We The Living chronicling the events of communism in her native country then writing Atlas Shrugged which was a warning to the world about the desires of progressive minded socialists inspired by the faulty mind of Karl Marx. To date, no creative artist has been as bold as Ayn Rand in speaking against socialism which is why she is such a target among modern progressives. Even in The United States socialism is aggressively spreading. California, because of its progressive policies is next in line to be Cyprus. The finances of California will collapse under the heavy taxation and tendency to sap the strength of the strong and innovative in order to feed the weak and complacent.

Fairness has a cost and in the end all suffer when they disincentivize the strong in order to prop up the weak. Those who work to be strong, do so not by some mystical luck, but by their own ambition. Socialist governments disincentivize such behavior with the faulty belief the strong will continue to produce, innovate, and build society in a positive way. Only Ayn Rand has had the guts to spell out such doom clearly without mincing words. The critics of her work are primarily those who are directly or indirectly involved in the efforts of Socialist International throughout the world but hide their radicalism behind legitimate publications and media companies. The best way to flush them out of hiding is by studying who speaks out against Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand’s work undoes the effort of Socialist International, which is the greatest threat to their existence.

For this reason I will continue to write about Atlas Shrugged aggressively for the next year and a half. Once the third and final film comes out in the summer of 2014, and people not familiar with the work inquire over the internet where the John Galt speech came from and want to know more about Atlas Shrugged, they will run across my articles written about the events that most affect them and understand how the messages of Atlas Shrugged can be applied to a situation like that found in Cyprus. It does not take an army to defeat the workings of Socialist International. It only requires the effort of those who are productive to rob from the socialists the hidden meaning behind their “fairness” and to define the agenda correctly. In that regard, Atlas Shrugged is the most powerful tool to utilize against such foes, which deserves to be exploited utterly—and without apology. To do so is to attempt to avoid the fate of places like Cyprus. For that small island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, Socialist International has already destroyed the economy never to return again under the flag of socialism. Ayn Rand predicted the exact methods places like Cyprus would fall prey to and those predictions should be studied, and honored so that the same fate can be avoided elsewhere. For my part, I will continue to sound the bugle of Ayn Rand so that perhaps similar fates can be avoided in other places where it’s not yet too late.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

The “Power of Pull”: How John Galt is the fictional modern Christ and why

In the middle of a Mexican town heavily dominated by Catholic inspired residents–largely very poor, I saw one of the most ambitious renderings of The Passion week in my life. The entire town showed up to follow an outdoor drama of The Christ’s crucifixion. In their play, Jesus was tried and convicted in the town for all to see and forced to carry his cross all through streets shut down by local law enforcement. My wife, who is the type of person who will do exactly the opposite of what three thousand other people are doing stood off to the side bewildered why so many people would think to gather in one place to be a part of something they clearly couldn’t see from their vantage point. The mass collectivism exhibited by the town was stunning and she could only look at me in shock. But to me, who had grown up around religion, the exhibition was not surprising. The people of the small Mexican town shared much with the ancient Hebrew people in Jerusalem so their re-enactment of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion was probably very close to how it would have actually looked in the streets of the old Holy city built during a long struggle by the Jewish people. For me, such displays are never about the wonder of sacrifice as is usually the focus of those who pledge themselves to Jesus for eternal redemption. I never fault people who do not know any better but to follow behind a parade of their peers blindly. My wife and I stood off to the side in casual observation knowing that the real tragedy of Christ’s crucifixion was not that Jesus would be hung on a cross to be sacrificed so that all the people of the world would be saved in the eyes of God; it was why Jesus was killed in the first place. The poor people in Mexico like the Jewish people in Israel during the time of Jesus had a lot in common. Drug lords and corrupt politicians run the towns in Mexico where the drama I witnessed took place, and the Jewish people during the time of Jesus were controlled by high priests and Roman authorities with virtually the same motivations—control of the population so that they could sap the wealth off their labor. The message Jesus had for the people of Jerusalem at Herod’s Temple was essentially the same that John Galt had in the fictional novel Atlas Shrugged written without the pretext of religion, that the “power of pull” is the highest concern of the corrupt and the powers who desire such “pull” will do anything to maintain it. It is for this reason that The Holy Bible and Atlas Shrugged are the two most popular books read in the modern Library of Congress.

The poor people in Mexico like the poor people in ancient or even present day Jerusalem tend to lose the message that Jesus uttered at the temple when he stepped in and overturned all the vendors’ tables attempting to put a stop to all the corrupt dealings conducted there during the week of Passover. The focus of The Passion events always resides on the crucifixion, but for me the cause of the execution is far more important. People struggling just to find their next meal discover they have little control of their lives and as a result put their sentiments behind the tragic end of Jesus, instead of truly grappling with the message that placed him into so much trouble in the first place. Ayn Rand in her epic novel Atlas Shrugged understood this, and told nearly the same story with her character John Galt without being hidden behind religious metaphors, so that the impact of her message would not be lost, as it often is when studying The Bible in churches.

