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CONTROL THE FOOD - CONTROL THE POPULATION
Posted by: Mystery man....
Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:37 am (PST)
CONTROL THE FOOD - CONTROL THE POPULATION
By Doreen Hannes
January 20, 2008
NewsWithViews.com
I want to tell you how I found out about NAIS (National Animal
Identification System) in
the hope that you will see how disturbing this is and why we have to
fight it with
everything we have. In July of 2005, I went to a meeting at the Ava
Missouri Sale Barn
regarding a new electronic cattle identification program that was to be
mandatory in
January of 2006 in order to sell cattle in the State of Missouri. Yes,
January of 2006. Dr
Taylor Woods, a member of the NAIS Subcommittee, was the one speaking.
He never said what
the name of the program was, nor offered any website where one could go
for information. I
asked a couple of questions and then made a statement. That statement
was, "It sounds like
you just want to have complete control of the food supply." Dr Woods
replied, "We already
do." It is a frightening prospect to consider any group of men in
complete control of the
food supply, much less a bunch of people who fear microbes. Needless to
say, much of what
Dr Woods stated was not entirely true. We would not be required to
electronically identify
our cattle to be able to sell them in January of 2006, and it wasn't
really a done deal
except in the minds of bureaucrats who hate the fact that we still have
this irritating
thing called the United States Constitution that needs to at least be
given lip service
from time to time or chance a full scale revolt.
Then, in late November of 2005 I went into a local feed store, MFA, and
was greeted by a
flame orange sign on the counter saying "Due to the Bioterrorism Act We
must have your
name, address and phone number to sell you feed." As creepy as that is,
I now had a
starting place. In a short amount of time I found myself with the name
of the program Dr
Woods was talking about, which was indeed the National Animal
Identification System, and a
whole lot of information on the Bioterrorism Act of 2002, which is
basically NAIS for food
and feed up to the final consumer. Incidentally, the Bioterrorism Act
passed as part of
the 2002 Farm Bill, which included the Animal Health Protection Act (the
USDA claims AHPA
as their authorizing legislation for NAIS) introduced by none other than
current Ag Chair
Senator Harkin of Iowa. This same man has now introduced the first
probable statutory
reference to NAIS in the 2007 Farm Bill. Is this a coincidence? Not
likely.
The USDA recently released new documents that will make NAIS next to
impossible to fight
without going on the offensive and filing suit against the Federal
government. The USDA
states in their Business Plan that in a scant few weeks (February 2008)
they will issue a
proposed rule to roll all breed registry identification into NAIS. They
will also issue
rules to roll all disease control programs into NAIS compliant
identification standards.
Brucellosis, Tuberculosis, Coggin's and Pseudorabies will magically roll
right in through
the rulemaking process. NPIP for poultry will just roll on in. Scrapies
for sheep and
goats will simply be turned in to NAIS premise ID without the knowledge
or even consent of
participants in this program. Certificates of health to move animals
across state lines,
or even within the state will be rolled in as well. If you get the idea
that NAIS is like
a bulldozer on steroids, you'd be about right. Remember that NAIS is a
three part program
with it's foundation being premise identification. You must have a
premise id to get an
animal id, and you must have premise id and animal id to have animal
tracking.
The USDA is busily making Cooperative Agreements with all states and
tribes and any non
profit organization that will stick it's hand out for the taxpayer money
to encourage and
probably require their members to enroll in premise id and animal id in
order to reap the
benefits of membership in those organizations. The states are to help
make NAIS compulsory
in order to engage in commerce under these contracts. There is an
exception allowed for
individual animal identification. If you never move an animal off your
property other than
directly to slaughter it will not require an NAIS animal id, but there
is no exception
mentioned or alluded to for premise id under USDA's plan.
Meanwhile, our federal level legislators blithely reiterate to us "NAIS
is voluntary at
the Federal level" and say that they are doing so well because they cut
the budget for
NAIS. Well, the infrastructure has already been laid, folks. Unless you
specifically stop
NAIS via statute or a moratorium, it's going to roll over all of our
rights through all
disease control programs! Why do you refuse to uphold your oath of
office? You didn't take
an oath to pervert "general welfare" for the benefit of corporations and
bureaucrats, did
you? Did our forefathers bleed and die so that an agency could require
birth certificates
on chickens?
