Michael Hoskinson-Connecting the Dots

From: “Mark Bixby” <mark@bixby.org>
To: “Peterson, Erik” <Erik.Peterson@surfcity-hb.org>, “Erik Peterson” <erikpetersonhb@gmail.com>
Subject: Hoskinson unfit to serve on PC

Hi Erik,

I take no pleasure in writing this email, but I thought it was important to give you a heads up.

Michael Hoskinson has always held extreme views, but it appears that he also holds anti-Semitic / neo-Nazi views which have become emboldened since the election of Trump. These views render him unfit to serve on the Planning Commission and he needs to be replaced.

See attached for three documents I put together capturing some recent Hoskinson social media activity in chronological order:

1) He “liked” a virulently anti-Semitic video on “The Frankfurt School”, his favorite group of bogeymen. Play the video — you will be appalled. Mark Bixby, like 99% of the population, has ZERO knowledge or understanding of the video’s subject and therefore has no business commenting on it.

In 2018 it makes me sad that I have to respond to such child-level ignorance. As anyone with any social media experience knows to “Like” something does not equate to the dictionary description of the word like: have a taste for, have a preference for, have a liking for, be partial to, find/take pleasure in, be keen on, find agreeable, have a penchant for, have a passion for, find enjoyable. “Liking” something on Social Media is akin to bookmarking it, to keep for later reference, which was my exact intention since I study the Frankfurt School.

2) He posted in sympathy with neo-Nazi Richard Spencer’s plight after Spencer was banned from Twitter for hate speech.

I posted no such thing, I do not support Richard Spencer and never have. I commented on one of Spencer’s posts with the words “Thank you Frankfurt School” to denote that their work had a hand in creating people like Spencer in our culture today.

3) He gave a lengthy PowerPoint presentation at a Santa Ana Tea Party meeting in which he:

a) Says he would have killed the Frankfurt School members if he could go back in time. When you come to understand the Frankfurt School and the damage they’ve done to the world you would also wish they’d have never come to exist. Watch my video and then do your own homework, you’ll likely come to the same conclusion.

b) Says Islam is threat and not a religion. Again, it’s 2018, it’s child-level ignorance to say Islam isn’t a threat ? Just this week 300+ people were killed by Islamists in Egypt. I did say that I don’t consider Islam a “true religion” and that it acts much more like a cult, based on Islam’s use of Sharia. I could also say that about Zoroastrianism and other “religions”, I said it about Islam because under the Koran’s influence Muslims are the only group reliably causing mass murder in the world today.

c) Laments restrictions on the use of deadly force by civilians. Yes, I wholeheartedly support the 2nd Amendment.

d) Compares himself to the barbed-wire bat-wielding evil guy from “The Walking Dead” and says his goal is to shut off all dissenting voices through intimidation. Wrong, I never compared myself. I was speaking to a Tea Party group and advising them how to avoid being victimized by leftist bullies. I used an image of sheep to evoke passivity and the image of the character from the Walking Dead show to evoke aggressive resistance against the bullies on the Left. The image of Negan was metaphoric, nothing more.

e) Expresses a genuine not rhetorical desire to assassinate George Soros. Yes, really. If one studies George Soros and all the damage he’s done to the United States and other countries abroad, you’ll see he is guilty of treason. 

I’ve shared this information with a number of other people who all have long-time involvement in HB politics and we are all jaw-droppingly appalled.

Hoskinson has the right to be as extreme as he wants if he were a purely private individual. But those who serve on PC or elsewhere in government with an obligation to give all members of the public equal due process must be held to a higher standard, and Hoskinson falls short.

Hoskinson demonstrates an indisputable inability to give fair hearing on PC by virtue of his “Walking Dead” analogy of suppressing dissent through intimidation. He’s got to go. How does my use of metaphor make me unable to render judgements about land-use issues ? 

Please review the attachments, watch some of the videos, think it over, and let me know when you’ve reached a decision. Thanks.

—
Mark B.