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Nine economic policies that define ModiOn 25 May 2018 , Narendra Modi completed four years as Prime Minister. During this time, the Modi government has taken several decisions on economic policy, of which nine are key. From financial inclusion to identity and attack on black money to corporate insolvency, these policies have dominated the discourse over the past 48 months. Some of these policies are extensions of past ideas, a work in progress taken forward — Aadhaar or the Goods and Services Tax (GST), for instance. Others, like demonetisation and the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, are new ideas. In some such as GST, the government received cooperation from Parliament, the States and the media. In others, notably demonetisation, it didn’t. For good or for bad, these policies (one each in 2014, 2015 and 2017, and six in 2016) define the direction of the Modi government’s economic thinking. Should Modi return to power in 2019, we know the foundations upon which new policies would be built. Should he lose the 2019 elections, it would still push the next government in the same direction, not unlike how Modi has strengthened Aadhaar and extended the MGNREGA. This essay evaluates these nine policies.Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan YojanaThree months into the Prime Minister’s Office, Modi launched the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, with a festivity of financial records and a flood of political slogans. A scheme to deliver financial inclusion from the top, Jan Dhan Yojana helps unbanked Indians open a bank account, get a debit card, and access to social security schemes like insurance and pension. In terms of numbers, it has enabled the financialisation of India at a never-seen-before scale — on 17 January 2018, there were almost 310 million beneficiaries, three-fifths of them in rural areas, with a total balance of Rs 73,690 crore. With an average balance of Rs 2,377 per account, this shows that despite there being no minimum balance requirements, the first steps of unbanked Indians towards organised finance have been taken. Critics have raised issues of privacy and security and these would likely get ironed out, going forward. But nobody can deny the advantages of the poor having access to modern finance.The Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) ActNineteen months into his tenure, the Modi government brought in a law that speeds up the arbitration of commercial disputes, by getting the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Act (ACAA) passed in Parliament. Although the skeleton of the law is as old as 1899 through the Indian Arbitration Act, its evolution and adaptation to conditions of Independent India has been long. ACAA ironed out legislative and legal wrinkles such as the role of “Courts sitting in judgement over the arbitrators, before arbitration, during arbitration and after arbitration,” as the Justice Saraf Committee on Arbitration noted. The new law has also smoothened out conflicts of interest and brought disclosures by arbitrators into the law. Most important: all arbitrations now must end within 12 months, giving the original objective of arbitration — speed — the force of law.Hydrocarbon Exploration and Licensing PolicyIn its 23rd month, the Modi government cleared the cobwebs of stalemate between the government and private companies in the energy sector through the Hydrocarbons Exploration and Licensing Policy (HELP), replacing the 19-year-old New Exploration Licencing Policy (NELP). In terms of execution, the fiscal model of HELP, under which oil and gas fields are auctioned to companies, has shifted to revenue sharing from NELP’s profit sharing, a major reason for stalemate in the sector. This will reduce the micromanagement of company expenses, which in turn lowers the regulatory burden and administrative discretion. The policy also gives a uniform license for exploration and production of all forms of hydrocarbon like coal bed methane, shale gas and oil, tight gas and gas hydrates. This replaces NELP’s hydrocarbon-specific policies — often, while exploring for one type of hydrocarbon, a different one would be found and companies needed a separate licence for it — and gives a greater marketing and pricing freedom for natural gas (crude oil already had this freedom). But whether HELP will deliver what NELP couldn’t remains an open question for now.AadhaarOn 26 March 2016, the Modi government’s 23rd month in power, Aadhaar, an identity mapping tool launched by the United Progressive Alliance in January 2009, was strengthened, taken forward and institutionalised. In a country, where elections are won on promises of basic benefits, ensuring that they reach the targeted beneficiaries has remained a challenge for wealth distributive policies, from wages to pensions. While Aadhaar functioned under the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the body lacked statutory support. As a result, the Modi government proposed and Parliament enacted the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act. Today, Aadhaar has become India’s most credible identity currency, and is used while filing taxes, and buying financial products like mutual funds. This along with linking direct benefits such as the public distribution system, employment guarantee schemes, cash transfers to the poor, and opening bank accounts, has been challenged in various courts, and objections to the State collecting personal information like fingerprints and iris scans raised. While these will get sorted out one way or another, Aadhaar has the potential to become one of India’s major soft power exports.The Insolvency and Bankruptcy CodeOn 18 May 2018, Bamnipal Steel, a Tata Steel subsidiary, acquired a controlling stake of 72.65% in the ailing Bhushan Steel for Rs 35,200 crore. While the import of this news was lost in the din of Karnataka elections, this is the first large bankruptcy resolved under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), a new law that the Modi government proposed in its 24th month and Parliament enacted. In tune with its primary focus — time-bound resolution of corporate insolvency — the deal is a landmark first step towards ending crony capitalism. According to the World Bank, against the 2016 world average of 2.5 years to resolve insolvency, it took Japan 0.6 years, Singapore and Canada 0.8 years, the US 1.5 years and China 1.7 years. The figure for India: 4.3 years. The IBC aims to consolidate and amend the laws relating to reorganisation and insolvency resolution of corporate persons, partnership firms and individuals in a time bound manner for maximisation of value of assets of such persons, to promote entrepreneurship, availability of credit and balance the interests of all the stakeholders. It amended 10 Acts of Parliament and establishes an Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India that has regulatory oversight over the insolvency professionals, insolvency professional agencies, and information utilities and is responsible for implementation of the Code. In a line: this law allows easy exit from a failing business.The Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment ActThe 31st month of the Modi government saw a tightening of a law against black money in property. India’s long war against unaccounted-for, tax-evaded money has been through what is known as ‘benami’ transactions through the purchase of property in one person’s name but financed by another, who also controls it. The 1988 Benami Property Transactions Act was weak — no powers of a civil court, no specific provisions for vesting of confiscated property, no appellate structure defined. The Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Act, in force since 1 November 2016, empowers authorities to provisionally attach and eventually confiscate benami properties. It also carries jail terms of between one and seven years and a fine that can be upto 25% of the fair market value of the property. Within six months of the Act coming in force, the authorities identified more than 400 benami transactions, including deposits in bank accounts, plots of land, flats and jewellery, with more than 240 properties with a market value of more than Rs 600 crore being provisionally attached.DemonetisationThe 31st month also brought in what is arguably the most controversial, disruptive and critiqued policy of the Modi government — demonetisation. In his 8 November 2016 address to the nation, Modi announced that Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes would cease to be legal tender that midnight. By tuning into corruption at high places and the widespread black money in the economy, Modi articulated a political angst against “anti-national and anti-social elements.” An additional objective of this scheme was curb fake currency and terror financing from across the border. As reports of individual and small business hardships flooded the nation, and 98.96% of the notes returning back to the banking system, demonetisation ended up creating acute individual distress that Finance Minister termed ‘anecdotal’. It hit real estate, slowed growth due to reduced demand, disrupted supply chains, and increased uncertainty. Additionally, it caused a decline in cash-sensitive stock market sectoral indices like realty, fast-moving consumer goods and automobiles, and hurt the informal, cash-driven economy. Hardship aside, demonetisation has forced unaccounted-for money to flow into the banking sector, which can and is being tracked.The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) ActModi’s 31st month had one more key policy: the introduction of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act. One of the striking and tragic contradictions of India’s policymaking has been around real estate. From acute housing shortages and lack of developed land to speculator-driven bubble-like asset prices with unaccounted-for income and an overriding ecosystem of personal, corporate and government corruption, has placed citizens at the mercy of forces that manipulate markets. The need for a regulator to have an oversight on this complex industry has been languishing for more than a decade. Complicating the issue is that while land and its development is a State subject, consumers are mobile, migrating from one state to another with ease. This law attempts to fix these problems by establishing a regulator to oversee the sector and “protect the interest of consumers in the real estate sector” through an adjudicating mechanism and Appellate Tribunal. Unfortunately, this law needs to be enforced by State governments, most of which have notified it, but are dragging their feet on the consumer interest side. Unless he revives it, RERA could turn out to be Modi’s biggest policy failure.Goods and Services TaxModi’s biggest reform push, with the greatest impact to public finances, and the strongest tool against tax evasion and arguably the most complex law in the history of Independent India’s — the introduction of the goods and services tax (GST) — was launched in the 39th month of his term. The enabling mechanism was provided by the enactment of the Constitution (One Hundred and First Amendment) Act, following which Parliament enacted four Central laws. Further, all the 29 States enacted enabling laws in their Assemblies, while the Centre notified it for all the seven Union Territories. The GST replaces eight Central taxes and nine State taxes, but leaves five petroleum products and alcohol for human consumption out of its ambit. In tune with indirect taxes in 140 other nations, Modi has brought to completion one of India’s longest reforms — the GST story began more than three decades ago, in 1985. The structural reform over, minor tinkering will continue, though criticism about its implementation, particularly the huge compliance burden for small enterprises in its initial launch, was needless, bureaucratic and not thought through.

This is just so typical! The true criminals here are Bob Mueller and James Comey! And this is how they move - they’re pros but they’re going to get smashed; I hope to see them executed for treason! I’ve been dealing with these domestic terrorists since 2001 and I like to think I’ve got the upper hand finally. From the Fox News article related to this question:"Special Counsel Robert Mueller's remarks today confirmed what we already knew. There was no collusin between the Russians and the Trump campaign, and there was no case for obstruction," campaign manager Brad Parscale said in a statement. " President Trump has been fully and completely exonerated. Mueller said his investigation is over. The case is now closed."Parscale went on to address the investigation of "the origins of the Russia hoax," and why the Justice Department and FBI intiated their probe of the Trump campaign."Anyone who is for transparency, constitutional civil libterties, and the rule of law should want to know why human sources, wiretapping, and unmasking were used to infiltrate a presidential campaign," he said.Bob Mueller is a blatant and highly skilled criminal, as is James Comey - although not nearly so skilled. Why else do you think they are pandering to the left!?! Rosenstein even called Comey out for it and now we have Bob:“So I do not blame the former director for being angry. I would be too if I were in his shoes,” Rosenstein said. "But now the former director seems to be acting as a partisan pundit, selling books and earning speaking fees while speculating about the strength of my character and the fate of my immortal soul. I kid you not."Rosenstein’s criticism of Comey is the latest salvo in what has evolved into a war of words between the two former colleagues. Comey has become a major public figure in the wake of his dismissal and has been at times lauded as a hero by Trump’s critics. Several weeks ago, Comey penned an op-ed in The New York Times ripping into Attorney General William Barr and accusing Barr and others in Trump’s administration of lacking the “inner strength” to stand up to the president and writing that Trump “eats your soul in small bites.” In a televised town hall last week, Comey described Rosenstein to CNN’s Anderson Cooper as a person “of accomplishment but not real sterling character, strong character.”"That is disappointing," Rosenstein shot back Monday. "Speculating about souls is not a job for police and prosecutors."Think about Randy Weaver and Brandom Mayfield and Stephen Hatfill and read:When Comey and Mueller Bungled the Anthrax Case; and, my own story which is the following.I’ve lost everything multiple times in the last 20 years and I can’t say that I’ve missed much; I would’ve especially been grateful had I never had to interact with so-called family. That said, I haven’t had a hot shower in over a decade, so I think a hot shower would be nice. But I don’t really miss hot showers . . .What I really miss is JUSTICE! I took government in both high school and at the Houston Community College, so I was buffaloed into believing that America was a place were justice rules; pure fantasy as it turns out!This is from a document I wrote several years ago called “Credence: A Tale of Corruption.”The following document is a condensed version of a truly Texas tale, a tale of corruption on a grand scale. The full version of this story, including copies of relevant legal documents, was delivered to the Office of the U. S. Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Assistant U. S. Attorney, Eastern District of Texas, in January of 2009.I’ve been living in the same woods, near Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, Texas, since early March of 2009. Back then I had a 1984 Chevy pick-up which I kept in good running condition. On the way back from my patent agent’s office, the last time, my fuel pump gave out. Luckily, I had made it to the Flying J truck stop on I-45 and Richey Rd. I talked to a guy from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, who had a Ford F-250 and he towed me back to my woods. I didn’t have the money to replace my fuel pump. A short time later a tree crew showed up and began tearing out the woods. They removed the trees from 16 acres to make way for a future development. They towed my truck out to the end of the dead-end street.In the interim I met Sgt. Michael Walsh with HPD’s Environmental Enforcement Division. He was looking for people dumping used motor oil which happened frequently. Sgt. Walsh gave me his card and told me that if I saw anyone dumping to get their license number and give him a call. A short while later I watched a guy dump a whole trailer of trash on the property that had been cleared of trees. Sgt. Walsh gave the guy a citation and found out he owned a company which cleared out foreclosed homes and evicted apartments. He was getting paid to take the trash to the dump and still dumped it illegally.A short while after that I walked up on two Harris County Pct. 4 employees who had a dump dolly backed into the woods and were dumping unused wet concrete out onto the ground. One guy looked at me and said, “See no evil, speak no evil, right?” I responded, “Yeah, right.” A couple of nights later the other guy came by and tried to bribe me off with Taco Bell tacos. I told him my dogs had already eaten. Sgt. Walsh got a kick out of the situation. He gave the county a citation and the District Attorney, Pat Lykos, made Pct. 4 come out and clean the whole area up. In retaliation a couple of Sheriff’s Deputies showed up and towed my 84’ Chevy. I had already built a shanty in the woods and had my property stowed.While working my way through an open book written by Dr. Hugh Jack of Grand Valley State University, Automating Manufacturing Systems with PLCs, [1] I googled any questions I had, and I had a few considering it is a senior level course and I had none of the prerequisites, and I came across another open source book, written by Tony Kupholdt, an Instrumentation Electronics instructor at Bellingham Technical College, called Lessons in Electric Circuits [2]. I worked my way through all 2500 pages, including the DC lab exercises. I had most of the electronic components I needed due to the microcontroller kits I had purchased before becoming homeless.While living in Port Arthur, Texas, I worked for a company, co-owned by Maxwell Morgan LLC (Maxwell Financial LLC), called Del Pueblo Foods. They had received $1.5 million from insurance due to Hurricane Rita and were in