THE CORE DRIVEN GOLF SWING

By Steve Lightfoot

Copyright c 2015

All Rights Reserved

AN OVERVIEW:

(Boy, do I repeat myself a hundred times below. it’s just a rough draft.)

Introduction;

(To begin with, only 20 % of what is below will make it to print. I have to feel my wat around what to say)

I never made the tour though I tried in earnest to become the world’s greatest golfer once upon a time. Why settle for second best? Why not live life to the fullest? Well, a shorter left leg than right and personal things that came along got in the way of all that but never my interest for discovering the secrets of the golf swing. My best year was 1978(?), I think. I was in third place with five holes to go to easily qualify for my first attempt at the U.S. Amateur. I had just found out that I was even in contention at one under through 31 holes. There were seven spots for 107 players as I recall. It was a pretty large crowd of people that suddenly appeared out of nowhere to watch me, as it turned out, that informed me of my place. I was attracting a crowd and it spooked me. I had no idea I was in contention and the sudden fame surprised me. I hobbled home needing a 25 footer on the last hole to get in but it missed on the left lip and I had to settle for winning the alternate spot in a playoff on the first extra hole with par. One stroke away from being IN the U.S. Amateur my first try, though.

What is more amazing is the fact that, several months prior to that decent showing, I was hardly close to being anywhere near contention placing second to last in the Southern Amateur, my first, ever, event outside of high school and college golf. What made the difference in just a few months span in between was a book by a 1940’s instructor named Alex Morrison. His book; A New Way To Better Golf, really opened up my game having learned the art of using the back and shoulder muscles to get the job done. It showed me that a book CAN make a difference and I have read enough of them – many dozens – to know that Morrison’s book was a cut above and that some ideas are better than others. Jack Nicklaus’s book; Golf My Way was vital as well. Then, again, he was and always has been my golf hero.

In 1978 I saw a golfer named Bobby Clampett who was at the top of the amateur world winning about half of everything he entered. It was during the Eastern Amateur on the practice tee and I saw what I thought was the best golf swing on the planet and of all time. Bobby was a spindly 140 pounder with a graceful slow back swing, a pause at the top, and a downswing that seemed to scream perpetual motion. The positions seemed from another planet and more perfect than I thought were possible. 300 yard drives so precise and predictable that his fore caddy was catching the ball on the first bounce, every time. In our discussion, after, he told me he was reading Nicklaus’s book; Golf My Way at the time and that he learned his swing technique in Carmel, California from a teacher named Ben Doyle and a book titled The Golfing Machine. That’s all I needed to move there right away and become the first of what would become a line of converts to learn this amazing technique. Ben was among America’s top 100 teachers for many years. More scientific than anything, it detailed the WHAT a golf swing is and all it’s many parts and their variations. It was based on law and physics and about two dozen principles to manage and I was as lost as most grasping only half of it all. Some of it must have rubbed off as I have been called out for having a Clampettesque swing, often, since, by others. That’s fine with me. Ben Doyle became one of my closest friends over the three years I spent there, too. A special soul who has regrettably passed away several years ago.

In 1982 I stumbled onto, let’s just say, the biggest political expose in America’s history and it took over my life, completely. So big a truth the world is still only just “getting it” as, lately, I have been getting radio interviews and such locally and the story is finally, slowly, breaking. I won’t say what it is but let’s hope I emerge alive on the other side someday. I am blossoming as a world class singer, of all things, getting ready for the spotlight when it does. In m y dream of becoming a tour player I was obsessed with understanding the perfect swing above all else. Meanwhile I think I have finally learned enough about the swing to help others enjoy the game and make a difference in the game. I think I have a very good eye for the swing and what works.

This book is intended for all golfers but especially for the ones who want to play golf professionally. I would hope that tour pros would benefit from it as it represents all that I have learned from wanting to BE the world’s best golfer once upon a time. This, in conjunction with my penchant for innovation and invention and problem solving and my detective gene, should offer a new angle on the subject that has eluded mankind for centuries. To show you examples of my detective abilities imagine a vehicle creating electric energy from the rotation of the the wheels of his car like a wind turbine. Constant recharging. Half the batteries needed compared to a regular all electric vehicle and half the weight. Zero fuel costs. Except for battery replacement every ten years FREE TRANSPORTATION! It even applies to 18 wheeler large trucks with more wheels to tap. The only drawback, an insignificant 5 percent drag to create the friction needed. So obvious it must be genius. Similarly, in high school, just a month into my geometry class, I became the first human to ever trisect an angle with just a compass and straight edge. A normal procedure used for line segments results in small, medium and large sections. I simply reversed, or butterflied, the procedure to reverse the bias. It offered four points, not two, on the arc and I simply bisected the pair and, viola, perfect trisection for all angles, obtuse or acute. It took all of twenty minutes and on my first try relying on just a hunch. My teacher, Dick Nixon, is a witness. He told me I’d be famous if I could explain why it works in geometry language. Boring! Years later I heard Paul Harvey, the late radio announcer, report the feat attributed to another man. I was only five years ahead of my peers on that one.

IS THE ‘VARDON’ GRIP OBSOLETE?

The following I offer with trepidation. On the one hand I am convinced I have discovered a better grip that will replace the Vardon grip someday. On the other hand I realize I will scare many of you off the rest of this book to even OFFER a change of grip. Nevertheless, I am convinced of it’s efficacy and I know it hurts less than the Vardon grip and offers a stronger connection and reduces steering and provides better distance, accuracy and consistency. You don’t have to use it to benefit from the Core Driven Golf Swing method but it helps to get those thumbs out of the way and hit it harder. It does seem, with this new grip, that the hands want to uncork better through the strike zone. Like a loaded spring that gets to a point and releases, automatically. It also forces you NOT to steer with your hands but merely hold on and release. Your overall swing geometry, instead, determines accuracy and direction.

I first decided to write a book about technique about ten years ago after discovering a type of grip that improved accuracy. I rotated the hands inwards towards the top giving my left hand a relatively strong grip and my right a relatively weak grip position. This allowed me to hit it hard with my left hand and still reign in over rotation at impact and shots to the left. Conversely the strong left hand position reigned in shots from going too far right. I found a narrowing of my shot pattern as a result. I still appreciate this configuration only now I put my left thumb along the side of the grip, not on top, using the overlapping style grip with the pinky finger of my right hand. In fact, to side straddle the left thumb requires this turning in of the hands towards the top. A ten finger grip introduces just too much polarity between the hands, however more comfortable it may feel. I now also side straddle the right thumb and lay it on top of my right hand’s wrap around fingers. Off the grip entirely. It looks like a claw, in fact. I found, a few years ago, after reverting to the standard Vardon grip and hitting as many balls one year as a pro hits, that the conventional thumb on top style is not so user friendly. Neither is the pincer style of right forefinger and thumb. I don’t necessarily discourage the conventional grip only I, personally, prefer the latter. It hurts less in the long run. It provides a stronger more accurate grip, besides. Further, it discourages steering with the hands. Now they just hold on and are free of pain. I have also discovered that this stronger connection to the club reduces lower back pain, interestingly. I am CONFIDENT that THIS will replace the Vardon grip someday after golfdom realizes how great this new grip is. This grip, not only offers a stronger bond of the hands to the club eliminating any discomfort, it offers more accuracy as it prevents steering and manipulation of the club with the hands, Now they just hold on like glue and give the three fingers of the right hand on the grip more power to hit with. The thumbs are now out of the way and the fingers and palms do all the work. You’d never see a baseball player with his thumbs in the way. They’d be in too much pain. I definitely think I’m on to something, here. If you use the conventional thumb position it is not as necessary to rotate the hands inwards towards the top so much. The conventional grip espoused for centuries still applies.

The conventional grip finds both palms facing each other forming a wall that faces the target. This alignment remains intact except for the top of the hand near the thumbs. When they lay to the side it gives the appearance of a strong left hand and a weak right hand. In reality they are neutral. The same finger and palm prints a Vardon Grip make this grip retains.

Recap; To incorporate this new and better golf grip simply use the regular Vardon grip and turn in both hands towards the top slightly so that he left is slightly in a strong position and the right in a slightly weak position. Then, take your left thumb off the top and place in to the side. Next, after nestling your right hand to fit around your left thumb, the bottom outside pad of your right palm now in the “V” this creates, and take your right thumb and nestle it over your wrap around fingers of the same hand.  In a sense the “V” of your left hand points to your right shoulder and the “V” of your right hand points to your left shoulder. It should feel comfortable and powerful. Unlike the Vardon grip it is easier to get the right amount of grip pressure – not too light – but firm enough to give you complete control of the club. It naturally WANTS to constrict a little around the grip gluing you to the club.

If you do incorporate my new, better grip you will find that accuracy stems from correct shoulder coil and uncoil, club shaft and arm paths and the physics involved in the hinging and unhinging of the shaft and the hinging of the left arm from the shoulders, alone. There is no steering with the hands, They just hold on like glue and hit the ball hard. I also think that, because the grip is so intertwined, that the right arm’s co-operation with the left is enhanced. That they work as one better.

If you can hold on better with a certain grip over the Vardon style it reasons you can swing the club harder. The Vardon grip is not the best for this. Thus I am exploring options.

As I write these words I am experimenting with hand involvement. Should one be minimal, firm and stiff with the wrists or allow them to fully rotate 90 degrees wide open as they cock going back? Is this method a better implementation of the body and arms and hands? So long as one cocks his shoulders 90 degrees and does not go beyond 90 degrees with wrist cock, while still tracking the shaft long the target line, I’m of the opinion, now, that this may re-invent the concept of the grip all by itself and might be a better technique. This style finds the face more vertical and open at the top versus at a 45 degree angle to the ground. That’s a plus in writing  this book; experimenting with things I’d otherwise not take notice of. Two breakthroughs in one month? Who knows, yet? This new idea certainly taps the potential of the hands in any core driven method and was inspired by a conventional grip that hurt with too much use. A baseball style grip with the thumbs to the side may be the future of the golf swing. Overlapping the right pinky over the left forefinger may still be applicable, however.

“X FACTOR” CORE DYNMANMICS AND THE LEFT ARM SLING;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Since that epiphany I have learned the importance of the rest of the swing and have come to some deep convictions that I think will endure, especially into the future whether the side straddle grip replaces the conventional grip or not. Another author / instructor, Jim Ballard, has already revealed the power of creating a differential between the hips and shoulders in a swing. Though I have never read that particular book I suspect we both arrived at similar conclusions. I don’t stress HOW much differential you create between the shoulders and hips so long as you resist from below while the shoulders out turn everything else. The creation of a differential between the shoulders and hips to the top sets you up for a more powerful and dynamic move down and through. The Core Driven Golf Swing method makes use the shoulders and chest more than you might think. By focusing the mind on what the chest and shoulders are doing, almost exclusively,  I have found the rest of the body naturally falls into place. The arms, club, legs and hips sense what is required above and get into position to allow the upper torso rotation to happen. The wrists still do cock, especially near the top of the backswing. They assist a completion of the coil to the top and resist against an early start down and an incomplete backswing. The goal is to assist a  differential between the lower body – the feet, knees and hips – and the upper body – the torso, shoulders, arms and club – to the top position. You must swing VERY WIDE in the take away getting your body mass and weight opposite the target. Keep a steady head in doing so but you can’t swing low and wide enough at the start of the back swing. The wrists cock mostly in the second half of the backswing. This broad, low takeaway winds your body up tight and sets your weight on mostly your back foot. This not only coils the torso tightly and powerfully, this puts the hips in a lead position going down and maximizes power. Don’t go overboard with this “X Factor” notion but at least out coil the rest of the trunk with the shoulders and start the back swing with he shoulders while somewhat resisting with the legs and hips. For some more hip turn may be required. The wrists may even gain a little more than a 90 degree cock in the transition zone as you begin the down swing. This allows your body slack in which to race ahead with the lower body. Through the strike zone, the wrists completely turn over allowing the club head to pass the handle at impact and toe over the heel of the club head as well. Active wrists are essential to a good swing but their participation is a consequence mostly of forces created in the rest of your body. They unleash all that body energy. It is VITAL that you SLING the left arm, not just the club head, briskly PAST the body through the strike zone. A swinging of the whole club and not just the head. This move may involve some independent assist with the arms. There is no truly dormant part of the body in a swing. This gives speed to the handle of the club and not just the head. This one move separates the pros from the non pros, this brisk slinging of the left arm across the body during the strike. Clearing the body with you left arm past impact. You’ll see. To swing the whole club briskly past the ball you need left arm acceleration through the strike zone, not just club head speed. It may help to imagine that the back of you left hand is the actual club head to get this sensation.

The business end of the swing is near the strike zone. The imagery of methodically rotating the chest and shoulders from the top back around to the ball and continuing beyond to the target and the slinging of the club AND left arm across the body – clearing the body –  together, briskly through the strike zone, girds the rest of the body – the core –  the legs and hips included, to position itself for a strong delivery instinctually. The legs and hips grab the ground and set up the strike. If you fail to imagine the left arm part of this you will NOT experience this powerful instinctual girding of the body and legs. In a sense the whole body and shoulders coils back and unwinds TO sling the left arm and club shaft TOGETHER briskly past the body through the strike. THIS is the pro move. It will up your athleticism by 20 percent. All swing thoughts, however, are secondary to the imagery of what the chest and shoulders are doing; rotating away from the ball like pulling back a bow string , and then rotating back around the other way back to the ball and continuing all the way around to the target and your finish. Like turning a door knob back and forth.

When I first discovered this marriage of side straddle grip and slinging of the left arm WITH the whole club past the body I added 15 yards to my three iron and tightened my distance and accuracy. I am a youthful, athletic 70 year old and found all 30 of my balls with just five yards of variance in distance and only fifteen yards variance in accuracy, AND 15 yards father, instantly. If I even try to hit one shot with the old grip, now, it hurts me by comparison. The stronger, more secure connection to the club also relieves my lower back, interestingly.

One swing path, overall, or two divergent paths compressed against each other? Inside out versus outside in?

As I write these words I have come across a notion I’d otherwise not have noticed but for writing this book. Are the back swing and downswing path the same? In other words; does one swing back and forth on the same directional plane or is the back swing plane and path more square to inside than the downswing plane and path which might be more square to inside PAST impact – the opposite way – thus compressing the two variations into even more torque? Impact would, of course, be square but a result of marrying, compressing, the two different paths against each other. Bobby Jones, for example, went back relatively inside and came down on a more outside in path, while still square through the strike. Conversely, today some golfers do the opposite, they go back outside and come down square. I prefer the former and think it’s a better dynamic and gives one better power, balance and control.

The alternative is to swing both back and down on a common plane and path making allowances only for the one foot or so shift – caused by a shift of body weight – to the target of the down swing arc. This requires a marshaling of everything to adhere to one directional path but perhaps at the expense of more power and balance. Basically I am suggesting why fight gravity? Why NOT swing around one’s center of gravity both going back and to the finish?  Towards the foot target line from address to the top and from impact back to the foot target line going down? Not one plane, but two, both compensating for the fact that the body is in the middle of both actions. Both reaching for the foot target line depending on which side of the ball one is. Swing towards the body mass – the foot line – to the top and again for the finish only now it’s more outside in than the square to inside backswing was because it’s on the opposite side of the ball. Would the payoff outweigh and complications from having to pivot more open going down than you did to the top? The concept I describe like reaching towards the foot target line with the club going to the top – not straight back – and reaching for the foot target line from impact to finish. These are questions I am experimenting with right now. Once the book is done I can’t go back. I have to find out, first, which concept is better than the other. Above all else I want to achieve optimal technique, not second best.

This whole notion is based on the fact that one’s body mass and weight is mostly fixed and, if you swing around your center of gravity, an inside path from address to the top balances you better than straight back which pulls your body towards your toes. Similarly, going down, all the way to the finish you want to finish also on your foot target line only now it is square to inside from IMPACT. A divergent path going the other way, now. A posturing of two different paths to create better torque and balance versus a singular overall path that requires some reigning in of creating body torque. A bird’s eye view of your swing from above would reveal a path going back that is more aimed to the right of the target than the downswing path which would aim more to the left of the target. Impact would be a balance between the two divergent paths. Square, but with more compression and torque. It is, perhaps, a more athletic move. Maybe that’s a good thing, though. A child would instinctively choose this method, I think. Much like a tether ball orients itself to the top of where the pole it is tied to wherever it may be in it’s course of activity..

I’ll keep you posted how the experimenting goes.

(What follows will be modified following the above recent epiphany.)

THE CORE DRIVEN GOLF SWING;

A golf swing is dependent on a proper stance and grip. It’s the one part of the swing you can completely control. Without maximizing your chances for a good swing by getting these two departments under control you obstruct everything else you may want to do with a club and ball. It will probably NOT feel correct or comfortable at all at first, either. Kind of a cockeyed set up that finds your hands in the way of your eyes sight of you left foot’s instep a little. Once your grip and stance are correct there are some basics to follow. A proper swing path and shape, both back and forward,, a steady head, a coiling of the shoulders and body up to the top and an uncoiling of everything to the finish, a back and forth weight shift, a release of the club head past the handle through the strike zone that involves a complete turnover of the hands and club, a slinging of the left arm with the club past the body as well, balance, tempo and timing. This book is designed to put the right mental thoughts in your head to prompt the best results. Unlike many other sports golf requires a mental preparation before one swings. At least until your swing has been learned and perfected. Even then constant maintenance is required to keep it in shape. Like a car that needs various components looked after occasionally. So the brain is used more so than other sports. I will try to minimalize these thought processes and simplify matters as much as I can. The most fun occurs after the swing becomes second nature and you focus, instead, on the shape of the shot and it’s requirements. Painting pictures in the sky.

As a young man I wanted to play professional golf because it beat the hell out of working a regular job for a living. It was a load of fun BECAUSE it was not easy. When it went right it was especially satisfying. As such I lean towards serving the needs of a serious golfer who wants to beat the world. All golfers can benefit from this kind of book, however. I want to write the kind of book that would have helped me, then, become a successful professional golfer but also serve ANYONE with lesser aspirations. If I was not convinced my method was the best possible way to swing I’d never even try to write about it at all. Writing about golf technique is serious as a heart attack stuff. The worst thing any writer wants to do is screw up what is already a hard game to master. There ARE secrets out there that actually work better than others. My job is to weed out the bad and focus only on the thoughts and moves that work best. For me the swing and understanding THAT is what matters most. It is truly an art that has befuddled mankind for centuries and I want to make a dent in this sphere of life. To get one from beginner to pro in as fast a pace as possible using the proper ideas that work best.

The “Core Driven Golf Swing” recognizes that the body is the engine of the rest of the swing. That all motion originates there. Coiling, uncoiling and a weight shift to enhance it all. That the arms and club get their motion from the body actions mostly. Lee Trevino said that the tree trunk swings the branches, not vice versa. I once, briefly, had the exact opposite notion as a young man thinking that the hands triggered body reactions. Before I got the horse before the cart in this department other matters took over my life and I did not become a professional golfer. I wish I knew then what I know now. Now that I am too old to go pro I seem to have settled on what works. I’m eager to spread the gospel.

Strange as it may seem, by focusing on what you must do with your shoulders and chest – namely rotate them away from and then back to and through the ball and beyond to the target – your lower body will instinctually do their job to perform this feat. By doing this one thing the rest of your swing will fall into perfect place, naturally.  A from the center, out, approach that works.  No errant independent moves with your hands can interrupt or hinder the rest of the swing. Now they mostly just hold on for dear life, harness and release the forces your body is creating. The only other thing to master is the path of your swing, your club and arms combined with a weight shift assisted by tempo and timing.

In the method I now teach the shoulders and torso begin the swing and out coil the hips to the top while they resist – like a bow string against a bow –  using the shoulders and torso to start the backswing and using the lower body – hips and legs and feet – to lead and uncoil the downswing back to the finish. This stretches the two tighter in the process offering more power. Going back it’s from the top down and going down it’s from the ground, up. With this or any other method it’s critical to get the path of the arms and club just right as well. One cannot swing the club straight away or he’d fall over. One has to swing inside to square. That is, from your perspective, the club goes back straight for about a foot or so and then creeps in towards the body it’s swinging around. If there is a straight line component to this – and there is – it has to do with swinging on an inclined plane. Imagine a line extending from the ball to the target and another line extending from the feet to the target. Like a plane that tilts from the ball to around your neck and beyond. One starts out at the ball line and finishes his back swing at the foot target line, the club now above his body.  The downswing results with the club returning to the ball line and then, after the strike, back, again, above the foot target line. If you imagine swinging on a tilted plane from the ball line to your shoulder line then the swing IS in a straight line. The illusion of the club creeping inside going back is really that it is traveling in a straight path along this tilted plane. The purpose of all this body dynamics is to propel the left arm  and club not just the club, briskly past the body towards the target during the strike, head over handle and toe over heel. The act of also slinging the left arm with the club engages the core and lower body into action one does not experience by slinging just the club past the ball.

One wants to swing neither too upright or too shallow. There is a happy medium. The left arm should ideally align so that it aims to the ball at the top position. One wants to swing the club in manner that finds the shaft of the club pointing to the target whenever it is parallel to the ground. That is one third back, at the top, half way down to the ball and half way past the ball. At those junctures the shaft should aim to the target. The finish position is not applicable because foot pivot rotates everything around to face the target. This manner of swinging is merely swinging the whole club and arm assembly along the target line, not inside out or outside in but along the target line over all. It is shaft and arm positions as much as club face positions that determines accuracy. If everything is swinging to the target golf is that much easier.

Amidst all this activity there is a back and forth and even a circular weight shift. Imagine a weight on a string you are swinging from your fingers. Inside the larger circle the object is making there is another tiny circular motion your fingers are making to keep the string taught and generate centrifugal force. You will find that this tiny inner circle is just ahead of the opposite position of the object being swung at all times If it were exactly opposite the object no centrifugal force would be generated. It would be static, instead. It has to be just slightly ahead of the object. Centrifugal versus static force. If you examine the stop action photos of, say, Sam Snead or Jack Nicklaus or any other great swing you will notice that his weight  appears to go straight down early in the downswing while the club is high above him. Like a man jumping out of an airplane. Then, as he is halfway down to the ball, it appears his weight, his lower body, is lunging target wards just opposite of the position of the club. At impact, the club now at he bottom of the arc, his body is also pushing upwards against the ground to generate that opposite tug against the position of the club. Halfway past impact, the club shaft aiming at the target, his body and arms seem to be pulling away from the target. Besides this constantly shifting circular weight shift there is a more pronounced left to right and back to the left again shift that finds the weight mostly off the lead foot at the top position and most of the weight off the back foot at impact. By the finish the weight is almost entirely on the lead foot. This shift is more pronounced because you are swinging an object basically away from the target and then back to the target. A back and forth linear motion.

The swing benefits from a large, versus a cramped, arc. Wide and generous and more horizontal than vertical. Like an egg on it’s side. The weight shift back and forth is about a foot creating two distinct arcs. The downswing arc is inside of the back swing arc by about a foot and this helps create the horizontal egg on it’s side shape of the arc. While it may not be so necessary to swing high above one’s head to the top it is essential to swing wide on both sides of the ball.

