Protest Materials

Easter Thoughts for Youth

As you youth seek out religion for yourself, seek the instructor, reject the institution.

Gene Chapman

Atticus Finch: My Hero

I am watching another presentation of, To Kill A Mockingbird, and I am once again reminded of my favorite fictional character, Atticus Finch, the lawyer who seeks to free a wrongly accused black man.  If I should ever be a lawyer, I hope to emulate him in every way.

Jews and Palestinians

I was speaking with a Christian Zionist today, and I plan to share with her tomorrow that I think we can all agree that we humans do not truly possess the land;  rather, the land possesses us.  And it is commonly understood that the most mature and spiritually adept understand that the principle of non-possession provides a higher existence for the individual than possession of property;  therefore, the highest attainment of a Jew or Palestinian is to seek no land from God, only peace and the common good.

Lance Armstrong is Like the IRS

During my 40 day fast outside the IRS Regional Center in Austin, Texas in 2003, I was interviewed by Alex Jones' camera man, and that interview/ broadcast went all over Alex's tv system for the next four weeks.  I even met Alex, as they prepared to air the interview.  I was informed that about 450,000 homes in the Austin area got the basic cable shows, and I noted that my interview showed several times each day.

So it did not surprise me one day when a man rode past me on a ten speed bike to take a look at me.  He turned around about 30 yards from me at the street corner area and put his legs down on the ground.  He looked right into my eyes for about 30 seconds, then turned off to the left and rode away with his back to me.  The face, the body, the bike and the town belonged to Lance Armstrong, an Austin home owner.

I've often thought what he must have been thinking.  What I do know is that he, like the IRS, allowed a pyramid of untruth to build up around him until it forced him to puke up the truth of his doping to the world.  Like Lance, the IRS and the U. S. Government will one day vomit up the truth and reject tax slavery.  Lance is proof of that.

Gene Chapman

Tax Liability in the Law

I've been interacting with a Law professor from the Eastern United States, and he presents a case that individuals do have a liability for personal income taxes.  He is the first person with whom I have interacted that conveys both an expertise and motive to inform rather than punish and ridicule those who ask questions about the U. S. Tax system.  I have him talking to Larkin Rose and others in the leadership of the Tax Honesty Movement, and I hope to develop a casual relationship with all concerned going forward, so we can move the tax policy issue forward.

The issue of slavery seems to stump the professor on every sociological and historical level, but he will have time to examine our views and respond in total, as is appropriate.

I am working very hard to get back in school this coming semester with some ABA (American Bar Association) certified classes in mind, so as to set a formal foundation my law studies.

Tolstoy's Ideas Applied to School Shootings

Having spent a substantial portion of my adult life studying Mahatma Gandhi and his teacher, Leo Tolstoy, I'd like to weigh in on their mind relative to school shootings.  Tolstoy's book, The Slavery of Our Times, indicates that a whole host of violence throughout the world comes through tax slavery, which comes from legislation, which comes from the existence of governments.  Governments, according to Tolstoy, are a manifestation of the powerful ultimately threatening to murder those who do not obey to their liking.  This creates a kind of resentment that ripples all over the earth.  The way some children respond to this is to attack the government closest to them:  government schools.  Both Gandhi and Tolstoy seem to allow for people being armed to protect students in the short-term;  however, the longer solution is for governments to withdraw, allowing a kind of Amish social order, but with modern conveniences, consistent with Mahatma Gandhi's village republic concept.

Contemplating a Winter Protest at the White House

I continue to carry a drum beat within against the taxation of the intrinsic value of labor and property and the numbering of people as cattle for those violent purposes.  In exchanges with Dr. Cornel West of Princeton, I've been offered a book title that goes into the nature of slavery, and I find nothing to redirect my opposition to the personal income tax.  

I find it hard to keep a low paying job that doesn't cover even the cost of one class in a semester, so I contemplate the most effective use of my time.  Paralegal Studies and more economics classes are offered to me at school, but they cost between $250 to $1100 each, numbers beyond me for now.  I think I would be best suited to more Gandian styled activities outside the White House, assuming I do not find reasonable options here in Texas in the next few weeks.

I wonder if there are any homeless shelters in DC that are within walking distance to the White House?

