Lecture Notes:  07-22-2004    

5 Million Dollar Reward for Mr. Yasin

Some of our visitors, (I am in particular thinking of our visitors from the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Malaysia, India, the Philippines, Indonesia, even Israel), may have read here at this website how the IRS asked me to help investigate Crawford and Company, and then leaked my name not only to my fellow employees at Crawford and Company, but apparently to a great many others in Washington as well.  (see IRS and the illegals from the North at the Moynihan Memorial Library)

Our visitors may have noted that my 1998 tax return was audited and that the IRS even filed in Tax Court because they said my Canadian employer did not use US tax forms even though my employment was exclusively outside the country and taxes were paid to the Canadian Government.  That the IRS dropped the case as soon as I retained counsel, suggests that the IRS did not itself regard their own position as justified.  (In dropping their case the IRS agreed to accept the tax return as filed, without a single change, and this is also further evidence of the emptiness of their claims.)

Therefore, our foreign friends may well wonder just how much confidence they can have in the reliability of the United States when it makes its offer of $5 million for information on the whereabouts of Mr. Yasin? (Reward offer posted below.)

You may well feel that if my case is any indication of how the IRS deals with people who cooperate with its investigations, one may well wonder how the U. S. will deal with some one, a foreigner, for example, who is not Western, and possibly involved in aspects of life of an off color type, even  shading into outright criminality?  Can anyone trust the United States of America?

You have to understand that when Noah Lyle and William Winbush of the IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division in Atlanta Georgia requested my help in their investigation they probably had already decided to betray me. They already had a relationship with Crawford.  They didn’t need me.  They were just playing.  Entertaining their superiors, possibly even the Clinton Administration.  Sport.

Then too, you as foreigners, are not subject to the same rigid system of classification that orders the lives of we Americans.  The IRS knew that I was in the lower casts and therefore they knew that they would never be held accountable for their actions.  You on the other hand, even if you have been involved in terrorism are counted to be of a higher status than just an ordinary American schlub like me.

If you have committed crimes, even acts of terror, fear not, for you will find that the American officials with whom you negotiate,  think this something to be winked at not condemned.  With their fellow Americans they can be very strict but among new friends from a far, what are a few bodies?     And please remember, soon you will be a millionaire too, and then no rules at all will be applied. 

So, no, what the United States Government did to me does not indicate how they will treat you.  Now if you were providing information on how wealthy Americans were stealing millions of dollars, if you were trying to report the misconduct of a Crawford and Company, or for example, a GAB Robbins, then that might be a different story.  But as I said different rules apply to millionaires in the United States of America. 

Stick to reporting on terrorism, its safer.   

Clue Number:  9

Scott Bobro’s uncle is a high official in the union that represents employees of California horse racing tracks.  (Scott Bobro: see Farmers Insurance, see Intel and Psy Ops. (Note:  3 visits last week from FarmersInsurance.com.))

Clue Number:  10

Ron Owens is a habitué of the horse racing tracks.  (Ron Owens: see KGO, see Intel and Psy Ops.)   

Lecture Notes: 07-09-2004 It is lonely being a Republican.

Counselor:  Oh, so how do you feel about that?

Yvonne, please, not now, I’m in the middle of a lecture.  See?

Counselor:  Oh, yes, on the internet.  You know, maybe you would be happier living with your own kind?

Thank you Yvonne.

Counselor:  You’re welcome.

It is lonely being a Republican in Marin County, true.  But frankly I do not think it is much different anywhere else.  Dealing with the Republicans is like dealing with the autistic.  There is a failure to connect at  some deep fundamental level.

Mr. Jones is running for Senate.  I have printed two pages of his website at the end of this lecture so you can see for yourselves that I am not making this up.  But first what I want you to understand is that he is absolutely representative of Republicans.  This is not an aberration it is utterly typical.

Everyone now agrees that the Administration was delinquent in its preparations for the Second Gulf War, not militarily, but for . . . what do you call it?  Governance?  See, Republicans can not even say the word.  They learned from Reagan that “Government is the problem,” and their learning stopped.  Why study government?  It is “the problem.”  So, therefore, Republicans are at a disadvantage right from the start. 

Then too, they in particular believe in “objectivity.”  In this false belief they have been encouraged by the left which has taken control of the media, academia, the foundations, unions, civil service, large blocks of the elected officialdom, and appointed offices as well, like, for example, the judiciary, for whom, for all of whom, this simple minded belief in “objectivity”  is immensely beneficial.  “The experts say . . .”  fill in the blank, and the Republicans will say, ‘oh, well, if it is objectively so . . .’ But because my fellow conservatives, Republicans, simpletons that they are wander from one subject to another apparently oblivious to the world in which they live, taking things at their face, objective, value, after years, the exasperation, the realization of the utter futility of ever being able to communicate with them . . .