That’s the core driven method in a nutshell. Use the larger, more powerful muscles of the shoulders, back, hips and legs, incorporating a weight shifting to generate the arms and club briskly past your body towards the target during the strike. In this book you may notice I try to refrain from using the term impact. The impact zone is fluid and dynamic I use, instead the term the strike zone. Does the left arm independently sling itself past the body during the strike zone? Perhaps a little. No part of the body is ever dormant. The right arm should feel as a part of the left arm and instinctually you should find it leading the hands and club with the elbow going down. The left arm is relatively straight from start to halfway past impact and then folds while the right arm straightens during the strike zone.

(What is below is old material and will be replaced with a simpler, more straightforward presentation)

Before getting too technical and detailed let me just say this. After achieving the proper stance and grip you start the swing coiling from the shoulders mostly, – from the top, down – as they coil to the top position resisting somewhat with the lower body and then you uncoil from the lower body, up, in an opposite fashion, the lower body leading the uncoil. This tightens the body in the transition zone and sets up a reactive release of the swing. There is some necessary hinging of the wrists in both directions on either side of the ball, the right elbow digging into your side ahead of the hands going down, the left elbow digging into your other side past impact, but the body pivot and coil and uncoil is paramount to the rest. There is also the fact that a shifting of weight back and forth beneath a steady head, mostly with the hips and legs, is necessary as well as a vertical up and down force like ringing a bell at the fair with an overhead downward strike. Golf is a little like all of these things combined. Proper path – inside to square – of the arms and club is vital for accuracy and consistency. You want to swing the club head from the ball target line to the foot target line back to the top and from the foot line to the ball line and back to the foot line going down and through. You don’t want to swing straight back and forth because that would throw you off balance and you’d be out of position with your body mass.. Because you have a center of mass you have to accommodate the swing around that center of mass and that requires an inside to square configuration. An arc of the club head that travels from the ball target line to the foot target line and back again. This does not mean that you can’t think in terms of a straight back and forth path to get the job done. The tilted plane you swing the club on is actually linear, straight. This tilted plane goes from the ball target line to below your head and beyond. This accounts for the inside to square appearance your club rides on. You have to swing all your levers of arms and club around a fixed axis located just below your neck near the top of your body. This requires a circular path around that hub. You want to deliver the club to the ball from your center of gravity – your foot target line where you mass is located – and so it must arrive at the top position above your feet and shoulders. From there you swing the club head out to the ball target line – inside to square – and then back to the foot target line at the finish. This way you have your body mass to exert power with. You also want to make sure that whenever the club shaft is parallel to the ground that it is aiming at the target itself. One third back, the top, half way to the ball down and half way past impact. If you can do this – swing the shaft along the target line – accuracy will follow. The club head will right itself automatically if you have the correct grip. Worry more about the shaft geometry than the head for accuracy.

You want a large clubhead arc versus a cramped arc. You want to extend the arms and keep the left arm relatively straight until well after impact. This may seem to add to the complications at first but the reverse is the case with practice. God hates a coward, so reasonably grab all the volume you can and trust it. Regarding a straight left arm I have found a relaxed, slightly bent left arm works perfectly well and may even be just as good. The important thing is that it straightens more during the strike.

The best way to get proper weight shifting is to have most of your weight off your front foot at the top position and to have most of your weight off your back foot at impact. You want to put a little air under your front foot’s heel a the top and a little air under your back foot’s heel before impact. Some prefer to keep the front foot’s heel grounded at the top but the weight should be off of it, regardless. It’s the hips and legs that move the body mass towards the target going forward while the head and upper body stay back until the follow through.

As for the vertical, versus back and forth force, you want to feel like you’re dropping enormous weight down on top of the ball from the top as well. The coil back lifts and cocks the club up above your shoulders. Then, while uncoiling, you drop it hard onto the ball hitting down and out allowing the club to un cock pass your hands through impact. Centrifugal force involves a fluid, ever changing positioning your mass just ahead of opposite of the weight you are swinging at all times. As mentioned above there is a back and forth weight shift away from and towards the target. There is also an up and down shifting. Both the up and down and side to side shifting is explained by the act of swinging a weight on a string. Your fingers make a tiny circle within the circle always tugging just ahead of the opposite position of the weighed object. That’s what keeps the string taught. That tugging and positioning of the fingers. In a swing, for example, as you start down, your weight wants to drop straight down at first. Like the famous Sam Snead “squat”. To me it looks like a man jumping out of an airplane. Straight down and opposite the straight up position of the club. Later, in mid downswing, the club head and shaft positioned opposite the target, the body posture suggests a weight shift TO the target, the hips and legs tugging target wards. At impact, the club now at the bottom of the swing, the body posture includes a pushing upwards against the ground AWAY from the bottom and up to the sky. After impact the body posture seems to want to tug away from the target against the target ward swinging of the club. The reason I suggest this tugging is just AHEAD of the opposite position of the weighted object has to do with dynamic versus static action. Like a football quarterback who leads his receiver in anticipation of where he will be to catch the ball. So there is a constant, ever changing, fluid, even circular, weight shifting involved in golf that ONLY I have pointed out.

Tempo. You want to start out smoothly and apply the speed mostly during and after impact, the speed gradually increasing from start to finish with no hiccups in between. If you snatch or jerk the club away from address you will compromise your body’s ability to coil properly. Start smooth in a one piece fashion and build speed from there especially at impact and beyond impact.

Similarly, in putting, you always want to accelerate the club into the ball, and not decelerate. Save your speed for impact and beyond. Also, as in a full swing, you want to let the shoulders swing the putter versus a hands and arm controlled motion.

That’s it in a nut shell. Not easy, but not too hard, either.

Since golf is more mental than most sports, starting from a stopped position instead of a fluid, in motion position, you have to trigger body actions mentally. In applying this book you have to piece meal things together on the practice tee and achieve success in one area before moving on to the next and so forth until one piece at a time has been mastered. Like tuning a car there are lots of areas that need constant attention. For example. I may have most of my swing parts in order but now want to refine my weight shift and coil to the top. Lately I am experimenting with only a casual move early in my backswing and amplifying the amount of coil late in the backswing. Mike Austin, a power hitter from the 40’s, swung this way to great effect. Many pros today start the deep coiling right away, the left shoulder going under the chin early in the backswing. Tiger’s left shoulder goes straight back  and under right away, for example. I am experimenting to see which works best for my body and mind type. l like the advantage of balance and relaxation in starting my swing this way for now. It also sets up a reactive transition zone forcing me to have speed with my lower body there to get ahead of my upper body as my now speeding shoulders are going to automatically rebound from so late and deep a coiling motion. I may change if it doesn’t work out as planned and go back to an early sharp coil of the body right away. The point is you can only work on one or maybe two or three aspects at a time. One’s body type and mental type and even personality type has a big role in which exact method you choose. Find a pro with your body type, at least, to emulate rather than a pro whose shoulders or legs are not in proportion to yours. Tempo is somewhat of a personality issue. Some people are just naturally inclined to a faster pace than others. You have to find your sweet spot zone in this regard. A downswing should be the speed of gravity is my golden rule. Like dropping a ball from above your head to the ground. Regardless, the start of the backswing should be somewhat deliberate and smooth. Forward impact speed and beyond is what counts.

The Core Driven Golf Swing; Catchy title but what does it mean? To begin with, no one body part, properly utilized, will register into success and make all the other body parts fall into place. There is, however, a best body part to orchestrate a swing with. Most beginner swings begin with arm and club movement ahead of body coil. The shoulders coil in response to the stress put on them from the swinging arms and club. A lot of other sports rely on the arm movement to dictate body pivot. In golf there is a more balanced sharing of hands and arms versus body pivot. That’s why a “one piece” move back has been taught for centuries. To get the two to work together. Like the sun being at the center of our universe, the coiling and uncoiling of the torso, the largest body part of all, leading all other action, is the optimum way to wield a club against a golf ball. Like learning how turning a door knob clockwise and counter clockwise opens a door, the door knob being your shoulders, so is a swing almost as simple as that. There is a need to hinge the wrists at some point to the top to cock the wrists and send centrifugal force up instead of away from the target to prevent swaying of the body back. Similarly there is a need to increase this wrist cock staring down to allow your hips to pick up the slack as they shift into position target wards. Mind focus makes sure that the coiling and uncoiling of the torso precedes all else. A learning of how to USE your torso in the first place. Jack Nicklaus, before he ever swung a club at the practice tee, always put a club behind his back between his elbows and coiled and uncoiled training his core to perform correctly before he worked on anything else. The club ends would rotate around and point to the ball on both sides of it. This is correct geometry. THIS drill activates the core above all else. When the core leads a swing the most noticeable difference is the depth OF your coil and how there is only one path back to the ball; the way it went back, everything is so tapped out to it’s limit. Whether you gather your shoulder coil early or late in the backswing, you want to tap out your shoulder coil so there is only one way back to the ball. (Half and three quarter swings excluded.) Keeping your arms extended aids in this process. Adding power now becomes secondary to getting your club to catch up to and pass your hands during the strike. Because your largest body part has been fully utilized the power flows effortlessly. You can now focus, instead, on the finer details of your delivery. I, for example, when first learning this, found that just imagining a shaft angle that finds the club passing my hands after impact was all I needed to think about to get fantastic results. Swing thoughts always vary depending on your needs but power is already taken care of if you tap out your shoulder coil to the top and extend the arms and club. I have found that a deliberate, smooth pace works better than a flighty, fast pace in the core driven method.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               I used to think the center of this rotation and center of gravity was at the base of the neck but it’s not. It’s a little lower and at the center of the upper torso. Like the peg a 78 record sits on on a phonograph, parallel to your spine, your swing’s motor activities emanate from mind focus there. It’s really just a cracking “open” of the body there going back – shoulders coiling ahead of the lower body – and a return opposite closing of the body going the other way – the lower body now leading the upper body – compressing the two actions into force. In other words, you retain the differential between hips and shoulders you made going to the top well into the downswing, the lower body uncoiling first. Instead of thinking of myriad other body parts all activity is controlled as if from that center of your body / club mass. Like turning a fixed door knob in two separate directions. Like the agitator paddles inside an upright washing machine. Just add weight shift, proper club and arm path, tempo and timing. .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             A golf swing is also a combination of upper body action versus lower body action. The upper body coils and moves weight away from the target just by relocating the shoulders, arms and club mass back while the lower body moves weight – legs and hips – towards the target, even simultaneously, in the transition.. As the upper body coils to the top the lower body wants to apply resistance to that so that every vertebra of the spine has a chance to coil from the top down, first, before the hips are allowed to also coil. This allows you to fully tap out your body and avoid a sloppy, loose coil. Going down, your last thought being a final crank back with your shoulders, your lower body unwinds ahead of the upper body  shifting target wards tightening the resistance all the more, compressing the swing. It is also the lower body that transfers body mass and weight to the target while the upper body stays put letting the club and arms move centrifugally, instead.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  I, once upon a time, actually thought that the hands were the master brain of a swing. That their needs triggered body responses. That hand action dictated body pivot. The author of a book I studied under “The Golfing Machine” even felt this way. My teacher, Ben Doyle differed with Homer Kelly in this one respect. Correctly so, too. Too much hands equals too little body action. Most people overuse their hands and arms at the expense of proper coiling and uncoiling of the body’s core; the trunk the shoulders and hips and legs, and proper weight shifting. This book compensates for this by emphasizing the core section of your body (Shoulders to feet, but mostly shoulders.) because more body parts do fall into place than not with the mind focusing on it than other body parts. It is, in fact, when one consciously applies his hands and arms before impact that things go out of kilter. Until impact the arms and hands just provide arc, extension, get into delivery positions, grip and align all the angles related to the shoulders hands and club. Near the impact zone it’s all guns blazing, however. Then the hands really DO get involved, but not until then. Your swing emanates from the center of your body mass. Like a pebble tossed in a body of water, the innermost ripples dictate the rest of the ripples. Put your mental focus at the very center of all the action, that imaginary spine parallel peg inside the upper rib cage and it’s simple opening and closing determining all the other actions. Like the workings of an intricately integrated time piece all connected to this master gear. Start your swing and control it from there  It is the “Sun” of the body’s universe. Trevino described the swing as the tree trunk swinging the branches, not vice, versa. It’s a concept as foreign as a bird making it’s first flight from the nest. But it works.

Initiating all motion with torso coil and uncoil rather than following the lead of the arms and club and hands to achieve coil. Think of a carousel’s circular top dangling vertical objects from strings. As the top gently starts to revolve the dangling objects sway and then move with it. That is the feeling to strive for in your takeaway. and start down. The coil and uncoil should lead the arms and club back and down, not voce versa. This produces such a deep, tapped out coil that just getting the club to un cock in time and pass the hands during the strike is all you, seemingly, have to worry about, later. That and being on the proper path with the arms and club..                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 A bit more, if I may, about this second “secret’ to golf. It is this; To swing like a pro you have to resist the urge to hit the ball with your arms and hands – at all – UNTIL nearing impact, itself. Until nearing impact the only thought you should have is retaining whatever angles you have made to that point  During the strike, itself. Then the club releases and rotates over itself, end over end, the club passing the hands. Like pulling BACK on a bow string until impact and THEN you let go. AT impact. (Putting included, by the way.) Meanwhile you must collect as much coil and depth as you comfortably can while maintaining a tension free feeling and let your large body muscles do the work. These two principles, combined; a large, deep, tension free coil with a large club head arc with passive hands and arms until impact and then allowing and end over end release – head over handle – past the ball.. You will find that your body CORE compensates and torques and rotates and ratchets more vigorously through the strike to offset the lack of “hit” in your hands until impact. Your body is being forced into action. It is helping to pull your hands, arms and club through. It may feel as though the club is still cocked during the hit even though centrifugal force has opened it up to the ball.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   In a correct swing the shoulders and hips create a differential between the two that is implemented to create force and torque. Storing and releasing that torque. Creating and then maintaining that differential until late in the down swing. You want to hold onto your shoulder coil and wrist cock going down as the lower body leads and starts to unwind, for example. The innermost part of the body and it’s workings that is often overlooked. What is often overlooked in a swing is how the spine, the shoulders, wind and unwind like a propeller shaft from the feet to the shoulders, especially during the strike and follow through. If you watch the pros on television it’s as if their club head is in synch with their shoulder rotation. They both go, like a propeller, together. Comparted to hand action the shoulders are more animated, by far. This coiling and uncoiling action accompanied with a neutral to back foot to front foot weight shift that is punctuated during the strike. Turning your upper torso, left arm and club away from the target to the top position – aiming your back to the target – rather than thoughts about your hands, for example, is what works. My basic technique is not unlike the ‘Gravity Golf’ method taught by Dennis Lee. That is, a large club head arc, the deep coiling and uncoiling of the larger body muscles and shifting of weight back and forth providing the power source. All under a steady head. The most efficient way to swing. Jack Nicklaus, Sam Snead and countless other graceful swingers of the club have used the same method.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The harder part of a swing is the exact path and configuration your club and arms make with the shoulders. In so many ways one has to swing a club sideways at a ball at ground level to play golf versus an axe chopping up and down motion. To make matters more complicated it’s a little bit of both actions. There is a mental trick that works regarding all hands / arms / club geometry matters. I can’t believe it took most of my life to figure this magical technique out it’s so all encompassing. Once I understood this my hand action was relieved of all friction caused by misalignments. It has to do with training the hands / wrists / club action along a target line that lays below where they happen to be at impact; about three inches in front of the toes of your feet, depending on the length of your club.  A line that extends away from and to the target. Most golfers make the mistake of focusing on the BALL target line to prompt hand geometry. In other words, if there were flashlights extending from both ends of a club shaft the light would follow that ball target line all the way back as the club cocks to the top, the butt end pointing to the target line. The problem is this is not a square configuration. The shaft points to the left of the target in a laid off position at the top position. It should, rather, point almost straight at the target. Once you master this and refer, instead, to the line nearer your toes to align hand movement with, you can simply let LOOSE with your hands and club so long as things pivot and hinge along this line. The club travels on a tilted plane from ball line to foot line and back to ball line and, finally, foot line, again, in a swing. This middle area in front of your toe line is right in the middle of all this activity. Track hand / club pivot action from this reference point for best results. Certainly whenever your hands are below waist level. For a good four to six feet of club head travel at the bottom, back and forth, your hands adhering to this strict pattern. Every other maneuver above that is set up with the prompts below allowing momentum to let the angles to continue. It is a straight line configuration, straight back and forward on a tilted plane. Though the club is traveling on it’s inclined plane out in front of you and behind your head at the top your hands are focused only on this target line in front of your toes to orient hand angles with the club throughout. It all comes together, amazingly. Then it’s really just a matter matter of pulling back and releasing a bow string. Straight back and through with the wrists and club hinging along this line near your toes. If you don’t feel this sensation in the bottom section of your swing you’re not doing it right. If you don’t disturb things the pattern should hold to the top and finish. When I first discovered this I added 15 yards to my 4 iron in one day it so freed up my swing not having to think about anything but that. This technique builds in automatic accuracy, in fact. Even though the club shaft may be aimed exactly away from the target in late downswing and goes end over end pointing exactly to the target on the follow through – those imaginary flashlights tracing along this path – there need be no worry of where the club face happens to be. It will, almost automatically, be straight at impact. No steering needed.

The other related aspect to club / arms geometry has to do with where the shaft is aimed whenever it is parallel to the ground. That is, one third back, the top, halfway down and one half past impact. At those juncture the shaft should aim TO the target. This criteria has more to do with accuracy than any hand manipulation, the face automatically squaring through the strike. Though the shaft goes head over handle and toe over heel below waist high in a swing it all works out at the moment of truth; impact. No steering needed once the shaft is trained to swing parallel to the target.

The above revelation also dispels some common misperceptions about the club path and offers proof there is a straight line component to swing a club that travels on an arc. It sure appears that the club travels inside as it goes back to the top. It does but not as you might think. Like a tilted coin has a flat, or straight, top that accommodates a circular perimeter at the same time, so is a golf swing.  It’s not so much that your club is traveling inside as it is going up along a target aligned slanted plane that slopes to above and beyond your shoulders. The club is being swung in a straight line configuration and only goes inside because it is rising on that plane that is aligned to the target. And, so, it now becomes clearer why I experienced a freer pass through the ball with my hands. Instead of suffering the friction and drag effects of traveling on a curve, like a car, as when I referred to the ball line instead, once I found the proper, exact target line midway between all the action to align my wrist geometry with the club with, I was able to take advantage of this straightaway path that exists on a tilted plane with a circular perimeter. Think of two enormous Hoola Hoops, one a foot ahead of the other leaned at a 45 – 50  degree angle against a wall aligned to the target. The one relates to the backswing, after a weight shift away from center. The other relates to the downswing after a greater weight shift has been made to the target. You don’t need to shift weight outside your stance but you certainly shift weight between your feet. A club path that appears, from a golfers perspective, inside to square is still square, (straight) just riding higher on a plane that is aligned to the target. It has to go inside and up to allow you to stay balanced. Though the club head travels from the ball line to the foot line and back to the ball line and then back to the foot line in a swing there is a straight line reference to a swing midway between all that action that is marshalled by focus on a single target line in front of your toe line to maneuver hand / club geometry from.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         If you want an explosive release of the club through the ball you need to build it into your backswing. You need to move and maneuver the big muscles; the back, chest and hip and leg muscles. Like an archer having to pull the string back for it to go forward. Especially near the top you want to cock the club and shoulders exactly AWAY from impact, the back of the ball and your target. To enhance this you need to shift your weight to your back hip at the top position and, more powerfully, onto your left hip through impact, all under a steady head. This is the powerful and effortless way to swing. You will golf best using a swing that uses mostly the body and allows the hands and arms to simply connect, hold on, sustain impact and release. Acting more like the tip of a whip with effortless power. The hands come to life during impact and beyond, like a slingshot pouch catching a rock with that pent up energy ready to explode, sustaining all that force your body has produced. Prior to impact the only thought you should give your hands is the initial “kinking of the straw” to create a subtle angle I recommend in the take away to take all wrists thoughts out of  a swing. The angle of this subtle ‘kink’ should be identical to the angle you want to return to the ball with; very slightly inside to square. I prefer to make this the first move of my backswing and at a deliberate pace the first foot away from address. Your waggle should also adhere to this geometry. Your core, the shoulders, the torso and hips and legs, namely, give them the leverage they need. Think of it. Gathering a deep, wide, tension free coil with your body from feet to shoulders and allowing that pent up energy. along with a weight transfer, to then power your whole swing as you fall into impact. If the backswing’s deep coil is tension free, and it should be, at some point that changes, like a gear engaging and things become taught and full of leverage. I believe this engagement point is either AT impact or just before. That’s where the pros seem to punctuate things. The hands and arms are allowed to then just hold on, harness and apply the force of impact. That’s core driven golf. By resisting the urge to apply the shoulders, arms and hands until impact, the weight and the hips and legs are allowed to move ahead, instead, and crank open up many degrees more that the square shoulders at impact. This is classic form and trying to take over with the hands before impact negates this action. The lower body is the bow, the upper body the string , the club the arrow, in that order.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          It’s hard to believe I ever thought it was the other way around with the hands dictating body responses. That I ever interrupted Jack Nicklaus ( I wrote him in 1979 and he wrote me back. Yeah, I’ve been into the swing for quite a long time.) to propose this idea leaves me so aghast I’m sure this book is a form of redemption. In fact, to the extent that you utilize mostly your hands to swing you automatically reign in the ability TO use your body muscles. In other words, if you have a loose grip with lots of wrist action you will find that the wrists finish the back swing and the finish instead of the shoulders and body. Conversely, if you maintain a somewhat firmish grip of, say, a 25 to 35 percent squeeze on the club and somewhat restrict the wrist action, you will find your body HAS to make up the slack and it is your shoulders and back muscles that complete your turn to the top and the finish. Your left shoulder is forced to make that extra turn back under the chin, instead. During the strike the hips, legs and feet ratchet more, instead, the entire upper body holding back until impact. This is a much more powerful and consistent way to play golf.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 The mechanics of the arms is to bend in two places; at  the elbows and at the wrists. The shoulders allow the arms to swivel. During the strike the forearms roll over each other, in fact. Only just past impact are both arms straight. Otherwise one or the other or both have to bend depending on where one is in a swing. My very first instructions on golf were two things; (1), a steady head and, (2), a straight left arm. If you think about it you can build a whole swing around those two thoughts. It’s a good building block from which to start. A circle aimed in a specific direction like aiming a coin that lays tilted against a wall. The angle of your left arm as viewed down the target line at the top determines how upright or flat your swing is, your hands positioned somewhere above and between your right shoulder and head. Some players wing the left arm and shoulder behind their head at the finish or, like Jack, who used to have both elbows pointing somewhat in front of and above his head. Jack restricted his final shoulder unwind due to his extra steady head. It took stress of his back. Most modern players opt, instead, to allow the head to move up and forward to the finish and thus allow the fuller shoulder rotation. Not everybody has Jack’s musculature and may also need to do so. Body type factors a little into what exact technique you prefer. One’s condition and body type determines how one swings. Generally speaking, maintaining a relatively straight left arm from address until after impact is a good idea. Locking the left arm straight just before take away is a trigger that works for some. Others prefer a little bend to reduce tension. Many of the greats had a slightly bent left arm at impact. There is some wrist action to be sure, ferocious, in fact, especially as the mid downswing finds the club cocked and compressed the most, and, again, during the end over end release after impact. A 90 degree angle usually occurs at the top position. But the core and it’s proper use is what offers the leverage for the hands to do anything. The releasing of the angles accumulated in the arms and club into a straight configuration just past impact against the upward and target ward thrust of your legs and hips as the whole body unwinds during impact provides power to a swing. The weight shift gives the club it’s direction and not just power. On the way back to the top the shoulders out coil and lead the hips and legs. On the way down, the opposite; the hips and legs uncoil ahead of the shoulders until after impact at which point the shoulders, arms and club unwind, fully racing past the now spent lower body.

