The incentive for crime is

money!

Therefore it stands to reason that if we destroy or remove the cash money, and all substitutes for cash money from the equation of crime=money, then crime will come to a screeching halt.

When this happens, there will be an immediate outcry from those who profit from dirty money.  I’m speaking of those who hoard illegal dollars they have accumulated by cheating on taxes, and drug dealers who like the tax evaders cannot turn in their money because they can’t explain how they earned it, and why they haven’t paid taxes on it.

There is also another person who is going to holler even louder than the tax evaders and that is you and I.  Hey. People have had coin to jingle in their pocket since the invention of legal money.  Even though we do the majority of our business with credit cards, we still like the comfort of a few bucks in our pocket.  So, what do we do?

Electronic money is the solution to killing crime, and among honest people it will hardly be noticed. As I previously noted you and I and everyone doing business works with either credit cards or electronic money transfers. The only ones it will hurt are the thieves that depend on cash to operate! Their business will stop the day the electronic money law is passed! The guy who stole your DVD will not be able to sell it and his drug connection won’t take it for payment. The guy that planned to mug your wife when she came out of the super-market walks away in disgust. The people that were going to rob your store changed their mind, and now they can’t even find a place to sell their guns. The other thieves can’t use them either because they know there isn’t anyone left to rob!

Suddenly you’ll feel like taking a walk in the park because for the first time in many years you won’t be afraid of a bad guy shooting you, or busting your head open to rob you.

If there is no cash money, how can I buy what I need?  We’ll do it the same way we’ve been doing it with our credit cards except that we won’t need the credit cards anymore. Everyone will have an electronic money account based on your social security number. Identification will be by either fingerprints or eyeball recognition. The technology’s in place for both. The serial number on all manufactured items that you purchase will be entered into your account when you pay for the item. If you choose to later sell that item to your neighbor then you simply issue a bill of sale and the item becomes a part of his account and is removed from your account.

Won’t the credit card companies be angry.  I think so. Probably about like a nest of angry rattlesnakes, and they will most certainly strike out. Their lobbyists will be swarming all over capitol hill. Actually, we can expect a similar reaction from most big business. Electronic money will kill the bribery business in Washington. We might even start getting some honest politicians!

Won’t there be a lot of jobs lost? Certainly. Why would the government dish out our tax dollars to cities to hire more cops when there is no more crime? Face it. We’ll have to lay off some of the police. Remember, there will be no more money crimes. We still need cops for rape and murder.

We’ll also have to lay off a lot of judges, because we’ll only need them for property disagreements, divorces, wife beatings, drunks etc.

We’ll also need to tear down some of the prisons, and that means we got to fire a lot of prison guards and clerks.

I just can’t think what the heck the FBI will do to earn their keep when we kill crime with electronic money. Do you think they will vote against it.

Realize that for the first time in the history of the world we will stop building more jails! We will stop hiring more cops and stop buying them special equipment to protect them. And suddenly with the passing of electronic money there will be no thieves in prison. We’ll use the few prisons we need to keep to house the rapists and murderers. That $23,000.00 of our tax money that we were paying to keep each prisoner in prison will no longer be needed. Wow! Will the politicians cut our taxes. Chuckle, chuckle.

Why you should be concerned.

If your still not convinced that we should go on the electronic money standard, then I want to give you a little nudge in the right direction so that you’ll see what has been happening to other people, and realize you need to make a move before it gets to be your turn.

Right now I’m going to tell a big lie and it’s all about you. Play along here for a minute and visualize the scenario. It’s dinner time but the ringing of the doorbell is insistent. Do you remember to pick up your pistol before you answer the door? When you open the door you are greeted by two smiling teenagers and the boy is pointing a gun at your chest. “What’ll it be sir,” the girl says, “robbery or murder!”

Is your gun still in your hip pocket? You didn’t think you’d need it did you? Think about it. If your gun had been in the hand that opened the door, you could have shot the teenage gunslinger before he had a chance to react. But perhaps shooting the guy with the gun is against everything you believe in, so the moment passes, the gunman and his girlfriend come in the house, and you and your family are his prisoners. Will he kill you, or just take your money?

O.K. different scenario. Dinner is over. You and mom and one of your kids are stretched out on the living room chairs hypnotized by the tube and the other kid is getting ready for her algebra exam when someone practically knocks the front door off its hinges. Uh oh, you mumble when the bad guy with the gun rushes into the room. “I left my gun in a drawer in the bedroom.”

Do the last two scenarios appear to be ridiculous? Okay, they may well be. But are they impossible? I guarantee that worst has happened, and if you think it’s improbable then I hope you’re living in a highly protected environment.

There was a time when keeping your pistol near at hand would have been an act bordering on insanity, and if your friends were to find out about it they would have busted their guts laughing at you. All except the one friend who happens to be a cop. He is never without his weapon because he understands that crime can happen anywhere, at anytime, and there are no safe zones. Your cop friend may even offer to give you shooting lessons.

