I hope that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and enjoyed your time recounting the bountiful blessing that we have been given over the past year! I know that my wife and I had plenty to be thankful for and spent some quality time with both sides of our family.
This email is to serve as a reminder of some dates of events. Below is a list of the different events that we are hosting or advertising for others:
WICFA Annual Meeting – December 12, 2009 at the Dalton Town Hall in Dalton, Green Lake County, WI. This meeting is open to all WICFA members and is scheduled for 8:00 a.m.
WICFA Networking of Statewide Organizations Session – December 12, 2009 at the Dalton Town Hall in Dalton, Green Lake County, WI. This session is open to representatives from any group statewide that is interested in networking with us to improve communication about trials/prosecutions, rallies, speaking events, meetings, issues, etc…
WICFA Current Issues Discussion and Education Session -
December 12, 2009 at the Dalton Town Hall in Dalton, Green Lake County, WI. This session is open to everyone, whether or not you are associated with an organization.
Please come and listen to our speakers talk about issues such as
Fresh milk regulations/legislation,
Making mandatory premises registration voluntary,
NAIS, how WICFA can be proactive in making positive changes in these different areas that will be beneficial to independent farmers and ranchers who want to direct market their products to the consumer, and
how WICFA can help ensure that the consumer will have a multitude of choices in how their products are actually produced.
Fresh/Raw Milk Dairy Farmer Max Kane’s Trial – December 21, 2009.
Come back one of Wisconsin’s fresh milk producers in Viroqua, WI. Max Kane and supporters are planning a rally from 8:30 a.m. till 10:25 a.m. and then other events after lunch time plus a pot luck dinner at the end of the day. See Max Kane’s blog for more detailed information about his event.
The first three events are sponsored and organized by WICFA. They are all on the same day so please make an effort to attend our big day in Dalton, WI.
The last fourth event is sponsored and organized by Max Kane and supporters. Please go out to Viroqua, WI and show your support for people who participate in fresh milk sales. Thanks for all that you do and we hope that you have a great weekend.
Monday-Friday 10:00am-11:00am Central Time Call In Number: 1-800-973-3779 This will be an open conversation covering a number of topics related to farming and ranching.
H.R. 2749 – The Food Safety Enhancement Act. S. 510 – The Food Safety Modernization Act, are nothing more and nothing less than the codification of Codex Alimentarius into US Code & Statute. These bills are meant to do nothing other than centralize food production and supply in the hands of corporations, (the same industrialized corporate farming operations which cause 95% of all food borne illnesses) while at the same time driving independent farmers and herders off their land and out of business.
If you think either of these two assaults on freedom have anything to do with food safety or protecting the sovereign states from food borne illnesses, you are not only mistaken, but also extraordinarily dense.
The federal government has no real interest in food safety other than using it as an excuse for facilitating centralization and seizing food production and sales for corporate stakeholders. Its also going to be a fabulously effective tool for relieving property owners….of their property.
Image. While the dictionary has numerous definitions of the word, my favorite today must be:
“the general or public perception of a company, public figure, etc., esp. as achieved by careful calculation aimed at creating widespread goodwill.”
One recently addressed issue is the freedom to choose what foods we eat through the Freedom of Farming Act as proposed by Mr. Greipentrog:
From my understanding this common sense proposal is being rejected left and right by not only Politicians, but the general farming community as well. They appear to prefer Motion (in proposing a law to “help” Raw Milk farmers in Wisconsin– as long as there is appropriate regulation) vs Action (adopting the straight forward Freedom of Farming Act)
“Wherein any family farm, defined as an operation engaged in production agriculture that employs no full time personnel, save those within the family construct, shall have exclusive right to market all products of the farming operation, raw or value added through processing, direct to consumers, or local establishments, and shall be free of all inspection, recordkeeping, and traceability requirements of any governmental agency.
The producer and consumer shall make a reasonable effort to exchange information regarding these products, and the methods of production and processing, in the formation of a covenant between them.” Continue Reading »
January 22, 2009 (this is from early in the year but quite relevant now)
NATURALLY RAISED.
If you were told an animal was “naturally raised,” what would you imagine that meant? Is it evidence that they wandered a field? Felt the touch of sunlight? Ate their normal diet? Well, no. At least, that’s not what it means if you see “naturally raised” on a package of meat. The USDA released their guidelines for the marketing term this week. Grass, sunlight, and open space don’t enter into it. Rather, animals are “naturally raised” if they “have been raised entirely without growth promotants, antibiotics (except for ionophores used as coccidiostats for parasite control), and have never been fed animal by-products.”
