September 03, 2018

WHAT WERE WE THINKING?

FIVE WHO SHAPED MAN’S THOUGHTS

For as he thinketh in his heart so is he: Proverbs 23:7 (KJV)

     The first was a man named George Frederick HEGEL. He was a philosopher who lived in the 1820s.

     Hegelianism is the philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel which can be summed up by the dictum that "the rational alone is real", which means that all reality is capable of being expressed in rational categories. His goal was to reduce reality to a more synthetic unity within the system of absolute idealism.

     For over 1500 years people had accepted without question the fact of MORAL ABSOLUTES that right was right and wrong was wrong. The moral absolutes were universal everywhere, murder was thought to be wrong, everywhere adultery was thought to be wrong, and if it were not thought to be wrong, it was only an aberration, a departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically one that is unwelcome.

     The consensus was that there is a fixed standard of right and wrong. Hegel rejected MORAL ABSOLUTES. Hegel had what he called a dialectic theory. A Dialectic System is just simply a system of argument. He had a reasoned argument, a dialectic theory. What was his dialectic theory?

     Briefly, Hegel’s view is that all of history comprises thesis, antithesis and synthesis. Thesis is an idea proposition that people believe to be true and they hold that idea until somebody comes along with an opposing idea, an anti-thesis. Thesis and antithesis begin to battle back and forth until both give a little and they meet somewhere in the middle agreeing to a synthesis, which is a thesis/antithesis coming together for the synthesis that becomes the new thesis.

     The synthesis then becomes the new accepted model for truth. Hegel said therefore there are no MORAL ABSOLUTES. Hegel was not talking about biological evolution, he was talking about philosophical and social evolution. Society is always in a flux, it's always moving and there is no fixed standard of right and wrong.

     Even today in our high schools, few students believe that there is a fixed standard of right and wrong?

     American college students might say, “What is right for you may not be right for me.”

     Hegel said that ideas come under the heading of the survival of the strongest or fittest. The strongest surviving idea makes for history being evolutionary. There can be no absolutes.

     In 1830 another German philosopher named Ludwig Feuerbach. Feuerbach also reasoned that if there are no absolutes, Hegel would be right. Then there can be no God because if there is a God and that God would have absolute truth.

Feuerbach said man creates the idea of God, that man is not made in the image of God, but God is in the imagination of man. All is a moral flux. The absence of an absolutes causes a deep insecurity in the heart and mind of man.

     So, if Feuerbach said that God is created in the imagination of man and that man just simply invents God. He pompously stated, “Christianity has in fact long vanished not only from reason but from the life of mankind. It is nothing more than a fixed idea.” His belief is called humanism. Humanism sounds much like humanitarianism but there is a vast difference between humanism and humanitarianism. Humanitarianism means we love one another, we care for one another and we love the human species and that God has made man. Humanism makes man the center, the circumference, the sum of everything, and man has no room for God.

     Though a fine sounding name, it is but atheism simply just wearing another attire. First came Hegel, the Hegelian philosophy and then right after that you have Feuerbach who builds upon Hegel.

So, the third person whose writings still impact us today is the writings of Karl Marx.

     Karl Marx built on the work of Hegel and Feuerbach. Marx said, “Now if this is true, if there are no absolutes, therefore, there is no God, then what is the future and the purpose of mankind?

     Where are we going because of that thinking? Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848. He took the no God of Hegel's dialectic argument. He called it Dialectical Materialism, which is another word for Communism. He believed that capitalism, the right to own property and the right to be productive for yourself, was evil. He said those beliefs is the thesis. The antithesis is the desire for equity and fairness in the hearts and minds of the working people.

     He said if you take that thesis and that antithesis you will come to a synthesis which will be Socialism or Communism. That is Marxism. Hegelian philosophy and the ideas of Feuerbach put together because Communism.

     Communism is godless and is not just another form of an economy. Communism is unspeakably immoral. It does not recognize the worth, the dignity of the individual. The individual is nothing. So, Marx said that the way to set all this in motion is by a revolution. He said that it does not matter if there is suffering.

     He believed that there must be violent change, much like the mandatory removal of a foreign body within the existing system. The foreign body removal will accelerate its death.

