13 Lions and PAC12 Football Championship Game Promotion

Here an example of corporate infestation of a social-service organisation

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All Lions and friends,

Only 37 tickets remain available in our special lower reserved Lions section for the PAC12 Football Championship Game, Levi’s Stadium, 5 PM, Friday, December 1, 2017.   The tickets are available to the public at $90 but we are offering at $50 as a fund raiser for Diabetes Youth Families (DYF) and camp scholarships.  $15 of each $50 ticket sold goes to DYF.  These remaining few tickets will sell fast, so please purchase now.  
  
Stanford will be playing against USC.  Remember, USC has the inspirational long snapper, Jake Olson, who is totally blind. ESPN will be televising nationally.

...[I]mmediately below is the website link to purchase tickets.  Our Lions tickets are only available online.  Purchase online, print for scanning, and bring to the game.  

https://groupmatics.events/Lionsclub2
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Expect Lions tail gate details in a future email.

​For Lions, this is a hugely important corporate partnership opportunity with the PAC12 university system and Levi’s Stadium Management where they are co-promoting our elite relationship.  Please know that we are already positioning Lions Clubs International for next year's NCAA National Football Championship game which will be held at our own Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara.  


Please go online and purchase your tickets now, share this email and promote with your friends and neighbors, and let’s have some Lions fun.  

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bogus

Why not just send $15 to the DYF and watch the game from your house? 

There are travel expences, lodging expences, food expences, and more expences. There is the $50 ticket.All these expences just to donate $15 to DYF.

Do you really want to experience security theatre when you attend the game? Do you really want somebody treating you as a potential security threat just because you show up? 

Far better to just donate directly to DYF. You can donate $50 and view the game from the comfort of your house. DYF gets $50 instead of $15 and you get none of the aggravation that attending the game would impose upon you. It's a win-win.

LIONS is about loving individuals offering nutritive services....corporations are just institutions through which individuals work....this emphasis on corporate options is contrary to what LIONS is about.....

12 Adoration Affirmation and Public Piety

A pledge of allegiance is a promise to obey. A promise to obey a symbol, or a structure that it represents, coupled with lies, is an invalid promise. Rational promises made by competent parties to competent parties are valid because they are real.

Let’s take a look at the adoration affirmation

I pledge allegiance to [I promise to obey] 

 the flag of the United States of America, [a symbol] and to 

the republic for which it stands, one nation, under g-d, indivisible, [a structure through which folks steal from folks to finance assaults against folks by folks] 

with liberty[compared to the rest of the world, US is 18th from top freest government jurisdiction, down from 2d freest government jurisdiction]

and justice [justice does not exist] 

for all [without liberty, no one gains]. 

Francis Bellamy wrote this affirmation in 1892 to motivate school administrators to buy flags to display throughout their buildings, and display on the outside. He was a self-confessed socialist who dreamed of a utopia of regulated folks, indoctrinated through repeated articulation of the affirmation. More folks bought more flags.

Looks to me like the affirmation is a sales tool. Why do folks want to recite a sales tool?

Looking at public piety I see that prayer, like masturbation, is better done in private, unless with somebody to whom you are really close. Christianity's founder warned folks to pray privately, and to avoid public displays of piety. 

11 Membership Numbers Decline

.​​Membership numbers may continue to decline ​because​

as more folks comply with more mandates to spend their income on items for their own good​, less income for anything else, including dues and contributions,​ remain. 

as more folks claim benefits from coercively-funded sources, demand for benefits through voluntarily-funded sources drops. As demand for benefits through voluntarily-funded sources drops​, interest in funding these sources drops. This declining interest in funding leads to declining interest in membership. 

as long as LIONS insist on trying to host parasitic entities representing coercively-funded sources, LIONS will continue to weaken as service-providers, and as a source of personal fulfillment through voluntary service. ​ ​The more government folks do, the less government folks let volunteers ​do. Over time, volunteers spend resources complying with mandates, instead of investing resources in service opportunities, or using these resources to make grants or loans to qualified recipients. Over time, complying volunteers forget their connection to, and lose interest in, LIONS.  

By the way, at what age point is there a significant membership number drop-off? 

I get that LIONS Clubs flourish when folks do not turn to coercively-funded sources for help with social concerns.  
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9 About LIONS

• Liberty-that respect that folks get by exercising their freedom (the power to say no) from other parties to interactions. A link to luminous living. Your life without liberty is darker than with liberty. 
• Intelligence- Inquiry. Information, Insight; Individuals through Intelligent  Inquiry by gathering Information achieve Insight 
• Options-LIONS volunteer their lives, and their resources to non-coercively offering options and opportunity to  distressed folks 
• Nurturing- LIONS provide those services and resources that distressed folks require to resume their lives or to upgrade to better living.  
• Service- Who LIONS are; what they do. LIONS look at life, see what is, and what could be, and help bring about better living through voluntary action.

