M. Shane Coley

Shane and his wife of 25 years have two adult children, three grandchildren and have resided in north Georgia since 1983. Shane is a Georgia native who was raised in the beef cattle business. He attended Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College and studied Agricultural Engineering at the University of Georgia. Shane has been self-employed since 1991.

While he has spent the past 25+ years building and operating complex computing systems, his overall life experience is broad and deep. Until 1991 Shane managed the family farm and logging operation. In 1991, at age 25, he opened a hydraulics and heavy equipment repair business as a stepping stone to international export, manufacturing and computer technology business activities. Although Shane has never taken a computer class, he has had continued success building large server based computer applications.

Shane has a love for liberty, truth, and understanding which drives him to study the world in which we live. As a committed Christian Shane is active in church and ministry.

Shane has spent years studying apologetics, history, economics, personality, organizational behavior, science and more. One of his favorite short debates is with people who say there is no absolute truth. The point is made simply by asking if the claim being made is that "there is absolutely no absolute truth..." The argument refutes itself.

Shane was a candidate for the Georgia State Senate in 2010 and earned sufficient support to be in a runoff after a primary season with five candidates.

For several years Shane was the host of Liberty and Production, a radio show based in Commerce Georgia at WJJC, 1270 AM and WJJC.net.

Know Stealing is the written culmination of fifteen years of research and an extension of the message of Liberty and Production he vigorously presented during the 2010 Senate campaign.

Shane and Leesa share a top priority of personally returning to productive agriculture. Their vision is of a farm combined with teaching facilities which have the purpose of producing for today and promoting knowledge that will help defend individual life, liberty and property for generations to come.