Along with a friend I organized a Symposium that took place on Saturday.  It featured a public Roman Catholic intellectual.  Dr. E. Michael Jones visited Maine Friday and Saturday of last week.

My friend and I secured a brew pub as the location for the event slightly more than a month before.  The provocative nature of Dr. Jone’s work caused us to be overly cautious in our discussion with the woman who managed Gritty McDuff’s in Auburn.  At the time I could not think of a way to offer full disclosure without closing down the opportunity to enjoy the aesthetics, food and hospitality of Gritty’s.  I prayed that the inevitable cancellation wouldn’t occur, but knew instinctively that it would be cancelled.  We did offer the name of the speaker in passing.  It can be argued that the manager chose not to do diligence.

It was cancelled with barely enough time to secure another location.

My deep and emotional surprise came as a result of how the cancellation occurred.  This former employee of mine, Mike Hein, who is highly praised — deservedly so — on many pages of this website caused the cancellation.  The location was not publicized.  He found out about it somehow and called the owner of Gritty’s.  Hein gleefully celebrated his “accomplishment” in multiple texts to my friend and me.

God opened another door in time and the Symposium was very successful.  But the ferocity and obvious personal hatred evident in the multiple texts to myself and my friend were deeply unsettling.

The most profound hatred in all of the texts was aimed at the Roman Catholic faith of my friend who helped me with the Symposium.  Hein has not gone there with me yet.  I entered the Roman Catholic Church in 2020.  Mike is Missouri Synod Lutheran.

Our paths have rarely crossed since I resigned from the Christian Civic League of Maine in 2009.  We reconnected in the fall of 2024 a few times at an Augusta brew pub.  He was generous insisting on paying for the food and brew.  Consistent with his prohibitionist views he didn’t drink a beer.  I did.  And he paid for it.

More than once I questioned him about his public attacks on me during a time in 2020 thru 2023 when he claims that he penetrated the socialist/communist movement in Maine.  He allowed that his attacks on me were general and merely political.  I believed him.

At the same time that Mike and I were reconnecting last fall he was deeply involved with an X group called “Pine Tree Patriots.”  Among the more notable members is a man and his wife.  Tim and Jennifer Bodnar produce a morning LIVEstream on X.  He brands his media work “Uncivilized Media” and calls himself the Truthslinger on X.

Mike may have been the one to introduce me, I don’t remember.  Regardless, having discovered him I was drawn to his narrative and style and became curious about his online work.  I learned that he was doing effective political work pushing back against the creation of trans gendering-friendly “health” clinics in Maine public schools.  He was making especially notable gains in a village near me, Gardiner.  And he was doing it from a log cabin in the woods without the benefit of electricity.  His internet work is powered by a generator.

His effectiveness emerges from his use of LIVEstreaming on X.  He rebroadcasted the Gardiner School Board public meetings offering provocative and entertaining commentary whenever they took up the issue of the “Health” Clinic.

While I chose to focus on Tim’s political effectiveness Mike Hein focused on Tim’s drinking and smoking.  Tim’s mixture of the protestant version of the gospel of Jesus Christ with drinking and smoking made me even more curious.  Especially because Maine is the home of prohibition.

That political movement started in Portland, Maine in the mid nineteenth century.  The Christian Civic League of Maine returned to it’s anti-gambling/prohibitionist roots after I resigned.  The institution muted concerns with sexual orientation theory (gay rights) and managed to win the respect of both sides of Maine’s political establishment, evidenced by the recent retirement celebration of the man who followed me.  The event featured the attendance of Maine’s sitting and former Governor, along with one of our serving Federal Senators.

Around the beginning of 2025 Mike decided to force me to choose between Tim and himself.  Mike researched Tim’s past and came to the conclusion that Tim is an immoral grifter who must be destroyed.  I refused to choose sides in an email that I sent to both men.  Mike cut me off in a written response.  Tim invited me to be interviewed in a LIVEstream notwithstanding the fact that we hadn’t, at that point, met one another.  We’d just been direct messaging one another on X.  And Mike Hein was amping up his personal attacks on Tim.

To begin his questions about my relationship with Hein Tim showed an X post that had been published on Hein’s X account for three years.  I had never seen it before.

It was a personal attack on one of my children.  It wasn’t political.  It was hate filled.  It left me speechless.  Tim graciously stopped the LIVEstream when he learned I had never seen the post before.  Within hours Hein scrubbed his X account.

Hein disappeared from my life until the hate filled texts celebrating his success getting the Symposium cancelled.  He didn’t, however, disappear from Tim’s life.  He deepened and broadened his vicious personal attack on Tim and his wife.  He even managed to draw in an estranged daughter and create a legal crisis for Tim that has obvious political overtones.

Mike’s tactics to destroy Tim and bring about a political result that he claims not to support (the establishment of the Gardiner tranny clinic) included the most vicious and hate filled conduct I’ve ever witnessed in my life.  And that’s saying something since I’ve been on the receiving end of a lot of political stuff to include death threats and lying like you wouldn’t believe.  But I’ve never witnessed a political activist stoop to the depths of personal viciousness that Mike employed against Tim.

Mike’s goal in his war with Tim is to destroy his credibility with existing and potential supporters.  He attacks Tim’s drinking and smoking.  Additionally he spreads poisonous lies by email, phone call and online posting based loosely on Tim’s past.  Tim, on the other hand, is publicly thanking Hein for his pressure, and allowing that his hate has helped him decide to stop smoking and drinking.

The fruit of Mike’s political activism in the past month is the last minute cancellation of the Symposium location, and the creation of the Tranny clinic in Gardiner.

I never considered Mike to be more than a paid employee, though I may have inadvisably used the word “friend” in describing him on occasion.  I’m sure you’ll understand, having read this account, why I now consider him to be a dangerous enemy.

Selah.