"Windmills" by John Hubertz

This year no birthday cake again.

Each day an endless battle

the one you never seem to win

against yourself and yesterdays

that weren't forgotten.

The light of dawn leans toward you, empty.

So you cash away your wins

and Porn away Your Sins

your young man's dreams are running

down your legs like rancid butter.

You no longer fear the blame

too old to feel the shame

and sins are things undone

kind words unspoken.

Still the eyes in the mirror never change.

So as the years go tumbling by

and the veil obscures your eyes

your knees and back and hands

now know the weather.

And sleep never seems to come
but you can almost hear the grave as it yawns - waiting, impatient. 

How the FUCK.... by Mike Benedict

Wealthy people get high, but they don't get in trouble.

Announcement of Completion of Participation in Major Public Health Study - New Hope School

Since this was our first freshman class, this is a personal story of two individuals.

They shall remain anonymous as this press release is a pre-publication description of process, not full verifiable or statistical results.

So, here we are in Fort Wayne, as with the support of a grant funded by regional agencies, we volunteered to be a data collection center for this geographic area for an international UN health study.

An Epidemic - in Indiana.   

(spread by faith-based initiatives, spearheaded by ex-governor Mike Pence)

As I am a Purdue-trained man, I went and got eye protection.  We don't want anybody doing this fun task to wind up being known as "Doctor Careful" for the rest of his life.  Ah!  Science!

Thus, we began - like intrepid explorers.  To task gentleman!  "Off your butts and out of the huts."  We have work to do.

"Watson! the game is afoot."

Joyously donning our rather stained yet sturdy lab coats (both of them at once), two men received a box of specimen bottles and some shipping instructions.

And lots of rubber gloves.

We collected human waste from sewer systems in about eight zip codes - using internationally sanctioned methods of collection and retrieval.  Very detailed stuff.  Real big-lab university science.  On our kitchen table here at the school.

So - now, our one solitary science student, and one of our learned instructors (MS, Miami of Ohio) have participated in an international research project now being completed by the United Nations Council on Human Rights.

Primarily in the United States and in other "faith based" cultures such as Central Africa, the Phillipines and Cambodia, a vast majority of long-term prisoners have been found guilty of selling or consuming "illegal" substances like heroin, marijuana, khat, spice, fentanyl, cocaine, etc.

Study Essentials:

Since addiction and drug possession is a public health and not criminal issue in science based nations and cultures (example, Judaism, modern Islam, Nation of Islam, Portugal, Switzerland, Iceland) and this perspective is making addiction numbers drop, the UNCHR got involved.

First of all, as  founding agency of what has now become LEAP (Law Enforcers Against Prohibition), know that the New Hope Project has devoted countless hours of research (local and direct, international and statistically) countless hours to fully understand this:

Drug Prohibition Creates Addicts 

as Surely as Kicking an Anthill Produces Visible and Dangerous Ants

It being sick is illegal - if you are poor, it is not public policy, it is social genocide of people who have a genetic disability.

They do not entrap, under-treat and/or incarcerate the blind or the deaf, but addiction - with identical parabolas of addiction to recovery/treatable condition ratios?   Addiction is demonized by people who are moralists or ruthless dictators.

Addicts and their families are both obvious, and vulnerable to harm.  If you can harm an addict, families or the addict will work for free in your prisons or give the state system of "justice" all their money.

This link is to a seminal study - and proves that rich people everywhere use more narcotics and hard drugs than the poor.  This hypothesis is rather self-evident, as wealthy people can afford more drugs, and addiction rates (being genetically predetermined) are consistent, with or without money in your community.

The New Hope project and our Anabaptist Cross-Denominational Free Seminary and Peace Academy are honored to have gathered samples.

We would like to thank the local water districts and the Purdue extension office for their advice, consent and support.  We also enjoyed meeting so many local union laborers who maintain our sewers.  Without exception they were lively, gifted and talented skilled workers, with dirt under their fingernails and a commitment to labor (sometimes for 24 hours in one day) to provide us with safe drinking water by disposing of waste using science, gravity and a bit of a strong stomach.

Let us stop preying upon sick people in the name of profit, with Jesus as an excuse.

Mike Pence, you are the worst of a surly lot of hypocrites, and human beings should not be kindling for your book-burnings.  Stop it sir - cease and desist.

John Hubertz
Carl Zehr Professor of Moral Economics and Chancellor of the University (with)
The associated faculty and student body
New Hope Peace Academy (worldwide)
Fort Wayne, Indiana