Before people become upset with me about comparing the Passion of Christ to Atlas Shrugged understand that I have studied and acted in renditions of The Passion many times. I have played in stage plays virtually every role in The Passion from Nicodemus to Jesus himself so I have a very good understanding of the events that led up to Jesus and his execution and I see the parallels to the story of Atlas Shrugged to be purposeful on behalf of Ayn Rand. Rand without question hoped that her warnings would not be lost behind the tendency of civilization to find the value of such stories in sacrifice, instead of attacking the real villain, the “power of pull.” Matthew 26:57 states that Jesus was taken to the house of Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together. Matthew 27:1 adds that the next morning the priests held another meeting. Mark 14:53 states that Jesus was taken that night “to the high priest” (without naming the priest) where all the chief priests and the elders gathered and in Mark 15:1 it adds that another consultation was held among the priests the next morning. Luke 22:54 states that Jesus was taken to “the high priest’s house” (without naming the priest) where he was mocked and beaten that night and in 22:66 it adds that “as soon as it was day”, the chief priests and scribes gathered together and led Jesus away into their council.^[9][10][11]Jesus was taken to the high priest because the message that he brought with him to Jerusalem was a dangerous one that countered what the Pharisees were attempting to preach to the Jewish people. In the same way John Galt was tortured in Atlas Shrugged to force him to yield to collective rule, to renounce his beliefs for the benefit of all world governments.

The Pharisees had worked out a deal with the Roman power structure within their empire which profited them greatly. They wished to believe in a similar way that James Taggert did in Atlas Shrugged that they were the good and benevolent acting for the “greater good” of the Jewish people. Of course they were truly acting on their own self-interest behind the cowardice of political pull. Jesus exposed this to the people of Jerusalem not maliciously, but simply through his authenticity—and individuality. Alone Jesus stood against the powers behind Jerusalem politics, and he was targeted for assassination because of his resistance to collective obedience to the existing powers. He was offered a chance on several occasions to take peaceful allegiance behind the Pharisees in Jerusalem but Jesus turned them all down insisting each time that he was the Messiah and that he was the “Chosen One.” The message behind Jesus taken without religious context is essentially the same as John Galt insisting that he is the power that drives the world. John Galt did not mean that he alone drove the world, but that it was through people like him that the engines of existence were motivated. Jesus intended the same message and the Pharisees couldn’t accept such a reality—because it would essentially put them out of the religion business and destroy the safety they had arranged with the Romans for their own preservation.

For the same reasons, James Taggert worked with Hank Reardon’s wife to bring the steel tycoon to trial. They conspired to protect what they believed was the good of mankind by making Hank a sacrificial lamb to the urges of collectivism. Later in the book John Galt is captured because of his love for Dagny Taggert, and he is tortured in a similar fashion. He is then offered to the mob to withdrawal his messages of individual sovereignty by the point of a gun, which he refuses. He is then stripped naked and tortured through electric shock seemingly to his death because he refused to yield to the forces of collectivism constructed by the “power of pull.” Jesus was betrayed by Judas for the price of 30 pieces of silver. Judas wanted to believe that he was doing right and uniting the Jewish message behind the Pharisees. But in reality he simply wanted the money and was no different from anyone else who cowers behind the “power of pull” to align themselves with any power for their own profit.

Peter declared that he would stand with Jesus to the bitter end but discovered as Christ predicted that he would betray the Messiah three times before the cock crowed on the following morning. Peter was very bold in his proclamations until he was faced with his own demise because he was not aligned with the “power of pull” which the Pharisees had negotiated through collectivism to suppress the minds of man. This denial by Peter of Jesus is similar to how Hank Reardon allowed himself to be convicted by The Government. He had “sinned” in cheating on his legal wife and sought to protect his true love Dagny Taggert. His need to preserve this love forced him to comply with the “power of pull.” In the novel Atlas Shrugged, John Galt never yields to such a temptation even at the point of death, which makes him the most pure form of individuality and therefore worthy of Dagny’s love. Jesus in real life did what Ayn Rand created in a fictional context. The heroes never yielded to the powers of man—to the “power of pull,” in either the Passion of Christ or Atlas Shrugged. Rand seemed to be attempting to strip away the religious context of The Passion to tell the story of John Galt so that the essence of the message would not be lost behind the human tendency toward sacrifice in religion.

The people of Jerusalem like the poor people in the Mexican town were suppressed by forces their intellects would not permit them to be freed from. The Pharisees had proved to even the most staunch supporters of Jesus that even they would cower in fear behind the “power of pull,” the power of collectivism. Human beings in private understand the message of Jesus at a level beyond consciousness, but they find they cannot act on it, just as Peter failed three times before sunrise. Many religious groups just as motivated as the Pharisees take the story of The Passion and focused on Jesus’ sacrifice on behalf of all mankind. The reason for this is that they wish to see donations coming into their churches and governments have openly advocated such behavior for the soul purpose of tax collection—which is at the center of the entire Jesus crucifixion—a little known fact that will be explored vividly in Bill O’Reilly’s upcoming book Killing Jesus. Institutions of all kinds have taken the message of Jesus and discarded the implication of immoral criticism and instead focused on individual sacrifice to a collective whole.

