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April 11, 2013
Doc Thompson at The Cincinnati Freedom Expo: Third time’s a charm!
Doc Thompson from The Blaze Radio Network is confirmed to be one of the speakers at the Cincinnati Freedom Expo at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center on April 19th 2013. Ann Becker president of the Cincinnati Tea Party and Doc Thompson sealed the deal after Doc was able to clear his schedule for the event. It took some effort as Doc Thompson was filling in for Glenn Beck’s show in Dallas, Texas during the first week of April, and was extremely hard to get a hold of. Doc is the usual fill in for the Glenn Beck Program when Beck is off on vacation, which keeps Doc busy not only doing his own morning show on The Blaze from 6 to 9 AM each morning Monday through Friday, but Beck’s normal 9 AM to noon slot as well. Beck’s radio show has a footprint of well over 7.5 million weekly listeners so even though it’s difficult to do 6 hours of radio per day on those occasions, the effort is well worth the expense.
For those who are coming to the Cincinnati Freedom Expo and want to get pictures taken with Doc, be prepared to wear your tallest shoes. Doc stands over 6’ 4” and dwarfs most normal sized people, so keep that in mind. Doc is usually very gracious about doing those kinds of publicity things, so come prepared. The Cincinnati Freedom Expo will have a casual atmosphere where radio celebrities like Doc and 55 KRC’s Brian Thomas will be accessible which makes it unique for such a large event. Not often is such high-caliber talent able to interact with the spectators in a causal way, but that is the intention of Ann Becker’s approach to the Expo, which she describes as being essentially a giant Tea Party meeting. The early rumblings from the organizers believe that this event will become the CPAC of the Midwest, as it appears to be shaping into. Next year the talk has already evolved into making the event an all day spectacle to satisfy the intense interest. This year the event begins at 7 PM and should wrap up around 10 PM, and the content providers are filling up with the addition of Doc Thompson. FreedomWorks is hosting a booth, and The Tenth Amendment Center will also be prominently present just to name a few.
Doc Thompson is one of the most entertaining radio talk hosts anywhere on the radio today which accounts for his consistent success. His brand is difficult for modern radio producers as he tends to have an old-fashioned sense of responsible world view but mixes it with sincere yet over-the-top comedy bits laced with satire. Doc has had a colorful history bragging often about the many radio jobs he’s been fired from. He has worked in Richmond, Virginia, Lincoln, Nebraska, Las Vegas, Nevada and Cincinnati, Ohio to name a few. It was when he was at 700 WLW that he and I developed a friendship while exposing the horrors and hypocrisy of public education with dozens of broadcasts reaching 38 states and parts of Canada living to this very day on YouTube. His most recent job was with CBS radio in Detroit before moving to The Blaze Radio Network at the start of 2013 working directly for Glenn Beck. He was instrumental in some of those stations winning 5 Marconi Awards, the equivalent of the Academy Award for radio excellence.
Making people laugh is important to Doc. His medium of choice is of course radio. He dabbles in many styles with sarcasm and satire usually present. Although he is candid and forthright he loves good spirited practical jokes. And he is not afraid of controversy as can be seen the following video regarding North Korea’s recent attempts to beat the drums of war.
When I first announced the Cincinnati Freedom Expo here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom I provided a list of all the types of people who shouldn’t come to the Expo, and given the length of the list, one would wonder if there was anybody left in the entire world who should come. CLICK TO REVIEW. The freedom movement does not fit nicely into the modern view of things from either the Republican side or the Democrat side. I wouldn’t even call it Libertarian. It is more of a philosophy shift away from the political emphasis which the media has steered social concern towards Plato–back to the epistemology of Aristotle. The current trend has philosophically migrated toward Plato for many centuries most accurately summed up in the great work The Republic. The philosophic idea of America rejected Plato’s form of republic and instead formed a republic based on Aristotle’s ideas of reason. These thoughts elude 99% of society currently, so the point is not one of political sway, but of re-teaching society what social progressives have sought to destroy in foundation philosophy. The best way to describe the current freedom movement is to point inquiring minds to The American Adventure at The Epcot Center in Disney World. For me personally, I consider that exhibit sacred as it allows visitors to understand what the kinds of people who are attending the Cincinnati Freedom Expo are fighting for. It is that type of America that Glenn Beck is fighting for, and why he has hired the unique talents of Doc Thompson. It is that America that I defend when I write here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom and it is the heart and soul of the Tea Party movement of which Ann Becker currently represents in the Cincinnati area.