Most respectfully,

Gene Chapman

A Night at the Lone Star Film Festival

At last evening's film festival gayla, I met Ruth Buzzy, the beautiful wife and daughter of Ed Bass, came across Billy Bob Thornton, who looked like Dracula as his thin-as-a-bone greenish suite passed in the ballroom at the Ft. Worth Convention Center, eyes covered with dark round glasses even after the sun had gone down some time ago.  The film legend, Robert Duval, crossed my path twice on Thursday, but I gained not much more than, "Where's my seat?," out of him.  Old and rickety, he was in no mood for chat.  Together, he and Billy Bob Thornton moved on Ft. Worth's fast-developing-into-a-big-league film festival like two hookers there long enough for the trick and full payment.

Billionaire Ed Bass's graceful daughter is in high school, she told me. When I posed, "It must be an interesting life," she replied, "Yes, it is sometimes," as she gazed across the room, clearly contemplating the meaning of the Bass name and all it entails.

The high point of the evening was when the producer of The God Father told the audience of probably 400 how he convinced three mafia bosses to come to his office and read the script for the movie, as they had reservations of Italians being negatively portrayed.  When they arrive to the office, they didn't get past the first page with their limited attention span for reading a 150 page script and gave him the green light on just liking him.  He had stood down three mafia figures by simply threatening to make them read.

The most friendly of the bunch was the cigar-toating, Kinky Friedman, who assured me that his plans include a serious run for the Texas governorship in the near future;  although, I'm not sure how a man on record with so many comedic twists and limited economic credentials will become a serious political candidate.  After all, everyone knows from Governor Perry that even a 2.5 GPA in Agriculture gets you laughed off the stage these days.

I met the Mayor Pro-Tem of Ft. Worth and his lovely wife.  While he couldn't tell the difference between Keynesian-Marxism and the Austrian school of economic thought, he does have a business background he related, "with 3,500 former employees."  I offered him a smile and a narrow pass on having the credentials for being a politician.

I met a fellow named, Fred Disney, a film festival board member who assured me that the Disney company doesn't send him any stock, as much as he would like to have some.  He is a fine fellow with gray hair and a disposition that would lead one to believe he to be the head of the company in that film gayla context.  I told him I'd be doing a Google search on him, and it turns out that he's just a good old boy from the neighborhood.

Finally, the kindest soul of the evening was a fellow named, Billy Schafer.  As we shook hands upon his entrance into the room, I noticed a finger or two missing on his right hand;  yet, he plays the guitar, I understand.  He was highly regarded by every star and every guest in the room, as they awarded him this or that.  Not that I don't like frivolity, but out of the 75% of the people I shook hands with in that room, he and Ed Bass' daughter were the only two non-frivolous things about the evening, one from billions of dollars and the other from the wrong side of the tracks.

Gene Chapman
TheGandhianEconomist.blogspot.com

The Two Pressing Questions that Drive Me

1)  What makes people buy or sell specific financial instruments (i. e. stocks, insurance, etc.)?

2)  What makes people accept or reject slavery?

My Three Pronged Attack on the Personal Income Tax

A friend of mine called last evening to catch up on events.  I told him that I was continuing my education in three areas of interest and that all three had to do with countering the IRS/ Central Bank and its personal income tax, property tax and social security numbering system of enslavement.

I told him that I'm not going to be an economist, as Calculus III is going to be beyond my math ability.  When he told me that he was thinking of tutoring math, I begged him to go get a Ph. D. in Economics so that he could help us get to the "big boy table" with Bernanke (Federal Reserve Chairman).  I explained that the Keynesian-Marxist means well in their desire of doing the most good for the most people but that we Austrians need numbers of intellectuals to meet them point-for-point on the various media available today and in the coming years.

Both Irwin Schiff and Peter Schiff have a BS in Economics, but that just gets us to the complaint window.  We need Ph. D.'s to get us past that window into the room where leaders make policy.

My plans are to continue toward a J.D. (law) and a Ph. D. in Finance with motion picture production going on along the way, everything having to do with the mission of the Tax Honesty Movement.  I encourage everyone in the Tax Honesty Movement to push those who can to get a Ph. D. in Economics, however.  This is where the future hope of saving America and the World from slavery resides.

