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    Hello, This is about a very important upcoming case, McDonald v. City of Chicago. In Chicago you cannot legally own a handgun for self defense, and have not been able to since 1982, unless of course your a criminal who could care less about whats legal. Mr. McDonald has filed a suit that in essence says his Second Amendment rights, (note: along with every honest citizen of Chicago) has been unconstitutionally taken away by Chicago ‘law makers’, (Obama’s buddy’s).

   Pay attention, on March 2, 2010 this case will be argued before the Supreme Court. Normally we as Americans should not feel anxiety over what the outcome would be concerning our rights under the Constitution. The Supreme Courts job, supposedly, is to unbiasedly interpret the Constitution, period. That is where the anxiety comes in, based on the Heller case in 2008, Heller v. the District of Columbia, where the Supreme Court decided along purely ideological party lines, 5 to 4, in what should have been a unanimous decision. Heller and the American people won that case in favor of the individuals right to own firearms in D.C. for protection, by only one vote. It was that close vote that showed me how fragile or rights have become, and how corrupted members of the Supreme Court have become. The left wing, anti gun justices voted against gun ownership, it was clearly along party lines. Be afraid, be very afraid when that is how our rights will be decided.

    The Supreme Court will be deciding if the states will have the same rights that D.C. (a federal enclave) now enjoys. The answer should be a clear ‘yes’, but with the recent nomination of Sotomayor, who stated in a past decision, as a member of a New York appeals court, “the Second Amendment did not apply to the states”. So I suppose in her twisted view, the Second Amendment was written for some other country?

     McDonald’s case is backed by 38 states that argue the Second Amendment should protect people against city and state regulation because the right to bear arms is “fundamental to the American scheme of justice”. Personally I wonder why there are not 50 states backing the McDonald case, when did the other 12 states go communist?

     The anti -gun group, Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, along with the International Association of Chiefs of Police and two other police groups, (no less) have joined their anti Second Amendment forces in a “friend to the court brief” cautioning how a Supreme Court decision could affect gun regulations, (they really mean ‘restrictions’)  nation wide. GOOD! Can you say “Police State”?  

    I feel that the police chiefs are upset that they may lose their dictatorial and arbitrary discretion leverage over honest citizens. Most of these Chiefs are unqualified, appointed political hacks, that are true only to their anti Constitution, left wing political masters, (the progressives). I do not put much weight behind their feigned ‘concern’ for the rights or safety of honest American citizens, they should be more concerned in curbing crime, not defeating our Second Amendment! It is hard for me to believe any of them were even born in America, certainly not my America! I am sure they would be in their glory if America were a police state.

    Everyone should be watching this McDonald v. City of Chicago case closely this year, watch how the Supreme Court justices rule. What should be a unanimous decision, based in honest interpretation of the Constitution as intended by our Founders, I fear will not be very honest, but instead will be along ideological ‘left vs. right’ party lines, which, in their position, should be unconscionable, and not how the Supreme court was intended to work.

Mark Shean- written 2-28-2010  www.mafirearmsafety.com

UPDATE: We The People, along with the Second Amendment have won. The Supreme court has ruled, 5-4 that the Second Amendment is the individuals right to keep and bear arms! It is officially the law of the land. Now we can begin to see draconian anti gun laws all over the country begin to crumble as challenges to them are made! But, the vote was along party lines which means four of those ‘honerable’ justices were not true to the Constitution and our Founders meaning. It could have easily gone the other way and plunged the country into civil war, because they feel ‘party’ is more important than country.

    Steve Forbes and Mike Huckabe have at least five things in common that I can readily call to mind. One is that they have both run for office as Presidential candidates, and were qualified to do so. Second, they both wanted smaller less intrusive Government. Third, they both have produced proof of birth, (original birth certificate) as required by law to run for President, and did not spend millions in courts to hide them from the public. Fourth they are intelligent men who have a firm grasp of economics, with prior experience in business and/or running a state government. Fifth, they were both advocates for a ‘flat tax’ or ‘fair tax’ system that would abolish the IRS, and they fully understand and explain the benefits this would bring to an economy on the verge of collapse. 