The Freedom Movement is not for everyone. Recently I explained to some of my extended family members who are staunch Republicans that future presidential candidates like John Kasich, Chris Christy, and other machine politicians that fall under the tent of the John Boehner types, are not desirable for my support just because they can win elections by manipulating the masses to vote for them. My picks would be people like Dr. Benjamin Carson, Rand Paul, or the skeletal remains of Ayn Rand. I explained to them that I am to the political right of the current political right. I don’t consider myself at all a radical, but compared to the current Platonic political landscape, I am a radical in favor of capitalism. Of those three candidates, one is a man of color who is being condemned by the political left—(so much for civil rights), another is a white guy from Kentucky with a tendency to filibuster in the Senate, and the other is a deceased woman who is wiser as a skeleton than the flesh and blood of all Washington D.C. put together. All those candidates would be better than what current politics has to offer. The people coming to the Cincinnati Freedom Expo know it too, which is why they are coming to be around like-minded people and hear from people like Doc Thompson who are on the front of the freedom fighting movement. It is toward that commitment The Blaze under Glenn Beck’s direction is dedicated and why Doc Thompson is now a direct employee of Glenn Beck—to advance the cause of freedom in a way that is unique to Thompson’s radio style.
That style will now be on exhibit at the Cincinnati Freedom Expo as the feature speaker. If you have not registered for your tickets yet, then you better do so now. Starting Monday, the radio ads heard above will be broadcast on 55 KRC where Brian Thomas hosts his own radio show during Doc Thompson’s usual time slot. It is expected that the tickets will go fast once they are made public over the radio to the target audience. And now that Doc Thompson is scheduled, he will be talking about the Expo on his own show which is national. So it is advisable that you register before Monday to ensure that you will be able to get into the Expo. For more information on the Expo and the other speakers attending, CLICK HERE.
Ann has told me that I will be in the press box, so I expect to spend most of my time there. Feel free to come up and say hello. I don’t get to visit with all my readers here in person very much, so this Expo will be a great opportunity to touch base. And remember, especially ladies, if you want a picture next to Doc Thompson, be sure to wear heels otherwise it will be hard to frame your head in a picture with Doc due to his extreme height. Again, secure your tickets, mark your calendar, and be ready to arrive early. Be prepared for a riveting speech by Doc Thompson who has a lot of stories to tell about the fight for freedom and the cost of that fight. It will be an evening that will resonate for many years, and start a new trend in Cincinnati dedicated to the very, very few who reject the current philosophy of political order in favor of a new philosophy that embraces real freedom for only the third time in world history.
The Golden age of piracy.
The American Revolution.
The rise of the modern Tea Party.
Third time’s a charm!
Get your tickets today by CLICKING HERE!
Rich Hoffman
“If they attack first………..blast em’!”
April 10, 2013
Miguel’s Pizza at Red River Gorge: The best pizza I never had a chance to taste
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 45th 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.
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’!”
April 9, 2013
Cincinnati Freedom Expo: A showcase of liberty minded patriots reporting from the front
If you are a member of Socialist International, a labor union supporter, a left leaning school teacher, a government bureaucrat, a worthless administrator, a greenie weenie activist, a vegan, a member of the mainstream press, a member of Communist Party U.S.A, a member of NAMBLA, a supporter of the Cincinnati Streetcar, a Obama supporter, a fan of The Daily Show, think Bill Maher is intelligent, are living off government assistance, want Obamacare, think Hillary Clinton is honest, sleep past 9 AM, vote for school levies, give to charities for fear of social ridicule, are a latte sipping prostitute, think Agenda 21 is good, support The United Nations, support gun restrictions, support the NDAA Act, think $17 trillion in national debt is not bad, are a diabolical liar, a scum bag, an apathetic loser, and believe that money falls from the sky like rain, you might want to skip the fantastic event that is coming to the Northern Kentucky Convention Center at 5:30 PM on Friday April 19th, The Cincinnati Freedom Expo. For everyone else who is normal, Constitution supporting Americans you can sign up to get your tickets at the link below. The tickets are free, but do need to be registered prior to arrival. The floor space is large, but we can’t pack the room infinitely, so tickets will be issued. The event is free because some fantastic sponsors covered the cost and can also be seen at the link.
http://cincinnatifreedomexpo.com/
I wouldn’t miss the event as Ann Becker who is President of the West Chester Tea Party and also President of the Cincinnati Tea Party is one of the key organizers. If Ann is involved, it will be successful. So the event should be a lot of fun. Brian Thomas of 55 KRC is the Master of Ceremonies which will feature a long list of speakers reporting back directly from the trenches of the freedom movement.