Ayn Rand wrote her story of John Galt from the point of view where religion and institutions were the villains, and she attacked their premise—which is essentially the message behind Jesus’ actions during Passover. As sure as I write such things here, there are religious zealots who will proclaim that my comparison of The Bible to Atlas Shrugged is blasphemous—and those same souls will not see that they act just as the Pharisees did against Jesus when he declared himself The Messiah and road into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey, fulfilling a long-held Jewish prophesy. Jesus was preaching against institutionalism when he gave his Sermon on the Mount, it was not in a church with collections, or organized hierarchies of human behavior where some were above others based on social titles. When Jesus’ followers declared him to be The Messiah with chants of conquest he was deeply distraught, because the people didn’t understand what he was trying to teach. The message of John Galt is very similar to Jesus Christ except it’s written against two thousand years of evil that has since transpired since the time of Jesus. The great John Galt speech is something Jesus Christ would feel right at home in understanding. Jesus came from a culture that believed sacrifice was needed to appease the gods, or in Jesus’ case—GOD. His views were radically different from those of the ruling Pharisees. In the modern age Ayn Rand’s character of John Galt expands on such teachings with a uniquely American frame of reference. With all the concern over religious perspective removed, the teachings of Jesus and John Galt—relative to their impact on world literature are virtually the same. It is no wonder that the world gobbles up the words of The Bible and Atlas Shrugged with such vigor, which terrifies all institutional control organizations.

The people my wife and I observed in Mexico celebrating The Passion with a mass display of raw collectivism are a long way from understanding what Jesus or John Galt intended in their literary communications. With the Mexican people afraid that if they step out of line, they might be killed, raped, or otherwise socially disgraced—there is no room in their minds to comprehend the real messages of Jesus aside from memorizing the sacrificial portions of his sermons. It is far easier to sit in a church pew and allow a “man of God” to interpret the value of spirituality for them, than to think on their own and stand against an entire empire as Jesus did in The Bible, or as John Galt did against the entire world in Atlas Shrugged. As I watched the Mexican people follow the actor of Jesus through the town streets dusty with rainless days and an unforgivable sun, I felt pity that I could not help the thousands of people following blindly the idea of sacrifice when the messages that caused the crucifixion were truly what was important yet being missed. My wife and I could only shrug at each other and pay respect to their rituals without insult, for it is more valuable to have rituals that instigate worth than to cast aside morality because fear contorts reason. Many people use religion to hold their fears at bay. The idea that one should struggle, sacrifice and live their lives for an after world to finally meet Jesus on the other side of life is what the Pharisees and their Roman controllers intended in order to preserve the power structures that they profited from, which is why they killed Jesus. Watching history interpret the story of Jesus the way they did, Ayn Rand wrote Atlas Shrugged so the message could not be distorted in any way by any institution. Rand removed the religious context so that the words of John Galt could not be intercepted by any institution and re-interpreted over the wine glasses of sacrifice. Jesus was one of the most pure souls who ever graced the world of mankind and it appears that only a fraction of his total essence made its way into history through written form. But what did survive was a lesson that is still present for those who have eyes to see the message and have the courage to do as he did—and that is to stand against the institutions which seek to preserve the “power of pull” which has held mankind in chains since the first village elected a tribal chief to force submission of all others under their command. Such arrangements are almost always claimed by the powerful to be the work of God. Yet Jesus attempted to free the human mind from such shackles and due to his crucifixion and short life, institutions were able to contain the message behind tragedy. But 2000 years later through a work of fiction, clarity was brought to the literature of mankind through the unique country of America and the raw passion of Ayn Rand who wrote the greatest novel perhaps ever created…………..Atlas Shrugged, which had solved a riddle against institutionalism that had been a plague to man’s mind for all of known history and shattered the long accepted notion that human beings would always be ruled by the “power of pull.”

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Satan Living at The White House: History Channel’s Bible explores the 800 million pound elephant

I have studied The Bible most of my life and my approach to religion has been most closely represented by the Harrison Ford character in the film Mosquito Coast than virtually any other portrayal I could otherwise provide. With that in mind please watch every one of the videos at this site after reading the text, especially the last one as supplemental material to the below article. I am always looking for and asking questions, so I am not prone to believe everything written down for me that migrated out of the European Dark Ages. Rather I look to such material for the story behind the story—which is often richer than the superficial metaphors released through the censors of history. But with that said I love the History Channel’s Bible series immensely and think it has been a wonderful epic that I hope restores some sense of goodness and value upon our society. In that regard, I believe that Mark Burnett and his wife Roma purposely made up the Satan actor Mehdi Ouzaani to look like President Obama in the History Channel epic for a damn good reason which I will explain. But first listen to what Zo has to say about the Devil and the Obama resemblance on PJTV.

To understand the situation in Hollywood and why wonderful producers like Mark and Roma Burnett would give money to Obama and the Democrats yet turn around and make Obama the Devil in their fantastic rendition of The Bible is to understand the story of the Prophet Daniel. When Nebuchadnezzar attacked Jerusalem and took the Hebrews as slaves back to Babylonia to be fattened on its captured nations the pompous king held a fear over the slaves similar to how Obama commands respect. Nebuchadnezzar came to feel that he was superior to any monarch who ever lived and the Hebrew people were required to bow at his feet and worship as he mandated. For the most part the Hebrew people publicly did as they were told while their true religion was forced underground. Even the great Prophet Daniel played along with the fanatical Nebuchadnezzar so to preserve his life making himself available to Nebuchadnezzar so that he could best serve his people—the captured and enslaved Hebrews from Jerusalem. Earning the trust of Nebuchadnezzar Daniel after successfully interpreting the dreams of several of the King’s nighttime visions had earned the right to address him frankly.

