Maine Enemies
The Department of Human Services operates the Division of Support Enforcement and Recovery.
This state used to have a real problem with its lumber industry practicing peonage to keep its workers from taking a hike or going on strike.
Any action on the part of any Maine authority to impose or enforce any form of slavery, involuntary servitude or peonage upon any person is a betrayal of Colonel Joshua L. Chamberlain and the service and sacrifice of the men of the 20th Maine Regiment at Little Round Top.
MRS §§4:1-57, Chapter 1, Supreme Judicial Court
MRS §§4:101-121, Chapter 3, Superior Courts
MRS §4:105, Jurisdiction of Superior Courts in Civil Cases
MRS §4:114, Authority of Superior Courts, including contempt
MRS §§4:151-184, Chapter 5, District Courts
MRS §4:152 Jurisdiction of District Courts in Civil Cases, including, Part 8, consent to minor's abortion, Part 9, actions to suspend or revoke licenses, Part 11, divorce, separation, and anullment, Part 12, Property Matters Between Spouses, and Part 13, Desertion and Nonsupport.
MRS §4:183 Family Division of District Court
MRS §§14:251-254, Chapter 11, Contempt
MRS §14:251 Rights of those charged with contempt for jury trial, limited to contempt for violations of restraining order, injunction, or arising out of a labor dispute.
MRS §14:252 Contempt Actions, including actions by the Department of Human Services.
MRS §§14:301-304, Chapter 13, Parents, Spouses, and Children
MRS §14:301 Prohibits Actions for Alienation of Affection
MRS §14:302 Allows Actions for Loss of Consortium. If you kick a man in the balls, his wife can sue you. A false report of adultery could also incur this liability, unless the couple is like the Clintons, who do not seem to care about such things.
MRS §14:303 Allows Actions for Loss of Services of Minor Child
MRS §14:304 Allows Actions Against Custodial Parents for Damages Caused by Minor Child
MRS §§14:3120-3137, Chapter 50, Enforcement of Money Judgments
MRS §14:3128-A Provides for Orders to Seek Employment by Child Support Debtors. A direct violation of the Antipeonage Act, declared null and void by 42 U.S.C. §1994 and any attempt to impose and enforce such an order is the crime defined by 18 U.S.C. §1581.
MRS §14:3134 Authorizes Civil Warrants Upon Failure to Appear in Civil Cases
MRS §14:3135 Provisions Concerning Civil Warrants for Arrest
MRS §14:3136 Contempt in Civil Cases
Maine used to have extensive procedures for the enforcement of money judgments by imprisonments for the debts. Except for contempt in child support, alimony, and property division matters on divorce, they have repealed these procedures. Most likely in response to federal enforcement of the Antipeonage Act. Of course, they don't seem to fear such federal enforcement where the debt arises from a family law proceeding. It is up to us to change that. MRS §14:3701 prohibits "body execution", meaning arrest and imprisonment for debt in civil cases, except where "express provision by law is made to the contrary. They have also repealed most of their provisions for extraordinary writs: certiorari, quo warranto, mandamus, and prohibition, which, in other states, are extremely important "safety valves" against the abuse of power by government.
MRS Title 17 Crimes An interesting provision:
MRS §17:2931 Prohibits in the interference of the exercise of rights guaranteed by the Maine Constitution and the United States Constitution. So how can MRS §14:3128-A be enforced without committing the crime defined by this measure? Answer: given that the Thirteenth Amendment prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude, is that it cannot. MRS §17:2932 defines this to be a Class D Crime.
MRS §§17-A:551-557, Chapter 23, Offenses Against the Family
MRS §17-A:552 Nonsupport of Dependents. Subsection 1 includes the phrase "capacity for labor" it is declared null and void by 42 U.S.C. §1994 and offends the Thirteenth Amendment.
MRS Title 19-A Domestic Relations Code
MRS §§19-A:851-852 Chapter 27 Judicial Separation
MRS §19-A:851 District Courts may enter an order for separation of a married couple, not the same as divorce. Such order may include a provision for spousal support.
MRS §19-A:852 A preliminary injunction shall be issued in an action for separation. Sometimes called the financial straitjacket.
MRS §§19-A:801-1051 Chapter 29 Divorce
MRS §19-A:904 Provides for pretrial orders pending divorce including being required to pay the attorney's fees for the guy destroying you (like being required to pay for the bullet used to execute you), support, and the enforcement of support by all of the means provided by Maine law including means offensive to the United States and Maine Constitutions. Interestingly, it includes a provision to prohibit the restraint of freedom of the other party, EXCEPT for the enforcement of support and attorney's fees!
MRS §19-A:951-A Spousal Support or Alimony. In Maine, the breadwinner somehow owes the nonbreadwinner a "reasonable standard of living" after divorce. Thus marriage is replaced with peonage.