the process of building a state of the art processing facility in a former car dealership when they entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Among other things, I designed and fabricated their food grade brine production and delivery system and overhauled their semi-automatic processing line. I was working as an independent contractor for the trustee, Stephen Zaylor [3] of Lufkin, Texas. Mr. Zaylor brought in Chiron Financial Advisors, from here in Houston, to find a “Stalking Horse” bidder. Chiron Financial did so and during the bankruptcy auction the Del Pueblo assets were sold to this bidder and the new company is now called KT Foods. [4]While working for Mr. Zaylor I did an internet search for Algebra and Trigonometry “cheat sheets,” sheets with all relevant formulas, and came across the website of Professor Paul Dawkins. [5] Professor Dawkins teaches Fundamental Calculus at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, and his Calculus “notes,” free to download, are exquisite. While working through Dr. Jack’s PLC book I became inspired by the Boolean Algebra. I was just amazed at how the Boolean Algebra could take a bird nest of logic and reduce it to the simplest and most efficient logic path possible; the power of mathematics demonstrated. So, after Lessons in Electric Circuits, I taught myself Fundamental Calculus using Professor Dawkins “notes” and, primarily, the problem sets of Professor Kouba of the University of California, Davis. [6]While searching the internet for Calculus application problems, I came across the open source textbook and course material provided by Dr. Jeffrey Schnick of St. Anselm College, a complete Newtonian physics course. [7] I worked through the physics course while learning Calculus II. They complement one another rather well.In my spare time I completed several drawings and wrote a number of patents for additional novel and unobvious technologies, technologies which require more than 20 patents to protect. The technologies are all highly marketable and diverse. Two examples I include in this discourse are a surge generator for reef aquaria (actually designed in 2001) and three novel tree shear designs. I have also completed two oil paintings and am working on three others.My inventions are often, if not always, triggered by a catalyst, something already in production which leads me to a novel idea for a new machine. When working for Ares Robotics I was on a Conoco job, a pipeline vessel outside of Ville Platte, Louisiana, when I conceived of the early version of Athena’s Fury™. The company in charge of processing the waste product was hauling it offsite in large, 80 barrel, vacuum boxes. I looked over and saw a truck loading a box and the truck bed was hoisted straight up in the air:I saw these two hydraulic cylinders standing straight up in the air and I immediately conceived of my first piston pump, what’s now being marketed as the Bolsena Sludge Pump. I planned to make it tri-plex:I had the components, three sets of each, machined by Hyseco, a company specializing in large bore cylinders. I was pretty ignorant as to the proper way to design cylinder components at the time but I knew what I got back from Hyseco wasn’t right. I took a piston and gland up to Hurst Hydraulics, another company in Houston specializing in large bore cylinders. I spoke with Jim Hurst and, I believe, his son. I asked them if they could tell me what was wrong with the components and whether they were reparable and, if they were reparable, how much it would cost. Jim told me he would scrap them and start over. He said they were machined from grey cast and needed to be ductile iron. He told me the seal grooves were wrong and that my rod connection was too small. I had these eight inch pistons machined to connect to two inch rods since I planned to drive the pump pistons by smaller hydraulic cylinders. Jim told me he wouldn’t use anything smaller than a 4” rod with an 8” piston because you run the risk of snapping rods. I went home and started thinking about how I could stabilize the rods and, almost immediately, conceived of Athena’s Fury™ in its current manifestation:(these images contain proprietary information)While designing Athena’s Fury™ I was maintaining an experimental, 55 gallon, reef aquarium. I was utilizing filtration techniques developed by Dr. Avery of the Smithsonian Institute with incredible results. My little tank was really flourishing. I had just finished reading Charles Delbeek’s and Julian Sprung’s Reef Aquarium books which made me conceive of my surge generator, Ocean’s Pulse™, originally very similar to Athena’s Fury™.On the Ville Platte job I spent a lot of time pushing and pulling robot umbilical in to and out of the vessel and realized an umbilical management system was needed. I drew a sketch of a framework that could be assembled at the vessel entrance which included three wheels made from large chain sprockets welded together. One wheel was rotated by a hydraulic motor and the other wheels were spring loaded and mounted in a manner that would allow the umbilical to be sandwiched between them and the drive wheel. It included an umbilical cleaning system using brushes with pressurized cutter stock pumped through them.After the job concluded I showed the sketch to Richard Starr and he tore it apart. He said the umbilical would most likely slip on the wheels, he didn’t want to have to add cutter stock as an umbilical cleaning agent, and he didn’t want to construct anything on jobsite. I was a little perturbed and decided he could come up with his own design. I went back out to the shop and started working on an automated robot wash I had designed and was building. Grant Peterson, a conspirator owned by the corporate thief, William Albion Anderson, had some mud processing equipment stored in the Ares yard including a troughing conveyor. I bent over to pick up a piece of metal and caught that troughing conveyor out of the corner of my eye and immediately conceived of the deployment/umbilical management system. I had already thought of the eight wheel drive, articulating ROV:(these images include proprietary information)Richard Starr, being a licensed Professional Engineer, kept the doors open at Ares Robotics by working consultant jobs. Rhodia, a large French owned chemical company, approached Ares Robotics about building a robot to remove product from their railcars. Richard was heavily involved as a professional witness in a personal injury lawsuit at the time thus the designing and building of the railcar robot fell to me. I only drew two pictures to design that robot, both full-scale on a piece of plywood: one to see how wide I could make the head; one to see how wide and tall I could make the body. While building the railcar robot I realized that if I made it larger so that it would squeeze through a 24” manway as opposed to a 17” manway it would make a better vessel robot than the one in current use because the head would raise completely up and out of the material and there would be no live electronics inserted into the vessel. I had built this larger version and used it on the Ville Platte job.This mid-sized robot worked rather well but had a couple of inherent problems. With the head raised completely out of the material it placed too much weight on the front two wheels and, when turning, they would chatter. Occasionally they would chatter so much the wheel would detach from the wheel motor. Richard Starr and Terry McWilliams discovered a solution for this problem which worked extremely well. After we employed this solution it would occasionally chatter the wheel motors out of their brackets. Richard Starr discovered a solution for this problem which also worked extremely well. Although good solutions and essential additions to the robot, I felt they addressed the branch of the problem and not the root; I felt the robot needed more weight on the back end to prevent the chattering outright.The second problem also concerned weight. The material we were removing was weighing around 18 pounds per gallon and when the 4 inch discharge hose became full of material the robot had difficulty manhandling the discharge hose and umbilical. In other words, the robot became difficult to maneuver. During the job I stood at the manway and managed the umbilical myself, shoving hose in, pulling hose out, using a come-along, whatever was necessary to get the job done but, working in tyvex and nomex in +100° temperatures, I knew there had to be a better way. I conceived of two complementary solutions: the articulating, eight-wheel drive robot and the umbilical management system.There were a couple of problems inherent to adding weight to the robot. In order to add mass you had to increase bulk but the only way to increase bulk and still fit through the access manway was by lengthening the robot which was problematic. When launching the robot it made a transition from horizontal to decline. If you lengthened the wheel base of the robot then, when making this transition, it would high-center. If you lengthened the robot but kept the wheel base the same then, after making this transition, the “tail” of the robot would encounter the top of the access manway and launch would be prevented.I started to brainstorm, thinking of all the vehicles I had been exposed to. Growing up on a farm/ranch I had been around heavy equipment my whole life but the solution came from my Marine Corps experience. The articulating, eight-wheel drive robot was inspired by the Light Armored Vehicles (LAVs) I was exposed to in the Marine Corps. My original MOS was LAVs but I was instead sent to 0352 school when a group of sergeants and corporals came to LAV school. They were short on non-commissioned officers. LAVs are eight wheel vehicles and although they don’t articulate themselves their wheels do.As soon as I conceived of two separate bodies articulating I built a simple but effective wooden model and determined that, (this has been redacted).Originally I was planning to operate Ocean’s Pulse™ with pneumatic cylinders. I had no plan to market the device to the public; it was just for my own experimental use. One night I was walking my dog, thinking about the pneumatic system for Ocean’s Pulse™, and realized I could use compressed air with the umbilical cleaning apparatus rather than pressurized cutter stock. Eventually, I bought a microcontroller kit designed to teach humans 12 years and older about microcontrollers because I was trying to learn how to design the controller for Athena’s Fury™. One of the practice circuits used two NPN and two PNP transistors in conjunction with the microcontroller to switch the direction of rotation on a small DC motor. I realized I could operate Ocean’s Pulse™ with a small DC motor and PLC making it marketable to the public. Do you see all the connections? One thing leads to another.My original idea for the robot navigation problem was to use laser diodes inspired by messing with my brother-in-law’s laser level. Eventually I realized that to get a spot of light of sufficient size on the robot would require a diode array of prohibitive size. I bought a one day pass to the Texas A&M Pump Symposium [8] and, as a result, received a bag full of trade magazines. I was reading an article on Plant maintenance and saw a thermographic image of a pump. I said to myself, “Well, I’ll be damn, there’s my navigation solution!” The same magazine had an advertisement for Infrared of Texas [9] out of Beaumont, Texas. After I visited their website and looked through their gallery I was convinced it was a viable solution.One of my inventions is something I designed and built for my father when I was about 12 years old. When I was up there in 2004 it was still in his shop and still being used. I was helping my father and uncle remove some cedar trees [10] in 2004 when I thought of mounting a hydraulic shear to the front of a four-wheel All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV); I just didn’t know how to reduce the shear to a manageable size and still have enough power to shear a tree. I was working for Stephen Zaylor, the bankruptcy trustee handling the Del Pueblo Holdings case, when I discovered the solution.I was working in the new building and some of the warehouse workers were cleaning up the yard outside. One of the workers came to me with a pair of scissor-type tree limb shears he had snapped the handle on and asked if I could get a new pair. I went to Drago’s Hardware to buy a new tree limb shear and found a pair with a funny little linkage mechanism that cost a little more money. I was looking at them trying to figure out how that linkage mechanism could justify the additional cost when one of the Drago brothers came up and said they had just gotten them in and that they were supposed to be able to cut through a much thicker branch. I bought them and gave them a test run and the difference was incredible. I thought immediately of the ATV tree shear problem.In trying to discern what that linkage mechanism was and how it worked, I looked in the hand tool section of the McMaster-Carr [11] catalog. I discovered all kinds of hand tools had that same mechanism. On one page, describing a pair of heavy wire cutters, the advertisement proclaimed, “Toggle-joint turns 50 pounds of force at the handles into 4000 pounds at the jaws!” Now I knew it was a toggle-joint and that I could multiply the force by a factor of 80. Next I turned to the Machinery’s Handbook. They had a page dedicated to toggle-joints including a table of coefficients. I felt for sure I was on to something.I didn’t get around to designing a tree shear until after I finished the patent application for Athena’s Fury™ which means I was homeless at the time. I realized right away that the force dynamics of the toggle-joint was non-linear. I researched the load dynamics of live trees and discovered, in a book called, Structural BioMaterials, [12] that live trees, like many biological materials, exhibit an initial J-shaped stress/strain curve which conforms ideally to the force dynamics of the toggle-joint. I also found a young fellow’s Master’s Thesis which proved to be a real boon.went to the Texas Worksource Center [13] and did a patent search and right away found the Leseberg patent titled, ATV Mounted Tree Shear. I went straight to the claims and the very first claim quite accurately described my preliminary drawings. I was just sick. It was clear from his patent and what additional information I could find online that the guy didn’t know what he was doing. But what was I supposed to do, call him up and offer free advice? The worst part was this all came from the Muse. The Muse has never led me wrong. Sometimes it may appear as such but given enough time the reason for Her inspiration always becomes clear. This is really what made me stand back and take another look.I re-read this fellow’s Master’s Thesis and found in the section on future improvements a concept that would allow me to improve on the Leseberg patent but I was afraid it would be an infringement. I ran the numbers anyway and the force generated was almost unbelievable. I started calculating how to put it all together and quickly realized the spatial footprint was much too large. I dismissed this improvement solution but kept the concept in the back of my head.A couple of days later I was walking in circles thinking about this Master’s Thesis when the first viable, non-infringing solution popped into my head. I ran the numbers and not only did it not infringe on the Leseberg patent but it made the Leseberg shear look like a tinker-toy. I started drawing and was half-way through when the second viable, non-infringing solution popped into my head. I ran the numbers and it was even better. Six months later I was walking my dog around the bayou when, quite suddenly, I realized how to make that concept resulting in the over large footprint work, it was a real simple adjustment. As I said previously, the numbers on it are almost unbelievable. At the base of the blades, when the blades are fully closed, it generates over a trillion pounds of force . . . per blade; my third viable, non-infringing solution. Thank you Mother, Muse, Goddess.When writing the patent for my third tree shear design I discovered that the Leseberg patent, numbered 7,240,702, is a worthless piece of paper in that the art taught belongs to the public domain. The same art is taught in a patent granted to Caterpillar Tractor Company in 1978, titled Tree shear assembly with toggle linkage, and numbered 4,131,144. The Leseberg patent doesn’t reference the Caterpillar patent because it’s a hustle, a bluff meant to stifle competition.When Terry McWilliams and I hired on at Ares Robotics we both did so at a pay rate well below what we were used to. Richard Starr entered into the verbal agreement, with both Terry and I, whereby we would work for compensation below what we were accustomed to for a period of time - to be determined - at which point our contributions to the company would be evaluated and ownership granted based on those contributions. On good faith, I demonstrated my conceptualized pump and robotic system to Richard Starr and informed him that the time to discuss ownership had arrived. Richard Starr laughed and told me that I wasn’t an engineer and couldn’t do anything with my conceptions without him and then asked, “Why should I give you ownership?” At the time I weighed 215 pounds and could bench press my 120 pound dumbbells for ten reps. I put my fist clean through Starr’s office door and left. I knew at the time that William Albion Anderson was stealing everything from everybody anyway. Shortly thereafter the Supreme Ordeal commenced.I have always seriously considered the idea that we (human beings) all exist and interact in a cosmic mind. Since reading the books of mind research scientist, Dr. Ben Goertzel, [14] I have become increasingly convinced of the validity of the idea. There is a great deal of resonance between Dr. Goertzel’s research programme and mythological/spiritual wisdom. In mythology there exists an archetype known as the “brother-battle” theme. This simply acknowledges that humanity, and all sentient life for that matter, is divided into two camps: a dark, masculine force, and a light, feminine force. The masculine force is directed towards stasis while the feminine force is directed towards creative dynamics. When balanced, these two forces maintain life in a type of dynamic equilibrium.From Dr. Goertzel’s book, From Complexity