Gene Chapman

EU Proposes Financial Services Tax

Forever, I've supported a move away from slave-based taxation policy (i. e. personal income tax, property tax) and the dynamics that support such taxation (i. e. social security numbers and the like).  Consequently, I have no problem with a tax on financial transactions that do not include the above issues.

As I come nearer law school each semester, perhaps the issue will be resolved before I am even a lawyer.

Proportional Representation: The Overriding Principle to Vote

I plan to vote for candidates who support proportional representation this November, as my university studies indicate that representative democracy is most undermined when votes are circumvented to a winner-take-all system.  When the minority is not represented, then the minority is not represented.

Mr. Romney: China is not the Enemy

Recently, I saw Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate for the U. S. presidency, propose that China needed a Cold War response to presumed currency manipulation by their government.  I suggest that the Chinaman is not the enemy of the American and that their government is not the enemy of the U. S. government.  Everyone means well for their families and no harm to other countries.  We must rather look into each issue like a surgeon with a scalpel.

The conflict American's feel with China is that China has been violent against its citizens with the assumption that the individual the property of the state; thus, the individual is treated as the property of those in power, rather then the governing official being the servant of the people.  gkchapman2012athotmail.com/

Out of Hospital

Well. I spent the 22nd of August going through the Emergency Room at a hospital in Lufkin, Texas.  I'm to see my family doctor today to see whether I'll be driving trucks soon.  Vertigo, they call it.  It's like being sea sick on dry land.  I thought I was having a stroke of an aneurism.

After three years back in college and two degrees, I'm getting on the bus to get back in a flatbed truck Saturday.  I need to get my cash up to around $80K before I entertain finishing my first bachelor's degree (24 more hours) or my BS in Economics (50 more hours).

I'll spend the summer with the Innocence Project through a local law school here in the Dallas area, working with law students on the Internet to examine a case for overturning a conviction.  I'll apply what I can to Irwin Schiff's case.

I am hearing opportunities pitched to me to invest in media from around the movement.  I should have up to $20K ready to invest this next year.  My main interest is in script development of a pro-libertarian sitcom with a Leave It to Beaver flavor of moral libertarian teaching.

Most respectfully,

Gene Chapman

geneamtvn@hotmail.com

Corporate Marxism

A few months ago, I was sitting outside one of my classes at university with my professor and a few other students, waiting for the previous class to end and clear out, when I asked if "Corporate Marxism" is a known term to describe what we are experiencing in America today?  She had been degreed in the study of pure Marxism and related that she had not heard the term used before.  As I try to find terms to accurately describe our issues, I guess I'll coin the term here.  The corporation has married the collectivist state and is enslaving you and me to that unholy union.  It's nature is Marxist because there is a badge and a gun tied to it:  force/ violence;  and it contains all the elements of The Communist Manifesto.

Musings of A Central Bank Strike for Pay Raise

The U. S. Inflation Calculator on the Internet indicates price inflation of 121.4% since I got out of high school in 1984.  My pay in relative terms has only risen 75% across all occupations I've tried and examined during that time.  Maybe I just need to go on strike at the Central Bank.  Monetary inflation always outpaces price inflation, and price inflation always out paces labor wages.  I'm just sooooooooo sick of this dynamic in Keynsian-Marxist economics.

The Basic Value of Life

Well, I did my first 10 1/2 hour day at welding .052 flux cord, building rail cars for the railroad yesterday, and I got a good light burn on my left side.  My eyes are slightly burned but ok, but I know this thicker welding wire is a killer to eye health.  The only people who seem to thrive at this place are convicts, so I'm not too impressed with 118 degree F work this summer being a career starter.  This is the place where my best friend from welding school quit after about a month of heat last summer and died in his sleep three weeks later.  He was five months younger than me.  I've had insomnia since I started this job, so in total my body is telling me that this job (career) doesn't seem to be for me.

Two years of welding school for nothing more than a piece of paper to hang on the wall and a dead end life experience.  I guess I'll see about going back over-the-road in a truck.

Oh, I guess it's not that bad.  I am 24 hours from my first bachelor's degree, and law school or a master's in social economy is that much closer.  Who knows where it will all wind up?

More Pretest Materials for Dallas Central Bank, July 4, 2012

These are the central aspirations of the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements.