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Hi, I’m glad you found my blog!
If you haven’t visited before, you might want to take a moment to read my quick overview, ‘The Mission In A Nutshell,’ explaining why this blog and my goal here are vitally important.
I try to make Get Glenn Mobile! more than just a fundraising site. I think if someone’s going to bug you to donate, it’s their responsibility to not only explain themselves, but to maintain a running dialog with the world. Life is dynamic, not static, so I try to keep fresh content to interest visitors and have some fun while we’re at it.
Of course, priorities are what they are, and while this blog should always be a place for lively discussion, I can’t put its goal on the back shelf. If you enjoy your visit, I hope you’ll feel my project is worth a donation, even a small one using any Indiegogo link. My plan is to reach as many people as possible in the hopes that some of them will donate even a nominal amount…with enough of these I’m sure we can accomplish the goal: Get Glenn Mobile!
With a few recent donations received, the total amount of funds raised is now just over the $10,000 mark, and that’s pretty impressive! Please help keep the momentum up by donating even a small amount today, as always, contributions of any size are very much appreciated!
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Whaddaya Say We Wrap This Up?
I am delighted and moved to announce that my friend April Reigne from WeROAR has put together an event to conclude this fundraising business, and with some help from my friends in general, but especially in Oathkeepers and the Tenth Amendment Center, we’re going to do just that!
With prizes and perks for thoughtful donors to add some incentive, I think we have a strong likelihood of finishing this part of the adventure, feeing me, and letting me get back to the land of the living to help spread the word about liberty, call out oathbreaking politicians and functionaries, and get my life back in gear.
How about it folks? Many people over the past year and change have already put over $10,000 in the coffers…can we count on a little help from the newcomers this event will attract, please? Join me and my allies here and let’s have some fun with it!
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Out and About
Finally, after week after week of cruddy, rainy, cold and/or windy weather, I awoke from my nap just after dawn to find a lovely morning Out There.
Perfect flying weather, thought I, so I grabbed my trusty micro Aeronca Champ, my transmitter in its case with some freshly charged single cell batteries, and headed out. It wasn’t long before I felt the gusty breeze and saw the treetops tossing a bit that told me there would be no flying…a 1.3 ounce aircraft just doesn’t fare too well in a blustery wind, and given that it was my first outing of the season and I’m out of practice, I wasn’t about to risk injury to the plane.
No worries, I was out on a pretty day for the first time since late autumn. This was no time to squander it by returning home, so I pressed on to the bowling alley’s parking lot a mile away. Once in a great while the air warmed by the sun will counterbalance the system driving it to yield a net calming of the wind but today it only increased the wind’s velocity and the air’s instability. Big whoop…I was OUT, and it was glorious.
I spent an hour or so soaking up sunlight and feeling the free wind on my face, remembering that this was just a taste of what I’ll be able to experience once I’m freed from confinement. While there I experienced a reminder of why I like Tennessee so much; a nice older lady driving by stopped to inquire if all was well and if I needed any help. That’s honest human nature at work…she stopped because she wanted to, not because anyone had coerced or pushed her into doing so. Yet again I was confronted with another reminder that Americans are some of the most giving and helpful people around, giving the lie to our dismal coerced ‘charitable’ Welfare State that extracts resources from productive people at gunpoint to give itself the appearance of altruism, while even more wealth is stolen from ordinary people to continue America’s perpetual wars of aggression in the Warfare State.
This led me to thoughts of another captive, Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the American POW I’ve written about before. Does he have days like I did today from time to time on nice days in Afghanistan? Does he wonder when he’ll quit being used as a political pawn so he can go home and get on with his life? I feel a lot of affinity with Bowe; the circumstances couldn’t be more different, but with all of the parallels I can’t help feeling some empathy for a man who’s lost four years of his life to captivity.
Unjust imprisonment sucks, pure and simple. Americans to a great degree have been held captive by the many schemes, scams and other dirty work foisted upon them by the arrogant elites, even when they aren’t physically restrained as I’ve been. I really would like the opportunity to get out of my fix and do what I can to reverse these crimes against my fellows. I’m trying my best from my desk, but four years of being stuck is having its effect; without the ability to get to work facing these people and communicating with the public it’s slowing me down and draining more precious energy I can’t afford to waste. Some days I feel sludgy, almost as if I’m trying to swim in pudding.
I hope you’ll donate whatever you can spare to Get Glenn Mobile! and tell your friends this is a worthwhile and legitimate cause. Those endorsement videos by high profile academics, artists and veterans wouldn’t have come about if the people who made them had any doubts that I’ll be a whole lot more useful out in the dynamic world of the living than trapped here at home. I hope you’ll be persuaded as well…we’re over $10,000 of the way to achieving the goal, and the sooner it’s met, the sooner I’ll be able to get busy working towards liberty for all of us!