    To put it lightly, the IRS tax codes are a convoluted conundrum of conflicting contradictions. When given the same hypothetical tax problem, no two ‘tax experts’ can come up with the same answer. What chance do you think you have to get it right? It is designed that way to find anyone guilty, at any time, of ‘tax’ discrepancies/fraud. Lest we forget, we must sign our tax returns on penalty of perjury! Perjury is in the eye of the beholder, the IRS,  they can manipulate it how ever they want.

     The IRS should be abolished. The IRS is the epitome of a bottomless pit of incompetent bureaucracy. Both, Forbes and Huckabe recognize this and want to lift the burden, and threat, from the downtrodden middle class tax payer. Both men are absolutely correct, and the next candidate that comes along supporting the same views of abolishing the IRS we all had better pay close attention. Private sector employees should not hold some kind of a monopoly on being laid off, why should federal employees be exempt? I am sure the Mafia could use more muscle, and has openings that could absorb many IRS employees well versed in ruthless strong arm tactics. That could shorten the lines at the unemployment office.

    As it stands now, supporting the payroll for IRS employees and its infrastructure is like supporting another military branch, complete with its own fleet of aircraft carriers, air force, and all the layers of personnel that an operation like that would entail. Administrations have not been above using the IRS as a weapon of intimidation against their political opponents. Why would any politician, already corrupted by power, want to willingly lose such a weapon of intimidation? They need only point and let loose the IRS mad dogs to savagely do their bidding. I believe this is precisely why the subject of abolishing the IRS will never be brought forth by the present cowards in Congress.

    The fight to rid ourselves of the broken IRS, we must, by necessity, begin by ridding ourselves of politicians that have been embedded, like ticks, in office far too long, by replacing them with a new breed of politician that will not only broach the subject of eliminating the IRS, but will also do something about it. If that means a third party such as the Tea Party for instance, lets bring it on. I firmly believe the American public will overwhelmingly support a flat tax over the tax schemes/scams/intimidation tactics we all have endured for so long. Our country cannot begin to grow, as it could otherwise, while still under the thumb of a very confusing, (to be kind) and undeniably broken IRS tax code system.

    If this, or any administration is truly serious about lowering the deficit, and improving the economy, it could be started in a HUGE way by abolishing the incompetent IRS and going to a fair/flat tax. The savings to the American tax payer by not supporting such a huge burden would be immediately felt by all who work for a living! When every American is fearful of a Government entity such as the IRS, where could there be any redeeming quality for keeping such an entity?

    This quote, taken from the Herald, by columnist Don Fender, sums up the IRS nicely.  “If the IRS were a business audited by the IRS, its offices would be padlocked, its assets seized and its owners contemplating a stay at Allenwood Federal Prison Camp.”

Mark Shean- written 2-20-2010  www.mafirearmsafety.com

    A Republic is a government of law under a Constitution. The Constitution holds the government in check and prevents the majority (acting through their government) from violating the rights of the individual. Under this system of government a lynch mob is illegal. The suspected criminal cannot be denied his right to a fair trial even if the majority of the citizenry demands otherwise.

    A democracy is majority rule and is destructive of liberty because there is no law to prevent the majority from trampling on individual rights. Whatever the majority says goes! A lynch mob is an example of pure democracy in action, the only dissenting vote is cast by the unfortunate person with the noose around his neck!

    A Republic and a democracy are often taken as one and the same thing, but there is one huge fundamental difference. Whilst in both cases the government is elected by the people, in a democracy the majority rules according to their whims, whilst in the Republic the Government rule is according to law. This law is framed in our Constitution and meant to directly limit the power of our Government ensuring some rights and protection to minorities and individuals.

    Anyone who claims our Constitution is a ‘living document’ meant to be molded and changed with the times is a socialist ‘progressive’ bent on destroying the very fabric of America. Abe Lincoln sees it this way;(“Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.”) We cannot allow their progressive notions of ‘change’ to happen, it would ruin us as a nation, this, history shows. If we bend our principles, they are not principles any more.