Counselor:  Breathe!  Deep breath.  Deep.  Now let it out slowly . . .

Thank you Yvonne.

Counselor:  You’re welcome.

For example, an elected Republican member of the State Legislature was interviewed on a local radio show.  The gentleman began condemning a hypothetical Democrat opponent for an unspecified proposal, or possibly it was an actual program already in progress, some scheme to improve mankind, with which our Republican friend disagreed.  A straw man opponent.  Then as he warmed to his topic, the radio hosts “umhming” in assent, began to debate the opponent.  Did he point out that it is difficult to know what is best for others?  That it may have unintended consequences?  That our taxes are not evenly distributed by the economy but fall on those who are least able to avoid them? 

No.  And he could not argue the merits of the proposal as it had no definable characteristics.  It was an undefined, a generic, government program.  So what to do?  How then did our elected official debate his straw man Democrat?  He asserted that his opponent “had not been noticeably successful in his own life.  How could he come here to Sacramento and tell us what to do, having been such a failure in his own career?”   His preferred method of argumentation was the smear, even of a straw man. 

Note also that the objective standard is provided by the market economy.  The implicit standard is that success in the market is proof of goodness and wisdom and the reverse is also objectively true for the simpleton Republican.  Who was it that commented that if Napoleon had been as smart as Spinoza, Napoleon would have spent his life in an attic, polishing lenses and writing philosophy?  Not a Republican.         

And here you can see the failure of partisan radio.  Whole worlds exist, whole universes exist, that can not be examined because they fall outside the shows “demographic.”  If you are trying for the Republican niche market in the Bay Area you are fighting for a tiny piece of the pie; do you really want to risk alienating a portion of such a small sliver of the audience? 

On the other hand in the dead air of the Republican officials beseeching smear on his hypothetical Democrat straw man what marvelous opportunities present themselves?  What comedy?  Humor?  Oh, yes, may the Gods of Comedy not fail me!

“So he is a wastrel then?  Is it . . . (wait for the glimmer of realization in the fools eyes (I am being mocked!)) . . . . do you think . . . (lower voice, bring the audience up close to their radio speakers) . . . that fellow, your opponent,  what do you think it is  . . . . . . drugs, sir, or something else?”    

But the show’s host can not say anything.  The fool goes on thinking he has been a clever fellow, like that Mr. Limbaugh fellow, the king of talk radio.  Of course, these sorts of Republicans, like Mr. Limbaugh and this elected official, cost the Republicans more votes than they bring in.  How could this be?  Mr. Limbaugh has a huge audience!  Why sir it is an objective fact. 

Mr. Limbaugh could not get elected even if he wanted to.  He does not want to.  Never has.  His audience is “national.”  He is syndicated.  Radio broadcasting today is all about finding a niche.  This is why people like Michael Weiner used to call themselves  conservative Republicans:  to find a niche.  In no particular market or jurisdiction, does Rush Limbaugh have enough people to qualify for the ballot much less win an election.

Millions tune in for fifteen minutes during the week, but how many tune out?  Or never tune in?  Most people are tuned out.  And a great many of them have been turned off.  Nasty, self centered, uninformed opinions follow one another in no particular order, with no particular purpose.  Sometimes his callers come to realize his ambivalence, his incomprehension, as when famously during one call he dismissed the callers inquiry about a bumper sticker, (this is exactly the intellectual level of the program), by saying “No I did not see that one . . . of course, it is hard to see bumper stickers from the back of a limousine.”   The caller was incensed as were the next several callers until the order went out to cut the rest.  His remark had made “objective” what his listeners had not previously recognized;  Rush Limbaugh lives in another world and does not have much interest in ours.

He earns his living by yammering on into the microphone, but as for the actual lives being lived by his audience, let alone by the rest of the people in the country where he is currently domiciled, he has no personal interest.  Taking 80 OxyContin pills a day did not dull his observations because he already was deeply withdrawn from existence.    If his empty derisive words offend, he is indifferent.  Not always.  Some times he takes positive glee in offending.

