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March 15, 2013

Atlas Shrugged Part III Coming in 2014: John Aglialoro’s tenacious commitment to freedom

No matter how bad things appear to be in modern politics, there are philosophical debates occurring that have never before been so accurately debated as they are currently, and John Aglialoro and his team of film makers working on the Atlas Shrugged films are at the heart of that push. While traditional media views box office results as the most important measure of success, many of them are oblivious as to why John Aglialoro after two box office failures of the Atlas films in Part I and now Part II, he is in script development on Part III which is scheduled for a summer 2014 release. In fact, his target date is the Fourth of July.

What many casual observers have failed to account for is that we are currently in an age of new media, where blogs and independent film have access to mass audiences through their computer screens. So while Hollywood attempts to hedge their products to the known markets carefully studied by studios run by mostly progressive investments injected into the studio system and filmgoers still show a willingness to spend $10 to $15 for a movie experience in a neighborhood multiplex, film makers like John Aglialoro are making his films for the new media market. While critics blasted the opening of Atlas Shrugged Part 2 in October of 2012 hoping to kill the film for its conservative messages, the DVD sales are sizzling in the spring of 2013 as audiences concerned with being seen in public viewing such a controversial film are more than willing to watch the movie in the privacy of their own home.

I think Aglialoro is at a similar place that George Lucas was at when he released his film THX-1138 to theaters in 1973. Nobody knew what to do with the film studios tried to cut the hell out of it. It took a long, long time for people to even accept THX-1138 which I believe was based closely on Ayn Rand’s novel Anthem, although I doubt he’d admit it in the light of day today—for fear of being lynched. Aglialoro is making an independent film in the Atlas pictures with a message that will upset a major portion of the American population, and he knows it—which is the point of the film. Art is not supposed to always be didactic stimulation of pleasurable emotions. Sometimes, it’s a mirror that we must look at which reflects the kind of society we are. This was the case in one of my all time favorite independent films that Francis Ford Coppola produced called Koyaanisqatsi (English pronunciation: /k oʊ j ɑː n ɪ s ˈ k ɑː t s iː /)[1] also known as Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance. It’s a 1982 film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke. Koyaanisqatsi is one of my favorite films; I love it so much I have the soundtrack on CD. But, it could be said that much of the “green movement” was launched because of such films as progressives took the message to radical extremes which we see in the modern age 20 to 30 years later. Koyaanisqatsi as a film released today would be lucky to make $1 million dollars at the box office because it is just too heavy, and obscure for the average viewer. But, because of VHS video tape, and now DVDs, Koyaanisqatsi has been able to build up a kind of cult following over the last 30 years, and Coppola and Godfrey Reggio understood this when they produced the film. The goal was not to make money, although there does need to be a financial model that recovers the cost of making the film, the point was to make a statement about a “life out of balance.”

The filmmakers of Koyaanisqatsi interpreted that “out of balance life” with a progressive lens, but the way they recorded the impact of that balance was dramatic, and wonderful. However, the Atlas Shrugged films are also about a “life out of balance” but the solution goes several steps further than Koyaanisqatsi in analyzing the answer, which Aglialoro is quite well aware of. In a recent interview with Politico, Aglialoro explained why there was so much pushback against the Atlas films and why he is proceeding with the third one to an entertainment community that is shocked by his tenacity, “We’re not going to get critics coming on board,” Aglialoro said. “The academic-media complex out there doesn’t want to like the work, (Atlas films) doesn’t want to understand it, fears the lack of government in their lives, wants the presence of government taking care of us. … The MSNBC crowd doesn’t like us.” He’s right. Most of our current society the world over wants to believe in social theories that don’t work, and many more have built their lives around the type of balance shifting seen in Koyaanisqatsi only they are the cause of the destruction. They are the cause of the vacated buildings that were demolished from the public housing projects so famously destroyed in slow motion during the 1982 classic.

The making of the Atlas films are not only an adaptation of the Ayn Rand classic 1957 novel, but a statement about our current society. “The president said in his State of the Union address something to the effect of how preserving our individual freedoms means we must have collective action,” Aglialoro said. “Well, that’s contradicting the terms of the Declaration of Independence, that individual liberty is what we’re all about. So, there’s a clear opposition between that and Ayn Rand’s principles, based around life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” When most people are guilty of committing such contradictions, it is highly likely that they will not rush out to see a film that exploits their contradictions. However, because people are generally good, or at least want to do well, they do watch these movies on their own terms and take in the information slowly over time.

Aglialoro wanted very much to rush Atlas Shrugged Part II out prior to the election hoping that politicians would jump on the bandwagon of the messages articulated in his films. But even long time Ayn Rand supporters like Paul Ryan pulled a Judas trying to distance himself from his support of the novel Atlas Shrugged which he has given away to staff members for years as presents. When he joined up with Mitt Romney for a Presidential run they attempted to play it safe and move away from the perceived radicalism of supporting Ayn Rand—to their own demise. “It would have served the campaign well if he would have embraced the natural way to capitalism that Ayn Rand, and I think Romney and Ryan should have quoted [her] over and over and over again during the campaign, that it’s the producers who should be applauded and appreciated and not denigrated, that ‘rich’ is not a dirty, four-letter word. It’s a good, four-letter word.”

At a FreedomWorks event prior to the release of Part II Harmon Kaslow, one of the producers and right-hand man to John Aglialoro gave me a lapel pin molded in the symbol of the Atlas Shrugged production company. It was the same button he was wearing as he spoke to nearly 20,000 people at the Duke Energy Center in September of 2012. The lapel pin is one that I now wear just about everywhere I go because it symbolizes not a collective connection to the filmmakers, but the understanding that we are part of an exclusive club that “understands” the answer to our modern problems in America are not only addressed in films like Koyaanisqatsi. It is in the Atlas films that the real solutions are being explored, and the pill is hard to swallow for most people—because it requires them to think completely different about most everything in their life, and they are uncomfortable with that knowledge. The button that I wear is the official membership pin for Galt’s Gulch where people who think along the lines that I do spend their spare time in the same spirit that it was done in the novel—which will be explored extensively in Part III which is now in production.

To go one step beyond the lapel pin that Kaslow gave me, at the premier of Atlas II buttons in the sign of the dollar were handed out to viewers because those present understood that the film Aglialoro was making had within it the answers America needs. It is only a matter of time before the rest of the world comes to understand the lessons. The people with the button were those closest to that realization. It’s not to say that you must have a button or be a part of an exclusive club to understand the work of Ayn Rand. But in wearing the lapel pin it lets others know that they are not alone, and that everyone in the world is not a complete idiot. Objectivism is spreading as the work done by The Ayn Rand Institute and The Atlas Society are helping more and more people deal with the difficulties of understanding the philosophy of Objectivism being introduced to them in the films John Aglialoro is producing. I personally feel that Ayn Rand’s philosophy is but a first step in a new direction that America should have always been traveling down. Objectivism is not the end of the journey, but only the beginning. Ayn Rand does not have all the answers, but the ones she proposes are good first steps in the right direction. I find that the philosophy of Robert Pirsig takes Rand’s thoughts to another level with his work on the Metaphysics of Quality. In his two books Zen and the Art of Motorcycle and Lila Pirsig without intending to, he proved Ayn Rand’s theories, and therefore Aristotle’s original arguments over Plato correct with an actual science that breaks down “quality” into definitions that can be understood. The path of modern philosophy is on that course starting with Rand, being explored by Pirsig and then being further refined in modern and future philosophers. But the philosophies of Kant, and Marx with the modern Chomsky are going to be rejected over the next two hundred years—mark it on your calendar. The war we are currently in that Aglialoro is fighting with his Atlas films is one of crawling out from under the failed philosophies of Marx and advancing Rand. Therefore, Aglialoro’s efforts have been successful, and it is wonderful to see that he is able to produce his third installment after so much tribulation and social resistance. In the end will turn out to be a work of resurrection for the country of America.