Got that? No growth promotants or antibiotics — except, of course, for ionophores used as coccidiostats — or eating the ground-up remains of other animals. That’s what counts as a natural upbringing in our food production system. We have not medically accelerated your growth nor made you into an inadvertent cannibal nor crammed you into such unhealthful conditions that you needed to be pumped full of antibiotics to stay alive.
The problem with this label is not specifically how the animals are raised. Excising antibiotics and growth promotants from their diet is a good thing. The problem is what the USDA’s new guidelines say about, well, the USDA. These guidelines are a simple act of collusion with the marketing teams in the livestock industry. When a consumer sees “naturally raised,” they almost certainly don’t say to themselves, “Terrific! This chicken was raised entirely without growth promotants, antibiotics (except for ionophores used as coccidiostats for parasite control), and has never been fed animal by-products!” The implication of “naturally raised” is that the chicken lived the natural life of a chicken, not the life of a widget. But USDA has defined it as living the life of a widget, just not a particularly heavily medicated widget. And why have naturally raised” at all? The shrinkwrap enclosing a chicken breast has room for “No growth hormones or antibiotics!” They’re using “naturally raised” because it’s more efficiently misleading to consumers who want to do good by eating well, and the USDA is just gave its seal of approval to the practice.
Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson is the power behind the throne of Governor James Doyle. Together they rule the most corrupt state government in the union.
Wisconsin is alleged to have the most corrupt court system, most unethical attorney’s of any state in the Union.
Yesterday, I just got my weekly e-mail update from the Show Me the Spending Coalition from the National Taxpayers Union. The National Taxpayers Union couldn’t be anymore right as they highlighted Wisconsin as a national embarrassment for transparency in State Government. As this year unfolded, we have seen more scandals brew in state government that if Wisconsin was like Illinois, Minnesota, and Missouri which had transparency websites we would not have these problems.
“Out of respect for your elected position and as a personal courtesy to you, I will not post this as a public letter to the PPJ Gazette until Friday, next, allowing ample time for your response . . .”
You guessed it. I’ve had no response from Senator Gimse.
Yet.
Joe Gimse
Minnesota State Senator
Assistant Minority Leader
District 13
State Office Building, Room 105
St. Paul MN 55155-1206
Senator Gimse:
This is in response to your Monday, November 23, 2009 Email, subject: Call for Americans to stand for sanctity of life, marriage, and religious freedom.
I am sure you will excuse its length, given the three pages of unconstitutional crapola you dropped into my Email in-box this morning.
In it, you refer to a “…statement, called “the Manhattan Declaration,” (that) has been signed by more than 125 Catholic, Evangelical Christian, and Orthodox leaders, . . .” Now there is an Appeal to Authority if ever one has been made.
And who but a fool would argue with: “a 4,700-word declaration addressing the sanctity of life, traditional marriage, and religious liberty.”
It is that last part, about religious liberty, that concerns me. When will all of our government leaders – executive, judicial, and legislative – come to realize that the bedrock support for that “religious liberty” is spelled out in the Bill of Rights: Continue Reading »
“The actions of state agencies complicit with state elected officials, shows malice and forethought with the intent to benefit not only the state monetarily, but also specific corporations who also intend to benefit from the prosecutions. It is not as if they didn’t or don’t know what they are doing. This was planned and pre-meditated, and state officials and agencies in collusion with the USDA and corporate profiteers knew full well the harm they intended to inflict on the private property owners of the state and that these actions would drive many farmers and ranchers off their land and out of business. ”
It seems rather apparent with the extensive abuses of agency offices and personnel supported and encouraged by elected officials, even if only by their silence; their refusal to act on behalf of the citizens, and their obvious disregard for property and individual rights, maybe Wisconsin needs to clean house.
The oath of office taken by your elected government officials is a contract affirmed by oath. Under contract law, that oath has been breached by the various compacts, contracts, and entry into agreements, business plans and other instruments which are intended to cause harm to the citizens of the state of Wisconsin and the contract is now voided. Boot them out of office.
About the Selling of Fresh Milk
The recent offering of what is supposed to pass for a proposed bill to protect the right of Wisconsin dairy farms from further prosecution and persecution by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture and Consumer Protection (DATCP) would have been comical had it not been presented as a means to allow dairy farmers to trade freely what is known to be a wholesome and natural product: fresh milk.
