NAIS ~~~~ Death in the rural USA

www.naisSTINKS.com

by Darol Dickinson 6-29-09

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Over 1000 livestock producer’s businesses die each month in the USA. Many of these family farms and ranches have survived the great depression and weathered the droughts and blizzards. Today a different storm of a political nature is planning to deal the death blows.

Rep. DeLauro…..please go away

  Holy vultures!  I just listened in to this interview by DeLauro on this Agri-pulse site.  It occurs to me the people running that outfit believe the same things DeLauro and a bunch of these other fascists believe…..they think we are all too stupid to figure out what they are up to.

Don’t we have some kind of laws to protect us from these people?  Who the heck is in charge here?  Us? Them?  Seems only the Dark Shadow knows for sure!

Gave myself nightmares last night by reading through HR 875……DeLauro’s pet project.  Whose side is that woman on?  Then, in what had to be some subconscious act of masochism…..I read the new Dingel/Waxman bill HR 2749.  The only question that came to mind was, “Why do these people hate us and our country so much???”

As someone far more knowledgeable than me said once upon a time…………”I have seen sh** loaded on wagons, spread on fields and shoveled out of barns and I always knew I was looking at sh**.”  

I feel the same way……I knew reading through those bills I was looking at huge mountainous, steaming, reeking piles of sh**. 

I can only wonder now……do we actually pay these people to do this stuff to us? 

Glenda O

Rosa DeLauro……A staged interview on Agri-pulse

http://www.agri-pulse.com/OpenMicReplay.asp

Scroll to the bottom of the page to hear DeLauro in her canned interview at the above listed link.

“We have an opportunity with this bill…….”  says Rosa DeLauro

NAIS temporarily unfunded while USDA plans next assault

It almost sounds too good to be true, probably because it is just a temporary  stall out in the planned National Identification System (NAIS).  DeLauro of Connecticut who helped pen the infamous HR 875 Food Traceability Everywhere Act of 2009, has removed funding for NAIS sighting a failure on the part of USDA to sell the gestapo law to farmers and ranchers who it turns out, are not quite as stupid and gullible as many thought. 

Don’t get excited and think you’ve won the battle.  This is a temporary stumbling block on the road to codifying into US law the Codex Alimentarius.  USDA and congress has until December 31, 2009 to come into full compliance with CODEX and these laws which are constitutional violations on both the state and federal level are meant to make legal these assaults on freedom and soveriengty.

While DeLauro stalls for time, USDA continues to promote its talking points by saying that almost 1/3 of farms and ranches are already voluntarily signed up.  The truth is only about 8% are, and many of them were signed up unknowingly.  USDA also needs time to fall back and regroup and plan its next attempted coup on American agriculture. 

Here’s what I believe we are in for:

Sometime in the next few months I believe a planned attack on the US food supply will occur as a result of USDA actions.  In my opinion, I believe USDA will stage a contaminated food attack which will be used much as 9/11 was to frighten people into complying with forfeiting even more of their rights and which will be the catalyst for forcing us into NAIS.

I could be wrong……but I bet I’m not. 

Marti Oakley 

 

Rep. DeLauro: Ever hear of the US Constitution?

New York v. United States, 505 U.S. 144 (1992)?

State officials thus cannot consent to the enlargement of the powers of Congress beyond those enumerated in the Constitution.” (emphasis added) Justice O’Connor delivered the opinion of the Court

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Dear Representative DeLauro:

I live in the United States.  Not the Washington D.C. Corporate zone, but in the sovereign state of Minnesota in the sovereign United States.  You may be unfamiliar with that and the subsequent documents that establish not only my personal rights, but which also limit the reach of government, but then again, maybe not.  Its apparent you live in some other part of the world where individual liberties and rights are not a consideration; a place where police state conditions are not only accepted but, encouraged. 

I just read the bill you authored H.R. 875 and am left wondering just who it is you work for and where it is you live? 

