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YRTC October meeting

American Legion
Meadowbrook Plaza
647 US Route 1

Tuesday, October 20
6pm to 8pm

Speaker: TBA
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YRTC Headquarters

Now open during the following hours:

Monday 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Friday 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Saturday 10:00am to 12:00pm
Sunday 1:00pm to 4:00pm

Yard signs and candidate materials are available. During off-hours signs are also available at Estes Oil downstairs, or call YRTC at 207-370-7523

519 US Route 1, York - upstairs on the 2nd floor

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Want to know how the town of York Assesses your homes value click the YouTube Link Below!
This link is a YouTube explanation as to how the Tax Assessor achieves adjusting your home values.
https://www.yorkmaine.org/152/Tax-Assessor

The Plan to turn America into a Socialist State step by step playbook
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Incompatible
By: Judd Garrett
Objectivity is the Objective
November 30, 2025

In 2001 and 2002, the United States and our Western allies went into Iraq and Afghanistan, naively believing that if we could expose the people who lived in those countries to Western values, such as democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and many other human rights. They would reject the dictatorial theocracies they were living under and fully embrace these new values. Instead, the people living in those Islamic countries rejected our values; they rejected freedom, democracy, and human rights. They chose theocracy over democracy. That is completely fine. If those people want to live under Sharia Law, that is their right, and that is their choice. Even though we believe Western values are superior, that does not give us the right to impose them on people who do not want them. In the end, the cornerstone of Western values is that every person and every group of people should have the right to determine how they live. And if they want to live under an oppressive theocracy, there is nothing we can or should do about it. Live and let live.

Instead of learning the lessons of our failures in Iraq and Afghanistan that people who hold Islamic beliefs and values are incompatible with Western values and classic liberalism, we – i.e. Barack Obama and the left – decided to bring millions of Middle Eastern Muslims into our country believing that these people will somehow assimilate to America and adopt the Western values that they just rejected in their own country.

Obama brought in 70,000 Somali Muslims and transplanted them into the middle of Michigan. Now, the majority of the people in Dearborn, Michigan are Somali Muslims; Somali Muslims hold the majority of the political positions in Dearborn; five times a day, the non-Muslims who still live in Dearborn must listen to the Islamic call to prayer blasting through the public streets of that city starting at 5:30 AM, and also watch Muslims march in their streets chanting “death to America” and “death to Israel”. So much for the separation of church and state, we hear the left continually scream whenever anyone does anything Christian in public.

This is not the end result of Barack Obama’s starry-eyed hope that people of all cultures could get along. No, this is the Democrats' game plan, started under Obama. Six months into Obama’s first term, he won the Nobel Peace Prize, even though he did nothing to bring peace anywhere in the world before receiving the award. They gave him the prize simply because he was the first person of color to be elected President of the United States.

Often, when someone receives an award or recognition they don’t really deserve, it motivates them to act in ways that make them worthy of it. So, after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing, it was fair to believe that Obama would be motivated to do everything in his power to bring as much peace to the world as possible to make himself worthy of that level of recognition. In reality, he did the exact opposite. He didn’t bring peace to the world; he brought war. He started five wars in the Middle East during his two terms as President. He set the Middle East on fire.

Why would a Nobel Peace Prize winner start five wars? The answer is very simple. With wars come refugees. There have been millions of refugees as a result of the wars that Obama started throughout the Middle East, and almost all of those Middle Eastern Muslim refugees came to Western countries. Nearly none of them went to any of the 56 Muslim-majority countries around the world. This was done intentionally. The wars in the Middle East did nothing other than create millions of refugees which flooded into Western countries.

When Joe Biden pulled out of Afghanistan in September 2021, it made no sense that such a simple operation became such a failure. How in the world could withdrawing the most powerful military in the world from a country be a disaster? It made no sense. Was our military that incompetent that we lost 13 service members in the process, left $80 billion worth of the most advanced military equipment there, and the whole country turned into complete chaos? It all makes sense when you realize that the disaster of the withdrawal from Afghanistan was done on purpose. The Biden administration wanted it to be a total failure; they wanted Afghanistan to collapse into complete chaos because that gave them the excuse to import 76,000 Afghan refugees into our country, which is exactly what they did. It was all done on purpose.

Last week, one of those Afghan refugees who came in under Joe Biden, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, committed a terrorist attack against members of our National Guard, killing two of them. On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security announced the arrest of Mohammad Dawood Alokozay, another Afghan national who allegedly made a social media post about “building a bomb” and threatened to blow up a building in Fort Worth, Texas. These acts are the fruition of the far left's overarching plan. The left hates America. They hate our free market capitalism. They hate our freedom of speech. They hate our freedom of religion. They hate our freedom of the press. They hate our right to bear arms. They hate everything that America stands for. They want to tear America down to its studs and rebuild it in their Marxist, communist vision of the world. And one of the best ways of doing that is bringing in as many people from other countries who hate America as much as they do. That is why they have been bringing in as many Middle Eastern Muslims to the United States as possible. Not only do Muslims hate America, our culture, our religions, and our system of government, but they are also willing to lay down their lives to destroy America. We’ve seen that time and time again with the thousands of suicide terrorist attacks across the West.