     So, millions and millions and millions were put to death under godless communism executed because in the belief that there is no God.

     If there is no God, there is no fixed standard of right and wrong. We as human beings are left with materialism. What must then be done is to somehow bring in a humanist’s godless utopia.

     Revolution was necessary. Marx said that the suffering and the sacrifice of violent change constitutes the price that mankind must pay to have any essential progress at all.

     So, is communism itself dying? It is not dead in red China.

   Where is it found to be most vibrant? In the Universities of America today, should the Russians want to rid itself of the old textbooks, it is the University, we are of the opinion, would buy the is Marxism Leninism that is infecting and affecting the American’s life today. The main stream media spreads the propaganda.

     The fourth man that has skewed the worldview is Charles Darwin.

     Charles Darwin wrote the Origin of the Species in 1859 and The Dissent of man in 1871. He concluded that man is the product of evolution.

     If there is no God, there can be no fixed standard of right and wrong. If there is no God, then how do we get here? How do we explain our existence?

     Well, evolution is not a science. It is philosophy.

     It is the next best guess of the mind that cannot accept divine creation. So, wrote that we ourselves are the product of mere chance. We, as human beings cannot escape the evolutionary web another philosopher later described what Darwin taught to be “a single argument”. The mystery of the universe is explained, the deity is annulled, and a new era of infinite knowledge is ushered in. From that time on, man has been endeavoring to make a monkey of himself, thanks to Charles Darwin and those who believe him.

     Now the fifth of these five men that impact our thought today is a man named Sigmund Freud.

     Sigmund Freud lived from 1856 to 1939. He was the one who put the final bow on the whole thing, put the final touches to the evolutionary model.

     Now Feuerbach said that we created the idea of God because of the insecurities that Hegel brought about by saying there are no absolutes. Freud said when we get the idea of God, whatever kind of God conjured up are an idea of God that comes to us from our childhood father.

     We conceive of God like we would conceive of our childhood father, when we were children.

     Freud was the father of psychoanalysis. He taught that mankind is motivated chiefly by pleasure, specifically by sexual pleasure and eroticism. To Freud almost everything begins and ends with sex and so he felt that if mankind is repressed by society in his erotic or hurt erotic urges other erotic urges people up failed to be allowed to fulfill their sexual and erotic desires they may get a neurosis.

   Is the fruit of his thinking the reason there is such an increase in the perversion, the filth, and the debauchery commonplace society today?

     Could it be that the roots are the widespread extreme permissiveness that came out of Freudian psychology? and you see it in raising children. We are told today not to repress children. After all you don't want warp the little thing. My dad warped me. You don’t want to warp him. If an offspring wants to cut the leg off the dining room table, you keep the saw sharp, so it won't frustrate the Kid. That is the idea that we have today.

History has declared what happened when these five men brought forth these philosophies. It took less than a century for them to come into fruition.

     In 1924 a man who was a student of Hegel and Feuerbach and a student of Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler.

     He thought he developed a better idea than Marx's. His idea was Nazism.

     So, he wrote Mein Kampf. Here are some quotes.

     He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.

     If Nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with the stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior one; because in such a case all her efforts, throughout hundreds of thousands of years, to establish an evolutionary higher stage of being, may thus be rendered futile.

     He who wants to live should fight, therefore, and he who does not want to battle in this world of eternal struggle does not deserve to be alive.

     Blood mixture and the resultant drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old cultures; for men do not perish as a result of lost wars, but by the loss of that force of resistance which is contained only in pure blood. All who are not of good race in this world are chaff.

     As with the survival of the fittest with Charles Darwin, there is no desire in nature for the mating of the weaker and stronger. Individuals even less, as nature does not favor the blending of a higher and lower races.

     Even if you consider his thought hard to imagine, these thoughts led to the gassed showers and gas ovens for cremation.

     What differs in the abortion business in America today? Is it not a grizzly business today of taking who are the weakest of all and because they are weak and because they cannot defend themselves, they can be liquidated. Hitler's argument for the extermination of Jews law, he reclassified them as nonpersons. Are we doing to the little babies today we are reclassifying them as nonpersons.