Having printed off and actually reading your bill, I see that there are massive and extremely punitive punishments and fines for non-specific violators most of which would be leveled against small and independent producers, family farms and non-corporate operations.  In other words, you did not site specifically just who would be subject to these police state actions, nor did you specify who would possibly be exempt….like maybe small independent and family farmers and herders who aren’t the cause of the known food borne illnesses. 

I also noted that exemptions are provided for foreign importers such as China; a known source of contaminated foods, medicines and other products.  For the life of me I can not figure out why you would provide an exemption for countries that have consistently shown their disregard for the US consumer.

I couldn’t help note that in Sec. 406 you state:

In any action to enforce the requirements of the food safety law, the connection with interstate commerce required for jurisdiction shall be presumed to exist.

This section says a whole lot in a very few words.  Any actions, enforcement, requirements, with regards to an assumed (not presumed) connection to food safety laws; in other words you can just assume interstate commerce is involved and claim jurisdiction.  That kind of blows away the “this isn’t going to affect farmers markets, home gardens, etc., doesn’t it?  It seems to me if [interstate commerce] is going to be assumed to exist in any attempts to enforce this new food policing law, anyone who produces, buys, or otherwise touches food from any source is by your definition and planned targeting, already engaged in [interstate commerce] and by extension and without any evidence needed, guilty.

Question:  Would this apply to Monsanto?

Your bill goes on to say that there will be no judicial review allowed, even to determine the validity of the charges that may be levied against an individual. 

See, that’s where the difference in where you live and where I live comes in.  Where I live the Constitution says that I have a right to due process and to habeas corpus.  I’m sure you’re confused here.  This simply means that I have a right to know who accuses me and the accuser must produce the evidence, and that no warrants shall issue unless the person requesting the warrant can show probable or reasonable cause.  So your “no judicial review even to establish the validity of the charges” won’t fly here where I live.  We don’t do things that way. 

Also (and this will surely come as a shock to you) your bill establishes an Administrator with dictatorial powers and creates another unmanageable and corruptible bureaucracy in an already bloated federal system.  We already have two very dysfunctional agencies that are supposed to be guarding the public health and safety in the areas of food safety and also drug safety.  These two agencies, the USDA and FDA have been so corrupted by corporate influence and money, neither serves the public interest or trust and have not for many years.  Yet along with corporate influence, taxpayers are forced to contribute to both.  Where the heck is all that money going?

I am assuming you are not aware of the fact that simply because an oppressive bill of this kind could be submitted to our Congress, it does not necessarily mean it is legal or constitutionally permitted.  (I can’t imagine what kind of crap you get away with where you live).  Here in the US, a Supreme Court Justice rendered her opinion on this very matter.  You might find this interesting and possibly something you should be cautious of should your country of residence ever adopt a Constitution.

Do you agree with the findings of the U.S. Supreme court in  New York v. United States, 505 U.S. 144 (1992)?

(Page 133) Justice O’Connor delivered the opinion of the Court.

“Just as the separation and independence of the coordinate Branches of the Federal Government serves to prevent the accumulation of excessive power in any one Branch, a healthy balance of power between the States and the Federal Government will reduce the risk of tyranny and abuse from either front.

Where Congress exceeds its authority relative to the States, therefore, the departure from the constitutional plan cannot be ratified by the “consent” of state officials. An analogy to the separation of powers among the Branches of the Federal Government clarifies this point.  The Constitution’s division of power among the three branches is violated.  where one Branch invades the territory of another, whether or not the encroached upon Branch approves the encroachment….

The constitutional authority of Congress cannot be expanded by the “consent” of the governmental unit whose domain is thereby narrowed, whether that unit is the Executive Branch or the States.

State officials thus cannot consent to the enlargement of the   powers of Congress beyond those enumerated in the Constitution.”  (emphasis added)

What this should convey to you Ms. DeLauro, is that here in the US the congress cannot simply take it upon itself to foist illegal, oppressive, and unconstitutional laws onto the various States that comprise the sovereign United States.  It also means that state governments cannot arbitrarily subject the state or its people to an expansion of federal government outside the provisions set out in the Constitution by agreeing to that expansion. 

