I would normally refrain from posting any writings of Mr. Hood’s as I find it to be offensive and unfit for publication here on IPR; however, I felt this piece needed to be viewed as Mr. Hood is the state chairman of the Constitution Party of Wisconsin. (The original piece can be seen here.)
In the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life,” the character George Bailey got to see what life would be like without him. The family friendly “Bedford Falls” became the sin-city of “Pottersville.” Because that movie is fiction, George Bailey got to see how he really did win the “Battle for Bedford Falls.” In my case, I got to see what life would be like under the auspices of a “Pottersville” style government even though I did my best to fight the “Battle for Bay View.”
My neighborhood in the City of Milwaukee is Bay View. There was nothing special about the area, other than the fact that it was ours. If we had a problem, it was our problem, because it’s our neighborhood. It was a factory neighborhood, with Steel Mills, Rolling Mills, Drop Forges, Furniture Works, Aluminum Foundries, Machine Shops, and Tanneries. You lived and worked in Bay View.
Liberals and sodomites started calling Bay View, “the other East-side.” If Madison is Sodom on Lake Monona, the East-side is Sodom on Lake Michigan. Those Liberals have the support of City Hall. In the 70′s many industries fell on hard times, and thanks to NAFTA by the end of the nineties over 90% of them are gone. What has the Common Council done? They have filled the neighborhood full of Taverns, Tattoo Parlors, Drug Paraphernalia Stores, Witchcraft stores, Pornography Stores, Gay Condos, Restaurants featuring transvestite “waitresses,” Strip Clubs, and every other unproductive, destructive activity under the sun. The resulting apostasy and family breakdown is horrific.
Even “conservative” commentators starting calling my neighborhood “Gay View,” and there was quickly six or seven rainbow flags on every block. The American Flags on Kinnikinnic Ave., aka K.K. Ave where taken down, and rainbow flags where put up. Then the City of Milwaukee, at the behest of the sodomites closed down the storefront Church at which I was a deacon, by using the Board of Zoning Appeals.
Needless to I started distributing Christian literature, which was not well received by the reprobates; was unsupported by our fellow “Christians,” our activities garnered police harassment and death threats, but I kept marching on. At one point in 2010, the efforts were showing results. Most of the sin-businesses moved or were closed down, and while the neighborhood was still infested with sodomites, the rainbow flags and blue “equality squares,” all come down. The American flags were reposted on KK Ave, and even Down-Town, no one ever thought that would happen.
Things fell apart as a result of GOP sheepishness in the face of the Occupy Madison 2011. After all, when a mob can put State legislators to flight; that emboldens every fruitcake to come out of the woodwork, and reassert their evil deeds. In April, 2012 I stood in the gap for our Party, and for our Nation, and ran for US Senate against Tammy Baldwin, and Tommy Thompson.
In the debacle of that campaign, my fellow Christians pulled my support and refused to send me anymore anti-sodomy brochures, or gospel literature. The neighborhood has been going backwards into paganism and I know of no efforts to evangelize coming from another place.
I haven’t given up. I am a Christian, and that means doing the Lord’s work in this land. I am an American, America is lost, that means one simply can’t become weary in well-doing, much less spend all of one’s free time goofing off at potluck suppers and parties and calling that Kingdom work. Furthermore, not only will I fight the “Battle for Bay View,” through street ministry, I will fight the “Battle for Wisconsin,” through CPoW. One final thought, I hope you see the value of the local initiative, and holding local office as a result of reading this article. I hope you can keep your town, your town, and the best way to do so is from a position of authority.
Can’t say that I’m sad about that, either.
Yep.
Oh well; it’s only going to hurt them and make them ever more irrelevant.
Doubt he’ll respond to me.
I think the most of the leaders and active members of the CP have now chosen to shun speaking to, or engaging in dialogue with anyone they consider a critic or ‘enemy’ of the CP. And therefore have become a bit clannish and inward in their approach and relations with the general public.
I can understand why some would take that approach, yet still it is not politically, or publicly, productive in the long run.
We’re probably next to each other at Quantico 🙂
Maybe I’m a clone of the original, who thinks he really is the original. Or maybe it’s a different Arnold role and I actually am a “cybernetic organism.”
Maybe you should ask him?
You know, I have to wonder why Randy Stufflebeam supported this guy for Wisconsin?
Milnes believes William Saturn has been killed and replaced by a supercomputer or a government agent posing as WS:
http://rwm4prez2012.wordpress.com/2013/12/11/where-in-hell-is-william-s-saturn/
Mr. Saturn, I would post more comments on IPR if I wasn’t so busy studying Captain Beefheart and his theories regarding the true Trout Mask Replica.
Speaking of Saturn, the current residence of Sun Ra, I am thinking he might be a good candidate for political office if voters can be convinced that he is fully capable of cross-dimensional telepathic governance. Voters are often persuaded to believe in complying with scenarios once thought to be impossible, as we all know.
