February 19, 2007

Storm Alert - Associated Press

Alert - National, Action Item — walterj 7:13 pm

[A number of people have been working on a national storm of the Associated Press. TinyBabeKC sent me these details. Now is the time for all livestock owners to act, to make their voices heard above the grunting of the herd. -WJ]

Dear Walter: Here is the letter that I have written that is being sent on Wed to the Associated Press. We already have several people and even those in groups with hundreds on their emailing lists.

I am hoping you will pass this onto your group and allow people to cut and paste and email the letter on Wed. with the rest of us. We need to get the word out and figured if we send enough letters to the AP, they will finally wake up and make this known to the entire population of this country, who at this time, don’t even know the NAIS exists.

Thanks,

K.C.

Here is the letter to send to the Associated Press. We are aiming for Wednesday. The email addy is info@ap.org. Cut and paste the letter into a new email and send. Be sure to put your name at the bottom as all of the news media will not take anything unsigned seriously.

Thanks again for your support.

K.C.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The NAIS (National Animal Identification System) has been kept a secret from the majority of Americans. Therefore, I ask that you make known what the USDA is doing and the immense harm the NAIS will do to small farming, organic farming, anyone who owns any animal and the economy of this entire country. The USDA claims the NAIS is necessary in order to be able to track animals going into the food chain, thus, making meat safer for the American public. This is not true. The fact is, the NAIS is set up to violate the rights of all Americans who own any animal, not just livestock. Moreover, the NAIS wants to register every property that has animals on it. This is clearly a violation of the right to own personal property without the intrusion of the government. The USDA, many legislators throughout the country and the government in general has not allowed the truth about the NAIS to get to the American public because the USDA knows that it would never be allowed once the people knew how detrimental the NAIS will be, not only for the above stated reasons, but it decimates the Constitutional rights of the people of this country. For example:

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

There are people in this country whose religions dictate certain dietary laws as well as others that dictate the way their food is raised and how it is processed. The NAIS violates their First Amendment right to free exercise. For example, the Old Order Amish believe they are prohibited from registering their farms or animals in the proposed program due to, inter alia, Scriptural prohibitions. There are those who raise and process their animals in the Kosher way and would not be able to comply with their religious rights. Organically raised meats would also become a thing of the past.

More and more we are becoming aware of what the chemicals, hormones and antibiotics that are fed to animals are doing to the consumer. This is why more people are wanting to buy meats from clean animals and/or raise their own. This is why Monsanto, et.al. paid to put the NAIS into law. The mega agricultural and chemical companies want to be in total control of this country’s agricultural business and they can’t do that if people are allowed to raise their own animals free of chemicals, antibiotic and hormones.

Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The NAIS is another way of stripping away our 4th Amendment rights. It will allow state and federal inspectors to come onto private property in search for animals to register and to identify a person’s property, now called “Premise” for the purpose of tracking animals without reason and without a WARRANT.

The problem is that those who know a little about the NAIS believe it is to track animals that are going into the food chain. Nothing could be further from the truth. This WILL NOT improve the quality of our food and in fact, may destroy a good amount of the food that is grown for personal use and that which is sold in some stores that has no chemicals, hormones or disease in it.

The intent of the USDA is to track every single animal in this country and identify the “Premise” upon which they live and put them into a national data base. This is to include every animal brought to fairs and shows, including 4H projects; every single animal sold, not just those that go through the auctions or slaughter houses. But all animals sold through private stores and off farms for people’s personal use.

Every single animal owner will be expected to report, via a computerized program, the movements of their animals, i.e. every time someone takes a horse off their property to ride on trails, every dog, cat and livestock that go to shows. Every free range chicken that gets through a fence. If these movements are not reported, heavy fines will be mandated against the animal owner.

Moreover, every private butcher will be require to have equipment for scanning tags and microchips and if the animal brought in doesn’t have one, they will be forced to turn business away and allow the animals to go to waste.

If the government really wants to protect our food supply, then this program should only include the mega dairies, feed lots, suppliers of livestock to the mega producers and all of the animals that go into the food chain. The NAIS MUST EXCLUDE people’s personal chickens, cows and goats for the milk they want to drink and meat they want to consume after raising their own animals; llamas, alpacas, other exotics, horses, pocket pets, dogs, cats and all other animals not used for food. The NAIS is outright abuse of government power and an out and out invasion of privacy and the right to own personal property without government intrusion.

The beef industry has already provided proof that the NAIS will cost the individual/small farmer thousands of dollars they can not afford. The NAIS will obliterate the small and individual farms that raise their own food and food for independent stores and restaurants that sell and serve organic and/or grass fed meats.

When the small farmer can’t afford to keep the animals due to the costs involved with the NAIS, this is going to put pet stores/co-ops/feed stores, independent grain mills, western/garden stores out of business.

This is the worse case of intrusion into the privacy of the people in this country and serves absolutely no purpose but to put the little guy out of business and provide unwanted control by the government. Our property will no longer be ours. We may own it, but the government is going to tell us what we can and can’t do with it. Abuse of this system is imminent.

