NAIS~~ Slavery or a Civil Rights Issue?

by Darol Dickinson 6-22-09

Were the USDA sessions designed to decoy livestock and land owners from the real issues? Opposition to NAIS in the USDA listening sessions is over 95% against it. The violent hate displayed toward USDA is almost unbelievable? What has the USDA done to make the world's most peaceful and productive farmers explode into battle mode? Obviously apparent is the depth of farmers' desperation about NAIS.

The listening sessions are running their course. Farmers want to know "What now?" Will livestock owners who testified opposing NAIS have any voice in totally killing it? If NAIS is rejected by the feds, will it dump train loads of congressional egg-on-the-face of USDA? Is it now just a USDA ego thing? They have spent over $150,000,000 and the pig won't fly.

I've taken "loss of freedom" as an expression of outrage at the bureaucratizing of farming, or a way of talking about huge governmental overreach, or the use of conservative or libertarian language to describe loss of personal, democratic or constitutional rights.

I was in the midst of trying to convey why the effort to stop the bills in Congress now (and still coming) must be centrally focused on farmers themselves and not on other people's food, when I found myself saying, "Is this about farm slavery?" Is NAIS dead and so-called food safety laws ready to replace it with an even more serious enforcement?

Given that an obvious form of enslavement is at stake, it's reasonable for farmers to seek reassurance that no accidental acceptance of any portion of the food safety bills will happen?

It was only after writing this that I was jerked up by my own words and suddenly experienced them as neither symbolic nor hyperbole. It struck me then that we are in fact looking at a cold-blooded new form of slavery.

I have always assumed that slavery was an historic event which we have rejected. I see our cultural repulsion at continuing forms of slavery as a sign of civilization having learned lessons about slavery and being committed now to stopping it in every form wherever it still exists.

So, it was not easy to recognize that so called food safety bills being introduced are an actual form of enslavement of a whole class of people. What other word would people use to describe controls imposed on people that define work they must perform, computer entries to be recorded daily, down to the most extreme detail, or suffer penalties as high as $500,000 and ten years in prison for mere infractions?

USDA lists 33 NAIS species for possible disease communications. Although people are a major carrier of TB, horses and 32 other species will not escape entrapment just because it is labeled "food safety."

I've been writing variations on those words for sometime. Why did it take so long for the light to dawn? NAIS is more than bad, it is more than terrible, it is more than insane - it is astoundingly immoral. It is truly slavery. We hear the "white shirted" USDA posturing on safe food, traceability, world trade, and pandemic fear. These flawed theories must be replaced with facts of reality and the retch and torture of NAIS enslavement for every farm family.

Along with NAIS comes "best farming practices" which would force a person on their own land to feed their own animals what the government determines, to treat them medically as the government decrees, to chemically spray the land as, and when, and with what the government orders.

Perhaps if it were only applied to one aspect of someone's life, it might be called tyranny. What is being proposed comes down on farmers where they live and on what they do and on all they own and on what defines them as people, it is deeper than "mere" tyranny. It is theft of all meaning and reduction to operating against one's will, against one's knowledge, against one's land, against one's animals, against one's needs, against one's being and against one's generational heritage.

We are used to seeing things in a familiar shape - slavery as a black man in forced labor, imperialism as foreigners on someone else's soil and ruling by guns and fiat. So, it is easy to be fooled to believe that what is happening in agriculture is no relation to this. Today's new master, globalization, is a result of our elected officials giving away OUR rights without getting OUR permission. As NAIS can, may and hopefully will die, now the same enemy to freedom and American farm food production is already planned to choke the same people with a ¹Pennyroyal cure.

USDA knew by their own numerous polls, years ago, that if the "paying ones" were allowed a voice, NAIS would meet it's Grim Reaper.

As they knew the end of NAIS was only about letting the peasants speak, Machiavellian pawns like Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro and Collin Peterson were inking HR2749, with their ²co-verdugos. Under the facade of fake "food safety" it is unbelievably more vicious than NAIS. Using the words "trace of food" therein is the hidden, polished over, nasty head of an NAIS. As smells of the Patriot Act and an "emergency declaration" which USDA could declare, NAIS plus more could be enforced.

DeLauro and Peterson are "vultures of a feather." They will do nothing that would stop or slow down mandatory NAIS implementation. Any red herring they toss the media will be a faustian impulse, and any budget cut will be accidental or fungible. NAIS is also camouflaged in HR 875, HR759, HR814, HR1332, S425, S510 and numerous other proposed enslavements. NAIS is clearly illustrated in HR814, and broad government code words like "non specific" "all foods" "transport of all foods" is where the other traps are set.