K Carl Smith is also a featured speaker this year at the Freedom Expo 2013. He is a leader in the inspirational Fredrick Douglass Republicans. Learn more about this great group here - http://frederickdouglassrepublican.com/
A father and grandfather, K Carl is an unyielding defender of the constitution and liberty. Inspired by the guiding principles of the Founding Fathers and holding fast to the oath taken during his service to our country, he launched The Conservative MESSENGER™ in 2009.
Captivating Messenger- A “grassroots” initiative, The Conservative MESSENGER’s mission has been to: Enlighten, Educate, Empower and Equip its members based on the Frederick Douglass Republican™ Methodology—a unique and powerfully effective strategy to: (1) Re-Ignite America’s Passion for Liberty; (2) Help the Republican Party recapture its political distinction; (3) Save the souls of the politically lost; (4) Promote racial unity; (5) Create an atmosphere for political dialogue without the accusation of racism or Uncle Tomism; (6) Trump the race card.
A Frederick Douglass Republican™- K Carl has taken what began as a mantra or rallying call and has spearheaded a movement that has climbed into the thousands. In 2011, The Conservative MESSENGER evolved into what is now the Frederick Douglass Republican™ Movement.
Political Motivator-K Carl captivates and inspires audiences with infectious energy, compassion and satire. He brings his expertise and provides down-to-earth solutions on how the conservative movement can broaden its base. K Carl leaves audiences ready to take action-action which could change the political landscape of America. Tea Party Groups, GOP organizations, collegiate institutions, and faith-based groups alike secure the services of K Carl for his stimulating and enrapturing LIFE-EMPOWERING message. His presentations serve as a “beacon of hope” for those who hold Liberty in high-esteem. As a result, K Carl recently authored Frederick Douglass Republicans: The Movement to Reignite America’s Passion for Liberty.
Servant/ Leader- K Carl hold to his credit, successful completion of both the Airborne and Air-Assault programs while on active duty in the U. S. Army. He is the former district leader (AL-7) ofAmericans for Fair Taxation. In 2009, he was appointed to the Amistad Commission by former Alabama Governor, Bob Riley. He was reappointed to that commission, where he currently serves. Additionally, he was recently appointed to the Affordable Homeowner’s Insurance Commission (AHIC) by Alabama Governor Robert Bentley.
Political Agitator- K Carl appeared on The 700 Club and FOXNews’ Huckabee Show. He was recently interviewed by Ginni Thomas for The Daily Caller and participated in a soon-to-be released documentary produced by Rev. C.L. Bryant, The Runaway Slave. K Carl has been featured in a myriad of publications to which he has been “greatly humbled”.
The son of Colonel (retired) Earnest C. and Bessie Smith, Sr., KCarl is a native of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, was reared in Huntsville, Alabama. He is graduate of Alabama A&M University and makes his home in Trussville, Alabama. K Carl is the proud father of three children and five grandchildren.
Congressman Thomas Massie from the Fourth District of Kentucky will also be a speaker at Freedom Expo!
U.S. Representative Thomas Massie entered Congress in November 2012 after serving as Lewis County Judge Executive. He represents Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District which stretches across Northern Kentucky and 280 miles of the Ohio River.
U.S. Representative Massie attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering. During school, he invented a technology that enabled people to interact with computers using their sense of touch, and leveraged that technology to found SensAble Technologies, Inc., which raised over $32 million of venture capital, created 70 jobs, and obtained 24 patents. The hardware and software he developed is now used to design automobiles, jewelry, shoes, dental prosthetics, and even reconstructive implants for wounded soldiers.
In Congress, Thomas serves on three committees: the House Committee of Transportation & Infrastructure, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
The House Committee of Transportation & Infrastructure has jurisdiction over roads, bridges, mass transit, railroads, aviation, maritime and waterborne transit. Thomas’s selection to the Oversight and Government Reform Committee puts him in a position to hold the federal government accountable to taxpayers. Further, Rep. Massie’s background from MIT and the high-tech business world makes him uniquely qualified to serve his state and country on the Science, Space, and Technology Committee.
Thomas lives on a cattle farm in Kentucky with his wife and high school sweetheart, Rhonda, and their four children.
These are just a few of the speakers who are confirmed to speak; many more will also be taking the stage throughout the evening to celebrate freedom in all its glory. There will also be booths with venders and authors available to sign their books. Matt Mayer will have his own booth where he will be signing copies of his Taxpayers Don’t Stand A Chance. This event will certainly be one of the biggest of the year. And for those who read here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom regularly and have been trying to peg me down for time, I will be there with my cowboy hat on. So if you’d like to meet me or talk with me in person, this will be your opportunity. This Freedom Expo is just what it sounds like, an evening to be around like-minded people away from the parasites of big government and slow-witted progressives. I can’t think of a better way to spend a Friday evening, so I hope to see many of you there. The price is right, the activity will be vigorous, and the company will be spectacular. So make your plans for the April 19th today.
