OCPAC - Redskins Forever!
John Michener
1. New Location
2. Redskins Forever!
3. Program August 26: Rep. Paul Wesselhoft, Nazi Stolen Art
4. Socialist Movie Making
1. New Location
This Wednesday we will meet at Mama Roja Mexican Kitchen which is on the east side of Lake Hefner at Britton road. The address is 9219 Lake Hefner Parkway, OKC. We will have a private room overlooking the lake. The buffet is $10 which includes iced tea or water. Tax and tip are not included.
2. Redskins Forever!
Dr. David
Yeagley, great-great-grandson of Comanche leader Bad Eagle, was a long-time
OCPAC member, a fellow oboist, and a personal friend. A man of extraordinary depth and ability,
he used both sides of his brain and every side of his heart.
The year before he died, Dr. Yeagley wrote two articles: “Long Live the Redskins!” and “Redskins Forever!” Both dealt with the idiotic idea that the term redskins is offensive to Indians. Dr. Yeagley writes, “American Indians have only one positive image in the world today: the warrior. We earned that one, with blood, and white America has forever honored it.”
While a local school board has voted to trash its historic Redskin mascot, we at OCPAC are proud to be Oklahomans (red people), meeting at Mama Roja (red mama). We will not bow the knee to political correctness. We honor and celebrate the Indian heritage of our state and remember our Indian friends. Redskins forever!
3. Program August 26: Rep. Paul Wesselhoft, Nazi Stolen Art
Our speaker this Wednesday at Mama Roja will be Representative Paul Wesselhoft (R-OKC & Moore). Rep. Wesselhoft is retired from the Army, is an ordained Southern Baptist Minister, and is serving in his final term of the Oklahoma House of Representatives. Rep. Wesselhoft will present a history of the Nazi party’s interest in and theft of classical works of art. Some of that art has ties to Oklahoma.
4. Socialist Movie Making
Speaking of Nazi art theft, The Oklahoman ran a story several weeks ago under this tagline: “State’s filmmaking industry grows…” When I hear the word industry, I think of oil and energy, wheat and cotton, not a random movie here or there. I read the article expecting to learn that producers and directors were flocking to Oklahoma to crank out the films in some sort of reverse dust bowl migration from California.
Not exactly. It was a feel good piece about a single movie being shot here, which reminded me that we all get to help pay for movies made in Oklahoma. Remember the Oklahoma Film Enhancement Rebate Program? It covers thirty-five to thirty-seven percent of movie making expenses. Ironically, the assistant director on the film said, “Let’s not depend on other people for jobs; let’s create our own jobs.” I guess by “Let’s” he meant “Let all Oklahomans.”
Forget the utilitarian argument that the program might somehow create jobs in the state. How is it moral to force me or you to pay for someone else’s movie-making? And what if the film features drug use, illicit sex, or champions an ideology with which you disagree?
Where does this socialism end? Why not grow every industry we can identify? Why not start the Oklahoma Fast Food Franchise Enhancement Rebate Program? We could use tax dollars to invest thirty-five percent of every fast-food purchase into the purchaser’s coronary heart disease insurance plan.
Please read the article entitled “The Rightful Ruler” on the immorality of such programs in the latest issue of The Oklahoma Constitution newspaper. In 2016 we hope to see a number of bills targeting the end of these socialist schemes.
The views expressed in this email are the personal opinion of John Michener and do not necessarily reflect the views of OCPAC, its leadership team, or its members. We currently meet on Wednesdays at noon at Mama Roja Mexican Kitchen, 9219 Lake Hefner Pkwy, OKC. To become a member of OCPAC, follow the instructions in the online newsletter.