to Creativity:The dynamics of the dual network may be understood as a balance of two forces. There is the evolutionary force, which creates new forms, and moves things into new locations. And there is the autopoietic force, which retains things in their present form. If either one of the two forces is allowed to become overly dominant, the dual network will break down, and become excessively unstable, or excessively static and unresponsive. Of course, each of these two "forces" is just a different way of looking at the basic magician system dynamic. Autopoiesis is implicit in all attractors of magician dynamics, and evolutionary dynamics is a special case of magician dynamics, which involves long transients before convergence, and the possibility of complex strange attractors.From this it follows that we sentient beings are just so many magicians and anti-magicians conducting the business necessary to keep our cosmic mind functioning. I myself am aligned with the light feminine force.My family, all aligned with the dark, masculine force, has formidable connections with the Wyoming oil fields and the refineries around Casper, Wyoming. My parents, Harley and Kathy Hansen, leased considerable properties from a lady named Bertha Hengler for more than twenty years. Bertha lived in Casper, Wyoming, and both her son, Jim, and daughter-in-law, Alice, retired from executive positions at Casper refineries. We used to visit Bertha, Jim, and Alice at least once a year to go snow skiing. Jim and Alice were cross-country enthusiasts. My parents, upon Bertha’s death, purchased half of the Hengler property they had rented from Jim and Alice and continued to rent the other half from Bertha’s son, Bob. While working at Ares Robotics I tried to get my parents to leverage these connections but they would have none of it. I sent Ares Robotics marketing packages to both my parents and my godmother, Zella Mae Sanders, and received no response from either party.My family has been working with the corrupt Harris County “authorities” since day one. They are convinced that these “authorities” have been assisting them in the theft of my technologies and trade secrets. They are idiots. They are too stupid to figure out that they are being set up. The corrupt Harris County “authorities” have been working with William Albion Anderson the whole time. I have tried repeatedly to convince them of this without success.My original criminal conviction, in 2002, was for felony criminal mischief. In order for criminal mischief to be a felony, in the State of Texas, one must inflict more than $5,000 damage. When I left employment at Ares Robotics I was rather angry and left behind my tools and the original pump components I had purchased. Richard Starr locked the gate to the Ares Robotics yard and refused to return my property until I had given him the drawings demonstrating the technologies I had conceptualized. I backed my 1991 Toyota Tacoma, straight cab, 4 cylinder pick-up into the gate. I didn’t even bust the gate open and did very little damage to it. While locked up in jail the prosecutor, Chuck Rosenthal, charged me with a felony saying I had inflicted more than $5,000 in damage to the gate. My parents and sister, Dr. Kim Hansen-Franzen, came to see me in jail but neither they nor my court appointed attorney would take a picture of the gate for me. I accepted a plea agreement after 3months in the county jail, spent 3 months homeless, living under an abandoned railroad bridge, and then 5 more months locked up in county and state jail. The plea agreement, deferred adjudication probation, was granted even though the court knew I was financially destitute and would, upon release, be homeless. The court liaison officer, Nugget Ebby, gave me a map to the Star of Hope [15] mission just prior to my release. In 2004 and again in 2009 I went back to Ares Robotics and the same old gate, the gate I had “destroyed,” was still in use; in 2009 I took a picture of it with my cellphone camera.When this court “conviction” failed to deter my determination to realize a successful business based on my novel technologies, the corrupt Harris County “authorities,” those working for William Albion Anderson, conspired with a fellow named Patrick Morrison to get me arrested for “stalking.” Patrick Morrison was on deferred adjudication probation for a “dangerous intent” case at the time; he had threatened his neighbor with a nine millimeter pistol. He had also failed four urine analyses for crystal-methamphetamine use and was staring prison in the face. Patrick Morrison is rather well off financially. He owns Pat Morrison Stucco, which works primarily in The Woodlands, an upscale community, and Champions Equestrian Center, a full service stable. I met Patrick Morrison through Shannon Slyfield, Richard Starr’s former girlfriend and, at the time, the head trainer at Champions Equestrian Center. I was arrested for “stalking” Patrick Morrison’s eleven year-old daughter. The intent was to arrest me for a child molestation case but, when I failed to engage their conspiracy in the proper manner, they settled for stalking.In the state of Texas, the complainant in a stalking case involving a minor needn’t be the minor in question, they can be the minor’s legal guardian. And all that need be demonstrated by the court is that the minor’s guardian feared for the minor’s safety and well-being. This makes sense, of course, but it can easily be corrupted. I spent 32 months locked up in the Harris County Jail for these crimes I didn’t commit. I spent another 24 months on parole, seven of those with a monitor on my ankle. I spent 45 days in the psychiatric unit in the Harris County Jail and another 49 days in the maximum security forensic psychiatric hospital in Vernon, Texas. They had Dr. Freidman, a psychiatrist with the Harris County Mental Health and Mental Retardation Authority, diagnose me with “delusional disorder” because I kept insisting, to my attorney and others, that a conspiracy was at work devastating my character. And, of course, I insisted on a trial. They wanted to be able to demonstrate to a jury that I was mentally unstable. At my trial there were no witness’ called on my behalf but yet my appeal, an appeal ran through the court system without my notice, a direct violation of the Texas Fair Defense Act of 2001 (I was never once contacted by John L. Denninger, the court appointed appellate attorney or anyone else), was less than fruitful. George Godwin, the convicting court judge, since retired, made certain of that.I originally designed and built the food grade brine system for Del Pueblo Foods in 2004, just prior to being arrested and fraudulently charged for “stalking” the Morrison girl. To design the system I relied, almost entirely, on the information available from a website called Fluide Design. This website has since been changed to Pump Fundamentals. [16] This is the website of Jacques Chaurette, a licensed Professional Engineer specializing in pump and piping systems. Mr. Chaurette gives away a book (in 2004 it cost a small fee) called, Pump Sizing and System Design, which thoroughly expounds upon the thermodynamics involved in calculating total head for a piping system. It also thoroughly demonstrates the proper method for sizing pumps and how to read pump curves although it deals specifically with centrifugal pumps. I used the spreadsheet method to calculate total head and the system I designed was quite robust and professional.While locked up for “stalking” the Morrison girl I wrote my cousin, Rex Hansen, a letter requesting that he write a letter of support to the parole board on my behalf. Rex did so and I was released to Port Arthur, Texas, in December of 2006. Rex told me Del Pueblo Foods was in bankruptcy so they could only hire me as a warehouse worker at $10/hr. I accepted knowing it would be much easier to find a job from the free world than it would from a half-way house. Almost immediately I drew a sketch of Athena’s Fury™. I entered into a Confidentiality Agreement with Maxwell Morgan [17] and Sausalito Foods [18], a distribution company formed by the principals of Maxwell Morgan, Rex Hansen and Jeff Roth, two silent partners, and a food salesman named Wally Van Cleave. The agreement was signed by Rex Hansen, Managing Director of Maxwell Morgan and Sausalito Foods, Jeff Roth, Director of Maxwell Morgan and Sausalito Foods, and Mike Wood, the plant manager at Del Pueblo Foods. I demonstrated Athena’s Fury™ to all parties and they immediately began their attempt to steal my technology. Actually, the attempted theft really began when Jeff Roth casually mentioned that Rex had a Confidentiality Agreement and, at my request, Rex emailed it to me.The Confidentiality Agreement in question is quite legitimate but nowhere on it was Athena’s Fury™ or Athena’s HydraSystems™ mentioned (I didn’t realize the necessity of this until later when entering an agreement with the University of Wisconsin’s Innovation Technology Center). It was a generic, bi-lateral agreement between me, Maxwell Morgan, and Sausalito Foods (Rex Hansen inked in Sausalito Foods, in the “and Affiliates” section, and initialed the entry). Rex Hansen then promptly proceeded to email me a confidential offering memorandum for Sausalito Foods. In this manner he could fraudulently demonstrate that the Confidentiality Agreement we had entered covered this offering memorandum rather than my technologies. The guy is a complete idiot but this is also why the Texas Secretary of State interfered with the lawsuit I filed against my cousin, Mark Hansen, in Colorado. The play by the Secretary of State was solely intended to convince Rex Hansen and the other idiots in my family that the Texas “authorities” were conspiring with them.To demonstrate that the Confidentiality Agreement between Maxwell Morgan and myself covers Athena’s Fury, I have in my possession the following emails:RE:Non-Disclosure AgreementFrom: Rex W. Hansen ([email protected])Sent: Tue 1/16/07 12:02 PMTo: ‘Wes Hansen’ ([email protected])Attachments: Confidentiality Agreement.doc (24.8 KB)---------Original Message----------From: Wes Hansen [mailto:[email protected]]Sent Tuesday, January 16, 2007 6:27 AMTo: [email protected]: Non-Disclosure AgreementHey Rex,I was wondering if you got a moment if you could email me a copy of the Non-Disclosure agreement Jeff said you have. Thanks, WesRE: Dreams of GloryFrom: Rex W. Hansen ([email protected])Sent: Tue 1/28/07 12:02 PMTo: ‘Wes Hansen’ ([email protected])Working on raising money now. I will try and get a proposal to you early this week.Rex---------Original Message----------From: Wes Hansen [mailto:[email protected]]Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 9:03 AMTo: [email protected]: Dreams of GloryHey Rex,I had a wonderful vision of glory last night and, more importantly, this morning when I awoke it made perfect sense. In my vision I was the commander of a large military force and we had aligned ourselves with the Goddess Athena. We were engaged in pitched battle with another large force which had aligned themselves with the god Ares. Of course anyone who has studied their Greek mythology knows Athena is always victorious over Ares because She is much more subtle and cunning. In my vision however, the forces were evenly matched and running neck and neck. Finally, Athena appeared beside me and whispered something in my ear. That something was the secret weapon that allowed us to defeat the opposing force. That something was called “Athena’s Fury.”I am going to start a company, whether with you or someone else, and it will be called Athena’s Robotics, LLC. It will utilize a revolutionary new piece of technology (my piston pump) and that technology will be called, “Athena’s Fury.”Man I like that girl Elizabeth. She’s such a fiery young woman. Achingly beautiful in my opinion. I asked her to lunch but she says I’m too weird for her. Maybe it’s the beard . . . What do you think?StatusFrom: Rex W. Hansen ([email protected])Sent: Fri 3/30/07 11:09 AMTo: ‘Wes Hansen’ ([email protected])Hey Wes,How are things going? I’m sure Jeff has told you we have been delayed another month. However we are moving forward with moving.I haven’t forgotten nor have I lost interest in your pump proposal. I just haven’t been able to provide a tangible commitment yet. As soon as I have a solid understanding of our own financial status and business plan, I will move forward with your proposal. I just don’t want to over commit right now.Should have everything wrapped up in the next 3 weeks (course I have said that before).Talk to you later,RexRE: StrategyFrom: Rex W. Hansen ([email protected])Sent: Wed 5/02/07 1:09 PMTo: ‘Wes Hansen’ ([email protected])We don’t have a deal done yet. Have no idea where this is going at the moment. Be happy to introduce you to ______. I don’t feel comfortable doing anything right now, ______ keeps telling everyone I’m the devil, so I pry wouldn’t be a good intro at the moment.Rex---------Original Message----------From: Wes Hansen [mailto:[email protected]]Sent: 05/02/2007 5:15 AMTo: [email protected]: StrategyRex,Perhaps you could email _______ the Athena’s Robotics profile I emailed you awhile back. Explain to him that we are looking for an initial investment of $350,000 to $400,000 so to build a prototype we can use to generate performance curves and conduct field tests. A portion of the investment could be the renovation and lease of the building out behind the Olive factory (you can explain about the building I am sure). Let him know that we plan to generate cash flow by renting pumps and that pump rentals generate annual revenues in the low $1 billion range. We can then use this cash flow to develop our robotic sludge removal system and acquire the necessary processing equipment with sludge removal and processing in crude oil tanks alone generating an additional $500 million annually. Let him know I would be happy to conduct an informal presentation of the pump and peripheral equipment if he is interested.Respectfully,Wes Hansen[end emails]I also authenticated the Confidentiality Agreement in question in a lawsuit involving a party who can also substantiate a “date of conception” in the early fall of 2001. Furthermore, I have in my possession the receipt from Hyseco Hydraulics regarding the original pump cylinders dated November, 2001:In addition, I have the following email from my first cousin, Mark Hansen:PumpFrom: Mark Hansen ([email protected])Sent: Mon 4/02/07 9:54 AMTo: ‘Wes Hansen’ ([email protected])Wes,Was looking over your Pump drawings.How many of these do you think you can sell?Is there a market to build and Rent?Have you figured out how much to build one yet?I think I can find investors if you get to that point?How have you been? Did you get flooded?Mark[end email]I knew Mark’s investor was most likely Brian Schuchman [19] and I had no interest in working with Schuchman for a couple of reasons: I didn’t want to lose control of my business; I didn’t want to build a business just to sell it. According to his Forbes profile, Schuchman is in the habit of building companies and selling them; that’s all he does. He had just sold 95% of Commnet Wireless to Atlantic Tele-Network for $59 million in an all cash transaction. I sent my pump drawings to Mark solely to lend credibility to the story I had been telling my whole family, including Mark and his wife Cammie. Rex Hansen had spyware on the computer I was using at the Del Pueblo facility and he contacted Mark and eventually Schuchman. I responded to Mark in the following, rather curt, manner, “I already secured financing for my pump business, thanks. No, we didn’t get flooded.”I filed a lawsuit in a Texas court requesting the return of confidential documents as provided by a provision in the Confidentiality Agreement. The defendant, Mark Hansen, was a resident of Colorado so it was necessary to involve the Texas Secretary of State. I received notice from the Secretary of State, via certified mail, that Mark Hansen had been duly served on December 11, 2008. The Texas court in question never received such notice thus a trial date was never set. I filed two separate lawsuits in this same court, one on the same day as I filed the suit naming Mark Hansen as defendant, and its integrity was well established.The Secretary of State sabotaged the judicial proceedings of a Texas court in the attempt to prevent the authentication of said Confidentiality Agreement while, at the same time, convincing my family of their intent to help them (my family) steal the technologies and trade secrets covered by said Confidentiality Agreement. They failed in this endeavor for, as the old saying goes, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.” They made this attempt in order to assist William Albion Anderson, an extremely wealthy Perry campaign contributor, in his attempted theft of technologies and proprietary information which rightfully belong to me; technologies I have since patented. I have also managed to maintain Trade Secret status, as defined by both Texas State law and the Economic Espionage Act of 1996, on the majority of the technologies in question.So why did the Texas Secretary of State foolishly interfere with the judicial proceedings of a Texas court? They planned to arrest my whole family, myself included, for “Theft of Trade Secrets.” Here’s how:I knew my family was being set up, I just didn’t know how. I knew there had to be a connection between William Albion Anderson and Rex Hansen. I started pounding the internet searching for it. On William Albion Anderson’s Forbes profile it demonstrated that he had been appointed as a Director for Rancher Energy of Denver, Colorado, in the spring of 2007 and a Director for Far East Energy of Houston, Texas, in the fall of 2007. Considering this whole conspiracy was coming into play in 2007, I found these appointments suspect. I became even more convinced of their conspiratorial nature when I discovered that Rancher Energy, a company using CO2 injection to extract oil from spent oil wells, was working solely in oil fields conveniently located in the direct vicinity of Casper, Wyoming.In the offering memorandum for Sausalito Foods Rex Hansen emailed to me, it reveals that Rex Hansen is a Managing Director for Bathgate Capital of Denver, Colorado. I began researching Bathgate Capital and discovered, in their tombstones, that Bathgate had extended $1.4 million in seed capital to a company in Houston, Texas, called Far East Energy. Bingo! The Rex Hansen/William