See you there!
Rich Hoffman
“If they attack first………..blast em’!”
April 8, 2013
Your Kids Do Not Belong To You: What Public Education is Really About
I told you, I told you………………….I TOLD YOU! Public education is not about educating children, it is about brainwashing them away from their families. I have said it on the radio, I have said it on television, and I have written thousands upon thousands of words about how bad, and how sinister public education is to the American way of life. CLICK HERE TO REVIEW SOME OF THEM. Well, finally, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry released a network promo that urges society to think of child rearing in a more collective sense. She said, “So, part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.” Finally progressives have spelled out to the world what they have subtly stated for years, and now everyone can see just what they mean when they ask for more money in the form of tax levies on property values.
When you hear your local school state that they need more money for a tax levy, remember what you heard Melissa Harris-Perry say. When your local school states that children need a better eduction remember that most of those educators are not thinking of mathematics, literature, or history, but of indoctrination into a progressive ideological utopia that is as nutty as the Jim Jones massacre. Public education professionals do not think like you, they are not like you, and they do not want your children to learn from you. They see your children as “their” children. They see your house as their house. They see your life as their life. This is what kind of mentality has infested public education. They are collectivists and are intent to destroy everything of value in the traditional sense of America…………especially the parent/child relationship. The proof is in their own words.
Rich Hoffman
“If they attack first………..blast em’!”
The Making of “Tail of the Dragon’ Novel: 3000 miles to Key West by motorcycle to rediscover FREEDOM
This article is Part III in The Making of Tail of the Dragon “the novel,” my latest literary endeavor. CLICK HERE to visit Part II and Part I. One of the needs I had while writing the book and flushing out the character of Rick Stevens and his wife Renee was an example of freedom that only pirates and other outlaws might have experienced. I also had an intense need to explore the eastern parts of The Great Smoky Mountains as the western portion was explored extensively in Parts I and II. In the novel the story takes Rick and Renee’s massive car chase into the mountains along I-40 and down into Ashville, North Carolina from the north, so I needed to scout that area out so I could put texture into my story. There are several very intense sequences that take place in the novel along the I-40 corridor, so I needed to go and put my hands on those places tasting the air and see the sights for myself, taking notes along the way. But I also needed to put myself in the role of Rick Stevens and see the world through his eyes. For that reason I decided that while exploring Tennessee and North Carolina East of the Smoky Mountains that my wife and I would take a long trip of our own to the freest place I can think of on Earth, the ideal place where the philosophy of what America should be was easy to see – paradise – Key West. From the driveway of our home in Cincinnati, Ohio we would ride our motorcycle all the way to Key West where U.S. 1 dumped into the ocean and there explore the mind of Rick Stevens. Along the way there would be a lot of time to think, and observe as the distance was over 1,300 miles one way, and would involve three total campsites, one on the border of North Carolina and South Carolina, another in Kissimmee, Florida, with the final being in Key West. The journey to the first campsite would give me the scouting report for the actual locations in the novel which is where the first stop in the video below occurred. The remainder of the trip would be spent flushing out the character of Rick Stevens and his uniquely freedom loving mind. The video shown documents the entire trip down to a very short documentary of only the highlights of the trip. The vast distances were a challenge that neither my wife nor I will ever forget which proved to be the trip of a lifetime. The second video below goes into more detail of that same trip and shows all the sites seen along the way.
It was fascinating to carry everything that two human beings could possibly need on the back of a motorcycle during a week around The Fourth of July. I picked this date because Rick Stevens chooses to make his massive stand against the government of Tennessee and eventually the federal government on this day, so I wanted to get a good idea of the traffic patterns in the region during this time of year. To pack food, shelter, and other necessities on a bike rack and backpack knowing that we would not stay in hotels, but live completely off the back of the motorcycle during the whole trip was a strangely independent feeling that placed in my mind a feeling of self-reliance that I have only experienced on hard backpacking trips into rugged mountains. The sensation of being so self-sufficient while traveling with other people who were not in the same frame of mind along the highway drew out stark contrasts to me which ended up in the novel, particularly toward the end where the grand climax takes place on the south side of the Smoky Mountains.