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8 LIONS v Government

LIONS-                                                                                             

This is why I WILL NOT cooperate with government folks. 

The first letter in LIONS is Liberty, not Loyalty, not fucking Leadership, not fucking Looting. LIONS have no business hanging out with government folks. LIONS have no business demanding that other folks die so that LIONS can fly....                                                                                        

Mind you, government folks administer legal frameworks through lethal means. When you say you value more than breath the maintenance of other folks or of critters, whose breath are you willing to stop to maintain those that you value? How many folks are you willing to kill your dreams to fulfill? 

 The second letter in LIONS is Intelligence, not Indoctrination, not Incarceration of innocents, not Intellectual Impoverishment... LIONS have no business promoting the destruction of children's minds through compulsory attendance to indoctrination institutes.... 

Mind you, government indoctrinaters administer legal frameworks through lethal means. When you say you value more than breath the indoctrination of other folks, whose breath are you willing to stop to maintain that which you value? How many folks are you willing to kill your dreams to fulfill? 

Third through fifth letters in LIONS are our nations safety-      twaddle....

• one collective ownership does not exist. only individual ownership is possible.
• two nation does not exist. nation is a concept that some folks use to bamboozle gullible folks into cooperating with the bamboozlers. 
• three there is no safety through, or for, imaginary or false entities. LIONS have no business promoting collectivism, imaginary entities, or fraud. 

Far better to think of those letters as Offering Needed Service. Loving Individuals offer needed service to those who suffer....not groups, individuals. Offer, don't force....Needed, not mandated....Service, not enslavement.... 

LIONS can be better folks by withdrawing support for using up-to-lethal force to compel folks to behave to their satisfaction. LIONS can do better by ignoring government initiatives

LIONS can do better by ignoring government or coercive institutions 

LIONS can do better by promoting self-directed living

LIONS can do better by promoting non-government, non-coercive solutions to social concerns 

LIONS can do better to remember that government folks administer legal frameworks through lethal means. 

When you say you value more than breath the maintenance of other folks or of critters, whose breath are you willing to stop to maintain those that you value? 

How many folks are you willing to kill your dreams to fulfill?

7 U.S. Veterans Recruitment to Lions Club

To those LIONS and friends who promote special consideration for protected classes... 

I flat-out oppose special regard for former or current government employees. 

YOU need to educate yourself about real life. 

YOU need to understand that governments are gangs, that's right, GANGS, made up of people who steal from other people to finance assaults that gang-associated people launch against other people. 

YOU need to understand that veterans were gang-bangers working for shot-callers. Start educating yourself with this http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm 

You are flat-out wrong to promote special regard for any class of applicants. You are flat-out wrong to promote "stronger communities". 

Let me remind you the the first letter of LIONS stands for LIBERTY; liberty makes each individual stronger. There is no such thing as institutional or collective liberty. 

6 Lions view of indoctirnation

From Lion Magazine July-August 2012 at http://mydigimag.rrd.com/publication/?i=118591

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The volunteer sector plays an important role in providing education- viewed by many experts-including the United Nations-as one of the root causes of the cycle of poverty.

Please read this sentence and tell me how cool this is....

I have known for years that the indoctrination incarceration industry is in fact set up to create poor people.  Isn't it cool that Lion Wayne wants to make that motive for government schooling clear?

2 Links To Lions not Looters

These links refer to specific words that I use to oppose the Commemorative Coin proposal that I criticised in post #1 at http://liondocellis124.blogspot.com/2011/10/1-lions-not-looters.html