Albion Anderson connection. This is what caught the interest of the federal authorities. The State of Texas had all of my information including social security number. They planned to demonstrate, in a Texas court, that Rex Hansen became aware of the pump and robotic system in question while engaging William Albion Anderson through the Bathgate/Far East Energy connection. They then planned to demonstrate, in a Texas court, that Rex Hansen directed me, his cousin, to work for the William Albion Anderson company manufacturing said pump and robotic system thus familiarizing myself with the technology and facilitating the theft of that technology. They were going to put my whole family in prison. Not interested in seeing the inside of a Texas court again, I thwarted this planned action.I knew that Debra Reeves, Ares Robotics’ office manager and Richard Starr’s personal secretary (perhaps even love interest), was, in fact, working for and loyal to William Albion Anderson. I sent my story to the federal authorities packaged in three-ring binders including page dividers and table of contents. The binders included copies of all original documents. I drove to Ares Robotics in the spring of 2009, entered into a Confidentiality Agreement with Richard Starr, and left him a copy of this information. When I went back a week later and retrieved the information, one of the drawings of Athena’s Fury™ was missing.My family is going to prison no matter what. Some people would be tempted to say they’re all a bunch of idiots. I wouldn’t refute this directly but, to me, their actions just demonstrate the deterministic nature of things. They have acted the way they have because they have no choice, none of us do – it’s a Divine Comedy. But yet, paradoxically, we should all strive towards the cultivation of a good heart. It’s the fundamental message of all religions. His Holiness the Dalai Lama wrote a book about the four gospels and it’s titled, A Good Heart. [20][end document]The people engaged in these activities include: the entire state of Nebraska and especially Frontier County and the City of Curtis; my entire genetic family, immediate and extended, both sides and including Agri-Affiliates of North Platte, Nebraska, and Maxwell Morgan Strategic Finance of Portland, Oregon (the principle conspirators within the genetic family are Harley and Kathy Hansen, Robert Franzen and Kimberly KayHansen-Franzen, Mark Hansen - a cousin whose mother is my mother’s sister and whose father is my father’s brother, and Rex Hansen - a third cousin and first-class asshole; the entire state of Texas and especially Harris County and the City of Houston; the entire state of California and especially Los Angeles County and the City of Los Angeles; the entire United States of America and especially the so-called “Department of Justice;” Thomas Brinsko and his father-in-law, Earl Heard and their entire organization, BIC Industries; I’m certain there are probably many more. These are all really wonderful and loving Christians - don’t take my word for it, ask them and they will tell you themselves!What follows is a small sample of some of the emails I have sent to various government officials, lawyers, news media personnel, and what have you. This first is an email I sent to the Houston Office of the FBI in 2014 and the second is an email I sent to the famed attorney, Gerry Spence in 2017 (he’ll sue the government on behalf of an illiterate white supremacist but not on mine):Criminal ActivityWesley HansenThu 10/9/2014 9:46 AMTo: [email protected] [email protected] attachments (3 MB)Credence.pdf; Binary Operators in Harmonic Oscillation.pdf; The Womb in the Tomb.pdf;To whom it may concern,In January of 2009 I, Wesley W. Hansen, sent documents fully describing multiple crimes against my person to the Office of the U. S. Inspector General in Washington D. C. and to the Assistant U. S. Attorney, Eastern District of Texas; please see the attached document, Credence: A Tale of Corruption, for a brief summary. Since that time and due to forces beyond my control I have been homeless, living in the woods, and eating food foraged from dumpsters. At the landowner’s request, I moved from the lot I was living on to a different wooded lot owned by the same landowner.Apparently, the owner sold the property on which I am now living. Yesterday evening, Wednesday, October 8, a gentleman walked through the property as a prelude to tree removal. He told me it would probably take them a week to get to the job but the unavoidable fact is I must move once again.This is the thing, I first informed the FBI about the situation I have been dealing with in a 20 page hand-written letter I sent from the Harris County Jail in 2005. In January of 2009 I sent the boxes with three-ring binders, complete with tables of contents and tabs, which told the whole tale, supported by copies of all legal documents, to the U. S. Inspector General and the Assistant U. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas (I was living in Port Arthur at the time). And here I am, six years later, still living in the woods and eating out of dumpsters!The point is I’m tired of it! I believe I have demonstrated a patience far above and beyond any that could be expected. According to the Houston Chronicle, some mobster turned state witness on the mob and the FBI set him up in a gated mansion on Memorial Dr. AND funded a swanky nudie dancing joint for him so he could return to the same B.S. he supposedly left – and return he did – yet here I am, a former U. S. Marine and law-abiding citizen who has been pummeled by the very society he served, and I’m left in the woods for years on end! If I were to take the law into my own hands, how long would it take you to put me in prison? I’ll bet it wouldn’t take six years; based on past experience, I’m somewhat surprised you haven’t fabricated a reason and done it already!You people are entropic agents but, rest assured, entropy shall be overcome!"But daddy, it's you, the man with the light-bulb head!" "It's too late, son, I've come to turn you on . . ."Regards,Wes HansenHomeless Vet1 messageWes HansenThu, Oct 12, 2017 at 2:01 PMTo: [email protected]. Spence,My name is Wes Hansen. I was honorably discharged from the United States Marine Corps in spring of 1994. Due to actions by the FBI and others, I have been living on the streets of Houston, Texas, and Los Angeles, California, since March 01, 2009. Perhaps you will find my story of interest!?!I was born (1969) and raised on a farm/ranch in Southwest Nebraska (Frontier County). I signed a guaranteed 0300 contract with the USMC on the brink of the first Gulf War. After being honorably discharged, I graduated from the commercial dive school in Houston, Texas, The Ocean Corporation, as the honor graduate, class D252, in May of 1995. I spent some time working for American Oilfield Divers out of New Orleans, Louisiana. I then moved back to Houston and went to work in a small job shop, Lift Aids of Houston, as a fabricator.I worked for Lift Aids for a bit more than three years and attended evening classes full-time at Houston Community College majoring in Pre-Science/Pre-Engineering. I maintained a 3.89 GPA and was a member of the Honor Society. Lift Aids encountered lawsuit troubles due to some short-cuts they had taken prior to my tenure there so I left and went to work for a start-up called Ares Robotics (website no longer available). I was making $60,000/year at Lift Aids when I left.The Board of Ares Robotics included Richard Starr, CEO and founder, Dave DeLater, Vice President, Michael Harris, Treasurer, and David Gaines, Secretary. Richard Starr claimed to be a former member of Seal Team 6 and a licensed PE with a couple of engineering degrees. At the time I was a bit young and I tended to think that people generally tell the truth but, in hindsight, I believe Richard Starr to be less than truthful.Starr told me that the company was short on operating capital and, believing there to be a good bit of potential opportunity at Ares, I agreed to work with them under what were certainly unconventional terms. Of course, their machinist, Terrence McWilliams, was also working under the same terms. I agreed to hire on as an independent contractor, although we clearly were no such entities; I agreed to accept considerably less money than accustomed to, $15/hr., with the stipulation that Ares would pay all of my tax bill; McWilliams and I were to be accumulating "sweat equity," worth of which to be determined once the company got a little "wind in its sails," upon which time we would be granted formal ownership based on that sweat equity.The first year taxes came due, I didn't get a 1099 until that following November, which caused me considerable concern; needless to say, I pitched a bitch.Of course Michael Harris was doing all of the tax work, the company's as well as mine and that of McWilliams.During the course of the next year, Richard Starr casually mentioned to me a pump problem he had been thinking about for the last 13 years; within the next 6 months I had solved the problem (see attached document). This is when my problems really started.I had some experience with PhotoShop and I'm also an artist (see my short blog), so I was helping Starr develop a Business Plan/Marketing Package. Starr was seeking money and, at his bequest, I sent a copy of the Business Plan/Marketing Package to my parents and godmother; my godmother was a bit wealthy and my parents had connections in the refinery business around Casper, Wyoming. I believe this is when the FBI got involved!Anyway, I developed my pump idea on my own time and I even started building it, purchasing roughly $8,000 worth of components. On good faith, I presented the work to Starr, telling him that I would be interested in working with Ares regarding the pump but that we needed to formalize the ownership deal. I also told him that I wasn't going to continue working under the unconventional agreement we had and that I wasn't waiting until November to see a 1099 this year. He basically told me that he was the engineer and that I couldn't do anything with my pump design without him so, and I quote: "Why should I give you ownership?"I was more than a bit perturbed and I left the Ares property without my pump components. The next eight months were a nightmare: I was followed everywhere I went and I wouldn't even get a call-back on any job applications,something which was peculiar giving my welding and pipe-fitting skills. I blew through the rest of my savings and racked up a bit of credit card debt. The crazy thing was, I still had a key to the Ares building and I went there every Saturday to perform maintenance on a reef aquarium in my old office. When my money ran out, after the 8 month period, I went to talk to Starr and to see about getting my pump components. The front gate was locked and Starr refused to give me my pump components (they were locked up in a sea container) until I returned "his" pump and robot drawings (see the attached document).When I left Ares I was irritated but not to the point of losing control. I was driving a straight-cab, four-cylinder, Toyota truck with manual transmission and I backed into the front gate. I didn't really do any damage to the gate, in fact, all I really did was break a taillight out on my truck. Shortly after I got home, two bonafide, plain-clothed detectives with HPD or the Sheriff's Department showed up and arrested me. I was charged with two felonies and three misdemeanors.I spent three months in jail and it was just crazy. I was a mark! I was charged with felony criminal mischief related to running into the gate; they said I had inflicted $5,000 damage which I knew to be bullshit. No one would provide pictures of the gate and, after three months, I agreed to 4 years of deferred adjudication. The judge, Jeanine Barr, agreed to this even knowing that I had no relatives in the area, no money, no place to live, and, quite frankly, no support whatsoever. Right before I left her court, she had her court liaison officer, Nugget Ebby, give me a map to the Star of Hope, a Christian mission in downtown Houston! I spent three months living on the street before turning myself in; Barr sentenced me to three more months in State Jail.Via Richard Starr's former girlfriend, Shannon Slyfield, I got mixed up with the Morrison family. I didn't know it at the time, but Pat Morrison was on deferred adjudication for putting a pistol in his neighbor's face during an argument about his daughters and their horses. I also didn't know that Morrison was a meth-head, albeit an rather wealthy meth-head. Morrison had failed 4 urine analyses and was headed to prison. He and his wife filed a criminal complaint against me for stalking their eleven year-old daughter and he was diverted to treatment. You can read a quick sketch of all the rest in the attached document; it's twenty pages with lots of pictures.I've lived on the streets of Houston and Los Angeles since March of 2009. I've been studying mathematics and science primarily - in between picking up recycling and scrap metal. I live on about $35 a week. Recently I wrote a couple of Mathematics paper which are quite revolutionary (see attached). Basically, I figured out a simple way to use something called the Anti-Foundation Axiom to develop a countable class of "hyper-ordinals" in between each standard ordinal and I define a novel definition of multiplication on these hyper-ordinals which turns out to be recursive; this enables a counter-example to Tennenbaum's Theorem. In the second paper I extend the counter-example out to completion and discover that there exists an countably infinite subsumption hierarchy of recursive universes - countably many counter-examples to Tennenbaum! Had anyone else written these papers it would be all over the media by now. A short while after posting these papers to the internet, all of my books were stolen. In the three years I've lived on the streets of L. A. I have probably had my stuff stolen a few hundred times but they never messed with my books - the dope-heads can't read let alone understand math! So you tell me . . .There's a lot more to this of course . . . I have contacted many people. I originally put everything together in three-ring binders with toc and tabs. I sent the whole package to the U. S. Office of the Inspector General, the Assistant U. S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Texas, ABC News with Brian Ross, an old girlfriend who's now a New Mexico Judge, and a childhood friend in Nebraska, Harris Grunden. Someone from the U. S. Attorney's office called me shortly afterwards and told me that they didn't investigate cases, that they only prosecute cases recommended by the FBI. I told him the FBI, in this case, was the perp, at which he told me he would look at my documents. I've contacted the Houston Chronicle, the Washington Post via Leonard Pitts at the Miami Herald and, right after I arrived in L. A. I contacted a couple of people at the L. A. Times; one of those people retired two weeks later and the other, well, hasn't been any help. I've tried seeking assistance through the VA which is a bigger joke than you can even imagine. I even contacted Bernie Sanders and his PAC during the most recent primaries . . .Maybe you can help a guy out . . .With regards,Wes Hansen3 attachmentsCredence.pdf2072KQNaturalsREV.pdf420KQUniversev8.pdf1001K[end email]You can read about my original mathematics and confirm my knowledge base here:Wes Hansen's answer to What can be said about the concept of number, which has not been said before?Wes Hansen's answer to Can Godel's incompleteness theorem also apply to an unsolved conjecture that is totally irrelevant to the self-referential liar paradox?This next appeared as a comment elsewhere here on Quora:Yeah, it’s kinda like “asset forfeiture” isn’t it? I was living in a shack in the woods by Bush Intercontinental in Houston, Texas, (see my comment to Brian Cananzeyabove) back when the whole hooplah about forfeiture came to the fore. The congressman who introduced legislature putting limits on asset forfeiture did so because some little town in East Texas, situated on some main highway in between, I believe, Houston and Shreverport, Louisiana, was financing their whole operation off of a speed trap. The problem was, when a white person got caught in their trap, they would give out a warning or a ticket and an admonishment to “slow down now,” and send them on their way; however, when a black person got caught, they would confiscate the vehicle, all loose cash, all jewelry, and anything else of value - I’m surprised they didn’t take kidneys and livers. Their “logic” was, “Well, they’re black and traveling to Shreveport from Houston so they must be a dope dealer.”Your problem is, you’ve never been caught up in this bullshit; I have! There is no “logic” to the so-called criminal justice system, the entire bedrock is based on your logical fallacy (anecdotal); what do you think legal precedent actually is!?! In spite of the constitution, our set of axioms, the law isn’t some theory deduced from that set - especially on the freaking liberal side! Okay, so let’s talk a bit about obstruction!Here’s my story: Wes Hansen's answer to How would a homeless person spend $100?. No, I’m not online panhandling, just read it!I’ve been eating shit sandwiches for the last 20 years because of Bob Mueller and James Comey - among others. Everything that I describe in that email to Spence happened in a conservative county, Harris, in a conservative state, Texas, under a conservative administration, George Bush. I contacted the ACLU in Houston in 2007; I had an email account with AT&T at the time and contacted some Jewish lady - an attorney. I received one response and never again received a response to my emails. I contacted the Houston Chronicle and Leonard Pitts at the Miami Herald; here’s my email exchange with Pitts:“ MLK5 messagesWes HansenMon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:17 AMTo: [email protected]. Pitts,I read your column regularly via the Houston Chronicle and have long admired it; you have an eloquent way with words and seem particularly adept at exposing the emperor’s nakedness. On many occasions I have contemplated writing a quick note of respect but have always held back, for whatever reason.Recently I read your column, “On the issue of race in America, conservatives are silent,” and found it rather poignant. With regards to the Martin Luther King, Jr. quote, “We who engage in nonviolent direct action . . . ,” it would seem to me that journalists, especially popular journalists such as yourself, are the ideal agents of nonviolent direct action; “the pen is mightier than the sword.” As such I can’t help but wonder . . .I’m a former U. S. Marine who signed a guaranteed 0300 contract just prior to the first Gulf War; I was young and looking for adventure. In the same issue of the Chronicle that your above referenced column appeared there was a story titled, “Hero: Was sacrifice in Fallujah worth it?”