     Many claim to personally be against the cremation of human beings but what one does in his own personal gas chambers his business time. I believe in choice and the idea of survival of the strongest.

     These ideas have been around for a long time. Departure from MORAL ABSOLUTES is to “sow the wind” before the reaping of the whirlwind.

Ephesians in the Bible

¹² For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

¹³ Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

¹⁴ Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

¹⁵ And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

¹⁶ Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

¹⁷ And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

¹⁸ Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

¹⁹ And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,

     The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down strongholds and God has given us teaching them authority Jesus said behold I give you authority over all the power of the enemy. The one thing that they do not have his truth point A the other thing they don't have they don't have the Holy Spirit to what we need to do is to take the word of truth and the spirit of truth and hold up the Christ of truth we need to get on the boat with both feet today is a sure we need to know who we are what we believe and why we believe and I tell you friend that we don't have to be ashamed of what we believe they are good answers to these things in the Bible says we're to be ready always to give an answer to those who ask us of these things and I am convinced is not a lot wrong in America that could not be changed radically and quickly if we have a generation of preachers across this land would stand in the pulpits of God anointed with the Holy Spirit and a heart full of love from a pure life who would preach and teach us saith the Lord let it start in my heart let it start in your heart let it start in church less than up and speak up while God gives us a voice a man)

August 23, 2018

NOTICE OF FATAL DEFECT AND DEMAND FOR

CANCELLATION OF ALLEGED FORECLOSURE SALE

      This is a response notice to a fatally defective LEGAL NOTICE published in the Southern Star January 9, 16, 23, 2013 numbered AL-90001116-12 by William G. Berry, Esq. for WELLS FARGO HOME MORTGAGE, INC.

      COMES NOW, Haywood Jackson Mizell and Alice Faye Mizell, the affiants, after first being duly sworn who are of lawful age competent to handle all our private affairs, and of sound minds, living, well, breathing, natural born, a free man and a free woman living on the soil, two of the People Sui Juris having no legal disability, with and claiming all of his and her unlimited, inherent, unalienable, God given Rights and who are competent to testify to the facts set forth below and are voluntarily relating the following first-hand knowledge of such facts, hereby states that such facts are true, correct, and complete and are not intended to mislead and are telling the truth signed under the penalty of perjury.

    Demand is hereby made for cancellation of an illegal foreclosure. Notice is hereby given of intent to convene a grand jury with full investigative powers under a writ of inquiry for criminal matters including but not limited to uttering of forged documents and simulation of legal process.

      No venue and jurisdiction have been alleged by William G. Berry. Said notice contains no constitutional or statutory authority cited. Haywood Jackson Mizell and Alice Faye Mizell have never knowingly, willingly, voluntarily or intentionally consented to any equitable conversion of persons, property, papers, or effects, or knowingly, willingly, voluntarily or intentionally granted license for use of such to Probate Judge Sharon Michalic, Sheriff Wally Olson or attorney William G. Berry.

      No venue or jurisdiction has been identified either in common law or in civil law in said notice, nor is there a statement or averment regarding the office of the probate and whether it is operating in a constitutional capacity as judge under general law powers or whether the office is acting as Chancellor under statutory commission.

     Notice is hereby given of the definition of INSINUATION. In the civil law, THE TRANSCRIPTION OF AN ACT ON THE PUBLIC REGISTRY LIKE OUR RECORDING OF DEEDS. IT WAS NOT NECESSARY IN ANY OTHER ALIENATION BUT THAT APPROPIATED TO THE PURPOSE OF DONATION. Inst. 2,7,2.

     NOTICE IS GIVEN OF THE CONTINUATION OF A WILL. In the civil law, the first production of a will, or leaving it with the registrar, in order to its probate. Cowell; Blount. Black’s law dictionary2^nd.

     Haywood Jackson Mizell and Alice Faye Mizell hereby declare that we never intended to register a will in probate under civil law and never have we alienated ourselves from the property and given the property as a donation. Haywood Jackson Mizell and Alice Faye Mizell have never knowingly, willingly, voluntarily or intentionally donated our property to or for the use of a third party.