The lapel pins that we wear in public are so that we can recognize one another from the dangerous souls that are still clinging to the failed philosophies of the past. Like the film They Live (CLICK FOR REVIEW) where the heroes found that the entire planet was plagued with aliens disguised inside of human bodies and they could only tell the difference between them and the aliens by the sunglasses they wore, the pins let us know that the wearer is a person of thought and intelligence who is committed to the future of the human race, instead of the looting destruction of it. The lapel pins are acts of defiance against a society that has gone mad with stupidity. But the pins also mean more than that; it is for them that John Aglialoro is making the Atlas films. As an independent film maker he knows that time will bring more people to seek their own lapel pins, but for now, they are refined to the quiet of their own homes to watch Atlas in stunned silence. The people who wear their pins proudly in public are those who rush out into the public to see the film in a theater and do not fear public support of such a controversial philosopher in Ayn Rand. In that spirit, I am very ecstatic that Part III will arrive in theaters in the summer of 2014. I will be the first one in line and I might well be covered in lapel pins, like the guy below.

Rich Hoffman

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March 14, 2013

Righteous Outrage toward Latte Sipping Prostitutes: Honoring the “BUST” of Ayn Rand

Bill O’Reilly calls it “Righteous Outrage” to explain away his tendency to blast people who attempt to spin the truth of a matter to such extremes that they avoid the perils of facts. He coined the phrase recently after his indignation over Alan Combs defense of Barack Obama, (CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW). But I have been using the tactic to great effect for a long time, and today is the one year anniversary of one of my most well-known escapades.

One year ago to this exact day the media all over Cincinnati jumped on the progressive bandwagon by calling me a “sexist” following the lead of a hand-full of radical school levy supporters. (CLICK FOR REVIEW) The reason was that my group No Lakota Levy had politically sidestepped a local West Chester charity in giving money to children to help pay for sports fees at the school which severely disrupted the political temperament of my community. I was also the Butler County Coordinator for the Workplace Freedom Amendment petition drive, which intends to bring right-to-work status to Ohio—which is of course extremely controversial. Governor Kasich is against the measure, so I had painted a very large target on my back. I had made sure that everyone saw the target by painting it myself with very bring colors. The school levy supporters who have their hand into just about every aspect of local politics—by design could not beat my arguments leaving them no choice but to attack me personally—which of course I would strike back. Then they would go to even more extremes until something broke. Normally, this is where conservatives stop and yield to the progressive. (CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW) I didn’t. Instead I went on a long and calculated rant calling my political enemies “Latte sipping prostitutes with rear ends the size of car tires and diamond rings to match,” which set of a rage off howls in protest. My “righteous outrage” had achieved the desired effect.

Progressive feminist groups thought they had me on a hook for character assassination. They lashed out with a fury that can be seen at the end of this article in the comments that were sent to me during the media blitz, and in public protests as can be seen by CLICKING HERE. All of this behavior was expected, and the behavior calculated. I even had meetings with people a month before hand on how to stir up the “hornets nest” of the type of people who support school levies with mindless emotional dedication to progressive ideology. I had decided that traditional politics would no longer work because the other side did not fear anything from conservatives. My political enemies expected my conservative politics to yield in the face of name calling, so a new strategy was needed. For that strategy, I turned to a book I greatly treasure on my book shelf titled, A General History of the Pyrates (correct spelling) written controversially in 1724 by Daniel DaFoe, or Nathaniel Mist under the pseudonym Captain Charles Johnson. I realized that the progressive liberals, and progressive Republicans were both playing a game against everyone in the middle, and the trend had to stop—and that meant that a tactic that was more reminiscent of past victories against similar forces that had been successful needed to be utilized with “righteous outrage.” I found the examples I was looking for in that very wonderful book that I read often in harsh candlelight of dark nights to capture the spirit for which it was written. So I created my new strategy knowing that people I thought were friends would abandon me in favor of their love of political pull, and my enemies could be moved to reveal their hearts with “righteous outrage.” The political structure itself needed to be attacked. This resulted in the bait of blood that was thrown into the water which the “latte sipping prostitutes” converged on like piranhas in an Amazonian tributary.

I didn’t mind the criticism and enjoyed the jests until I heard the words calling me a sexist leveled in my direction. The term “sexist” is always directed at anyone who does not support the progressive version of women’s rights and even though I knew it was coming, it did piss me off in ways I will never forget or yield to. The hypocrisy of progressives in calling anyone who thinks differently than they do names without expecting to receive the same in return is truly baffling. But even more baffling are those who allow it to occur. I would argue that Mitt Romney should have attacked back with “righteous outrage” when he was referred to as “sexist” in his position regarding his hiring of women in his famous “folders” incident exposed in the 2012 Presidential debates. The progressive attack is the same with Romney that I experienced at the local level in the Cincinnati media which comes directly from the Saul Alinsky book of strategy called Rules for Radicals, which all progressives seem to use in virtually every confrontation. To beat this book that the left uses so effectively was the reason I turned to my good friend Captain Johnson in A General History of the Pyrates. A lot can be learned of the way that Blackbeard blockaded Charleston and turned the entire city into fearful servants to his cause. The characters and politics are virtually the same as today, and people behave with the same motivations——especially the dastardly progressive and their European sensibilities. The study of Blackbeard’s strategies while being immoral, are practical when discovering the various uses of “righteous outrage” to exploit the weaknesses of an enemy.

The same feminists who attempted to paint me with the “sexist” brush failed miserably because they neglected to address the kind of hypocrisy that always comes up when they start casting accusations based on their very limited political ideology. In my life aside from being married for nearly a quarter century, raising two daughters and working with women for many years successfully without ever being thought of as a “sexist” many of the values I typically celebrate openly are dedicated to a couple of women who I think a whole lot of, Annie Oakley and Ayn Rand. Only ignorant fools believe everything that people tell them, which is why they constantly vote in favor of big government programs and school levies. This is the tendency that needed to be exploited when the accusations in my case were so far from the truth that everybody could easily see how audacious the lies, the smearing, and the propaganda truly were. My description of the typical levy supporter behavior was intended for their ears, yet the progressive feminist movement within the Lakota School District wanted to pull all women into their collective crusade of man hating. Their lives are hypocrisies of the highest order yet they have shaped the political landscape of our modern country in such destructive ways. They claim they want Beta Men when they really want 50 Shades of Grey. CLICK FOR MORE INFO.

What surprised me was how few men wanted to publicly support my comments, especially on talk radio. In private everyone said they supported my opinions, but in public they said they couldn’t, because as they put it, “we want to get laid at least once a month.” That confession in its own right said a lot and it took me a couple of months to properly categorize the severity level of the problem this has caused in our political society, which has been documented extensively here. But for feminists to call me a sexist when I have so openly supported Ayn Rand is like calling a guy eating a big juicy hamburger a “vegan.” Ayn Rand it would seem should be embraced by feminists as she created in the novel Atlas Shrugged the strongest female hero ever for any fictional story in Dagny Taggert. Yet the same type of women I purposely called latte sipping prostitutes because of their lack of understanding about finances and their neurotic social behavior which desired to be subsidized by the Lakota tax payer, do not support Ayn Rand. In fact they are the kind of people who typically find any reference to Ayn Rand despicable.