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The Last American POW: Four Years’ Imprisonment In AFGHANISTAN?!?
A few days ago we had the pleasure of interviewing Earl Hayes, aka ‘LeeBirdification Hoot-Hoot’ of HOOT Radio- Honoring Our Outstanding Troops on the Freedom Finders internet radio show I’m privileged to co-host. The evening’s discussion centered on the story of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, an American Army soldier captured in Afghanistan in 2009.
This story got under my skin; not only has Bowe Bergdahl had his life hugely distorted by this captivity, but he’s been in this situation for the same amount of time I’ve been shut up in the house, four years. Now I certainly wouldn’t presume to compare my situation with his, but again we see someone who’s thus far lost four years of his life, something I do have a bit more experience with than the average person, and this story really resonated with me.
I’ll wager that Bergdahl is like so many of my friends at this point, used as part of the monolithic enforcement arm of our authoritarian government that’s directed by a relatively tiny cabal of banksters and corporate insiders when he likely signed up simply to try to do positive things for America. I don’t know his mind, but I’ll surmise that if he’s been apprised of the facts he’s feeling defrauded…and now abandoned in captivity…by these creeps.
During the interview it was made clear that Bergdahl’s Taliban captors are eager to release Bowe Bergdahl themselves, but surprise, surprise: the American government is the main obstacle in this. He’s become another strategic piece on the chessboard, something I have (fortunately) no experience with but imagine to be a dismal place to find oneself.
I’ve said it before, I don’t waste time bemoaning unfair situations, after all life is indeed unfair. Unjust is another matter, particularly when it’s needlessly so. I know I haven’t found much to be positive about regarding my own abandonment, and I just can’t imagine anyone coming away from an examination of Bowe’s situation feeling good.
I think Lee Birdification’s suggestion of making a lot of very public noise is a sound one and would encourage folks to call their representatives’ office(s) to let them know unambiguously that this situation just cannot stand. For myself, this is another of the many subjects I plan to discuss in person with my congressman and senators once this fundraiser succeeds, freeing me to get back to the world. You can help me do this by donating whatever you can spare here to help me achieve this goal. I’m seriously chafing at the bit to finish being a mendicant, get out and get the heck to work.
You might visit one of the provided links here as well if you’re inclined to do more right now yourself. The ongoing captivity of Bowe Bergdahl is yet another violation of what used to be a first principle for Americans…never leave a countryman behind.
To do so is unacceptable.
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Upping the Ante
So, today we see multiple bombs going off at the Boston Marathon.
Also, earlier this week one of my fellow hosts at WeROAR was found dead. Details are sketchy, but he was 50ish and from what little I’ve gathered had no significant health issues. It may not mean a thing, may be pure coincidence, but from a totalitarian control freak’s perspective, it’s mighty damn convenient.
Folks, I’m still stuck here like a fly on flypaper. I’m not posting this stuff as a gimmick, but because I’m seriously creeped out. If there is a false flag op going on and a possible purge of loudmouths like me to take pressure off the goons, I’m easy meat.
PLEASE, can we get this fundraiser finished so I can at least reposition with my mom if necessary? I’m fully aware that no one owes me anything. I know a dietary change might well help me to some degree. But until I have the liberty that comes from the freedom of mobility, there isn’t a single thing I can do about any of it at the moment.
I’d like to keep pointing out the facts for the American people in an effort to better this country for everyone’s benefit…but right now I feel like I’m stuck on the railroad tracks with a train coming. I won’t be very effective at that task if it squashes me, and just at the moment I’m feeling mighty squashable. If you’ve considered donating even a small amount, and/or telling your friends about this project, NOW would be a really opportune time.
Thanks to all of you who’ve contributed in one way or another to Get Glenn Mobile! for your part in raising the over $10,000 in hand; now we just need to finish the job.
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The New Media Paradigm At Work to Defeat the Zombies!
There are some real benefits to cohosting our Freedom Finders show on the WeROAR network. Last night Sgt. Donald Rutledge and I spent some time with Chris Nooner and crew of Altered, a new movie currently in production discussing the specifics of this new and fascinating project.
Now, just as with vampires, every knucklehead and his brother are pumping out zombie-themed movies and the subject’s been done to death. Happily there are occasional exceptions to all of the mediocrity floating around. With the hackneyed vampire motif, the outstanding 1987 film Near Dark comes to mind. No fangs, stupid getups, holy water and so on, but an awesome story of a traveling band of immortal killers, with a great cast and a truly original story line.