“Do I see here the sacred gold and silver vessels that King Nebuchadnezzar brought from our holy Temple in Jerusalem?” Daniel said aloud. “O King, did you and your dancing-girls and your lords and their wives drink wine from those holy vessels? Did you toast the idols of your gods and gold, silver, iron, wood, and stone? Did you do that with the holy vessels, O King?” Daniel is of course speaking of the destruction of King Solomon’s Temple where the Holy of Holies was ransacked and destroyed.

The king’s eyes became cunning. “We meant no disrespect, Daniel. But tell me the meaning of those words and I will put a chain of gold around your neck, give you purple robes, and make you third in command of my kingdom. Unlock this secret to me, Daniel, and these honors shall be yours.”

Daniel worried whether he could dare tell the king that he would soon become insane and that Nebuchadnezzar stood to be condemned to death. He worried that telling the king this upcoming fact might bring the royal sword across his neck, so he began to speak slowly once an old woman who was the discarded former queen and wife of Nebuchadnezzar prompted him by forming a warning with her silent lips—“Give the king an answer. Give it quickly.” So Daniel spoke, “Let your gifts be for yourself. Give your rewards to another.” Upon that the king’s hand fell to the hilt of his dagger but Daniel now knew his course, knew that this king was a sinner, an idolater, a living violation of every law of God. His voice now took on an edge. “O King, the Most High God gave your father glory and majesty, and when Nebuchadnezzar hardened his heart, the Most High turned him into a beast until he knew that God ruled the kingdom of men. But you, his son have not humbled yourself. Instead, you have fought the Lord. You have brought the utensils from God’s Temple and defiled them with toasts of our own gods. The true God, who puts breathe into you, who gives you life itself, you have not honored. So He sent a living hand to write His judgment on you.”

Nebuchadnezzar did not like the prophetic warning which went on to explain that Darius the Mede would take over a divided kingdom between the Persians and the Medes. But Nebuchadnezzar soon fell ill to insanity and lost his capacity to rule, as Daniel had predicted. When Darius the Mede arrived unchallenged at the gates of the kingdom, the Hebrews fell to their knees to honor their new conqueror of which Daniel quickly befriended to earn the release of his people hopefully from this new tyrant.

Things got off to a rough start between Daniel and Darius especially when the new king became angry and locked Daniel into the lion’s den. But Darius came around once he had second thoughts and returned hopefully in time to save Daniel from consumption only to find the lions purring like kittens at Daniel’s feet. This started a chain reaction of events that ended up freeing the Hebrews from their captivity in Babylon.

Fast forward to the Book of Revelations written by a shadowy “second John” figure in the time of Nero which is where the number of the beast 666 is derived from by adding up the consonants of his name. The essence of this portion of the bible is to properly articulate the influence of Satan upon the world, the same Satan who acted as “The Evil One” or the Devil in Christ’s three temptations. Satan was animated in The Bible by an unrelenting hatred against God and all goodness, Satan is engaged in a world-wide and age-long struggle against God, ever seeking to defeat the divine plans of grace toward God’s making and to seduce men to evil and their ruin. As “the deceiver of the whole world” (Rev. 12:9), his primary method is that of deception—about himself, his purpose, his activities, his coming defeat. Satan was the seducer of Adam and Eve (Gen. 3:1-7; II Cor. 11:3); he insinuated to God that Job serve Him only for what he got out of it (Job 1:9; he stood up against Israel (I Chron. 21:1) and God’s high priest (Zech. 3:1-2). Under divinely imposed limitations he may be instrumental in causing physical affliction or financial loss (Job 1:11-22; 2:4-7; Luke 13:16; II Cor. 12:7). He snatched away the Word of God sown in the hearts of the unsaved (Matt 13:19), sows his counterfeit Christians among the sons of the kingdom (Matt. 13:25, 38-39), blinds the minds of men to the Gospel (II Cor. 4:3-4), and induces them to accept his lie (II Thess. 2:9-10). Often he transforms himself into “an angel of light” by presenting his apostles of falsehood as messengers of truth (I Cor. 11:13-15. He clashes in fierce conflict with the saints (Eph. 6:11-18). Is ever alert to attempt to destroy them (I Pet. 5:8), and hinders the work of God’s servants (I Thess. 2:18). Certain members of the church who were expelled are said to have been delivered to Satan, but with the design to produce their reformation, not their destruction (I Cor. 5:5; I time. 1: 20). Now, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to compare the Presidency of Barack Obama to the Biblical Satan if all the references mention above are investigated and read in context to compare the work of Obama objectively to that of Satan. I would dare say that the two are nearly parallel to each other. Obama’s presidency is built entirely on deception, even down to simple statements about Benghazi, and Fast and Furious. I don’t even believe him when he discusses his Final Four Bracket picks. Based on Barack Obama’s actions, I believe he is a perpetual liar that is intentionally deceitful and has aims very comparable to the Biblical definition of Satan.

If I were Mark Burnett and his very nice wife Roma, who believes intently in The Holy Bible, and I looked around Hollywood and knew that I was surrounded by many who have been seduced by evil convinced Obama is an “angel of light,” I might be very cautious of my actions and work very hard not to earn the reprimand of my peers who are acting as agents of evil. Like Daniel the Prophet I might fear the axe across my neck for speaking the truth. But in honor of my spirituality and my very soul I would make Obama the Devil in my miniseries so that I was clean in the same way that Daniel spoke carefully in his wording to King Nebuchadnezzar about the downfall of his kingdom. I believe the Burnetts knew exactly what they were doing and their purpose was for the higher aims of God by naming an evil so evident on Earth with an artistic and acceptable plot device.