     We do not allow any further action. The foreclosure must be cancelled until you inform us as to how a mortgage document can be converted to a will. Never at any time in our life did we intend to create a will to be registered in the public domain in the probate office.

     Haywood Jackson Mizell and Alice Faye Mizell have never knowingly, willingly, voluntarily or intentionally domiciled our person, property, papers or effects in any foreign third-party jurisdiction or granted permission for our private signatures to be placed into commercial trade or for the use by any third party. There is no record of such action in the granting of such consent. You are hereby noticed that such activity constitutes civil and criminal trespass, civil and criminal theft, forgery, breach of peace which all are foundational grounds for contempt of the duties of public officials giving rise to summary process and attachment of trespassers private property.

      The said notice did not identify the venue and the jurisdiction, and we do not allow said action to proceed any further until we obtain the source of authority.

     We do not stipulate to any statements made in the said notice and do not acquiesce by silence. No reasonable response can be generated from a fatally defective publication and insufficient notice.   We do not agree to any statements made in the said notice. Furthermore, we do not consent to any attempt to obtain our acquiescence, consent or our ratification of commencement through said notice.

August 06, 2018

Yesterday, I viewed Death of a Nation. Illustrated was the immense importance of individual faithfulness.

     The movie displayed morally glorious results reached by individual faithfulness to the true God. There were times when America’s national glory was gone; their city and churches in ruins.

     It is in the Book of Daniel that we see three worthies who refused to worship the golden image. They dared to face the wrath of the king, to withstand the universal voice of the empire, yea, to meet the fiery furnace itself, rather than disobey. They could surrender life, but they could not surrender the truth of God. It is a sin to have respect to persons.

     And what was the result? A splendid victory! They walked through the furnace with the Son of God and were called forth from the furnace as witnesses and servants of the Most High God. Glorious privilege! Wondrous dignity! And all the simple result of obedience. Had they gone with the crowd and bowed the head in worship to the national god, in order to escape the dreadful furnace, see what they would have lost!

     But, blessed be God, they were enabled to stand fast in the confession of the grand foundation truth of the unity of the Godhead — that truth which had been trampled under foot amid the splendors of Solomon's reign; and the record of their faithfulness has been penned for us by the Holy Spirit, in order to encourage us to tread, with firm step, the path of individual devotedness, in the face of a God-hating, Christ-rejecting world, and in the face of a truth-neglecting Christendom.

     It is impossible to read the narrative and not have our whole renewed being stirred up and drawn out in earnest desire for more deep-toned personal devotedness to Christ and His precious cause.

June 22, 2018

You, the Homeowner, will:
1. Struggle and work to pay all your mortgage payments thinking you are buying a home.
2. In fifteen (15) or thirty (30), you will be expecting to receive the Original Promissory Note marked "Paid In Full" and a clear and perfectible Deed after you make your last mortgage payment.
3. You will receive Neither since the Deed of Trust was destroyed many years before and you will have NO IDEA who owns the Promissory Note, if it even still exists, and therefore, you will not know who to contact to attempt to obtain the Non-Existent Promissory Note.
4. The Original Mortgage Company you THOUGHT you were dealing with has long since gone out of business, likely through Bankruptcy.
5. Your County Recorder's Office will have been rendered ineffective and useless due to their Filing Records History having been destroyed by the RICO Fraud Enterprise.
6. You will be incapable of Legally proving a perfectible and enforceable Chain of Title.
7. You will likely have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a property to which you are emotionally attached and for which you, at that future time, will be unable to prove a clear, perfectible and total Chain of Title ownership.
8. You will still be held liable for all Property Taxes due on a Property that you do not Legally Own.
9. Selling the Property will become all but impossible since you will be unable to Legally and Ethically pass clear Title of Ownership to a new buyer.
10. You will be at a later stage in life when the last thing you will want to confront is a long, expensive and stressful legal Battle to attempt to perfect your Legal relationship to the property.
11. The Records are Destroyed and whomever you attempt to confront can simply say "We are the 100th organization involved in your property and we never got complete records when we paid cents on the dollar for your property, so we can't help you."
12. You will then realize that you have been and, continue to be, a RENTER who has unknowingly been given the privilege of paying all maintenance, improvement, insurance and Tax expenses on a property you DO NOT OWN. See Title 42 Peonage Abolished
13. At this point, your official legal classification is that of an Involuntarily Indentured Servant.
14. Indentured Servitude is illegal in this Country under Federal Law.
15. Putting off and ignoring the problem will only bring an ever-worsening degree of harm, heartache and financial ruin upon you and your loved ones as each year passes.
16. This writer will not stand quietly by and wake up in thirty (30) years to fight this fight when I am too old to do so.
17. If we, as Americans, do not see a dramatic directional change in the behavior of the U. S. Government in their desire, as proven ONLY by their Actions, to stop this Fraud, hold the perpetrators accountable, legally repair, on a Federal Court level, the millions of broken and destroyed Chains of Title and protect innocent Homeowner victims, this writer will file a Civil RICO Fraud Lawsuit and will go to the mat, and to the U. S. Supreme Court, if necessary and possible, to disclose and fight this LARGEST RICO FRAUD IN RECORDED HISTORY.
18. It is Your Life and Your Family's Welfare: WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?
19. WE CANNOT CONTINUE TO PASS THE BUCK, SIT ON THE SIDELINES AND EXPECT SOMEONE ELSE TO DO THAT WHICH WE SHOULD BE DOING NOW TO STOP THIS FRAUD.