I used to think that he proper ratio of how much hands to use in a swing versus shoulders was 50 / 50. Half hands and half shoulders. Today, (2023) especially watching the current number one tour player’s technique, (I don’t mention current players by name.) I think it’s better to have a 60 percent use of the body and shoulders versus a 40 percent use of the hands. It’s a little stiff wristed, maybe, and requires a different type of movement with the body to work, but it works very well. This unnamed player is noted for his active footwork. Probably a result of his muted wrist action. Maybe, coincidentally, today’s leading senior tour player also has a muted wrist action. Imagine muting the angle between arms and club in a swing. How easy it would suddenly be. It almost cuts the geometry part of a swing and things that can go wrong in half. I learned that by firming up my wrists going back this forced my shoulder blades (Bones) to rock more, instead. Like a baton at the top of my spine rotating more, instead. The body core is forced to engage as it should. My method does not depend on muted wrists, however. It is required TO cock the wrist as much as 90 degrees to the top but no more than that. This has to do with trafficking the weight weight shift up so as not to let a rearward shift move you off of balance and sway.  I, deliberately like to “kink the straw’. figuratively, create a subtle angle at take away just to rid the mind of any swing thought about cocking and uncocking of wrists until impact, itself.  This technique also rids the body of swaying away from the target going back, letting the club go up instead of just back. It’s nice to feel some swing to the club in the hands and one probably SHOULD achieve a 90 degree angle at the top between hands and club. Not more than that, though. Mid downswing is where the sharpest angles occur. For some this extra “crease” at the top in one’s swing cements geometry into place. Hogan did this, for example. You have pay extra attention to completing your body coil and uncoil, however. In a sense you have to beat the wrists to the top and impact with the body.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  You may see some tour players take the club back more straight away than they return it. As said earlier, perhaps due to mind focus on just the ball target line. This produces a loop. A necessary loop because you have to swing forward from wherever your body mass is which is inside from straight back. Bobby Jones and still some players, today, take the club back on an inside plane to the top and amp up the torque going down by switching to an outside, in plane going down. Almost like two separate planes pitted hard against each other. More commonly some golfers swing outside – straight back – going back and inside to square going down. I recommend no loop and just discipline yourself to recognize how it is a swing is a little more inside to square than you might think, the way a door hinges, and start arcing it a little bit inside after the first foot or so. Nicklaus had the least loop of any golfer and we all know how well that worked out.

One other fact is that, as viewed from behind down the target line, the angle of the shaft going down is slightly flatter than it’s path to the top with most golfers. The idea is to eliminate any and all loops that you can so that it appears the club goes down on the same path it went up.  Otherwise you’re introducing unnecessary friction and need for compensation.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           I also found that a certain style of tempo works best; one in which the backswing starts smoothly and deliberately the first foot. It’s important to “crack” the whole body open, right away, going back with your shoulders making the first move. The whole body, arms and club one piece like a bolt being loosened the first few inches. Ground tension with the feet offering the leverage to transmit coil to the shoulders that move first and the most. If the club is moving at all so should your shoulders also be moving with it at all times. If you let the arms and hands snatch the club away, instead, and race away from address you miss this crucial benefit and lose potential coil. If you DON”T coil from the shoulders, down, going back you lose potential coil. The backswing’s “Dye” is cast in this first foot of club travel. Because mental focus is on your innermost core rotor that is orchestrating everything else like a miniature opening and closing door knob, or record peg, everything else that moves will instinctively know at which point it’s O.K. to engage. Even that imaginary mini rotor has to come to a complete stop before it turns in the opposite direction. Before it can return in the other direction your body senses what has to move first and when. From the top, down, it’s mostly a battle of lower body moving weight to the target against an upper body stretching away from the target at the same time letting impact happen. Even with a muted wrist action, if you have a large club head arc and think speed at impact, you’ll find speed, just in a different way. Regarding the finish, I recommend recoiling out of it immediately and not posing. It’s a stress position and not good for the back. The ball is long gone by then, anyway. Impact thoughts and ball flight thoughts work best.

One other thing I have changed as a result of writing this book is my grip pressure. One needs to “Grab the bull by the horns” a little to play top level golf. Not too tight, but tight enough, never getting flighty or re grabbing at any point. The hands connect the club to the body for leverage. They have to hold on to do that. Again, it’s called a “grip”, not a “hold”. Think of the hands as a wire conducting a solid electric current. Keep a good connection at all times. I grew up with the notion “Hold it like you would a bird” regarding grip pressure. I now think the author meant a bird wriggling to free itself. A little firmer than gentle.

Ben Hogan is proof there are many ways to hit a golf ball. He was also very dedicated and put in the hours to get away with his hand flourish. The “Core Driven” method, I think, is the future of the game, however. “Less is more” is turning out to be the axiom. Simplify. Use the body more. Don’t give the hands an excuse to get too out of whack in the first place. Sports are supposed to keep the human being in top shape as a by product, after all. Winding up the whole body into a deep, tension free coil and then engaging it to the weight of a club to whack a tiny ball as hard as possible can be very conducive to staying toned and in shape and limber. Don’t lose the sensation in your hands of swinging the club. Swing from your center and feel the club head connecting with that part of the body, not just the hands, however. Even with all this said, a golf swing, no matter how you decide to approach it, is counter intuitive in many ways and requires, perhaps, more mental imagery and pre swing thoughts than any other sport I know of. You need mental triggers that work versus mental triggers that don’t work so well. You have to take these thoughts and add them to your swing, like a recipe, and ingrain them all a little, one at a time, over time, to finally find yourself having only to think about the business of the ball’s flight and the wind and surface factors and not your body or swing at all. Like the pros try to do. When golf is at it’s most fun.

Ben Hogan put the quandary of the golf swing this way; “A golfer will try to attack the golf swing like he does everything else in life and he will be completely wrong about everything.” What Ben meant was this; In a correct swing the shoulders and arms and hands seem to just hold back until impact. They are delivered, instead, by the lower body like a bow delivers the bow string. Like a whip delivers the tip. The minute they try to lever across and ahead of the body they defeat the purpose of a good swing. At impact the hands can, then, let loose, indeed. A drill I will show you to demonstrate the correct feel is to chip with a mid iron and take the club back and just forget everything to do with hands and arms and let the body pull the club through, instead. Even to the point that the arms and hands feel as though they’re swinging backwards all the way into impact. Can you imagine best results from swinging away from the target with your upper body, arms and hands until after impact? That’s golf. Completely opposite of what you THINK would work. The art of maintaining the differentials you created going back – the shoulder coil and wrist cock away from the lower body – until impact. Pulling everything through like a bow does a bow string, your lower body being the bow. It’s an art. The hands mostly hold on and connect the club to the body like an electrical current. Another one of my basic drills to instill this “leveraging” of the big muscles is a miniature length swing – one half normal – with almost zero wrist action, the body doing the work, resisting hand use during the strike, trying to squeeze out as much power in that tiny distance of club travel with no limits on the length of the follow through. Like “The Calvary,” the body comes to the rescue and learns how to apply itself.

We’ll get to the drills and such and maybe even shed my thoughts on putting  and more;;

The All Important Stance and Set Up; (To be continued)

The All Important Grip; (To be continued)

The Basics That A Swing Is Built On;

(1) A steady head, (2) A mental focus on your core to activate the swings smaller parts rather than vice, versa..(3) Resisting the impulse to hit with your hands and arms until impact occurs like pulling BACKWARDS on a bowstring until impact. .(4) A shifting back and forth with the weight from front to back foot, (5) A wide arc on both sides of the ball, (6) A deep, tension free coiling back to the top starting from the shoulders, down, (7) An equally deep unwinding starting, conversely, from the feet, up; (8) An end over end rotation of the club shaft and even the club head from just before impact to just after impact.; (9) A target oriented swiveling (mobility)  of the club shaft and hands for accuracy along a target line just in front of your toes.; (10) Preserving differentials between hips and shoulders, club and the arms made going back into the downswing (Leading with the lower body going down).(11) Fully dumping all those differential angles (feet  hips, shoulders, wrists ) on the target side of the ball (12) A tempo that starts out deliberate and unrushed the first foot or so. 13) A sufficient grip pressure (14) The correct set up and stance (15) The correct grip.(16) Shot imagery and confidence

There are other basics but if you build a swing around these particular basics it’s hard NOT to play good, repeatable golf.

The Torso And It’s Use;

Let’s start with the torso, the upper core of your swing. Let’s grow a swing from the inside, out. It turns and coils in a specific way.

Jack Nicklaus, first thing on the practice tee, would always put a club behind his back and lock the shaft around his elbows and mimic a swing without a club, his body coiling and uncoiling, the feet exchanging weight back and forth, the shaft of that club tracing a path basically parallel to his target line. This found both ends of the club shaft pointing TO the ball at the extreme points of coil. He was training the core ahead of all else. He coiled and uncoiled his torso square to the target line. His club shaft did not trace outside to in or inside to out but truly square to the target on both sides. Equally deep on both sides of the ball. Imaging a tilted tomato can for a torso leaning above your hips and imagine turning it like you would a door knob if it were attached. Because he coiled square his club shaft found itself aimed to the target at the top position and not left or right of it. I use Jack as an example because there has been a trend away from that these last decades that is, lately, starting to correct itself. Namely a laid off top position, (I made mention of this in this previously.) the shaft aiming left of the target. It reveals that the backswing was not deep enough and not coiled enough for maximum leverage going back. It was also probably overly deep on the target side of the ball. Had it been a balanced, square coil there would have been equal depth on both sides of the ball.

I believe this former trend got started by adhering to the ball target line too much allowing the butt of the club to swivel and trace along it’s path instead of a path closer to the foot line, instead. That is, as the club swings end over end to the top, the butt end points away from the target along the ball line and that throws things out of kilter. If you’re going to swivel the club along a target line it should be somewhere in front of your toes where your hands are at impact, instead. Let the club find the ball target line by itself. It will. This should also help keep your coil equally deep and balanced on both sides of the ball. The advantage to this method is that you have more of your body’s mass to apply as you are swinging from inside to the square where your mass is instead of swinging from where your mass isn’t.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Like the paddles in an upright washing machine you want to move your shoulders and body. Back and forth. Especially the shoulders. This paddling feels more vertical than horizontal, too. It’s imperative to have your shoulders in motion, first, ahead of anything else. It should feel like cracking the whole body open, smoothly, especially the shoulders, at the start. Like taking a very deep breath to fill your lungs you want to similarly “tap” your resources and make a very greedy coil. Going back the left shoulder going down and under, the arm and club extending out and up, the left shoulder back under your chin at the top with the shaft aimed to the target.. Don’t be afraid of biting off too much, either. God hates a coward and sometimes behaving more athletic makes the sport easier. You may find more knee flex at the top than you’re used to but coil deep and wide. If your shoulders could make two rotations they would but they can’t. No tension should be present even though your body is wound like a pretzel at the top. Like winding a tilted, vertical propeller shaft. If your feet represent 9 and 3 O’clock if standing on an imaginary clock face, 9 being your lead foot, the weight shift and coil feels more like traveling from 4 O’clock all the way around to 8 O’clock in both directions than merely a straight line 3 to 9 O’clock shift. A more internal and compound pivot in both directions even though the club is traveling along the straighter target path like the top of a tilted coin…

The unwinding is accomplished by holding back with the shoulders hands and arms, resisting the impulse to hit at all, like pulling BACKWARDS on a bowstring, until impact OCCURS. Since mind focus on that imaginary spot at your chest’s center is determining all coiling functions, back and forward, it, also, has to be ready to return the other way, first. It senses when and, also, how fast you can move everything else forward. From top position, down, the knees lead the hips, the hips lead the shoulders, the shoulders lead the arms and club and in that order until al levers are dumped, end over end, to the target side of the ball.  All with a back and forth weight transfer. Mastering the art of making a deep body coil and resisting the impulse to hit with the arms and hands is the hardest part of the act. It takes faith and practice but, once mastered, makes golf easy compared to other methods. Even on putts you want your body, not your hands, to hit the ball until impact at which point they then engage…

Geometrically your shoulders turn from address to about 90 to 100 degrees at the top, back to SQUARE to the target at impact, the right shoulder going down under the left, somewhat vertically. After impact the shoulders may unwind as much as another 150 degrees from impact. Don’t hurt yourself, though. Pay attention your right elbow stays tucked and doesn’t wing out above the left elbow until after impact.  The forearms and hands do, then, roll over each other in this end over end transfer to the target side. Vigorously.

Typically, one’s center of gravity is above the navel. When you add a golf club and amplify it’s weight with centrifugal force that true center of gravity is moved higher towards the heart, in fact. Beyond that adjustment, once I also transferred the core focus from the base of the neck to nearer the heart, everything became easier regarding coiling and uncoiling. Suddenly everything became more balanced, integral and harmonious. Just remember that imaginary peg is roughly parallel to the spine. It just so happens that’s where the hub IS. VISIBLY. Just observe where the club unwinds from on film looking down the target. Right there.

Weight Shifting;

There is a distinct back and forth weight shift that accompanies this deep coiling and uncoiling of your core. At address the weight is pretty even. At the top it is almost all on your back foot and hip. By impact the exact opposite, almost all on your front foot and hip. You can almost mirror the foot lift at these two points, too. At the top the front heel is off the ground. At impact the back foot’s heel is off the ground. This back and forth weight shift dynamic is just that; dynamic. It multiplies the dynamics of the coil. This directly back and forth shift is partly what establishes your ball flight direction. At it’s essence the weight shift involves the whole upper body – trunk, back, shoulders, arms and club –  transferring weight directly away from the target to the top – keeping a steady head – while the lower body holds firm and, then, in the down swing, the lower body – everything below the waist – transfers weight directly target wards against the opposite tug of the upper body having displaced weight away from the target. A rubber band effect, so to speak. This is the dynamic you want in your transition zone, especially. It sets up a correct body sequence down. The upper body – from the waist, up – moves weight back, away from the target, the lower body – from the waist, down –  moves weight forward, the two pitted against the other. Somehow this mind focus of transferring weight directly away from the target with the entire upper body versus the weight transfer TO the target with the entire lower body going down seems to iron out a lot of alignment considerations. The shoulder muscles, mostly, initiate this upper body move away to the top. Just maneuvering all that mass of arms and club away automatically shifts weight to the back foot. Even though the arms and club travel up halfway back t to prevent swaying there is still some shoulder muscle that should always be traveling exactly away from the back to of the ball to the top. I make that focus point my left shoulder tip. The legs and hips initiate the downswing sequence. The right leg pushes hard and begins to shift weight to the front foot as the hips and left leg wings target wards to get into position to be able to catch the weight before impact. The hips also rotate open, always ahead of the shoulders, until one third past impact at which point the shoulders overtake the hips.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       If what follows sounds a little confusing the above information should suffice for most people. But there is also another subtle kind of weight shifting; a circular, ever shifting, ever changing weight shift that finds itself at the opposite end of the club’s weight, wherever that may be at any given point. Lee Trevino called it a “Hula” shift. motion. It is a move directly related to creating a centrifugal force like a weight whirling at the end of a string. If you think about it, to keep the Hula hoop against your body and not fall to the ground, you have to keep tension on the part of the Hula hoop touching you and tug away from the side that’s not at all times. Like tugging against a weight on a string. For example; Sam Snead’s famous “squat” position in early downswing. It appears as if he is jumping out of an airplane, straight down, as his shoulders are coiled and his club is dropping from above his head. You see, his club is above his head and his CENTER OF GRAVITY is going straight down at first pulling directly opposite it.. By the time his club is halfway down and opposite the target his center of gravity is now pulling TO the target with his legs now arched in that direction tugging against the opposite position of the club. At impact, the club now hurtling straight below him, his body posture finds his legs now pushing straight up, opposite the position of the club’s weight which is straight down. In the follow through it’s as if he is pulling back on the club, opposite it’s position. The fact that a strong push upwards against the ground with your legs during the strike produces centrifugal force suggests it’s best to first plant your weight low and down in the early stage of the downswing so you will be able to push up at impact with even more force. You have first dropped your weight downward so you can then shift left and then push upwards during impact. Not just a back and forth shift but also circular depending on where in the swing you are at any given moment. Feel the weight of the club and tug just ahead of it’s opposite position – like spinning a weight on a string with that tiny circular finger motion – using mostly your lower body, legs and hips. It’s mostly the lower body that transfers weight to the target. The head stays steady. It should be pointed out, also, that the weight going back is partly a product of displacing mass – the shoulders, arms and club to the right going away from the target automatically putting weight to your back foot. The downswing, however, is the result of a very strong shift to the front foot, using the lower body, before impact. There’s a little Hoola Hoop hip action in the mix.

If you’ve ever swung a weight on a string you understand what is happening. To make that weight spin you must first make a tiny inner circular motion with your fingers to make the weight spin. Wherever that weigh happens to be your fingers are tugging OPPOSITE of wherever it is at all time. It’s the essence of creating centrifugal force. I suspect this opposite tugging is not quite opposite but rather just ahead of the opposite point of the club’s weight. Thus the dynamic effect versus a static effect. Nobody in golf has ever spoke in these terms yet it seems to be staring us all in the face when you analyze a swing..

Going back it is the upper body, mostly, that moves weight away from the target. The downswing begins with most of your weight already on your back foot. It remains there to support your weight as you jockey the hips target wards and open up your lead leg to the target. That is, the lower body transfers weight to the target. Only the lower body. The upper body stays coiled and back. Shoulders, arms, wrists and club. The right leg pushes hard into the ground to allow the hips and lead leg to lift and travel target wards. In mid downswing, the hips sliding left,  the weight is now evenly distributed between both feet. Before impact and during the strike most of the weight is transferred to the lead leg and hip and foot as the shoulders rotate somewhat vertically above, the arms and club rolling over each other to the  target side of the ball, after.

Body Sequencing;

I learned, by positioning and re arranging my swing in a picture window’s reflection, that a flat mirror is as good as practice and maybe even better. I’ll admit one has to KNOW exactly what is and is not good posture and position to benefit from this technique but I think I do and the results have been paying off, big, for me, lately. Now that I have properly “molded” my swing into proper mechanics using the visual aid of a picture window I don’t need to practice so much to stay sharp. I am fundamentally correct, finally, already. Things automatically click better. I can go months without hitting a ball and it’s like I never missed a beat when I hit that first bucket, later. I’ll teach you what good position and posture and sequence are. You can do this window training, too. A camera works even better. I give my body a thought and see what it looks like and, when I see something I like, I make a mental note of what thoughts led to it and try to ingrain it into my swing. The good news is all you need is a big picture window and a stick or a club.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Once the set up and grip are correct you want to observe a few things. Without swaying your head and after a wide swing of the arms and club, the coil beginning form the shoulders, down, you want your torso very slightly leaned away from the target at the top position against a lower body that leans a little towards the target. A kind of zig zag look. A mostly vertical upper body is just fine. You do NOT want the upper torso to lean target wards at the top or your hips to travel. The hips serve like an anchor going back stabilizing things. They save their action for the downswing. You want your legs to look as though they are resisting the upper body coil a little at all times, the rear leg arched towards the target a little and with a slightly flexed knee. The lead knee also resists and acts as a prompt ready to kick target wards as the first move forward. You want to see your entire left arm, club handle and shoulder to the right of your head at the top. Pushed deep under your chin, back and up. Those little bones between your neck and shoulders, moved even a little, pack a lot of wallop. Can you appreciate the pent up power involved in such a configuration? Your entire, extended left side, shoulder, arm and club wrapped around your spine against a resistant, coiled pair of hips and legs below ready to launch the entire package forward? Your body wound up like a twisted towel? Your shoulders have out coiled your hips by twice. Progressively your body is more tightly wound above than below. To get to the top it wound itself from the top down and not all together. It was the upper body that moved the weight and club away from the target. This ensures a tight coil. Now the transition and downswing commence and you want to preserve the differentials you have created. If there exists a differential of 45 degrees at the top between shoulders and hips you want to retain that early into the downswing even as your lower body is shifting down and left, opening up and uncoiling towards the target. Now the lower body, alone, moves the weight to the target. The hands actually are forced to increase their cock a little in this early stage of the downswing to relieve pressure and allow the lower body to shift forward and down into place. You want to also retain that club angle until just before impact. As the downswing begins the right elbow and shoulder go straight down, like a rock, the elbow socked against your right side like a spear point that leads the hands and club into position. By late downswing you should notice that it is your hips, lower body and legs, mostly, that have opened up and advanced target wards, your upper body remaining somewhat more coiled, still, and in place. If your hips are opened 20 to 40 degrees ahead of your square shoulders at impact you understand the concept. They should be. You have preserved your differentials all the way into impact. During impact, your shoulders square to the target, the right shoulder goes under the left almost vertically. Impact is the place where your hands catch the club like a slingshot pouch harnessing a rock and let all Hell break loose as they act like a whip’s tip hurtling the whole club / arm assembly to the target. The lower body acts like a bow, the arms and upper body act like a bow string and the club acts like the arrow. That kind of dynamic. The secret is to resist the urge to hit, whatsoever, with your hands and arms UNTIL impact while putting mind focus on that central core hub your whole swing emanates from, instead.

Once the ball is struck the sequence changes allowing the upper body, shoulders , arms and club to rocket past the ball position and the lower body. When the club shaft is aimed to the target in the follow through, both arms straight, the shoulders are beginning to pass the hips and continue to unwind about 45 to more degrees past the spent hips at the finish.

Basically you have created differentials to the top and, with a lower body unwinding first along with a weight shift, you have preserved this upper body coil and cock of the club until almost impact at which point  the upper body and club, launched by the lower body, whirl past the now spent lower body after impact all the way to the finish.

To simply observe this it appears as though the entire right side is compressing in a downswing, the arms, club and shoulder going down against the upward thrust of the right leg as it pushes off the ground. A kind of vertical compression. The entire left side seems, conversely,  to be extending and bowing out to the target. This vertical compression is also felt between the downward centrifugal thrust of the club against the upward thrust of the legs, especially the left leg, at impact. From face front the impact position looks a little like a man trying to pull a snake out of it’s burrow with his hips shifted left, his head back, putting the load on his left leg, mostly. At no point in a swing are either knees ever locked straight. At impact you WANT some flex in your lead leg. You always want to look out for your body’s well being and flexed joints just last longer.