To name the evil in public for many people means doom, their careers will be ended, and their families hunted down and killed by skiing accidents and other tragedies. (Refer to Sonny Bono’s skiing accident several years ago.) Mark Burnett is not stupid. The best thing to do if you’re a powerful television producer working in Hollywood surrounded by the encroachment of evil, and are powerless to stop it, is to at least do as Daniel did and make yourself close to King Nebuchadnezzar and Darius the Mede. You give a little money to Satan to turn his gaze away from your underground worship and in California “faith” has certainly been pushed underground. If Burnett wants to keep his ability to produce shows like The Bible so that he can do great social good through his connections, he has to play the game like Daniel did because evil is in charge. The Burnetts did a bold thing with The Bible television series because they referenced the 800 million pound elephant that everyone has been thinking about when it comes to Barack Obama. Most everyone with a clean mind has been uttering for some time that they believe Obama is the Anti-Christ. They fear to say such things in public because of progressive ridicule, but around the water coolers, restaurants, and dining room engagements, Satan and Obama go together in conversation as meaning the same thing.

I do not believe it is a coincidence that Obama decided within a week of this controversy caused by Mark and Roma Burnett’s very controversial Satanic reference to suddenly make appeasement with Israel and fly to The Holy Land to visit Biblical relics and show support of Christian and Jewish faith. In the world of deception which falls from the Obama Administration like snowflakes in a snowstorm the actions speaks louder than the implication. For those who believe in Satan and either the historical context of The Bible, or even the metaphorical—did anyone ever believe that Satan or the epitome of evil would show up with a long red tail, horns and a pitchfork? Evil never appears as something disgusting in any culture on Earth, it always comes as a trickster and deceiver of human minds. It comes through enchantment and popularity—and can be seen best when a president who has had an adversarial relationship with Israel which seems to mimic the modern-day tensions between the Islamic and Jewish faith over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, flies Air Force One days after he has been called Satan by one of the most popular television programs in history to prove that he is not what he’s being accused of. Alarm bells should be sounding.

The evidence is easy to see but difficult to admit, and I think the Burnett’s message is quite clear. They did a good thing—a risky thing, but it needed to be done. Barack Obama might as well be the Nebuchadnezzar of Hollywood. In the film business the same forces that put Obama in The White House control all the major trade publications, so appeasing them is paramount if one wants to stay in business. Obama like Nebuchadnezzar may not be the physical manifestation of Satan, but they are certainly agents of evil no matter what social perspective is analyzing history. Satan would never appear in a form on Earth where its appearance would be repulsive to the societies of mankind. Satan might appear behind the mask of a woman’s breasts in a pornographic endeavor, behind the bright lights of a casino, or behind a spread the wealth president shielded by civil rights sins of the past through guilt and complacency. Ultimately Satan appears behind a smiling face with bright white teeth to conceal an agenda of destruction as the intentional aim. Such a human mask would have access to the entire world as it transforms itself into “an angel of light” by presenting apostles of falsehood as messengers of truth. I stand with the Burnetts, their Bible series is timely and important, and never more needed in how it has forced society the world over to look hard at itself and question if the path we are all on is the correct one, and that the Mark of the Beast is metaphorically stamped upon the head of the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

Second Call Defense: The first defense is a firearm, the second is from the parasites that follow

One of the great themes of this site is to highlight the many ways that progressives have attacked traditional American culture. Progressives have an intense desire to wean Americans away from all forms of self-reliance so that national collectivism and addiction to government services are provoked. This has never been more evident than in relation to The Second Amendment of The United States Constitution. In the good ol’ days when a criminal nut-case broke into a home to steal a loaf of bread and was shot dead by the homeowner on the front porch of their property, the sheriff might come out—make a record of the case while enjoying some corn whisky brewed from a room in the back of the home. The homeowner would be treated respectfully and with honor and the assumption of guilt would be placed squarely on the character lying on the porch stiffening up due to rigor mortis. However, not any more—as progressives have seeped like viral insects into every aspect of American culture, legal, media, education, elected office, etc. The homeowner shooting intruders on their property have become saturated with panicky analysis and over-zealot gun grabbing politicians who want to build careers off their suffering. Progressives directly and indirectly have destroyed the very concept of individual rights in America for which The Second Amendment seeks to protect. In 2013 if a homeowner shoots a criminal nut case on their front porch the homeowner will be arrested aggressively and thrown into the back of a police car. Their computers and personal possessions will be confiscated and scrutinized and the property held by the state until prosecution of the shooter is concluded. The shooter will be charged with murder as the attacker wasn’t inside the home. The situation will be made worse when it is discussed that the attacker was only armed with a knife deeming no immediate threat to the homeowner who could have avoided opening the door and hoped the attacker would move away on their own. Progressive groups would then attack the homeowner in court through testimony stating that the attacker was simply hungry because they lost their job and needed food. Media outlets will then broadcast the story all over America about how the attacker had a “collective right” to the possessions of the homeowner and that if the shooter had only been willing to share his assets with the attacker both would be alive and free today saving the tax payers hundreds of thousands of dollars in court costs. When the frustrated defendant proclaims on the stand that “it’s not fair that a nut-case trying to attack their private property had more rights than they did,” the prosecuting attorney would simply respond, “how do you know the slain victim was a nut case? Are you a psychologist? Where did you study? What degree do you hold that enables you to proclaim that the victim was a so-called nut-case? These are the kind of things only professions are qualified to answer.” This is why George Lang along with a fistful of other patriots has started a new legal group called Second Call Defense.