April 26, 2018

An Example of Racketeering by the Bar

            Discover Bank is a subset of the debt collection racket, a wide-spread, far-reaching scam of artists such as Stephen L. Bruce. How the scam works: In a back room of the Chicago Board of Trade, worthless bundles of commercial paper in the form of copies of charged off debt are sold at auction. The typical face value of the bundles often amounts to tens of millions of dollars.

The mortgagees are often not harmed because they often have hypothecated the loan and have risked nothing.

     Actors up line from such artists as Stephen L. Bruce then break apart the bundles and resell the worthless commercial paper in clusters based on the original mortgagee and geographic location of the individual copies. Artists such as Stephen L. Bruce are the actual holders in due course although typically in the scam, artists such as Stephen L. Bruce invest as little as 75 cents on the hundred-dollar face for the worthless commercial paper, then allege they are third party debt collectors attempting to collect for the original maker of the loan.

This racket is particularly heinous in the case of credit card contracts, which as a continuing series of offers to contract, are non-transferable.

     The scam is complete when artists such as Stephen L. Bruce, with the cooperation of a local judge, defraud parties such as Shirley J. Baker. This scam is wide-spread, far-reaching and the main racket of the private business organizations to which artists such as Stephen L. Bruce belong.

      For other examples of this racket, see Discover Bank versus Keener, Case No. 03-1668 GC, Judicial District 45-8, State of Michigan, Discover Bank versus Angie G. Walker and Esler C. Walker, Civil Action File number 03-CV-2295, Muscogee County, Georgia, Discover Bank versus Larry Pasket, case number 03-SC-640, Clark County, Wisconsin, Discover Bank versus Roger Braker and Sharon A. Braker, case number CS-2003-2488, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, Bancorp. V. Carney, Los Angeles County, California, case number EC 032786, First USA Bank v. Borum, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma case number CS 99-332-25, Bank of America v. Bascom, County of Monroe, New York, index number 4522/00, Discounts R. US (a major syndicate player in the holder in due course fraud racket) v. Hausler, General Sessions Court, Smith County, Tennessee, case number 8758-24-179, Banco Popular v. Plosnich, DuPage County, Illinois, case number 98 CH 0913, Citicorp Mortgage v. Tecchio, Monmouth County, New Jersey, case number F-12473-97, Direct Merchants Credit Card Bank v. Griffith, Caddo County, Oklahoma case number CS-2002 116, Creditors Recovery Corporation v. Choisnard, Tulsa County, Oklahoma case number CS 02-7225, First Collection Services v. Elowl, General Court of Justice, New Hanover County, North Carolina case number 02 SP 338 & 02 SP 598, CitiMortgage v. Lance, Court of Common Pleas, County of Orangeburg, South Carolina, docket number 00-CP-38-1033, UMB USA Verus David Misurelli, Combined Court Fremont County, Colorado, case number 2003C 000890, Capital One Bank versus Barbara Davis and Phil C. Davis, Highlands County Michigan, Case number 03-754-SPS, and Conseco Finance Corporation v. Ray, Court of Common Pleas, County of Columbia, South Carolina, docket number 00-CP-02-397.

