I’d like to see those two dofuses faces when they realized they’ve given the keys to the farm away for a pair of visegrips, a usda pen and an id card entitling them to 24 hour surveillance at some point in the future.

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That said, Plan B has to be massive non-compliance. I am gradually visiting every homestead on the roads to my remote farm, talking to folks about NAIS, telling them not to co-operate with it in any way. (Almost everyone has a few animals.)

Sure, they can TRY selective enforcement. That’s why it will be very important to organize communities to spring to each other’s defense. Back in the Depression, farmers got together and when the bank/sheriff would try to foreclose on someone’s mortgage and throw them off their land, they met with an angry mob armed with rifles and pitchforks. I hope it doesn’t come to that, but the point is, we need to ORGANIZE our communities and come up with strategies for resistance.

I say, “First, let the political leaders get their priorities straight.” This country of ours is being flooded with illegal immigrants whilst the political leaders are turning a deaf ear to the cries of American citizens, demanding that something be done about it. Until the politicans stop their two-faced ways, they shall never be taken seriously.

It sure would be a meaningless life if bureaucrats ever fulfill their horrendeous agenda. They’d regulate and tax every single thing that makes life rich and full for people. The feral cats and chickens have had the run of Key West for nearly two hundred years, and it is only in recent years that they are becoming a “problem.” Why now? The answer is very simple: For one, the government is trying to move forward with their National Animal Identification System (NAIS) upon us and our beloved animals. The ulterior plans of NAIS has far more to do with profit than disease prevention. We cannot afford to let them bully us into submission. Hold your heads up high and take courage, for such corrupted government people are cowards at heart.

If there are rogue roosters and cats, it is up to the local homeowners to capture and relocate them. The chickens and cats are great reminders of how free and full life is, when we remove our own self-imposed “laws” and regulations in order to placate power-hungry and greedy people in office.

Feral, a.k.a. gypsy chickens and cats are Key West’s icons of Nature for all of us to appreciate and enjoy, irregardless of their “exotic status” that may be on the tiresome books of the state bureaucracy. Here are the immortal words of the Henry Thoreau great, regarding nature VS man-made regulations:

“I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. if this world were all man, I could not stretch myself, I should lose al hope. He is constraint, she is freedom to me. He makes me wish for another world. She makes me content with this.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

This is what the Key West chickens and cats represent to me — freedom. Leave them alone, and I urge everyone to resist, resist and resist as the government tries to impose NAIS upon all of us, which is what Chris Guinto clearly supports. Let us not let the government brownshirts intimidate us into submission, but rather, let us rise up and make this monster back off into its ugly hole from whence it came.

For freedom for ALL,

John Sherrer
Telllico Plains, TN