In the book the $20 million supercar Firebird running off vegetable oil taken from waste containers at fast food restaurants travels at speeds of over 200 mph at times, so roaming the vast distances shown in Part II to the first stop in the video of Part III took only a few hours even though they are well over 100 miles apart. I did get a good idea of where exits were and what kind of commercial establishments were located along the way for descriptions in the book which wiz by in lightning speeds. Traveling at the much slower pace of 75 mph and facing the elements without a windshield of any kind is very punishing and toughens you up very quickly. My wife had packed most of our food so we wouldn’t have to stop at restaurants too often, but deep in the mountains to our first major stop in North Carolina part of our lunch blew out of her backpack and splattered out all over the road. The wind had worked the zipper loose opening up the pouch yanking a bag of Cheez-its and a couple of sandwiches out destroying them. My wife had prepared that lunch for us from our kitchen and it depressed her a bit to have lost them on the highway because she had put great care into their construction.
The next day after a devastatingly hot ride from the top of South Carolina where our first campsite was to the Kissimmee location still sore from the previous day’s ride, it was almost too much. Just south of Jacksonville, Florida my wife’s knees locked up on her from sitting in the same position in the extreme heat for such a long period of time using the muscles in her legs to stabilize herself against the constant punishing wind. On my motorcycle, I refuse to use a windshield for the same reasons that Rick Stevens avoided them in the novel. I also wasn’t using a sissy bar behind my wife so she couldn’t lean back against anything to relax. She had to flex her muscles against the elements for the entire trip, something not even hardened motorcyclists do willingly. But after a brief rest at a gas stop just above Daytona Beach, she thought she could walk off the pain and take another hour on the road, so I entered the I-4 corridor through Orlando for our stop at Kissimmee for a much-needed break at the next campsite. Arriving at the Kissimmee site was like finding a puddle of water in a vast sun-baked desert. We were scorched from the sun, beaten by the wind, dehydrated from a lack of water, and exhausted from 9 hours of solid riding across the heat of the south in July.
After a bit of rest and some long swims in the campsite pool we headed even further south down the Florida Turnpike past Miami and onto U.S. 1 across the Florida Keys. The temperature was right around 106 actual degrees so there was no relief from the heat on a motorcycle. The trip was absolutely brutal, but at the same time ecstatic. It took roughly 6 to 7 hours of casual travel to arrive at our campground in Key West. Once we set up camp, we spent a few hours in the pool bringing our body temperatures down then we headed into town at the famous Mallory Square to dine and enjoy the sunset. Key West as I’ve written about before is the best example of what America was always intended to be, and as I watched the freedom lovers walk the streets of Duval Street I assembled my final thoughts about the essential character of Rick Stevens. People in Key West like to be left alone to do as they please. Crime tends to be very low on the island, but there are acts of extremism that could be considered socially dangerous, such as the all nude bar called Adam and Eve on the top floor of the Bull and Whistle, and the drag queens gathered on the south side of Duval. The tolerance for such decadence has given rise to a large gay population in Key West, but even in the middle of the night when patrons were their drunkest; much of the debauchery that might otherwise be associated was absent. Even in the strip clubs, guests were invited to strip down nude if they want while inside. I noticed that all the parking lots of these establishments were packed with people, and most going into them were couples.
My wife and I stopped into Sloppy Joes for a beer just to visit the site where Hemmingway apparently spent much of his time. I wrote notes for my own book on my hand, and on the napkin that was delivered under my beer, and that was the extent of the debauchery that my wife and I participated in, and it wasn’t hard to avoid. My observation of Key West was that freedom to do as one pleased was the most important concern, and the evidence of what America would be like without politicians was easy to see. In Key West, those who wish to do extremely sexually deviant acts were subdued off the beaten path not by regulation as much as it is out of economic necessity. This is because human beings want to be able to take their children to such places without worry. And once the taboo of such activities is removed, the appeal is greatly diminished. This became the essence of the sex scene in Tail of the Dragon that took place on the balcony. Once the taboos of regulation are surpassed, the true definitions of freedom can be explored. For many, particularly those who stripped down nude in the strip houses, and Adam and Eve bar, their little act of didactic rebellion was in stepping away from social convention. For my wife and me enjoying our margarita on Mallory Square at sunset, we had already achieved our personal rebellion with the trip down to Key West. We had no need to break free of social convention because our motorcycle ride had moved the act to the higher chakras well beyond animal instincts. It was that realization that I was after for articulating the motives of Rick Stevens in Tail of the Dragon. His personal rebellion was something I understood on an intellectual level, but I needed to see, taste, and feel it in reality. Ironically Key West didn’t give it to me, but the road on the way there did. Key West was just the climax that allowed all the thoughts I had on the road to come hitting me one by one since the road ran out and there was no place else left to go. I was at the end of the known Earth still under the jurisdiction and protection of The United States with Cuba only a few miles to the south. Outside America, the world is a different place and such freedoms are not enjoyed in such a way. They are contrived to fulfill market needs, but they do not occur naturally like they do in Key West. I attribute this to the protection of the United States Constitution and absence of political influence. Politicians do not care about power in Key West so human beings are allowed to be free of their influence. There isn’t much “Power of Pull” in Key West because nobody cares.