    To ‘progressives’ our Constitution is a despised roadblock in the pathway of their agenda to ‘fundamentally change America’, and they have been working for decades to undermine the Constitution and our way of life. A very real attempt to bankrupt America is underway by progressives this minute, by doing so they will argue the need to ‘suspend’ our Constitution in the wake of their self made “crisis” in order to ‘save’ America. As A.G. Eric Holder said,”Never let a crisis go to waste”. During the State of the Union Address, Obama acknowledged the Republicans as “my Republican friends”, but I noted that he acknowledged the Democrats as “my ‘progressive’ friends”, he did not call them democrats at all.

    Here is another word from Abraham Lincoln; (“We the People are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who would pervert the Constitution.“)

   He knew, as well as many great men in our past understood, that absolute power corrupts absolutely, this is why it was so very important to have a Republic, with the ‘checks and balances’ built into the framework of our Constitution. These checks and balances are not found in any definition of a democracy, these are the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary. Patrick Henry warned; (“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force you are ruined“)

   Elected officials in D.C. have accosted our First Amendment, (McCain/Fiengold bill), and our Second Amendment for years because they have become corrupted by being in power for to long, these amendments have become roadblocks to their far reaching, treasonous, agendas. If they become successful in their schemes it will effect all future generations of Americans and will strip away long fought for freedoms, forever.

We the People have two choices to make sure that will not happen.

1. Vote these unbelievably arrogant incumbents out of office, they have by far overstayed their welcome, and they have demonstrated that they are Constitutionally challenged in their knowledge of the Constitution they solemnly swore to uphold. (I believe the first choice is the best way.)

2. The second way has already been done in the past, read your history books, (the books that have not been rewritten yet by the ‘progressives’) it was called the American Revolution. Let us hope we are not forced to repeat history in that respect, but stand ready.

   Thomas Jefferson warns us; (“ The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.“)

   So, is it important to understand the difference between a Republic and a democracy? You bet your freedom and stability it is!
   Mark Shean- written 2-17-2010  www.mafirearmsafety.com

   The following is written in order that people will understand the difference between a Democracy and a Republic, they are not the same exact thing. Even Harvard educated Obama ‘appears’ not to know the difference as he constantly refers to America as a democracy in his speeches on television.

(“A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of Government, it can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves *largess out of public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that Democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a Dictatorship“)

   Note; [This was written by Professor, Alexander Fraser Tytler, nearly 200 years ago, based on his studied knowledge of past world history.] *Lar-gess, noun, (lahr-jes, lahr-jis)= {Liberality in bestowing gifts, especially in a lofty or condescending manner.} Does allowing illegal immigrants social security benefits ring a bell? How about giving them educations on your dime? Giving them ‘free’ health care when they have not even paid into our system. Or does giving incentives by rewarding welfare moms to stay home to keep popping out illegitimate babies, that the working tax payers have to house, feed and clothe ring any bells?

   Bailing out huge banks and corporations and car companies that by rights in a free market should have failed due to bad internal management, forcing their debt and failures on the American working tax payer. You get the picture, and this is the first time in American history were the do-nothing, lay-a- bouts actually outnumber the workers. That means they can and will out vote you in order to get more freebies, (largess) paid for by you!

   Pay attention working Americans, not much incentive left to go to work is there? Democracy results in ‘mobocracy’ which is political control by a mob. Democracy is the “direct” rule of the people, whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. A democracy is governed by ‘whim’, not rule of law and has been repeatedly tried without success throughout history.

