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The State of Maine and its Freedom of Speech Crisis

Tweet This http://goo.gl/TRhOuA SHARE IF YOU AGREE ! -The Maine media excludes most constitutional considerations from political talking points- except when they are used as political points against one party or the other. In 2013 The Legislature passed a bill that removed the constitutional requirement that certain fiscal information accompany bond questions on the ballot and declared that such information would be placed outside the guard rail (meaning outside the voting area) . Although this was blatantly repugnant to the Maine Constitution, Governor Lepage did not veto it and the Maine media did not cover it. And so bringing the US and Maine constitution back into the political talking points in Maine is going to have to start as a grass roots movement. I have often written about the Maine media being part of the problem in which the state of Maine has been fundamentally transformed away from its constitutional basis and into the Corporation of Maine. And I have wri

Maine Media Goes into A Tizzy as Readers of Maine Constitution Come Out Of The Woods !

I was recently in a conversation with a candidate for the Maine legislature. I am not revealing his identity as the intention is not to hurt his campaign, being that he was decent in engaging in conversation and he is in the regard that I write about here representative of the culture in Augusta in general. Henceforth I will refer to him as Candidate  I was questioning Candidate's support of a Maine Bank, a movement that I had become cognizant about during my research efforts for A Maine Citizen's Journey Through The Statutes of Transformation . We debated many of the points for and against such a new government function but during the course of our dialogue, my question about how one reconciles the establishment of a State Bank, which would surely be established as yet another corporate instrumentality of the state, with Article IV Part Third Of The Maine State Constitution: As it is presented in Time Line Part Third. Legislative Power Section 13.  Special legi

A Challenge To Maine's Main Stream Media- Read The State Constitution!

The sage of the hacking continues and now I am not promoting the website or continuing to work on it until I get to the root of the problem. This reproduction of a page introducing a discussion topic on my new website provides foundation to my previous paragraph: How dare you defile our state constitution with your disingenuous words !     Language As A Method Of Fundamental Transformation This is a most disturbing subject ! Maine is a state where few read the constitution and fewer read the statutes, where the media is in bed with the power elite and the legislature does what ever it pleases because nobody is looking. Compare the two statements below- the one written by the Maine legislature in the year 1981: The other was added to the Maine Constitution in the year 1876 - around a quarter of a century after Max and Engels publish The Communist Manifesto ( a political ideology based in state capitalism) RULES FOR NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS begins with a list of what is

"Reinventing Maine Government" VS "Reclaiming Maine Government"

There is so much to write about that I can't keep up with it. Sometimes I think I should start my own non-profit organization but I always meet that huge roadblock that is my own visceral feeling about what non-profits have become in this day and age and so I wonder if by doing so, I would have to sacrifice everything that is worth while. I like the freedom of being non-affiliated, in part because all my attempts at affiliation have been a confrontation with those who would censor the expression of my views. But when I see something such as "Envision Maine", which as far as I can tell is an organization devoted to the election of Elliot Cutler, and which publishes and sells their manifesto called "Reinventing Maine Government" , I think that someone should start and organization called "Reclaiming Maine" and publish a manifesto called "Reclaiming Maine Government", which would be a map for deconstructing all the government business develo