• looters,

1. The looters are promoting their looting with a stream of false advertising and mis-information. They are claiming one false rationale after another. They are making out like their looting is essential to American prosperity and employment. There is no basis for these claims. The looting is transferring wealth from those who have created it to those who have not. It is outright theft by government. There is absolutely no way that theft through such transfers can ever create prosperity or employment. [http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff285.html] Looting by U.S. Government at All-Time Highs by Michael S. Rozeff 2009.03.30
2. While Zeitoun was helping his neighbors, the police — including the officers who would materialize in his living room to arrest him on suspicion of "looting" — were helping themselves to whatever they wanted [http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w141.html] The Greyhound Station Gulag by  William Norman Grigg 2010.04.19
3. The American government consists of self-interested lobbies and Wall Street looters. China is run by engineers, America by lawyers.  [http://www.lewrockwell.com/reed/reed195.html] The American Monkey Can't Let Go by Fred Reed 2011.01.13
4. But our one-party-with-two-denominations system can’t admit that. Both groupings have to come up with a tortured interpretation of the results to justify their continued exercise of exploitative power, taking from those who produce wealth — entrepreneurs and workers — and forking it over to those who haven’t produced it — largely parasitical, rent-seeking business interests (defense contractors, ethanol producers, agribusiness giants, et cetera), and a few others thrown in. [http://www.fff.org/comment/com0701c.pdf Bipartisanship? Bah! by Sheldon Richman 2007.01]
5. Looting is as American as motherhood, democracy, “freedom,” and apple pie. In fact, looting is the principle that undergirds America’s modern-day welfare state — the economic system that’s been in place since Franklin D. Roosevelt foisted it on the American people in the 1930s. [http://www.fff.org/comment/com0304w.pdf What’s Wrong with Looting? It’s the American Way! by Jacob G. Hornberger 2003.04]

• stolen money,

1.  Everyone recognizes that theft is theft regardless of the ends to which the thief employs the stolen goods. After all, if you want to donate to the Red Cross or buy yourself some food, you should be free to do so with your own money. No one, however, ought to have the right to force you to spend your money in ways that you do not desire. [http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/tennant4.html] A Thief in the Day Is No Better Than a Thief in the Night by Michael Tennant 2005.08.20
2. None of the free-market restraints against financial mismanagement apply to government. The federal government doesn't need to raise money by meeting a market demand or raising investment capital — it simply takes what it wants through taxes, which can be raised at will [http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul43.html] What About Government Accountability? by Rep. Ron Paul, MD 2002.07.18
3.  When we take money offered us by the state, in moral terms we are not taking back some of "our stolen money", rather we’re taking a slice of everyone else’s stolen money. You see, once that money has been taken out of our hands and placed in the state’s (idol’s) purse, it becomes tainted money.  [http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/friedrich1.html] Ill-Gotten Gains: Why Christians Shouldn’t Take Government Money by Hans Friedrich 2000.11.06
4. That is, the government owns nothing that it did not first steal from the people it rules, and its officials obtain and retain power by doling out these stolen goods to their constituents. [http://www.fff.org/comment/com0807f.pdf Honesty among Thieves by Michael Tennant 2008.07]
5. Is it morally permissible to use the force of the state to take money from a person to whom it belongs in order to give it to another person? Can a private act of immorality be converted into a moral deed simply by making it legal? [http://www.fff.org/comment/ed1099c.asp Has Compassion Gone Astray?
   by Jacob G. Hornberger, 1999.10]
6. Imagine if each time money was needed to provide something that most people wanted, you heard someone say, 'I know how we can get enough money, let's go out and rob a bank.' In such an instance, it wouldn't be necessary to point out the immorality of such a suggestion, which would quickly be dismissed as a joke. Why is it, then, when one considers the fact that governments acquire their money the same way bank robbers do -- by coercion -- that most people are willing to not only tolerate government theft, but to actively encourage it?

[ http://freeradical.co.nz/content/44/44lewis.php ] Forced Funding vs Freedom by Chris Lewis 2000


• gangsters, and

1. The inner circle of a gang consists of the gang's boss and his right-hand man. That's like a president and his closest advisors. The circle of gangsters widens to include the most experienced henchmen. That's like key officials and legislators. Then there are underbosses, gunmen, tipsters, flunkies, and lawyers. The state has bureaucracies, military leaders, and judges. [http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff126.html] The Sway of Interests by Michael S. Rozeff 2007.01.01
2. "And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely." [http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/12819.html] Men with the Mentality of Gangsters by Thomas DiLorenzo 2007.04.27
3. The West requires conformity. It gets very uncomfortable with independent visions, independent visionaries, neutrals, and political systems, persons, and groups that do not link into and fall under its control system and alliances.  [http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/94176.html] The Big Gangster and the Little Gangster by Michael S. Rozeff on 2011.09.03
4. Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms? The band itself is made up of men; it is ruled by the authority of a prince, it is knit together by the pact of the confederacy; the booty is divided by the law agreed on. If, by the admittance of abandoned men, this evil increases to such a degree that it holds places, fixes abodes, takes possession of cities, and subdues peoples, it assumes the more plainly the name of a kingdom, because the reality is now manifestly conferred on it, not by the removal of covetousness, but by the addition of impunity. Indeed, that was an apt and true reply which was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride, “What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.” [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo#The_City_of_God_.28early_400s.29 ] The City of God by Augustine of Hippo early 400s