The fact is, even if this limited proposal (as questionable as it is) had any legitimacy, it falls far short of what is desperately needed to reign in the activities of DATCP: an agency which has far exceeded any lawful or constitutional boundaries; yet not one state legislator has acknowledged the egregious activities this agency is engaged in against the sovereign citizens of the state. In fact, it was state and federal legislators who entered into cooperative agreements with the USDA, accepting millions on behalf of the state to implement USDA business plans that clearly violated not only state, but federal constitutions. Continue Reading »
“In June the White House created the IOPTF they should have named it WTF in my humble opinion. The Interagency Oceans Policy Task Force has now managed to somehow correlate, corroborate, and con triturate (in under 90 days at Presidential tasking) a policy that will sacrifice 1 million U.S. jobs and possibly restrict access of over 60 million yearly anglers to do what they love : Fish”
Herbert Hoover had it right when in 1963 he said “Fishing is a chance to wash one’s soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of sun on the blue water…. And it is discipline in the equality of man — for all men are equal before fish. ….” 60 Million Americans per year agree with him.
There are multitudes of stories in every whip cord thin flexible rod resting in the corner of our nations garages. Laughter, love and lies reside in each and every tackle box waiting to be dusted off before being passed to the next generation. Through tough days and tougher decades it has faithfully stood awaiting rediscovery.
Grandfathers to grandsons. Fathers to daughters. Retired Veterans to disabled Active Duty Military just looking for an hour or a day where the wounds they silently, painfully bear can blend into the background. During this now infamously “it’s so over” recession, some have turned to fishing to feed themselves. It also is an inexpensive alternative to therapy for those still waiting for the jobless recovery to go “Jobplus” recovery. Continue Reading »
Whenever some unelected bureaucracy is attempting to circumvent state or federal constitutional protections and rights, it is always done using some form of [co-operative agreement]. What this amounts to is a bribe paid to state officials. Usually these agencies, answerable to no one….(they all have rule-making (law-making) capabilities) are intending to pass laws which will violate civil liberties. The money, usually in the millions, is used to coerce elected officials at the state level into passing what would otherwise be untenable. Continue Reading »
Copyright (C) 2009 Marti Oakley All rights resrved without exception
This is a public announcement of a premeditated assault on property owners in violation of the Wisconsin Constitution and individual property rights made by Donna Gibson on behalf of Wisconsin DATCP (Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection) in an interview with AgriView.
Why is no one pressing charges against her and other DATCP personnel and officials for making public threats and plans of harm to sovereign property owners in the state?
On October 21, 2009 in Wisconsin Circuit Court, Polk County, Judge Molly E. Galewyrick found Pat & Melissa Monchilovich guilty of failure to register premises. During that court proceeding and under oath, DATCP representatives admitted the program was not of benefit and probably never would be. Still, DATCP seems quite proud of their targeting of this family, and their subsequent threats to target others in Wisconsin.
In my opinion, this is nothing less than a threat of intended harm and the use of coercion and duress to force compliance to what is nothing more than an assault on private property rights perpetrated by state officials in violation of their offices and in violation of the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin. It would appear that state officials launching these attacks on property owners are not aware that Wisconsin has such a document or that they are bound to work within its scope and limitations. Continue Reading »
It appears a newly announced meeting has been scheduled for Wisconsin dairy farmers, with Wisconsin, Department of Agriculture ,Trade and Consumer Protection” also known as DATCP.
I have this odd feeling that DATCP actually stands for “Department of Agricultural Terrorists, Corruption and Politics”; but that’s just what I think. I could be totally wrong. Continue Reading »
Evil is as strong a word as one can use. It is not a word I, or anyone else should use lightly. I have avoided it a long time in this situation — hoping against hope — that Steve Ingham, Cheryl Daniels, Tom Lietzke & Jackie Owens would find “better data” — reconsider their position — and what it means to Wisconsin — and find a way to work more sensibly.
They have not, they will not, and they have to go, period.
They understand what they do — and they, with purpose and malice misrepresent the Raw Milk situation — while it is in their professional responsibility to understand the situation and make sensible decisions — if it is for the benefit of the whole of Wisconsin, rather than whatever personal agenda they might have.
In this situation — and others like it — most especially as it relates to dairy farmers — it is about the application of unfettered — unobserved — power over good people in order to exterminate their will and desire to survive and grow. Why dairy farmers? Because they can. The bully bullies those they can — not those that can defend themselves.
Food Safety does not like me one tiny bit and has shown every indication that as I speak out and shine the light on them — they will find a way to silence me. Continue Reading »
It would appear earlier this year Rep. Ron Paul (R) Texas, introduced this simple bill into the record of the House. Here we are in Mid-November, eleven months later……and not one co-sponsor or any action has been taken on this bill. It is sitting idle in committee.