Many people seem to have a very difficult time understanding that NAIS
is and always has
been 48-hour traceback on all livestock. If you want 48-hour traceback,
you must have 24
hour reporting of movements. NAIS is not a marketing program; it is
being brought to bear
at the point of market. NAIS cannot, by very definition, be a voluntary
program. The USDA
is holding states hostage at the point of interstate commerce by
attaching NAIS premise
id, and animal id to health certificates and disease control programs.
To up the ante even
further, they are buying the participation of feedlots, breed
organizations, farm groups,
youth groups and processors. To move across state lines, or in many
cases, even within
that state, you will need to be in NAIS. How can that be voluntary?
NAIS opposition has been fairly effective fighting this on a state by
state level in a
disorganized and haphazard fashion. The original plans called for
mandatory in January of
2008 and mandatory with enforcement of all aspects in January of 2009.
We've pushed the
USDA back, and sideways, but we have not stopped them because the people
in positions of
power have not had the will to take on the fight.
The anti-NAIS movement has had a grand total of one case filed; and the
Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture backed off just because of the filing. Why are
all the attorneys
who have stepped into this battle against NAIS not going after the
federal government for
an injunction or more? The entire program is patently and assuredly
un-Constitutional. The
USDA is trying to shift all lawsuits to the states by saying "NAIS is
voluntary at the
federal level" while they push the states into full implementation
through perverting the
Interstate Commerce Clause.
Certainly, if we still have a Constitution, we can win on simply the
religious objection
alone. But our arguments go further than even the First amendment. We
also have the 4th,
5th, 9th, 10th, 13th and 14th amendments that are being violated with
NAIS. There are
issues of unfair competition that will need to be addressed, as well as
real estate
effects of this program. Why can't we get on the offensive and file
suit? We have harm in
many of those who were rolled in, or coerced into the program, and they
are not all Amish
who won't file suits.
We have the Alliance Defense Fund who won the case without even going to
court in PA, and
the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund, who have taken on Greg
Niewendorp's case in
Michigan, the Center for Law and Religious Freedom involved in Wisconsin
where the Amish
have been assigned PIN's without their consent; they have all broken
their teeth on NAIS.
We have several individual attorneys who are well researched on the
subject, and still, no
filing on the federal level to stop the USDA from shoving this down our
throats. The
states of Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin already have mandatory NAIS to
a large degree.
With the myriad of roll ins (Massachusetts, Idaho, Colorado Fairs,
Illinois fairs, North
Carolina Fairs and hay, Tennesse hay share, NY calfhood vaccination,
Pennsylvania any farm
programs, ad infinitum, ad nauseum, etc.) without proper authorization,
there is no doubt
where this is going. And it doesn't take a degree to see it.
While I readily concede that suing the USDA is not something to be done
on a whim, surely
if some of these learned individuals could get together and keep their
egos out of the way
we could find someone with the proper experience and expertise to bring
suit against the
USDA and get it stopped before we have to fight every single rule they
promulgate related
to NAIS for every one of the species covered under the program.
This is a plea from one who knows without a doubt that if this program
is not stopped that
there will be bloodshed..and not just the blood of animals. I am fully
committed to doing
everything within my power to stop this before it comes to that point.
Please, please,
stop playing politics and start filing before we have a complete
disaster on our hands.
And to the unwashed masses, people like me that is, we cannot and must
not fail to call
our representatives on a regular basis and let them know we expect them
to uphold the
Constitution and the principles of freedom we have been endowed with.
When we get a
federal suit filed, we will need to reach into our wallets and support
the one bringing
the suit. When we get meaningful legislation to stop this, we must rally
support for those
pushing for us. It is going to take every one of us in whatever capacity
we have to get
this thing stopped. Don't wait for someone else to do it, or it won't
get done. Your
freedom is your responsibility. We have a gigantic secret weapon. there
are way more of
"us" than "them," and we're right!
© 2008 Doreen Hannes - All Rights Reserved
Doreen Hannes is a homesteading mom, and a truly grass roots activist
for small scale and
traditional farming rights. She has thoroughly researched the origins
and impacts of "Free
Trade" agreements and National Animal Identification System in
particular and has been a
major force in the anti-NAIS movement both nationally and in Missouri
for over a year.
Her mission is to expose the procedures and methods being employed to
destroy the God
given rights of this once great republic. Doreen is a frequent guest on
talk radio
programs and has written extensively on the NAIS.
Mike and Ceci Graham-Widby
Highland Hame Farm Celtic Ponies
24016 Red Corral Road
Pioneer, CA 95666
www.highlandhamefarm.com
209-295-PONY
209-295-7669
[email protected]
"A wishbone is no substitute for a backbone"
Posted by: Mystery man....
Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:37 am (PST)
CONTROL THE FOOD - CONTROL THE POPULATION
By Doreen Hannes
January 20, 2008
NewsWithViews.com
I want to tell you how I found out about NAIS (National Animal
Identification System) in
the hope that you will see how disturbing this is and why we have to
fight it with
everything we have. In July of 2005, I went to a meeting at the Ava
Missouri Sale Barn
regarding a new electronic cattle identification program that was to be
mandatory in
January of 2006 in order to sell cattle in the State of Missouri. Yes,
January of 2006. Dr
Taylor Woods, a member of the NAIS Subcommittee, was the one speaking.
He never said what
the name of the program was, nor offered any website where one could go
for information. I
asked a couple of questions and then made a statement. That statement
was, "It sounds like
you just want to have complete control of the food supply." Dr Woods
replied, "We already
do." It is a frightening prospect to consider any group of men in
complete control of the
food supply, much less a bunch of people who fear microbes. Needless to
say, much of what
Dr Woods stated was not entirely true. We would not be required to
electronically identify
our cattle to be able to sell them in January of 2006, and it wasn't
really a done deal
except in the minds of bureaucrats who hate the fact that we still have
this irritating
thing called the United States Constitution that needs to at least be
given lip service
from time to time or chance a full scale revolt.
Then, in late November of 2005 I went into a local feed store, MFA, and
was greeted by a
flame orange sign on the counter saying "Due to the Bioterrorism Act We
must have your
name, address and phone number to sell you feed." As creepy as that is,
I now had a
starting place. In a short amount of time I found myself with the name
of the program Dr
Woods was talking about, which was indeed the National Animal
Identification System, and a
whole lot of information on the Bioterrorism Act of 2002, which is
basically NAIS for food
and feed up to the final consumer. Incidentally, the Bioterrorism Act
passed as part of
the 2002 Farm Bill, which included the Animal Health Protection Act (the
USDA claims AHPA
as their authorizing legislation for NAIS) introduced by none other than
current Ag Chair
Senator Harkin of Iowa. This same man has now introduced the first
probable statutory
reference to NAIS in the 2007 Farm Bill. Is this a coincidence? Not
likely.
The USDA recently released new documents that will make NAIS next to
impossible to fight
without going on the offensive and filing suit against the Federal
government. The USDA
states in their Business Plan that in a scant few weeks (February 2008)
they will issue a
proposed rule to roll all breed registry identification into NAIS. They
will also issue
rules to roll all disease control programs into NAIS compliant
identification standards.
Brucellosis, Tuberculosis, Coggin's and Pseudorabies will magically roll
right in through
the rulemaking process. NPIP for poultry will just roll on in. Scrapies
for sheep and
goats will simply be turned in to NAIS premise ID without the knowledge
or even consent of
participants in this program. Certificates of health to move animals
across state lines,
or even within the state will be rolled in as well. If you get the idea
that NAIS is like
a bulldozer on steroids, you'd be about right. Remember that NAIS is a
three part program
with it's foundation being premise identification. You must have a
premise id to get an
animal id, and you must have premise id and animal id to have animal
tracking.
The USDA is busily making Cooperative Agreements with all states and
tribes and any non
profit organization that will stick it's hand out for the taxpayer money
to encourage and
probably require their members to enroll in premise id and animal id in
order to reap the
benefits of membership in those organizations. The states are to help
make NAIS compulsory
in order to engage in commerce under these contracts. There is an
exception allowed for
individual animal identification. If you never move an animal off your
property other than
directly to slaughter it will not require an NAIS animal id, but there
is no exception
mentioned or alluded to for premise id under USDA's plan.
Meanwhile, our federal level legislators blithely reiterate to us "NAIS
is voluntary at
the Federal level" and say that they are doing so well because they cut
the budget for
NAIS. Well, the infrastructure has already been laid, folks. Unless you
specifically stop
NAIS via statute or a moratorium, it's going to roll over all of our
rights through all
disease control programs! Why do you refuse to uphold your oath of
office? You didn't take
an oath to pervert "general welfare" for the benefit of corporations and
bureaucrats, did
you? Did our forefathers bleed and die so that an agency could require
birth certificates
on chickens?