How man women have you heard about that have been abducted from brightly lit mall parking lots. Sometimes their bodies turn up weeks or years later, and some are never found. Smart women now walk to their cars with their purse open and their hand on their pistol.

I personally know a young woman who survived an attack right in front of the entrance doors of the store where she was going to shop. The thief grabbed her purse but she held on to it and a fight ensued but it lasted only a couple seconds because the guy knocked her on her butt. Then, while other shoppers stood watching, this slightly built 120 lb beautiful lady got up from the pavement and ran after attacker. She finally lost him when he jumped over a high fence into a nearby neighborhood. What about the cops? Well they finally came but it was too late to catch the bad guy. But isn’t the way it always is? Most of us by now understand that the police cannot protect us. There just aren’t enough of them to be on the scene when you are getting robbed. They will do their best to catch the robber but he’ll be long gone by the time the cops get on the case.

But how about the con men. For the most part these guys avoid violence like the black plague. Violence means longer jail terms, but the real kick for the con man is the game. He gets off by outwitting you and taking your money.  Electronic money will make him a thing of the past. It will be the same with paper hangers( forgers )These are some of the slickest con men there are because they strike swiftly and usually go for smaller amounts of money. I remember a forger I interviewed named Bernie. Bernie had built a lot of time and the day I talked to him he was bubbling over with joy.  Bernie had just got hired by the local newspaper. “I’m going straight,” he assured me. “I’ve hung paper all over the country and I’ve spent ten years behind the walls,” he went on, “but I’m done with it now forever.”  Sadly, but predictably Bernie broke his vow and went on a check writing spree and ended up back in prison.

Electronic Money will stop the thief who breaks into your home for money. It will not stop the rapists, or the roaming serial killer.

Recently a young girl vacationing at Myrtle Beach, SC disappeared triggering the usual scenario.  First we heard about it on the tube, and then many weeks later we saw pictures of local law enforcement officials and volunteers searching the local terrain for her body which was never found. In the meantime her family still prays because the only one that knows what happened is the serial killer and he isn’t saying anything.  Whose daughter will he get next?   

It’s going to take a lot more than electronic money to put a stop to serial killers, but, electronic money will free up a lot of cops from chasing money thieves so that they can concentrate on the serial killers.

But what can you do until we pass the electronic money law.  I once heard a story about a town down in Georgia that passed a law making it mandatory for every citizen to carry a gun.  Was it a joke, or just a knee jerk reaction to the people that want to disarm America.  At any rate, I think it could be a good idea except perhaps instead of the “carry” word we substitute the word “own”.

Can anyone deny that the instinct for survival is the most powerful thing we own. This life that each of us have was given to us free, but the instinct for survival was built right into it so that we would use it automatically without considering the consequences of our acts. It was not provided to us as an option.  It was meant to be used without hesitation because it is the most valuable asset we posses and it is meant to protect this life we were given.

Not only is the survival instinct the oldest or our assets, it has got to be the most important.  Were it possible to measure this instinct we would find that it stands far higher than anything man can create because it guards the ability to pass on the genes.

Now I’ve said all that to say this:  Since survival is the strongest and most important instinct we have, then it follows that we must when required put into play this survival instinct in order to survive.  It also follows that we should use any possible means to protect ourselves when our safety is threatened.  No one man, or group of men should have the audacity to put restraints on the manner in which we choose to defend ourselves when the only life we have is threatened.   Additionally, no one should be able to deny us the right to be prepared!

This means that the do-gooder (who has forgotten that he exists because of the survival instinct) who wants to deny me the use of a gun to protect myself, is more stupid than the bible thumping guy that says God wants me to turn the other cheek.  Survival is all about saving your own life!  No one can provethat God will save you!  Additionally, that lawmaker that took away your gun doesn't haveto power to give you back your life if a bad guy kills you because you didn't have a gun to protect yourself.

The law of survival demands that each of us have at our disposal the means to protect our lives. No laws written by a bunch of do gooders can change that.

Every time one of those anti-gun freaks gets a law passed to take away your right to own and carry a pistol, he is effectively taking away your right to protect your life. Statistics say that we all have an 83% chance of being involved with a violent crime.  Hey!  Are you alert?  How many families do you know who can truthfully say that they do not have a relative, or a friend who has had a criminal experience or been arrested.

There was a recent video taken in a zoo showing a bear mauling a man. Onlookers stood helpless while had his way. Apparantly no citizen was carrying a gun because of the laws denying him the right to protect himself, and that meant the same law denied him the ability to help a fellow citizen being mauled by the bear, End of story the cops finally arrived and shot the bear.

