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Maine AFIO Chapter Meeting
June 18, 2011
2:00 p.m.
Community Center, 8 Temple Street
Kennebunkport, Maine
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AFIO/ME
Michael Severance, President
P.O. Box D
Kennebunkport, ME
04046
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IRAN AND THE WAR AGAINST THE WEST
Michael Ledeen, internationally renowned scholar, author, and foreign policy advisor will be guest speaker at the June meeting of the Maine Chapter of the Association for Intelligence Officers speaking on "Iran and the War Against the West."
Ledeen (see picture at right) holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he specialized in Modern Europe. In 1974 he moved to Italy where he studied the history of Fascism. In the 1980s he worked for the Italian military intelligence as a "risk assessment" consultant. In the early 1980s he testified before the Senate Committee on Security and Terrorism with former CIA Director William Colby, at which both expressed their belief that the Soviet Union was providing support to terorist groups.
He was Special Advisor to Secretary of State Alexander Haig and was a consultant of National Security Advisor Robert C. McFarlane at the time of the Iran Contra scandal. More recently Ledeen has been accused of being involved in the alleged yellowcake forgery.
Ledeen held the Freedom Scholar chair at the American Enterprise Institute and currently holds a similar chair at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Known for his controversial theories, Ledeen has appeared on TV news progams and is the author of numerous articles and books including his most recent,The Iranian Time Bomb.
The meeting is open to the public. It will be held June 18, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. at the Community Center, 8 Temple Street in Kennebunkport, across from the Post Office and uphill from the municipal parking lot. For information call 207-967-4298.
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Topics In Education
Betrayed by the Education Establishment
with Laurie Rogers, author of " Betrayed: How the Education Estab-
lishment Has Betrayed America and What You Can Do about it"
and Clint Thatcher, author of " Why I quit teaching math at SFCC"
Live 'Topics In Education' call-in Thursdays at 7:00pm
EPISODE I of
The constitutional history of education in Maine.
The Maine Constitution has little to offer on the topic of education. The two Articles which mention anything about education are (emphasis added):
Art.I Sec.3 - "all religious societies in this State ... shall at all times have the exclusive right of electing their public teachers ..."
Art.VIII, Part First - Section 1. Legislature shall require towns to support public schools; duty of Legislature. A general diffusion of the advantages of education being essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people; to promote this important object, the Legislature are authorized, and it shall be their duty to require, the several towns to make suitable provision, at their own expense, for the support and maintenance of public schools; and it shall further be their duty to encourage and suitably endow, from time to time, as the circumstances of the people may authorize, all academies, colleges and seminaries of learning within the State; provided, that no donation, grant or endowment shall at any time be made by the Legislature to any literary institution now established, or which may hereafter be established, unless, at the time of making such endowment, the Legislature of the State shall have the right to grant any further powers to alter, limit or restrain any of the powers vested in any such literary institution, as shall be judged necessary to promote the best interests thereof.
The primary language addressing education was inherited from the education laws of Massachusetts as part of the first statute adopted by the Maine Legislature in 1819 as implemented in the new constitution with:
Art.X Sec.3 - "Laws now in force continue until repealed. All laws now in force in this State [as of the adoption of this Constitution], and not repugnant to this Constitution, shall remain, and be in force, until altered or repealed by the Legislature, or shall expire by their own limitation."
The enacting statute was referred to as "An Act relating to the Separation of the District of Maine from Massachusetts Proper and forming the same into a Separate and Independent State"
In future episodes, I will discuss exactly what we inherited from the mother state - the "prequel", and much more on what our children will inherit from us - the "sequel".
Coming this fall to theaters in Maine
 
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The Hypocrites
You elected them to represent you.
They voted according to your wishes, right?.
Actions speak louder than words.
Some choices by our elected officials are particularly revealing. Near the end of its session, Maine's 125th legislature voted on whether or not to repeal clean election laws that have been in place for over a decade. Maine's Clean Election Act has allowed many less priviledged citizens to run for and win a seat in the State Legislature. In the house vote, 33 out of 151 representatives voted to abandon a system that has worked well.
Oddly enough, 17 of those who voted to repeal clean election funding also relyed on that source of funds to get themselves elected. You will recognize them if you see them - they speak with forked tongues.
The list below makes it clear that whatever these folks espouse for policy may not match the actions they take on your behalf. Make sure that if they run in 2012, they do so with private funding ... or not at all. Because they are all hypocrites!
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Name |
Town |
Party |
Vote |
Funding |
| 6 |
Clark, Tyler |
Easton |
R |
N |
MCEA |
| 11 |
Turner, Beth |
Burlington |
R |
N |
MCEA |
| 16 |
Damon, Douglas |
Bangor |
R |
N |
MCEA |
| 20 |
Johnson, David |
Eddington |
R |
N |
MCEA |
| 26 |
Davis, Paul |
Sangerville |
R |
N |
MCEA |
| 27 |
Johnson, Peter |
Greenville |
R |
N |
MCEA |
| 41 |
Gillway, James |
Searsport |
R |
N |
MCEA |
| 42 |
Rioux, Peter |
Winterport |
R |
N |
MCEA |
| 45 |
Harmon, R. Ryan |
Palermo |
R |
N |
MCEA |
| 58 |
Foster, Karen |
Augusta |
R |
N |
MCEA |
| 88 |
Dunphy, Larry |
Embden |
R |
N |
MCEA |
| 90 |
Black, Russell |
Wilton |
R |
N |
MCEA |
| 96 |
Timberlake, Jeffrey |
Turner |
R |
N |
MCEA |
| 103 |
McClellan, Michael |
Raymond |
R |
N |
MCEA |
| 104 |
Crafts, Dale |
Lisbon |
R |
N |
MCEA |
| 134 |
Valentino, Linda |
Saco |
D |
N |
MCEA |
| 138 |
Burns, David R. |
Alfred |
R |
N |
MCEA |
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