If the NAIS is allowed to become mandatory, people will be fined $1,000 per day if they do not or can not comply.

Amendment XIV

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Senator Larry Craig of Idaho has boasted that he is working closely with Monsanto to push through the NAIS. How many other Senators are involved with the NAIS? Why is the government ignoring the rights of the people under the Constitution? Just how much money has passed from the mega companies like Monsanto to the hands of the legislators in order to undermine the American people’s rights?

The American public has to be alerted as to exactly what the USDA and their elected government officials are doing.

Signed:

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12 Comments »

  1. Dig this, The Indiana state senate today passed out of committee SB486 by the vote of 8 to 1. The bill authored by state Senator Steele would deal a death blow to “premise id” in Indiana if made into law. Thanks to all who testified in favor, to the “pro” senators and to Senator Steele. I guess if we were the first to endure this fascism, we can be the first to give it a Mussolini like ending. Stay the course, we’re not home yet.

    Comment Dan Frantz — February 19, 2007 @ 7:39 pm

  2. The one thing that was not mentioned that I consider critical is that the USDA’s only written solution to a “suspected” outbreak of any unspecified disease is the cold blooded killing of every animal of a susceptible species within ten kilometers. This means that if a horse gets off a trailer down the road from me here in Idaho from, say from Louisiana where EIA is a problem, and it tests positive for EIA, my perfectly healthy and unexposed horses could be killed.

    My horses are unique indivduals, each with a special personality and from bloodlines that are near extinction. That the USDA has taken this authority really scares me to death. Do I think they would really do this? I sure wouldn’t put anything past them, but they would have to go through me to do it, so at least I wouldn’t be alive to witness it. The government in general and the USDA in particular is totally out of control. The people must rise up against these politicians en masse and that most definitely means awakening the sleeping giant.

    Comment Patricia Hampton — February 20, 2007 @ 8:36 am

  3. I will cut and paste and email the letter shown above. There is power in the people!

    Comment arlene — February 20, 2007 @ 9:33 am

  4. Patricia,

    “…That the USDA has taken this authority”…

    That is an excellent point,the USDA was not “given” this authority,they have “taken” it… and not with the consent of the governed.

    The govt can not (legaly) arbitrarily “take” authority(I didn’t say they don’t,but when they do they violate the law)this is a point we will keep sqawking about till someone listens up.

    I understand your concerns about how USDA deals with disease and I think most folks would not approve of the methods they employ,and those who say its okay… well lets just say they have no sense of the real world.

    I too am a peaceful person, haven’t had any trouble with the law… don’t want any, but I will say that they aughtn’t push too hard , I am awfully fond of my critters… doing my own thing and being left alone.

    Comment LEE — February 20, 2007 @ 4:12 pm

  5. Dan, (comment #1)

    Thanks for testifying at the hearing. Just to let everyone else know what happened. When the hearing started, it was obvious that most of the committee had NO idea what this was all about. (and this is the senate AG committee!)They were asking basic questions. I felt they listened very intently to everyone’s testimony. There were about 15 anti-NAIS INDIVIDUALS that testified. For the pro-NAIS side there were 5 speakers -none of whom were individuals representing themselves. It was the Indiana Beef Cattlemen Assn., the Indiana Pork Producers, Indiana State Poultry Assn., Indiana Farm Bureau, and the State Veterinarian. By the end of the hearing the Senators understood NAIS a little better, and asked some good questions of the pro-NAIS speakers –most of whom tried to skirt-around the questions asked of them.

    Interestingly enough, the lone nay vote came from a veterinarian who runs a CAFO.

    Comment Vicki — February 21, 2007 @ 11:19 am

  6. Help!

    Hey, what happened to the math test?

    Anyhow … I’m having a discussion with a fella with Farm Bureau that has a wider audience than the two of us, and his argument is all about trace back.

    Could anyone put me onto an exceptional article or two, that illustrates how NAIS will not improve upon the systems presently in place. We’re in dairy country, but I’m looking for something that covers the spectrum of NAIS, if possible.

    Indiana wants me, cause them folks don’t love NAIS!

    Go Hoosiers …

    Comment Mr Dirty Nails — February 21, 2007 @ 7:02 pm

  7. This may be a little off subject but it is relevent to this fight overall and I’d like to point it out.

    The following is from a NCBA article;

    TPA Must Be Reauthorized: Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) is set to expire June 30, 2007, unless reauthorized by Congress. NCBA members were leaders in the fight for Congressional passage of TPA in 2001-2002. With TPA, the President has the authority to efficiently negotiate trade issues while continuing to consult with Congress. Congress then votes on the final agreement as negotiated with no opportunity to amend. Other nations view TPA as necessary before they will seriously deal with U.S. negotiators.(end quote)

    Because they might make a deal with the govicorp and then the people might not like the deal and change it!! Thats the reason!