Regarding foot action, the foundation of all body activity, the weight is transferred to the back foot at the top, the lead heel slightly off ground, and stays there on the rear foot as the downswing begins only to launch target wards in mid down swing and transfer weight to the lead foot before impact. Ride the insteps of the feet in both directions for best foot posture.  Avoid rolling around to the outer edges until impact with the left foot. When the heels lift it is from the instep, first. By impact it is the rear heel that is off the ground the lead foot catching the brunt of the swing’s force. At the finish the weight is on the lead foot’s outer edge and heel and the very toe, only, of the rear foot. About an 80 / 20 % ratio.

Regarding hand action, and this is something I personally prefer, you want the hands to cock a very little right away into a back swing in the correct geometry to break the ice for later. Just a slight kink along the waggle’s path is all so as to help cancel out body sway allowing the club’s momentum to go up a little instead of so backwards. As the arm and club go back and up the cocking will increase automatically and the kink, early on, will lighten the weight of the club and eliminate the conscious thoughts of straight to cocked back to straight again. Once that initial “kink” has been created with the proper angle the club feels lighter and there are no thoughts about the wrists, except restraining them, until impact. If you feel the need to adopt the more traditional style that starts out with no wrist cock the first few feet back that’s fine, too. I just think the game’s future involves creating an initial kink to set up the rest of the swing so as to eliminate extra thoughts. Adhering to the target in front of your toes with the hand geometry is key. Very importantly, (Also previously mentioned.) you want to make sure that your club shaft is properly trained to aim to the target whenever it is parallel to the ground – one third back, the top position, 3/4 down and 1/4 past impact positions. At the top your club face should be parallel your left arm or thereabouts. At the top as much as 90 degrees of cock is alright. Not more, however, until early downswing. In mid downswing the hands are very compressed, maybe 100 degrees and later start to open due to centrifugal force – not conscious hand action –  just before impact. At impact the handle leads the head slightly and it should feel as though the club is still slightly cocked, your right shoulder going under your left. Taking the divot after the ball helps ingrain this. The right elbow, as seen from behind, down the target line, is still behind the left arm and elbow a little, just like address. Don’t let it wing out and around until after impact when the whole everything; shoulders, arms and club are hurled to the other side of the ball head over handle, club head over heel, 180 degrees, each. After that it’s all about coming to a finish. Still, you want to maximize your acceleration from impact to past impact. Hit with unrestrained authority and follow through, the most speed just after impact.

Which Wrist / Club Configuration To Use At The Top?;

I’m a little amazed at how differently the tour players are in this regard. You’d think they’d all conform to an ideal but it seems there are instinctual factors that steer different golfers in different directions. Somewhere along the way something worked unusually well and they let that move take hold and become a part of their technique. Some bow the wrist, others cup the wrist, still others have a flat wrist. The bowed wrist puts the weight behind one more at the top than a cupped wrist will. A cupped wrist action throws the weight more up and above. The flat wrist technique is basically neutral. The real trick is to keep the shaft aimed to the target  at those four basic positions when it is is parallel to the ground; 1/3 back, the top, 3/4 down and 1/4 through on the target side after impact.

Me, personally? I like a very slight cupping of the left wrist – straight is O.K., too –  and a slightly upright plane with zero loop back and forward. I prefer an initial, subtle  kinking with my wrists and club and no other thoughts regarding the hands until impact. It adds up to scope rifle accuracy, I find. I find myself not looking at the ball flight so much as it’s landing, lately.

Upright or Flat swing plane?

An upright plane will find the arms and hands higher at the top than a flat plane. The flat plane has some balance advantages while the upright plane has accuracy advantages. Taller golfers gravitate to the upright style I’ve noticed. I like to strike a fine balance between the two although I lean towards an upright plane for accuracy. The extreme “Flying Right Elbow” is to be avoided as much as the too cramped elbow. You want a little elbow room but you also want to be in position with the right elbow to go down in a good geometry. The modern trend is to cramp it tight against the side to be in place for the downswing. You can still have a deep extension with the left arm to the top with a cramped right elbow, however, I lean towards moderation in all things putting comfort near the top of considerations. The main thing is to keep the right UPPER arm from traveling too far behind your head. It should point slightly towards the target at the top versus 90 degrees to the target line.

Refer to the illustrations provided for a reference guide for all the swings body and club positions and sequence..

COURT MATTERS SECTION:

Steve Lightfoot

800 Scott Street

Sand City, Ca. 93955

Ph #; 831-867-2685

e-mail; lennonmurdertruth@Yahoo.com

CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL

KING CITY, CALIFORNIA OFFICE

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA

COUNTY OF MONTEREY

People of the state of California

(Plaintiff)

vs

Steven Lightfoot

(Defendant)

Case Number ;

Date; October 18, 2024

Department 20

Time; 10:00 AM

Case number; 24TR014840

MOTION TO DISQUALIFY JUDGE MENDOZA  AND JUDGE SILLMAN

Please take notice that I, Steve Lightfoot, the defendant in the above named matter, will move to disqualify Judges Mendoza and Sillman from presiding over my case. Based on a previous matter in small claims court there is reason to believe I cannot receive a fair trial with Judge Mendoza and Judge Sillman has already displayed improper rulings and bias in a red light citation where officers were allowed to ignore subpoenas, twice.

While Judge Mendoza’s conduct in our last appearance regarding  “Unnecessary noise” citations was fair, – I pled no contest to avoid the trauma of having to subpoena officers who might not show and the conditions were acceptable – her conduct in another matter was blatantly unfair. Judge Sillman was blatantly unfair regarding a red light citation that found the officer hiding with his motorcycle in my blind spot to distract me from the road, momentarily, after first brazenly displaying himself seconds before, and then excusing several officers from their served subpoenas, twice, even refusing to allow one officer who complied with his subpoena, to testify.

I object to Judge Mendoza presiding in my  my upcoming matter as a trial may occur and her ruling regarding a small claims case in 2019 against an auto repair shop, Jack Fox Auto, was blatantly unfair to me and ignored the facts of the case. I am convinced this is because of my status as the man exposing evidence against our government in John Lennon’s assassination and the state has a vested interest in hobbling my van and my life to obstruct my expose efforts. Namely, this shop, who has ties to the Seaside Police department regarding auto repair services, demanded payment in advance before they caused several damages against my 1989 Toyota van. What was supposed to be an engine replacement including suspension repairs turned out to be a nightmare that found me having to call the police to report attempted theft of my vehicle before they even released it. This after they held it for over two or three months and then delivered a van that would not run, needed an alignment, and was deliberately drained of transmission fluid to sabotage me further. My wiring harness which I had repaired a month before, was cut with a knife, every wire, brazenly, as if to taunt me. The makeshift repair they made had to be repaired properly, elsewhere, at a cost of several hundred dollars. My battery, which was new, they also destroyed. Any fair judge would have ruled in my favor. She was not fair.

The manager of this shop was not present at trial and arrived 45 minutes late. It is possible the court called him to appear, then, in fact. That, all by itself, is improper.  All of these damages I listed in my case and they were not rebutted by the defendant. Only after I brought up this fact towards the end of my presentation did the manager claim otherwise, and, then, only tepidly. Judge Mendoza even gave him a look that suggested she was disgusted with what his shop had done to me. That she ruled against me cost me over $2,300.00 I was claiming. It was a brazen miscarriage of justice and left me convinced that she may have been instructed by her superiors to thwart my claim, regardless of the facts.

As this van was in Jack Fox’s shop (They have since changed their name following my publicity blitz exposing them)  my other van, a 2000 Chevy Astro van, was also damaged by a man who was recommended to me by a retired Santa Cruz police officer – Bill Rawson – who knew who I was from seeing my website across the van. In 1995 his department set me up for national television news slander as a stalker of Stephen King for simply appearing at one of his book signings with a billboard that read; ‘STEPHEN KING IS A MURDERER; IT’S TRUE OF HE’D SUE” I asked Rawson if any of his coffee shop patrons would like to make $40. to drive me one block to a dentists office nearby for an upcoming operation I was to have. This man, Chris Malzack, drove recklessly through the parking lot and jerked to a stop and exited my van leaving the door open and the van in neutral on a downslope. One witness saw him run to the rear of my van. By the time I noticed I was rolling and jumped from the back section into the driver’s seat to stop it from doing great damage and plowing through a fence and into another lot full of cars I hit a fence and fainted, momentarily, from the shock. Though there was no alcohol or drugs in my system following a blood test I was cited for D.U.I. and had to fire two lawyers who were throwing my case and recuse three judges, one of whom, formally, in writing, admitted he was biased against me, before the matter was dismissed after over two years of violating my speedy trial rights that I never waived. Even then, the prosecution was attempting to resort to methods never before used in California law history.

So I found myself experiencing two instances of fraud and damages caused to me and my two vans at the same time by people who have police ties, no less. Chris Malzack may have even been sat down to watch a two hour video; ‘America’s 100 Worst Accidents” days  before he set me up for an accident. He admitted so on video tape. He also admitted on video; “I’ll bury a car in a heart beat. It’s just an inanimate object.”

And, so, now I find the same judge Mendoza who wrongfully ruled against me in one of those matters, who I have tried to recuse several times since, slated to preside over this upcoming case involving an officer who pulled me over, twice, in twenty minutes time while on my way to Los Angeles to join in student protests there. An officer who claims he thinks I must have been on my phone to swerve yet refused to examine my phone to see if had been used in the last two hours prior. It had not been and I told him so.

Even if I show evidence from weather reports proving there were 50 mph gusts that day and time, even if I prove that topography suggests winds shifting due to an area near Soledad that has no mountain range and funnels southerly winds to the west, even if I show that my lightweight, high top, short wheel base van is prone to being blown off course under those conditions, and even if I show that the officer lied to tell me he was on his way to see about a woman having a heart attack to undercut his credibility, and even if I present taped evidence showing that I told him it was only gusts that were responsible for what he claims happened and that I asked him to examine my phone that he claims must have been the cause, and that all this fits a pattern of fraud and abuse against me by this county, that even after all that, Judge Mendoza cannot be trusted to rule fairly in my case.

I suspect she was prepared to deny my motion to have a change of venue on September 20, 2024, in fact. Given my arguments even that would be unjust as a tainted jury pool is not the exclusive cause to change venue but that prejudice and conflict of interest from a jurisdiction is also just cause and I have made that case sufficient to warrant a change of venue.

For these reasons I respectfully move to disqualify Judge Mendoza and Stephen Sillman, who also has also displayed a bias against me, from presiding over my upcoming case. Judge Sillman allowed several officers to ignore subpoenas, twice, and even refused to allow officer Silonzolchic to testify even though he was present in another matter.

I would have made this motion last month but another judge was before me and I assumed he would be the one to hear this matter. He, unlike Judges Mendoza and Sillman, I have no history or cause to suspect is biased.

I declare, under penalty of perjury, that the above is true and correct.

Dated September 20, 2024

 

_______________________________________________________________________

Steven Lightfoot (Defendant)

Peremptory Challenge Motion

Please take notice that on October 18. 2024, I, the defendant, will move to peremptorily challenge Judge Mendoza to oversea my case. Based on pervious experience with this same judge I have reason to believe I cannot receive a fair and unbiased trial under her.

I declare, under penalty of perjury, that the above is true and correct.

Dated October 4, 2024

 

__________________________________________________________________________

Steve Lightfoot (Defendant)

Discovery Motion

I am Steve Lightfoot, the defendant in case number 24TR014840 and am scheduled for my next appearance on October 18, 2024. I recently filed discovery for two incidents on May 9, 2024 with officer Clogherty, namely videos and that they include the one to two minute lead time I understand to be policy for the CHP video cameras. This function is to capture vital actions the officer might otherwise miss without such a lead time function. The first more relevant video was not received as of today and was purportedly sent later after being wrongfully singled out for  privacy concerns. The second episode I did receive was minus the lead time I explicitly requested. I understand the officer purchased his own body worn camera equipment and that it may or not be equipped to capture actions prior to activation. If this is the case I would like the evidence, the policy language, regarding this question, not during trial, but in advance of trial and arraignment, as to whether this is policy or allowable. If there exists dash camera, versus body worn footage, on both episodes I request copies of them as well. Mostly I want to see the 60 second to 120 second lead action that I understand to be standard policy in law enforcement and that it be be available on both videos to show whether or not I was being unduly stalked by the officer and possibly targeted over my lennonmurdertruth.com website and van. My status as a controversial and consequential whistleblower in a crime against our government. I have already found it necessary for my personal safety to call out Leon Panetta as a political enemy of mine over the recent barrage of false citations I have had to fight and defeat since 2019. He once worked for Richard Nixon who is implicated in my findings and is the logical man to blame for my predicament with the courts, lately. If your office declares there is no available footage of the minute to two minutes prior to engagement I may have to suppress the tapes on the grounds that they are not within CHP guidelines that should be in place fore the defense’s considerations. This is why I need this information before arraignment and trial.

I enclose a copy of my $5. receipt I already paid for this request.

I declare, under penalty of perjury, that the above is true and correct.

Dated October 4, 2024

 

____________________________________________________________________________

Steve Lightfoot (Defendant)

Motion for Discovery;

I, Steve Lightfoot, the defendant in the above matter, request discovery of both dash cam videos of officer Cloherty,(?) the initial stop as well as the second stop minutes later. I request that both include the two minute buffer preceding the encounters to establish whether or not he was stalking my van for more than a minute or two before he claims I made a violation. Regarding the second stop, I want to see exactly where he was parked waiting for me to pass him before he merged into traffic to follow me again. It is apparent that he parked and hid and waited for me to pass him in the second encounter as he left the first encounter ahead of me. Dash cams are activated to capture everything that happened for two minutes prior to activation. If he cannot provide these two minute buffer sections I move to bar his videos, entirely.

I taped both encounters and, when I asked him how long he had been following me, he replied; “I’m not sure.” I contend he was following me for more than a few minutes in the hopes a gust of wind (50 mph gusts that day) would blow me out of my lane or anything else. He also admitted he recognized my van from seeing it a court parking lot years earlier and knew who I was.

I also want any evidence he can provide to show that he, indeed, was on his way to assist a woman having a heart attack at the time; 4:30 to 5:00 PM on May 9, 2024. I checked with all various  dispatch offices in the area between Greenfield and King City and all told me that there were no heart attacks reported that day. If he lied about that he may have also lied about other matters. In fact, I know he has pulled over another motorist within minutes of a first citation as I happened to be in the Marina court watching his testimony in another similar case and this seems to be a pattern of his. I request this discovery to see if my right not to be selectively targeted were violated and to establish the facts of the case. If he was stalking me for more than two minutes before citing me it would seem he was stalking me selectively and my case must be dismissed, outright, over that evidence

I declare, under penalty of perjury, that the above is true and correct.

Dated September 20, 2024

 

__________________________________________________________________

Defendant pro per, Steve Lightfoot

Motion For A Change of Venue;

I, Steve Lightfoot, the defendant in the above matter request a change of venue because there is no way the county of Monterey can give me a fair trial. The reason being that Leon Panetta has a vested interest in hobbling my LennonMurderTruth.com activism regarding his former boss Richard Nixon as well as his functions as C.I.A. chief and other government posts that are against me ever revealing the truth of John Lennon’s assassination that Nixon can be proved to be responsible for. Many law enforcement agencies over the decades have targeted me many dozens of times just because I have evidence against our government they fear will go public. Me, with no criminal record at all in my 70 years of living. I am already on record on several televised Monterey City Council meetings complaining of Leon Panetta’s probable role in several incidents I have already suffered in this county as well as Santa Cruz county. I allege that there is a chance even officer Doherty may have been tipped off in advance to look for my van and cite me if possible. It so happens that I was on my way to Los Angeles to assist and contribute to the demonstrators at U.C.L.A. at the time of this citation. That Panetta is at the top of the political structure here in Monterey is a well known fact. That he has relatives in judges post here is known, too. Recently I even had to recuse a Judge Panetta who was slated to hear another matter years ago. That he has influence over the courts and law enforcement agencies here is also a fact that impacts me and my rights to impartial treatment. Leon Panetta is well aware of me and my activism and has demonstrated that he is my enemy.

In fact, since January 10, 2019 in Santa Cruz, the local authorities, C.H.P. Sheriff and police have violated my rights beginning with a man who wrecked my newly painted and lettered van while I was to get an operation. I was in the back of my van when this man left me in neutral on a downslope. I had to jump over the front seat and into the driver’s seat to stop it from going through a fence and into another lot and doing untold worse damages. This man, Chris Malsack, was recommended to me to hire as a driver to that appointment by a retired S.C.P.D. officer, Bill Rawson, who knew who I was. Malsack admitted on video tape that; “I’ll bury a car in heartbeat. It’s just an inanimate object…” after the fact. He also admitted on tape that he was sat down to watch a video; “America’s 100 Worst Accidents” days before he wrecked my van. It’s possible he was coached by someone to set me up. I was charged with D.U.I. on the suspicion I was on drugs for an operation even after they learned from blood tests there were no such drugs in my system. No alcohol or drugs and, yet, I was cited anyway. Highly improper. Then I had to fire two lawyers who were deliberately throwing my case and recuse three different judges, one of whom admitted in writing that he is prejudiced against me. Ultimately, after denying my speedy trial rights for over two years, my case was dismissed in the interest of justice, I think, because I insisted on defending myself and not trusting their court’s lawyers. Besides the court trauma I was exposed to, my van suffered over $2,000.00 in damages I had to pay for.

Just weeks after that citation another C.H.P. officer from the same office cited me for unsafe lane change on April Fool’s Day. He tried to reschedule trial to align with the anniversary of the Loma Prietta earthquake that I mentioned to the first officer a day after the citation. He did not show after I refused that date and commissioner and THAT was also dismissed, I think because my request for video would have shown that he was parked waiting for me to get into my van and drive before following me. In fact, because another car in front of me who suddenly saw a police car following us suddenly slowed down, I had to change lanes to avoid hitting him.

While still fighting the first D.U.I. charge Monterey police descended on my van August 28, 2020 with several patrol cars and officers to investigate a parking incident. I was cited for open container (A practically empty bottle of Brandy I mistook for olive oil while singing in downtown from my van with less than a teaspoon in it) after the officer’s attempt to cite me for D.U.I. had to be abandoned after I blew a 0.00, twice. In the process another officer Herndon wrongfully attributed an accident where there was none, where the driver of the other car refused to file a complaint and alleged no damages. Even officer Herndon admitted there were no damages. He even threatened to add charges if I didn’t give him my insurance information a week after the fact. Two of the other officers also lied in that matter.

Then, on July 18, 2021, officer Kopp (That’s right) of Monterey P.D. brazenly presented himself to me on his motorcycle before following me from a Seven Eleven parking lot and promptly hid in my blind spot for several seconds hoping he’d catch me looking in my rear view mirror to find where he disappeared to in the hope I’d miss a light change while distracted. It apparently worked as I was going through the most congested successive set of lights in the county. While looking in my rear view mirror to find him the last one changed. He, then, went immediately to his station as if he had accomplished his mission. I went there and saw him there.

Then, in August of 2021(2022)(?), a man in a police / library parking lot in Seaside, parked halfway into my space, alleged I tapped his car while parking. No damage but he threatened me with violence to the point I had to retreat into the library to call police. The librarian was too busy and I eventually left with this man watching me who said nothing as I left. Months later I received a summons for misdemeanor hit and run. The photos this man provided showed a black asphalt scrape too low on his car for any part of my yellow van to have contacted and officer Silonzolchic outright lied that he ever spoke to me on the phone about the matter. The phone he cited had been retired and replaced and not used for months prior. My public defender is a witness to this fact. That case was also dismissed.

A year later this same man who made a false report was found dead in this same car in the exact same parking space of our encounter. Pretty suspicious, I think. I always thought he was part of a police operation. I just happened to drive by the day I saw police tape around his vehicle with a sheet over the window.

Then, while fighting my red light ticket seven officers failed to honor my subpoenas, twice. Officer Silonzolchic, who did appear, the judge refused to allow to testify. I was wrongfully convicted in that matter.

Recently an off duty officer in a court parking lot tried to claim damages from my opening my door. He found me hours later and ten miles away and I claimed he was trying to scam me. Whatever he pointed to my van could not have caused. When I told him I will not oblige his claim he threatened me with violence and verbal threats .My going to police is how I discovered that this man is also a police officer. That’s a lot of alleged parking lot incidents associated with police that seems to be a pattern of THEIRS, not mine.

Recently, at a city council meeting, Monterey police chief, Hober, grabbed from my hands a sign that read; “L. PANETTA SUCKING S. KING’S DICK” (Stephen King is linked to Lennon’s murder) I, nevertheless, verbalized this message on television at the council meeting and my enmity towards Leon Panetta is well known by him and law enforcement. My website is rife with the other entries where I lambaste Leon Panetta. I have done so in several council meetings as well. I have also had to call out the admitted homosexuality of mayor of Monterey Tyler Williamson and he is obstructing my rights to be seen and heard there for seven months, now. I can’t sit back and not fight back and push back. My life is in danger. I have not even listed the many other more serious attacks against me by officials elsewhere these past four decades.

Just this past September 1, 2024, the Monterey police refused to even get the name of a man I called them to investigate who made verbal threats to vandalize my van. They got my name and such but not his. This is emblematic of the bias this county has towards me.

If it were revealed that Stephen King, the real life murderer of John Lennon, is paying officials in this area to suppress my expose I would not be at all surprised. It’s happened elsewhere, in fact. One Bangor, Maine police officer admitted on the stand that King gives him $6,000. per month to harass me.” It’s on record. The way judges and police have treated me here is similar.

In the course of staying alive one has to call out his enemies in public and I do and I have and this fact suggests, along with everything else listed here, that I cannot receive a fair trial in this or Santa Cruz counties and request a change of venue to another location.

To deny that I have a valid claim to ask for a change of venue would be ludicrous.

I declare, under penalty of perjury, the above is true and correct.

Dated September 5, 2024

 

______________________________________________________

Steve Lightfoot – Defendant pro per

(WWHHAAAATTT? lost data?)

One Page Letter Explaining Reasons Why Noise Ordinances Exist;

Noise levels can be unwarranted depending on the circumstances. Some noises can actually cause hearing loss. Jack hammers, heavy equipment and even vehicles can contribute to this kind of “noise pollution”. Prolonged exposure to these high decibels is especially harmful and can pose dangers to physical and cognitive health. These loud sounds can increase stress levels, including cortisol, adrenaline and noradrenaline increases. Chronically high levels or these hormones can impact heart disease, hypertension, stroke, immune responses and cognitive functioning. Other effects include heart disease, high blood pressure, low birth weight and can pose cognitive development issues in children.

Typically this noise pollution involves the sounds of living in a modern world; heavy equipment, vehicles, exhaust noises, screeching sounds and other noises varying in pitch and frequency levels. 85 decibels over an extended period of time can cause hearing loss I recently read. Other kinds of noise pollution can come from from loud concerts, even local festivals and music or amplified sound from electronic devices. A past frequenter of karaoke bars I often found it necessary to stuff my ears with wads of paper towels to protect myself from these loud noise levels. Some of these karaoke hosts already have hearing loss and can’t appreciate how loud their systems sometimes are.