Many people seem to have a very difficult time understanding that NAIS
is and always has
been 48-hour traceback on all livestock. If you want 48-hour traceback,
you must have 24
hour reporting of movements. NAIS is not a marketing program; it is
being brought to bear
at the point of market. NAIS cannot, by very definition, be a voluntary
program. The USDA
is holding states hostage at the point of interstate commerce by
attaching NAIS premise
id, and animal id to health certificates and disease control programs.
To up the ante even
further, they are buying the participation of feedlots, breed
organizations, farm groups,
youth groups and processors. To move across state lines, or in many
cases, even within
that state, you will need to be in NAIS. How can that be voluntary?
NAIS opposition has been fairly effective fighting this on a state by
state level in a
disorganized and haphazard fashion. The original plans called for
mandatory in January of
2008 and mandatory with enforcement of all aspects in January of 2009.
We've pushed the
USDA back, and sideways, but we have not stopped them because the people
in positions of
power have not had the will to take on the fight.
The anti-NAIS movement has had a grand total of one case filed; and the
Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture backed off just because of the filing. Why are
all the attorneys
who have stepped into this battle against NAIS not going after the
federal government for
an injunction or more? The entire program is patently and assuredly
un-Constitutional. The
USDA is trying to shift all lawsuits to the states by saying "NAIS is
voluntary at the
federal level" while they push the states into full implementation
through perverting the
Interstate Commerce Clause.
Certainly, if we still have a Constitution, we can win on simply the
religious objection
alone. But our arguments go further than even the First amendment. We
also have the 4th,
5th, 9th, 10th, 13th and 14th amendments that are being violated with
NAIS. There are
issues of unfair competition that will need to be addressed, as well as
real estate
effects of this program. Why can't we get on the offensive and file
suit? We have harm in
many of those who were rolled in, or coerced into the program, and they
are not all Amish
who won't file suits.
We have the Alliance Defense Fund who won the case without even going to
court in PA, and
the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund, who have taken on Greg
Niewendorp's case in
Michigan, the Center for Law and Religious Freedom involved in Wisconsin
where the Amish
have been assigned PIN's without their consent; they have all broken
their teeth on NAIS.
We have several individual attorneys who are well researched on the
subject, and still, no
filing on the federal level to stop the USDA from shoving this down our
throats. The
states of Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin already have mandatory NAIS to
a large degree.
With the myriad of roll ins (Massachusetts, Idaho, Colorado Fairs,
Illinois fairs, North
Carolina Fairs and hay, Tennesse hay share, NY calfhood vaccination,
Pennsylvania any farm
programs, ad infinitum, ad nauseum, etc.) without proper authorization,
there is no doubt
where this is going. And it doesn't take a degree to see it.
While I readily concede that suing the USDA is not something to be done
on a whim, surely
if some of these learned individuals could get together and keep their
egos out of the way
we could find someone with the proper experience and expertise to bring
suit against the
USDA and get it stopped before we have to fight every single rule they
promulgate related
to NAIS for every one of the species covered under the program.
This is a plea from one who knows without a doubt that if this program
is not stopped that
there will be bloodshed..and not just the blood of animals. I am fully
committed to doing
everything within my power to stop this before it comes to that point.
Please, please,
stop playing politics and start filing before we have a complete
disaster on our hands.
And to the unwashed masses, people like me that is, we cannot and must
not fail to call
our representatives on a regular basis and let them know we expect them
to uphold the
Constitution and the principles of freedom we have been endowed with.
When we get a
federal suit filed, we will need to reach into our wallets and support
the one bringing
the suit. When we get meaningful legislation to stop this, we must rally
support for those
pushing for us. It is going to take every one of us in whatever capacity
we have to get
this thing stopped. Don't wait for someone else to do it, or it won't
get done. Your
freedom is your responsibility. We have a gigantic secret weapon. there
are way more of
"us" than "them," and we're right!
© 2008 Doreen Hannes - All Rights Reserved
Doreen Hannes is a homesteading mom, and a truly grass roots activist
for small scale and
traditional farming rights. She has thoroughly researched the origins
and impacts of "Free
Trade" agreements and National Animal Identification System in
particular and has been a
major force in the anti-NAIS movement both nationally and in Missouri
for over a year.
Her mission is to expose the procedures and methods being employed to
destroy the God
given rights of this once great republic. Doreen is a frequent guest on
talk radio
programs and has written extensively on the NAIS.
Mike and Ceci Graham-Widby
Highland Hame Farm Celtic Ponies
24016 Red Corral Road
Pioneer, CA 95666
www.highlandhamefarm.com
209-295-PONY
209-295-7669
[email protected]
"A wishbone is no substitute for a backbone"