Maine Left wing legislators consider bans on gun ownership and homeschooling

Mainestategop Blog ^ | 10/28/08 | mainestategop

[mainestategop]

Poverty, unemployment, homelessness and a budget deficit are not the only results of Maine's communist welfare state. The attraction of a loosely regulated and generous hand out from BIG government has brought with it criminals and other undesirables who not only continue to strain the system but bring with them their lack of morality and work ethic. Crime in Maine has soared over the years. Gang related crime has also become alarming. Gangs from Boston, Providence and New York have found it easy to sell dope on Maine's cities. Thanks to a relaxed law enforcement, that job has become easier. Even rural backwoods towns find themselves under the grip of violent gangs who are poisoning our youth and committing violent crimes. The city of Bangor Maine even faced an alarming number of murders, some of which were drug related.

In 2006 and 2007 the property crime rate rose higher than that of Lubbock Texas as did its violent crime rate. There were more homicides in the Bangor Metropolitan area than Lubbock, a city with a far larger population and that ten years ago was notorious for having a higher crime rate. Crime in Texas metroplexes like Lubbock have dropped but in Maine, they got higher. Property crime has especially soared.

What is the state to do? A friend of mine told me about a Korean deli owner in New York City who faced similar problems. If the Chicken salad starts to turn, don't throw it out, just add more mayo. When Communist welfare policies attract felons from the inner city, add more communism. Higher crime, poverty, MORE COMMUNISM! This is how Maine has handled all of its problems in the past so we should not be surprised to hear that things have gotten worse.

And its not just crime, services have been burdened among them, schools. Despite massive spending on state and federal levels, Maine's youth are falling behind the rest of the country. Of course with a population influx of new welfare recipients we should not be surprised. The education system was one of the major influences that prevented the successful passing of TABOR in 2006, that along with votes from welfare hogs and Marxist college students.

So what is the solution to these two major problems of crime and education? Taking away the rights of innocent citizens. Maine's Demonrat state legislature wants to strip honest law abiding citizens of their rights to own and keep arms. The good news is that Maine's blue collar Democrats are adamantly against gun control laws. Maine also has hunters come all around the nation. Although leftists have tried to restrict gun possession, they have had little success.

Consider the following:

If gun control advocate believe that guns kill people, I must infer that they also believe the following: Cameras create pornography. Blenders create margaritas. Automobiles drive themselves while intoxicated. Baseball bats hit home runs. Computers send email. Pens write stories. Stoves cook meals. And following their logic of banning guns to stop crimes, we must also: Ban sex to stop rapes. Ban cars to stop car accidents. Ban swimming to stop drowning. Ban computers to stop computer virus. Ban credit cards to stop credit delinquencies. Ban children to stop SIDS. Ban politicians to stop stupid laws. Wait, that might not be all that bad an idea!

Concerning education there have been two points, one of course is raising taxes. (AGAIN) But what is also shocking is an idea that is even worse... Ban homeschooling.

It has been something that has been considered by the Maine legislature for several years. Although rarely discussed there have been murmurings. The state of Maine has been for several years a haven for home school parents. But given its liberal leanings, that could change. Several editorials in Left wing anti American newspapers In eastern Maine, in particular the Bangor Daily news and the Ellsworth [anti] American have criticized homeschooling and have either advocated restrictions against home school families or that it should be outright abolished. Not only that, but even private schooling in a parochial or private institution is considered unlawful and unacceptable!

Though few, activities by the left to intimidate and persecute home school families have taken place. In Augusta Maine, a school superintendent wrote a letter claiming that Homeschoolers were less likely to find a job. This is simply not true. In fact Homeschoolers were over 73% more likely to be employed than those who were dumbed down in public school. They are also more likely to go on to college or university and become employed at a highly qualified job. In another incident, a superintendent at another district began mailing letters to parents of children including home school children demanding confidential information. The Home school Legal Defense fund put a stop to that.

Perhaps two incidents were found to be more alarming. One was an incident involving a man who made phantom phone calls to parents asking them about corporal punishment and if they attended church. In another incident, a man impersonating a truant officer approached a mother and her home school daughter in public and threatened to arrest them.

Let us ask ourselves, our schools are failing, they cannot teach, they turn our students into morons and low wage earners, the schools are expensive and overburdened and overcrowded so we keep hearing from the left, so why? Why do we want to take away parent's options? Why do we want to prevent parents from teaching their children at home? Why burden down the school system even more?

None the less, There have been few incidents and in fact over the years there have been progress. Even the most leftist politicians have sided with home school families. Governor Baldacci signed several bills protecting the rights of homeschoolers yet there is still a long way to go. We the few conservatives left in Maine must stay vigilant and keep our eyes peeled.