My own situation involved my stereo system in my van. I play karaoke CD’s and non karaoke CD’s and sing along (unassisted by microphone) with my natural voice. I do this near outside dining situations so people can hear me for more than just a few seconds. Typically my voice is always louder than my amplified backround music. I have to be able to hear myself above the backround sounds yet be able to also hear the music to sing along to. I sing in public to promote my political messaging relating to evidence I have discovered in John Lennon’s murder. The truth of that matter is so depressing I sing to offset that fact and get the public on my side by showing my gentler, softer side. I also happen to sing extraordinarily well, lately, and it serves to give me credibility with the public to show that I am no slouch and possibly correct with my claims that our government killed John Lennon based on my findings in back issues of major magazines that contain codes all about the behind the scenes goings on then. Last July of 2022 I may have been close to the 50 foot limit for amplified sound as my driver’s side speaker wasn’t working requiring me to turn up my volume a little to hear the passenger side speaker. I have since replaced both speakers so that I can still hear the music over my singing without having to use as much over all volume. Beyond a certain level I can’t hear myself sing and I always make sure, now, that my amplified sound levels are modest and well below that 50 foot limit. I have sang at least 1,000 times like this and only last July of 2022 have I received complaints. I occasionally speak, instead, but very sparingly. That is so much more offensive that I choose to sing, instead. The locals seem to appreciate it, too. Especially now that I AM quieter.

I noticed this subject recently in our Monterey Herald and saw that there are efforts afoot to lower the decibel levels from 80 to 70 and to also extend to 72 hours the current 24 hour limit for compliance after a warning.

In agreeing to perform eight hours of community service and write this letter Judge Mendoza has agreed to suspend my fines for both matters and effectively erase the disturbing the peace violation and not use the remaining violation to be used as “a cudgel to bludgeon me with, after”. In other words, any future violations should not impact this plea agreement but be treated separately. I am a target of police due to my controversial political importance and want to avoid being victimized in this manner. In the two citations issued last 2022 no effort was made by police to determine whether I was or was not complying with the 50 foot limit for amplified sound. Any future citations should require this test be met, first, I would ask. Otherwise my right to free speech could be viewed as being a political target.

I have made good on my end of the bargain and hope the judge will, also.

Steven Lightfoot

 

REDO FOR LETTER:

In the situation regarding my citations the law allows for a 50 foot radius for amplified sound to be heard over ambient noises like traffic and such. Even whispering can be heard from that distance in dead silence and so ambient sound is a factor. While I contend I was not in violation there was one defective CD track – quiet to start then raising in volume drastically –  that caught me very close and I knew that my driver’s side speaker wasn’t functioning then forcing me to turn up my overall level to hear the passenger side speaker over my singing. I have since corrected that by installing two new speakers so I have one speaker very close to me allowing me to turn my overall volume down, well within the legal limits. I have managed to sing almost daily for more than a year since my citations without a complaint and feel I have fixed whatever may have been wrong before. I only have to hear enough of the song to be able to sing along with it and still hear my own voice over it to stay in key.

In a recent Monterey Herald article sound ordinances made the news and even Mariachi music and car and motorcycle exhaust sounds made the list of offenders. Noise pollution was alleged to be upsetting to citizens. There were plans to possibly lower the current 80 decibel limit to 70 decibels, I read. Regarding my own situation most pedestrians only hear me at all when they are within 30 feet of my open driver’s side window where I sing. It’s also bad for one’s voice to sing louder than necessary and so I have learned to deliberately lower my levels. I value the health of my instrument beyond the considerations of others who value a quiet atmosphere. If I were not sure I am a world class singer focusing on easy listening sounds I would not burden society at all with singing. I don’t ask for tips or anything like that yet have received $40. tips more than once and most pedestrians and restaurants appreciate what I do and give me thumbs up, often. The whole purpose is to convince people I am not a wacko at all (My political claims do seem outlandish, at first.) but a credible citizen with evidence and to be taken seriously. Also to show them my gentler, less political side. There are free speech rights that I feel I am legally merely exercising.

Recently a brazen security staffer on Alvarado Street tried to intimidate me by leaning into my window and suggested I must have something against Rosine’s to be singing there. I told him they like me there, in fact. He, still, then questioned a waitress about me having received no complaint. I want to avoid any unwarranted future police citations that might affect this plea agreement so that this matter’ “… not be used as a cudgel to bludgeon me with later…” and affect the conditions you offered. I promise to obey the laws and sound restrictions and respect the laws that exist where noise levels are concerned.

Dated September 18, 2023

(Insert replacement);

In the research I have done about why the state restricts loud noises I have not found too much relating to my specific cases. I began singing in the 80’s to squeak by any complaints about my political message regarding John Lennon’s assassination evidence. I figured it can’t be illegal to sing in public unamplified. It, apparently, is not.  Amplified sound coming from my van’s stereo system is the subject of scrutiny. That is the matter I am charged with appreciating. My system can no longer be heard in that respect even from 40 feet away since the speakers were replaced and I can hear one speaker that is now only a few feet away from my ears instead of several feet away. I hope I am not a problem in the future and endeavor to avoid any complaints.

This revised version of my letter is made in the interest of sticking to the task asked of you and not, instead, talking about me. If the first two versions were in error in that manner I hope this rectifies the situation.

Dated September 26, 2023

Steve Lightfoot

 

Sincerely, Steve Lightfoot

REPLY BRIEF;

It should be said that the prosecution has defaulted in not filing it’s respondent’s brief.  It also failed to respond to my proposed statement, before.

My argument has been that my case was one of political persecution over my John Lennon murder evidence activism and website that proves our government assassinated John Lennon in contradiction to everything the public was told, then. I have claimed that there is more than a good chance that officer Kopp deliberately hid himself in my blind spot to make me take my eyes off the road to see if I could be caught doing so as a light was changing. A police ‘trick’. I have claimed that he presented himself on his motorcycle to me in a 7-11 driveway and blatantly followed me, after. Naturally, when I suddenly could not see him anywhere – video shows him drifting to the extreme right edge of our lane for several seconds after first being seen driving in the center of that lane -, I naturally was concerned if he was directly behind me which would have made stopping a dangerous act even if it was a red light. As it was I was busy trying to find him at the very moment the light had changed. I never saw anything but green before this. I was very aware that I was being followed by a police officer and had no reason not to obey all signals. I was on extra alert, in fact. It so happened the stretch of road included three consecutive signals in a row on a downslope. The only explanation is that I WAS distracted by the officer’s unusual driving which placed him in my blind spot. That it was his actions that resulted in my violating in the first place. I had a stack of flyers on my dash about his chief Hober’s recent abuses against me that day, in fact. I was busy balancing diligence with safety and the officer’s safety took precedence when he suddenly disappeared. It would have been dangerous to suddenly stop not knowing exactly where the officer and his motorcycle were.

In my trial I filed subpoenas for several other officers to show a pattern of fraud and abuse by this department against me. I am protected from discriminatory prosecution and should have been able to show if there was any. Prior matters involving fraud apply to this case even though the other officers had nothing to do with this matter. Twice these subpoenas were ignored. The second occasion found officer Silonzolchic of Seaside police present and without papers to contest his appearance. In spite of this even he was not permitted to take the stand. This fact harmed my defense. I would have been able to ask him if he actually called me on the phone number he listed in his report like he said. My phone would have showed he could not have done so as it was last used by anyone months before that day. This fact would have cast doubt on his truthfulness and credibility. I explained this to the judge. The officer made up an outright lie that he ever spoke to me at all. He had not. This instance, alone, should have put reasonable doubt in Judge Sillman’s mind if I was being discriminately prosecuted or if there existed motive to cite me or not. But there were other instances of lying and fraud committed by the other several officers from Monterey P.D. who failed to show, twice. The first time they offered no papers to contest their appearance. They just simply did not show. This fact the court cannot deny was improper. The second time the city attorney claimed my subpoenas were civil, not criminal, and therefor invalid. I argued that the clerk made the mistake, not me, as she knew my case was criminal and still gave me the wrong forms and that I could not be held responsible for that. Had the other officers appeared I would have been able to prove, with video and reports they made, that they all lied or committed fraud of some degree in citing me in other matters. I explained to the judge that officer’s Phillips, Herndon, Hill, Newby, all lied in other matters. Phillips admitted he lied that he would not cite me for the teaspoon of alcohol in a bottle I mistook for olive oil if I passed a sobriety test. I blew 0.00, twice yet he still cited me for that. Sergeant Newby, to justify this, claimed the video showed me trying to take a sip yet the video shows no such act and that the lid was on tight the whole time. Officer Herndon, who admitted “no damage” to a parked car I tapped while trying to park, demanded my insurance information a week later and alleged an accident where there was none. The other car’s owner declined to file a complaint. He, himself, took this action. His sergeant admitted he was wrong in doing so, after. That’s three officers all lying to some degree in just one instance on August 28, 2020. Had I been able to show this fact with the video that proves it all it would have made a difference in the case involving officer Kopp. Officer Hill’s report on Dec. 8, 2021 is in contradiction to her video which I was denied access to. A man had deliberately rammed my van and protest sign yet her report made me out to be the bad guy while she refused to follow up on this man’s hit and run. The video shows that she made up lies in her report to paint me as an angry man at every opportunity. It was the offender who displayed anger, not me. She gave the offender a pass and victimized me. Officer Hill’s bias would have been apparent and I could have shown a bias to the judge that exists against me, generally, where this department is concerned. Add officer Solonzolchic’s lie made up from whole cloth and it would have been amply apparent that there is an agenda among the local police to cite me and hobble my Lennon murder evidence activism. Another matter involved Santa Cruz trying to prosecute me for a DUI in 2019 with a 0.00 reading for alcohol or any drugs they were looking for. After over two years of tormenting me and violating my speedy trial rights and my having to fire two lawyers and recuse three judges the matter was dismissed. Besides all this my van was wrecked by a man a police officer recommended to me. They wrecked my van with me in the back section and tried to blame me for everything. I rescued it from worse mayhem that I think they intended. Ultimately I believe the local authorities are trying to remove my website van from the street by going after my driver’s license. I recently had to attend an interview with the DMV over these matters.

That these officers were prevented from testifying harmed my defense that I based on discriminatory prosecution. Had these officers been questioned it would have better explained officer Kopp’s act of hiding in my blind spot to catch me looking in my rear view mirror and presented a very real reason to dismiss as there would have been doubt as to whether or not I was or was not targeted.

My other motions about a change of venue, discriminatory prosecution and disqualifying judges should also have been allowed as other multiple episodes involving police misconduct have surfaced, since. Last July 13, 2023 a correctional officer (I filed a report and found out) claimed I dented his car when I gently rested my door against his parked car next to me in a court parking lot. An hour later he found me ten miles away and threatened to “(F—) (Me) up…” His pre existing dent I could not have caused – it was not anywhere near where I rested my door – and, when it became clear to him that I was aware he was trying to scam me, he desisted and drove away. Twice in three days, in spite of three previous years without a complaint and hundreds of instances without a complaint, I was cited twice for singing from my parked van. The other man who made a similar claim in a police parking lot a year earlier that I damaged his car was found dead in the same car and parking lot and space where we met a year before. I claimed, then, that he was likely a police operative trying to blame me for things I didn’t do. That I drove by one day and saw a sheet over his car was very eye opening. Who knows what his motives were?

My awareness, now, of my situation has convinced me that the Italian mafia that allegedly runs the government here has been actively behind all this, apparently, and may even run our courts and police for all I know. Whether or not that is the truth my not being able to cross examine witnesses I summoned to trial did harm my defense as I have a good case to show prejudice and discrimination where my many matters are concerned. I have a right not b to be discriminately prosecuted by police. Had my rights been honored in this regard I would have been able to show reasonable doubt as to whether or not officer Kopp deliberately hid himself in my blind spot or not to catch me looking in my rear view mirror. If there is even a chance he did so my case should have been dismissed.

As such I ask for a dismissal, entirely, of my case and not be subjected to another trial over the matter.

I declare, under penalty of perjury, that the above is all true and correct.

Dated September 7th, 2023

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Steven Lightfoot (Appellant)

Details regarding my claim for damages from a pothole in late January of 2024;

I was driving northbound on Hwy 1 and exited the Fremont St. exit and, immediately after crossing over Hwy 68 over a small bridge, BAMMM! my driver’s side wheel hit a huge pothole at the very northern most part of Fremont Street. I took photos of it days later as I immediately noticed how my wheel was suddenly ‘shimmying’ over irregular surfaces, unlike before. On March 6, 2024 I brought up the incident at a Monterey City Council meeting and I was televised. I later filed a claim against the city of Monterey only to be told, recently, that it was Cal Trans’s liability and not Monterey’s. I approached Gilbert Yelena, the manager at their office on Garden Road and he told me he was the one who repaired them the day after his office received multiple complaints. I think on February 29, 2024. He was surprised it took six bags of asphalt, he told me. Judging from how small the other pot holes were the one I hit may have required two bags or more to fix. The existing repair shows a two foot by three foot footprint. of repair.

I noticed uneven wear on my front tires and, even though I had an alignment in November, months earlier, I had another one in April when I replaced the tires. I was hoping that would solve the problem but I was back days later complaining about a shimmying still present. An inspection showed me a wobbly driver’s side wheel. A new A arm (Control arm) was replaced revealing that the bushing in the other was missing, apparently dislodged when hitting that pot hole.

At one point I was told I may need sub frame repairs, too, but, now that I have a new A-arm, it seems to be driving properly and won’t be seeking those repairs. I will also not be seeking reimbursement for my tires as they were over a year old at the time. I will be seeking reimbursement for the alignment ($75.) and the A arm ($385.) totaling $460. I have the receipts.

My cardboard camera photos did not come out but my subsequent cell phone camera photos of the repairs did and I will be submitting them in this claim. I also have Gilbert Yelena’s card and remarks of needing six bags of asphalt to fix that series of potholes that were present for over a month. I observed, in that first photo session, that the pothole I hit was about 6 inches deep and huge. Included, also, is my original claim against Monterey as it is relevant. The date was the last Sunday of January at 9:00 am, either the 28, or 29th, I think. They were repaired a month later.

My phone number is 831-220-2281

My e-mail is lennonmurdertruth@Yahoo.com

My address is

Steve Lightfoot – 800 Scott Street – Sand City, Ca. 93955

Awaiting your reply, sincerely, Steve Lightfoot

 

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I found a way to cut my auto insurance by 66%. I qualify, so I get a new lease on life this week, hopefully. I have but one point on my DMV record in spite of all the B.S. that has been thrown at me.

October 14, 2023;

While my site is lately devoted to outing the Jewish factor in our world let me describe yesterdays bout with “Billy Sunshine” of KSCO Radio, a part time host there. Yes, he, like the owner and half the hosts there, is a Jew. Only because of that has he survived several bad behavior episodes there. In the past he’s made his bias known about me saying things like; “Let it go, anyway…so what…who cares?…live life and be happy”…etc..

Yesterday it went like this;

Right after I brought up my Lennon evidence;

B.S. ; “Boring. Boring.”

S.L.; “Only to a classless person like you would that be boring. People like you are the reason I don’t have sex.”

B.S.; “Well, that’s a good thing. We don’t want you to reproduce…”

“S.L.; “I wouldn’t do that to a kid until this sick world gets the truth it needs, first.”

S.L.:” Anyway, what I think is going on in Israel is…” (Cut off by his interruptions)

“B.S.; “Do you still think we all deserve to be taken out by an asteroid for not going along with you?…he thinks that Jews are reptiles…”

S.L.; “Only the Jews covered up Lennon’s murder and nobody else. WhomEVER would do such a thing IS reptilian.”

At that point I was cut off.

I would have continued with this banter had I remained on air;

S.L. ; “Billy, you have said about my story in the past, so what, who cares, get a life, boring, etc. Now you claim my characterization of the Jew that he is more reptilian than the rest of humanity is out of bounds. You also think that Stephen King getting away with Lennon’s murder is an O.K. thing. That a little bit of irony is good for our blood. Let me ask, you once bragged on air; “But if you’re as smart as me you don’t have to work to get rich.” Isn’t it a  fact that you married a terminally ill woman a few years before her death to inherit all that you now have? You know, your million dollar house that you live in and all the rest? Wouldn’t you have otherwise been a poor person like me? And, if so, isn’t that a display of reptilian mind set to do something so selfish, calculated and exploitive? You’re a Jew. How can you deny there might be something to what I am saying about Jewish inbreeding costing the Jew a portion of his humanity and why that might factor into their role in the Lennon murder and cover-up? That they may, indeed, be more reptilian than the rest of us? That some malign mutation may be in play that affects all world politics?”

By the way, there is an interesting set of stories related to me and Kissinger on my main page several pages down from the top somewhere. Nixon suffered his fatal stroke just two hours after he heard me confront Henry on KABC radio in 1994(?) about Yugoslavia. Weeks earlier Morton Downey Jr, had me on three days in a row to expose Nixon on talk radio for 45 minutes in all. Did the sound of my voice two weeks later, speaking to Kissinger, who likely brainstormed the idea to kill John Lennon, scare Nixon into a stroke? I think maybe so.

Then there was the time in the late 80’s(?) when Kissinger came to my home town of Santa Rosa to taunt me on his murder anniversary, Dec. 8, only to cancel after I made a public stink about it. He returned ten months later on John Lennon’s BIRTHDAY, Oct 9, to PROVE it was all about me, and was met by a crowd of a dozen people in a room that held 500  Right before he closed his speech I stood up in front of him and said; “Mr. Kissinger, we want to know the truth about John Lennon’s murder.” He looked between his legs and muttered; “Where did that come from?” and then insinuated that I will not live to see my story break in my lifetime Maybe not his, but he died just weeks after I first ever blamed him for being part of Lennon’s murder plot last month. I’m winning on one front, at least, the karma front..

Jan. 15, 2023;

I was going to delete some of the above but time is too short lately to do anything but go forward. I forgot to mention I was interviewed by Frank Morano at WABC last Jan. 4 at 1:30 to 2:00 am, eastern time. I was classic me swatting down attempts to marginalize me. His first question was King’s motive. :”Rage against his father who deserted him when he was two and a half years old…..Lennon’s father did the same thing when he was the same age but John turned out great while he was working at a laundromat trying to eek out a living as a writer…” Also, I separated from KSCO Radio last Dec, 23 for not being on the side of the truth but rather on it’s trivialization. I told owner Michael Zwerling on air that he is the reason the public doesn’t take me seriously. Etc. Utah is looking mighty nice now that I know the public is satanic, lately, her

Recently (Mid 2022) a man claiming to be Clint on KSCO Radio was found saying.” “Because you know what I know that you know that I know… You tried to get in my way when I was making movies and having sex with Salinas women…Get in my way again, punk, and I’ll blast you into the ground…” It could have been an impersonator but maybe not. Maybe he does have demons, still, about it, I don’t know. Generally, I think of him as complex, sophisticated man. A very lonely man who can’t even go out in public and be normal he’s so famous.

Regarding Utah, I may change it up a little now having learned I could move to a place near there but with a few high profile, like minded movie stars who would inevitably learn of me and even help me for all I know. It might also be a little warmer in the winter there. I’ll have to scout out both areas, first

P.S. Desantis fell short of even my expectations and I wonder was it anything to do with my sign in April of 2021 ‘DESANTIS STALKING MESSENGER” after getting a ticket (subsequently dismissed via phone court) for standing in the roadway with my signs near King’s Florida residence. It was up for a week and maybe that DID ring a bell. One other thing before I forget. During that time King, himself, tried to box me into his private roadway to his house. I was two cars lengths into it “private driveway, no trespassing”. I backed out thinking it could be a trap and it WAS KING in his black Tesla behind me having to also back up to let me get out of there. I found out from his neighbors he DOES drive a black Tesla and it looked like him as he turned his face away from me so I couldn’t see for sure. I think I’d have been shot to death, allegedly justifiably, for being near his house with my van as proof of my mischief. Self defense. Did I dodge a bullet that day? I think I did. It was my being arrested in Santa Cruz in 1995 at a bookstore during his book signing event for entering it that taught me these kinds of traps exist. I was slandered on the national news then as a stalker. Just like King had hoped. I recall the book displayed behind him in the paper the next day read; “How A House Works” Enter this bookstore and, WHAM! The irony was, he bragged to the crowd at the Civic center that night about me; “We took a few shingles off of his roof today..” Five years later he was almost killed by a van driver in Maine. The shingles, he lost, not me..

Jan. 30,’24;

I recall, in the Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan in 2008, my eye almost kicked out of my head and my jaw broken by a gang of Haitians in Spanish Harlem. –  A mugging trying to buy weed there after someone tried to burn down my van with a lit cigar that burned a hole in my door panel hours before had me stressed. I came back with a flash camera to intimidate them to give me my money back only to find, not two, but over a dozen of them waiting for me. By the time the flash went off I realized I made a mistake. They got my camera, ultimately – It was the same hospital that Lennon lived his last moments on earth in. The staff told me, there, what happened to him. “He was wheeled in muttering; “Why? Why?” Then the doctor opened his chest up, like a suitcase, and he groaned and died upon that.” Was the doctor paid to do so? I think so.

I fixed my jaw by myself and my eye is only slightly the worse off for the wear that day. God’s guardian grace. I recall how I heard the jaw click into perfect place one night days later. That was the night I showered from the waterfall rain runoff from a roof on Long Island hours before. Anyway, I saw my head X-rays and my real, naked self. I looked a little like a zombie in a movie, my skin and muscles out of the way.

I hope America doesn’t fall to the world order communist crowd before my story breaks is how I feel, lately. Go, R.F.K. Jr. or even Donald Trump. Biden and the evil crowd must be stopped. I think the people are being punished for ignoring me, their biggest hero. Jealous, unjust jackasses, anyway. Did you know that Raffensburger(?) the man who was in charge of the efficacy of the 2020 election was – get this – an ENGINEER by trade before? Who better to rig the voting machines? Pray my story breaks soon, girl. It had better.

At the council meeting yesterday I recalled for them an incident involving a college room mate who bent my left thumb back while I was asleep out of jealousy over my golf career. I knew it had to be him because I caught him once ‘borrowing’ another roommates letter jacket from his closet in the wee early hours for a day. Sneaky. I detailed how he had a GTO and myself an MGB and how he later downsized to a two seater Volvo sports car only to wreck it a year later and found himself being cared for by my father. How weird he must have felt to find himself being cared for by the father of the man whose thumb he tried to damage years before. This to demonstrate how I am being protected by a super natural force and how even this worst storm in 150 years had to do, maybe, with my sign I displayed a month before; “SILENT CA. FAILING AMERICA” It was as if California, specifically, was being punished for SOMETHING. The council already knew about some other huge instances. I said of the storm; “If it makes the public even 3% closer to helping me expose Stephen King then it was worth it.”

Well, let’s keep our eyes on Biden, the commie rat in our midst. Him and evil Kamala Harris. When she was Attorney General in California I went to her office in person over the multiple attempts to entrap me with stop light cameras and the first of what would become two attempts to kill me in traffic. She refused to see me that day, suspiciously. She’s a no good commie, trust me. SHE is slotted to be our first, ever, president after Biden is scheduled to call it quits in mid term to force her on us. I think.