Many years ago I ran a trap line. Although I sold the pelts of a lot of mink, muskrat, fox coon, otter and beaver, the money was secondary to the joy of being alone among the elements and tessting my skill against that of the inhabitants. One day when I was feeling extra good to be at one with nature I spotted a body in the water of the small stream I was crossing. Instinctively, I became another person. There was no slow metamorphsis. It happened in a micro second, and yes I had a pistol andit was inmy hand in a blink.

I have always moved through the woods with care, making the least noise possible, but when I saw the body in the water I suddenly became a noisless shadow, silently putting distance between myself and the body, and a possible killer who could have been lurking nearby.  There was no intention at this time to abandon the body without reporting it to the police.  My intention was to circle the area to see if there was a trail leading to the body because if there was no trail leading to the body then it meant that it had floated downstream from where the guy was killed and dumped in the water.  Additionally, if there was no trail, then it would be safe for me to move closer to the corpse. The wide circle that I made took a lot of time and after finding no trail I went to inspect the body.  It wasn’t until I was withing thirty feet of the body lying face down in the water that I began to think it looked odd and it wasn’t until I was about ten feet away that I saw the straw sticking out from its clothes.

In an instant the adrenalin surge disappeared and the survival instinct went back to sleep because I was looking at the dummy of a man probably built by some of the college guys and then tossed off the bridge into the creek.

The story is true, and my re-action is true. In an instant I changed from joy to terror. The instinct for survival triggered the surge of adrenalin and had there been a killer near that body, I was as prepared as it was possible to be to protect my life. Off in the distance I think a heard one of those do-gooders saying, “the darn fool shouldn’t have went back to the body.” If I’m hearing correct, the guy is probably correct, but…what about the spirit of adventure…and didn’t the cops need to know the exact location of the body? And…by going back to the body, I avoided having the cops laugh at me when they found the straw man.

If there is a lesson to be learned from this story it might be to live by the “Boy Scouts” motto, which is “Always be prepared.” Don’t risk your life because someone has made it illegal to protect it. It’s your choice. Be legal, or, be dead.

If you’re afraid to walk down the street at night, or afraid of being robbed in your own home, I have the solution for you. Electronic money can make you free!

Until the law for electronic money gets passes we all need to think about how to best protect ourselves from the bad guys, and what we should do with the ones we catch. Let’s be reasonable.  We just can’t keep building prisons and hiring more cops. There can be no doubt that I am in favor of everyone of legal age being able to own a gun.  I’m still not too certain whether or not I want every one to carry their gun. Perhaps it should be left up to the individual.  Let me tell a story that serves to make a point regarding the danger of carrying a gun.
A police officer, an old acquaintence from our "Boy Scout" days told me that:  "Some guys get to carrying a gun and it makes them ten feet tall!"

A long time ago I built a house on seventeen acres. I had a three acre pond and had the use of a forty acre pond that belonged to my neighbor. The property was also a thousand foot off of a secondary road, and that road could not be seen because of the trees.  Because of the local snakes, and the awareness that I was an old man and therefore vulnerable, I always carried my pistol. Upon two occasions I discouraged people intending to rob me.  Four years later I moved to a Midwest state and ended up living in a subdivision.  I hated the idea of seeing houses all around me every time I left the house but in spite of that a curious thing happened.  Due to the type of neighborhood where I was living, I didn’t feel the need to carry my gun, but the greatest benefit was that one day I realized that I was no longer tense.  All the time I lived on the previous property I was under a strain.  Some people enjoy carrying a gun because it makes them feel secure but even though I feel I should be legally allowed to carry a gun I don’t feel comfortable with it because I’m always aware that I may one day need to make an instinctive reaction to a threat

It’s probably important to mention here that if you ever use a gun in self defense you’re going to be in a lot of trouble unless you have a bunch of witnesses who saw what happened. If not, you might use up all your savings, or even go into debt trying to save your butt from jail.

Write to your congressman.  Tell him you want him to introduce an electronic money bill into law. http://www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html

Next.  If you're still with us, then the next thing you can do is to post a message about electronic money on as many blogs as you can find.  If you care enough to help, you can post a lot of messages in a short time. 

Consider this.  We have always been told that one or two people cannot change things.  It takes a bunch of people.  That is a big lie!  It is one person that convinces a small group of people to make a change, and the next thing we know we have a new law passed that we didn't need and don't want.  Let's say for example they passed a law raising the tax on diesel fuel.  Guess what happens?  In less than a week you have to pay more money for your bananas, and you might want to blame the truck driver that had to raise his prices because he's spending more money for his diesel fuel because of the new tax, but the person to blame is your and I.  We are not tree shakers.  We sit back and watch the  world pass by and don't bother to raise our voice when someone passes a law we don't like.  Sure, we might grumble and growl, but we don't do anything.  Okay, here's your chance to change.  Contact your congressman!

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You can also check out one of my novels "Eula's Jug" for more stuff about electronic money.  Keep in mind though that it's pure fiction and pretty bloody.  You'll find it at the top of the page.