In this direction, Chris and company are making a film with a genuinely novel take on the subject of zombies. I’m really looking forward to seeing the finished product, and you can help by dropping a contribution in their Indiegogo fundraiser. As I said last night, the state of technology in the internet allows anyone to be in on what promises to be a classic movie in its early stages. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could go back in time and assist George Lucas as he made the original Star Wars film, or Ridley Scott when he made Alien?
Now you can. Of course I sure hope that while you’re at it, you’ll take a couple of minutes to donate to this campaign as well, or at least help spread the word about my efforts to get free of this stupid confinement that disability’s inflicted on me. As I wrote recently, the agorist way really works, and we can accomplish amazing things by not waiting for permission and acting ourselves peacefully and voluntarily, showing up the awful government method of coercive ‘charity,’ extracting resources from productive people at gunpoint, keeping the majority of those stolen resources, and letting a few crumbs fall in the general direction of where they’re needed. It’s harmful, anti-human, inefficient as hell, and needs to get left in the dustbin along with other historical failures.
I recommend that everyone who likes the high quality of many independent projects like this jump on board, help this terrific film get made and get me mobile at the same time…we can defeat the goons if we pull together and are willing to spend just a little time and money…it really does add up fast!
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New Friend and Ally Sherry Peel Jackson Speaks Up to Help Free Me!
A few weeks ago, my partner in crime Sgt. Donald Rutledge and I were honored to have Sherry Peel Jackson, former IRS agent, political prisoner, and one of the stars of Aaron Russo’s excellent 2006 film ‘America: Freedom to Fascism’ join us as a guest on our Freedom Finders show on the WeROAR network.
Over the course of the interview, I described for her my ‘Get Glenn Mobile!’ fundraiser and asked Sherry if she’d be willing to endorse it as a high profile member of the liberty community, and I was delighted when she enthusiastically agreed. My first impulse was to simply use her words in a sound clip folks could hear on my ‘Welcome’ sticky post, but it occurred to me that it would have more impact if I took Tatiana Moroz’ advice to Make A YouTube Video, as expressed in her song by the same name. I dusted off my video editor and did just that. Thank you, Sherry, you’ve joined a growing number of thoughtful people helping me in my journey to get free of this awful confinement that’s gone on now for four years as soon as possible!
If you aren’t yet familiar with Ms. Jackson, you should know that she’s an ex-IRS agent who spent time as a political prisoner for her actions in opposing the fraudulent income tax, and was one of the stars of Aaron Russo’s excellent film America: Freedom to Fascism that examines that fraudulent income tax and its dreadful enforcement arm, the IRS, along with the biggest confidence scheme ever perpetrated on the American people, the Federal Reserve.
I consider this to be one of the most significant films ever made in its ability to help people understand the descent of America from industrial giant and beacon of freedom to the awful totalitarian state it’s become. This one’s a must-see, and if you haven’t yet seen it, I urge you in the strongest way I can to do so. You don’t even need to go looking for it, here’s the director’s cut that includes extra footage even I hadn’t seen before
Get ready…this film will propel you straight down the rabbit hole where you can see for yourself why we Americans (and most of the rest of the world’s people) are in such horrible danger:
Thanks so much, Sherry, you’re helping speed my escape from this nasty confinement inflicted upon me by disability, no question in my mind. As always, I ask readers to contribute any amount they can to help me make good my escape. You can be sure I’ll join the rest of the dynamic liberty movement once out, not because I feel obligated to the ones who’ve helped, but because I have to, for my sake as much as everyone else’s.
It’s getting dark out there, and we don’t have much time left if we mean to reverse this anti-human and dismal course we’ve been pushed into.
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Alex Jones Hangs Up on My Call AND Throws Ethan Huff To the Wolves?!?
The other day I found myself in a conference call, shooting the breeze with a couple of WeROAR hosts including the site’s webmistress April Reigne after she’d just concluded an interview that mentioned Alex Jones’ tendency to run with alarmist topics. As I had some personal experience here, seeing his staff reporter Ethan Huff reference the article I wrote last year dealing with the dreadful persecution Andrew Wordes suffered at the hands of city officials in Roswell, Georgia that culminated in his fiery suicide.
In my essay, I discussed the possibility that Roswell might have been motivated to take Andrew’s property as part of a long-term land use scheme, but that ultimately after hearing from his friends and neighbors it became clear that the Roswell officials conducted their campaign to harass and ruin Andrew simply because they were a bunch of spiteful creeps who had the power to do so.
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Agorism? Shiny!