….. Furthermore, his jealousy of me is akin to the Biblical passage about a mother who puts a sheepskin over the arm of her favorite son to get his blind father’s blessings directed to him not his choice, his hairier armed older brother. This brother of mine was not as bright as me and I saw a rift develop when my father, rather the tyrant, even beat him in my presence over his ineptitude in a school homework assignment. “Why does Steve have all the brains? It’s not fair.” I could almost hear him thinking out loud. Ever since, both of my younger brothers have felt it necessary to steal things from me to get even. When I was 16(?) the two of them met up to shoot me in the head with a 22 rifle while one of them and I were hunting birds in a field. I heard the loud report from about 80 yards, felt a warm sensation near my right ear and saw a puff of dust and a single waving blade of straw behind me. It was so traumatic to know who pulled the trigger I blocked it out for decades until the brother who wasn’t supposed to be there tried to hustle me in that estate pickings. THEN I confronted the brother I suspected over the phone and it was met, again, without a denial. Years later he confided it was my youngest brother who met up with him who pulled the trigger. All these years he let me think it was him when it wasn’t. This youngest brother was beaten violently with a belt weeks after this episode for putting the scope on crooked by my father. Perhaps he intuitively, even telepathically knew what he had tried to do to me and took it out on him thinking it was about mistreating his rifle.

Today, while in traffic, two guys signaled for me to roll down my window. “Where’s Jesus?” I pointed to myself and said; “I may not be the second coming but I’m as close as it gets.” “I hear they’re after you.” “Who’s after me?””The satanic people are after you. I’m one of them.” “That’s too bad for you. That’s too bad for you. You’re not me.””I’m going  to  SUCK THE BLOOD OUT OF YOU RIGHT NOW!” and they drove off in their grey, compact car. I, at least, let him know his jealousy is at play in his animus against me.

Paul McCartney I will never speak to, I promise. He must be publicly chastised for being the exact kind of celebrity we don’t need. His silence has given all of mankind permission to be a shut up, too. What a traitor he is. Ringo I may, eventually, begrudgingly, speak to, maybe. Yoko I will expose for the KGB agent / saboteur she is. The J..F.K. murder is being fleshed out as we speak with a new book that shatters the lies we were all told. Pity it took so long.

About J.F.K.. I think the motive to kill him was either his announcement for total destruction of Russia if Cuba fired nukes our way or his anti Viet Nam stance that pissed off the defense industry. Probably the former. I think his murder WAS a coup de ta and THAT was the date we were nuclear blackmailed by Cruschev to go their way or no way at all. We’re seeing the capitulation from our deep state ever since you have to admit. King admits; a dozen times in 1981; “Beware the Jewish / communist plot against the U.S..” I think he’s being truthful, too. They are making their move in earnest, now, over the fear my story will break and save us all.

Big next several days while I move my other van to the central valley.

March 28,’24;

Meanwhile, did Putin retaliate for their mass shooting event that he blames on Ukraine’s allies (Us) by taking down our bridge at the site of The Star Spangled Banner song in Baltimore? That’s how Russia plays war, nowadays. They don’t mince with waiting, either. That’s my take on the matter that will hobble our nation for years. Could be a computer hack that disabled the barge or something else. Who knows, yet? You can be sure this EXACT contingency plan has been on their books for years, now. They have many contingency matters on the books to do with hobbling us. “Oh, say can you see?

My brother in law who claims I am delusional about Stephen King admits he believes in’ The Rapture’. Has he seen the tribulations of Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell? Or Dumbell? WOW! I hope Utah isn’t weird like that if I have to move there. I’ll stay away from Salt Lake City it’s so religious.

About my last post on zipping it regarding Chapman. I hope it sinks in, now, how evil telling America ANY lie really and truly is. It is no small matter at all. Soul damaging and not worth it. Judy Woodruff, once my protestations alerted her to the fact that the Chapman PBS documentary she hosted was a lie, QUIT and had her likeness completely removed from it. It died it’s own death a year later. Good for HER! Baba Wa Wa, on the other hand, for her evil role in her Chapman interview AFTER she got my magazine handed to her secretary in person in 1992, died with only this said about her after; “I remember how livid she got when a little girl told her she didn’t know who she was..” I heard it on talk radio. That was her lone send off from the public. See?

P.S. The CHP ticketed me Thursday one hour into my road trip to to L.A.. “Swerving” from my lane. I claimed high winds blew me sideways (40 mph gusts, in fact). He then exited the freeway ahead of me, waited to again follow me and pulled me over a  second time, watching me as he road next to me, for “playing ” with my watch. How does one “play” with his watch? I was listening to my tape recorder I held up to my ear to hear our taped conversation minutes before. I tried to show him my phone was last used hours before but he declined to inspect even though he suggested, earlier, that was my probable behavior to veer sideways.  All, again, on tape. No ticket. He claimed he was on his way to a woman having a heart attack. We”ll see if there was any woman with a heart attack call. I will demand the two minutes prior to being pulled over are intact on the dash cam thumb drive or have that evidence dismissed due to my claim I was shadowed for several minutes showing a stalking method to entrap me. On both instances. I will also introduce another CHP set up ticket (Dismissed) on April Fool’s day in 2019 where he erased the two minutes prior that would have showed him parked waiting for me to drive. Cowardly, boot-licking state vs, the hero, again. He (The current ticket.) also claimed; “What sign?” on my van he claimed he couldn’t see. Big as life. When I asked him how long he was behind me the first time he replied; “I don’t know.” Right.

May 15,’24;

Yesterday the CHP in Encinitas teamed up with a driver in a white truck who kept stopping in the middle of the street and speeding up when I tried to pass him. Three times, all witnessed by a motorcycle CHP cop who pulled me over after I almost clipped him the third try with him in my blind spot. No ticket, but see how desperate evil Joe Biden is to stop me? Set ups being laid down my path to glory.

I found out there WAS no woman with a heart attack as the other officer last week claimed. I checked. So, see how much better my defense will be after I move the case out of county since Monterey has a vested interest in refusing to grant my agenda claim against them? I doubt the other officer will even show after he gets wind of all I have discovered and can prove about wind gusts that day. His trying to see if I was on my phone, later, in a second targeted stop, and claiming I was “playing” with my watch when he saw no phone, and his not wanting to check my phone record to show it  was last used hours earlier? Joe’s getting desperate.

June 5, 2024;

Looking back I have had a lot of traumatic experiences like the above one was. Perhaps the most memorable was the time the students at U.C. Berkeley laughed with jealous, squealing glee at the news of my father’s suspicious, fatal plane crash; “Goody, goody, Mr. Bigshot. That’ll teach you to be a hero. They got your dad. HA!” That kind of universal, suppressed squealing that I heard from many in the crowd. Exactly like the scene in “Carrie” where the room is spinning like a merry go round as Carrie stands drenched in pig’s blood on stage, the room laughing at her, everyone’s face spinning, the room spinning, that is what I saw before me. Sproul Plaza and everything before me spinning as I processed the madness of the crowd who could be so cruel and sick.

In 1978 I avoided gang rape at the Macon County jail. Linda’s father had, apparently, hatched a scheme to scare me away from Macon and his secrets alleging attempted kidnap of her. Ten days later, the sham apparent, I was released. I had been there a few days, mostly sleeping off days of frantically looking for her, when one night at about 2:00 a.m., I noticed not a sound in a room with twenty men. Translation? Everybody is wide awake and aware of something. I must be that something, I thought. I instinctively jumped out of bed, grabbed a mop and began rattling the bars with the handle until the warden was before me rubbing the sleep out of his eyes as I demanded my own cell. He knew his life was in the balance if he did not. I remember a 6’8″ black man shouting for hours through the wall over his frustration, after. I was lucky. It’s one reason I put Linda in the rear view mirror, too. Pre ordained to make that possible? Maybe. It WAS WEIRD that I learned important things about her after running into a former boyfriend of hers the day I was released just getting gas.

Then there was the time my brothers tried to kill me with a scope rifle, the bullet just grazing my right ear from about 80 yards distance. I thought at the time it must have been Paul. Decades later I would learn that Michael had joined up with him that day and pulled the trigger. At the time, though, it was too much of a horror to contemplate. I blocked it out entirely for all those years. Only Michael’s subsequent attempt at thievery over my father’s estate belongings many years later rekindled that suppressed memory about Paul, I thought. I confronted him over the phone with the memory and he half way admitted it. It would be years later that I would learn that Michael was the trigger man. I forgave them both the day after we buried our mother’s ashes in Tahoe.

The first time my father ever spanked me I remember. My thought; “Are you REALLY going to spank me?” Is all I remember. It made no sense. There were dozens more with the belt and his overbearing tyranny in the years to follow and I even developed a stutter when I was a teenager over it all. In fact, it was his tyranny that I passed onto my brothers, unwittingly, that triggered their resentment of me, I now think. That and their jealousy of me.  Did I mention my father was a reluctant father? Me being the first born was the cause of him losing his freedom and he blamed me, I think. I remember the look on his face as he posed with his many employees in a photo after I discovered my Lennon expose; “Jesus, Steve. Did you have to show me up so badly with so huge a story? I used to praise Nixon and Reagan. You ARE going places. Damn! There’s no stopping you, I guess.”

I was kidnapped, handcuffed and beaten unconscious in a police van in 1987. My crime? Giving Yoko Ono my evidence package to get to the remaining Beatles. Two months prior I was brutalized by two martial artists on Haight St. in San Francisco who dislocated my shoulder before breaking my nose on a sidewalk. Just before I had gotten one of them in a headlock. I remember leaning my elbow against a wall and bending my nose back straight that night.

The night Reagan was re-elected, while sleeping underneath a building in my sleeping bag, I saw a gun pointed right at me. It was, again, the S.F.P.D. who must have been surveilling me. They never even asked for my I.D. as they searched my back pack. A message from Reagan, only. “You gonna back off, punk?”

I was struck sideways at 60 mph in 2010 by a woman running a light while training a young man the meat selling business one day and watching the scene before me start to spin inexplicably as the truck rolled over on it’s side smashing to the ground rendering me unconscious for a few seconds. The initial hit, itself, was remarkably muted by crumple zone technology. My trainee was unscathed thanks to my allowing the hit to occur at the door frame. Me? Just a sore foot. Her? I suppose she was fine thanks to airbags, seatbelts and a Toyota Land Rover’s crumple zone technology. God, again, on my side. I learned that Concord, Ca. has a room that can control and monitor all the lights in that town and I was probably set up for a kill by Obama, no less. A few years later a uniformed Navy cadet tried to roll my Toyota van on a san Diego freeway smashing into me at 75 mph leaving a six foot long tire mark on my van’s side. Again, Obama. Neither driver was ever cited and the intersection where I was T-boned was paved over the very next day. Very concerning.

Two other gun pointing episodes by police, once in Palm Springs, where Stephen King lived.

I could list dozens more traumatic episodes from my storied life but my mind needs to rest, now. I came out all right on the other side is my point. I have a greater calling to worry about and it’s huge. That, I’m sure, has helped. Amazing how resilient the human mind can be. If there is anyone who can nurture anyone else in this regard I suppose it might be mostly me.

Did I ever mention I healed my brother’s dog’s cataracts after six months of the proper petting technique.? I did.

June 29-’24;

Biden will be being spoon fed his oatmeal in four years by his wife. No condition to run the presidency. I used to be stupid about Biden / Obama. Even stumped for them before they tried to kill me, twice. Trump lied? Maybe a little. Not a lot like the Dominion machines etc. in 2020, though. I know you’re tied up with a gang of media con artists who may have swayed you. I think we’ll be better off with Trump. If he’s the best we can do shame on us, I agree. I recommend a mirror for a prescription for everybody. I should be the most celebrated celebrity on earth but I’m shunned by an insane society. Hero-phobes, all. Admit it, girl.

Check out my take on it right below my Political Watchtower section on the main page. Miley Cyrus, a rock star like Lennon, anguished over Hillary’s loss to Trump. Clinton who invited King into The White House in 1995. They knew he killed Lennon, then. Like you, now, Miley was wrong then. I’m the most unsung hero on earth having to tell you.

What about the Biden? Either he is suffering from delusional dementia to proclaim he will “beat Trump AGAIN!: or hew knows the whole result is rigged and in the bag like last time. ONE or the OTHER! Trust me, he is a communist globalist from hell who is probably deliberately scandalizing America with Hunter’s blow jobs and drug use to even keep him as an advisor. Like Nixon stunk up our presidency with Watergate. DELIBERATELY!  I think Joe revels in all his son’s scandals sullying our nation. Just the other day he was caught saying; “I made a mistake. It was a 90 minute debate. But what about my two and a half years as president?” He meant to say THREE and half years. You see? He’s gone. In a few years he will be a complete invalid. Nobody but a fool would vote for him. Obama’s our real president under him, anyway. HE looks like he has A.I.D.S.! As one whose life depends on KNOWING the truth I noticed how Nixon wrote in The Real War; “Americans must learn to lower their ideals..” Spoken like a communist actor / infiltrate. I can’t emphasize enough how real this view of politics really is. We are being taken over by a vicious, treacherous gang of Moscow based operators who have apparently nuclear blackmailed our deep state into capitulation to incrementally go Soviet, or else. Biden is probably thinking; “Yeah, America. I’m in it for the money and extra houses and cars and such. You don’t deserve America anyway. I’ll be dead before you figure out I sabotaged you all. Ha! HA!. Now eat your ice cream cone and fiddle with your smart phone, you idiots! Ignore all the terrorists I just let in and the inflation tax that impoverished you and gutted your social security, the dollar and such.” Then we have Kamala. WHAT a lowering of our ideals with her sleeping her way with Willy Brown to get ahead and worse. She is a commie rat who thinks we’re all stupid and can’t see through her charade. T-R-U-S-T  M-E !!!!

I hope you had a good vacation and got out of the heat. 100 degrees across ALL America ON OUR BIRTHDAY! Is God punishing us for being stupid? I am giving everybody a piece of my mind daring them to recoil at he controversies they are too timid to broach. I am throwing my weight around as if to punish everyone for holding me back all this time. “Give me some elbow room you dolts.”

Meanwhile, regardless, I have done you right by unsaddling Joe from RIGGING a second election and SUBVERTING our democracy. (Those communist bastards always transpose the points blaming others for what THEY are doing to mid bend us) Right before his fiasco in the debate I was furiously busy ramping up the controversy in my site and I’m sure (He had time enough at Camp David to visit it, I’m sure.) I threw him off game a little with guilt for pulling his mask off. You are surrounded by peer pressure and high stakes money to stay in favor with the  bosses. He was quoted saying “If the Lord Almighty were to come down and tell me I might (Withdraw) ” The Lord Almighty DID come down and knock him for a loop. Or maybe my avenging angel for messing with me lately. Kamala (valley girl airhead / puppet ) will be paddling like a furious pup in water for the first time from here on out until Trump assumes his rightful place, again. Even Biden’s handlers and the deep state know better than to scam us all with a rigged election NOW! He’s not perfect but all we deserve and more given our sympathy for he devil and Stephen King. R.F.K. Jr. seems in over his head with all the pot he must be smoking to have such dog poop face, I think. Steve Garvey should also retire his pot pipe. Adam Schiff (A Russian sir name) is an infiltrate communist from hell. Trust me! Pencil neck geek.

I wonder will my virtue trump all the evil in this world and steer you my way eventually after the mass exorcism I am performing is done and King is administered a lethal dose of Fentanyl to heal us all? After I am in MY rightful place in this fallen world. On TOP! Whatever wrong roads you’ve ever gone down I trust you are redeemable. Until that day all mankind is woefully insane and sick and depraved. Don’t I know it, too.

July 13, ’24;

Oh, girl, what must I do to get you off you spectator ass and take a stand in this gas lit election cycle? Are you going to parrot the B.S. about Biden having a CHANCE of beating Trump? The real polls are Trump 60 % and Biden / Harris 40 %. That’s a fact. I KNOW what I’m talking about. PLEASE don’t get caught up in the gas lighting yourself. Keep you head when all about you are losing theirs and put America first. Even abstaining from the party line will satisfy me for now. Please don’t take part in the fraud that Biden is counting on. We’re all counting on YOU to be an American, first and anything else second. Think of how sexy life will be after King is punished and out of our world. Nobody’s sexy until then.

(Update while writing this; Attempt by Biden team to assassinate Trump at a rally. S-E-E-E-???)

July 15, 2024;

I am POSITIVE you and your colleagues were aware of Trump’s brush with assassination days before the fact. We’re done, too. It t……tually seeing her changed all that. God’s providence and wisdom.

I knew by your gloating, serene, “I know something you don’t, Steve, and we’re going to rain on your parade, big time. Ha, Ha!!”……e a complete fool to be on Biden’s side, too. See my front page for the rest of the details. A real boot-licking fool. You.

July 16, ’24’

And then to prove how deprav……… monster who wishes that man on the roof had better aim.” Like all your very sick colleagues.

I’ll probably go the route of ZER………e eye of a needle than for a rich man to gain the kingdom of heaven. And about Trump surviving Biden’s attempt. Ha, H-A- ! Suddenly I haven’t heard Biden proclaim how he will win, lately, either. Like he’s been doing between his complaints about Trump playing golf instead of out on the campaign trail. I think he was chomping at the bit to get him sooner. Biden is a very sad and evil man. So is anyone one who can’t see that. And about that woman with the blue shirt directly behind Trump that day, the one that read; “MEAN TWEETS” the Trump hater, the woman who was glancing back and forth to the rooftop sniper just before the shots rang out along with her obese male friend, you parroted the message the day or two after saying; “Do you think Trump’s messaging played a role in his getting shot? ” I’ll bet that line was scripted for you days before the shooting it so plays into the messaging of those two who knew of what was to happen. The Secret Service tried to kill Trump. I know WHY M.B. wore that “SS” necklace the day she was supposed to be reporting on Trump’s assassination. Code for “the Secret Service did this, people.”  I’ve been all over national talk radio about it as seen on my main page near the top.

About the riddle part of my life, the pre ordained part of my life, I was typing to my brother about the time this youngest brother winged my right ear with a scope rifle out of jealousy AT THE MOMENT TRUMP WAS BEING SHOT AT! S-P-O-O-K-Y, you have to admit.

My van will be resplendent in light peach/ pink after tomorrow. We’ll see who wins the truth wars.

P.S. Sicker than a dog lately. Don’t know if it’s over Trump being shot at, your possible role in it all, which forced me to end ties, suddenly, or both.

P.P.S. Saw a chink in your armor convention night. You can’t hide what’s behind the eyes. “I regret what’s been lost between us. I AM sorry.” That’s encouraging. Frankly, I’d take my twenty million in the bank and retire and enjoy life AWAY from the monsters at the media. Do your daughters know what that environment has done to you? You’re redeemable.

Too horrified to gush any sentimentality, now.

7-30-’24 update; Crooks was found visiting Washington D.C. several times in the weeks before the shooting AND in a building near the F.B.I. office there. Aren’t you a little embarrassed you can’t save enough money to quit (###) before you lose your soul?  Pity you are still working for them. I will never associate with the big three networks when I get famous. Not until they’re routed and cleansed and sanitized and out of the Kremlin’s control. I’ll probably eschew networks that are owned by Jews, in fact. At least one good radio station are promoting me and my magazine lately. That Trump dodged a bullet suggests my side will win.

P.S. The Jews in Israel are crying like hypocrites that 12 of their children were bombed to death last week. As if they aren’t dripping with blood on their hands for killing 40 thousand Palestinians, mostly women and children, lately. Knowing what I know about the Jews I wouldn’t put it past Netanyahu that HE bombed his own people with an Iranian made bomb as an excuse to attack Lebanon. Israel was a mistake as big as the Berlin Wall that was erected at the same time as Israel. A plan overseen by Russia, in fact.

Please lose the red nail polish. It’s a fashion error and bad for your health. Your lipstick shade is O.K.  Maybe go naked on the nails even. Or beige / pink or your lipstick shade. Paste on nails.

So, why am I leaving up the other old entries? Well, you DID jiggle the mind control machine with your “Arizona might be a surprise result tonight..” in 2020. hours before it swung for Biden. That’s playing with our elections and your thumb WAS on the scales that night and I suspect by design and instructions from your superiors. I take things down as I see fit. The good news is you are less guilty than most there in that department and I appreciate your efforts to be impartial. I do. A lot. Keep up THAT good work, please.

(Deleted the stuff you probably have already read. The personal stuff.)

What’s with the week off? My van’s lettering us about finished. ($75., only) in costs.” Lennon MurderTruth.com / everybody’s business / and / Demand media disclosure – Demonstrate.” A minimalist is better approach. (Another $60. will be involved if this custom pearl white vinyl comes through with the actual website addresses.).

My goodness, what could it be? Are you in a tiff with management? Is something of import looming? Is it anything I may have said here, lately, to spark whatever ‘it’ is. On one side of me I wonder has she renounced the one sided media flop the media has become and is she testing the management to demand change? If so, what lays in harbor for ME regarding how much reciprocity there may exist between us, after all. Are we collision bound and a match or am I just dreaming? I’d say if the matter of anything I have said is in play then there needs to be some adjusting concerning the matter of ‘us’. Or it’s something completely unrelated and nothing to be concerned about. I get the feeling, not taking into account the number of heads I have chomped off in my battles, that my rhetoric a few weeks ago was quite out of bounds and alarming to even me when I read it. I mean I know I was sick and all but it was brutal. I edited most of it out since I probably didn’t mean most of it. If I hurt your feelings and was too much I apologize and want to say how sorry I am if that’s the case. It seems I don’t take disappointment well and the prospect of all that investment in you, all seemingly for naught, was pretty jolting all of a sudden.

So, I have no idea if your a blossoming idealist or it’s just unrelated stuff.

Mercy, mercy. I just Googled the question above and found out, a week after I suggest you quit that ….you HAVE! Can it be little bitty me or what is going on? I have to really re assess matters between us, now. I’m just tongue tied right now.

I will really miss your face on a nightly basis. That’s a loss I feel. What can we do about ourselves?

August 17, 2024; “Yep, pretty impressed with you. If you wanted to get my attention you have done so. Dramatically. And I thought I was the mover and shaker in our world. You have quite a punch, there, girl. Anyway, I, of course, am thinking about you, now, especially.  Would really like to know to what extent I was a factor in that? If I WAS then we need to talk eye to eye and soon, given the importance of these times.. Not to mention how important we both are. I’d say fly out and meet up at an out of the way place for coffee. Just a thought.

lennonmurdertruth@Yahoo.com  – 831-224-0362 –  now 831 867-2685- 800 Scott St. Sand City, Ca. 93955

I have a list of questions I am asking Trump to ask of Kamala on my front page. It’s biased but. I think, spot on and appropriate. I hear you’ll be in that hot seat and interviews.

While I’ve left certain things up, I may have been exaggerating to say I was “positive” you and your colleagues knew, in advance, of Trump’s impending danger. Most of your colleagues, I’d say ‘yes’. You, I can’t be as sure. So, in consideration for you latest exploits, I don’t know for positive. Even if you did, to do so 180 degree a reversal in a weeks time is impressive and worthy of, worthy of consideration. I saw an ugly side of the media that week and I can’t un see what I saw. Talk about a threat to democracy. I trust you’ll be the one to get the media steered straight on course, someday soon, right?