[mainestategop]

The Good news is that even the Democrats in this state aren't to keen on gun control and compulsory education either. The only reason Maine hasn't degenerated that far is because we remained vigilante and didn't let up.

[Kickass Conservative]

This will be part of the upcoming agenda if Obambi makes it all the way to the White House. You ain't seen nothin yet.

[mainestategop]

Do we know anything about Obama’s views on homeschooling? I know he's anti gun but what has he said about Home school?

[padre35]

Homeschoolers are huge targets for the Left, they truly resent that somehow, they are avoiding the Public School Gulag and actually learning unapproved materials.

I always thought Maine was sort of a Libertarian Conservative State, not to keen on welfare.

[Grampa Dave]

There seems to be an exodus of older gays and lesbians to move to Maine from sunny California.

Things will get worse as these boomer/loser whining gays/lesbians work their way into local Maine politics.

They are bringing stage coaches loaded with money from selling their Gay Frisco and N California homes.

[Kickass Conservative]

He is a Democrat. He thinks we should have Government mandated Preschool for 3 year olds. He is against vouchers.

I'm sure homeschooling is on the list. You betcha...

[444Flyer]

Under Obama, Homeschooling will be a crime and Private Schooling will be taxed out of existence. They'll get our children in whatever method they need to in order to brainwash them and separate them from their parents “unprogressive” philosophies. Forced public (indoctrination) schooling will be the rule.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Great!...All the American socialists and communist and other assorted nut bars can move there and let themselves be taxed out of existence!...

[basil]

Ping!

[goldi]

I don’t know about the legality of homeschooling, although CA homeschoolers won a big victory and set a precedent recently, but the matter of compelling parents to send their children to public school has already been decided by the Supreme Court way back in the 1920’s. The court ruled “the child is not the mere creature of the state.” Parents have the right to send their children to private and parochial schools.

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=268&invol=510

[mainestategop]

I always thought Maine was sort of a Libertarian Conservative State, not to keen on welfare.

Nope! not anymore! They all ran off to get away from being taxed to death. The state is more liberal than California in some instances.

[jabchae]

That was the old Supreme Court.

[wbill]

I always thought Maine was sort of a Libertarian Conservative State, not to keen on welfare.

Maine was, when I was a kid.

Still is, in some Northern and Western parts. Most of Southern half of the state, though, has been re-populated by Exiles from Boston. The Portland area, in particular, is practically a bedroom community of Massachusetts.

[padre35]

I knew they had some sort of deal where a couple of pot plants could be grown for “medical purposes” but not the rest of it.

A pity really, do you think there is any chance McPalin can pick off one electoral vote up in ME?

[hout8475]

While probably a majority of homeschoolers fit into the Christian Conservative camp, there are also a lot of liberal homeschoolers (and unschoolers) in various parts of the country. They are mostly for Obama. I wonder how they will feel if Obama succeeds in outlawing homeschooling.

[Little Pig]

Not sure where you got that impression of Maine. Maine is one of the most depressed (non-urban) states in the Union. There is almost no industry. The Bath Iron Works is nearly defunct (or maybe totally, I haven’t kept track). Apart from the big Weyerhauser forests up North, the only thing bringing any real money into the state is the tourism trade in the summer. There are only two real revenue centers in Maine, Portland and Kennebunkport, and of the two, Portland is the only real city. Year-round Maine residents are heavily on the dole, and more so now that there has been a large influx of already-unemployable Somalis (not that there are jobs for them even if they could do them) to swell the ranks of the unemployment rolls.

Further, Maine is in the unfortunate position of having few resources for bringing in more industry, even if the state government were friendly to business. Apart from forestry, there’s no reason to move a manufacturing facility up there, where distribution would be difficult. About the only business field that could make it there would be high-tech, which would have the effect of bringing highly-paid workers in and driving up the cost of real estate. Maine’s only highway infrastructure hugs the coast, so that’s where most of the initial development would happen, and real estate costs are already inflated there because of the proximity to the coast. You’d have to convince the government to drive a freeway into the interior, and create some kind of business development zone where costs would be so cheap that industry would be stupid not to take advantage of the opportunity. In order to manage that, you’d have to have a conservative government and a solid budget surplus, neither of which exists.

[padre35]

Yeah, I had the impression that once that Air Force base closed up there, Maine was in deep kimchi economically speaking.

[jabchae]

The state of Maine has been for several years a haven for home school parents.

This is news to me. Why would this be?

Generally speaking, homeschool families need someone in the family earning some income.

No part of New England seems particularly difficult with respect to homeschooling, so I wonder why Maine would be a "haven."

[mainestategop]

Because thank God there have been safeguards to protect them much to the chagrin of the left. Still most Christians go to private Christian schools.

[jabchae]

Is homeschooling not possible in other states? From which states are people being drawn to the homeschooling haven of Maine?