In the movie About Schmidt he thought nothing of the fact that they held him up to the same ridicule to which Mr. Schmidt was subjected.  Perhaps he was unaware how he was made to appear.  He is that detached.  In the movie he comments on an issue by first establishing his knowledge of it was reached by “watching some videos.”  An expression he often uses in his actual show.  Never a book.  No never. No guests either.  No studies, or research, no interviews, no travels, no investigations, no debates, no classes, not one lecture.  His research consists of reading the copy from newspapers.    So, no, probably he is unaware that the movie mocked him.

This is why so many Democrats praise Limbaugh, and complain ‘We need a Limbaugh on the Left,’ etc.  My fellow Republicans take them at there “objective” word, with something like pride. 

‘You really like him?’    

‘Oh, yeah, wish we had one just like him.’

The simpletons would never wonder, ‘Are they serious?  Are they pulling my leg.’  Yes! Of course they are mocking you.  You fools!  This is why it is so lonely being a Republican and why moving somewhere else would make no difference. 

And this,  Mr. Limbaugh’s disastrous effect, outside his little fractional share of the market, his puny piece of America, is why I have been attacked so vigorously, here in the Bay Area.  When they attack me they are thinking about the likes of Mr. Limbaugh.

Years ago, when I was seeing Yvonne she once asked me, “Do you like Pelicans?”   I thought this might be some sort of verbal Rorschach Test or possibly like those Zen questions the teachers use to shock the student out of his preconceived ideas to experience the world without prejudice.  Then yesterday, Rush Limbaugh started talking about Pelicans.  His great admiration of them.  His desire to own one.  His many hours spent watching them.  Then he said, “as I have mentioned before on this program.”

As he mentioned before?  Then it all came to me, Yvonne asked me about Pelicans because I am a conservative and he is a conservative and she thought it would be amusing  . . . Don’t you see?  Yvonne never listens to Limbaugh.  She must have been talking to someone about her conservative Republican client.  And they must have told her,  ‘Hey, ask him if he likes Pelicans. Rush Limbaugh likes them.  See if all conservatives like them.’  Something like that. 

But this is just typical of the situation.  Limbaugh makes some dismissive, derisive, statement, utterly contemptuous, and this bad faith gets imputed to all of us conservative Republicans.  He has become the mouth piece of the Party.  You know that there are people who look at us and what they actually see is Adolph Hitler.  Well some of you know this.  My fellow Republicans do not.  It is not “objective.”  You see how lonely it is?  They do not have a clue what is really going on. 

Counselor:  Why don’t you tell them how you answered?

Yvonne, dear, this is not the appropriate time---

Counselor:  He said, “Some of them are friendly.”  I kid you no-----

Yvonne, that’s it,  we are finished. 

Counselor:  What about your Mr. Jones?

That’s it.

Lecture Notes:  07-08-2004  

The IRS and the U. S. decline into corruption.

“I’m not one of those who takes pleasure in causing another man’s suffering.”

--- Michael Weiner, KNEW, 07-08-2004

We can not keep using the word hypocrisy or it will be thought we only have the one word.  I guess I should get out the thesaurus.  We need to explore hypocrisy in all of its many shades,  way out to the very edges of rational thought.  For there is a limit to hypocrisy, and reason’s light on this subject.  Out in the jet black darkness you will find the beast itself, the prime mover, the wickedness that has no other explanation than the evil itself.   I have always thought it amusing that the only reason O’Reilly got away with, “who is looking out for you?” instead of Weiner, is probably that Weiner did not think he was capable of such, such . . . mendacity. 

But now here Weiner has gone O’Reilly one better.  So that when my father died and as his body awaited burial, Michael Weiner went on his radio program and read from the stolen notebook, mocking and tormenting me, to be followed the following week by Mrs. Jack Swanson and Brian Wilson, and Ed Wygant and Jim Dunbar, and later Rosie Allen, all using the stolen notebook to harasse and oppress;  but Weiner wants you to think that he took no joy in it?  

And all these years since then with Scott Bobro and Dean Sodos at Farmers, Frank Blaha at GAB, Michael Krasney and the former Mrs. Dr. Dean Edel (Rose Guilbault) at AAA Auto Club, Doug Dery at CenCal Insurance and Mrs. Jack Swanson to whom CenCal published my letters, Don Imus using his connections, (Shotgun Tom Kelly), to harasse me at State Farm, and when I could find no other employment Ron Owens used his influence with that children’s clothing designer at Gymboree to get me fired, but not before he got his homosexual friend to harasse me at the health club;  and all those years before, Cliff Mote the good old boy from Pascagoula Mississippi and his friend Gene Howard at the Portland Maine claims office of Crawford, using the information leaked to them by the IRS Criminal Investigation office of Atlanta, to harasse and torment;  and then later the entire weight of the federal government taking a case to Tax Court, (a $20,000 (US) case),  for the sole reason that U. S. tax forms were not used by my Canadian employer for employment which was entirely in Canada; and all of this . . . why?