In fact that was George Lang playing the hypothetical role of a homeowner defending his property from an attacker. In the video several examples were given about real life tragedies where the homeowner used a gun to defend their life yet found themselves in financial ruin because of the legal aftermath where parasitic entities sought to capitalize off progressive gun legislation that is entirely too aggressive. Lang knows a lot from an insider’s track about how the legal system can be just as much of a parasite attacking personal liberty as an intruder in a home. He is a trustee of West Chester Twp, in Ohio where the community pays its police department better wages than any place else from Pittsburg to Indianapolis. George has seen firsthand many cases similar to the example above cross his desk not just in his home town but all across America. This is the primary reason that Lang and his group have teamed up with The Buckeye Firearms Foundation to offer gun owners, supporters of The Second Amendment, and property owners’ legal help through Second Call Defense. They also offer preventative measures against the progressive encroachment of a legal system gone mad.

http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/node/8823

Progressives wish to believe that government has all the answers and can 100% of the time be relied upon to correct social debaucheries. Do-gooder politicians like Senator Diane Feinstein have built their careers injecting their progressive beliefs into every tragedy that strategically seeks to focus legal analysis away from individual liberty toward collective salvation. For well over 100 years now this gradual eroding of personal liberty has shifted the focus of behavioral studies away from any form of property ownership toward collective necessity. In court shooters will be grilled on the stand as to “how did they knew the attacker was a threat if they were simply on the porch and not brandishing a knife?” The burden of proof falls on the homeowner and not the dead victim as progressive legal interpretations have given the attacker the right to do as they please on the homeowner’s front porch. The homeowner has an obligation to call the “authorities” who will then inject themselves into the business of the homeowner and supersede their authority on their own property. To the progressive, the issue is not about guns, or the rights of the shooter, or even the dead body on the porch—the real villain is their hatred of private property and a sinister desire to erase the concept of it from the minds of Americans.

Yet, even if the homeowner called the authorities, there is no guarantee that they will act honorably and in the best interest of the caller. As George Lang knows all too well, the cops sometimes find that they are not too far away from the decrepit mind of an attacker and are all too tempted to abuse their power at the expense of the homeowner. Lang had to participate recently in a West Chester Township financial settlement where over-zealous young cops seemingly hungry to prove their manhood beat an un-armed drunk after a fight at a late night sports bar. The drunk wasn’t even part of the fight that had occurred much earlier but was simply the last person left on the scene. The cops wanted to exert their authority on someone abusing the man beating him senseless. Even with video evidence telling the story convincingly the superiors sided with the officers proving beyond doubt that in a court of law, the drunk had little chance of defending himself as all the cops had their stories aligned. It was when a grand jury examined the case that Lang realized the cops were in the wrong and the decision had to be made to pay the victim in a settlement to avoid further financial detriment to the community because of the police mistake. CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE ON THE STORY WITH VIDEO. So even if the cops are called to save the property of a homeowner, there is no way to know what type of officer might show up in a police car these days in a society that values deception over honor.

Second Call Defense was created to provide some help with these types of gun related cases. Once an attacker decides they want whatever it is that a property owner has, only one threat has been contained if the property owner uses a gun to stop that threat. From there an entire legal system of progressive activists, deal making politicians, morally deficient law enforcement, and presiding family members who may not have cared one ounce for the life of the defeated attacker, but in death through civil lawsuits and the promise of easy money the life of a typical scum-bag suddenly becomes worth a king’s ransom. A shooter protecting their property in 2013 America not only must protect themselves from attackers in the middle of the night as shown in the video above, but from the legal parasites who wish to make their careers off the backs of tragedy which is often the real threat. It is that second threat that Second Call Defense seeks to protect its members from. No other organization offers such a service in all of America. Second Call Defense offers training and education on legal firearm use, emergency resources such as a 24/7 legal hotline and upfront cash for attorney retainers and bonds. Insurance coverage for criminal and civil protection that is backed by the NRA endorsed insurance program is also offered. Most people can’t afford to put up thousands of dollars to get up to $10,000 upfront for an attorney retainer, immediate cash for a bond up to $250,000, up to $500 per day in wage compensation while in court, up to 40 sessions of psychological support, and up to $250,000 accidental shooting protection, $50,000 criminal defense reimbursement, unlimited civil suit defense protection, and $250,000 civil suit damages protection. Second Call Defense does all this and more. The first defense is in the property owner defending their life with a firearm. The second defense is from the parasites who seek to make livings off the misery left in the wake. From those, a gun cannot protect anyone. But now there is a group that can, Second Call Defense.

