Gene Chapman returns

[AndyK]

I think we are being given a guided tour of Planet Chapman -- a utopia which exists only within his mind.

However, let's crank up the WayBack Machine.

Once upon a time there was a man who (allegedly) had a religious conviction that use of a Social Security number was against the will of God. Since he did not want to use the number assigned to him, he had difficulty obtaining employment. He had such great difficulty that he single-handedly took on the IRS -- to the point of a death fast and threatened self-immolation.

Flash forward to today. Gene just mentioned "Off to work" That leads me to believe he has found some form of employment. Which raises the question:

Gene: What happened to your deep religious refusal of your Social Security number? Did that particular belief just become inconvenient? Are you a waffler?

[Arthur Rubin]

I'd have to see evidence to support the one child policy being the mover. My understanding from class is that imposition of law was creating an overpopulation of males without sexual outlet and resulting conflict within the culture. When the laws were relaxed, people began to operate on education alone, and it's supposed to be working better, the Gandhian way.

I would like to evidence opposing the obvious fact that the one child policy has been the mover, at least until 2011. As then the policy seems to being relaxed (a fine of 7 years annual income, rather than summary post-birth abortion and execution), if the birth rate has not increased recently, that should be taken into account in Gene's favor. However, statistics from China are somewhat questionable, unlike during the various traditional dynasties, in which the statistics were unimpeachable, but usually unavailable.

[The Observer]

What would I do with a bachelor's degree? I have an associates, and it got me $36,000 in debt, and I hate the heat of welding. I got a Motion Picture diploma that isn't worth the paper it's written on, and I'm too old to start motion picture work anyway (It's a kids game).

Tolstoy's writings tell me that law school lacks moral credibility for one on a Gandhian path. I'm not a Calculus III guy, so being an economist is not a real option.

I like The History of Economic Thought master's and Ph. D. path at Verderbilt, but I'm 47 and not rich.

I've been pitched a Sociology master's and Ph. D. path, but it doesn't entice me to be a sociologist.

Your ideas?

Gene

My ideas:

(1) Gene Chapman rarely finishes what he starts.

(2) Gene Chapman does not make good choices.

(3) Gene Chapman does not like having to live with his choices.

(4) Gene Chapman relies on excuses in order to deal with the results of (1), (2) and (3).

(5) Gene Chapman needs to do a 180 and try to undo some of the damage he has inflicted at this point. Being 47, unhappy, unfulfilled and still heading in the wrong direction on his own insistence does not bode well.

[Gene Chapman]

I'm not unhappy. I like my choices fine.

On the issue in India, I was not made aware in Sociology class of anything other than an end to forced sterilization for breaking laws, etc. I'm a year removed from UNT, currently, so I am not in a position to speak in depth on the topic. I'll have to concede the point, if you are more well read on the issue.

Philosophically, I'm obviously interested in leaving people alone as much as possible to direct their own choice with as many facts as are available on any issue.

Gene

[Gene Chapman]

Yes, I've paid the income tax for many years now. I came to the conclusion that I was going to have to die to continue not paying it. The IRS had me cornered, as I was not trained how to live under the table or off the grid. That was in around 2007.

I got to interacting with Professor John Siegal at George Washington University last year, and he indicated that a tax liability does exist, and he presented me a page of information. I'm not in a position to argue with an esteemed law professor with a degree from Yale, so I'll have to concede the point until I see another esteemed law professor make a counter claim.

Trying to set up a round table with Dr. Chomsky and Professor Siegal, etc. at UNT, filmed by PBS and moderated by Charlie Rose is how I came to begin an interaction with Dr. Chomsky. It didn't come together, but both men have been cordial to me. I would advise people to abandon the idea that there is not a personal income tax liability for now. It still is a dynamic of slavery, but we will have to go at the issue, as Tolsoty proposed, I think, on the next to last page of his book, "The Kingdom Of God Is Within You."

Gene

[Gene Chapman]

I have "Ideaphoria," so finishing things will never appeal to me a great deal. I'm too artistically oriented to settle into one thing for decades at a time. It's just my makeup.

Gene

[AndyK]

Yes, I've paid the income tax for many years now. I came to the conclusion that I was going to have to die to continue not paying it. The IRS had me cornered, as I was not trained how to live under the table or off the grid. That was in around 2007.

I got to interacting with Professor John Siegal at George Washington University last year, and he indicated that a tax liability does exist, and he presented me a page of information. I'm not in a position to argue with an esteemed law professor with a degree from Yale, so I'll have to concede the point until I see another esteemed law professor make a counter claim. I would suggest that you not make ANYTHING contingent on seeing a counter claim. All law profesors study and teach the same law. The income tax is the law.

Trying to set up a round table with Dr. Chomsky and Professor Siegal, etc. at UNT, filmed by PBS and moderated by Charlie Rose is how I came to begin an interaction with Dr. Chomsky. It didn't come together, but both men have been cordial to me. I would advise people to abandon the idea that there is not a personal income tax liability for now. Stop with the 'for now' because it's not going to change no matter what the self-proclaimed anti-tax gurus rant. It still is a dynamic of slavery, Strange, but a very well-regarded jusicial official once said something along the line of "Taxes are what we pay for a free society." but we will have to go at the issue, as Tolsoty proposed, I think, on the next to last page of his book, "The Kingdom Of God Is Within You."