The feminist movement has never been about rights for women—as it was sold. It is about the destruction of the American family, and it is about enslaving all women into collective ideology. Ayn Rand spoke about real independence. The progressive feminist movement is about dependency. Not dependency on a man, or her family, but on the collective plight of women. Knowing this, I wanted to expose it. And in doing so a light was put on just how ridiculous these radical progressive feminists truly are—who shape modern politics in such destructive ways. The answer for the progressive feminist is more government to make women equal, not actually making women equal or superior to men—as I’ve stated I believe should be the public attitude. Men should treat women as their betters—and this position frightens the kind of women I called out in Lakota and the type of women who attempt to advance progressive politics with government expansion. Of course not all women believe what the nutty feminist does; most women would like to live in the type of world that Ayn Rand created for Dagny Taggert. And most men would respect Dagny without even thinking of her as a woman. It is this trait alone that exposes the modern progressive feminist as a fraud. When they preach independence for women and equal pay, they really mean government dependence and just another form of modern slavery. When presented with two options, collective identification with other progressive women which can be seen on any episode of Opera or the independence of a woman like Dagny Taggert written about in Ayn Rand’s classic novel Atlas Shrugged the progressive picks the slavery and dooms the advocate of independence.

This is why I am considering buying the replica of Ayn Rand seen above. The artist did such a wonderful job in creating the features of Ayn Rand who deserves her place in history as one of the greatest literary figures ever known……….who happens to be a woman. If not just for her literary achievements, she worked out the issues of her Objectivism philosophy which is taking hold and shaping the current freedom movement. In some says Ayn Rand is the Sam Adams of our day. Her written work is changing minds and policy in similar ways that Adams did when the colonists where breaking away from England in 1771 to 1773. If I purchased the displayed bust of Ayn Rand I would exhibit it proudly in my living room under my gigantic banner for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers skull that hangs in my foyer so that visitors could see how important Ayn Rand is to my household. But more than anything Ayn Rand is a progressive killer, because if Ayn had been a man, the feminists might have been able to launch a successful argument against the current freedom movement. Being a woman however, exposes the feminist for their true intentions and gives people like me plenty of cannon balls to fire off in the direction of the progressive nut jobs whose very existence is a devious testament to slavery in the name of real independence.

When I said what I did which caused such a stir a year ago, I knew that it would be painful on the front end, but that slowly over the coming weeks and months, the hypocrisy would be seen by the public at large, which it has. I knew of the hypocrisy because of my yearly work celebrating the birthday of Annie Oakley with the Wild West rituals I share with my friends in the show business industry. And I knew about the hypocrisy from comparing Ayn Rand’s work to the bizarre political position of the modern progressive—and it had come time to expose them with some flash and fanfare. Even still, when I meet people in public my comments of one year ago are still fresh in people’s minds and it brings a smile to their faces. The smile is from acknowledging that they think the same thing that I do, only they were too timid to ever express such a thing in public—which has always been the strategic design behind Rules for Radicals—to expose the trustworthy nature of the neutral human being. (Yes, I have read the book and am turning the strategy against those who have used it against the good of us for years. The book is a work of evil and is dedicated to Lucifer, so I have NO problem attacking it with my own pirate tactics. It deserves to be attacked, believe me. And if you don’t, then read it yourself) The way to take America back from the progressive is to turn their strategies against them and when they call people like myself “greedy, selfish, heartless human beings” for standing against their desire for free government babysitting in public education then they deserve to be called worse by me in return—and I will continue to do so, until they get the message and stop asking for handouts. If they want respect, they will have to act like Dagny Taggert or a character from an Ayn Rand novel. If they want more ridicule then keep acting like Hillary Clinton or Betty Friedan. Independence does not mean more government assistance—it means independence in every fashion of the word. To date, such a definition has never been more clearly defined for women or men than in the work of Ayn Rand, which is why I admire the sculpture so much and would love to obtain one for my private collection. Her bust highlights the events of our day in a fashion that history will remember with clarity when it looks into her clay filled eyes with pride that only time will paint in the correct context.

Now enjoy reading below the mind of some Latte Sipping Prostitutes with asses the size of car tires and diamond rings to match! These are just a sample of the kind of people who support school levies in the Lakota School District. Also to The Cincinnati Enquirer—specifically Michael Clark, who provoked these comments…………..enjoy the demise of your paper after the 97 layoffs you had this past week, 1/3rd of your entire workforce. You only have your reporting to blame. I told you in my back yard after you said I could trust you even though your wife worked for a local school system that I’d treat you fair until you tried to screw me over. Well, fairness is no longer on the table. I never forget. Don’t be surprised when I spend my free time looking to send the people involved in the below comments to Davy Jones locker (metaphorically speaking). To understand what comes next, I suggest reading A General History of the Pyrates. Much more “righteous outrage” can be expected:

Some of us “stupid” women were thinking ahead and copied every one of your controversial blog entries onto our computers before you had a chance to protect them. You’re going down.

Latte-drinking Mama March 13, 2012 at 2:42 pm Edit

Have to see what your corporate sponsors will say when the read your comments. It’s one thing to have an opinion and back it up with stats, but what you said was just angry ranting.

Concerned Parent

March 16, 2012 at 4:52 pm Edit

You can’t insult people the way you do and then get all testy when they comment back. I think you should be more concerened about being exposed as a righty-Beck/Rand wingnut. I’m just sayin’.

You are obviously off your rocker.

parent

March 14, 2012 at 12:41 am Edit

Through in some rogain and dexatrim for yourself!

Awesome, yeah, with all your save tax dollars, get some crest!
FuckYou March 7, 2012 at 7:31 pm Edit

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Submitted on 2012/03/19 at 4:40 pm
HA HA HA! LAKOTA DOESN’T WANT YOU…HA HA HA! Its a sign that you are a nobody when groups start running away from you.

ha ha ha ha ha!!!

Who in their right mind would want to increase taxes on themselves so that confused derelicts like those seen above will be happy? Only the type of people who adhere to progressive feminism while chastising women like Ayn Rand would think such a thing rational. It is for that reason alone that when I get the “bust” of Ayn Rand set up in my foyer, I will honor it every day as the most effective progressive deterrent known to mankind.

Rich Hoffman

In the story of Anthem the word “I” has been eradicated from civilization. Collectivism is so rampant that all personal references such as the word, “I” have been removed from the vocabulary. The story is about the lead character rediscovering that word first through his attraction to a woman, then by rediscovering the light bulb, then understanding that only he can bring civilization back from the brink of destruction by starting over on his own. But before he can do this, he must overcome the personal crises of learning what “I” means. His hero journey is this discovery and is the point of the book which is extremely powerful.

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March 13, 2013

The Overmanwarrior Film Festival: Short films dedicated to Ayn Rand’s ‘Anthem’

One of the reasons I have not been to a film festival since 2009 is because of my political stances. Due to the initiation of the school levy fights and other issues it has become difficult to have cordial relationships with other creative people attracted to the entertainment industry. When hard lines are taken like the ones I have, it makes friendly lunch meetings with industry professionals impossible, because small talk is out of the window. And I knew this ahead of time. The work here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom is a project of journeying down the rabbit hole of American philosophy where most everybody else is uncomfortable. The result is that I haven’t been to a film festival in a while because the film makers I most appreciate are not being featured. However, that does not mean that such independent efforts are not happening. Creative artistic expression is in fact thriving because of the freedom afforded by the internet—as calculated, and voices of Objectivism are making themselves heard in the infant stages of a new movement that will only grow over the next 30 years. Below are three summaries/scenes from the Ayn Rand classic Anthem which is a short book that can be read entirely over a long breakfast—but is infinitely powerful in it’s articulation of the present human condition. Please do enjoy these three films shown below, and watch them completely. If you have not read Anthem the films will be entertaining. If you have, you will instantly understand them. The visual presentation is the kind of things that are typically shown at film festivals, and thanks to YouTube, the need for film festivals has been reduced as projects like these Anthem tributes can now be shared without the usual network controls. A few years ago, there was simply no way the public would have a chance to see films like these, because no festival and no network of any kind would show them, particularly the IFC, or Sundance Channels on cable television. So film makers didn’t go to the trouble of making these kinds of short films. But thanks to new media, filmmakers are beginning to attempt these types of projects, which make our culture much “richer” for it.