As far as I know, Beefheart has no political ambitions at his time. I would vote 3 times for a Beefheart/Zappa ticket and 2 times for a Sun Ra/Moondog ticket.
I think Riley’s heart is in the right place, but Joshua makes a good point that he needs to act more like he actually enjoys being a Christian and wants to share the positive parts of his faith.
I would like to think that Pope Francis was inspired by some of my posts as CT, but that is unlikely. Thanks Paulie and William. That 2011 post was not even one of my better ones as CT; I was already losing my edge at that point. I did in fact have a computer virus in 2008 but I never really believed it was politically motivated.
LOL, thanks.
https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2011/08/open-thread-for-august-2011/
CT wrote:
“I would be open to attempting to post some articles about some of the minor parties which are not covered here as much. I would not even post about my own growing movement, the Catholic Trotskyist Party. Today is the third anniversary of when my computer was nearly destroyed by a computer virus sent by Naderite right-wing political criminal agendas. Yet I have persevered, and IPR has persevered, and the leadership of our holy revolutionary general Barack H. Obama ahs persevered despite all obstacles.”
Hmmm…not remembering that one..but OK.
Yes. I enjoyed CT’s posts when he accused Ralph Nader of giving him a computer virus.
I like(d) your stuff too, AR/CT, and NF’s. Some of those other folks not so much.
I suppose that many of my comments as Catholic Trotskyist could fit into that category. I was a college student trying to find myself and going through a lot of personal struggles. For some reason I’ll never quite understand, trolling at IPR was an outlet for dealing with stress. I may try writing in a more satirical style again, but I think I’ve outgrown it. BTW I miss NewFederalist; he often had the best responses to this type of post. If you’re still lurking, I’ll hope you’ll come back one day.
I like Blanton’s humor better.
Tom Blanton, thank you for your comment. It reminds me of the satirical comments from IPR’s earlier days: the press releases of Rev. Alberto Medvedev, Concerned Chuck and Hetro Harry’s obsession with Captain Beefheart, and even the comments of Don Lake of the Citizens for a Better Veteran’s Home. Where did those commenters go? If anyone reading this posted under any of those names or under a name I failed to mention, please come back. It would give me great joy to see your posts today and in the future.
LOL
Damn those sodomites and their witchcraft stores.
I thought the Son of Santa died on the burning Swastika to make the tranny waitresses and voodoo tattoo parlors vanish into the depths of the place that cannot be mentioned.
The all powerful 900 foot Founders who created the Holy Constitution would never have stood for any
witchcraft stores. The True Believers must come together and restore the Good Old Days as revealed to us by the Prophet Norman Rockwell.
Personally, I welcome as many of Hood’s articles as people want to post, as I’m always up for a good laugh. Most people’s problem seems to be that they take him too seriously. Just think of him as a cartoon character. You wouldn’t get offended by something that Homer Simpson or Peter Griffin said, right? So why get offended by the similarly ridiculous stuff that Hood says?
FYI Nicholas; Riley was re-elected CP State Chair earlier this year, so his term as Chairman still has a few more years to go, lol!
Though maybe Josh’s intro can be reworded, IMO.
Josh, every one of your posts is just gushing with wisdom.
I get offended by stuff Riley Hood says too… Well, I used to.
Now I find his commentary quite entertaining, and I think IPR should keep posting his silly rants since we all need a good laugh every now and then, plus I’m sure it generates great web traffic here.
Nothing Mr. Hood writes needs to be viewed by anyone, short of maybe actual members of the Constitution Party of Wisconsin in preparation for replacing him with someone sane.
Mark Bennett has a helpful list of rules for dealing with crazy people that are useful to follow in life. See especially, Rule 1: “If you don’t have to deal with a crazy person, don’t.”
I’ll second that, Jed.
Also, the rationale “I find it to be offensive and unfit for publication here on IPR; however, I felt this piece needed to be viewed as Mr. Hood is the state chairman of the Constitution Party of Wisconsin.” doesn’t make much logical sense, since that woud be true of all his voluminous and frequent verbal exhibitionisms. What distinguishes this particular tongue-flagellation from his usual and frequent output? There might be something, but if so, the explanation provided does not say what it is.
I have no issue with posting Hood’s issue on an infrequent basis. But the rationale that it is significant because he is the state chair of CPoW is inadequate. It’s enough to post one of these every once in a while, and as long as it doesn’t become too frequent that’s fine.
It should actually be in the comments, since it expresses a personal opinion {” I find it to be offensive and unfit for publication here on IPR; however, I felt this piece needed to be viewed …”]
As a proud atheist “sodomite”, Mr. Hood’s words dig even harder at me, and it’s why I have a deep problem with libertarianism being classified as right-wing. While I do have capitalistic economic views, I have precious little in common with the American right and their anti-gay, anti-immigrant, Christian nationalist, moralistic, theocratic nonsense. Both personally and politically.