One of the grand themes in Tail of the Dragon is how public relations firms have been complaisant in ruining the concept of freedom in America by helping progressive causes appear to be bigger and better than they actually are. At the Hogs Breath just down the road from Sloppy Joes I bumped into a couple of public relations executives from New York who were blasted in drunken bliss. After a short conversation with them I realized what they were doing in Key West—they were in the process of evading—attempting to reset their moral compass from the evils of their daily jobs. Their mental evasion through drunken splendor was purposeful and they were seeking to recalibrate themselves through debauchery. The themes of my visit with them found its way into my novel. In the story of Tail of the Dragon it is public relations that is the primary villain. The characters involved on all sides are in constant attempts to shape it for causes specific to their personal philosophies. The Rick Stevens rebellion is essentially against this form of public relations that has taken American Freedom and made it into raw consumerism though the subtle art of manipulation.
It was too hot to sleep in Key West as the temperature was still in the 80s at 2 AM. My wife and I rolled around in our tent for many hours sweating profusely. I spent much of my time in Key West sitting at the picnic table outside our tent upon the water’s edge writing my thoughts down for context later. On the way back out of the Keys we traveled through the Everglades before stopping back at our campsite in Kissimmee once again. Once I had written down all my thoughts in a feverish frenzy that went on for nearly 200 handwritten pages of thoughts feelings and opinions relevant to the motorcycle experience of traveling to Key West, the Eastern Smoky Mountains and the scorching trip down the East Coast from South Carolina we were ready to return home. Compared to the heat in Key West the heat of Central Florida felt very comfortable, so we recovered from the heat quickly.
We left our campsite at 6 AM and hit I-75 about an hour later stopping at a McDonald’s to celebrate seeing once again the road that would take us directly home. We traveled all day only stopping for fuel until we came to Chattanooga, Tennessee where we treated ourselves to a long needed meal at the Outback Steak House. We ate like kings for a few hours. My wife and I had lost about 10 pounds of water in just a few days, so the meal at the Outback was a real treasure. We were planning to get a room at the same hotel where we started our journey in Part II, but after feeling refreshed from our meal, we elected to go the whole way home from Chattanooga since we knew the route from there to our home so well. We hit Jelico Mountain which is where the novel Tail of the Dragon begins, at sunset. We were tired, and sore beyond reason. To make good time I was doing 110 mph going down the north side of the mountain passing cars and trucks like they were standing still. I passed a Tennessee Highway Patrol officer who was set up for a speed trap but I was so close to the Kentucky border that he didn’t even bother. As fast as I was going it would have taken him 14 miles to catch up to me from a dead stop so he abandoned the attempt. I put on a bit more speed hoping that I’d get to the border before I saw police lights in my mirror. While doing this my wife nudged me in the ribs and pointed off to the left at the setting sun. My speedometer was bottomed out passed 120 and she was holding her arm as straight as an arrow out to her side to show me the beauty of the skyline splashed with brilliant shades of red and orange.
My wife had barely made the trip down past Jacksonville, but just a few days later she had hit another gear and showed a physical strength at excessively high speeds without any pretension of fear to enjoy a simple sunset that turned out to be the most glorious we have ever seen together in 25 years of marriage. We will never forget that experience and in so doing I had defined the character of Rick Stevens solidified in that moment of rebellion with a police car hunting us from behind, and the open road coming at us down a massive mountain with a spectacular sunset over the rolling mountains at tremendous speeds. We hit the Kentucky border and parked at the rest stop there in case the Tennessee cop had called into Kentucky providing our description. We waited about a half hour before hitting the road again. Four hours later we were in our driveway at the same spot we began. It took me nearly a month to compile all these thoughts into the novel which was already outlined. But the trip to Key West gave me the spirit I was looking for, and became the theme of the novel.