I know you must think your new [food safety] bill would effectively end any states rights and finally establish a centralized, industrialized agricultural system which would benefit all those corporations you seem to be so fond of, but we can’t let that happen here.  We’ve seen the affects of industrialized corporate agriculture in poorer nations where millions have been made destitute and left starving as a result.  Thanks, but no thanks. 

If you ever tire of the police state you live in and decide its not all you envisioned; if you yearn for freedom…..please feel free to immigrate to the US.  We have a very liberal immigration policy.  In fact, you can even avoid all the pesky red tape that results from applying for immigration and just run our southern border.  Its wide open and millions have successfully crossed it without penalty. 

Sincerely,

Marti Oakley

(C)2009

DeLauro can’t hear anyone but big AG as she tries to force NAIS and fake food safety bills

YUPFARMING

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Rosa DeLauro, no friend of farmers, is tired of their “foot dragging”

http://yupfarming.blogspot.com/2009/04/rosa-delauro-no-friend-of-farmers-is.html

 

Rosa DeLauro who receives one of the largest amounts of money from Agribusiness of anyone in Congress, said “in a phone interview on Tuesday that she has “lost patience for a voluntary system that has registered only 35 percent of U.S. Livestock facilities over five years and received $142 million in funding.” [From the AP]

The actual number is less than 10% . But even with the USDA inflating the number 3 and 1/2 times, it’s still obvious small farmers who are already threatened in this country, don’t want it.

 

As a self-described progressive who claims to care about small farmers, has it occurred to her to listen to what farmers want and need for themselves?  Has she noticed that farmers across the country detest and fear NAIS?  Has she seen that they feel this to such a degree that they have created anti-NAIS chapters in every state?  

 

Is she aware they have been asking the USDA for clarification many times over those same five years, over whether Premises ID portion of NAIS is actually a take over of their farmland?  Is she aware that Emmanuel Miller, an Amish man in Wisconsin where there is a religious exemption written into the law, is still being sued for not signing on?  

Is she aware that the Organic Consumers Association and its 850,000 progressive members are strongly opposed to NAIS, and with sane and sound reasons the video describes, as opposed to the “lunatic ” program Jim Hightower, the former Texas Commissioner of Agriculture, calls NAIS.  

“We are tired of the foot-dragging on this issue,” said DeLauro, a Connecticut Democrat. “We need to move forward on this.”

Who is the “we,” Ms. Delauro refers to?  Monsanto?  Tysons?  Cargill?  ADM?  All of whom were part of devising the program through their corporate association known as the National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA)?

Certainly not the small farmers in this country who have been working desperately for the last five years to fend off NAIS, a program they see clearly will crush them.  

Whom does Ms. DeLauro represent when she says “we”?  On whose behalf is she so openly disgusted with farmers who are doing all they can to save their farms and livelihoods and in some cases, lives, by NOT signing on?  

It doesn’t take a lot to see that if the government has thrown millions into forcing them onto NAIS and still they are resisting, something must be very wrong with the program.  (And why was that money not spent on USDA inspectors who are in such short supply that inspectors call the job “just a joke” ?)  

The Premises ID portion, which is supposed to be about tracking animals back to farms in case of animal disease, for some reason includes mapping global coordinates of the farmers’ land.  Why?  They have addresses.  They can be found.  How is the size and shape of land related to locating anyone?  Even if a farmer (or any of us) owns only a single chicken, they are supposed to sign on.  And if they get rid of the chicken, the land remains recorded … within a corporate data bank … which is being held outside the country in Canada … where the Freedom of Information Act can’t access it.  

Ms. DeLauro, what is really involved here?  “Premises” is an international term which appears to change a farmer from an “owner” to a mere “stake holder” in his own land.  Farmers have sent many, many formal requests to Bush’s USDA and Obama’s and cannot get an answer.  They fear their land is being taken using animal disease as a cover.  Until farmers have a guarantee they are not being forced onto a contract that steals their land out of from under them, what do you expect them do besides foot drag?  