8-22,’24;

I cringe that you are still smiling at Trump’s troubles and rubbing shoulders with like minded fools. I realize he disparaged you, once. He is like that to anyone who does not appreciate him. I appreciate him because I KNOW how stupid the masses ARE! He is not LIKE the masses. If he were he’d be a lousy hero. ‘The Masses Are the Asses’ is a college course I once took. Turns out it’s the truth, too. No wonder I like Trump. He marches to the beat of his own drum. Sure, he rubs the pedestrian slob sideways with his mannerisms and ways. He’s a genius, actually, who can’t BE like the rest of us. It’s not his DNA to be a follower. He is a leader who doesn’t drink, take drugs or a lot of the things that hobble most politicians. He has his many faults, GRANTED. He is not the ideal man. Who IS! He isn’t cry babying about almost being assassinated. You have little appreciation for what is RIGHT about him. When the democrats say “We’re not going back” they mean back to America. They want to move forward and shrink us down to fit us into the New World Order based in Moscow and London for all we know. A miserable choice compared to fighting for real freedom. The hero; ME, is all we need to triumph over evil and evil governments. America can do so much better than it has been doing lately. I cry a river over what has already gone under the bridge for us. Only Trump is man enough to save us, now. If we deserved a better man WE’D be BETTER PEOPLE. But we’re evil, frightened, easily stampeded slobs, underneath. AREN’T WE!? Yes we are or we’d be investigating the Butler, Pa, assassination attempt instead of mocking Trump as being the threat to democracy. No, it’s his opponents who are the real threat. THEY are the ones who are trying to “transpose the points” and fool all of you. They are smarter than most of us, too. Not me. What about you? Trump must be reading my site again. He’s calling out “Comrade” Kamala for being a Marxist communist. That’s why he’s a genius. Maybe only a 135 I.Q. but he knows how to use the truth to get ahead. When others would be too stupid to do so. Meanwhile America is seeing right through the democrat’s promise to “save us” from the problems THEY created!

In researching your situation I happened upon a video of you, the runner, you, the little girl interviewer. You’re so cute. I pray you catch up to Steve Lightfoot so you can be spared the foolishness of your peers. You ARE better than that. “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you…” I know all about that poem. Do I, ever.

Hey, I think we may have something going on in the future for all we know. Let’s live our lives with that in the picture, I say. I wouldn’t shake your tree if I didn’t believe I can make you happy. And I like your hubby. He seems just fine. Nobody knows the future. So just why DO you so impress me? Must be for a reason, I reason.

8-24-’24;

About last Friday, I don’t think I have ever seen a more angelic, magical, childlike, dreamy look in your eyes as then. Just before sign off. Was it the part about my liking your hubby, defending you from your competitors or something completely unrelated? What a precious memory that look was, though.

I just endured a day of food poisoning pain. You know, the headaches and anemic feeling. You saw the television footage of a bald eagle dying from lead poisoning, the eyes closed and shivering in pain waiting for the end. That feeling. I made it, though. Now I will NOT allow any smoked  salmon lox more than a day or two of not being refrigerated. Having experienced the L.A. Northridge earthquake in my Chevy van (WOW!, what a shaker) and enduring several food poisoning incidents then, right after, caused by the area’s refrigerated food holders losing power for a week, you’d think I’d know better.

Mostly consumed with how unworthy and ungrateful, masochistic, spoiled, brainwashed, infantile and insane my fellow man really is concerning my expose. The billboard; “UNSUNG MEGA HERO – STEVE LIGHTFOOT” comes to mind. I will probably put one up that reads; “USE ME OR LOSE ME CA..-  3-1-’25 DEADLINE”

That’s the prison I’M in most of the time. Won’t it be great to break this expose wide open and resolve all that. All I can see is what’s weak, evil and wrong with humanity.

Then there’s you. The one bright star shining in the midst of it all that gives me hope. You ARE special and apart and you’re pretty smart, too. Looks? Beyond amazing. Eyes? The very best I’ve ever seen.

About moving to Utah, I may also rotate my time from there to all points directly north during the hot summer. Don’t want the government to sandbag me by manipulating any one area before my arrival. To keep them guessing.

About the 2024 election; Harris is going to lose if there is no shut down of the vote count like 2020. People just sense the lies she is telling; promising to fix everything she and Joe have wrecked for over three years. They ain’t buying it. People aren’t stupid as she must think. I’ll make it my talk radio mission to ensure there is no such shut down this time. I’ll also recommend a smaller, more protective bullet proof shield for Trump that won’t let a grenade get through. Platform bomb proofing, too. Joe is furious he failed and is still a threat. When I put a formal curse on “my enemies” at a city council meeting Hunter lost his plea deal the next day, Obama’s cook died the same week and everything has been turning up thorns for them ever since. By the way; Leon Panetta’s remark; “She IS going to win, by the way.” with a wink and a nod. The former deep state C.I.A. chief, himself. Not if I can help it. I have to educate the moron public just how evil this democratic ticket really is. Panetta, himself, is from Marxist beginnings and associates. He even worked for Nixon, I believe.

“Freedom!”, “joy”, “not going back”, “hand outs to buy votes” “lowering inflation” etc. People see right through it all. Then we all see her message; “Freedom from gun violence” on her stage. THEN we know what she really means; “Give up your right to defend yourselves with guns and you’ll be free.” WHAT a commie lie she is telling. Keep reminding us, Trump, what a Marxist she really IS. By the way, what if Joe and Kamala printed money and raised inflation mostly to cripple everyone’s 401-K and other retirement packages? To keep baby boomers from retiring and working, instead, to pay taxes? What if they let in every vagrant into our country to set us up with a terror attack in the future? What if they committed genocide on Palestinians to CAUSE a retaliatory terror attack tomorrow? Our media is NOT in the vein of Walter Cronkite and Chet Huntley and David Brinkley as you mentioned in your reasons for quitting. Pity. America could be saved if they weren’t modeled after Moscow’s media. Like they are.

If I were Trump I’d bring up, in a debate; “Both the Clintons and Obama and Biden invited Stephen King into The White House in 1995 and 2016. With Biden it was to give him a medal of the arts award. With the Clintons it was to meet secretly before the Oklahoma City bomb went off. Do you think America has a right to know about that? We all know, unofficially, what else King did to us all, I think. Is that what America wants? Politicians in bed with his ilk?”

Still smarting from what I saw last mid July. I hope to crawl out of it with some encouragement from you.

8-26-’24;

Strangest thing happened last Saturday while watching a golf tournament at a golf lounge. I was crawling out of my food poisoning episode and talking to a man next to me and explained how even my father was killed just to scare me off my story, initially. His three (?) year old daughter, just barely learning to talk, started asking me questions. Not understanding her I replied; “Who did what?!” “What did she say?”  I asked her father. Even her father didn’t understand her. She asked me why did they kill my father? I said ; “Because if they killed me it would have created a scandal.” Then she said something that floored me. “Was your father a doctor?” I said; “How did you know that? He was a doctor. You’re a genius, you know.”

Aren’t kids magical geniuses? What happens to us when we lose the ability to read minds and such? I remember having magical powers like that, myself, as a toddler.

Anyway, just miserable wrestling to find my next billboard message. “YOU EVIL APATHETIC MONSTERS!!!” “IGNORE THIS – DESTROY YOURSELVES” “YOU SICK BASTARDS DON’T CARE” “BEHOLD EVIL, BRAINWASHED ALL OF YOU” Just miserable, being society’s exorcist. The masses ARE very sick asses right now. Being nice does NOT work, either. Not with warped masochists. Now I learn that even Tim Walz, like Kamala’s husband, is ALSO deep in business dealings with the Chinese communist party. And, yet, the stupid masses walk around like nothing is wrong. No commie plot take over, here. Nothing. M-O-R-O-N-S ! Oh, yeah, I remember the students at U.C. Berkeley thoroughly enjoying it when I told them my father had just been killed in a plane crash. I know all ABOUT the real side of polite society.

What is this I hear about Kamala insisting on unmuted mics, using notes and being seated for her first debate? Does she also want a prompter earpiece with a coach, too? What a propped up empty suit. It’s bad enough she needs George Steponallofus and ABC to hide behind. What will she do if she actually has to stare down our adversaries? Trump should wheel in a bicycle with training wheels to hammer home the point. “Here, Kamala, a bicycle you approve of.”

If I ever am on the world’s stage I will demand we all insist on a 30% to 70 % ratio for television regarding advertising time allotments. This may result in higher per minute pricing for advertisers and restrict television to deep pocket corporations and limit Mom and Pop from using that medium but it’s not as bad as what we have now with TOO much advertising spoiling our entertainment time. It’s just so ridiculous we scare off other nations from becoming like us or even tolerating our materialistic values. We’re so lost and commercialized we can’t see what we’ve lost. We must be better people to NOT scare the rest of the world. THAT’S how you stop wars. My mission will be TO un scare the world from our current hideous traits. To change our tastes and behavior. We’ve been highjacked by bad people to be so stupid. If I was the rest of the world I’d be afraid of our taking over the planet, too. At least YOU don’t sport tattoos like a crazy person.

Moreover, I’d eliminate the C.I.A. and other entities from having even a finger in television. Right now they own television and we’re the Soviet slob victims. You know, John D. Rockefeller helped establish the C.I.A.. J. Edgar Hoover’s name disgraces every F.B.I. office as well. No wonder they’re so evil and selling us all out to Moscow’s policies. That I’d change, too. In many ways America has been kidnapped by the Kremlin. THEY know it.

Today my van gets completed with is slogans; Today a pearl white vinyl will grace the website address on three sides; “LennonMurderTruth.com” Just below that, the message “everybody’s business” Sandwiched in between two triple deck messages on the sides; “Demand media disclosure – Demonstrate” and “Only you can break this news” in black will be the double decker message in red in capital letters; “GET INFORMED, GET OUTRAGED” A tiny message on the back window reads; “Urgent – See my ‘New Developments’ page” and my name on the on the side.

Don’t mean to be so grumpy today. It’s just me keeping it real. We’re a sorry mess of a society. Give me 1962 and the 50’s, any day over what we’ve become. The Beatles came along just as we began to lose control of our nation. The KGB probably used them to pacify us after killing J.F.K. until they realized they were no small matter. Especially John. He sang “We don’t want no Big Brother scene….” Listen to his song “Nutopian National Anthem” for a real eye opener. THAT’S John at his MOST revolutionary. THAT’S a song that scared the powers that be most. It starts out; “We don’t care what flag you’re waving…..” I think you’ll be AMAZED!

P.S. Scroll above to just below my golf section titled “Court Matters” and you’ll see my new court motions that probably have me aggravated, lately. By the way, I just FOUND the 45 C.D.s I got one day last week at the Goodwill $2.99 @ lb. bins. For three days I  was grieving the loss as I misplaced them all. Animals, Kinks, British Invasion, Neil Diamond, Humperdink, Cher, Petula Clark, Dusty Springfield, Sinatra, and much, much more. Somebody out there has my tastes and donated a motherload I gobbled up. From score to loss to score, again. Wheww!

8-28-’24;

Looks like I am more of a bull in the china shop than I think. G.K. is taking time off from the a.m. show, it seems. Anything to do with my frankness? If so, she SHOULD get that area of life under proper care. I have noticed my footprint everywhere I go, for good or bad. Even watching t.v. the other day I saw a lineup of western movie heroes all gathered in a grouping collage and it occurred to me I have actually met and spoke with at least two of these men. Clint Eastwood and Val Kilmer. In the case of Val I was an extra in “The Doors” movie at the Fillmore in S.F.. The shoot had just finished when I felt a buzzing in my interlocked hands. I was leaning on a railing 30 yards from the stage. It was a Dom Perrignon(?) cork. I looked up and noticed Val on stage with a bottle in his hands and realized it came from there after bouncing off the vaulted ceiling right into the quarter sized gap in my hands. HOW WEIRD IS THAT? So I went up and spoke with him explaining the rare occurrence. It was like an omen that someday that man on stage would be me

Oh, you’d be a historic hero forever and ever. “So and so of such and such quit her job to save the word from a commie take-over. Bully for HER!” “H-U-R-R-A-Y-!!!!!!”

I could be wrong about this but I suspect I’m not. Bad enough about the Butler Pa. incident. Take a look at R.C.’s “V” shaped eyebrows that day. Ready for a kill! And S.M. seen sitting down on the grass, after, disappointed they missed and NOT on his feet gathering the news of the day. He knew. R.C. knew. Just LOOK at the footage. Disgusting. Evil. Traitorous!

Hey, if I get my story  busted wide open I’ll make plenty of money for both of us and I promise to follow through with my stated intentions with you if YOU are available and of a like mind. I’m not dating in the meantime and you will probably be alone on my menu even by then. We have three years of something behind us, however bizarre and filtered. I know what I like and it’s you.

By the way. Noticing how svelt your lovely legs are looking lately. You certainly won the lottery for genetics in every aspect. Not too apple, not too pear, but just perfect shape and form. Your eyes”? God’s finest work. I like what’s inside just as much, too. Redeemable? Absolutely.

Noticing my ability to call radio shows or to even listen to them on my phone has been cut off by Biden and his behind the scenes mischief making. Oh, he’s a God damned communist, alright. Take away his pubic hair on his head and he even looks exactly like evil Mr. Wilson of “The Simpsons”. I thought it was my new phone which used to get through but discovered I can still access other stations when I try. He’s afraid of my talk radio campaign, apparently. He should be. Can you IMAGINE a Harris / Walz presidency? The end of America, for sure! Just might as well surrender to London, Beijing, and Moscow right now.  Her slogan on her bus reads; “A New Way Forward” It might as well read; “A New World Order”.

If I am successful I will try to get America off of drugs and alcohol and pharmaceuticals and consumerism and greed and clean up our act so as not to scare the rest of everybody trying to destroy us. Sure, we killed the Indians to get here but so has everybody in one way or the other. We still are the best idea, ever, and I hope to keep our system of freedom and liberty alive forever.  We need a hero to make America work. It just happens to be me, this time. Maybe you, too, if you take my advice above.

In a few weeks I might have some new tapes for you. Keep an eye out.

8-29-’24;

My, what lovely high cheek bones you have, my dear. I notice how your right cheek bone seems a little extra prominent lately. Is there someone close to you who may happen to be left handed? Has someone slapped you? Is that why you look like you need a hug suddenly? Oh, yeah, I noticed. Of course I noticed.

Now, we both know how my slapping Linda in 1977 tortured me no end for decades and how that lesson forged me into who I am today. However ashamed of myself I am for that I am actually a little proud of the fact that I took 20 % OFF of that slap at the last second. There was SOME measure of restraint, thank God.

I remember the thoughts going on inside me then. “She’s going to do this over and over, use her good looks to hurt me, and I have to slap her out of my life and me from her life. I just can’t take this much pain ever again.” “Will I be able to live with myself, after?” Whatever she said that triggered that act I can’t even recall but she was on a real tear and acting the Hellcat as only she could. As you know I abandoned her a week or so earlier in a parking lot after she acted surly and disrespectful to me after I took her back. So now I know WHY she was acting that way. I was too young and stupid to know that, then, though.

I could be wrong about your cheek. If I’m not I don’t know what I can do. If it’s true and if my activities here had anything to do with it I am sorry. I really am. As I said, I like your hubby, based entirely on what I interpreted in seeing his photographs. Other than that I hope things get better, soon, for you. Maybe it’s not him at all. I just don’t know. If this opens the door for me someday, well, then I guess there is something there between us, after all. If there is a silver lining to it all.

Then, again, I may be entirely wrong about it all. I just never realized how high and prominent your cheek bones really are. I hope that’s the case. I don’t ever like to see you hurting. I know one thing, though, your luxurious head of hair hides your beautiful ears too much. I would like to see a little ear every now and then. By the way, in three or so years I’ve only seen one inch ever, and only once, of your cleavage. Pretty exciting. Just that nibble. Is there no end to your amazingness? Why DO you fill the bill so with me?

By the way, I learned, just last week, that you also have a son. You see, I’m not as obsessed as you might think or I’d know all about all that stuff a long time ago. I have to keep myself at bay if only to protect myself from hurt, you see. Until I have more reason to be optimistic.

9-3-’24;

Looking forward to seeing you tonight. Freezing your image before sign off and lingering on that image, sometimes for a half hour, is the best part of my day, usually. If all this correspondence here ends up just being fodder for my diary, well, that’s the chance I take.

Your hubby plays golf. Check out my new addition to the Core Driven Golf Swing. A few paragraphs down from the top where I discuss a new and better grip and the importance of slinging the left arm WITH the club past the body during the strike. An epiphany. If he tries it he’ll likely agree, I must be a genius to have solved this mystery. Meanwhile my idea about harnessing the power of tire rotation to constantly power your electric car’s batteries – like a wind turbine – waits for me to get famous before it makes it to the public.

By right, Biden and Harris and Netanyahu should all be stood up in blindfolds and shot for genocidal war crimes and the treasonous rigged 2020 election results that stole our vote. For being New World Order communists. Kamala’s bus slogan reads; “A New Way Forward” A.K.A.; “A New World Order” Get it? She doesn’t brag about Joe’s presidency being great but for being the most “transformative” in history. She’s trying to change us, alright. For the worse. Admit it. Please don’t be any part of this fraud unfolding as we speak. I see a fraud election again with the media in tow. Don’t let *** use you like that. Make the news backing out and be hero. Let us know what you know about that business and get richer for it, monetarily, besides.

It occurs to me that Kamala is a Yoko Ono to America, setting us up for defeat. In all my poverty I am a King happy and above all others just knowing I’m right. Try it sometime.

I know your workplace is pretty sick along with most of America’s consumeristic mind set. If I have to move to Utah I will leave a lot of all that nonsense behind. I’m looking forward to the smell of that wild earth.

NOW, when people pass my new van’s messaging, they act like I am already a famous person. They act timid like they are naked all of a sudden. My latest addition is; THE COVER-UP CONDEMNS YOU. It’s nice not being under the oppression of THC and thinking clearly for a change. By the way, I e-mailed my brother, Mike, how I quit pot and why and what benefits I reaped for it on his birthday. Just getting my handsome, once lost, good looks and youth back is reason enough. My sanity back is another bonus. Less anxiety and panic. More calm and peace. My dreams? They’re doozies. Today I was totally disoriented for a few minutes just waking up from them. There was one part that related to the “silver lining” part of last weeks post here coming true where “we” are concerned. Interesting.

Now, at night, before going to sleep, I say a prayer of gratitude for all my blessings. I take whatever my life style is and make it a King’s throne of a life instead of thinking of it as tragic. I’m an arrow speeding through space to my target and it’s a great target, indeed. Lucky me.

P.S. I will still allow only you to get my first big interview and it will be without *** as I am eschewing the big three until they are reorganized with new ownership. I plan to eschew mainstream media and charge $36. @ year internet subscription to whomever wants to access whatever I have to say to the world.

9-5-’24;

I DO hope your personal crisis has to do with crawling out from under whatever rock you’ve been conditioned to stay under. I DO hope you’re coming round to a better perspective on politics and life. I went through a HUGE transformation from age 23 to now. HUGE. I know you can, too. I wish you the best along those lines, too. Of all people I would hope that you come out on top where you really belong. I think you’re the best in your profession. I think “Number One” of *** is too grim and serious all the time. This world ISN’T fair or right. It’s full of B.S. and don’t I know it. I want the best of everything for you. If going through a personal transformation is what it takes it’s what it takes is all.

My van is complete now. From front to back the series of messages reads;

“THE COVER-UP CONDEMNS YOU…SILENT PUBLIC INSANE……LennonMurderTruth.com…Demand media disclosure – Demonstrate…everybody’s business…GET INFORMED, GET OUTRAGED…COVER-UPS ARE FOR COWARDS…Only you can break this news.” And in tiny script on the back window;” Urgent- See my ‘New Developments’ page” and “Steve Lightfoot.”      Many in triplicate, too.

No mention of Nixon, Reagan or Stephen King. A completely new approach. I think it looks bad ass.

Can you imagine the tack I will take with the M.I.A. public someday? Whewww! Stand back. Hold on. It will be a wild ride, indeed.

9-7-’24;

Also, I’m revamping my golf technique section. Right below The Core Driven Golf Swing headline. My old version was just WAY too complicated and convoluted.

9-9-’24;

Don’t judge me too fast, just yet. Read my additions to that latest paragraph(s) I alerted you to last week. The ones several paragraphs down from the top of my front page. Rather take a look at the common man, instead. The bitter bastards who I had to wrestle with in the mud all these years.

It will be difficult to keep up this back and forth without seeing you every week to get a read on. If I write here less and less it doesn’t mean anything less is going on, just that the communication part is more stunted without being able to see you regularly.

9-13-´24;

I sometimes wonder do you want to be bent over my knee and spanked?

I saw you and your peers giddy with anticipation before the debate and how dejected you all looked right after. Are you STILL on the Harris bandwagon after all I´ve taught you¿

See my new additions on page one below the title; TRUMP HANDED KAMALA HER HEAD IN THE DEBATE. There´s a new song about Taylor Swift included I´m writing as we speak. P.S. Why IS that question mark above upside down? You’re all upside down just like the library computer that made it is is why.

By the way, my dreams have been portending my second wind, physically. One where my 2 iron was being smacked well over 200 yards like when I was in my 20’s. That kind of energy, BACK! I FEEL younger, too, scampering around with more youthfulness. My sudden urge to write songs is in step with all that, I think. I never had the urge before. Now I do.

P.P.S. Denial is an adult, only, disease. Children can readily admit it’s King getting the autograph. Read all about it near the top of my front page. Heady stuff.

P.P.P.S. Donald dodged a second Biden / Harris attempt on his life. Now we know what it’s like to live in Russia. I DO think Biden is a Putin puppet, and Kamala AND Jimmy Kimmel AND Stephen Colbert – who hosted King on his show when nobody but Charlie Rose would -, Hillary AND half of our media. I think Putin is orchestrating it all. I’m just hoping YOU aren’t a Soviet sleeper agent. You DO have European looks. So does Taylor Swift. Eastern European, in fact. She probably IS a deep state agent. No kidding. I only sound conspiratorial and over the top. She tried to help Stephen King with Florida just as I hit their state with my van last 2021. I hear she drinks adrenochrome like King does. Frightened, murdered babies blood. Some say she’s into Satanism beneath her girl next door persona. Has “Big Brother” finally groomed and created their OWN rock star power after fighting the real deal all their lives? She probably is USING Kelsey to ingratiate herself with the sports crowd, too. Moscow and Co. are evil bastards. Jealous, tortured sadists and assholes, all around. Like the Jews, they are from a horror show past and it shows. (Their latest diabolical and cowardly pager explosions expresses the ‘Big brother’ evil they represent, in fact) See my revisions in my song about Swift. In the 1950’s McCarthy was RIGHT! Reagan was a commie guarding the actor’s chicken coop and Nancy, who he married, was on the Commie black list, no less. Now it’s even worse with all the Moscow allegiant infiltrates and saboteurs. Kimmel, Colbert and Brazil, A.O.C. Sanders, Jeffries, Walz, et al. Taylor Swift. MY EXPOSE has forced the communist ‘s hand and they are making their move way too early to succeed out of fear of my story stopping them in their tracks, once and for all. THE REAL WAR was ABOUT exactly this infiltration operation that Russia is all about. The REAL war is cultural, political and economic and everything BUT weapons of war. Nixon would know, too. He was writing his “Rumpelstitskin confessional” there” Well, you see, America I, er, I mean THEY are doing this and that and the other….”