It was an unforgettable experience and now when readers wonder how Rick and Renee Stevens arrived at their rather obsessive pursuit of American authenticity and a definition of true freedom, they can know where those thoughts derived from. They came from the roads of the entire south as my journey took us on a 3000 mile journey in just one week where every day was a punishing experience that defied comfort. The literary worth is an achievement that I am excessively proud of, as the story became more than just a car chase tale. Tail of the Dragon is the story of one man’s struggle to stand against the forces of innate human suppression, the need to manipulate, the need to yield to powerful forces, and the need to suppress inner needs to the benefit of collectivism. Rick Stevens decided for himself that he had enough, and wasn’t going to do it anymore. His decision is something visitors to Key West attempt to touch, but the only real way to jump into such an experience is on the back of a motorcycle with safety, security, and convention left at home and danger openly embraced not just for a moment, but for days on end. It is in the heat of asphalt, the roar of engines, and the punishing elements of nature that Rick Stevens and his lovely wife Renee reside in the memories of legend becoming folklore to the few who admit to themselves their desires to engage in such an adventure. For those who don’t wish to take such a journey themselves is the reason I wrote Tail of the Dragon, so that readers can engage in such an experience from the minds of Rick and Renee Stevens on an adventure that will last a lifetime.
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Rich Hoffman
“If they attack first………..blast em’!”
April 7, 2013
The U.N. International Arms Treaty: Meet the Smith & Wesson .500 Magnum
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on April 2nd 2013 to create the first treaty regulating the international arms trade, a landmark decision that imposes new constraints on the sale of conventional arms to governments and armed groups that commit war crimes, genocide and other mass atrocities which sounds delightful from a distance.
The vote was hailed by arms-control advocates and scores of governments, including the United States, as a major step in the global effort to put in place basic controls on the $70 billion international arms trade. But the treaty was denounced by Iran, North Korea and Syria, which maintain that it imposes restrictions that prevent smaller states from buying and selling weapons to ensure their self-defense.
In short, the new United Nations treaty is step one in an international gun ban intended to spread across the world to disarm private citizens under the guise of the generally agreed upon measures of preventing the sale of conventional arms to governments or terrorist groups. The treaty is simply lip service as even The United States will violate the treaty within moments of having signed it. After all, these types of events are precisely what led to the arms debacle occurring under the Obama White House with Fast and Furious and apparently the Benghazi tragedy – so even the largest supporters of this new United Nations Treaty will openly break the terms then lie about it later leaving the only conclusion about the treaty intentions to be revealed, the actual intent of the United Nations is not to regulate the sale of firearms to hostile groups, but to establish in the mind of the world that 1. The United Nations is a powerful group with global influence, and 2. That citizens all over the world will find they can be brought together on common ground to take steps of disarmament surrendering their personal sovereignty to the “wisdom” of global government. Such an audacious declaration from The United Nations justifies a response, and for me it comes in the video below. I would like to introduce The United Nations to my good friend the Smith & Wesson .500 Magnum, the most powerful production revolver in the entire world. It delivers an astonishing 2600 ft/lb of muzzle energy and has enough kick upon firing to dislocate a shoulder by the sheer power. The gun is designed to stop elephants while on safari and can be effectively used to hunt the largest of big game animals, but more than that it is a wonderful self-defense weapon for protecting private property, should the tragic circumstances ever arrive. The .500 Magnum can split the body of an attacker in two if wad cutters are used, and disable a get-a-way car by penetrating the engine block with a well placed shot into the valve assembly. The bullets are so big they can sheer away the lug nuts that hold a tire to an axel making a rolling car’s wheels pop off upon impact leaving the escapees sitting ducks awaiting justice. I would bet that not a single one of the pin heads who make up the United Nations General Assembly could fire the .500 Magnum with only one hand and hit a target square in the heart like I do in the video below, and it is due to their lack of skill, strength and logic that is the real motive behind their desire to ban firearms in the world is revealed.
None of the U.N. Assembly members would disclose in the light of day without the benefit of drunkenness their desire to ban firearms in the world is because they wish to be the governing force the world bows to, yet their actions deceive their intentions. They know that so long as people like me have access to .500 Magnums that no military force, no policing force, or authority on Earth could force me into compliance to their socialist leaning tendencies. So they must remove such tools from human civilization so that they can implement their further plans of global conquest.