Do we really need the little jab at the beginning?
I mean, I personally am a devout Christian, but I can think of nothing more immoral than forcing my view of morality onto other people. I like to think that my religion is so good that just sharing my faith, my testimony, and the love of Christ is enough to make my faith appealing to them. I don’t think it needs to be forced on them. Apparently Hood and others have no such confidence!
LOL, Joshua! I have a family member who goes crazy over tattoos, and how they degrade the temple of the body. Oh, yeah, she’s at least 350 pounds.
Now Mrs. Pyeatt, you and I both know how destructive tattoos have been to both the institution of the family and society as a whole! This subject ought not be joked about!
LOL
There are lots of priceless wordings in here; Among my favorites: “They have filled the neighborhood full of Taverns, Tattoo Parlors, Drug Paraphernalia Stores, Witchcraft stores, Pornography Stores, Gay Condos, Restaurants featuring transvestite “waitresses,” Strip Clubs, and every other unproductive, destructive activity under the sun. The resulting apostasy and family breakdown is horrific.”
Darn those tattoo parlors!
You may well be right.
I wouldn’t be the first to speculate that his whole public persona may be elaborate street theater. If not, he has some major personal issues and repressed (or perhaps not so repressed) desires.
Based on my experience with the C.P, and seeing how some state parties have justified genocide of Muslims (looking at you Illinois!) I don’t think we want to know how Hood would want to cleanse the “infestation.”
Well, this guy is highly entertaining, for sure. His over-the-top descriptions of the “sin-businesses” sounds like something from a couple centuries ago.
BTW, another reason his values tend to be ridiculed (one of my favorites pastimes, actually) is the prevalence of hypocrisy in the “Christian” right. Too many Jerry Falwells and Jim Baker stories come to light. .
With his tongue?
I particularly enjoy the phrase ” infested with sodomites.” Lovely show of Mr. Hood’s character. One wonders precisely how he’d like to cleanse that infestation.
Good point Joshua.
Also interesting is how the religious right continues to blame everyone else for what they view as the moral degradation of society on everyone but themselves. Here’s a thought religious righters, maybe you guys (who have charged yourself with the responsibility of ensuring morality of society) haven’t been doing your job correctly!! Maybe you guys sitting on your lazy butts and not doing anything while waiting for the government to shove your morals down the throats of the general public have allowed the morality of society to degrade. There’s some food for thought.
They are not in favor of free markets. They are protectionists (IE not for a free market in goods), migrant bashers (IE not for a free market in labor) and their religious “moral” views coupled with government force call for restraint of trade in many types of businesses they oppose for “moral” reasons. Actually, they are about as free market as Iran under the Ayatollah or Afghanistan under the Taliban. Or perhaps like medieval Europe under the merger of church and state.
I think it is interesting how they can claim to be “just supporting traditional marriage” and claim they aren’t just simply biggots but they continue to use terms like “sodomites”, knowing how derogatory the connotation of that word is. Not only that, but the Constitution Party is supposedly a limited government conservative party in favor of Free Markets, yet here in this piece Riley Hood seemed to have chastised his City Council for not refusing the entrepreneurship of new businesses in his area because he felt said enterprises were immoral.
Nothing wrong with a Riley Hood hatefest being posted from time to time, and we haven’t had one in a while. The issue before was that we were posting so many for someone who is not a very big deal even in alt party circles. As Ad Hoc posted on a prior article:
Look, some random wacko who says the most outrageous shit he can think of can write an article a day. Hell, maybe he is retired or works at home or something and can write 20 articles a day. He gets to be a state chair of a tiny party that might not otherwise even have a state chair in that state at all (after all there are other states where they don’t) and gets 70 write in votes. Does that mean he should have 100% of his articles published here?
Never mind that it’s Riley J. Hood of the Wisconsin Constitution Party. It could be J. Hiley Rood of the Idaho Green Party (fictitious person) with articles like
“Soylent Green: A fresh perspective”
“Burn cops, not pot fields”
“Human extinction, a necessary path to zero carbon emissions”
“The human virus”
“Animal, plant and bacterial rights: an idea whose time has come”
“Humans: Eat shit and die; a billion flies can’t be wrong”
“Thank Gaia for AIDS”
How many of this person’s articles would be too many….ten a day? twenty? a hundred?
Forget about the ideology. It could be some radical libertarian or vanilla moderate for that matter.
What has this person achieved? How often do they want their opinions to be known? Balance the two at least to some extent. Not that it can be done perfectly, but there are times when it can become very disproportionate and it can make sense to put the brakes on a little.
If you’re going to try to defend or protect traditional/moral values in this country, and especially marriage- Mr. Hood’s rhetoric is the perfect example of taking the WRONG approach to doing just that.