Is this really racketeering?

See O.S. Title 21, Chapter 19, § 554, “Attorney Buying Evidence of Debt-Misleading Court.

     Every attorney who either directly or indirectly buys or is interested in buying any evidence of debt or thing in action with intent to bring suit thereon is guilty of a misdemeanor.

     Any attorney who in any proceeding before any court of a justice of the peace or police judge or other inferior court in which he appears as attorney, willfully misstates any proposition or seeks to mislead the court in any matter of law is guilty of a misdemeanor and on any trial therefore the state shall only be held to prove to the court that the cause was pending, that the defendant appeared as an attorney in the action, and showing what the legal statement was, wherein it is not the law.

     "If the defense be that the act was not willful the burden shall be on the defendant to prove that he did not know that there was error in his statement of law.”

   Any person guilty of falsely preparing any book, paper, [({ record, })], instrument in writing, or other matter or thing, with intent to produce it, or allow it to be produced as genuine upon any [({ trial, proceeding or inquiry whatever, })] authorized by law, SHALL BE GUILTY OF A FELONY. See Oklahoma Statutes Title 21. Crimes and Punishments, Chapter 13, Section 453.

FYI

   Florida judge and attorney earned much money BUYING SATISFIED INSTRUMENTS, then going to court and then garnishing wages, all deceiving innocent people and their employers like Walmart. Many victims in Alabama and Dale County are victims of CORRUPT FLORIDA JUDGES.

   Get the original stamped paid in full surrendered to you, or else maybe make many payments for the same debt.

Sometimes crooks make you pay with the help of the sheriff.

April 08, 2018

California...by Victor Davis Hanson

The last three weeks I have traveled about, taking the pulse of the more forgotten areas of central California. I wanted to witness, even if superficially, what is happening to a state that has the highest sales and income taxes, the most lavish entitlements, the near-worst public schools (based on federal test scores), and the largest number of illegal aliens in the nation, along with an over regulated private sector, a stagnant and shrinking manufacturing base, and an elite environmental ethos that restricts commerce and productivity without curbing consumption.

During this unscientific experiment, three times a week I rode a bike on a 20-mile trip over various rural roads in southwestern Fresno County . I also drove my car over to the coast to work, on various routes through towns like San Joaquin , Mendota, and Firebaugh. And near my home I have been driving, shopping, and touring by intent the rather segregated and impoverished areas of Caruthers, Fowler, Laton, Orange Cove, Parlier, and Selma . My own farmhouse is now in an area of abject poverty and almost no ethnic diversity; the closest elementary school (my alma mater, two miles away) is 94 percent Hispanic and 1 percent white, and well below federal testing norms in math and English.

Here are some general observations about what I saw (other than that the rural roads of California are fast turning into rubble, poorly maintained and reverting to what I remember seeing long ago in the rural South). First, remember that these areas are the ground zero, so to speak, of 20 years of illegal immigration. There has been a general depression in farming - to such an extent that the 20- to-100-acre tree and vine farmer, the erstwhile backbone of the old rural California, for all practical purposes has ceased to exist.

On the western side of the Central Valley , the effects of arbitrary cutoffs in federal irrigation water have idled tens of thousands of acres of prime agricultural land, leaving thousands unemployed. Manufacturing plants in the towns in these areas - which used to make harvesters, hydraulic lifts, trailers, food-processing equipment - have largely shut down; their production has been shipped off overseas or south of the border. Agriculture itself - from almonds to raisins - has increasingly become corporatized and mechanized, cutting by half the number of farm workers needed. So unemployment runs somewhere between 15 and 20 percent

Many of the rural trailer-house compounds I saw appear to the naked eye no different from what I have seen in the Third World . There is a Caribbean look to the junked cars, electric wires crisscrossing between various outbuildings, plastic tarps substituting for replacement shingles, lean-tos cobbled together as auxiliary housing, pit bulls unleashed, and geese, goats, and chickens roaming around the yards. The public hears about all sorts of tough California regulations that stymie business - rigid zoning laws, strict building codes, constant inspections - but apparently none of that applies out here.