I can see how people would have trouble with the novel Anthem. Most can’t understand how human civilization can unlearn all that it has learned. However, if my article about The Nothing is referenced, it is easy to see that our current society is receding. We are going backwards intellectually and this is due to our media culture and public education systems. We are less intellectual in 2013 than we were in 1776 even with all the education that is available to us—and that is obvious when the writing of the period is compared to the writing of the modern period. The intellectual capacity is obvious as over-specialization has permeated our society with intellectual paralysis forcing collectivism to support the specialization tendencies. This is not having a positive trend economically, or intellectually—but is taking mankind in the opposite direction.

I first grappled with this tendency several years ago well before I ever read an Ayn Rand novel. Two literary achievements started my mind down this rabbit hole of destruction. The first was the Robert Jordan series titled The Wheel of Time. That series of books is massive, each book consisting of more than 700 pages and there are 14 books in the whole body of work. At first I thought I was reading a kind of Lord of the Rings type of achievement because the characters are using magic and riding around on horses. It takes a long time to get from one village to another and people live in a society where there isn’t even plumbing. So I imagined that the society depicted in The Wheel of Time books was one that took place in something like a 13th century European setting—like Lord of the Rings. However, as the story becomes more advanced it is learned that the relics of an ancient civilization begin to be uncovered and studied. That ancient civilization turns out to be our own time in the distant future where technologies that have not yet been invented are present—but somehow knowledge to that society had been completely lost.

The other book I read was Forbidden Archeology, which I have spoken about before. This is a fantastic book that chronicles the massive collection of archeological and anthropological evidence that has been ignored by current universities due to “academic collectivism.” As proven in Forbidden Archeology universities are guilty of molding our understanding of the past due to the collective efforts of previous colleagues. Anything that falls outside of that collective understanding is ignored. My first reaction to this very big book was………..NO WAY. CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW. That would be impossible. There is too much written and known for such an open censorship of knowledge to occur. But then I learned how education works up close and personal with my fights against higher taxes and saw first hand how educators lie to themselves all the time and ignore evidence even when it is obvious to the rest of the world.

When I put on WLW radio the argument that tax increase were driven purely by greedy unions and high salary expectations I wanted to make the problem widely known to see how the schools reacted, so I could prove the theories presented in Forbidden Archeology. Of course the results have been well documented at this site much to my own anger, because I didn’t want to believe that “academic collectivism” was such a destructive force in our current world. Now, it is quite clear—our current society is actually regressing, and if left alone for another 200 or 300 years, we could easily become the kind of society that was depicted in Ayn Rand’s Anthem.

When Robert Jordan wrote his Wheel of Time series, the society in the story has recently went full circle—it had risen to a technological height then fallen back into the realm of a primitive and his protagonists are struggling to re-emerge to an age of intellectualism and invention. In Ayn Rand’s Anthem the hero takes the girl of his choice to the mountains to re-invent society again from the collapse of the previous one that occurred so slowly that nobody even noticed the regression, because the regression took place over a period of hundreds of years. To measure that regression just examine American history where in the year 1776 there was a declaration for the human race to be free of collectivism so typical in Europe. The early Americans functioned for a few hundred years without the direct influence of a king, yet had the values they learned from an educated society and for the first time in history produced people like Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson who could function without fear of being beheaded for flying a kite with a key tied to it. But it didn’t last long. Europeans continued to move to America and settle on the East Coast bringing little bits of Europe with them, and the regression began. Now just over 200 years later, the regression of our society is measurable—it can be seen easily that the wisest among our current society can’t hold a candle to the wisest of early American society. Another two hundred years of such a regression could easily produce a society that is seen in the film clips above—without question.

At the last film festival I attended in 2009 I was beginning to grapple with this problem of “academic collectivism” which was very present in film, especially independent films. Many of the themes discussed dealt with lower chakra topics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakra) of the primary animal instincts, sex, food, and making money—and I had lost interest. It hit me like a ton of bricks while dining at a Lakewood restaurant. My resolution after that meeting, and last film festival was to start this site so to stop the trend toward human destruction through “academic collectivism.” On my way down the rabbit hole, it started with school funding to prove the tendency of “academic collectivism” then to challenge the public acceptance of that trend so to prevent a society like the one seen in Anthem. “Academic collectivism” was already in the process of suppressing Ayn Rand after her work had achieved so much in the 40s, 50s and 60s, only to be gradually squeezed out of American culture slowly by the 70s and 80s, and modern art through the same methods had been hard at work focusing mankind on the lower centers of thought and selling it as if it were a revelation. But the reality is that we are all on a Wheel of Time where all this has happened before, and will happen again if the trend downward is not stopped. That is the fight of our day, and if addressing that trend causes blacklisting—then so be it. Yet even with the blacklisting that goes on, we must be thankful that like 1776 the human race is currently undergoing a second revolution of freedom provided by the internet, where communication can bypass all control mechanisms of the old guard dedicated to academic collectivism. As a recent article of mine recently explored, the statues of Easter Island were just discovered to have had full bodies under the ground, and for years academics had traveled to different conclusions falsely. CLICK HERE TO REVIEW. Because of the internet, the story broke, and academics are being forced to amend their previous conclusions about the origin of Easter Island which appears to be much more advanced than a bunch of cannibals living on a remote island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Like the characters of Anthem, the cultures of the Pacific Ocean who were moving giant rocks with mysterious methods and building roads on the bottom of the ocean hint at a world that was more advanced than our present one, but has long been suppressed by academic collectivism by a few minds who dare question that reality. In that context, it is not so extraordinary to comprehend that the main character of Anthem had an extraordinary journey in the book all because he re-discovered the light bulb—something we take for granted today and see happening every day on the nightly news.

Rich Hoffman

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March 12, 2013

The History of Capitalism: A presentation from the Atlas Society

Due to much of the confusion that exsists about the economic nature of capitalism–as the progressive types have so rigorously attacked it, many do not understand what it even is. So for those who do not understand capitalism, and for those who think they understand capitalism, yet still find themselves destructive agents of human doom I would like the present Guillermo Pineda who spoke at the Atlas Summit in 2012 in Washington D.C. — We hear all the time that “capitalism is the system that has shaped our world.” However, the fact that capitalism is a social system that has never existed in its full, perfect, and unregulated form is never mentioned. As Ayn Rand clearly stated, the only time in history in which we came close to a laissez-faire capitalist society was in the 19th century. The seminar explores the history of capitalism in the last 250 years. How did capitalism function in the past? Does it still exist today? What hope is there for the future? Part 2 looks at the assault against capitalism in the 20th century and considers where we find ourselves today.

Guillermo Pineda is a double degree MA global studies candidate at Leipzig University and Roskilde University. He founded the Center for the Study of Capitalism in Guatemala and has studied and promoted Objectivist philosophy for several years. Now, grab a snack and enjoy listening to Pineda’s 2 part lesson on capitalism.