(http://www.houstonchronicle.com/...).The hero in question, Marty Gonzalez, was a 24 year-old Marine sergeant who received three Purple Hearts and two Bronze Stars in the battle for Fallujah. He had nine surgeries to repair a shattered elbow, received a brain injury from a grenade, injured his back, an injury which was exacerbated by subsequent surgeries to the point he requires a wheelchair, and he suffers from PTSD. During the battle for Fallujah, 18 young men from his battalion paid the ultimate.Mr. Gonzalez is upset about the recent situation in Fallujah to the point he became physically ill. This is understandable and I certainly empathize; however, Mr. Gonzalez expresses anger at President Obama for the President’s decision to withdraw from Iraq in the manner in which he did and I feel this anger is grossly misdirected! And of course the Chronicle, being who they are, magnified this expression of anger, or so I feel.If you read the recent book by Stephen Kinzer, “The Brothers” (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/1...), it becomes readily apparent that the Dulles brothers conspired with Johnson and, most probably, the Brown brothers, to murder John F. Kennedy. The result of this assassination, hence, their motive, is a matter of historical record: the ascendancy of Johnson to the Presidency; the escalation of the Vietnam conflict based on false premise; the enrichment of Texas and Kill, Burn, and Loot (KBR) from the blood and tax money collected from all other 49 states and re-directed, through Vietnam, to Texas!Fast forward a number of years and you have Darth Vader’s clone, Dick Cheney, as CEO of Halliburton, owner of Kill, Burn, and Loot. A Texan, George Dumbya Bush, becomes President taking Cheney along. In spite of having the most advanced intelligence apparatus in the world, an intelligence apparatus clearly focused on Al Queda, America’s leadership (executive branch and congress) unbelievably (emphasis on unbelievably) fails to comprehend the intent of a dozen Saudi Arabians resulting in 9/11. Capitalizing on the anger generated by 9/11, Cheney and company, under false pretense, a pretense negated by said intelligence apparatus (although I question the motive of said negation), organize the invasion of Iraq. Once again, Texas and Kill, Burn, and Loot get filthy rich (emphasis on filthy) off the blood and tax money from all the other states, this time filtered through Iraq!Human beings evolved to recognize patterns and I question that I’m the only one in existence who sees this pattern. Why does no-one in the popular news media have the courage to point it out? These are the same people responsible for many of the lies and much of the injustice which you rail against Mr. Pitts; perhaps you can find the courage. Feel free to mention my name and link to my blog:(On my blog was a redacted copy of the Credence document referenced in my Quora answer above, which I linked to)“Our lives begin to end,” said King, “the day we become silent about things that matter.”Best regards,Wes HansenPitts, Leonard <[email protected]>Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:18 AMTo: [email protected] received your email. Thank you for writing. I or my assistant will try to get back to you as soon as possible.Please note that we do not open unsolicited attachments, and we do not read or respond to forwarded emails sent to mass-distribution lists, or to invitations sent via Twitter or LinkedIn.Yours Truly,Leonard Pitts, Jr.Author of "Freeman," "Before I Forget" and "Forward From This Moment"Pitts, Leonard <[email protected]>Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:51 AMTo: Wes Hansen <[email protected]>Thanks for taking the time to write, and for your kind words about Mr. Pitts' column. I'll make sure he sees your email.Sincerely --Judi SmithAssistant to Leonard Pitts, Jr.Yeah, okay, so shortly after that (I was homeless in the woods at the time) some hacker working for the Washington Post hacks into my G+ account and leaves a message IN MY BLOG - not in the comments. He tells me he is a hacker working for WP and that someone had already hacked my G+ making it impossible to comment so the reporter he worked for had him hack in and he told me I should read some book - I don’t recall the book and had no way to read said book at that time.Roughly around this same time, I sent a return receipt requested letter to the Texas Innocence Project and it was returned to me unaccepted - I had erected a “mail-box” beside the road passing by my woods. I sent that rejected letter along with a letter of explanation to the National Innocence Project and received a form letter telling me that they didn’t handle cases like mine and that I needed to contact the Texas branch. Thinking that perhaps they had squared things with the Texas branch, I sent a second return receipt requested letter to the Texas branch and it was once again returned unaccepted. The property I was living on was sold and they began tearing out the woods in preparation for development; I road an old bicycle to San Antonio, caught the UP train to El Paso, and took Greyhound to Los Angeles.Upon arrival in L. A. I contacted Sandy Banks and Steve Lopez at the L. A. Times; here is a copy of that email:“Homeless VeteranWesley HansenWed 7/8/2015 4:06 PMTo: [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>1 attachments (2 MB)Credence.pdf;Ms. Banks and Mr. Lopez,I’m a homeless veteran living under a bridge crossing the Los Angeles River and I’ve been reading your columns on homelessness recently. I was honorably discharged from the United States Marine Corps in 1994, have 57 credit hours of Community College with a 3.89 GPA, and have been homeless since March of 2009. From 2009 until September of 2014 I lived in the woods near Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, and have been here in Los Angeles since last September.The city of Houston has approached homelessness in much the same way that Los Angeles is doing now. The first thing they did was remove all of the water spigots from the public parks; then, they placed stainless steel locking mechanisms on all of the fire hydrants; concurrently, they passed a city ordinance making it illegal to solicit on city streets and roadways and making it illegal for organizations to feed the homeless anywhere within city limits. And compared to Los Angeles housing in Houston is highly affordable if not cheap.Here’s the thing about politicians and business owners here in America: they like to think they can have their cake and eat it too, a logical absurdity. I survive by sifting through other people’s trash and I occasionally find newspapers, magazines, and even books that I like to read. At one point during this last recession, I came across a Wall Street Journal, Special Edition, which was celebrating the positive effect trust-fund children were having on the upscale housing market; this at a time when the general housing market was in the tank. They featured several stories about trust fund babies including a story about two young girls, one 19 years the other 21, whose father had given them each a $90 million trust fund. Each of these girls owned homes, each priced in the tens of millions, in different cities around the world, New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, etc. The youngest girl, her husband, and their four dogs spent part of the year living in the 60,000 square foot “Spelling” mansion here in Los Angeles; this is the size of a Mid-Western shopping mall and their master suite is over 4,000 square feet, larger than most duplexes housing two families of the working poor. This was being celebrated by the Wall Street Journal; it was presented as something to be envious of.A year or so after reading the Special Edition of the Journal, I found a Houston Chronicle carrying a full page story, with a lead in on the front page, of Martha Turner’s sale of an equity stake in her company, Turner Properties, to Sotheby’s International. The Houston Chronicle was celebrating the idea that the arrival of Sotheby’s International elevated them to the same lofty echelon as San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, London, and Paris. In that very same issue of the Chronicle, in the City and State section, was an article about the city-wide ordinance prohibiting solicitation on roadways becoming county-wide. Apparently, the city ordinance forced the panhandlers out to the suburbs and now the leaders, in their infinite wisdom, thought they’d use the same tactic to chase them clean out of the county; after all, you can’t have homeless people in the same proximity as Sotheby’s International. Never mind the fact that you could house all of the homeless in Harris County, Texas, in two or three of the average sized, “single family” homes listed by Sotheby’s.So now I’m here in Los Angeles and I find the most wonderful Special Edition of Forbes magazine. It features the “alpha activist,” Bill Ackman on the front cover and features a story about Ackman’s Howard Hughes Corporation. Allow me an extended quote:[. . .] “But despite his rococo extravagances, Howard Hughes was a master businessman, particularly skilled in the art of avoiding taxes. In his memoir, Hughes’ accountant Noah Dietrich claims Hughes paid only about $20,000 in income taxes a year. Indeed Howard Hughes Corp.’s circuitous journey into Bill Ackman’s portfolio began as a tax scheme. In the 1930s the IRS levied a 37.5% penalty tax on unnecessary accumulated surpluses. Hughes operations never paid dividends, so Dietrich began plowing profits into undeveloped land. That’s how subsidiary Hughes Aircraft came to own the 25,000 acres of land adjacent to the Las Vegas Strip, now called Summerlin in honor of Hughes’ grandmother Jean Amelia Summerlin.In 1972 Hughes put his Vegas real estate into Summa Corp., which finally began developing Summerlin in the 1990s. Summa sold to mall developer Rouse in 1996, and in 2004 General Growth bought Rouse for $12.6 billion. During General Growth’s bankruptcy, Ackman carved out a trove of unwanted assets plus the Howard Hughes name.Fittingly, Howard Hughes Corp. still retains about $250 million in crises-related tax-loss carryforwards today, so it currently pays no taxes. Eventually Ackman may turn Howard Hughes into a REIT, dodging still more taxes. Hughes himself couldn’t have done better.” [. . .]- Forbes Magazine, the 2015 Global 2000 Issue, pg. 89Now, if Steve Forbes were to read this email, he would probably say I was just some liberal, communist agitator who doesn’t understand the benefits of capitalist principles; he would probably throw a couple of Ludwig Von Mises quotes at me as a counter-argument; and he would probably try to put me out of mind as quickly as conveniently possible. But I am not a communist agitator and I do understand the apparent benefits of a “self-organizing” economic system. All I am stating, to the politicians and business leaders, is this: you can’t celebrate these extravagant excesses, which our society does on a daily basis, without also celebrating the fact that there are multitudes of homeless people roaming OUR cities, sleeping in tents on OUR sidewalks, shitting in OUR gutters, panhandling along OUR roadways, and sifting recyclables out of OUR trash receptacles; you can’t have your cake and eat it too, it’s a logical absurdity.As for me, all I need to get off the street is for the F.B.I., the Office of the U.S. Inspector General, or some branch of law enforcement to simply do their job. I have attached a 20 page document, with lots of pictures, called, “Credence: A Tale of Corruption,” which summarizes my story. Every level of law enforcement, city, county, state, and federal, knows my story and they have consistently done absolutely nothing.With regards,Wes Hansen”Here’s a copy of the email I sent to Anthony Kelley, a former Marine who works with the L. A. County Sheriff’s department and who was put in my life by the social worker at the VA clinic on Temple St.:“HelloFromWesHansen/SemperFi4 messagesWes HansenSat, Sep 24, 2016 at 4:21 PMTo: [email protected]. Kelley,I spoke to you and your associate today, on 7th and, I believe, Flower, downtown - about the Valor program. Please find attached a brief document, "Credence: A Tale of Corruption," which provides an introduction to the circumstances which led to my current situation. I am also a fairly competent fine artist and you can see some examples of my work (oil paintings and drawings) on my blog:http://atomicdecompositions.blog...As I mentioned to you and your associate, I have been studying mathematics since becoming homeless in March of 2009 and I have made a small number of novel contributions, four to the applied side and one, the Non-standard Peano Arithmetic which I was telling you about, to the pure side:https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress..."Ever since reading this blog post (some time ago now) I’ve been thinking about these non-standard models of PA and I don’t particularly care for any of them!?! I’m not a formally trained mathematician but I’ve been thinking about this a great deal and it seems to me that the non-standard models are not the most effective approach. So here’s a question posed as an idea that I’ve had.Consider the natural numbers defined as sets in ZFC by von Neumann. Since ZFC/AFA subsumes ZFC, could you not define the natural numbers as sets in ZFC/AFA, define an additional 1-place, non-logical symbol, @, call it the hyperloop, which, when applied to any set, generates that set’s hyperset. Would it not then be reasonable to suggest that the natural number @{null} is greater than one but less than two and could you not apply @ recursively generating an order-preserving non-standard model of the von Neumann naturals that also had the power of the continuum? And then could you not develop PA the standard way but with this set of non-standard von Neumann naturals as the universe? Would that not preserve sequentiality, hence, be a bit more practical and effective as opposed to these other non-standard models? To me it just seems to make a whole lot more sense and, of course, my motivation, as always, is that damn Goldbach conjecture . . .Anyway, back to the grind . . ."This was comment number 91, the very last comment on that post. Now, don't think that since there was no response that my idea is not valid; quite the contrary, if you read the comment I replied to I think it will indicate to you not only the validity of my idea but that it is a rather good idea! Of course, if you doubt my comprehension of mathematics I would not be offended. I have been exposed to a large number of mentally compromised individuals during the last fifteen years so I well know how subtle the symptoms can sometimes be. Anyone with a knowledge of mathematical logic and elementary number theory can tell you that the above idea and the proof of the Binary Goldbach Conjecture on my blog, which I authored sometime in 2010-2011, demonstrate at least a working familiarity with the subject matter.Now Harris County, Texas, did send to me to the North Texas State Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Vernon, Texas, for a competency evaluation when I was in their custody, but there was not then nor has there been anytime since, any doubt as to my mental competence; the court, and I believe the attached document should at the very least make you consider the truth value of this, simply wanted to be able to tell a jury that I was incompetent. You know, I first contacted the FBI with this situation, with a written letter from jail, in 2005. I scheduled an appointment with the FBI office in Beaumont, Texas, and met with an agent for a very short time in late 2007 or early 2008. Finally, I then sent the entire story organized in three-ring binders with table of contents and tabs, including all legal documents (Non-disclosure agreements, court papers, etc.) to the Office of the U. S. Inspector General, the Assistant U. