Letters of Hatred: A school bus crashes into a Fairfield home
As further proof of left winged hypocrisy that feels it has a right to preach their warped morality to the rest of us let me share with the class a correspondence I have had with William Schmidt over the last couple of days. Schmidt is one of those types who believe that public education is the center point of our culture whereas I differ from him in believing it is the parent. He believes in centralized collective connectivity whereas I believe in disconnected self-reliance and respect of personal sovereignty. Just a few days before Christmas he felt empowered by the Sandy Hook massacre to write me because of the 6 educators who were killed protecting their students as if those acts of valor justified the many tragedies that are going on in public education otherwise. I’m sure this guy has a wife and kids that love him, so I doubt he’s the epitome of evil, but just a guy with the wrong point of view. Needless to say before the Holidays as family events and fun festivities are most on my mind, I really didn’t want to be reminded of the kind of people who have run our nation to the edge of the fiscal cliff. His comments drew my mind away from what I’d rather think about, which just opened up all the raw anger I have for advocates of Keynesian economics. He felt further that he had some kind of right to analyze my political strategy and other attributes to my personality—so I present the first parts of our conversation for study and comment.
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 12:08 AM, <teenorm@aol.com> wrote:
Rich,
It is interesting that you acknowledged that Stephan Round left his teaching job for reasons you seemed to agree with, but only identified 6 other educators from Connecticut who also left their positions at the hands of a home-schooled individual as being unarmed progressive advocates. What you advocate might be easier to swallow if you had a heart. You slipped up badly last March and you are trying to reestablish yourself by being more bizarre. No one is going to believe that the teachers attempting to protect those children at Sandy Hook were simply greedy, communistic, radical, and self-serving. Stephan Round may have done something bold, but to recognize it while belittling those that gave their lives is certainly not an American value and it shows your flaws as an advocate for anything.
William Schmidt
—–Original Message—–
From: Rich Hoffman
To: teenorm <teenorm@aol.com>
Sent: Fri, Dec 21, 2012 6:18 am
Subject: Re:
Sorry dude, but you are not qualified to measure the worth of my heart,
or my strategy. But thanks for writing.
Merry Christmas,
Rich
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 6:51 PM, <teenorm@aol.com> wrote:
Hey buddy, let’s see if maybe I can take a measure of your heart.
When you saw the picture from the site below
http://www.wdtn.com/dpp/news/ohio/fairfield-school-bus-slams-into-house#.UNT0o2__pfQ
didn’t your heart sort of say to you, I hope its Arnie’s house and I hope a teacher union member was driving.
William
While Schmidt’s first message might be considered well-thought, it can be seen how quickly it degraded into one that advocated violence. My response to him I thought was very polite—I even gave him a way out to save face by wishing him a Merry Christmas. Instead, he chose to respond with his hope that the bus that crashed through a Fairfield home was driven by a member of the teacher’s union trying to run over Arnie Engle who fights the levy attempts in Fairfield. So while Schmidt felt entitled to lecture me on how I messed up in March of 2012 by calling my political rivals “fat assed prostitutes who will do anything for money” (more or less) he believes that he can wish for the injury of a tax resister like Arnie Engle in Fairfield by hoping that he was run over by a school bus—being driven by a member of the teacher’s union. It is exactly this kind of thinking that caused people to camp outside a Kroger store in my community and attempt to publicly smear my name because they couldn’t win against me in a public debate. CLICK HERE to hear me tell the story in a speech I gave to the Oxford Tea Party. I will never forget that event or forgive it as long as I live. It pissed me off that much, because of the intent behind the behavior.
For those like Schmidt who read here and want to know what I’m up to, or what I’m thinking, let me answer them all in one article, rather than writing a bunch of individual emails. I have watched how Arnie Engle, and many other school board members who have tried to fight to keep taxes lower have been treated by the education establishment. Educrats are radicalized monsters of selfishness and I have no sympathy for them, nor do I want to share my space with them. I see them as social parasites and I don’t want them around America’s children. In fact, I don’t want people who think like William Schmidt to be anywhere near children. He can think whatever he wants, but people like him should not have access to tax money to live off of while they teach American youth their warped progressive viewpoints.
After Lakota refused to ask the teachers union for a 5% wage reduction in February of 2012 members of my No Lakota Levy group wanted me to handle the public relations for their Yes to Lakota Kids group to prove to the community that they weren’t bad people for voting down the tax increases. I didn’t think they should feel they had to defend any kind of position. In fact I told them they should be willing to tell their critics to stick their opinions up their asses, which is what I said in private. In public I helped them, but I had decided that I wanted to go into a different direction from what they were doing. In fact, I have most of my interviews on my blog here at the OW, but the one I gave to Mark Amazon on 700 WLW about the $10,000 Yes to Lakota Kids donated to Lakota is one I never posted, because while the thought was nice, I felt insincere participating. I let my friends at No Lakota Levy and Michael Clark at the Enquirer steer my support to a more community based position. I haven’t talked about this stuff before but since it’s the end of the year and is now on my mind, it’s worth analysis. I was driving for a political checkmate strategically in February while people like Clark and some of my No Lakota Levy friends were interested in community hand holding with people like Schmidt—which I had no interest in. So I offered my support publicly out of loyalty to the Enquirer and my levy fighting friends but it wasn’t the way I wanted to play the game.