Rich Hoffman

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Published on March 12, 2013 19:18

Making Ronald Reagan the far Left of Extremism: Progressives attack Rand Paul’s filibuster

Progressives are vile despicable creatures in that they wish to change America from its traditional roots of Excepetionalism and convert us all over into dependents of collectivism. For clarification all one needs to do is watch The Ed Show from the big labor progressive advocate on MSNBC whose motto is “Lean Forward” which was also seen in President Obama’s last presidential campaign and even school levy attempts by government schools. I would say the easiest way to understand what progressives mean by “lean forward” is to direct America away from the kind of country that Jimmy Stewart talked about in the 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington—which is one of my favorite movies of all time. I like it almost as much as Jimmy Stewart’s It’s a Wonderful Life. When I ask myself why Hollywood doesn’t make movies like those anymore, I already know the answer—it’s because of progressives like what can be seen on The Ed Show who have ripped America so far to the political left with their radicalism leaving traditional Americans wondering where their country went. Rand Paul obviously shares with me a love for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington—he named his book, The Tea Party Goes To Washington—and performed a wonderfully articulate 13 hour filibuster similar to what Jimmy Stewart did in that classic film, the magic that most people on both sides of the political spectrum felt was fathomable. It terrified progressives to varying degrees from both parties who rose to the surface quickly in the wake to attack Paul in the usual manner. Watch, listen and take notes.

It is important to watch how the progressive thinks and acts, so the clips from The Ed Show shown above are important. The perpetrators of progressive doom revealed themselves in the panic that followed Rand’s filibuster. The attempt by the radical progressives to attack what they believe is the extreme conservative right is to undo the gains that Rand Paul achieved in his filibuster. Obviously John McCain revealed to what extent he is a left leaning progressive and Lindsey Graham did the same even though they are both Rinos (Republicans In Name Only). The blood of America trending toward the left is on their hands as they preach pacifism and are continuously outmaneuvered by the likes of Democratic strategists like James Carvel. McCain was embarrassingly foolish in his post filibuster comments in attempting to invoke that his Republican Party was the party of Ronald Reagan and that Rand Paul was a radical far-right nut job trying to appeal to the young, foolish libertarians who subscribe to conspiracy theories, black helicopters and government assassinations. When McCain said that Americans have nothing to fear from their government he spoke from the heart of a man who was obviously defeated mentally while in captivity during his own ordeal in the military and has lost his mind. He helped shape the NDAA Act which is what Rand Paul was specifically addressing in relation to the drone strikes which identified the entire nation of America as a potential war zone. CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW. Progressives through their mentality hope that nobody pays attention to the news from a year ago and connects the dots to the present, and taking the drone program into consideration with the NDAA Act of last year—there is very good reason to be concerned.

I remember listening to the radio in the 1990’s when the Truckin Bozo was on the air at 700 WLW from midnight to 5 AM every night and reports would come in from truckers carrying suspicious freight for the government from one destination to another, which we now know led to the FEMA coffins stationed all over the country and the genuine concern that some converted rail stations have been turned into potential FEMA camps ready to hold domestic prisoners in case of some national tragedy. The Truckin Bozo was called a crazy conspiracy theorist by mainstream media in much the way that progressives are attempting to shape Rand Paul’s filibuster. During the Clinton days even as people connected to the Clintons ended up mysteriously dead with mounds of body bags that followed them from one elected office to the next, and Bill Clinton’s brother was involved in a drug trafficking operation at a Little Rock airport which Bill’s governor’s office ran cover for while “Slick Willie” molested many women openly, then smeared them when they attempted to expose Clinton, anyone who pointed out the facts was called a “nut job” a “radical hack” a commentator of “hate speech,” and many other things. In 1995 through 1998 the prospect of economic collapse in America seemed remote even though conspiracy theorist like Jim Marrs said that the Bilderberg meetings were staging a World Bank takeover of the entire world and that the Bush family was involved in a massive conspiracy with the Tri-Lateral Commission. Those same theorist said that President Clinton was working toward a goal of a “New World Order” and that much of what we saw in regard to politics was just a show between the two parties who actually held hands and kissed behind the scenes. All that conspiracy stuff was ruled as crazy to talk in public as the mainstream newspapers, television media, and magazines established the rules of reporting—and anything that fell outside of those boundaries was deemed “radical.”

Then there was 9/11 and a rapid expansion of government under President Bush Jr. as a reaction to the terrorist attack, massive national debt, and a sitting president who stated, “I’ve Abandoned Free Market Principles To Save The Free Market System.” Then we gained Obama as a president, a guy who mysteriously attempted to suppress his past, made a big deal about his birth certificate, was educated as a child in Jakarta, had communist grandparents who raised him, strange ties to the terrorist organization The Weather Underground, had a strange affection to the known communist Frank Marshell Davis, and seemed willing to mislead the public at every turn like a car salesman trying to sell a car without an engine to a little old lady’s old fashioned gullibility. Obama is presently on course to run up the national debt to 20 trillion dollars and now stories about the collapse of the American dollar which floated out of conspiracy theory in the 1990s suddenly don’t sound so crazy—because it’s happening.

So should it come as any surprise that fringe groups in America are on the rise? Absolutely not, American people have seen that they have been lied to and they no longer know who to trust and they are rather pissed off about it. It turns out that people like Lindsey Graham and John McCain are the types of politicians who created the present conditions of economic doom and like their progressive allies shown typically on The Ed Show, they are in a tizzy over Rand Paul and the kind of people who are moving toward Paul’s form of conservativism because that is very bad for progressive politics. Sadly what John McCain does not understand is that people like me, and obviously Rand Paul are not happy with just the party of Ronald Reagan. Reagan at one point attempted to join the Communist Party and he loved and adored FDR as a young man. Reagan was a good actor who was able to bring some old-fashioned flair from the kind of movies that Hollywood produced during the days of Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, but his personal politics were too liberal for me. To progressives, Ronald Reagan was the example of radical right winged politics and to John McCain he was the bench mark of conservativism. Yet to me, Reagan was an actor who attempted to be a card-carrying communist and was only a shadow of what remained of Hollywood during the era of the Jimmy Stewart films, which he was able to utilize to get America to believe in itself again after the Jimmy Carter years. The hard stuff like keeping the defense budget trimmed down during a Cold War, and eliminating the Department of Education during his first years in office like he promised to do went unanswered, as those types of management decisions fell outside of Ronald Reagan’s charm and acting ability.

To progressives it’s a “radical” idea to expect government to balance their budgets, stand for personal values, and exhibit a lack of intrusion into the personal lives of American citizens. For having those expectations advocates like Rand Paul appears to support are called radicals, nut-jobs, and “fringe extremists” by those who are the real extremists—whose social designs intend for American to lean forward to a progressive tomorrow away from the sturdy foundations of tradition that used to view Ronald Reagan as a liberal. To John McCain’s point progressives have succeeded in moving America so far to the political left that Reagan is now considered a fringe right-winged lunatic—but for an increasing number of Americans who are supporting politicians like Rand Paul, there is a growing desire to turn away from both political parties and return to the love of America that Jimmy Stewart yearned for. And to date, only Rand Paul seems to understand that yearning—and has enough passion for to speak for 13 hours straight on one subject—and do it well. Most people can’t speak for 13 hours straight on everything they have in their brains.

Progressives are vile because they have been caught calling the “good” bad, and a “lie” the “truth” as can be seen in any school district in America that is run by government. They are sinister because they want more of the same, and wish to destroy with increasing frequency everything that traditional Americans value. They are the apologizers for mass killing, and coercion by force. Progressives are the same group of people who will seek to use children’s lives to pass school levies or gun control legislation after tragedies but support aborting thousands of babies in government sanctioned murders. They are a vile, corrupt group of people who are worthless parasites to the human race and they have the NERVE to call anyone who desires honesty, responsibility, and accountability–radicals! Increasingly, the offerings of modern politics have fallen short, and the manipulations of old are no longer working. Americans are beginning to demand better–better than John McCain, better than Barack Obama, better than Lindsey Graham, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton or any of the other power-hungry progressive parasites. Americans increasingly want someone who is more real than Ronald Reagan and who will make that actor look like a radical leftist in comparison to their conservative politics. In modern politics, there are few politicians who exhibit these traits……………………………..except one…………………….the politician who seems most to exhibit the traits of Jimmy Stewart’s desire for goodness to shine in Washington D.C., who conducted a filibuster, and saved the nation from its own demise with his bold sincerity. Not since Jimmy Stewart has a politician emerged in real life like Rand Paul. Paul’s recent filibuster will resonate for many years to come as it has invoked in America a sleeping desire that has long been suppressed by progressives for a way of life in Washington that will be so foreign to its modern inhabitants that the routine guests on The Ed Show might as well broadcast their show from a New Guinea head hunting village in the future. The America of tomorrow will be that foreign to them, and it has to be. There isn’t any other option at this point. The fear that such an idea congers up in the progressive is only hinted at by their reaction to Rand Paul’s filibuster. Little do they know that this is only the beginning. If they think things are radical now, wait to they see what comes next. All the politicians have failed us, both Republican and Democrat, and that failure is not tolerable.