It is almost as if the more California regulates, the more it does not regulate. Its public employees prefer to go after misdemeanors in the upscale areas to justify our expensive oversight industry, while ignoring the felonies in the downtrodden areas, which are becoming feral and beyond the ability of any inspector to do anything but feel irrelevant. But in the regulators' defense, where would one get the money to redo an ad hoc trailer park with a spider web of illegal bare wires?

Many of the rented-out rural shacks and stationary Winnebagos are on former small farms - the vineyards overgrown with weeds, or torn out with the ground lying fallow. I pass on the cultural consequences to communities from the loss of thousands of small farming families. I don't think I can remember another time when so many acres in the eastern part of the valley have gone out of production, even though farm prices have recently rebounded Apparently it is simply not worth the gamble of investing $7,000 to $10,000 an acre in a new orchard or vineyard. What an anomaly - with suddenly soaring farm prices, still we have thousands of acres in the world's richest agricultural belt, with available water on the east side of the valley and plentiful labor, gone idle or in disuse. Is credit frozen? Are there simply no more farmers? Are the schools so bad as to scare away potential agricultural entrepreneurs? Or are we all terrified by the national debt and uncertain future?

California coastal elites may worry about the oxygen content of water available to a three-inch smelt in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, but they seem to have no interest in the epidemic dumping of trash, furniture, and often toxic substances throughout California 's rural hinterland. Yesterday, for example, I rode my bike by a stopped van just as the occupants tossed seven plastic bags of raw refuse onto the side of the road I rode up near their bumper and said in my broken Spanish not to throw garbage onto the public road. But there were three of them, and one of me. So I was lucky to be sworn at only I note in passing that I would not drive into Mexico and, as a guest, dare to pull over and throw seven bags of trash into the environment of my host.

In fact, trash piles are commonplace out here - composed of everything from half-empty paint cans and children's plastic toys to diapers and moldy food. I have never seen a rural sheriff cite a litterer, or witnessed state EPA workers cleaning up these unauthorized wastelands. So I would suggest to Bay Area scientists that the environment is taking a much harder beating down here in central California than it is in the Delta. Perhaps before we cut off more irrigation water to the west side of the valley, we might invest some green dollars into cleaning up the unsightly and sometimes dangerous garbage that now litters the outskirts of our rural communities.

We hear about the tough small-business regulations that have driven residents out of the state, at the rate of 2,000 to 3,000 a week. But from my unscientific observations these past weeks, it seems rather easy to open a small business in California without any oversight at all, or at least what I might call a "counter business." I counted eleven mobile hot-kitchen trucks that simply park by the side of the road, spread about some plastic chairs, pull down a tarp canopy, and, presto, become mini-restaurants. There are no "facilities" such as toilets or washrooms. But I do frequently see lard trails on the isolated roads I bike on, where trucks apparently have simply opened their draining tanks and sped on, leaving a slick of cooking fats and oils. Crows and ground squirrels love them; they can be seen from a distance mysteriously occupied in the middle of the road.

At crossroads, peddlers in a counter-California economy sell almost anything. Here is what I noticed at an intersection on the west side last week: shovels, rakes, hoes, gas pumps, lawnmowers, edgers, blowers, jackets, gloves, and caps. The merchandise was all new. I doubt whether in high-tax California sales taxes or income taxes were paid on any of these stop-and-go transactions.

[The hi lighted paragraphs are ways in which at least some of the nearly 47% of U.S. non tax payers are able to get by]

In two supermarkets 50 miles apart, I was the only one in line who did not pay with a social-service plastic card (gone are the days when "food stamps" were embarrassing bulky coupons). But I did not see any relationship between the use of the card and poverty as we once knew it: The electrical appurtenances owned by the user and the car into which the groceries were loaded were indistinguishable from those of the upper middle class.