While this bill lies unaddressed, northeastern dairy producers and northern plain’s states producers are under attack by hostile corporate raiders with what would appear to be the full compliance and facilitation of state and federal legislators, along with unlawfully empowered unelected bureaucracies which operate as the enforcement agencies for corporate interests
I find it more than odd that not ONE legislator at the federal level in those states where private and independent dairy operations are under attack from instate agencies, has lent their prestigious names to this appeal for consumer choice, evidently opting instead to allow this assault on individual rights and freedom.
Corruption of government is never more apparent than when corporate pirates and raiders are invited to the table while the average citizen who will be adversely affected are kept out of the room.
Of all the bills scheduled for the November 18, 2009 Fake food Safety mark-up…….this bill is not included for debate. Go figure. _______________________________________
SPEECH OF
HON. RON PAUL
OF TEXAS
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2009
INTRODUCTION OF LEGISLATION ALLOWING INTERSTATE SHIPMENT OF UNPASTEURIZED MILK — (Extensions of Remarks – January 28, 2009) Continue Reading »
As I pointed out in an earlier article, the elite love to create seemingly opposed factions that, in fact, covertly support the same agenda. The Republicans vs the Democrats, for example. Continue Reading »
Wisconsin Independent Consumers and Farmers Association cordially invites you to our“Networking of Statewide Organizations Session” & “Current Issues Discussion and Educational Session”
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Dalton Town Hall
Dalton, Green Lake County, WI
10:00 a.m. – Networking of Statewide Organizations Session
12:00 p.m. – Break for Lunch
1:00 p.m. – Current Issues Discussion and Educational Session
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Please RSVP by 5 p.m., Wednesday, December 9, 2009
to Clifford J. Cordell at (715) 418-0424, or cj@wicfa.org, or by requesting an invitation from our event list on our Facebook page which is accessible from our website, www.wicfa.org, and then RSVP from that invitation.
I am offering my services as a speaker for the Constitution Party and to spread the word of what is happening to our freedoms. These are the matters that I am running for; to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States, and the Wisconsin state constitution, from all enemies …Foreign AND Domestic!
I am sending out letters of support to every one I know in the state. We have to let people know what our socialist government is doing and HAS been doing for a long time.
This isn’t the work of just one of the parties but of both of them. It’s all about power and greed. Our so called representatives get that by helping the friends in the BIG-FARM industry. We know where the campaign funds come from.
To quote :
”Raw milk is not inherently dangerous, as DATCP, the FDA and Big Ag would like you to believe. But, as with all foods, it’s how it’s produced that matters. We little guys pasture our animals, feed and treat them organically, and many of us use no grains. The Big Guys can’t do that. They confine their animals, pump them full of hormones and antibiotics, and feed them garbage – literally, like bakery waste and distillers grains (the stuff left over after producing alcohol or ethanol). That milk IS dangerous. Our isn’t. But as you can guess, it’s about control and monopolization.”
I consider this to be the real problem in our health care today; processed foods devoid of nutrition and filled with toxins resulting from industrialized corporate farming.
I am also mobilizing support for Pat and Melissa Monchilovich of Cumberland, WI. This too is wrong and is in direct violation of the state of Wisconsin Constitution, guaranteeing allodial property rights i.e., [absolute ownership. Not bound to render service to any other body or person.]
Premises ID is a contract conveying a change of title of ownership to the USDA acting as agent for the federal government. It is a contractual surrendering and abandonment of private property and the allodial property rights of the sovereign individual. A report on their case is found here.
I am putting up on my website a petition that people can fill out, so we
can present it in Max’s and the Monchilovichs’ cases. Please look for it
JACKASS ALERT # 9 EDITED WITH SOME REALLY IMPORTANT NEWS!
I just received an alert from what has become a somewhat infamous national organization; infamous for its lack of, well, almost anything that would matter. It is another of their “Action Alert!’s. (Oh! I’m so excited!)
Update:!!
Senator Kreitlow and Representative Danou
Co-Sponsorship of LRB 3242/3-Allowing the Sale of Raw Milk
“We are introducing legislation that would permit the sale of raw milk directly from Wisconsin farms in certain controlled conditions“
I cannot believe these public officials attached their names to this. As written or lifted from some old document…….this would effectively drive a large number of small producers out of business as a minimum requirement of 60 dairy cows would be necessary to engage in fresh milk sales to one of only three buyers who have cornered that market. (With a little help from their friends)
In any event if this bogus “proposal” that is being promoted as a possible draft of a bill were in fact a reality, it would be laughed out of the legislature. This “proposal” is not properly prepared and is simply a cleaned up version of the same thing posted to several sites after the last call to sit down and shut up went out on the March 11, 2009 to stifle any meaningful protest of DATCP unconstitutional actions and policies.