MRS §19-A:952 defines the payment of spousal and child support, AND the payment of attorney's fees for the attorney who obtained such order to be imposed upon the person ordered to pay the support!! "So what do I get to live on?" Hey! NOBODY gives a shit about that!!!! Who do you think you are, an American entitled to equal protection of the law and freedom from involuntary servitude? We just SAY that stuff about American freedoms, we don't actually MEAN it!
MRS §19-A:954 Wage garnishments are MANDATORY in support orders!
MRS §§19-A:1551-1616 Chapter 53 Paternity Wear a rubber or you're in trubber! SHE has the right to an abortion, us guys don't!
MRS §§19-A:2001-2011 Chapter 63 Child Support Guidelines
MRS §19-A:2011 provides that the Department of Human Services shall establish a child support table. Thus BUREAUCRATS, and NOT elected officials directly accountable to the voters, shall decide the LAW here. I seem to recall that when Maine was a part of Massachusetts, we had a VIOLENT REVOLUTION over the issue of taxation without representation.
MRS §§19-A:2102-2673 Chapter 65 Child Support Enforcement. If you don't believe me when I say this scheme is the form of slavery addressed by the Antipeonage Act, then please read these provisions and weep. Weep, not for the noncustodials, but for America, the rule of law, and the English language in which the law is written. This will inform you as to where the term "femi-nazi" came from. Some of its provisions:
MRS §19-A:2103 provides that the Department of Human Services has the "duty" to enforce support obligations. This, of course, the government taking sides in a matter between two private citizens, and to enforce the obligation incurred by one private citizen without the other's CONSENT, and against that other person.
MRS § 19-A:2105 provides that the Department of Human Services has the the "duty" to enforce support orders arising out of state and acknowledging Maine's sale of its sovereignty for federal funds under the federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996. The only federal laws that are NOT enforced in family law proceedings include the United States Constitution and certain civil rights laws, such as the Antipeonage Act.
MRS § 19-A:2109 sets limitations on the fees collected by private attorneys for enforcing support orders but exempts Department of Human Services. However, the Antipeonage Act makes no distinction between the types of persons who commit this FEDERAL CRIME.
MRS § 19-A:2151 authorizes the Department of Human Services to obtain the records of every other state agency REGARDLESS OF ANY PUBLIC POLICY PROVIDING FOR CONFIDENTIALITY and the REASONS for such confidentiality.
MRS § 19-A:2152 lists the information that the Department of Human Services may access INLCUDING MEDICAL INFORMATION OTHERWISE CONFIDENTIAL.
MRS § 19-A:2153 authorizes the Department of Human Services to publish the names of noncustodials in arrears and immunizes the media from liability for such publication, EVEN IF THE INFORMATION TURNS OUT TO BA FALSE AND DEFAMATORY. The media are NOT REQUIRED to publish all information made available to it. After all, they never seem to mention the Antipeonage Act, which certainly is NOT classified information and easily available, in any story they do on child support issues.
MRS § 19-A:2154 requires employers to rat out their employees to the Department of Human Services. They are required to send such information REGARDLESS OF WHETHER ANY SUCH EMPLOYEES OWE CHILD SUPPORT OR NOT. This information is then sent to the National Directory of New Hires maintained by the federal Department of Health and Human Services. This affects the privacy rights of EVERY CITIZEN AND LEGAL RESIDENT WITH A GREEN CARD.
Article I Declaration of Rights
Article I Section 1 declares all people are born equally free and independent, and have certain inherent, natural and inalienable rights, including enjoying life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness.
Article I Section 2 declares that all power is inherent in the people, all free governments are founded in their authority and instituted for their benefit, and they therefore have the right to institute government and to alter, reform and totally change government when their safety and happiness so requires.
Article I Section 3 declares freedom of religion, equality among all sects under the law, and the abolition of any religious test for qualification for any office or trust.
Article I section 4 declares freedom of speech and press with truth as a defense to all actions for libel, slander, or defamation.
Article I Section 5 prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures.
Article I Section 6-A declares the state due process and equal protection clauses.
Article I Section 9 prohibits excessive fines and bails, and cruel and unusual punishments.
Article I Section 11 prohibits bills of attainder and ex post facto laws.
Article I Section 16 declares that every citizen has the right to keep and bear arms and this right shall never be questioned. To those who support "reasonable gun control", what part of this sentence do you not understand?
Article I Section 19 provides for the right of redress in the courts for injuries to person, property, and reputation, shall be freely available. At first glance this looks like a prohibition of the common law immunities enjoyed by judges, probation officers, sheriffs, police, and other public servants, and to such immunities to civil liability as granted by the Maine Legislature.
Article I Section 20 declares the right of either party in a civil suit to have issues of fact, and law as in libel cases, to be decided by a jury.
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