Growing up I loved Ronald Reagan, and I still think he was the best president in well over 100 years, since perhaps Abraham Lincoln. But Reagan in my eyes was a bleeding heart liberal who was too far to the political left for my liking. My idea of a president isn’t even on the political stage. I voted for Ross Perot in both 1992 and 1996, over George Bush and Bob Dole. I don’t want the stuffy old puppets of the GOP and I certainly don’t want some domestic terrorist who couldn’t even manage a McDonalds sitting in The White House. Letting progressives set the goal posts of extreme right-winged thought where Ronald Reagan is the border just isn’t realistic, and not on the table of discussion. The best way for America to advance into tomorrow is to embrace the concepts of its past, before the influence of the vile progressive took hold, and start over with new goal posts where Reagan isn’t the goal post of the radical right, but of the radical left. That is when we can start solving problems and moving America once again into 200 more years of prosperity. Until then, nothing else is worthy of debate.

Rich Hoffman

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The Cincinnati Tea Party Defends “Fiscal Reponsibility”: Republicans attempt to become “compassionate conservatives” by copying Obama

The Cincinnati Tea Party took the hard stand of protesting Governor Kasich’s open acceptance of Obamacare by expanding Medicaid with heavy hearts, but wild ambition. Many traditional political pundits and strategists are not sure what to make of such an aggressive stand against what many thought was a Tea Party Governor. It was the Tea Party that put Kasich over the top of Ted Strickland in 2010 yet within just two years Kasich has shown a desire to take yet more government handouts from the federal government which erodes away state sovereignty under the 10th Amendment, and openly ignores the Healthcare Freedom Amendment that was passed in Ohio protecting all state residents from Obamacare. Republicans who many believe are behind the Tea Party movement are rather baffled to see Tea Party members treating them with the same aggressive vigor as they have progressive Democratic candidates. Yet when the Tea Party says it demands fiscal responsibility, free markets, and limited government, they mean it no matter who the perpetrator is or what political affiliation is next to their name.

To understand why and how the game is played between the federal government and state governments view this video done by members of The Cincinnati Tea Party. The basic essence behind Kasich’s expansion of Medicaid can be explained in the video.

Below is the link to the article from The Cincinnati Tea Party website where pictures of the event can be seen.

In a video from Channel 5 seen at one of the links below the camera ended on the face of Bill Cunningham of 700 WLW who at one time considered himself a “libertarian,” even a “conservative,” but nearly single-handedly undermined his friend John Kasich in the famous Senate Bill 5 election. Cunningham learned then what Kasich is learning now, that they are both the kinds of politicians and media personalities who have taken the country to the brink of fiscal collapse. It is people like them who give Obama power, and federal influence over a state like Ohio. When Cunningham said on the day after this rally on his radio show, “who wouldn’t take federal money if it helped to balance the budget.” Well the answer is, Tea Party supporters wouldn’t, which is why they were protesting outside when the real culprits were inside patting themselves on the back. If Kasich wants to be “compassionate” then let him give all his money to the poor, but don’t demand that everybody else has to throw some of their money in the pot of Ohio. That is no different from what Obama does—and they are both wrong.

Under the new definitions of politics that The Cincinnati Tea Party is beginning to define it is not “compassionate” to steal other people’s money to redistribute to others, which is what Medicaid does and what the expansion of it will achieve. John Kasich is not a “compassionate conservative” because he’s reaching out to the poor, and downtrodden. It simply makes him a thief who sought a way to circumnavigate the Health Care Freedom Amendment with the expansion of a giant federal program with socialist tendencies in Medicaid. The Tea Party does not exist to run for office or control a political party. It exists for one reason, to maintain fiscal responsibility, demand limited government, and maintain free markets in America. Everything else is the workings of politicians who wish to make their marks on history by stealing from others so that they can buy votes with other people’s effort. As can be seen easily, the John Kasich seen at the video below and the Kasich seen at any of the links following the video are different people. Go ahead…………look for yourself.

And a side note to Ann………………I’m proud of you! Nice job!

Channel 5 – http://www.wlwt.com/news/local-news/cincinnati/WLWT-sits-down-with-Gov-Kasich-to-discuss-health-care/-/13549970/19276792/-/format/rsss_2.0/item/0/-/12gsl7u/-/index.html

Channel 19 – http://www.fox19.com/story/21579050/cincy-tea-party-protests-kasichs-medicaid-expansion-plan

Enquirer – http://cincinnati.com/blogs/politics/2013/03/11/tea-party-to-protest-gov-john-kasich-speech/

Business Journal – http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2013/03/11/cincinnati-tea-party-to-protest-kasich.html

Rich Hoffman

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Published on March 12, 2013 14:45

March 11, 2013

What If All Illegal Aliens Left America: Real numbers behind all the emotion

The letter below was written by Tina Griego and was passed on to me by a reader here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom. Enjoy!

What if 20 Million Illegal Aliens Vacated America?

I, Tina Griego, journalist for the Denver Rocky Mountain News wrote a column titled, “Mexican Visitor’s Lament.” I interviewed Mexican journalist Evangelina Hernandez while visiting Denver last week. Hernandez said, “Illegal aliens pay rent, buy groceries, buy clothes. What happens to your country’s economy if 20 million people go away?” Hmmm, I thought, what would happen?

So I did my due diligence, buried my nose as a reporter into the FACTS I found below.

It’s a good question, it deserves an honest answer. Over 80% of Americans demand secured borders and illegal migration stopped. But what would happen if all 20 million or more vacated America? The answers I found may surprise you!

In California, if 3.5 million illegal aliens moved back to Mexico, it would leave an extra $10.2 billion to spend on overloaded school systems, bankrupt hospitals and overrun prisons. It would leave highways cleaner, safer and less congested. Everyone could understand one another as English became the dominant language again.

In Colorado, 500,000 illegal migrants, plus their 300,000 kids and grandchilds would move back “home,” mostly to Mexico. That would save Colorado an estimated $2 billion (other experts say $7 billion) annually in taxes that pay for schooling, medical, social-services and incarceration costs. It means 12,000 gang members would vanish out of Denver alone.

Colorado would save more than $20 million in prison costs, and the terror that those 7,300 alien criminals set upon local citizens. Denver Officer Don Young and hundreds of Colorado victims would not have suffered death, accidents, rapes and other crimes by illegals.

Denver Public Schools would not suffer a 67% dropout/flunk rate because of thousands of illegal alien students speaking 41 different languages. At least 200,000 vehicles would vanish from our gridlocked cities in Colorado. Denver’s 4% unemployment rate would vanish as our working poor would gain jobs at a living wage.

In Florida, 1.5 million illegals would return the Sunshine State back to America, the rule of law, and English.

In Chicago, Illinois, 2.1 million illegals would free up hospitals, schools, prisons and highways for a safer, cleaner and more crime-free experience.