   This is why our Founding Fathers created America as a Republic instead of a democracy. They made a very marked distinction between a Republic and a democracy and said repeatedly and emphatically that they had founded a Republic. They knew with educated certainty that democracies were doomed to fail, just as history had repeatedly shown. Please stay tuned, the difference is made crystal clear on page 2 above,  Mark Shean- written 2-17-2010  www.mafirearmsafety.com

“The fight for freedom is an endless battle. Its victories are never final, its defeats are never permanent. Each generation must defend its heritage, for each seeming conquest gives rise to new forces that will attempt to substitute fresh means of oppression from the old. There can be no peace in a world of life and growth—every battle the fathers thought finished will have to be fought anew by their children if they wish to preserve and extend their freedom”. {NOTE; Written by Philip Van Doren Stern, from “The Drums of Morning” as published in the Oct. 1942 issue of Readers Digest, while the whole world waged a terrible war against oppression.

When I stumbled across it I thought it would be a fitting reminder, because nothing has changed. -Mark Shean- submitted 1-30-2010 www.mafirearmsafety.com   http://www.nagr.org/UNTreaty_Pledge1.aspx?pid=4b

   From a May 1937 Readers Digest; “Long Before the Communist revolution in Russia transferred power from Kerensky’s provisional government to Lenon, all rights in private property, industry, and commercial enterprises had been destroyed. Step by step the labor unions had seized the plants; in every city of Russia and in every industry, shop committees had taken over management.

   What was Kerensky doing during this period? He was speaking on what he would do. He was seeking compromises. He was angling for a reunion of Socialist groups. He was secretly negotiating with conservatives and reactionaries. He was, in fact, doing nothing at all. He had created all the agencies of his own destruction, and they were at work. He had sought to be popular at the expense of righteous public morals. He had catered to the nether millions that he might listen to their cheers. Business men would make money, they felt, no matter what kind of politician was in power. In the end they had nothing. Their property, their human rights, even their lives were taken from them. The organized minority had focused its will on the seizure of property and government. The majority was engaged in every occupation but the defense of the rights of property and the rights of man. The minority smashed the majority because only the minority knew what it wanted. The majority was destroyed because it could not believe that it had to organize and fight to live.

   They woke up later, but it was too late. Their chance lay in government by law when Kerensky was in power. They missed their chance to resist every suggestion of compromise while they still possessed power. To compromise, say, with a kidnapper, you dare not say of kidnapping, “Perhaps kidnapping is, after all, not altogether wrong.” Yet men will view crimes equally severe and say,”Well, maybe there is another side to this question.” From July, 1917 to March, 1918, I saw this process.

    I have witnessed too many poisons mixed in the melting pot of compromise. When the sworn oath of office can become a subject for individual interpretation, when public officials ask themselves, “Must I serve the entire nation, or the pressure group that put me in power?”—-then the nation is bound to fail. Revolutions are successful when an organized minority discovers that the majority is split, is confused, is without vigilance. Then it is revolutionary tactics that will confound the majority by side issues, by beating the drums of progress and liberalism.

   The minority plays upon distress, creates emergencies, ridicules fundamentals. And all sorts of people are taken in by these tricks and they bow to the golden calf of humane proposals. Too late they learn that this emphatic humanity is only a veneer, only a sham in the rise to power. The minority stand upon the shoulders of those whom they fool only as long as they need protection. When they are strong enough, they destroy the props that supported them. The American people do not yet realize that they are in the first stage of a revolution. Yet all experience with revolution shows that seizure of private property is the first major battle in the destruction of any government.” {NOTE; Spooky comparison, Mr. Sokolsky obviously had a firm grasp on history and of evil in human nature.

   Do you see similarities today? I do. You would think he was writing about today! The tactics he wrote about are now being employed by ‘progressive democrats’ instead of Russians or unions, though I believe ‘progressives’ read from the same playbook. Obama has done nothing at all in his first year in office about jobs and the economy, what good is ‘health care’ to millions out of work, they want jobs! Obama has only catered to the far left pressure groups that put him in office. To be popular he is giving speeches almost daily to hear the cheers of the masses, as did Kerensky, and he has surrounded himself with appointed ‘czars’ who need not answer to the people, (something Congress must do something about) czar is Russian for ‘king.’ He has and is trying to take over private business/property on a scale that is unbelievable in scope, telling us all the time that it is the best thing for the country. Do you really believe that? I don’t.

