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There are two more upcoming meetings with PA Sec. of Ag. Dennis Wolff:

Tuesday, Oct. 24
Northwestern Pennsylvania
PA Det of Ag
Region 1 Office,
Meadville, Pa.
To participate, contact:
Linda Field
Region 1 Office
814-332-6890

Friday, Oct. 27
Northeastern Pennsylvania
Hamlin Diner, Hamlin, Pa.
To participate, contact:
Ron Williams
Region 3 Office
570-836-2181

I have received news from several independent sources both within the government and elsewhere that the USDA Terrorist has been identified and dealt with by the internal investigators. One of the sources is Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota who is on the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee and was kind enough to send a letter to one of his constituents, Donna K, to follow up on the investigation:

Dear Charles & Donna:

Thank you for contacting me regarding a comment posted on the website www.nonais.org on August 29th. It was good to hear from you. It was good to hear from you.

As you know, a news item regarding a decision about Vermont’s farm registration program was posted on www.nonais.org. A comment posted in response to the article alluded to a bio- or eco-terrorism threat. The webmaster of the site reported the comment to the authorities, and officials have traced the poster’s IP address as coming from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). I appreciate you bringing this event to my attention, and share your concern over this incident.

I have contacted the USDA Office of Inspector General (OIG) to share your concern over this incident. The staff at OIG informed me that they have completed an investigation into this matter. Two agents were assigned to this case and questioned the USDA employee who had posted this message. These agents then shared all of the information from their their investigation with the local USDA agency, which will have the authority to reprimand this individual.

Again, thank you for contacting me. I hope that you find this information useful. For more information on issues of importance to North Dakota, please visit my Web site at www.conrad.senate.gov.

Sincerely,
[signed]
KENT CONRAD
United States Senate
-Paper copy, scan in Technical Documents

Another source who was briefed on this matter told me earlier this week that while the IP address [168.68.129.127] that I tracked down was correct, it was not the individual pinpointed at that computer who left the message containing the threat of terrorism. Lesson: If you’re in an office environment, be sure to password secure your computer when you’re away from your desk so other people don’t use your computer to send terrorism threats.

As one of source inside the government put it, “It is very sad that it has come to this.” [that someone at the USDA is making threats like that] and “I don’t like the direction that things are going.” I agree on both points. Ironically, he and I stand on opposite sides of the issue of NAIS.

Given that the person who left the original threat is not only within our government but at the very agency that is pushing NAIS down our throats with the justification of terrorism, they should be held to the highest possible standards. One must wonder what would have happened had an ordinary citizen made such threats. Given that our Congress just passed legislation suspending Habeas Corpus for anyone accused of aiding an enemy I suspect that had someone outside the government made this threat they would simply have disappeared.

“The bill introduced Monday dropped the words “outside the United States,” which Democrats said meant that prosecutors could ignore American legal standards on search warrants within the country. The bill also broadened the definition of an unlawful enemy combatant, from anyone “engaged in hostilities against the United States” to include anyone who “has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States.”
-NY Times

This is not a good trend. Some argue that this only has to do with alien prisoners of war. But the law (S.3930, HR.6166) bars judicial review. This means that the government that arrests you and detains you does so at their sole discretion with no oversight to find out if you really are an ‘enemy combatant’. This means it could be used against you or I, citizens of the United States of American without any relief or protection by the Constitution. They merely need to accuse you and arrest you and you vanish with no rights. Are we seeing a return to worse than McCarthyism? Our rights are being chipped away bit by bit. The statue revealed from that bedrock looks strangely fascist.

In other news, Animal ID Coordinator Neil Hammerschmidt’s assistant Dore M Mobley, who was supposed to handle the Questions the USDA Won’t Answer, is no longer at her position as Public Affairs Specialist with USDA/APHIS as of this past Monday, October 16th, 2006 according to the message on her voice mail.

Hat tips to DonnaK, Sara, SC, The Grasshopper, K & DR.

The Australian government has admitted to having faked the polling data about responses to their National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) which is the equivalent of the USDA’s NAIS in this country. Apparently the Australian program is not as great as our US government would have us believe:

MLA apologizes for hacking poll

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) has been forced to apologize, after two staff members hacked into an Internet poll on the National Livestock Identification System (NLIS).

The Rural Press poll asked readers to rate the performance of the system to trace animals from birth to death.

Early poll results showed more than 60 per cent of voters described NLIS as poor or terrible.

But a day later, after tampering by MLA staff, the poll showed 70 per cent believed the system was good or excellent.

MLA’s managing director, David Palmer, says the staff involved have not been sacked.

He concedes the organization’s credibility is on the line.

“This is a very damaging moment. I take it very seriously, the company takes it very seriously, the board equally are most alarmed and shocked by it,” he said.

“We will take all steps and measures to set us down a track to try to win back that integrity and win back that credibility that we just so desperately need from industry.”

A long-time critic of NLIS, the Australian Beef Association, says the incident does nothing to boost the credibility of electronic identification.

It says the incident backs its claims the system can be easily corrupted.

Chairwoman Linda Hewitt says Mr Palmer should immediately sack the MLA staff involved.

“Possibly the man did not know what was going on, possibly he is very embarrassed, but he certainly needs to take very strong action straight away,” she said.

“We will be keeping an eye on the situation.

“We will be putting press releases out about how we expect the whole situation to be handled and we will be questioning the integrity of the MLA’s checking of itself.”

Consulting firm Ernst and Young will complete an investigation in the hacking incident by early next week.
-ABC Australia

A little while ago we had a terrorist threat from the USDA right here on http://NoNAIS.org. More recently there were the unconstitutional raids and slaughter of livestock on two farms in Virginia by the USDA and Virginia authorities. In Maine the Fish & Wildlife stole long established fish from inside the aquarium of a prominent Chinese restaurant and then gave them to a pet store that offered to, and eventually did, sell them back to the restaurant owner for $700. Apparently they have no concept of private ownership, the Bill of Rights or our Constitution

And the government wonders why their trust rating is slipping so fast…