If 20 million illegal aliens returned ‘home,’ the U.S. Economy would return to the rule of law. Employers would hire legal American citizens at a living wage. Everyone would pay their fair share of taxes because they wouldn’t be working off the books. That would result in an additional $401 Billion in IRS income taxes collected annually, and an equal amount for local, state and city coffers.

No more push ’1′ for Spanish or ’2′ for English. No more confusion in American schools that now must contend with over 100 languages that degrade the educational system for American kids. Our overcrowded schools would lose more than two million illegal alien kids at a cost of billions in ESL and free breakfasts and lunches.

We would lose 500,000 illegal criminal alien inmates at a cost of more than $1.6 billion annually. That includes 15,000 MS-13 gang members who distribute $130 billion in drugs annually would vacate our country.

In cities like L.A., 20,000 members of the ’18th Street Gang’ would vanish from our nation. No more Mexican forgery gangs for ID theft from Americans! No more foreign rapists and child molesters!

Losing more than 20 million people would clear up our crowded highways and gridlock. Cleaner air and less drinking and driving American deaths by illegal aliens!

America’s economy is drained. Taxpayers are harmed. Employers get rich. Over $80 billion annually wouldn’t return to the aliens’ home countries by cash transfers. Illegal migrants earned half that money untaxed, which further drains America’s economy which currently suffers an $8.7 trillion debt. $8.7 trillion debt !!At least 400,000 anchor babies would not be born in our country, costing us $109 billion per year per cycle. At least 86 hospitals in California, Georgia and Florida would still be operating instead of being bankrupt out of existence because illegals pay nothing via the EMTOLA Act.

Americans wouldn’t suffer thousands of TB and hepatitis cases rampant in our country-brought in by illegals unscreened at our borders.

Our cities would see 20 million less people driving, polluting and grid locking our cities. It would also put the ‘progressives’ on the horns of a dilemma; illegal aliens and their families cause 11% of our greenhouse gases.

Over one million of Mexico’s poorest citizens now live inside and along our border from Brownsville, Texas to San Diego, California in what the New York Times called, ‘colonias’ or new neighborhoods. Trouble is, those living areas resemble Bombay and Calcutta where grinding poverty, filth, diseases, drugs, crimes, no sanitation and worse. They live without sewage, clean water, streets, roads, electricity, or any kind of sanitation.

The New York Times reported them to be America’s new ‘Third World’ inside our own country. Within 20 years, at their current growth rate, they expect 20 million residents of those colonias. (I’ve seen them personally inTexas and Arizona; it’s sickening beyond anything you can imagine.)

By enforcing our laws, we could repatriate them back to Mexico. We should invite 20 million aliens to go home, fix their own countries and/or make a better life in Mexico. We already invite a million people into our country legally more than all other countries combined annually. We cannot and must not allow anarchy at our borders, more anarchy within our borders and growing lawlessness at every level in our nation

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It’s time to stand up for our country, our culture, our civilization and our way of life.

Interesting Statistics!

Here are 14 reasons illegal aliens should vacate America, and I hope they are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them:

1. $14 billion to $22 billion dollars are spent each year on welfare to illegal aliens (that’s Billion with a ‘B’) http://tinyurl.com/zob77.html

3. $7.5 billion dollars are spent each year on Medicaid for illegal aliens.http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

4. $12 billion dollars are spent each year on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they still cannot speak a word of English! http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

5. $27 billion dollars are spent each year for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

6. $3 Million Dollars ‘PER DAY’ is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. That’s $1.2 Billion a year.http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

7. 28% percent of all federal prison inmates are illegal aliens.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

8. $190 billion dollars are spent each year on illegal aliens for welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

9. $200 billion dollars per year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that’s two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US.http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

11. During the year 2005, there were 8 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our southern border with as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from other terrorist countries. Over 10,000 of those were middle-eastern terrorists. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin, crack, guns, and marijuana crossed into the U.S. from the southern border

12. The National Policy Institute, estimates that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion, or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period and nbsp;http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/publications.php?b=deportation

13. In 2006, illegal aliens sent home $65 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin, to their families and friends.http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

14. The dark side of illegal immigration: nearly one million sex crimes are committed by illegal immigrants in the United States!

Total cost a whopping $538.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR!

Rich Hoffman

The letter below is from the website of The Cincinnati Tea Party. CLICK HERE TO VISIT. This is the way to write a letter to politicians.

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Published on March 11, 2013 19:16

A Modern Thomas Paine: The way a letter to politicians should be written

One of our members has drafted a truly great letter to our local rep. Please read it and if so moved, copy and tweak it for your use. We truly have a modern-day Thomas Paine in our midst.

Dear Brad,

As I began to react to my immense disappointment in the absence of your commitment to Rep. Bridenstine’s effort to defund Obamacare, it struck me how intrusive this legislation has been in my life and everyone copied above. For the last four years, life has revolved around this monster. I made four trips to DC and was in the Capital when it passed. Three weeks later, I found myself in UC’s Neuroscience ICU following my husband’s brain injury declining trauma research participation for fear the data could compromise his level of care. My fellow Ohioans spent thousands of hours and dollars to pass the Healthcare Freedom Amendment by 66%. The 2nd District liberty grassroots committed to your candidacy to replace Jean Schmidt due to her willfully serving as a puppet for the RINOs in leadership and failing to represent us on this issue. Now we must spend more hours of our family time beating back the tentacle of Medicaid expansion due to the unprincipled action of Governor Kasich and I’m spending inordinate amounts of time tending to the enormous regulations put upon small businesses along with the 40% premium increase. All the while, the power to stop this has existed in the House, the GOP Majority House, since January 2011. This could have ended long ago if John Boehner would have led the 2010 grassroots elected members in that direction instead of capitulating to Obama and playing politics. His continued denial of our existence speaks volumns of his lack of character.

Rep Bridenstine summed it up best when asked about the effort,”if you’re going to make an offer, you better be prepared to walk away from the table”. I couldn’t agree more. This nonsense about the destruction to the GOP if they are blamed for a government shutdown is a joke. Newsflash, the bomb has detonated. If any republican wants to survive the fallout, they better be ready to take the bold, conservative stance to defund Obamacare. The excuse that it won’t pass the Senate is just that, an excuse. Do the work of the House of Appropriations, period. Essential services continue under a shutdown. Most of us remember the shutdowns under Reagan and Clinton, and more importantly we remember that our lives and families never felt threatened. How is it that now we feel threatened when the federal government is operating as usual? It would be funny if it weren’t so heartbreaking. I find myself making every financial, actually every decision considering the reach and hand of government. The reality is we are well down the road to serfdom. We don’t even think like free people anymore.

Please remember you are a Representative of the 2nd District and only the 2nd District. We will not accept rationalization for any funding for Obamacare appropriated in the next CR or any other master plan of the abysmal GOP leadership and their henchmen. We have explicitly expressed that defunding Obamacare is THE top priority. Obamacare is destroying businesses, families and lives. My support will be dependent upon this most basic of requests. The man in cardiac arrest doesn’t need the world’s best heart surgeon, he needs CPR to prevent dying on the table. Please recognize the urgency we find ourselves in and leave the so-called chess players to join those who stand as defenders of the Constitution. I implore you to reconsider your position on this. Nothing else of the 113th Congress will matter if Obamacare is fully funded. Geitner has already started the conversation by stating that it’s ridiculous we have a debt ceiling. They know once it’s appropriated for, that by default the ceiling will be raised indefinitely. Maybe the current, never before done, suspension was a trial run to ease us into this mentality. It’s madness.

This is the last letter that I will send of this nature. I hope future communications will be to acknowledge appreciation for efforts and votes that empower Americans instead of government. I refuse to let those that I have supported and promoted place me in a position to beg for the very representation they promised. I’m tired of my life being dictated by the need to babysit politicians. If I’m looking at it from a cost benefit perspective, the grassroots would be better served to begin grooming a primary challenger after every election as leverage and insurance, instead of this perpetual frustration and disappointment. I want some measure of my life back.