Senator Dodd:  That’s right Don,  they don’t have that much on me, so I don’t have to support them but I do.” --- Senator Dodd

During the week, 6-26 to 7-02-2004, the domain, IRS.com, sent  5 visitors to New Ruskin College.  That same week the domain, USDOJ.gov, sent 6 visitors, and the USCourts.gov sent 3 visitors.  The prior week, 6-19 to 6-25-2004,   IRS.com sent 1visitor,  USDOJ.gov 2 visitors, and the USCourts.gov sent 3 visitors.  Why?

Am I entertaining you?   Or were you all just checking to see if I am still alive.

I wrote in 1995, “ It now appears that many Canadian adjusters are involved in a systematic program of kick backs and operate through [deletion] and Crawford along with American employees to obtain claim files and refer these files to their fellow conspirators.”

This is only the tip of the iceberg.    Below the surface there is the vast extent unseen.

How comes it that I found employment in Canada?  How is it that the only employer I could find was calling me?  From Canada?  How is it that the only tax audit, the only tax case to go to Tax Court, in my entire life, for an amount of $20,000 (US), gross, should have gone to Tax Court, on the single issue of ‘why my Canadian employer did not use U. S. Tax Forms, for employment exclusively in Canada?’  And that, sole, single, puny issue was dropped as soon as I retained counsel?  How is that?  How is that?

How is that?

When Yvonne betrayed Marlene and me and took us to the KQED studio so many years ago, one of the most belligerent, despicable, performers, who would want to be named, continued for months afterwards to drop innuendos, hints, little coded messages during his appearances.  I tried several times to talk to Yvonne about what had happened, about these references, but she declined to discuss it.  (She appears to have related my suspicions which only caused a redoubling of the “messages.”)  Recently this same performer appeared on the cover of USA Today.  The subject of the article was that he had finally paid the $80,000 owed to the U. S.  Not the tax on an $80,000 income but a tax of that amount, that had been unpaid, for years.

This performer, who is proud of being “red” like so many others on the left cheated the taxman not with standing his “commitment” to social programs and logically the taxes needed to carry out the schemes to improve mankind. (See Paul Johnson on this subject.)

Part of his justification for persuading Yvonne to betray her clients, his reason, was “the cause”,  their commitment to social justice.  (Oh, yes it is rich.)  I had written letters to the Senate supporting a Republican President and conservative issues, I had advocated war over peace, and he and his San Francisco friends, wanted to “get even.”  They wanted to harm.  And they were successful.

But I have gone on longer than I meant to.  I have some time perhaps, we can continue this later.  There is much more that needs saying.  Though I may not be the one saying it.

Do you not suppose that Rosie Allen heard about the People’s Temple before it made the front pages?  Don’t you think that Bernie Ward came back from some meeting or demonstration and mentioned seeing a People’s Temple member getting beaten by the People’s Temple guards?  Why did Mrs. Jack Swanson boast about being vicious and now complains she has been misunderstood? Why did Michael Weiner use electronic listening devises at my storage space to spy on me?  What did he do to Duane Garrett?

Is it just coincidence that the Insurance Commissioner does not audit claims files?  How is it that millionaires on the Gulf Coast get subsidized flood insurance?  Chance?   Why are the emergency rooms closing; where does all the insurance  money go?  Why did the IRS leak my name to the Crawford employees?  Why was I sent to Canada and that years tax return taken to Tax Court?  Then dropped?

Why did the San Rafael Police use the code “Colonial Motel Suspect” and then in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by my attorney deny any information?

Then too, deep in the dark cold water, hidden from view are all the more general questions.  Questions about how taxes are distributed by the economy, shunted by the powerful, onto the poor.  Questions about why efficiency in education, medicine, housing is so low?  Is it coincidence that these three areas are under such tight government control?  Is it coincidence that these are the three leaders in inflation?

For example, why were laser disks ignored.  When they were needed in Eastern Europe, in Iraq, Mexico, all over the world, filled with young people who want to learn, we fail to use our technology to help them.  We could make a profit on the sale.  We would profit by having a world with young educated people.  And our own children.  Half the high schools do not even offer a class in physics.

And why was my life destroyed for writing about these things?  Why did they follow me from job to job?  Why did they use the IRS to harasse me?  Why send me to Canada?  Then cut off my employment?  Why?

Maybe we can talk later I am tired now.