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas (I spoke with a gentleman from that office for a short time on the phone), an office at ABC Investigative News with Brian somebody (I forget the last name), and a childhood friend in Nebraska, Harris Grunden (Harris and I are no longer friendly).I don't know if you can do anything about this situation or not; I certainly have contacted a number of people to no avail. Generally, the people I contact about this do not even acknowledge that contact, for whatever reason. I have, in my possession, design documents regarding the inventions outlined in the Credence document, should you need proof of those claims.With regards,Wes HansenCredence.pdf2072K”Here’s a follow up email after I figured out that he was lying to me - hey Semper Fi:“Go Fuck Yourself2 messagesWes HansenThu, Dec 15, 2016 at 12:30 PMTo: AKelly <[email protected]>Yeah, I went down Figueroa today and found out there is no VA facility on Figueroa; came back to the library and found out the VALOR program is for Pharmacy students.http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-...You remind me of my family; they're all rotten as fuck as well.”Here’s a copy of the email I sent to Bernie Sanders’ PAC back in 2015 prior to the primaries. My biggest fear was seeing Clinton and Cruz in the general so I registered democrat (in California) so I could vote in the primary and voted for Sanders (I’m a Libertarian) - he has absolutely no integrity and is part of the conspiracy against Donald Trump. Read my Quora answer before you judge the email; the problem with these emails is, they have a word limit. In the case below, I attached a 20 page summary which outlines the criminal activity quite well. It also includes proprietary drawings of my inventions related to the Ares Robotics gig - I was an independent contractor, hence, Ares had no legal right to these inventions. The email:“Homeless Veteran2 messagesWes HansenWed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:17 AMTo: [email protected]. Sanders,I submitted the following to Senator Sanders via the comment form on his government website:I am a homeless veteran who has been homeless since March of 2009. Please find attached a 20 page document, with lot’s of pictures, called, “Credence: A Tale of Corruption.” It is a brief summary of the events leading up to and resulting in my current situation. In summary:In 94’ I was honorably discharged from the U. S. Marine Corps; in 95’ I was an honor graduate, class D252, at The Ocean Corporation, a commercial dive school in Houston, Texas; after an illusion bursting stint with American Oilfield Divers, I took a manufacturing job and started night school full-time at Houston Community College; studying pre-science with the intent to transfer, in a couple of years I accumulated 57 credit hours with a 3.89 GPA; working as an independent contractor, albeit exclusively for a robotics firm, Ares Robotics (the deal was, being a recent start-up and short on cash, Ares Robotics would hire me as an independent contractor, pay my tax bill, and when the business became solid the board would assess my contribution, sweat equity they called it, and extend me ownership based on that assessment), I invented a number of novel technologies, technologies which should have made me independently wealthy; almost immediately I acquired two felonies and three misdemeanors on a previously spotless criminal record and found myself incarcerated at the maximum security forensic psychiatric hospital in Vernon, Texas; I notified the Houston office of the F. B. I. of these events in 2005 with a letter sent from the Harris County Jail; the situation deteriorated; I scheduled a meeting with the F. B. I. in Beaumont, Texas, in 2007 while on parole and experiencing “difficulties” with securing gainful employment in 2007; the situation continued to deteriorate; in January of 2009 I wrote a detailed account of my experience supported by copies of all legal documents, professionally organized with Table of Contents and Tabs, and sent copies to the U. S. Office of the Inspector General and Assistant U. S. Attorney, Eastern District of Texas; in March of 2009 I became homeless, a situation which continues to this day; a little over a year ago I moved to Los Angeles, California; my extended family, as well as many of the people from the community in Nebraska where I grew up, Nebraska’s official Easter City, are intimately involved in the theft of my technologies; during my time as a homeless man I have studied mathematics, practiced yoga, and further developed my meditation practice; I now know considerably more about mathematics than I did in 2009; I am a Buddhist so I assume the long view . . .I am convinced the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been involved in this despicable conspiracy since day one! I served my country with honor and don't feel out of line for expecting my country to serve me honorably; to date, this has not been so . . .With regards,Wes HansenCredence.pdf2072K”Here’s a copy of the Whistleblower notice I sent to Chuck Grassley’s office; at that same time I also sent emails to the Congressional Offices of Grassley, Sue Collins, Rand Paul, Lindsey Graham, and Devin Nunes - all along the same lines:“Mueller investigation/pertinent info2 messagesWes HansenSun, Aug 26, 2018 at 3:16 PMTo: [email protected],This email is in regards to the on-going Bob Mueller investigation; I have pertinent information about said situation. Both Jeff Sessions and Rudy Guiliani, hence, the President, are aware of this situation; this situation is why the President is upset with Jeff Sessions.I’m a homeless Marine Corps veteran (0352, 1991 – 1994) living under a bridge on the east side of the LA River and I’m homeless BECAUSE of Bob Mueller and James Comey! I know first-hand how they really operate!I was honorably discharged from the USMC in 1994, graduated from The Ocean Corporation, a commercial dive school in 1995, and, after a short disillusioned stint in the off-shore industry, started work in a small job shop during the day and going to school full-time in the evening at the Houston Community College. I was making $60,000/year and maintaining a 3.9 GPA at the college - things were going well. Then I invented some novel technologies relevant to the oil and gas industry and a couple of wealthy individuals decided they wanted to steal the IP. I went from having zero criminal history and zero mental health history to having 3 misdemeanors and 2 felonies AND a full-blown mental history in a very short time.I took the second felony case to trial, hence, the trip to the North Texas State Hospital; they wanted to tell the jury I was mentally incompetent. I filed an appeal and it was run through the system without my notification - something which is illegal, even in Texas. After I was released on parole, I had an FBI agent follow me around everywhere I went, eventually resulting in joblessness and homelessness. The story is long but here’s a relevant excerpt (I sent this to a mathematician at the University of Lethbridge in Canada recently; I made a couple of significant contributions to pure mathematics, with implications for cyber security, hence, national security, and he and his wife were both very helpful: http://vixra.org/author/wes_hansen):“I really do live on the streets of Los Angeles (for four years now, the previous six on the streets of Houston, Texas) and that's really why I do the weird stuff I do; it would most likely be impossible to explain to someone who has never experienced the street.I have been homeless for the last decade; I don't mind living hard like I do, but I'm sick and tired of living in the trash receptacles - where I get my $25/week for groceries. I was put on the streets by my family working in conjunction with the USA's FBI, although in truth, the FBI was setting my family up. I was doing well, honorably discharged from the USMC, working full-time during the day making $60,000/year, and going to the community college full-time in the evening, studying Pre-science/Pre-engineering with intent to transfer and maintaining a 3.9 GPA (out of 4.0). Then I invented some novel technologies relevant to the Oil/Gas/PetroChemical industries and a host of rather wealthy/powerful individuals decided they wanted my stuff. It's a long story but here's a couple of relevant excerpts:[M]y parents, Harley and Kathy Hansen, leased considerable properties from a lady named Bertha Hengler for more than twenty years. Bertha lived in Casper, Wyoming, and both her son, Jim, and daughter-in-law, Alice, retired from executive positions at Casper refineries. We used to visit Bertha, Jim, and Alice at least once a year to go snow skiing. Jim and Alice were cross-country enthusiasts. My parents, upon Bertha’s death, purchased half of the Hengler property they had rented from Jim and Alice and continued to rent the other half from Bertha’s son, Bob. While working at Ares Robotics I tried to get my parents to leverage these connections but they would have none of it. I sent Ares Robotics marketing packages to both my parents and my godmother, Zella Mae Sanders, and received no response from either party.[I] filed a lawsuit in a Texas court requesting the return of confidential documents as provided by a provision in the Confidentiality Agreement. The defendant, Mark Hansen, was a resident of Colorado so it was necessary to involve the Texas Secretary of State. I received notice from the Secretary of State, via certified mail, that Mark Hansen had been duly served on December 11, 2008. The Texas court in question never received such notice thus a trial date was never set. I filed two separate lawsuits in this same court, one on the same day as I filed the suit naming Mark Hansen as defendant, and its integrity was well established.The Secretary of State sabotaged the judicial proceedings of a Texas court in the attempt to prevent the authentication of said Confidentiality Agreement while, at the same time, convincing my family of their intent to help them (my family) steal the technologies and trade secrets covered by said Confidentiality Agreement. They failed in this endeavor for, as the old saying goes, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.” They made this attempt in order to assist William Albion Anderson, an extremely wealthy Perry campaign contributor, in his attempted theft of technologies and proprietary information which rightfully belong to me; technologies I have since patented. I have also managed to maintain Trade Secret status, as defined by both Texas State law and the Economic Espionage Act of 1996, on the majority of the technologies in question.So why did the Texas Secretary of State foolishly interfere with the judicial proceedings of a Texas court? They planned to arrest my whole family, myself included, for “Theft of Trade Secrets.” Here’s how:I knew my family was being set up, I just didn’t know how. I knew there had to be a connection between William Albion Anderson and Rex Hansen. I started pounding the internet searching for it. On William Albion Anderson’s Forbes profile it demonstrated that he had been appointed as a Director for Rancher Energy of Denver, Colorado, in the spring of 2007 and a Director for Far East Energy of Houston, Texas, in the fall of 2007. Considering this whole conspiracy was coming into play in 2007, I found these appointments suspect. I became even more convinced of their conspiratorial nature when I discovered that Rancher Energy, a company using CO2 injection to extract oil from spent oil wells, was working solely in oil fields conveniently located in the direct vicinity of Casper, Wyoming.In the offering memorandum for Sausalito Foods Rex Hansen emailed to me, it reveals that Rex Hansen is a Managing Director for Bathgate Capital of Denver, Colorado. I began researching Bathgate Capital and discovered, in their tombstones, that Bathgate had extended $1.4 million in seed capital to a company in Houston, Texas, called Far East Energy. Bingo! The Rex Hansen/William Albion Anderson connection. The State of Texas/FBI had all of my information including social security number. They planned to demonstrate, in a Texas court, that Rex Hansen became aware of the pump and robotic system in question while engaging William Albion Anderson through the Bathgate/Far East Energy connection. They then planned to demonstrate, in a Texas court, that Rex Hansen directed me, his cousin, to work for the William Albion Anderson company manufacturing said pump and robotic system thus familiarizing myself with the technology and facilitating the theft of that technology. They were going to put my whole family in prison.This all started in 1999, when I was 30 years old - 19 years I’ve either been locked up for crimes I didn’t commit, in the Maximum Security Forensic Psychiatric Hospital for evaluation I didn’t need, working a minimum wage job, a monitor on my ankle, on parole for a crime I didn’t commit, or, as now, homeless and living out the dumpsters!This all happened in a conservative state - Texas, under a conservative President from that state - George W. Bush. When Obama won the election in 2008, I was ecstatic. I thought, “Oh, yeah, we’re going to have some fun now!” I put this whole story together in three ring binders with table of contents and tabs; it took 2 three inch binders, two 1.5 inch binders, 3 legal folders, and 2 CDs - everything was documented, Non-disclosure agreements, Court docs, memos from meetings with FBI personnel, emails, photographs, everything. I had six copies; I boxed up five of them and sent them to the U. S. Office of Inspector General, the U. S. Assistant Attorney, Eastern District of Texas, Brian Ross at ABC News, a friend I grew up with, and a former girlfriend who was a lawyer at the time - now a District Court Judge. Everyone screwed me over except the ex-girlfriend! She kept my documents for me! Shortly after mailing everything, I received a call from someone at the U. S. Assistant Attorney’s office - I now regret mailing them the documentation. The FBI put me out on the street specifically to make me lose my documentation - I’m certain of it, but the Judge saved my day.Now you tell me, do you really think Comey and Mueller are capable of an impartial investigation? And the whole tale is way worse than what I have revealed here. I’d like to see Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, Comey, Mueller, McCabe, Rosenstein, and that whole rotten bunch locked up where they belong. And don’t think for a minute ole Barry Boy doesn’t know about my situation, because he damn sure does - so does Bernie “can’t be bought by billionaires” Sanders. So does the Washington (Democracy dies in darkness) Post, the Houston Chronicle, the L A Times, Leonard Pitts at the Miami Herald, and, more recently, the Wall Street Journal.Jeff Sessions, I believe, has gone over to the Dark Side. He says that under his charge the DOJ will not be used for political ends but what is Mueller’s investigation? It was started with the Steele dossier for goodness sakes, and I tend to believe the entire circus was deliberate on the part of Comey, Mueller, and the rest of Obama’s DOJ and administration. Let’s be serious, liberals like to think that Donald Trump “stole the election” from Hillary Clinton, but Clinton lost that election with her “basket of deplorables” comment; in other words, she lost that election due to her own misplaced sense of superiority. Did Trump cut a deal with Putin, exchanging dirt on Clinton for a revisit of Magnitsky? That doesn’t even make sense given that the President is essentially powerless with regards to Magnitsky!With regards,Wesley W. Hansen”And it goes on and on!And now we have Bob Barr, a good friend of Bob Mueller, telling the American People that there is no systemic problem at the FBI only a small leadership issue; obviously Bob could give a fuck about me; obviously the American People could give a fuck about me. Now talk to me about obstruction!Finally, here’s an email I recently sent to Carl Cannon, at RealClearPolitics, author of When Comey and Mueller Bungled the Anthrax Case:Bob Mueller/James Comey1 messageWes Hansen <[email protected]>Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 1:43 PMTo: [email protected]. Cannon,Please, if you would take a moment, perhaps you could assist a homeless Marine Corps Veteran whose life was ruined by Bob Mueller and James Comey!?! I just read and posted your article, "When Comey and Mueller bungled the Anthrax case," to Quora; the last 20 years of my life have been pure hell because of these two. If you would please take the time:https://www.quora.com/How-would-...To fill in a tiny bit, in 1999, or 1998 actually, I answered an ad in the Houston Chronicle for a job at Ares Robotics. I interviewed with Richard Starr, the founder and a licensed Professional Engineer, and he told me he knew the folks at The Ocean Corporation, where I attended Dive School. I drove out there and talked to some people about him and they said he was okay. A month later Starr called and asked if I was still interested in the job and I took it. The rest is summarized in the attached Credence document. The people there all belonged to this cult called The Mankind Project: https://forum.culteducation.com/.... It has affiliated with it an organization called Women Within: https://forum.culteducation.com/.... They're a cult but they have crazy powerful members; they've destroyed my life. You can read about it in the Houston Press article about Michael Scinto - he killed himself: https://www.houstonpress.com/new.... Of course, it's not just that cult - my so-called family doesn't belong to it; neither do James Comey or Bob Mueller or Barack Obama or Eric Holder or . . . or at least I don't think so. This is so crazy, the true story I mean; that's why they sent me to the Maximum Security Forensic Psychiatric hospital in Vernon, Texas, everyone I tell the story to is either in on it or they think I'm crazy! I've been homeless for a bit more than 10 years now . . .With regards,Wes HansenCredence.pdf2072K[end email]That part about the crazy is just a conjecture of course; I don’t know, really, what other people think but I am most certainly mentally sound - in spite of the best efforts of these Loving Christians!I don’t really miss much anymore; I practice my spiritual practice!