For more about Second Call Defense check out their website:

http://www.secondcalldefense.org/?affiliate=20007

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

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Henry Morgan–King of the Buccaneers: The Tea Party and why flying a black flag is righteous

Out of all the figures of military genius and political strategy that have so far graced planet Earth it is the pirate Henry Morgan that I most respect and understand. I see him as the father of the liberty movement in America as his exploits in the book The Buccaneers of America launched John Locke and many philosophers to follow a path that would eventually become The Declaration of Independence. Welsh buccaneer Henry Morgan, at age 36, captured Panama City in violation of Anglo-Spanish treaty. Morgan stood trial held for the crime in the Tower of London but King Charles II of England forgave him, and then knighted him. The King then made him lieutenant-governor of Jamaica in 1674. [1] When people ask me why I honor a much darker version of the Tea Party flag such as the one displayed on the bottom of all my postings and is flown at every meeting that members of Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom conducts it is because of my fondness for Henry Morgan and his brilliant strategies which launched mankind to create the first democracies human kind has ever seen. His exploits chronicled so well in Alexander O. Exquemelin’s classic controversial book are nearly as grandiose as those shown in the marketing videos for the Captain Morgan Rum Company who routinely explores Morgan’s life in mythologies built upon his legends as seen in the video below.

I see the modern Tea Party struggling with nearly the same problems in 2013 that Henry Morgan struggled with in 1659 when England under King Charles II through Tortuga Governor Elias Watts gave Morgan Privateer status. A privateer in international law is a term applied to a privately owned armed vessel whose owners are commissioned by a nation to carry on naval warfare. Such naval commissions or authorizations are called letters of marque. Privateering is distinguished from piracy, which is carried out without enlistment by a government. The practice of privateering preceded the creation of national navies. During the Middle Ages (5th century to 15th century), European states having few or no warships hired merchant vessels for hostile purposes. Privateering was carried on during the American Revolution (1775-1783) and the War of 1812 (1812-1815). During the American Civil War (1861-1865) the Confederacy engaged in privateering. At the Hague Conference of 1922 to 1923, participating countries issued a joint declaration against the use of privateers in aerial warfare.[2] The modern Tea Party was given by the Republican Party a kind of letter of marque to attack the establishment of the Democratic Party in much the same way that England wished to conduct war with Spain in 1670—without actually declaring war against a rival country that was actually engaging in public displays of civility. Once Spain had seen the hardest lessons of Henry Morgan’s swashbuckling antics all over the Caribbean they pleaded with King Charles II to reign in the charismatic buccaneer. This is what Republicans have done after the election of Barack Obama just prior to the fiscal cliff negotiations in December of 2012, they turned their back on the Tea Party as Republicans attempted to get their “privateers” in the Tea Party movement to fall into line of party rule. In short, they expected Tea Party members to do as the King commanded. The king in the modern case for Ohio was John Kasich, and at the national level John Boehner with Karl Rove trying to noticeably carry the Republican Party to a more progressive position to win votes away from Democrats in the next election.

Well, that wasn’t acceptable to modern Tea Party members just as it wasn’t acceptable in Henry Morgan’s time. When word came down to Morgan’s ears that England had made peace with Spain he chose to ignore the information. He had other plans, and he had maintained a small pirate army in Jamaica at the city of sin called Port Royal which he kept perpetually starving for gold by encouraging the pirates there to blow all their earnings on massive amounts of liquor, wild sexual orgies, and lifestyles that put the fuses of their lives out by age 32. I do not agree with the way the pirates conducted their lives with lawless morality. I do not like the constant pursuit of didactic human pleasures common with a pirate’s life in 1671 Jamaica. I do not support intoxication of the mind in any form, so in regard to Henry Morgan’s strategy of nurturing the entire town of Port Royal into a pirate haven of debauchery I disagree with him vehemently. But he had a very good reason for keeping the pirates perpetually hungry…………he wanted them to be ready for battle to pillage more military targets on a moment’s notice, and if they were fat, dumb, and happy, they would not be willing to risk their life and limb to serve under Morgan’s command. As a result, democracy was born on the decks of Morgan’s pirate ships.

For the first time in human history sailors from the King’s army served in closed quarters with slaves recently escaped landing from Africa. All men were equal on the deck of a pirate ship including the captain, and the philosophy that would shape American government was born. Such a thing is easily taken for granted in hindsight, but before this period no human being anywhere on Earth valued personal freedom more than the pirates who raided with Henry Morgan. They were an invention of his personal strategies. I would give Francs Drake and Francos L’Olonnas equal credit if not for the added ability of Morgan to gain the ear of King Charles II by making the England sovereign extremely wealthy. Morgan managed his fate from the lowliest prostitute of Port Royal to the highest office in the world at the time and he did it across an ocean that took over three months to cross one way. Alone, Henry Morgan brought all of Europe to its knees and eating out of his hand with swashbuckling antics that are shockingly brilliant even by modern standards. A small sense of Henry Morgan’s impact on history can be seen in the below short documentary by a group of underwater archeologists who believe they have found Morgan’s sunken 22 gun flag ship The Satisfaction. The documentary is funded in part by Captain Morgan Rum to research their iconic namesake for the benefits of capitalism. Without such funding, archeological exploits like this simply do not happen.

The King of England had negotiated peace with France and Spain and withdrew their “letters of marque” in an attempt to gain control of the rapidly escalating chaos of Jamaica. The amount of money that was flowing through Port Royal, primarily into the pockets of prostitutes were nearly equal to the national incomes of most countries, so Charles II had to get it under control. Now the privateers who had been operating under Morgan’s leadership with privateer status were considered pirates across the world since no nation would back them. But the freedom that such men tasted as privateers in Morgan’s military antics for England—without the formality of naval discipline–had shown itself difficult to suppress. Men and women of all ages, races, and financial backgrounds had declared themselves equal on the decks of pirate ships for nearly 50 years after Morgan’s time. This became the period explored romantically in Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean ride and films. This freedom movement would be further refined by Thomas Jefferson a hundred years later in his Declaration of Independence. While scholarship served as the swords of America’s Founding Fathers the idea of freedom had been captured on paper by John Locke, with the severed heads of many Spanish soldiers by Henry Morgan. The grandsons of such pirates settled into legitimate businesses in Boston, New York and Philadelphia to start the Sons of Liberty who would use similar tactics as what Morgan employed to rid themselves of English rule.