After attending a meeting where Lakota cut even more teachers without asking the union for a 5% cut, I gave my last interview to Channel 19 as a traditional member of No Lakota Levy. Lakota was positioning themselves for a fourth levy attempt and I was not going to allow myself to be handcuffed by The Enquirer, by my friends, or even WLW whom I had a good relationship with but seemed eager to force peace between myself and the radicals in education. While all this was going on, the Kroger Survey that I referred to was taking place and the reports of how my name was being smeared publicly was coming back to me. So I did what I needed to do, and that was to change my strategy. Since the politics was not working—because the school refused to acknowledge the No Lakota Levy victories at the ballot box, I decided that I would turn up the heat in the future and that meant not playing as nicely as we had before—so I desired to no longer be a spokesman for the group. Playing fairly was not getting the job done, so more extreme measures were necessary.
My 2013 strategy will not need the traditional media outlets. I have done a lot of that, and Lakota ignored the facts, so uttering the same debate a fourth, a fifth, and a sixth time is pointless. Instead I am free to conduct my observations about public education without worrying about holding back my opinion in the name of community peace, which I felt I had to do when representing the other members of No Lakota Levy. People Like William Schmidt assume mistakenly that I desire to play politics by the rules that people like him control—the left leaning progressives who say one thing, but do another as he stated in his email to me preaching the merit of the Sandy Hook teachers while wishing for the harm of Arnie Engle when a school bus ran into a house in Fairfield. I want people who think like Schmidt out of education completely so my new strategy won’t be to argue finance, curriculum, or cost saving alternatives. No Lakota Levy was attempting to help Lakota manage its finances while still offering the public the services they had gotten used to. I no longer support such endeavors and haven’t since the last election failed to change the behavior at the school.
I support School Choice and the complete eradication of the teacher’s union. I do not want any of my money to go to the OEA or any other large labor union embedded in the public sector like a parasitic flea on a dogs rear end and I have also decided that I don’t want to offer a free education to the kind of people who stood outside a Kroger store and smeared my name so their snot nosed kids can learn to be social vermin off my dime. (CLICK HERE TO SEE WHAT THEY SAID) I don’t care about the sports that come out of a local school, and I don’t care if the school in my neighborhood has state rankings or not, I want them all privatized and funded fully by the parents who send their kids to those schools. I think public education is inferior to other kinds of education and I don’t want to pay for it. I don’t want to pay for more and more generations of young people who don’t appreciate the free baby sitting the community provides for parents who think like William Schmidt and believes they have a right to lecture me on morality.
So I won’t be supporting traditional education models in the future. I will encourage people I know to run for school board seats to solve the problem in the short-run, but in the long, I want public education changed forever. Doing things they way I did them before with reasonable debate in the newspapers and on the radio simply won’t get the job done. It obviously did not work before, so doing the same thing in the future would be foolish, and a waste of time. I have seen personally what the education system has done to good people like Arnie Engle, and I won’t be going down that path. But I can assure all those who did not listen when I was reasonable—who elected to make it personal in February of 2012—you have only yourselves to blame. Going forward you will wish you had listened. You will wish that you took my hand when I offered it. You will wish that you hadn’t been a smart-ass and tried to move me with thuggish resonance, and you will wish you offered the 5% reduction in wages instead of facing what is coming. But more than anything you will wish that I was still attached to my friends at No Lakota Levy—because when I was, I held back a lot because I didn’t want to embarrass them publicly. So no William Schmidt, I did not “slip up badly” in March. I simply had enough of playing Mr. Nice Guy. I had enough of the speeches, the attempts to deal reasonably with radicals, and I wanted the freedom to call them what I saw them as—and I did. Unlike other people I know who allow the political left to pick them apart with progressive hypocrisy, I play by different rules and I meant it when I said in the Enquirer that I’m an “eye for a head kind of guy.” The levy radicals shouldn’t have tried to poke me in the eye—because the score is not yet settled, and I can’t settle that score being a nice guy spokesman for No Lakota Levy.
It is my conclusion that public education is broken beyond repair and all the employees in it should be fired and replaced with a new system that is driven by competition. So I have no more patience for the debate, or interest in what the other side thinks.
See my speech at the Oxford Tea Party for more info : CLICK HERE
Rich Hoffman
