Edge Of Sedition

Whoops! Hot to trot w/ this item, Gov. LePage having provided filler for this space over the yrs.,

but, excitable weasel that I am (Meat!?!) I'd only seen the headline/tease/whatever & hadn't the slightest it was a scrolling-required tl; dr book excerpt.

This is an excerpt from As Maine Went: Governor Paul LePage and the Tea Party Takeover of Maine, a new book by Mike Tipping out this July. Pre-order the book through Kickstarter.

O.K., the book title isn't inflammatory. What caught the eye was the TPMMuck title:

Why Did Maine's Governor Conspire
With 'Sovereign Citizen' Extremists?

Now the inner editor asks, w/o more than a ritual & cursory scan, will it back our original reaction, "Are there no sedition laws?"

Lessee.

Listeners tuning in that morning were greeted first with a medley of patriotic and religious songs and then by the voices of Jack McCarthy and Steve Martin, hosts of the Aroostook Watchmen radio show.

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This particular Monday morning, the Watchmen discussed new evidence that they said proved the Sandy Hook school shooting was a false-flag operation made possible through government mind control. They warned that Jewish Senators Diane Feinstein, Chuck Schumer, and Joe Lieberman were attempting to disarm the patriots of America so that they could begin their “holocaust against America’s Christian population.” They also had something more locally relevant to talk about: McCarthy’s hour-and-a-half meeting, two days earlier, with Maine Governor Paul LePage.

Does AM radiation make these people worse? Which brings up the caveat that all the hot poop on Maine's Goob'ner seems to come from these two "Watchmen." And Gov. Mucilage appears to have finally been wised up by his staff (You can imagine what fun even the semi-rational must have when the boss is a dumb cluck like LePage. If they weren't glibertarian nimrods to begin w/ some amount of pity night be felt.)

Soon after this meeting, a Freedom of Access request for the documents that have informed much of this report was filed, alerting the governor’s staff that word of the meetings had spread. Sometime before the governor’s next meeting with the Constitutionalists, LePage’s legal staff presented him with a five-page memo arguing that the Sovereign Citizens were misinterpreting the law. They wrote that the right of remonstrance “does not include and has never included any rights of citizens to compel legislation or compel the government to act in any certain way.” In short, they finally explained to LePage the sheer ridiculousness of the basic premise of the conversations the governor had been having with the group for the prior eight months.

Too bad, really. Maybe the Watchmen could have talked the Governor into dissolving Maine's state gov't. & empowering the reeve of each shire as the lord (BUT ELECTED!! WHY DO YOU HATE DEMOCRACY?) of his fief.

Hell, the moron voters up there should give LePage another shot this yr. Maybe w/ four more he can finish transmogrifying Maine to New England's Somalia, & they'll all get what they deserve, good & hard.