Just about everyone of them has used the same response and the same form letter. They are not listening. They could care less what the burden would be to us, they could care less that food we produce is healthier, they could care less that the laws on the books already work, they could care less about property ownership, they could care less about US!!
What a sad day to realize this!!!

Keep writing letters, making phone calls and keeping the pressure on!!

http://www.usda.gov/da/oaljdecisions/vol59/Vol59_at_534.pdf

It is 46 pages long, but well worth the read.

After I sent the first one, I got a response back from two: Senator Mel Martinez and State Rep Ed Homan. I have gotten no other replies from any of my elected officials (although I did receive confirmation that my e-mails have been received by them).

Mel toed the party line on the USDA knowing what they’re talking about in his response. I expected as much. He’s like this on every issue I write him on, as if he’s patting my head and telling me a little lady like me shouldn’t concern herself with such things when daddy knows better. His letters are very patronizing and his voting record is abysmal. It’s why I vote against him at every opportunity.

Homan, on the other hand, denied that there was anything he could do because the USDA is a Federal agency and not under State jurisdiction since nothing in my letters indicated specific violations of civil rights taking place in Florida. I think it’s interesting to note that after I sent Homan a response telling him about the Washington, Virginia, Indiana and Missouri anti-NAIS Bills now being considered that I have not heard back from him yet. I’m hoping that it’s a good sign. In any case, I will take it that way until I get confirmation that it isn’t. I’ve known him to be at least somewhat reasonable when listening to the opinions of his constituents in the past, but then that was during the election, so I might be hoping for too much from him… still…

I also sent a letter to the editor of the Saint Petersburg Times… I would have sent one to the Tampa Tribune too, but they limit letters to 150 words or less… I have yet to be able to express the dangers of NAIS to an unknowing public in less than 150 words.

Anyway… Keep up the good work, People! Headway is being made! We are being heard! Send letters, tell neighbors, be loud. I know you know as well as I do that your children, grandchildren, friends and neighbors will one day thank you for all of your efforts and sleepless nights.

But if Mr. LaLonde had come onto my property with that attitude…about the time he insisted that the blank needed a number when it obviously and clearly allowed other information to suffice, he would have found himself sitting on the other side of my property gate.

And…he would have needed a quick trip to the local emergency room to have his paperwork surgically removed from his anal orifice.

The attending physician could have removed Mr. LaLonde’s head while he was up there, as well.

I’m sorry if that seems a bit “over reactive” but you simply don’t come onto my property and talk to me that way. And you certainly don’t come onto my property and threaten me…at least not more than once.

Again, you are absolutely right on the voluntary thing. Arguing for a voluntary NAIS is like trying to barter about what caliber of bullet would be best to be shot in the head with.

(If you google Darol Dickinson, Dickinson Cattle Co., you will see that Darol Dickinson is a reputable business man.)

Just a thought…

How about if we were to copy this article and distribute it to all of our legislators and the members of Congress? The USDA supports a pack of lies and, like Hitler’s mantra, they will continually repeat the lie until the lie starts to feel like the truth.

This NAIS mess must be stopped and must be stopped NOW.

[Please do send it and spread the word. Without your feedback the legislators tend to simply believe the ‘experts’ hired by the USDA from the ranks of Big-Ag supporters. Your voice is critical. -WJ]