From Wikipedia:
Agorism is a revolutionary libertarian social philosophy that advocates the goal of the bringing about of a society in which all relations between people are voluntary exchanges by means of counter-economics, thus engaging in a manner with aspects of peaceful revolution. It was first proposed by libertarian philosopher Samuel Edward Konkin III in 1975.
I was pleased when I noticed an unexpected message in the inbox last evening and saw that a fresh donation had been made to Get Glenn Mobile! A generous one, it turned out to be from friend, liberty activist, and fellow Firefly aficionado (a proven Browncoat for those who are familiar with the series) David Kirk West. More significantly, he’s also one of the more talented of the new generation of liberty filmmakers and had mentioned some time ago that he was planning to donate a portion of the proceeds from his DVD sales to the cause. I hadn’t thought about this or seen him in a while, but that wasn’t surprising; he’s a busy rascal.
This was a timely gesture since I’ve been devoting much thought to moving the project along lately and it was great seeing once again the proof of agorism’s effectiveness. People like David will bring this project to fruition sooner rather than later, since anyone interested can fact check me for the genuine article I am, then decide right then and there if my goal’s a worthwhile donation subject for them to act on. No involved decision making, no stiff procedure, just the freedom to make the choice to help in this exercise in practical voluntary action. I have the peace of mind that comes from knowing that although no one owes me so much as a dime, and are under no obligation to help…they have still been willing to aid my quest for liberty and continue to do so. Peoples’ instinct to help where they can flourishes when there’s no coercion involved…as with our oh-so-benevolent government that never misses the chance to distribute largesse they’ve obtained by threat of violence…and they can see the goal moving closer for themselves. I couldn’t operate any other way then with complete transparency and always accountable to the good folks who’ve chosen to pitch in, using their own resources.
As to David, if you aren’t yet familiar with his fine work, my advice is to head over to YouTube to see his channel, and keep abreast of his plans and doings at his Buck The System site. I think you’ll want to after viewing his excellent short film One Man’s Terrorist, dystopian fiction with a cautionary message that’s heavily influenced by his experience in the US military while serving overseas. Start with his flagship work and I’ll bet you want to see more, as I do.
We’re fortunate to be able to watch this young, motivated and very talented artist’s career as he explores his skills with the moving picture…I know I wouldn’t miss it for the world! Thanks again and my wishes for unbounded success in your art, my brother.
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Honing the Edge
Y’know, I quit hanging out in chat rooms and message boards for folks with multiple sclerosis quite a while ago. Don’t get me wrong, they can certainly be an asset for the newly diagnosed looking for helpful information and answers for some of the questions they may have about their affliction. I found them helpful myself in the early stages of my attempt to acclimate myself to the new and limited life I faced.
After a while, though, these places started getting me down. Why? Well, I found that more and more I encountered an atmosphere of resignation common to too many of the people I saw there…having lost many of the abilities they’d been accustomed to in their healthy days, they allowed themselves to be diminished to an (for me, anyway) unacceptable level of inactivity, incuriosity and overall lethargy…a level of simple existence rather than living that I felt was an unhealthy environment for me. To virtually live in a chat room, doing nothing but mouthing the same platitudes about ‘fighting the good fight’ and other hackneyed phrases would be anathema to me. After a while the talk came to seem as meaningless as the chatter of magpies on a telephone wire, and the aforementioned platitudes, complaints and endless blather about inconsequential matters just got on my last nerve.
People that know me are aware that I’m one of those who means to live despite the limitations put on me by this disability. I keep up with the things I’ve enjoyed and am still able to do . I have my small radio controlled flying models, airsoft shooting and of course writing to keep my mind busy, though only the latter is available year round owing to the cold weather of winter.
When I finally escape this confinement, I intend to be as sharp as I can be. I’ll be driving again, flying larger and more complex model aircraft, handling and shooting real firearms and more, and I have no intention of letting my reflexes and situational awareness deteriorate. I can accept the things I can no longer do, but I’ll be damned if I allow those I still can do to be diminished or lost.
The very best therapies to exercise those skills are found in gaming and simulations. Using them regularly keeps me up to speed, no doubt in my mind. Laugh if you want, but I started gaming at the same time I got my first PC in 1997 and considered it helpful even then for staying in good mental shape.
It was a pretty serious setback for me a few years ago when my dominant left hand lost almost all function. With that I lost a big piece of who I am…I’ve been into first person shooter combat sims all along but was suddenly unable to fight in them. I was never some über gamer as you’ll find in CAL, the Cyber Athletic League, but I was pretty far from casual and even headed an online combat clan. When I realized I could no longer use a mouse and keyboard together, a necessity for FPS games, I thought it had departed my life for good.