• threats of violent acts 

1. What if your local police department could shoot down a plane? What if government agents could write their own search warrants, declare their own enemies, and seize whatever property they want? What if the feds could detain you indefinitely, with no visitors, no lawyer, no judge, and no jury? What if they could make you just disappear? What if the government broke its own laws in order to enforce them? What if the government broke down your front door in the middle of the night and shot your dog, and claimed it was a mistake? [http://lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano24.1.html] The Myth of American Freedom by Andrew P. Napolitano 2011.09.30
2. The answer to a few questions might help us understand who or what is the real threat. Who instills the most fear worldwide? Who maims and kills the most civilians and non-combatants? Who gains more power, control, and wealth, and benefits the most due to terrorism? ...the United States government, and those in the U.S. military who willingly do the bidding of the government by prosecuting immoral and aggressive wars and acts of hostility, and those who are partners in these crimes, are the worst terrorists in the world today! [http://www.lewrockwell.com/barnett/barnett30.1.html] Aggressive War and Terrorism Are One and the Same! So Who Are the Real Terrorists? by Gary D. Barnett 2011.03.21
3. The state is the central abstraction by which a catastrophically wrong idea is placed into practice. It is the organized system for employing violent action (or its threat) on the part of individuals, for as noted before, only individuals act. This rationalization occurs on two levels, first by diffusing responsibility to a fiction and second by inducing a group-think inversion of standards. [http://www.lewrockwell.com/calderwood/calderwood35.1.html] A Demon in Need of Exorcism by David Calderwood 2009.10.09
4.  It's important to remember what, in the final analysis, legal regulation is. It means that we are prepared to use force against the person who is the object of the regulation. It's easy to overlook this point because government actions seem so innocent in their initial stages. Usually they start with a letter or document ordering the person to appear at a hearing or trial, or pay a fine. But lurking behind this document is the threat of force. If the person chooses to disregard it, then G-men or state troopers with guns will eventually come to his home. If he ignores them or locks his door, the officers are authorized to use force against him. They may smash his door down; they may seize him and drag him away. If he attempts to defend himself, still more force will be used. In the process, the citizen may be injured or even killed [ http://www.server.theadvocates.org/freeman/920407.html ] How Many Laws Are Enough? By James L Payne 1991
5. (Reuters) - American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials. [ http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/05/us-cia-killlist-idUSTRE79475C20111005 ] Secret panel can put Americans on "kill list' by Mark Hosenball 2011.10.05

I hope these links provide insight to the foundations of my opposition to involving government folks in the Lions.

On a lighter note

The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for the various groups of animals.

We are all familiar with a Herd of cows, a Flock of chickens, a School of fish and a Gaggle of geese.

However, less widely known is a Pride of lions, a Murder of crows (as well as their cousins the rooks and ravens), an Exaltation of doves and, presumably because they look so wise, a Parliament of owls.

Now consider a group of Baboons. They are the loudest, most dangerous, most obnoxious, most viciously aggressive and least intelligent of all primates. And what is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons?

Believe it or not ....... a Congress!

Are you sure you want to entrust to such folks a task of promoting LCIF?

Yours in Lionism

Lion Doc

1 Lions not Looters

Greetings paid-up Lions,

In honor of the 100^th anniversary of the establishment of Lions Clubs, the Sandy Springs Lions Club in Maryland proposed the minting of a commemorative coin, with the help of the U S Congress, as a way to celebrate this centennial and raise eight million dollars for LCIF to aid the visually impaired, the disabled, youth and those affected by major disaster.--Lions Clubs International Newsletter 2011.08.19

H.R. 2139: Lions Clubs International Century of Service Commemorative Coin Act

[http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h112-2139] provides that the US Treasury

• mint commemorative coins
• sell these coins at a premium
• give the premiums collected to the Lions Clubs International Foundation

all at taxpayer expence.

I believe we Lions are loving individuals offering needed services. We voluntarily help folks using voluntarily donated resources from willing donors.

I believe we Lions are not looters insisting on new seizures, using stolen money to promote ourselves or our organisation. These commemorative coins will be minted by gangsters using money provided by people under threat of violent acts against them if they don't cooperate.

I believe we Lions can do better than this.

I believe we Lions can mint our own commemorative medallions and sell those to collectors and other willing buyers.

I believe this proposal conflicts with who Lions are and what Lions do: loving individuals offering needed services.

Lion Doc Ellis

Acton CA Lions Club