The first quotation from Donald Trump ever to appear in The New York Times came on October 16, 1973. Trump was responding to charges filed by the Justice Department alleging racial bias at his family’s real-estate company. “They are absolutely ridiculous,” Trump said of the charges. “We have never discriminated, and we never would.”In the years since then, Trump has assembled a long record of comment on issues involving African Americans as well as Mexicans, Hispanics more broadly, Native Americans, Muslims, Jews, immigrants, women, and people with disabilities. His statements have been reflected in his behavior—from public acts (placing ads calling for the execution of five young black and Latino men accused of rape, who were later shown to be innocent) to private preferences (“When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,” a former employee of Trump’s Castle, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, told a writer for The New Yorker). Trump emerged as a political force owing to his full-throated embrace of “birtherism,” the false charge that the nation’s first black president, Barack Obama, was not born in the United States. His presidential campaign was fueled by nativist sentiment directed at nonwhite immigrants, and he proposed barring Muslims from entering the country. In 2016, Trump described himself to The Washington Post as “the least racist person that you’ve ever encountered.”Instances of bigotry involving Donald Trump span more than four decades. The Atlantic interviewed a range of people with knowledge of several of those episodes. Their recollections have been edited for concision and clarity.I. “You Don’t Want to Live With Them Either”The Justice Department’s 1973 lawsuit against Trump Management Company focused on 39 properties in New York City. The government alleged that employees were directed to tell African American lease applicants that there were no open apartments. Company policy, according to an employee quoted in court documents, was to rent only to “Jews and executives.”The Justice Department frequently used consent decrees to settle discrimination cases, offering redress to plaintiffs while allowing defendants to avoid an admission of guilt. The rationale: Consent decrees achieved speedier results with less public rancor.Nathaniel Jones was the general counsel for the NAACP. He later became a federal judge. John Yinger, an economist specializing in residential discrimination, served at the time as an expert witness in a number of fair-housing cases. Elyse Goldweber, a Justice Department lawyer, brought the first federal suit against Trump Management.NATHANIEL JONES: The 1968 Fair Housing Act gave us leverage to go after major developers and landlords. The situation in New York was terrible.JOHN YINGER: Community groups like the Urban League started doing audits and tests to show discrimination. In 1973, the Urban League found a lot of discrimination in some of the properties that Trump Management owned.ELYSE GOLDWEBER: I went to a place called Operation Open City. What they had done was send “testers”—meaning one white couple and one couple of color—to Trump Village, a very large, lower-middle-class housing project in Brooklyn. And of course the white people were treated great, and for the people of color there were no apartments. We subpoenaed all their documents. That’s how we found that a person’s application, if you were a person of color, had a big C on it.The Department of Justice brings the case and we name Fred Trump, the father, and Donald Trump, the son, and Donald hires Roy Cohn, of Army-McCarthy fame. [Cohn, a Trump mentor, had served as Senator Joe McCarthy’s chief counsel during his investigations of alleged Communists in the government and was accused of pressuring the Army to give preferential treatment to a personal friend.] Cohn turns around and sues us for $100 million. This was my first appearance as a lawyer in court. Cohn spoke for two hours, then the judge ruled from the bench that you can’t sue the government for prosecuting you. The next week we took the depositions. My boss took Fred’s, and I got to take Donald’s. He was exactly the way he is today. He said to me at one point during a coffee break, “You know, you don’t want to live with them either.”Everyone in the world has looked for that deposition. We cannot find it. Trump always acted like he was irritated to be there. He denied everything, and we went on with our case. We had the records with the C, and we had the testers, and you could see that everything was lily-white over there. Ultimately they settled—they signed a consent decree. They had to post all their apartments with the Urban League, advertise in the Amsterdam News, many other things. It was pretty strong.JOHN YINGER: Trump had some interesting language after the settlement: He said that it did not require him to accept people on welfare, which was kind of beside the point.Under the terms of the settlement, reached in 1975, the Trumps did not admit to any wrongdoing. But soon, according to the government, they were back at it. In 1978, the Justice Department alleged that Trump Management was in breach of the agreement. The new case dragged on until 1982, when the original consent decree expired and the case was closed. Soon, Trump’s headquarters would be installed in Trump Tower, which opened in February 1983. Barbara Res was the construction manager.BARBARA RES: We met with the architect to go over the elevator-cab interiors at Trump Tower, and there were little dots next to the numbers. Trump asked what the dots were, and the architect said, “It’s braille.” Trump was upset by that. He said, “Get rid of it.” The architect said, “I’m sorry; it’s the law.” This was before the Americans With Disabilities Act, but New York City had a law. Trump’s exact words were: “No blind people are going to live in this building.”ELYSE GOLDWEBER: Was he concerned about injustice? No. Never. This was an annoyance. We were little annoying people, and we wouldn’t go away.BARBARA RES: As far as discrimination, he wouldn’t discriminate against somebody who had $3 million to pay for a three-bedroom apartment. Eventually he had some very unsavory characters there. But if you read John O’Donnell’s book [Trumped! The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump—His Cunning Rise and Spectacular Fall, written with James Rutherford and published in 1991], Trump talked about how he didn’t want black people handling his money; he wanted the guys with the yarmulkes. He was very much the kind of person who would take people of a religion, like Jews; or a race, like blacks; or a nationality, like Italians, and ascribe to them certain qualities. Blacks were lazy, and Jews were good with money, and Italians were good with their hands—and Germans were clean.NATHANIEL JONES: Consent decrees were an important tool. The sad thing now is that, in his last act as Trump’s attorney general, Jeff Sessions issued a memorandum curtailing enforcement programs and consent decrees across the board when it comes to discrimination.II. “Bring Back the Death Penalty”The so-called Central Park Five were a group of black and Latino teens who were accused—wrongly—of raping a white woman in Central Park on April 19, 1989. Donald Trump took out full-page ads in all four major New York newspapers to argue that perpetrators of crimes such as this one “should be forced to suffer” and “be executed.” In two trials, in August and December 1990, the youths were convicted of violent offenses including assault, robbery, rape, sodomy, and attempted murder; their sentences ranged from five to 15 years in prison. In 2002, after the discovery of exonerating DNA evidence and the confession by another individual to the crime, the convictions of the Central Park Five were vacated. The men were awarded a settlement of $41 million for false arrest, malicious prosecution, and a racially motivated conspiracy to deprive them of their rights. Trump took to the pages of the New York Daily News, calling the settlement “a disgrace.” During his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump would again insist on the guilt of the Central Park Five.Jonathan C. Moore represented four of the Central Park Five when they later sued the City of New York. Yusef Salaam was one of the five young men who were wrongly convicted. Timothy L. O’Brien spent hundreds of hours with Trump while researching his 2005 book, TrumpNation. C. Vernon Mason represented Salaam and other defendants.JONATHAN C. MOORE: The Trump ad was calling for the death penalty for juveniles. It was taken out at a time before there was any adjudication of their guilt. The theme was: Here are all these young black kids and Hispanic kids who are going to rape our young white women, so let’s put them all away. You know, we call them the Central Park Five, but it’s really the Central Park 15, or 18, or however many family members there were, because the family members suffered a great deal as well. They visited the boys in prison, on holidays; they did their birthdays inside, had Christmas parties. To this day I talk to some of them and they go into tears when they think about what happened.YUSEF SALAAM: When we were accused of raping the Central Park jogger, it really wasn’t an accusation. It wasn’t like we were innocent and had to be proved guilty in the eyes of the law and in the eyes of the people. Everybody, including Donald Trump, rushed to judge us, and therefore it became that much more difficult to be able to mount a really successful fight. And, of course, we lost.TIMOTHY L. O’BRIEN: One of the things Trump learned when he injected himself into the Central Park Five case was that he could get attention for himself because he was a spokesman for a certain type of Archie Bunker New Yorker. I think that’s one of the bonds that he shares with [Trump attorney and former New York City Mayor] Rudy Giuliani: They’re both profoundly guys from that moment in New York when a lot of racial boundaries got drawn.C. VERNON MASON: The level of animosity and hatred was palpable. It was brutal. The language used around this case—“savages”—bordered on the kinds of stuff that Ida B. Wells and others wrote about during the lynching period.YUSEF SALAAM: For him to say, You know what? I’m going to take out an ad, and I’m going to call for the state to kill these individuals—it was almost as if he was trying to get the public or somebody from the darkest places in society to come into our homes. Remember, they had published our phone numbers, our names, and our addresses in New York City’s newspapers. So we were pariahs.C. VERNON MASON: The defendants were afraid for their own safety and for their families. These were not people who had substantial means to protect themselves with security guards, or who were living in some gated community.YUSEF SALAAM: I think about when they took our DNA and they tried to match it against what they had. And there was no match, and they still moved forward. The spiked wheels of justice continued to roll down the hill and mow us down. And all of this on the heels of what Donald Trump had published. Donald Trump’s ad was vicious. It was very disrespectful of what the law is supposed to be about.JONATHAN C. MOORE: I have children, and I can’t imagine my son being in prison from age 14 to age 21. You’re stealing the most innocent part of somebody’s life. None of these kids had ever had any real interactions with the law before. When they were finally vindicated, there was never any apology from Trump, or even a hint of an apology.YUSEF SALAAM: Donald Trump’s ad ran on May 1, 1989. The crime had happened April 19, 1989. We hadn’t even started trial! That was just a few weeks after we were accused. He put nails in our coffin. He’s continuing to do that by continuing to say that we are guilty, by continuing to say that the police department had so much evidence against us. What evidence did they have that stuck? They had no evidence. They had manufactured false confessions.C. VERNON MASON: In 2016—this is 26 years after the case, and 14 years after it had been proved that none of these defendants had anything to do with that rape—Donald Trump said, I still believe they’re guilty. And I guess, in his mind, he would suggest that they still should be executed.TIMOTHY L. O’BRIEN: He trusts his gut on issues surrounding race, because he’s got a simplistic, deterministic, and racist perspective on who people are. I think at his core he has a genetic understanding of what makes people good and bad or successful. And you see it all the time—he talks about people having good genes. He looks at the world that way. He’s got a very Aryan view of people and race.III. “They Don’t Look Like Indians to Me”In the early 1990s, Trump attempted to block the building of new casinos in Connecticut and New York that could cut into his casino operations in Atlantic City. (All of Trump’s casinos eventually went into bankruptcy.) In October 1993, Trump appeared before the House Subcommittee on Native American Affairs of the Committee on Natural Resources. The subcommittee was chaired by Bill Richardson, later New Mexico’s governor. Trump was there to support an effort to modify legislation that had given Native American tribes the right to own and operate casinos. George Miller, a Democrat from California and the chair of the Committee on Natural Resources, was also present.Tadd Johnson, of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Bois Forte Band, served as the Democratic counsel on the subcommittee. Rick Hill is a former chair of the National Indian Gaming Association and of the Oneida Tribe in Wisconsin. Pat Williams was a member of Congress from Montana.Trump began by noting that he had prepared a “politically correct” statement for the committee, but almost immediately went off script. The hearing became loud and acrimonious.BILL RICHARDSON: He said he didn’t think that Native Americans deserved the legislation, because there was a lot of corruption around Native American casinos. I remember asking him after the hearing, “Well, what’s the evidence?” He said, “The FBI has it.” I said, “You’re making the accusation; why don’t you bring the evidence?” He said, “No, you should ask the FBI.” I said, “You’re making the charge of corruption and you’re not backing it up—that is unacceptable.”TADD JOHNSON: Trump was wearing pancake makeup, which I hadn’t seen before, at least not on somebody testifying in Congress. He was very evasive, and he made all these allegations about organized-crime activity but could produce no single incident, no tangible evidence, nobody we could talk to. A lot of what he was saying were just fabrications.RICK HILL: He said, “You guys are all going to have egg on your faces.” This was going to be the worst thing to happen since Al Capone. Trump went all threatening, raving about how there is no way we could stop the Mafia. He used the phrase Joey Killer. He said there was no way the tribal chairmen could stop Joey Killer.BILL RICHARDSON: The second allegation he made that was very disturbing at that hearing was to examine some Native American tribes’ application as Indian tribes—they were trying to get the subcommittee to basically declare their tribes or their group of individuals Native Americans. Trump mentioned Native Americans who had recently opened casinos and said to George Miller, “They don’t look like Indians to me.” He said that. It was so outrageous.RICK HILL: Miller challenged him. He said, “You know how racist what you’re saying is? How racist that is to judge people by what we think they look like and ignore their inherent rights as a person?”TADD JOHNSON: George responded, “Well, thank God people don’t have rights based upon your look test. And, you know, how many times have we heard this before in this country?” And then he went through a litany of various groups that were discriminated against, which is a long list.PAT WILLIAMS: I was stunned by the openness of Trump’s anger toward anyone who would compete with him—and particularly if they were people of color.TADD JOHNSON: I remember watching the faces of the Indian people in the back. There were some tribal elders who had come in from Minnesota, and were giving looks that could kill.BILL RICHARDSON: It was the most hostile hearing that I’ve ever been involved in. And I was in Congress for 15 years.PAT WILLIAMS: I think the reason Trump blew up at Miller didn’t so much have to do with whatever the debate was about at the moment. He blew up because he came to realize that Miller was more important than he was.Later, using a front organization called the New York Institute for Law and Society, Trump and his associate Roger Stone placed advertisements in upstate–New York newspapers in an attempt to block the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe’s planned Sullivan County casino. On a page proof of one ad, featuring hypodermic needles and lines of cocaine, Trump wrote: “Roger, this could be good!” Trump, Stone, and the institute would later pay $250,000 in fines for violating disclosure rules governing political advertising. Bradley Waterman served as general counsel and tax counsel for the Saint Regis Mohawks. Tony Cellini was the town supervisor of Thompson, where the casino was going to be built.BRADLEY WATERMAN: Trump and Stone created an organization that was said to be pro-family and anti-gaming. Its real mission was to put the kibosh on gaming by the Mohawks in the Catskills and in that way protect Trump’s casinos in Atlantic City. To that end, the organization—actually Trump and Stone—purchased ads that portrayed the Mohawks as criminals, drug dealers, etc. The Mohawks regarded the ads as racist. So did I. So did everyone else who weighed in.TONY CELLINI: We were hurting for jobs in this area. And then all of a sudden these attack ads came out, which were financed, we found out later, to the tune of more than $1 million by Donald Trump.BRADLEY WATERMAN: Trump personally approved the ads. For example, he wrote comments on proofs such as “Roger—do it.” Not surprisingly, Trump and Stone lied about the number of people who contributed financially to the organization. It was strictly a Trump-Stone operation. The chiefs were furious, particularly since Trump never met any Mohawks, set foot on Mohawk territory, or otherwise tried to learn about the Mohawks.IV. “Our Very Vicious World”In the summer of 2005, Donald Trump had an idea: What if the next season of his reality-TV show, The Apprentice, pitted “a team of successful African Americans versus a team of successful whites”? Trump thought the format would be a sort of social commentary—“reflective of our very vicious world.” The concept never made it to air, but Trump’s treatment of black contestants on his show generated controversy.One contestant, Kevin Allen, a graduate of Emory University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Chicago, was criticized by Trump on the show for being too educated; at the same time, Trump suggested that Allen was personally intimidating.Mark Harris was a television critic for Entertainment Weekly. Kwame Jackson was the runner-up on The Apprentice’s first season.MARK HARRIS: We were still very early in the history of reality-competition TV. The Apprentice started in January 2004, so the models that I was working off of as a critic were really just Survivor and American Idol. The Apprentice had this very manipulative approach to race. I felt that it was casting and shaping stories toward stereotypes that a default white audience would find somehow satisfying.KEVIN ALLEN: I remember Donald Trump asking me, “Kevin, why are the women in the suite scared of you?” I had never heard this before from anybody. It was shocking to me to hear that sort of attack. There was a lot of picking at me and trying to make me come out and be that overly aggressive, overbearing, scary African American male. But I was in law school at the time and I had worked on Capitol Hill, and I’m fairly adept at defusing that sort of thing. I think it made me sort of a boring character. But there were moments when I was put in situations where it could have gone wrong.MARK HARRIS: It’s interesting to look back at it now, because the way Kevin Allen was treated was like a sneak preview of white critical reaction to Obama. It was like, Well, maybe he’s too qualified, maybe he’s too smart, maybe he’s too cerebral.KWAME JACKSON: I think that Donald Trump had only been used to dealing with black men of a very specific genre: Mike Tyson, Don King, Herschel Walker—celebrities, entertainers. So to have a young African American man with arguably a better education