Gene

No matter how idyllic your utopia is, there will be some things which can not be accomplished by an individual, or even a group of individuals. Simple things such as building and maintaining a tornado warning system, coordinating control of air traffic, ensuring food and medicine purity, or building a bridge across San Francisco Bay. These things large numbers of prople being paid large amounts of money. Absent serious free-will offerings by the residents of your utopia to fund these activities AND some centralized organization to direct and control all the people (which itself must be funded) NONE of these things will happen.

Free enterprise isn't going to build a tornado warning system unless they can provide the warnings ONLY to those who subscribe to the service for a fee -- a very large fee. Air carriers might develop their own traffic control system, but what's to prevent one pilot, or even an entire airline, from refusing to participate and just fly wherever they see fit.

Face it Gene, you -- and everyone around you benefits from services provided by the government. Taxes pay for these services.

Unless you want to implement a model where the services are distributed to anyone who needs them and are funded by those who are able pay?

[Gene Chapman]

"Taxes are what we pay for a free society."

I read that in D. C. everyday, and I'll always disagree with it. That's like saying a dynamic of slavery is the path to freedom. I don't have a problem with a tax and never have. I have a problem with a dynamic of slavery that is called a tax. And the books and scholars are beginning to pile up in agreement of my proposition. For example, see: "The Slavery of our Times," by Leo Tolstoy. That's almost a photocopy of my position.

I actually interacted with a Marxist, Dr. Cornel West, who opened the door to my doing a master's thesis at Princeton with him on whether the taxation of labor, taxation of the intrinsic value of property and numbering people as cattle represented a social retardation of society, similar to the work of Kenneth B. Clark's "doll test" that was used to help overturn school segregation in the Brown cases. If that ain't making the other side rethink the world, what is?

Gene

[AndyK]

Oh stop it already.

Cornel West specifically describes himself as a "non-Marxist socialist" because he cannot reconcile Marxism with Christianity

The more crap you invent, the more we rebut it.

Shall we contact Dr West to verify that you somehow worked with him on a master's thesis at Princeton?

[Gene Chapman]

I thought Dr. West was trained in Marxism and a fan of it. If you are correct, then I have another intellectual on board with my ideas. Cool!

Just got an email from Dr. Chomsky. He's staying busy.

Gene

[Gene Chapman]

I never said anything about having in the past worked with Dr. West on a master's. I indicated that he opened the door (he was cordially interested) for me doing a master's with him in the future. You guys are gonna need to read things closer.

Gene

[ashlynne39]

I am sad to see you think my ego is large. I will try to keep that in mind. Also, I am running for the Libertarian Party nomination for Texas Governor in 2014.

Is there a question I can answer for you?

Gene Chapman

As a Texas voter, no thanks.

On second thought, if you "abolish the state," what precisely will you govern?

[LPC]

Just got an email from Dr. Chomsky. He's staying busy.

I find those auto-replies to be annoying.

[ashlynne39]

At DBU, I was tested "genius level" (their words) in "foresight" and gifted in "analytical reasoning, etc." You can understand what that does to a young man's faith in his own ability?

Gene:

By any chance, are you related to Martin Hunter, the "Erasmus of America", from Seneca, South Carolina? If not, I think you should look him up and touch bases with him. You and him seem to have a lot in common.

My thoughts exactly. In fact Rassy' s omni law might just be what Gene is looking for.

[LightinDarkness]

What would I do with a bachelor's degree? I have an associates, and it got me $36,000 in debt, and I hate the heat of welding. I got a Motion Picture diploma that isn't worth the paper it's written on, and I'm too old to start motion picture work anyway (It's a kids game).

For someone who spends so much time talking about their education you really don't seem to know how the various levels of degrees work. First a degree in welding is a technical degree, it doesn't signify any sort of academic competence. Second, in order to do a graduate degree (Masters/PhD) you need a bachelors degree, so that would be "what you would do" with it.

I like The History of Economic Thought master's and Ph. D. path at Verderbilt, but I'm 47 and not rich.

Why is being 47 a problem? I'm in a PhD program with people in their 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s. Your age wouldn't be a problem...but you would be rejected from Vanderbilt because you have shown you aren't capable of even basic critical thinking.

I've been pitched a Sociology master's and Ph. D. path, but it doesn't entice me to be a sociologist.

Good, since you made that up as no one is pitching you a PhD in anything - you wouldn't even get pass the first level admissions check because you don't have a accredited BA or BS. Even if you were to complete one, the University of North Texas is so low ranked US News doesn't even rank it - which means no ranked graduate program would admit you.

[notorial dissent]

Gene, in the book of life, your list of accomplishments stands at a big fat reverberating ZERO, your list of failures, walk aways, and excuses for same is reaching multi chapter status. You are a waste of protoplasm specifically, and a waste of time in general. Go away and bore someone else, there must still be some unsuspecting fool out there that doesn't know what a total prat you are.

[wserra]

Alright, enough about Chapman and his endless name-dropping. If anyone wants to write about a financial scam or fraud, feel free to start another thread.