   I believe that Obama is doing his best to destroy this country in one term and that he doe’s not give a hoot in hell about a second term. He said on the campaign trail how great America is, and in the very next breath said he would make fundamental changes to America! Why would you want to change America if you think it is ‘great’? That should have tipped all of us off to his socialist agenda. He wants to treat terrorists like common criminals, give them lawyers and Constitutional rights and have us pay with taxes for their defense!

   I view the ‘progressives’ as the minority trying to take over and tear down the very fabric of this nation through their lies and deceit. I view groups like the ACLU, ACORN, AARP, and the UNITED NATIONS as their accomplice’s undermining the core values and traditions of decent Americans by using our tax dollars against us, to prop themselves up as they propagate their attacks on our freedoms! The AARP is a little different, instead of using our tax dollars they take the money of their membership, the majority of which are conservative, and funnel it to the progressives without the memberships knowledge. If they found out, most would cancel their membership to AARP! The AARP was pushing Obama care hard!

   If we do not study and learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it. We need to cut the purse strings to ALL of these groups, that they may wither and die! This is an attack from within that we must recognize and fight before it is to late, as it was for the Russians. Thank God we are having mid term elections this November so that we may remove the progressive socialists that are bent on ruining our country.

After Scott Brown, many of them see the writing on the wall and are planning early retirement before the elections, GOOD RIDDANCE!! -Mark Shean- written 1-27-2010.  

Now a note from a Founding Father; { “To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”} Thomas Jefferson

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   The United Nations has wanted the United States to sign on to their draconian ATT for a long time, the ‘glitch’ though has been that it runs contrary to our Constitution and would completely nullify our Second Amendment, and our sovereignty.                http://www.nagr.org/UNTreaty_Pledge1.aspx?pid=4b

   Under our rules of government there must be a constitutional amendment proposed to repeal any of our amendments. The amendment must then be passed by two thirds of both houses of Congress and by three fourths of all of our state legislatures in order for any targeted amendment to be repealed.  So with this explanation you would think that there would have to be overwhelming support by the public in order to repeal any Amendment, just as the 21st Amendment repealed the 18Th Amendment’s prohibition on alcohol.

   But wait a minute, with a ‘treaty’ the process just mentioned can be bypassed.  All it would take is 69 Senators and the Presidential signature to implement it. Will that make you feel secure knowing what you have seen this Administration already do? The United Nations wants to disarm all individual citizens of the world through the so-called ATT, and this would include American citizens! The ATT would sweep away U.S. sovereignty at the stroke a pen by an unelected, Obama appointee, (the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton) with help from more than willing left wing Senators and President as accomplices/conspirators.  

   Prior, John Bolton was the Bush Administration’s Ambassador to the U.N., and he told a stunned United Nations; “We do not support measures that prohibit civilian possession of small arms…. The United States will not join consensus on a final document that contains measures abrogating the constitutional right to bear arms.”      

   Hillary Clinton is enthusiastically embracing the United Nations end-run around our Constitution! She is, with the Obama Administration’s approval, about to sign the ATT in what Democrats believe will finally tear the ‘inconvenient’ and ’embarrassing’ Second Amendment (road block) out of our Constitution once and for all, (so they think) disarming millions of Americans at the whim of the United Nations! What is completely perplexing to me is that none of the news media, including Fox has mentioned it? Do they even understand what is taking place? Or more to the point, do they care?  

   Under the U.N. charter, armed self-defense by private citizens-of any nation-is specifically not a “human right”. In fact, under the U.N. charter, “The right of self-defense in international law is not directed toward the preservation of lives of individuals…it is concerned only with the preservation of the State.” If the Obama Administration believes Americans will bow down to the will of the U.N. and socialist politicians on this issue, they had better bone-up on their history books, (the books that have not yet been rewritten by the Progressives). Starting with the American Revolutionary War, The War of 1812, and the Civil War era’s in American history, and then they had better think long and hard about what Americans will do to preserve their freedoms. History can, and would, repeat itself.