    First of all NCBA is acting like they are proud of this fact, they should be flogged!

    secondly; this is not how our constitutional principles were set up, for govt to bypass the people ;

    third;,you’ll forgive me but I don’t give a rats rear end what some god forsaken other country says they want us to do before they will deal with or talk to us,..to hell with them!

    What other right(s) will our govicorp be willing to set aside so that some idiot or group of idiots in some self important little place where-ever will talk to us on whatever issue?? I mean come on, “like we here in Red commie china don’t let our people have any say in anything so you Americans have to enslave your people too… or we won’t talk trade with you???…huh?

    This bull give one man; our “decider” the power to sell us out to every third world dictator on the planet and then we have to trust our other group of slackards in congess to protect us if its bad and say “no” to the president??

    Ain’t gonna happen ,a lot of our goofy trade agreements are born this way…without any say from the people and NAIS isn’t a fluke…it is’nt “unconnected” to this type of nonsense, this is how things are done in “MORDOR on the Potomac”

    This kind of thing drives me crazy!(I’ve always been crazy…but its kept me from going insane)as Waylon put it so well.

    I’ll stop now.. at least for today :)
    I was just reading and that popped out at me.. this is what we’re up against folks.. we have to raise a stink about how they do things in the govicorp..

    now.. where did I put my meds? thanks!

    Comment LEE — February 21, 2007 @ 10:53 pm

  8. This is from the Yahoo meat goat group “Chevon Talk”. It looks like Arizona is under the gun. Check out the link to view thier live discussion on this house bill.

    United we stand, hopefully we won’t see the second half of that quote.

    Rich Timm

    NAIS IN AZ

    The Arizona Senate has just started “Committee of the Whole.” For those of you
    who may not be familiar with that term, this is the stage where a bill gets
    debated on the Floor of the Senate. If a bill passes in Committee of the Whole,
    then it can move on for a full Senate vote, called “Third Read.” This is an
    important stage. If you’d like to watch the bill being debated, you can click
    on the link below. Underneath the black screen, you’ll see some choices of
    rooms. Under the Senate side, select “Floor and Hearing Room 109.” It will
    bring up the Floor proceeding and you can watch the bill being debated. They
    have a lot of bills to debate — about 50 — so I can’t tell you when it will
    come up, so you might just have to listen for awhile. Say a prayer.

    link

    Senator Karen S. Johnson
    kjohnson@…

    Bobbie Milsom
    Barbara Milsom
    Maricopa AZ
    www.arizonapygmygoats.com/
    www.littlecudchewers.com/

    Comment Rich Timm — February 22, 2007 @ 1:13 pm

  9. IN sb 486 DESTROYED!!!!
    Everyone in IN you have GOT to reverse on SB486–Now!!! Cross post everywhere please.

    Doreen

    Here is the link and the text of the pro-NAIS “amendment” filed today
    by
    Steele:

    link

    SB 486-1_ Filed 02/22/2007, 09:01 Steele

    SENATE MOTION

    MADAM PRESIDENT:

    I move that Senate Bill 486 be amended to read as follows:

    Delete everything after the enacting clause and insert the
    following:

    SOURCE: IC 15-2.1-18-24; (07)MO048603.1. –> SECTION 1. IC
    15-2.1-18-24
    IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS
    [EFFECTIVE
    JULY 1, 2007]: Sec. 24. (a) As used in this section, “NAIS” refers to
    the
    USDA’s National Animal Identification System or any component thereof,
    including:
    (1) premises or property identification by numbers (Stage I);
    (2) animal identification (Stage II); and
    (3) tracking or surveillance of domesticated animals (Stage
    III).
    (b) As used in this section, “USDA” refers to the United States
    Department of Agriculture, and any successor agency within the federal
    government.
    (c) The state may not require participation in the livestock
    identification (Stage II) or tracking components (Stage III) of the
    USDA’s
    National Animal Identification System.
    (d) The state may not withhold indemnity as provided under section
    14 of
    this chapter if a person does not participate in NAIS.
    (Reference is to SB 486 as printed February 21, 2007.)

    ________________________________________

    Senator STEELE

    —————————————————————————-
    —-

    MO048603/DI 116 2007

    —————————————————————————-
    —-

    Comment Doreen — February 22, 2007 @ 2:16 pm

  10. I just called Senator Steele’s office, and the lady there said no one had called about this issue. Try this number: 812-279-4172 - it goes directly to his office.

    Comment Ann — February 23, 2007 @ 12:25 pm

  11. Wow,

    You know that is crap is not about animals right? This is about the government positioning itself for a global id system for humans with animals as the “guinea pigs” no pun inteded. Ever heard of the “mark of the beast”? Well, to get us ready for that, they are planning to mark beasts.

    I just learned of this situation this week (3rd wk Feb. 2007)

    Thanks you to all my fellow Humans who are working to secure my freedom.

    Comment Jennifer Bejcek — February 23, 2007 @ 6:08 pm

  12. Thank u for all the effort yu put into this site. Lets stop this nais nosense.

    Comment Andy — April 13, 2007 @ 4:16 pm

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