Even urban people are buying chickens to raise for eggs – whether because of economic collapse, or out of the pleasure of learning about farming.  Do you really expect us all to be trapped onto NAIS, to face fines of up to a million dollars a day and ten years in prison for not recording every move a child makes with their new chick by taking it off the “premise” to “co-mingle” with the kitten next door as the child shows a friend?  Do you expect us all to be subject to prison terms for not recording a trip to school with a duck for show and tell?  Do you expect us all to have our property mapped into a corporate data bank, coordinates taken of it, and easements put on our land to allow for warrantless government entry (all part of NAIS and Premises ID) because we get a bunny?  

This country is facing collapse.  We need our farmers.  Industrial food in increasingly dangerous.  We need our farmers.  We don’t want genetically engineered food.  We need our farmers.

How can you call yourself a progressive and treat our farmers as you are doing, forcing them onto a program that Michael Pollan says flat out, will destroy them?  

“Instead of seizing on these threats as a reason to decentralize our food supply, the government is bringing in more regulation and technology. 

 

 

Progressive senators are proposing that we begin to regulate farms the way we regulate meat plants. That will put small farms out of business. So you see what happens as industrial agriculture fails and sickens us. The solutions promote more industrialization of agriculture. 

A progressive is supposed to stand with the little guy against corporations, not take money from Agribusiness and wipe out the small farmer.  A progressive is supposed to protect threatened classes of people like our farmers.  A progressive is supposed to defend our environment from pesticides and GMOs and CAFOs.  

Those of us who have looked even cursorily into NAIS don’t buy the nonsense about animal disease protection – especially not when the USDA is ready to let in animals from countries where there is active disease and it being farmers trying to stop that.  In fact, in Asia, animal diseases caused by multinational agribusiness is being used to eliminate small farmers’ normal animal stocks so genetically engineered ones can be substituted .  We don’t want that to happen here though the FDA appears to be setting up for it .

Ms. DeLauro, the reality is that true progressives, conservative farmers, liberal organic farmers, foodies, lovers of farmers and farmers markets, and all those who care about animals and recognize our small farmers are the ones protecting our biodiversity in animals, don’t want NAIS. 

You are pushing a plan that it a clear threat to our small farmers, while criticizing them for not marching faster to their demise.  

Instead, have sympathy for why they are balking and join the rest of us in getting rid of NAIS entirely.  

You’ll have farmers’ undying gratitude.  And our thanks for saving their lives, and with them and their clean food and normal animals, all of our lives and future.  

 

 

 

 

Posted by yupfarming at 2:31 AM

Monsanto’s Dream Bill, HR 875

From http://www.farmwars.info.com

Barbara H. Peterson on March 9th, 2009

By Linn Cohen-Cole

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To begin reversing GM contamination will require ending the power biotech companies such as Monsanto exert over our government and through that, over our food.  HR 875 was introduced by Rosa DeLauro whose husband Stanley Greenburg works for Monsanto.The bill is monstrous on level after level – the power it  would give to Monsanto, the criminalization of seed banking, the prison terms and confiscatory fines for farmers, the 24 hours GPS tracking of their animals, the easements on their property to allow for warrantless government entry, the stripping away of their property rights, the imposition by the filthy, greedy industrial side of anti-farming international “industrial” standards to independent farms – the only part of our food system that still works, the planned elimination of farmers through all these means.  The corporations want the land, they want more intensive industrialization, they want the end of normal animals so they can substitute patented genetically engineered ones they own, they want the end of normal seeds and thus of seed banking by farmers or individuals. They want control over all seeds, animals, water, and land. Our farmers are good stewards.  That is who is threatened by Rosa DeLauro’s bill (and because of that, we all are).  At a time in this country when wise stewardship and the production of anything real – especially good food – is what is most needed, it is our best stewards whom Rosa DeLauro threatens, under the cruelly false name of “food safety.” READ MORE