Enter the Android. I’ve talked about how useful my tablet is in terms of creativity and productivity, but it also excels at games and sims with its quad core Tegra CPU and advanced video hardware. Simple point-and-click adventure games don’t begin to challenge it, but it absolutely shines when running a flight sim like X-Plane 9. In game purchases of additional aircraft are only a dollar, so I can keep my piloting skills current for next to nothing. Recently I added a Cirrus sailplane, and can now practice aerotowing (it came complete with a towplane) and soaring with the sim’s great flight model. Incidentally, one of the nicer features of Android games in general is their very low cost, with many good ones offered free of charge, so a careful shopper can wind up with quite an impressive library of games and other apps for very little cost.
For an activity requiring split-second timing and reflexes, it’s hard to beat automotive racing apps like Mini Motor Racing, a bit cartoony with its caricatured automobiles but a serious sim nontheless, or the near-photorealistic Need For Speed: Most Wanted.
But the creme de la creme for me is being able to play my beloved FPS games again. True, I’m having to learn a whole new skill set to move, shoot and look around using an intricate dance of the fingers of my good right hand, but it is so worth it to have my favorite type of gaming back in my life! I may never excel at the shooters, but I’ve dusted off my old gaming name, ‘Gunloon,’ and one of these days you might just see me online again. For now I’m content to duke it out with the zombies in Dead Trigger…but you never know!
I don’t know exactly when I’ll be free of confinement, but you can bet I’ll be ready for that day when it arrives. I hope you good folks out there will help it come sooner rather than later, so as always, if you can spare even a small amount, donations to Get Glenn Mobile! are always very much appreciated!
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Wonder of Wonders
Lately I’ve found that I’m writing more…and more frequently…primarily Facebook discussions and blog posts here, but my resolve’s been firming and I’m finally composing a new essay for the opinion column maintained at the American Daily Herald as well, one long overdue by any standard.
That’s a very good bit of news; I’ve succumbed too frequently to the lethargy and lack of ambition I feared woud arise from my prolonged confinement here. When the days are as grim, gray and cold as they have been recently compounding the problem, my output’s been woefully low. It’s really gratifying to want to write, and to have fun doing so, when that good feeling’s felt as if it were ebbing away from me as the months passed.
Perhaps I’m finally reaching an equilibrium in my life that balances my regular personality and habits against the limitations brought on by multiple sclerosis and the subtle but very real effects of the prolonged confinement I mentioned. I hope so, even though much is still missing from my life owing to my inability to get out and about, I mean to live my life with as much satisfaction as I can attain. Complementing that is my yearning to be as productive as I’m capable of being; I’ve remarked many a time that one of the most frustrating and annoying aspects of my affliction is how drastically it’s reduced my reserves of resources that let me be productive. I firmly believe being able to make useful contributions to the world in one’s own unique way is one of the very best paths to happiness for anyone, and it’s especially critical after radical life altering experiences, including the onset of disability as in my case. Besides, I’ve recognized all along that disability is almost devilishly clever in sowing unhappiness and despair in peoples’ lives and my native mile-wide stubborn streak balks loudly in rebellion to that sort of negativity.
Look for a new piece soon in the Herald, with another in my to-do list to follow it. My publishers at the journal, Dennis and Denise Behreandt, have seemed to enjoy my book reviews there, but this time I believe I’ll tackle a music review for a change. When liberty activist and friend Dan Hagen suggested I review his recently released album The Journey I resisted at first, reminding Dan that apart from having just about zero musical talent myself, that subject is not one in my area of expertise and I don’t have the knowledge base to discuss musical details competently, he replied that my lack of expertise could actually be an asset here. Since everything I have to say in a review will be by default in layman’s terms, I might be able to communicate my thoughts to a wider range of readers. We shall see soon enough!
Also, my thanks to good friend Jason L. whose thoughtful response to my last post about my reawakened interest in food and my getting some needed implements to accommodate my disability was to send me a duplicate of the cool Vic Firth pushbutton grinding mill I talked about along with a pound of coarse pink Hawaiian sea salt to stoke it with. This is some seriously tasty stuff, and I really appreciate your generous act!
Since spring’s still a ways off, I won’t wait for it to celebrate life as well and usefully as I can to defeat those winter blahs. I’m grateful for the thoughts and support from my friends and hope to meet even more new ones with time, hopefully including readers of and contributors to this blog. This is the beginning of my fourth year of housebound confinement, and I ask that you take a moment to donate whatever amount you can comfortably spare to my fund to help make it the last!
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