For anyone who has read Agenda 21 which is a United Nations program, global control is clearly the intention even if Ambassadors reading this are saying to themselves that they have no such global desires. The trouble with The United Nations is that they are a collective group driven by a force that is difficult to put the mind around. CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT “THE NOTHING.” Generally such motives where collective organizations attempt to dominate the minds of individuals would be called evil, but it’s much deeper than that. For instance, even as The United States signs such a treaty and the U.N. General Assembly pats themselves on the back for gaining the support of America even with the staunch support of the country’s Second Constitutional Amendment, arms trade is being conducted presently with shady governments hoping to topple rebellions, appease terrorist organizations, or set off gun violence so that the world will join together in solidarity against gun violence with cleverly disguised “false flags.” So the United Nations treaty means nothing to the governments involved as they will continue to break such treaties as it suits them.
In The United States this is why we have a Second Amendment, because it keeps governments from packing up in a Humvee and showing up on our doorsteps to arrest rebels who plot against United Nation mandates, fight Common Core implementation of socialism into schools driving a “Global Marketplace,” or desire to protect their private property which a vast majority of the United Nations General Assembly desires to banish from human practice so that Mother Earth can live fruitfully till the sun eventually blots out destroying the planet in roughly 500 billion years. When guns are taken from private citizens, they have no defense when organized governments decide they wish to grab power for themselves, and global governments like what the United Nations is attempting to become will not be tolerated by me in the United States due to this hidden intention. The United Nations will never declare that they wish such things as a strong central government in charge of everything. They simply wish to believe that they are making the world safer, just like the school teacher wishes to believe they are making children “better,” in American schools. But the reality is that they are all servants to the evils of collectivism and nothing more. The byproduct of collectivism is personal tyranny.
That is why in America every home should have their own .500 Magnum. Ideally every household would have at least one human being under its roof that could fire the weapon one-handed, because such strength is needed to protect families from the perils of evil which do reside in the minds of man. Such a threat is the only governing force that works in a civilized society, something the global academics have been terribly naive in understanding. They believe falsely that words on a paper will change the course of evil, but it has only fed it throughout history. Academics believe falsely that if they construct one more paragraph of legislation that evil will be banished from the Earth forever, but what they miss is that such evils grow with every legislative word constructed in the minds of a bureaucrat.
The truth is easy to see when visiting a gun range like Target World in Cincinnati, Ohio which is where I was in the video above holding the most powerful handgun in the world. With the gun it is realized that even aircraft could be brought down with such a weapon and drones would have no chance if spotted. The .500 caliber bullet could shatter such aerial surveillance with one shot because of the extreme size of the ammunition. Upon that understanding, the mind is brought to peace as it is realized that those who hold a .500 Magnum in their hands and have learned to use it have nothing to fear from any assailant in the world, and that is freedom from tyranny—even the tyranny brought on by good intentions from pin heads and bureaucrats. It is also realized that the true intentions behind the gun bans advocated particularly among socialist leaning politicians is that they are physically and mentally weak human beings to start with, and hope that they can be made to rule over the strong with the stroke of a pen, or new law built behind collective ambition. The .500 Magnum would shatter the arm of the frail boned weaklings who make up the United Nations General Assembly, so they are naturally terrified of such weapons—and they should be, because they have the power to call armies to their disposal and put down rebels who stand against their Common Core education proposals and Agenda 21 schemes. So for people like me, the .500 Magnum is the great equalizer. I know as long as I have it that no government in the world even through collective force can organize against my property and my rights to protect my family. I would never surrender such a task to the bureaucrats of The United Nations, The United States or even my local police department. Instead, I entrust that task to my own two hands and the awesome power of the .500 Magnum which can decapitate an attacker upon demand. It is within the 2600 ft/lb of muzzle energy produced by the Smith & Wesson .500 Magnum that freedom thrives, and the sovereignty of The United States can continue on into the next centuries well beyond the twenty-first. The .500 Magnum is the tool with which freedom is obtained from the academic intentions of the dainty minded United Nations politician and their naive world view reflected in appalling constructs such as their first treaty regulating the international arms trade which is step one in a global gun ban they hope to enact within the next three decades. With that in mind, please get to know my friend, the .500 Magnum. And if I were you, I’d become intimately familiar and make friends with your own so that together the aims of The United Nations can be beaten back into submission from their intentions to rule over the affairs of life in America and every household within its borders.
Rich Hoffman
“If they attack first………..blast em’!”
April 6, 2013
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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’!”
April 5, 2013
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’!”
April 4, 2013
The Road We Are Traveling
Reblogged from Soldier For Liberty:
For those who do not believe President Obama is a Fabian Socialist, please take a small peak at what Fabian Socialism encompasses. Then decide for yourself is this is what you want America to be. I have included a free pdf copy of a book entitled The Road We Are Traveling from 1942, if this subject is of interest to you.
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 13th 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 13th 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 13th 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.
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Rich Hoffman
“If they attack first………..blast em’!”
