Perhaps there’s a fundamental problem in our school system, or maybe Americans are just too apathetic to care, but the video linked below is really quite shocking.
Mark Dice calls himself a political prankster. His latest stunt is handing out a petition to see if people would support the creation of a police state like that in Nazi Germany. The Orwellian police state, Dice said, is needed to keep us all safe.
Did people sign the petition?
As you watch the video below keep asking yourself, “Would Americans really vote themselves into a tyrannical form of government?”
I wrote about this topic in my new book, Neighbors At War: The Creepy Case Against Your Homeowners Association. Some readers were a little skeptical, but the latest study by scientists at MIT and Princeton University seems to back my claim up.
People actually take pleasure in hurting others. Obviously not everybody lacks empathy. But a solid majority of those studied shows that many folks get some kind of a ‘buzz’ when they hurt someone else, especially those they envy.
It’s not the first such study. Others have shown that a vast majority of people would actually hurt other people, even fatally, if put in a position of power.
But this latest study adds interesting information when you look at HOA board members who abuse their positions of power over others.
Homeowners in the Litchfield Plantation HOA in South Carolina are going to rue the day they bought into the neighborhood.
The former developer of the HOA was arrested for grand larceny after he transferred nearly a million bucks worth of HOA assets to his private company. The allegation was made by three residents of the community who got the developer ousted as president of the board and got themselves elected.
But a judge has ruled the developer was still in legal control of the HOA corporation when the money transfer was made, and that the three board members may have been improperly elected. The criminal complaint against the developer was dismissed. And guess what? The developer has now filed a massive defamation lawsuit against the Homeowners Association.
Millions and millions of dollars are going to be spent in this case. And who will win? Not a tough question. The lawyers will win.
And who will lose? Also, not tough. Individual homeowners who didn’t even know they were involved in a lawsuit will have to come up with the millions of dollars that are going to be flung into the pockets of lawyers at the respective law firms.
Litchfield Plantation homeowners? This lawsuit will only be financed through special assessments against your homes. You folks thought you were buying into a nice peaceful neighborhood. It’s going to be an angry cauldron with a lot of you paying a nasty price.
I get many emails from folks who’ve discovered my book, Neighbors at War: The Creepy Case Against Your Homeowners Association. All of them have been heartwarming and appreciated. Many have been written since the Kindle version came out a couple of months ago. And what really helps is the amazing number of positive reviews you’ve given my book on Amazon. Every time a new positive review comes out, I see book sales rise.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read, review and refer my book to others. And thank you for your newly aroused activism in your own neighborhoods. In Kansas City, Las Vegas, Arizona, North Carolina, Florida and Texas, I see homeowners actually winning. We desperately need to keep reclaiming the Constitutional rights we’ve lost to the HOA movement. Every time I hear your horror stories it raises my ire, and doubles my determination to keep fighting. But it’s your victory stories which are the most encouragement to me.
It’s sort of fun as an HOA critic to follow the development of spy drones aimed at the consumer market. Here’s an amazing drone developed by the Japanese Ministry of Defense. All they need is buyers. These things are only 1400 bucks apiece and I know exactly where they can sell 335,000 of them.
That’s how many Homeowners Associations there are in this country. Heck, the price is low enough for each HOA board member and HOA management company to have one. That’s at least a couple of million sales.
The greatest drones, though, are still in the hands of the U.S. Military. They’re smaller than a hummingbird. But they’re all invasive and the typical HOA board isn’t bound by privacy laws. Or ethics.
