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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"
 
Thanks for posting this.

Doreen lays it out very well. There will still be folks that insist that we must do this or "we're all gonna die", not having a clue as to the down-line intent and purpose by its architects. There is a VERY key sentance in here, lets see who picks up on it. This sentance is the key as to the true reason behind NAIS. Lastly, at no point is the constitutionality of NAIS discussed.

The frog slowly boiled,.....

Bb
 
I have contacted my congressman twice in the last two months and have not had a response back from his office. Which is unusual as other comments I have made his office has replied to. Have others made comments to their federal representatives?
 

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