2009 BILL……is not a title. (we don’t know what it is: maybe you will be receiving a statement in the mail)
Your Wisconsin legislative period will end in May. This “proposal” is not properly formatted, titled, or showing any basis in law. Nor is it showing any author or who might possibly be promoting it. No legislator will even consider it in this form; at least not one who is on the level. (It just goes to show ya! Two just popped up!)
This “proposal” mysteriously appeared out of no where and is floating somewhere in the legislature with two new sponsors, no bill number and no one looked at this and realized it was worthless? And it occurs to me I saw this same thing about five or six years ago somewhere else. I’ll have to look into that.
Maybe someone might have been better off to look into the Sherman Act dealing with anti-trust. Monopolies are illegal. So are monopsony’s. Continue Reading »
Come and support Wisconsin’s small raw milk producers in Viroqua, Wisconsin. A Rally is planned on the Courthouse steps from 8:30 a.m. till 10:25 a.m.
This is the perfect opportunity to Network and meet some of your fellow producers. You can also learn more about current proposed Raw Milk legislation, Right to Farm, and Freedom from Regulation actions in the 4 state area.
After the Rally, the intention is to peacefully assemble inside the Courthouse. We hope to show as Ghandi stated “A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.” Your silent support during this time will allow the judicial community to see the true “Face of the People”.
A “Meet the Presenters” pot luck dinner will be held at the end of the day. Among those scheduled at this time to attend:
The proposed draft is inadequate in addressing the concerns of fresh milk producers throughout the state, and does not fall within the mission statement of this organization.
The proposed draft states no author, and is applicable to Grade A dairies only, a license that requires a contract with a milk processor as a predetermining factor, this forced contract is a violation of Federal Uniform Commercial Code as it manifests as coercion.
Furthermore some milk processing companies require exclusive contracts from their producers in direct violation of the Sherman Anti Trust Act.
The hundreds of small herd owners concerns are not addressed in any fashion in this proposal.
This proposal forwarded by an inclusive group known to advocate to the members not speaking to the press, not contacting anyone beyond their legislative area, not sharing information outside the group, in an effort to deny First Amendment freedoms.
These freedoms were bought with blood, and we will not dishonor those who have given their all to procure and defend them.
Further directives were issued to not have out of state individuals involved, and yet an out of state organization’s officials have been contacting legislators and DATCP officials without having registered as lobbyists in this state as required for anyone reimbursed by an organization in an amount of $500 or more. Those officials contacted have a burden as well to report these contacts and are complicit in this act.
Such is the murk and quagmire of politics in Madison.
Therefore the Wisconsin Independent Consumers and Farmers Assn. in an
effort to hold to a higher standard will be opposing the raw milk proposed
By: Lynn Swearingen All Rights reserved. No re-titling with intent to redirect or benefit. “ABC News Senior Medical Editor Dr. Richard Besser discussed this issue with ABC News’ Chris Cuomo on Monday’s “Good Morning America”. Besser noted that even if E. coli contamination is confirmed in a particular batch of meat, “[the company] can cook that meat and sell it in another product.” (emphasis added)”“Your Stomach’s Best Friend” Dr. David Acheson aka “Your Stomach’s Best Friend” according to the Wall Street Journal, sat down with the renowned Food Safety News interviewer Helena Bottemiller to explain how the new Food Safety Bills working their way through the Legislative Process are going to save the American Consumer from the small ignorant farmer Continue Reading »
If you were told an animal was “naturally raised,” what would you imagine that meant? Is it evidence that they wandered a field? Felt the touch of sunlight? Ate their normal diet? Well, no. At least, that’s not what it means if you see “naturally raised” on a package of meat. The USDA 
Copyright (C) 2009 Marti Oakley All rights resrved without exception
This is a public announcement of a premeditated assault on property owners in violation of the Wisconsin Constitution and individual property rights made by Donna Gibson on behalf of Wisconsin DATCP (Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection) in an interview with 
It appears a newly announced meeting has been scheduled for Wisconsin dairy farmers, with Wisconsin, Department of Agriculture ,Trade and Consumer Protection” also known as DATCP. 
By: Marti Oakley All rights reserved 
It would appear earlier this year Rep. Ron Paul (R) Texas, introduced this simple bill into the record of the House. Here we are in Mid-November, eleven months later……and not one co-sponsor or any action has been taken on this bill. It is sitting idle in committee. 
Marti Oakley
Dan Martin
Barbara Peterson
Gary Rea
Paul Griepentrog