Please know it is with much regret that I send this message to you, but I love my children and my country too much to leave it unsaid. I will be in prayer for our Republic, for those who defend her and for those statesmen who fight against the tyranny. That reminds me of something you said at the 2012 LR dinner. You asked us why our enemies would fight so hard to destroy our freedom; because it’s priceless. You offered the analogy of the military as our insurance policy and their funding as the premium. Congress has that same duty and it comes in the steadfast fight against the plunder, oppression and abuse of power that is destroying this nation.

“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”- Galatians 5:1

Rich Hoffman

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Published on March 11, 2013 19:03

Elmwood Place Speed Cameras are Illegal: Scott Sloan and Mike Allen do Cincinnati justice as The Enquirer lays off 97 workers

“Elmwood Place is engaged in nothing more than a high-tech game of Three-card Monty,” Common Pleas Court Judge Robert Ruehlman wrote in his recent decision on speed cameras in that small Cincinnati village. “It is a scam the motorist cannot win.” With that court decision Judge Ruehlman invalidated the legality of speed camera usage in his village of 2000 residents. The speed cameras were simply money-making schemes created as yet another way to raise taxes on people who already pay too much—and Ruehlman did what he should have, which is remarkable in its rarity. But leading up to the judge’s decision was Scott Sloan and Michael K. Allen both of 700 WLW who covered this story for many months and applied pressure so that the review of the speed cameras would be addressed, because without their involvement as media personalities, Elmwood Place would still be engaged in the corrupt practice. For more elaboration, listen to the broadcasts from WLW below and grab a snack. They make for some good radio. Also, be sure to watch the news clips below for much more background information

Here is the case as it has appeared in USA Today:

For a radio host, it is difficult to show up for work in the morning coffee in hand and resist reading out of the newspaper. Making news and obtaining original sources is much more difficult than just providing analysis on what other reporters have obtained. In Cincinnati for Scott Sloan at 700 WLW his job is going to become much more difficult as The Cincinnati Enquirer has just let go of 97 of their workers, 1/3rd of their entire workforce, due to their poor numbers and lack of ability to change with the new media that is beginning to insert itself into the political scene. In that new media blogs like this one are doing the reporting newspapers used to be known for leaving special interests unable to sit on reporters to contain stories or tilt them in their favor. Independent reporters in new media are usually doing the task of journalism without any financial compensation so they are driven by passion which is very dangerous for the mechanisms of power that have made vast amounts of money off public scams. Since The Enquirer did not meet the challenges of new media and instead held on to their empire with a stubborn refusal to adjust, they are finding themselves on the verge of extinction. Scott Sloan who is part of the old media, but also the new, has gained a reputation for doing his own research and breaking stories without being tipped off first from the papers of Cincinnati. It is because of this tendency that the Elmwood Place story evolved into the ruling by Judge Ruehlman.

When I first wrote my book Tail of the Dragon which contains as one of its themes the tendency of law enforcement to unjustly pull over motorists for the sole purpose of issuing traffic citations my editor had some deep concerns about my statements in the novel. She found it appalling that Tennessee police for the Highway Patrol had quotas they were expected to achieve each month in order to be ranked as good officers deserving pay rates. The quotas traffic cops were expected to achieve were for the purpose of raising revenue off motorists using safety as an excuse, and that ruffled the feathers of my editor’s East Coast sensibilities. After I provided article after article from all over The United States about the police practice being wide-spread, she accepted my position reluctantly and by the end of the manuscript edit had turned into quite a rebel herself. The first run through the manuscript had nearly as much opposition as I received from education opponents when I first purposed locally that something was wrong with the salary structure of teaching positions and was the cause of the constant need for tax levies for school districts. Ironically, it was Scott Sloan who originally listened to me and broke that story which took on a life of its own and forced changes that otherwise would never have occurred. CLICK HERE TO REVIEW. But my novel took a hard shot at the legal system behind revenue enhancement that most people just did not feel comfortable talking about just two years ago during the editing process. By the time the book was released in the fall of 2012, the political climate had changed and law enforcement had become even more arrogant in their grabs for more streams of revenue. It was around the time of my novel’s release that Elmwood Place and New Miami put up speed cameras to take pictures of unsuspecting vehicles and mail the tickets to violating motorists without even using a police officer in the traditional sense. Police had become so arrogant that they dropped the mask of justice completely in favor of cameras to do the work of revenue generation.

The questions my editor posed to me were due to the fact she had accepted law enforcement was always on the side of honesty and created laws on behalf of safety for all people. My position in Tail of the Dragon was that governments were using the revenue from speeding citations behind a mask of safety to create a hidden tax. This seemed unfathomable to her Massachusetts eyes until I provided a lot of testimony defending my position, the kind of information I obtained while researching the novel which ended up directly in the story. But the clarity of abuse which many have long suspected was never more apparent than when Judge Ruehlman delivered his scathing rebuke of the Elmwood Place traffic cameras. In the wake of his ruling the revenue collected thus far will now have to be returned putting the village in an even more embarrassing situation than what Arlington Heights had to endure when Scott Sloan and Brendan Keefe of Channel 9 News recently exposed the citation racket there as well.

My aim in writing Tail of the Dragon was that readers would begin to question the nature behind traffic citations as not being implemented for safety, but the cozy relationships behind insurance companies and government looking to pay for their inflated budgets at the expense of the motorist. The laws created are not for safety, but for the opportunity to create another revenue stream as lawmakers know that the laws are so ridiculous that nobody will obey, making citations easy to issue. So I am more than happy to see that Mike Allen and Scott Sloan have found traction on this issue and created lasting legal changes. And I am even more pleased to learn that there is a Judge in Robert Ruehlman who wasn’t afraid to put colorful language into his scathing rebuke, applying pressure to towns and villages all over Ohio to amend their scams against motorists with hidden taxation. As for the fate of The Enquirer, after the hit piece they did on me almost one year ago to the day, I will admit to a bit of joy in knowing that the paper is failing. I hate to see anybody lose their job, but when word came back to me at how Michael Clark was hailed as a hero for how he framed his article about me to the whims of school levy protestors, and many of those same 97 people now losing their jobs at the printing press laughed and giggled at my expense in their break room—I can promise that I won’t lose any sleep now that those same people will be on the unemployment line. Good riddance to your failed newspaper and the policies that put you there. Life goes on for the rest of us. Scott Sloan is making his own stories and is doing what media members should be without taking direction from The Cincinnati Enquirer. Mike Allen is continuing to show his resilience as a legal crusader much to the benefit of the public. And I am enjoying the sales from my new book that has been sold out at Amazon for over three weeks now. (YES IT’S AVAILABLE ELSEWHERE—TRY BARNES AND NOBEL IF AMAZON IS SOLD OUT—CLICK HERE) But Michael Clark, who wrote the hit piece on me one year ago, who once told me at a school board meeting that I should bring stories to him first instead of WLW because all they did was read on the air what he wrote in the paper—well, the results speak for themselves. Those 97 people probably wouldn’t have lost their job if you had done your job better Clark, and not been a lap dog for school systems. There are a lot of stories that need to be reported like the Elmwood Place story, and Scott Sloan is doing the work among others in new media. If The Enquirer had done its job and not leaned so far to the political left in a very conservative town, the paper might be adding jobs, instead of taking them away.

Have a listen to what Darryl Parks of 700 WLW said about “new media” and the tragedy at The Cincinnati Enquirer. He’s had his share of hit pieces done against him from that paper as well. Gotta watch who you piss on while climbing to the top. Because you’ll see them on the way back down.

Rich Hoffman