Mark Shean-written 1-23-2010.

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Note; A sobering word from a great American Founding Father: {“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”} Thomas Jefferson

Mr. Brown goes to Washington! That has a catchy ring to it don’t you think so ? Next the book, then the movie, then the Presidency! Allow me to fantasize just a little bit, being from the bluest of all blue states where my vote has always been nothing more than a futile gesture.

   It would now appear in no uncertain terms that voters in Massachusetts are no longer brain dead. Up until now if your great great grandfather, your grand father, your father were Democrats then you too must only vote for democrats, mindlessly, like zombies, no matter what they said or stood for. You were taken completely for granted by the candidate who would merely coast to an ‘entitled’ victory for decades on end. Well that has changed now, the independent voter has turned that ‘entitlement’ notion on its head! Coakely lost precisely because of that mindset, she knew she was the democrat and thereby that ‘entitled’ her to the Senate seat/throne, her arrogance showed through loud and clear and it cost her.

   After her primary win she dropped out of sight for weeks while Scott Brown criss-crossed the state working hard to earn our votes. Obama came charging to her rescue two days before the election because the polls showed it to be a neck and neck race, he put his political capital on the line. Someone should have reminded Obama before he charged up here that in the primary race Massachusetts went for Hillary, not for him, he found that his so-called appeal was lost on people from the Bay State. The only ‘issue’ that the Democratic Machine thought would derail Mr. Brown was the fact that he drives a pick-up truck, just how out of touch does that make them look? A lot of people drive pick up trucks, so what? We cant all afford limousine’s.

   Mr. Brown ran a very conservative race, in Massachusetts no less. He said at all of his campaign stops that he would be the 41st vote to stop the health care bill. He said he would fight to lower taxes, and referenced JFK as also being an advocate to lower taxes. JFK would not be able to recognize the Democratic party of today, it has changed so. Mr. Brown said he was strong on defense and firmly believed that the Constitution was for American citizens and its rights should not be applied to enemy terrorists trying to kill us. He said that our tax dollars should never be used to buy lawyers to defend these enemy terrorists, (I think it is absurd to even entertain the notion let alone implement it). Mr. Brown let it be known in no uncertain terms that the so-called Kennedy/Democrat seat was neither, it was and always has been the Peoples seat! His message, and he stuck to it, obviously resonated with the educated voter.

   In the not to distant past his message would have slaughtered him at the polls in Massachusetts. Not any more, and it makes me proud of independent thinking Americans and to be American. A loud and clear message has been sent now to D.C., it should scare the hell out of politicians that up to now thought people will always only vote along party lines. This message is not about any political party, it is about Americans who are now totally fed up with politicians that will wantonly destroy the our country along party lines by not working together to solve the problems that real Americans face. If politicians in both parties miss this clear message there will surely be a total massacre at the ballot box in November.

   Democrats will be, and should be very nervous of a Presidential ‘visit’ by Obama in heated contests. An Obama visit to ‘help’ get someone elected should now be viewed as the political ‘kiss of death’ for any chance of winning. Obama visited New Jersey and Virginia multiple times to lend the weight of the White House to those races, both of those democrats LOST! He came to help out Martha, in a state where no democrat should ever need help, Martha LOST. You should stay home Obama, you no longer ‘walk on water’ in the voters minds, only in socialist European minds, and they cant vote for you. I can not wait to hear Obama’s State of the Union Address on the 27Th, I am sure it is being drastically rewritten, or should be in light of the ‘mind boggling’ turn of events in Massachusetts yesterday. Mark Shean- written 1-20-2010

Yet again mother nature devastates another area in the world, (Haiti) with a powerful earthquake. When all is said and done the human toll may be high, the cost astronomical in this small impoverished nation. President Obama, like other presidents before him when natural disaster strikes, has promised help. Of course, this is the humanitarian, and right thing to do.