By that I mean that most consumers drove late-model Camrys, Accords, or Tauruses, had iPhones, Bluetooths, or BlackBerries, and bought everything in the store with public-assistance credit. This seemed a world apart from the trailers I had just ridden by the day before. I don't editorialize here on the logic or morality of any of this, but I note only that there are vast numbers of people who apparently are not working, are on public food assistance, and enjoy the technological veneer of the middle class. California has a consumer market surely, but often no apparent source of income. Does the $40 million a day supplement to unemployment benefits from Washington explain some of this?

Do diversity concerns, as in lack of diversity, work both ways? Over a hundred-mile stretch, when I stopped in San Joaquin for a bottled water, or drove through Orange Cove, or got gas in Parlier, or went to a corner market in southwestern Selma, my home town, I was the only non-Hispanic - there were no Asians, no blacks, no other whites. We may speak of the richness of "diversity," but those who cherish that ideal simply have no idea that there are now countless inland communities that have become near-apartheid societies, where Spanish is the first language, the schools are not at all diverse, and the federal and state governments are either the main employers or at least the chief sources of income - whether through emergency rooms, rural health clinics, public schools, or social-service offices. An observer from Mars might conclude that our elites and masses have given up on the ideal of integration and assimilation, perhaps in the wake of the arrival of 11 to 15 million illegal aliens.

Again, I do not editorialize, but I note these vast transformations over the last 20 years that are the paradoxical wages of unchecked illegal immigration from Mexico, a vast expansion of California's entitlements and taxes, the flight of the upper middle class out of state, the deliberate effort not to tap natural resources, the downsizing in manufacturing and agriculture, and the departure of whites, blacks, and Asians from many of these small towns to more racially diverse and upscale areas of California.

Fresno 's California State University campus is embroiled in controversy over the student body president's announcing that he is an illegal alien, with all the requisite protests in favor of the DREAM Act. I won't comment on the legislation per se, but again only note the anomaly. I taught at CSUF for 21 years. I think it fair to say that the predominant theme of the Chicano and Latin American Studies program's sizable curriculum was a fuzzy American culpability. By that I mean that students in those classes heard of the sins of America more often than its attractions. In my home town, Mexican flag decals on car windows are far more common than their American counterparts.

I note this because hundreds of students here illegally are now terrified of being deported to Mexico . I can understand that, given the chaos in Mexico and their own long residency in the United States . But here is what still confuses me: If one were to consider the classes that deal with Mexico at the university, or the visible displays of national chauvinism, then one might conclude that Mexico is a far more attractive and moral place than the United States.

So there is a surreal nature to these protests: something like, "Please do not send me back to the culture I nostalgically praise; please let me stay in the culture that I ignore or deprecate." I think the DREAM Act protestors might have been far more successful in winning public opinion had they stopped blaming the US. for suggesting that they might have to leave at some point, and instead explained why, in fact, they want to stay What it is about America that makes a youth of 21 go on a hunger strike or demonstrate to be allowed to remain in this country rather than return to the place of his birth?

I think I know the answer to this paradox. Missing entirely in the above description is the attitude of the host, which by any historical standard can only be termed "indifferent." California does not care whether one broke the law to arrive here or continues to break it by staying. It asks nothing of the illegal immigrant - no proficiency in English, no acquaintance with American history and values, no proof of income, no record of education or skills. It does provide all the public assistance that it can afford (and more that it borrows for), and apparently waives enforcement of most of California 's burdensome regulations and civic statutes that increasingly have plagued productive citizens to the point of driving them out. How odd that we over-regulate those who are citizens and have capital to the point of banishing them from the state, but do not regulate those who are aliens and without capital to the point of encouraging millions more to follow in their footsteps. How odd - to paraphrase what Critias once said of ancient Sparta - that California is at once both the nation's most unfree and most free state, the most repressed and the wildest.

Hundreds of thousands sense all that and vote accordingly with their feet, both into and out of California - and the result is a sort of social, cultural, economic, and political time-bomb, whose ticks are getting louder.

Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, the editor of "Makers of Ancient Strategy: From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome" , and the author of "The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern."

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