 01-20-2008, 10:57 AM
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socalgold
 
Joined on 01-25-2006
Fighting for Miners Rights & Our Civil Liberties
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This was going on and comes from where I used to ranch and why I didn't buy from MFA co-op. It's like a stone rolling down hill. Written by one of my old neighbors.
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!
I Love My Country
It's the government I'm Afraid OF
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