During the Math Project, at one point I proposed that we issue bonds to raise the capital to manufacture the laser disks.  I allowed that the bonds would be repaid with interest but I asked for a below market rate of interest, 3% as I recall.

Senator Moynihan appeared on the Senate floor after that letter and reminded his colleagues that when the state of New York was building the Erie Canal, the government had assisted with bonds, however, he noted, those bonds were at “market rates, sirs,  market rates,  no one gave New York any breaks when we were building the Erie Canal,  we paid full market rates.”  Don’t you miss him?

Lecture Notes:  07-07-04  

“We should ask if these political labels, like liberal and conservative, that come to us from the Nineteenth Century apply to us today ? . . . post liberal . . .may be more honest.” ----  Guest on Radio Factor, 07-07-04 ( see Lecture Notes:  06-26-04) 

Gotya !

Counselor:  Well, see?  Someone is reading you.  And willing to go up against Bill O’Reilly.  You know O’Reilly is a powerful man.  That guest may have put his career at risk tweaking him like that. And remember Jerry Brown.  What did he say?

“ . . .  there is a corruption that sometimes enters our public discourse . . .”

-------- Jerry Brown, on the Bill O’Reilly radio show, 06-07-04  (Jerry Brown, Mayor of Oakland, former Governor, Secretary of State, and a Green Gulch Farm trained meditater.(see Lecture Notes: 06-07-04))

Counselor: And Glenn Beck? 

He mentioned Valley Forge, and he also mentioned kaleidoscopes.

Counselor: And applying the market to the highways. (see Army Navy Club 

Item No. 24  Virtual Quarantine: Rolling Checkpoints)

Senator Moynihan would be so pleased; he changed the title of the highway bill to Surface Transportation Efficiency Act.  He used to talk about the roads as a “public good” meaning a government owned product or service which, because the government owned it, no one owned it, and this was the cause of the inefficiencies that we see in ----

Counselor:  Yes, well there you see people are reading you. 

Maybe.

Counselor: Oh, you would rather mope about feeling ---

Yvonne, sshh, you aren’t suppose to talk . . . you know . . .?

Counselor:  Ah! Your audience.   So are they here?  There you see? 

Lecture Notes:  07-04-04    ‘I only did this much.’   

Do you suppose that our elite has just one way to destroy a man?   I testify that they have many sticks in their bundle.  For example, they had the IRS.  (see The IRS and the illegals from the North, at the Moynihan.)  But do not think that it was just this.  Do you suppose it is just one thing that destroys a man?  It was not just that Yvonne betrayed her client.  Not just Marlene.  Not just that my sister chose to let our parents go to their graves in ignorance of the truth.  (That my brother kept  the few dollars our father left me, is an irrelevance.)  That Sedge Thompson and his guest David Steindl-Rast lied and used their position to deceive 12 years ago,  by itself, is of no importance.  It is the tide of wrongs that destroys.   Michael Weiner is by himself a fool, a nonentity, utterly without importance.  It was just one burglary.  But even ants can, in combination, devour a man.   Michael Krasney, Don Imus, Ron Owens, Mrs. Jack Swanson, Brian Wilson, etc., etc. each take their kick, and it is the accumulation of their kicks over decades that destroys and brings to ruin.  And each says, ‘I only did this much.’   

Lecture Notes:  07-01-04  Bad Boy, Bad boy . . .

Uh-oh Michael Weiner.   Guess who just visited?  The DOJ.gov.  That would be the Department of Justice.  Three times.  Oh, yeah.  And several law firms too.

Official Notice of the Ludi Magistor:

NewRuskinCollege.com invites attorney's offers of representation.

The Department of ffffing Justice, Michael Weiner.  So, how many people did you tell about your burglary of the Colonial Motel?  Do you remember?  Let’s see . . .  there was Mrs. Jack Swanson and Brian Wilson the Monday following the burglary.  Senator Dodd.  Don Imus.  Who else did you tell?  Who did they tell?  Has DOJ visited the San Rafael Police yet? 

Hear that?  The drums.  Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water?

They are coming for you Michael Weiner.  They are coming for you, . . . what are you going to do?  Bad boy,  Bad boy.

You know who else visited yesterday?  Soros.com.  Two times.  Why do you think you have made so many enemies?  Got any idea?  Uh-oh.  Michael Savage, it has taken,  . . . how long?  1999, 2000, 2001,  2002, 2003, 2004.   The wheels of justice . . .  they turn slowly . . . 

What you going to do?  Bad boy, Bad boy. . . What you going to do when they come for you? . . . when they come for you?