than him—I don’t think that was something he was used to, because obviously he didn’t hire any in his organization.Randal Pinkett, a black man and the show’s 2005 winner, was asked by Trump to share his title with the white runner-up, Rebecca Jarvis. Pinkett refused. As the winner, he later worked briefly for the Trump Organization.RANDAL PINKETT: He did not want to see an African American as the outright and sole winner. I believe I backed him into a corner. It goes back to an old adage that I’ve been told throughout my life as an African American man—that you have to be twice as good just to be considered equal. And that is a statement that reflects the thinking of a Donald Trump. Donald can be racist in ways that he’s not even aware are racist, because he is so out of touch with people who are not like him.TIMOTHY L. O’BRIEN: The only people of color he’s gone out of his way to try to establish relationships with are people who are athletes, celebrities, or entertainers. He became close to Mike Tyson because Donald and Don King were trying to arrange heavyweight fights in Atlantic City, to draw high rollers to the casinos. It wasn’t because he was fond of black athletes. It was because black boxers were good for his business.RANDAL PINKETT: I was the only person of color that I saw at an executive level in my entire year with the Trump Organization. And to put that into context, this was 2006. This was the height of Donald’s popularity with The Apprentice. He had launched several ventures, most of which are now defunct: Trump University, Trump Institute, Trump Ice, Trump Mortgage, Trump magazine. All of those companies were up and running. All of them had employees; they had CEOs who ran those companies—and still, as I recall, none of them had persons of color in executive roles. None of them.V. “He Doesn’t Have a Birth Certificate”“Our current president came out of nowhere, came out of nowhere … The people who went to school with him—they never saw him; they don’t know who he is.” That statement, made at the February 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference, marked the launch of Donald Trump’s public efforts to sow doubt about whether President Barack Obama had been born in the United States. “Birtherism” had been festering for several years before Trump embraced it—supplanting other proponents and becoming its most prominent advocate. In March, on The View, Trump called on Obama to show his birth certificate. In April, he said that he had dispatched a team of investigators to Hawaii to search for Obama’s birth records.For Trump, the run-up to birtherism had been a controversy that flared when a Manhattan developer proposed building an Islamic cultural center on a site in Lower Manhattan—the so-called Ground Zero mosque. In 2010, on the Late Show, Trump told David Letterman: “I think it’s very insensitive to build it there. I think it’s not appropriate.” Letterman pushed back, saying that blocking an Islamic facility would be akin to declaring “war with Muslims.” Trump answered: “Somebody’s blowing up buildings, and somebody’s doing lots of bad stuff.” Trump offered to buy out one of the investors in order to halt the project. The action made him one of the project’s key opponents and for the first time gave him national visibility on the political right.Anti-Muslim sentiment animated Trump’s birtherism campaign. He said of Obama on The Laura Ingraham Show in March 2011: “He doesn’t have a birth certificate, or if he does, there’s something on that certificate that is very bad for him. Now, somebody told me—and I have no idea whether this is bad for him or not, but perhaps it would be—that where it says ‘religion,’ it might have ‘Muslim.’ ”Sam Nunberg became an adviser to Trump after working with him to oppose the Islamic cultural center. Jerome Corsi, the author of Where’s the Birth Certificate?, and Orly Taitz, a dentist and an attorney, are among the instigators of the birther movement. Dan Pfeiffer was the White House communications director.SAM NUNBERG: I don’t believe Donald Trump would have done birtherism if he had not done the Ground Zero mosque and gotten all the conservative publicity he did. I had met Roger Stone, and we briefed Trump on the issue, and he came out and said he wanted to buy the site. Then he got interviews on Fox News. It also was a part of his brand—he wasn’t just somebody coming out saying, “I’m opposed to you,” but “I want to buy it.” He went where the “Just run on lowering taxes” Republican intelligentsia, the Republican establishment, will tell you not to go.JEROME CORSI: Donald Trump came into it pretty late. I was driving the story well before Donald Trump. He called me maybe three or four times in the period around April and May 2011. Donald Trump’s interest advanced the story in terms of public awareness.ORLY TAITZ: I just turned over all the information to him. I talked to his assistant. She told me to forward all the information to his attorney Michael Cohen. Because Trump was a well-known public figure, the issue did get attention.DAN PFEIFFER: It wasn’t until Trump picked this up that it spilled into the mainstream. It created a permission structure for normal reporters to ask this question. It’s like, Well, Donald Trump, this famous person, said this on The View, which is different than saying Jerome Corsi wrote it in a book.SAM NUNBERG: It was about destroying Obama’s favorability, his likability. It was this way to differentiate Trump from Mitt Romney, who was dancing around not wanting to criticize Obama directly. We looked at Obama as a Manchurian president. Trump will do anything to win. Birtherism would brand Trump as the guy who would do anything he could to take down Obama. He wasn’t just going to lose with a smile and lose respectably the way John McCain and Mitt Romney liked doing.Attempting to quell the conspiracy theories, on April 27, 2011, Obama released his long-form birth certificate. Ben Rhodes was Obama’s deputy national security adviser for strategic communications.BEN RHODES: I remember Obama started to get increasingly frustrated in Oval Office sessions—not just that Trump would say these things, but also that the media would cover it as a story. Obama was angry that he had to release the birth certificate. I remember being in the Oval Office and him commenting that he couldn’t believe he had to do this, but feeling he had to nip it in the bud. Obama was more acutely aware of issues involving race and racism than he sometimes projected. Obama knew this wasn’t going away, and he knew it was racist, and he knew he needed as much armor as he could get.A few days later, at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Obama and the comedian Seth Meyers mocked Trump’s birther claims, leaving Trump red-faced and seething at a table in the audience. Jay Carney was the White House press secretary.SETH MEYERS: We were constantly getting a refreshed list of who was going to be in the room. I will say that we were happy when we saw that Trump was going to be there. I think our best joke about him being a racist that night was: “Donald Trump said recently he has a great relationship with the blacks, but unless the Blacks are a family of white people, I bet he is mistaken.” There’s a thing Donald Trump does better than anybody else, which is that by stating one position, he reveals that he actually holds the opposite position.One of the reasons we piled on with our Trump jokes wasn’t that he was a reality star. It was that he was someone who was doing the rounds, continuing to double down and triple down and quadruple down on this incredibly racist rhetoric. Historically, if you look at other rooms I’ve been in, I’ve never done a run of 10 jokes about anyone before. Obviously we felt pretty strongly for that to be the case.Read: Seth Meyers has ‘very fond’ memories of roasting TrumpJAY CARNEY: After that, birtherism diminished as a subject in most media, but I’m sure folks took notice of what Trump had done, and how, by completely concocting this nonsense, he had hijacked the conversation. It still pisses me off.DAN PFEIFFER: The mainstream political conversation after Obama released his birth certificate was: Trump is a clown, right? He’s a clown who got out of his depth and has embarrassed himself and should be run out of politics forever. It was not long after that that every Republican—even, you know, putatively serious Republicans like Mitt Romney—went and begged Trump for his endorsement. I don’t think any of us realized that there was a tremendous appetite for anger in the Republican base that Trump was seeking to use.Trump did not let up. In May 2012, he told the CNN host Wolf Blitzer that “a lot of people do not think it was an authentic certificate.” In August, he called the birth certificate “a fraud.” Finally, in September 2016, under political pressure during his presidential campaign, Trump acknowledged that Obama had in fact been born in the United States. That was not the end of the matter. In November 2017, The New York Times reported that Trump was still privately asserting that Obama’s birth certificate may have been fraudulent.BEN RHODES: It cannot be overstated that this is the creation story of Donald Trump becoming president of the United States. His whole brand is: I will say the things that the other guys won’t. Without birtherism there is no Trump presidency.VI. “On Many Sides”Roughly six months into Trump’s presidency, on the night of Friday, August 11, 2017, hundreds of neo-Nazis and white supremacists marched onto the University of Virginia’s campus in Charlottesville chanting “Jews will not replace us” and “Blood and soil,” a Nazi slogan. The “Unite the Right” rally was protesting the proposed removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Confrontations arose between members of the so-called alt-right and groups of counterprotesters, including members of the anti-fascist movement known as “antifa.”Mike Signer, Charlottesville’s mayor, had been dealing with far-right protests all summer. Richard Spencer was one of the key figures behind the “Unite the Right” rally.MIKE SIGNER: The first event was in May of 2017, led by Richard Spencer, who invented the term alt-right and is a UVA graduate. He had done an event right after Trump’s inauguration where he had led a fascist salute with all these people at a hotel in Washington, D.C.—buzz cuts, uniforms, very frightening.RICHARD SPENCER: There is no question that Charlottesville wouldn’t have occurred without Trump. It really was because of his campaign and this new potential for a nationalist candidate who was resonating with the public in a very intense way. The alt-right found something in Trump. He changed the paradigm and made this kind of public presence of the alt-right possible.David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, who participated in the Charlottesville rally, called it a “turning point” for his own movement, which seeks to “fulfill the promises of Donald Trump.” Will Peyton, the rector of St. Paul’s Memorial Church, near the UVA campus, hosted an interfaith service in opposition to the rally. As alt-right protesters marched by, the roughly 700 people in the church were advised to stay inside for their own safety.WILL PEYTON: I was out in a parking lot during the morning while all the various neo-Nazi people and different white-supremacist groups were gathering and unloading. They were piling out of vans and trucks, and kind of giddy. I’d never seen swastikas and Nazi salutes out in the open like that—people wearing helmets and carrying clubs and shields.RICHARD SPENCER: The whole day was chaotic. I woke up that morning; we had breakfast. We didn’t quite know what was going to happen. I certainly thought it was going to be a big event, but I never quite knew that it was going to turn into this ultimately historic event.MIKE SIGNER: Richard Spencer and David Duke spent time attacking me and talking about the Jewish mayor of the city. There was a threat against a synagogue saying, “It’s time to torch those jewish monsters lets go 3pm.” There was an intensity in the anti-Semitism that previously was unthinkable in American political life. I grew up five blocks from the headquarters of the American Nazi Party, in Arlington, Virginia. It was above what is now a coffee shop, in a ramshackle house, and we laughed at this lonely, pathetic old man who would come in and out of that building. Now you’re seeing something different. I was infuriated that you weren’t seeing a condemnation of this coming from the White House.On August 12, a black man named DeAndre Harris was beaten by at least four white supremacists. At about 1:45 p.m. that day, James Alex Fields Jr., a 20-year-old white supremacist from Ohio, drove his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring 35 others. Fields was convicted in December 2018 of first-degree murder. In March, he pleaded guilty to 29 of 30 federal hate-crime charges in a separate trial. Speaking on the afternoon of the attack from his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club, Trump denounced “this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides.” He paused, then repeated: “On many sides.” Lisa Woolfork is a UVA professor and an organizer with Black Lives Matter’s Charlottesville chapter. Jason Kessler was an organizer of the rally.RICHARD SPENCER: We were dealing with this terrible accident that occurred with James Fields and Heather Heyer, and it was certainly not why I came and I don’t think it’s why anyone else came. I was trying to deal with that situation in the best way I could by just saying that we simply don’t know what happened and we should stress that this young man deserves a fair investigation and a fair trial. Trump, in his own way, was being honest and calling it like he saw it. I was proud of him at that moment.MIKE SIGNER: This was a coordinated invasion of the city by violent right-wing militias. I watched a clip of the president and my mouth fell open, and I was at once ashamed for him and for the country.LISA WOOLFORK: The car sped down Fourth Street and collided with the counterdemonstrators who were marching that way. I was about 100 feet from the impact, and it was complete chaos. I remember seeing a shoe fly into the air. I remember people screaming. It was an utterly terrible moment. After a long and traumatic day, the president’s remarks were chilling. One of the dangers of having the president speak in the way that he spoke about the events in Charlottesville—about “many sides”—was that it promotes this very dangerous false equivalency. Trump made things much worse by explicitly stating that you can be a white supremacist or a Nazi or a neo-Confederate and still be a good person.JASON KESSLER: The president was absolutely correct in blaming both sides. I’ve probably seen more video of the event than anyone alive. People who are upset feel that the majority of the blame should be with the alt-right because of the tragic death of Heather Heyer. It’s fair enough to acknowledge their emotional need for this, but no one at “Unite the Right” was responsible for that car accident but James Fields himself.WILL PEYTON: I had a visceral, emotional reaction when I heard what the president said. I was an eyewitness. I saw with my own eyes that there was one side here that came planning and intending violence. There’s just no two ways about that.On August 14, Trump walked back his initial statement and specifically condemned “the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups.” A day later, he walked back his walk-back. There were “very fine people on both sides,” he said, adding that the “alt-left” had been “very, very violent.” White-nationalist leaders welcomed his remarks.MIKE SIGNER: There was a robocall that went out in November 2018, because the trial of Alex Fields was happening and he was about to be convicted. The call was all about how the Jew mayor and the Negro police chief had created this situation, and how we’re the ones who should be held responsible for Heather Heyer’s death.VII. “Go Back to Their Huts”In office, Donald Trump followed through on his promise to curb immigration from majority-Muslim countries. He created a commission to investigate voter fraud (virtually nonexistent, according to state election officials), claiming that he would have won the popular vote but for millions of ballots cast by people in the U.S. illegally. He shut down the government for 35 days in an attempt to secure funding for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. He reportedly referred to African countries as “shithole” nations—asking why the U.S. can’t have more immigrants from Norway instead—and complained that, after seeing America, immigrants from Nigeria would never “go back to their huts.” The administration favored victims of Hurricane Harvey, which hit Houston, over those of Hurricane Maria, which hit Puerto Rico, sending three times as many workers to Houston and approving 23 times as much money for individual assistance within the first nine days after each hurricane.SAM NUNBERG: Remember in 2011 he was criticized when he said, “I’ve always had a great relationship with the blacks”? I think he just doesn’t speak “politically correct.” It’s not in his vernacular, or consciousness. It’s generational. It’s also probably—not to play psychiatrist—it’s growing up where he grew up, in Queens, New York, and dealing with union members, dealing in a crime-riddled New York City. I think it’s just the way things were thought of as different then.TIMOTHY L. O’BRIEN: This is the same debate we have about whether or not he’s a liar. And I get the journalistic need to be really clear about how we use terms. You know, lying implies volition and knowledge. But I’m very comfortable saying I think he’s got a pathology around lying. And when it comes to race, I don’t think it’s merely using racial animosities or race-baiting as tools to promote his business. I think it’s a deep-seated reflection of what he thinks about how the world works.KWAME JACKSON: America’s always trying to find this gotcha moment that shows Donald Trump is racist—you know, let’s find this one big thing. Let’s look for that one time when he burned a cross in someone’s yard so we can now finally say it. People refuse to see the bread crumbs that are already in front of you, leading you to grandma’s house.This article appears in the June 2019 print edition with the headline “An Oral History of Trump’s Bigotry.”An Oral History of Trump’s Bigotry