Click here to see the Henry Morgan/John Locke connection in what appears to be evidence Locke’s Treatise on Civil Government was being shaped on observations made of Morgan’s Jamaica. (Page 84 of Admiral Sir Henry Morgan: King of the Buccaneers.)

Long before the Republicans in the modern age abandoned the modern Tea Party—which was created by The Sons of Liberty back in 1773—I saw the writing on the wall. Republicans were preparing to abandon the Tea Party by withdrawing their “letters of margue.” This is when I started to use my own variation of the black, “Don’t Tread On Me” pirate flag, instead of the standard Tea Party Gadsden flag. The Gadsden flag is a historical American flag with a yellow field depicting a rattlesnake coiled and ready to strike. Positioned below the snake are the words “Don’t Tread On Me.” The flag was designed by and is named after American general and statesman Christopher Gadsden. It was also used by the Continental Marines as an early motto flag, along with the Moultrie Flag. Gadsden also presented a copy of this flag to the Congress of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina. This was recorded in the South Carolina congressional journals on February 9, 1776:

Col. Gadsden presented to the Congress an elegant standard, such as is to be used by the commander in chief of the American Navy; being a yellow field, with a lively representation of a rattlesnake in the middle in the attitude of going to strike and these words underneath, “Don’t tread on me.”^[7]

For my use, Gadsden’s flag was not aggressive enough for the tasks before us in the modern age. Knowing that Republicans would pull away from the Tea Party eventually I kept my personal distance from the movement as I chronicled in a previous article where Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom members enshrined themselves in my new version of the Gladsden flag that was my silent nod to Henry Morgan. I planned take the type of strategies Henry Morgan utilized to bring freedom back to America, so I thought the black flag was more appropriate to the 2013 circumstances.

History does repeat itself and once understood courses can be changed. Henry Morgan understood history, and the minds of man, and was able to use them to shape the craving for freedom that would eventually free slaves in The United States and pave the way for the greatest nation on Earth. I credit Henry Morgan with much of that responsibility because if not for him, human beings may have quickly allowed themselves to become suppressed under the foot of ruthless and greedy monarchs as they had for all of human history up to that point. Even the simple, peaceful process of electing Presidents in America was started by pirates following Morgan’s lead of electing ship captains to head up each voyage. If the captain proved to be insufficient, the pirates un-elected him and a new captain was put in place. As barbaric as the pirates were in the start, the shift in human philosophy had seismic ramifications that would percolate throughout history delivering us to the struggles of the modern age. The pirate is so important to the idea of freedom that even Ayn Rand had a very important pirate in her great classic novel Atlas Shrugged with the dashing Ragnar Danneskjöld. Ragnar was a philosopher who became a privateer under John Galt’s strategy of choking off resources to parasitic socialism returning America to a fictional era of freedom. Alone Danneskjöld defied the might of the United States Navy and of all the People’s Navies of the world to be, as he famously said, “the friend of the friendless.” Like the fictional Ragnar and the actual Henry Morgan, the pirate flag flown at the end of my postings, and off my front porch is a “friend of the friendless.” The friendless are those who have been spat upon by the Republican Party and other orthodox political machines. The black flag calls out to them and lets them know that philosophically speaking, there is safe harbor within its borders. It also means that when it comes to defeating the enemies of freedom, unconventional tactics are useful, and needed. Like Henry Morgan’s time, politicians will turn on a moment’s notice and work against privateers casting them into piracy by simply withdrawing their endorsement. What actions might have been done under orthodox government one day might be called piracy the next—but what is consistent is always the desire for freedom in a human being. It is in understanding this very simple idea that Henry Morgan was a genius who went from destroying the impregnable Spanish city of Panama, avoiding jail for war crimes, winning the first libel lawsuit in history and making the King of England rich beyond his wildest dreams becoming an official “knight” of the English crown in the process. But Morgan’s greatest feat of all was in planting the seeds of liberty in America through the pirates who traveled on his ships and would bring an idea to mankind that no country, no individual, no organization had ever contemplated—the idea of real and true freedom for all men and women everywhere.

The next time dear reader you have the opportunity to sip on a bottle of Captain Morgan Rum, take a swig and think of Henry Morgan whose likeness graces the label. He is the father of freedom as any human being who has ever tasted it understands it. It is because of Morgan that there is a United States at all, a nation born from rebellion and the greatest threat to dictators currently the world over. My black flag is the message to the threats of freedom that imposition will not be tolerated whether functioning under a letter of marque or under the rogue status of pirate—the loyalty that the Tea Party movement stands for is not loyalty to any party—but to the idea of freedom that was invented in Port Royal, Jamaica in 1671 by Henry Morgan and his wild and woolly band of swashbuckling pirates. Take a drink and toast the black flag declaring to the world, “DON’T TREAD ON ME!”

Rich Hoffman

“If they attack first………..blast em’!”

www.tailofthedragonbook.com

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