It is not only a small percentage of these Muslims who become radicalized to commit these acts of terror that we should worry about, but every Muslim in our country is also a potential threat to our country. Every single Muslim in America is a sleeper cell, whether they know it or not. Their religion teaches them that the greatest thing that they can do on this earth is to lay down their lives killing non-Muslims, so every Muslim can easily be radicalized into a terrorist. Every Muslim is a few clicks of their mouse away from strapping on the suicide vest. That is their ticket to heaven.

It is not only Imams from their Mosques or extremists on the dark web doing the radicalizing; the left sends out dog whistles to these sleeper cells all the time, hoping to trigger them to act, just as we saw recently. A couple of weeks ago, six members of Congress released a video telling service members not to follow illegal orders of Donald Trump. The message that these members of Congress wanted to get out into the public domain was that Donald Trump was giving illegal orders to ICE and the National Guard. And within a week of sending that message, an Afghan national kills two National Guardsmen. The left knows exactly what they are doing. That video was not directed at members of the military; it was aimed at people on the verge of being radicalized. The Muslims are the most useful idiots of the far-left Marxists.

During a commencement ceremony speech at the University of Minnesota, Governor Tim Walz called ICE law enforcement the “modern-day Gestapo.” Illinois Governor JB Pritzker claimed the United States is “essentially” becoming Nazi Germany as a result of ICE’s efforts to enforce immigration laws. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu compared ICE to a neo-Nazi group. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called for people to “fight” President Trump’s agenda “in the streets.” Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal called ICE agents “deranged” and said it is “inspiring” to obstruct immigration enforcement. Congressman Eric Swalwell compared ICE agents to a “KGB officer in Russia.” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson called ICE “secret police” who “are terrorizing our communities.” And now, we have foreign nationals attacking ICE, shooting National Guardsmen, and threatening to blow up buildings.

Leftist, Don Lemon recently said,
“Black people, brown people, people of all strips, whether you’re an Indian American, Mexican American… go out, in your place, where you live, and get a gun legally… because when you have people knocking on your door, and taking you away without due process as a citizen, isn’t that what the second Amendment was written for?”
None of that is happening. Don Lemon wants the sleeper cells to think that it is, so they will pick up a gun and shoot ICE agents or the National Guardsmen. Remember, the left is diabolically evil. They want as much death and destruction in this country as possible. If you disagree, remember, many people on the left cheered and celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk. They make no distinction between Charlie Kirk, ICE agents, and National Guardsmen.

If we continue to import these people, we are going to get to the point of critical mass, the point of no return. If this continues, it will only end in a massive civil war in our country, just as civil wars are going on throughout the Middle East. The only countries in that region that do not have a civil war are the ones that have already been taken over and controlled by the theocrats. America is one generation away from becoming the Middle East, embroiled in never-ending civil wars. Diversity is not our strength. This type of diversity will be our destruction, and that is exactly what the left and the Muslims want.

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Mainers List Their Concerns About the State

Today Maine House Representative Katrina J. Smith, District 62, a Republican from Palermo, asked the question, "What concerns you the most about Maine right now?"

There were over 184 responses, and here were some of the concerns raised:

There are too many free benefits
Illegal marijuana grows
Election integrity
The Secretary of State's decision to remove former President Trump from Maine's primary ballot
The attack on legal gun owners' rights by the anti-gun lobby
Governor Mills policies
The cost of living was mentioned several times
The cost of electricity, food, heating oil, and taxes in Maine
The number of solar panel farms plastering the state
A lack of affordable rentals and housing for hard-working Mainers was mentioned a few times
Immigration
Finding medical care in a timely manner
The state not doing enough to take care of the homeless
Maine is turning into California more and more
Lack of common sense in Augusta
The removal of the religious and philosophical exemptions for the huge list of mandatory childhood vaccinations to attend public school
Underfunded nursing homes
Maine is not attracting new businesses
Energy bills are too high
Poorly maintained roads
High property taxes
Poor use of taxpayer money
Cost of living
Housing for asylum seekers
Government overreach
Lack of support for Maine educators
Quality of the schools
Ranked choice voting
Gender ideology
Fentanyl overdoses
Mental health

Some facts about Maine:
According to U.S. Census Bureau facts, in 2022, per capita income in Maine was $39,718 and 10.8% of people in Maine are living in poverty.
Maine ranks in the top 10 states for the highest electricity rates, coming in at number 3 for 2024.
When it comes to affordable rent, Maine is the 5th least affordable state.
The cost of living index for Maine is 110.7.
In 2022, there were 151,212 small businesses in Maine.
Do you agree with the concerns on this list? What if any other concerns would you add to the list? Please add your concerns and suggestions in the comment section.
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