Even in the face of certain economic ruin at home, Americans will once again show that it has the most empathetic and generous people in the history of the world. How long can this generosity last? I believe the socialization of America will put an end to it eventually. I also believe that there is a better way to help the world where poverty/hunger are the rule and not the exception, I think it would create work, and give pride to the citizens of poor nations. Simply throwing money at a problem, as history shows, will not solve the problem. You can give food to the hungry today, but teach them to grow food and they will feed themselves forever, becoming independent of further outside help. When disasters strike around the world I never see other nations come to the financial rescue of these devastated areas in any significant way, do you? That burden is put squarely on the American tax payer, even as the rest of the world continues to hate us regardless of our humanitarian efforts.

If America doe’s not go bankrupt directly due to inept socialist politicians, it will most certainly go bankrupt by default due to disasters caused by mother nature around the world. America can not keep pace monetarily with these disasters indefinitely. I would like to see any president start a program that would teach the rest of the world to feed itself, and convince other nations to become partners in that effort.

The key to do that is through irrigation. Agriculture and irrigation go successfully hand in hand and can be taught. The ancient Roman Empire started building aqueducts around 312 BC, they built 11 of them totaling 359 miles coming into Rome, delivering about 50 million gallons of water each day! Rome also built aqueducts in Spain, North Africa, and France. One aqueduct built by Rome, in Segovia Spain, is still in use today. There is another type of aqueduct known as ‘qanats’ in use through the deserts of Iran today. Aqueducts can enable irrigation, and enable city’s to survive as they grow too large to be supported by local water sources, and most importantly help feed regions that are now starving. If the Roman Empire could put such ancient unmechanized technology to such good use, surely in this age of computers and space travel we should certainly be up to the task? Building these irrigation systems would put people to work, the end result would feed the hungry within their own boarders and help raise them from poverty and starvation in the process.

The population of the world is ever growing, and resources are becoming more depleted. If a concentrated effort to teach agriculture is not seriously considered the world will be in serious trouble within mere decades. In the long term it would save the American tax payer the burden of supporting the world. It would be preemptive, and in everyones best interest. -Mark Shean- written 1-13-2010

   This is a very crucial election that I hope everyone will be able to crawl away from the television set long enough to go vote on 1-19-2010. There is a very good chance for you to become a part of history by sending a Republican Senator to Washington, from Massachusetts no less, this is our chance to keep out a liberal wing nut Democrat, that will only bring more shame to our state. By electing Scott Brown you will have said in a loud and clear voice that you are fed up with Democrats,(progressives) giving away our state and our country. If you think it is important to destroy health care as it is now and make it socialized medicine for all, good service for none, then vote for Martha Coakley. If you work for a living and are tired of supporting all of those that don’t, vote for Scott Brown. Coakley arrogantly reused to debate Brown on TV because she feels this state is in the ‘bag’, why bother, she probably thinks Hitler could have won in this state if he had run as a Democrat, (that may be right). 

   If you follow the ‘polls’ Brown and Coakley are to close to call a winner yet, Independents are swinging to Brown 2 to 1, that is bad news for Coakley, the ‘lame’ stream liberal media is not reporting it, to ‘cover-up’ for Coakley. This close of a race is unprecedented for Massachusetts, that is why the ‘lame’ stream liberal media is trying to keep you in the dark, exercising their First Amendment no doubt. Let us send a huge message that no state is in the ‘bag’ for anyone in 2010!!! Let us shock Coakley! Let us shake Washington D.C. to its boots! Let us send Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate! D.C. will really go into a tail ‘spin’ when that happens! Democrats across the country will see the writing on the wall for what surely awaits them in November! But, Republicans had also better heed the will of the People or lose their comfy little seats to a new breed of Republican politician that will serve our interests first, instead of their own.

   Term limits are in our hands in 2010! Let us rid ourselves of ALL of those politicians that have not listened, from BOTH sides of the aisle! There is not much time, please get out the message to all of your friends and families! It is time we stop being ‘We the Problem’. Let’s make history as We the People! Mark Shean- written 1-9-2010