Last night some one detonated a massive explosion just yards from my van in a commercial cull de sack(?) setting off car alarms all around me (8:12 p.m.) as I was watching T.V.. No one else was around anywhere but me in my familiar Salinas sleeping spot. Biden getting pissed? I think maybe so. I’ve been a busy gladiator lately on talk radio. Not scared at all. A happy warrior. One thing I have learned to do in being ‘out there’ in the open is to remove all worry of death. Life’s more fun that way. It really is. There is no other option, besides. I must succeed or I WILL be killed after I’m forgotten. Being truly brave is my reward. Most people never breath that rarified air. I do. Every day. What a luxury. I remember thinking I had only minutes left to live in 1987 awakening, bloody from a police beating, handcuffed in the back of a police van in San Francisco. My only concern was landing in a better place than this satanic hell hole of a planet for my reward.

Bottom line, we KNOW Biden and Co. are evil because Hillary, Bill, Barack and Biden invited Stephen King into The White House KNOWING he killed John Lennon. Ten days after the Clinton’s secret meeting with him a week before the Oklahoma City bomb a “John Doe Two” who was never found emerged in a police sketch as the other man in the van with Timothy McVeah. Just happens to look exactly like Stephen King wouldn’t you know. King WRITES about nuking Las Vegas in ‘The Stand’ written before then, too. It’s his “thing” acts like that. THEY ARE EVIL COMMUNISTS. As King admits “Beware the Jewish, communist plot against the U.S…” a dozen times a year after he killed John in one book. Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Obama, Biden, Harris ALL communist world order saboteurs. THAT’S how we KNOW Trump is a good guy. They fear him. P-E-R-I-O-D. Trump’s the good guy we need and barely deserve we’ve become such political pussies, lately. The people are sucking, lately, big time. Silenced sheep.

Don’t you just hate it when I am right? ME, living in a van. Doesn’t it suck when you learn that all your beliefs and all your peers have been SO WRONG all this time? Masochistic foolishness. It took my evidence find to pull back the covers on it all. Or it would have remained a secret hell on us.

Meanwhile, but for a motorist who snapped a photo of the second assassin wannabe’s plate we’d probably not know what we’ll find out after his bread crumb trail is exposed. IF he’s not killed like Oswald. At the time the Secret Service was ACTING; “Were did he go?” hoping he’d escape. All but the one agent NOT in their coven who saved the day. (They can’t compromise EVERYONE) Biden is a creepy monster who gets off calling Trump after trying to kill him. A real sick, evil creep! Pubic hair on his head creep! Slits for eyes. He’s evil. Wake UP!!!!! Hunter’s conduct?, just a pimple on Joe’s evil face.

Sept. 30, ’24;

Something in the mail for you? Probably by tomorrow, I’d guess. Hear you’re **************** . Congratulations, as long as you’re fair and not just a tool. I trust your judgment. Serve America.

10-4-’24

Did you receive my two tapes? If not you’re not free. Is Big Brother maybe watching too closely? Or have their though police rearranged your brain to not appreciate them? I noticed a few things that may or may not relate to the tapes. It was the day after your moderation role and I saw a completely rinsed out and restored soul. Completely natural and vibrant. Was it  the politics the night before, I wondered? Tapes may or may not have arrived by then. Then, Thursday, I saw the Ice Queen of restraint until the last moments when you held up you hand to shield your face gushing how emotional you were about some unrelated incident. I’m left to wonder, is all

Speaking of Thursday, boy, talk about election interference and influence. A 60 second hit piece on the Donald. Commie take over candidate Harris, Untouched.

I don’t think the mass media should be weighing it’s biased thumb on our minds at all. And, yet, it seems like Moscow has won the Real War, after all. We are just like them, now. Right?

So, what’s up, girl?. Give me a  sign. Maybe lick your lips or wink or something. You know I rarely miss a taping. I still think you’re workable material.

Oct. 8, 2024;

I went hardly in at all with news flyers and announcements for my Oct 9 rally Either the public is ready or it isn’t. Just some radio spots and my ever present sign on the back of my van. That’s it. I HAVE to slow down. I got hammered into a chair last Sunday and had to sit still and regroup for a half hour after a heat stroke kind of sensation took me over. I practically never sweat yet sweating I was and I was in the shade and sitting down to begin with. A man, Tom, who has rallied with me before, showed up to rally again and it flipped my psychology right around. He was proof that not EVERYBODY is a waste of my efforts. Maybe that’s what overwhelmed me, I guess. I was focused on a huge stone fireplace for an hour or so after to make sure I was back to good as new again. Just exerting as little energy as possible for a while. It worked. No effects.

I’m at the stage of my expose where man’s unworthiness of the truth and his evil role as accomplice to evil is apparent to me. Why must my huge scoop be so riddled with the ugly side of human nature? I truly AM society’s janitor. Nothing but a huge mess on my hands. If Kamala wins everybody gets it’s guilty rear end paddled but good for punishment is what I am thinking about it all. If Trump wins maybe there’s hope for America in spite of it’s resistance to punishing Stephen King.

Speaking of which, the “biggest storm of our lives..” is about to hit Stephen King’s Florida mansion tomorrow. Dead center hit this time. Worse than Ian was before. They all know he killed Lennon there, too. Seems they’d rather do the disaster dance again rather than do right and expose Stephen King. I think they’d rather that than the other. Pretty sad, humanity.

Keep up the good work. 60 Minutes actually took some of the air out of Kamala and her dopy running mate last night. (Funny how both he and Tim  (?) Hillary’s V.P. pick remind me of the Grinch who stole Christmas so much.) As far as propping up that Steve guy / sellout / traitor with his assurances the last election was legit, not so much. Arizonans seem to know what THEY think about that. See what I mean about dropping scripted words out loud about Arizona hours before the voting starts? Yeah, YOU! Let’s hope you can refrain from any shenanigans again this time with that. The big secret looming out there is the last election WAS stolen! Period! Talk about why they’re mouthy with “threat to democracy” guilt driven drivel.

Hope you like the tapes.

Oct. 10, 2024;

Monterey is proof how pathetic and lost America is right now. King could admit his crime and urinate on the main drag downtown with a sign admitting he killed John Lennon and these douche bags wouldn’t do a thing about it, either. Completely kidnapped and corrupted. It’s as if King assassinated America, itself, the crowd is so upside down. Unworthy of being saved. At least King’s mansion took a hit on Lennon’s birthday. At least the man upstairs is paying attention. His neighbors apparently deserved the hit, too, to pretend I was never there for three months.

Enough about my trials and tribulations. LOVE your longer hair, darling. You really have hit new highs with the longer locks. I see now why the company prevented it’s longer length, before. They want to keep those crisp clothes you wear free of any – God forbid – hair oils that might soil the garment. Tell them your longer hair will now hide anything there and who will be wearing them after November 5, anyway? You really do look  amazingly beautiful and even younger and sexier for it. Keep them locks a growing, girl.

I have to deal with the fact that your face will only be in front of me for a few more weeks and that’s it. Then it’s far and few between for me. I will linger all the more longer at your frozen sign off images, now. I think you HAVE been listening to my tapes, by the way. Maybe only since Wednesday, though. You probably like the Elton John songs and a few others. Those came out with enough mic, unlike a lot of the rest of the tape. I only wish I had also allowed a little more echo adjustment to the sound. It is a little dry and a little TOO unassisted, sound wise. At least it’s an honest sound.

As for Monterey and California. If Kamala wins then they will suffer the medicine they so rightfully deserve. THEN the s— will really hit the fan and they will HAVE to wake up or lose America. THEN they will HAVE to pay attention. Then they will suffer. If Trump wins then America will be spared except for his stupid trust in Israel and all that stands for. It’s the Jewish mind that needs adjusting. They are just too selfish and deceitful to get along with normal folk. They have no right to insinuate themselves amidst their enemies and provoke violence so they can commit genocide and take over the area. They are DOOMED! Period. They have no hope of a future there. If Israel gets nuked it will serve them right. The Muslim Dome of the Rock Israel tolerates only because it serves as a deterrent to the nuke scenario. I don’t think even that will matter, eventually.

Are they doomed for killing Christ or for killing John Lennon? They have their hands in both murders and we are insane and evil to pay for their weapons of genocide. Bigger mistake than the Berlin Wall and established at the same time with Russia supervising all.

Funny how this expose wraps the entire everything else in life amidst it’s tentacles. I really do think his death was “The Event” that will decide if we get to keep this planet or lose it. Whatever I may be missing with normal life it’s actually beneath me as it all is, anyway. Can you imagine what life will be like under truth?

Oct. 12. 2024;

Brutal; night last night. No sleep, just a crook in my neck and no way to find my Ibuprofin(?), either., the whole van’s such a mess. Stuck for the whole night just miserable. It’s as if the stress of the last week has taken it’s toll on me and not just the infidels who are ignoring my evidence in Florida. Very glad King’s mansion has likely been soaked and ruined, however. Interesting fact; Santa Rosa, Ca., my home town, AND Sarasota, Fl. BOTH suffered horrendous episodes on John Lennon’s birthday, too. Santa Rosa burned down, big time and Florida got equally pounded on that anniversary. Good, too. Serves them right for being so weak and stupid. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha. God rules. Hey, people are evil with their apathy. To go unpunished would be wrong, too.

My lot in life is so serious I can think only of whether or not mankind is worthy of life on this earth. Should an asteroid wipe us out no big loss as I see it. Just a lot of insanity and masochism out of the way. Especially compared to the life we could have if we were braver and wiser and not so weak and foolish. Trump and Harris are the best we deserve right now. Pretty sad indictment on us all. Compared to how we COULD live given my evidence find, and how we Do live is pure insanity and stupid, frankly. S-T-U-P-I-D-!

10-14-’24;

Yeah, my latest entry one page one was pretty harsh but probably not harsh enough for a species who revels in sacrificing it’s heroes to their real God; government. A lot like the old days of sacrificing virgins to volcanos and infants to the knife, etc.. If you examine humanity it’s a pretty sick species. War and slaughter of each other since forever. Today we’ve got bombs taking out hundreds at a time, and they’re civilians. What is wrong with us all? The thing about me is I’m willing to forgo fame and being liked to say it like it is. The rest of us like Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen aren’t even aware that their opinions about politics have to do mostly with wanting to be rich and famous and liked by the masses. BIMBOS! The truth is secondary to these puny minds. One reason I gravitated to John Lennon was BECAUSE he WAS different and genuine and said the truth as often as he could. He was the opposite of the rest of us all. Now, THAT’S a treasure we should never have killed. But we did. Our fear, laziness and bitterness and jealousy and apathy killed him in SPITE of what he did FOR us all. Pity.

So, what about YOU? What about those eyes of yours that so attract me? I’m hoping there is some reason behind it all that pans out someday. Nobody else has that effect on me. Life is a riddle and I’m wondering what all this is about, myself.

I watched the Monterey Open golf tournament today. Hard to believe I almost beat the winner of it in 1981. I would have except I drove out of bounds on the 18th hole and lost on the 21’st hole of sudden death the day before his win. I notice I’m actually better than the crowd today except for distance. They’re all over the place. It’s hard to be good living in a van like I do and only playing three times a year. If I played as often as I used to I think I’d be right around at least par today as a 70 year old. My new grip invention, a side straddle grip, with the thumbs to the side instead of on top of the grip and pincer style with the right hand will take over someday, I believe. Could I be responsible for that epic a change in the game? Time will tell. Since I made the change my back is pain free and my shots go farther and straighter. I think I’m on to something. No longer can the hands steer things. Now the body has to steer the shot. Less to go wrong, apparently. Also, I notice a kind of uncorking of the hands that was not present with the Vardon grip. What next? The “Lightfoot Grip”?

October 22, ’24;

Voted via mail yesterday. First time since I foolishly voted for Clinton in Herman, Maine. 1992. That was the year Bush Sr. was caught on television saying’ “…You know, nobody likes “Who Shot John?”..” twice. regarding his fall in the polls since Kennebunkport, Maine got my magazine. That Queen Elizabeth bemoaned 1992 as her “Annus Horribilus” makes me wonder what role the royal family may have played in Lennon’s murder. She hated it when I was in Maine busting Stephen King.

Just savoring the tranquility in my life in between the traffic citation I am fighting. Working on a  revolutionary restructuring of my golf swing. Learning deep secrets, etc., there. Now that I’ve gotten used to my thumbs to the side golf grip I CAN’T go back to the old grip we all use. It just feels totally wrong and utterly painful by comparison. I may want to experiment with thicker grips besides the technique change.

Looking forward to Utah. California has a few months to keep me or not. I will be the winner if I move, I think. Wilder and less expensive and quieter. You can hear the ocean’s roar for 90 miles, did you know? Less insane, that’s for sure. I need more adventure in my life, anyway.

Oct. 30,’24;

It’s crunch time election wise. Kamala is flailing, Trump is not taking the bait being thrown out at every turn. We’ll have to just wait and see, I guess. I do crack up watching Kamala, for example, going 180 degrees away from her rhetoric. Her last line of her closing argument in her debate with Trump finds her saying’ “… it is how one builds up, not tears one down, that is the measure of strength…” as she then calls Trump Hitler, only in it for himself, a fascist, a criminal, etc., etc..

“To your point…underSTAND….Turn the page….Let’s be CLEAR…” Kind of reminds me of Nixon’s phrase; “Am I crystal clear?” She likes to ‘drama out’ her rhetoric. An actress? Yes. A dangerous, malevolent actress? I think, yes. A commie plant? (Nixon bragged in The Real War; “They are magnificent actors” these Soviet infiltrates.)  Of course! I love it when she caresses Trump’s phrase; “The enemy ffromm wwithinn” as if she knows it is she he refers to. Maybe if she says it dramatically and slowly enough no one will suspect it is she. I think she fears an investigation into the 2020 election or the assassination attempts may find her in a jumpsuit, maybe. Wouldn’t it be great to see the real commie plot put on trial while we are still America? It’s lonely being the only one with the stones to be right these days. If Kamala is declared the winner I don’t think America will sit still for it. Major upheaval, I think.

You’re looking good, as usual. I noticed how Kamala bailed out of one of your questions last week when she said; “We’ve discussed that…” when you both did not. Nothing will pry her lips open to say how many months would she allow abortion to take place. I never used to have a stake in that issue but, having persuaded the woman in Roe vs, Wade to change her mind with a phone call to her only interview, I suspect I maybe should be on one side or the other.

One thing I know FOR SURE! Mankind sure is evil when it comes to punishing Stephen King for what he did. The world is a bitter masochist when pressed for action on so big an issue. I almost can’t wait for March to get to Utah. I think California, like McCartney, should be publicly paddled for their apathy and cowardice. Only if they rise up and honor my evidence before March will I ever let them off the hook, too. McCartney has already committed so much damage to my youth and the people of the world with HIS silence I probably will never speak to him. Pony up or pay the piper with me.

Overall, these days are disappointing, now, understanding how my fellow man is against what I do. Not just apathetic but AGAINST my being right.

I’ll be savoring whatever days are left to watch you often, weekly.

November 4, 2024;

Big day, tomorrow. Having watched the deep state play the gamut these past few years I believe Harris will lose by at least ten percentage points but BE DECLARED THE WINNER!

Too many clues have emerged for a rigged result NOT to be in the cards. Trump is just too risky for the communists who are in control of our government to let in. Then there’s Don Jr., after, his daughter and so on and the Trump dynasty may rule for twenty years. The military industrial complex will appoint Harris over our votes and hope we don’t revolt too much. Frankly, I know the U.S. public probably DESERVES to lose America, anyway. They have been nothing less than Satanic and pathetic and evil and I should know better than anyone. Like evil, cowardly Paul McCartney, worthless, living with blinders in the land of the deceived and the home of the afraid. Stiffing me and my evidence? They DESERVE to go to hell, frankly. Too stupid and weak to stay free. Glad I DON’T have kids. Like Lennon said; “Nobody told me there’d be days like these..” Like the Indians enduring their trail of tears, we, too, are losing our country. Karma?

Examine the week long wait for a count. Paper ballots used to be in in ONE day. No, we’re being played by evil tyrants who have already tried to assassinate Trump. Girl, you are being raped and robbed and handed an empty plate for gruel. Like all of us are. The Real War is upon us and we’re losing. LOSING! Spoiled and rotten and stupid and weak. All but wiser than thou, me.

Am I wrong? We’ll see.

Pulled a rib muscle last week swinging a golf club (No ball) experimenting with a two plane swing that pits one against the other for more torque. The backswing plane being more inside, the downswing plane being more outside in. This extra ten degrees of pivot power – torque – it offers DOES make a faster, louder swoosh. Bobby Jones used to do this, inside going back and square going down. At any rate I think I pulled my right side with having  to reign in so much speed to a stop after impact. 500 times a day, excruciating pain. It’s as if God wants me to not focus so much on the election.

After this week how will I see you? I’m all about what’s happening NOW and exploring the archives won’t do it for me.

Good luck, we’ll all need it, I think.

P.S. If Trump IS declared the winner it will only because he won by 20 % and they HAD to let him in. No American in his or her right mind is going  to buy Harris’ line about solving the cost of living and being fooled by her platitudes instead of substance campaign. Her gaslighting, her naked hypocrisy and lies. A bottom of the barrel, proven failure of a candidate to begin with. We’re not all stupid. 60 % of us will vote Trump. Trump WILL WIN. Will we all lose, anyway, is the question.

Nov 6, 2024;

It was insightful watching you change with the progression of events election night. Optimistic and confident at the start and mournful, deflated and confused with Trump’s announced win. “How could this be happening?” At one point you implored your co presenter to LOOK at you as if this was a big moment in both your lives. And there he was just going through his paces like nothing was wrong. By aftermath you all recomposed yourselves very well, as if a staffer had told you all a hilarious joke or something during a break. I noticed YOU under stress and disappointment and defeat and then rebounding as if you are a resilient one, indeed. All caught live and studied by me. When Miley Cyrus gushed disappointment at Hillary’s loss in 2016 I wanted to also comfort her as she just didn’t know better to begin with. Like I used to be before Lennon’s murder circumstances taught me about the very real war and very real commie plot that has already taken over half of our government. Had I not learned that the Clintons secretly invited Stephen King into The White House in 1995, had I not learned that Obama and Biden gifted Stephen King with a medal of the arts award also in The White House in 2016, all the while KNOWING what he did, I’d have never learned that both sides are one and are playing us for fools. What I know now allows for the possibility that “John Doe Two” of the Oklahoma City bombing could very well have BEEN Stephen King! It’s all that sick and huge and in our faces. Since I KNOW those two very high speed “accidents” I was subjected to in 2010 and 2015 were NOT accidents but orchestrated attempts to kill me with Obama ands Biden at the switch, I know better now than to trust the Democrats a wit. OR the Republicans. Because Trump is neither he is the best for America right now and if we deserved better we’d be better people than a lot of ignoramuses dismissing Steve Lightfoot with his evidence, the expose of all time.

Yeah, I used to be like Miley and you, now, trusting the communists in sheep’s clothing. Did you notice Harris’s platitudes versus substance campaign? That’s what one does if they have no record or platform to run on. Obama style platitudes to look down the masses noses with as you lead them over the cliff. Did you notice how she only suggested Trump would resist a transition of power as if she could not lose? In reality she admitted defeat the day before when she said at a rally; “We all rise and fall together.” She sensed the steamroller bearing down on her fake race and that we Americans might not be as dumb as she thinks, after all.

Know this, YOU dodged a bullet, not just me. We ALL dodged a bullet as if providence rules, still. As if we deserve a second chance, after all. MY experience – extremely rarified – has equipped me with a better view of things. A hero mind set that obeys only truth and nothing else.

You have to admit, when a comedian roasts Trump’s stage about Puerto Ricans – as if he was paid by the opposition to do so, a plant – and a day later Biden is saying half of Americans are garbage, when that kind of play is at work you have to give Trump the nod for having good luck.

I accurately predicted the results. It’s on my site. I expected a rigged result for Harris IF the Trump win was close. That the media polls all this time were mind control tactics and false to butter you all up for a switch. But I proclaimed a 60% / 40 % result win for Trump if it was NOT rigged. According to the delegate count I was spot on, too. A bold claim I made proved true. I said, too, that only IF Trump won BY 20 % would the cheaters abort a rigged result. Right all the way around. Only because the public is evil with a Lennon cover-up did I fear a communist COULD possibly win. That our bad karma might punish us with a saboteur. I also noticed that I backed off and let America decide for themselves after my three month radio campaign frenzy last summer. I was spent. To let Trump pick up the slack and earn his victory. It gave America credit for seeing the reasoning behind my position. No pushy salesman, me. They calculated all that and decided. I never COULD imagine a Harris win. It just seemed too evil to be true and it was.

“What now, my love?” Now that your face may be less accessible to my hungry eyes what will I do for love? It should be interesting if my story breaks and I’m suddenly the big shot I’ve always deserved to be. THEN we may meet in the flesh. I’ve always suspected we might. Now that Trump’s in maybe I can convince him to share the hero stage with huger than life me and send King to punishment land. While he has the dragon on the floor exposed in front of him. UNLIKE his first term when he had a failure of nerve. THAT cost him so much misery, in between, for it, too. Will DeSantis continue to offer King his Florida witness protection racket? Hurricane Milton paid him back for that, already. Will Trump TOLERATE King’s presence in Florida? The last time he did it cost him ‘biggly’. Let’s hope he sees things my way, soon. “Vanquish evil, St. George, – er – St. Donald.” SOMEBODY get that evil a-hole off our backs, please! Wimpy ass McCartney is nowhere to be seen. Can Trump tackle “good’ versus “evil” this go around? Or is the HUGENESS of me and THIS news too much for his competitive ego?

I met him once and spoke with him. It was in the 90’s at a Pebble Beach golf practice tee. He was all by himself and so I insinuated myself on his routine and asked him if he had ever heard about a conspiracy involving evidence against Nixon and Reagan in John Lennon’s death. He politely responded that, no, he had not. I told him he would someday, hopefully soon. He seemed like a good guy even though, at the time, I suspected his role in it I was so paranoid of everything in those days. No, Trump came across like a down to earth, genuine and concerned good human being. Maybe he actually IS. Can we all just get out of his way just in case? Maybe if we were better people he’d be better people, too.

I loved the face fest of last night. You from all the angles. Like the fourth of July fireworks flurry at the end. I especially treasure the inner you of emotions behind the face.

Lately my decades long loneliness binge has caught up with me and I’m not O.K. with it.

Nov. 14, ’24;

In Santa Rosa, Ca. lately to cover all my bases before moving out of state. I am enduring the thought of my sacrifice, thus far, for my crusade and how the ingrate public stacks up next to it. Like, what’s wrong with this stupid world, anyway?

At least I am luxuriating in the afterglow of knowing we are NOT going communist this cycle, after all. Trump is in and that’s good, considering the alternatives.

It’s a little trickier accessing this page since my new add on chapter. I’ll try to adjust..

 

 

That’s all for now.

Love you,

Steve Lightfoot

 

 

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