Shall we strip away our familiar templates and recognize that their fake "food safety" bills are just pestiferous deceptions. We are looking at multinational corporations as true totalitarian masters actually setting up to take over the land from farmers and control them as thoroughly as slaves were ever controlled, threatening their lives and all they hold dear if they do not obey. But it has been such a slick thing how these masters of "campaign donations" present themselves - in boardrooms, with our financially thirsty bureaucrats and politicians, running our agencies, in our courts, in science laboratories - that we miss the brutal, ugly, cruel, immoral reality----it is a plan for all-out farm slavery!

DeLauro, who has never profitably bought sold or owned a single head of the 33 targeted species recently described the over 3,000,000 US livestock owners who refuse to surrender to NAIS as, "fool hearted" and "misinformed."

Take action now with your elected employees. Although totally novice, their desire to regulate and rule US livestock producers is as real as a snake bite!

www.naisSTINKS.com

¹The Pennyroyal herb is a well-known abortificant which causes the uterine muscles to contract. It was successfully used in early America by whores to abort. Was mostly discontinued due to the frequent death of the user.

²Verdugo - Spanish - executioner (de preso); hangman (que ahorca)

NAIS ~~ over estimated, over promised, over budget, unnecessary, unneeded and unwanted.

Brad Headtel

The NAIS is a years-old concept that has outlived its time and fails to recognize that economic instability is our greatest national hazard, not, if all the animals have a government number.

Mary--Fireworks Farm, CA.

NAIS is not a direct ban on meat or chicken or goat meat or ... but a slow, complex legal threat entailing loss of more and more control and then of isolated bankruptcy or of just giving up farming or ranching completely.

Linn Cohen-Cole, 2008

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State
(Source: New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973)

Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.

Brad Headtel-------On Bruce (USDA) Knight's pandemic projections
of national livestock catastrophic die-offs.

Bureaucracy never sleeps.

Neil Young

Makes ranchers paw the dirt----like a bull looking forward to the virtues of castration.

on NAIS-------Brad Headtel

Only Jesus loves the stupid. As He looks closer toward the DC Beltway------it's an ever increasing stretch.

Brad Headtel

You are known by the low morals of the bureaucrats you tolerate.

Brad Headtel

Phony science begets phony public policy.

Walter Williams

NAIS~~~~ Mother of all unnecessary federal job creation schemes.

Brad Headtel

The issue is not the issue. Who decides the issue is the issue. If you decide the issue you are a free man. If a politician decides the issue you can un-elect him, but if a bureaucrat decides the issues you are his pawn and practically without recourse.

Harold Hockstatter

It is sad that here in the United States of America we must fight our government to protect our own rights, but fight I will.

 Jerry Fennell--From "Shattered Dreams"

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

On NAIS -- H.L. Mencken

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it..

Adolf Hitler

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

Robert Heinlein

If a government program is not worth doing at all,   it is not worth doing well.

...on NAIS - Brad Headtel

Communism ~~ the government owns the means and method of production.  In fascism the government controls the means and method of production.

We're not happy until you're not happy...

USDA official on the Westland/Hallmark Meat recall of Feb. 17, 08

NAIS is one of those issues that everyone wishes never became an issue. It is a genie that will not go back in the bottle.

Troy Marshall, Seed Stock Digest, 1/7/08

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

on the NAIS program..... - Frederick Douglass

We're out here branding cattle, worrying about our best horse going blind, when all of a sudden the USDA is working at mach speed filling our saddle bags with heavy NAIS rocks.

Michelle Reid

....NAIS matters less than flea sweat.
....producer interest in NAIS is less robust than a paper pig in a barbeque pit.

Wes Ishmael, Contributing editor,
BEEF Magazine, Dec. 2007

I work day and night to prevent NAIS!

This is the first time in my life I have had the opportunity to save billions of dollars of wasted government tax for my fellow livestock producers all over the nation. As it was said about Queen Esther of old, from the great palace of Shushan, '...who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this.?'

I feel the NAIS program, as planned, will embezzle from 10 to 60% of the profit from every livestock producer, and that is not an acceptable price to pay for a naive USDA concern about future unknown or previously eradicated diseases.
Every consumer or livestock owner should spend full time to prevent the enforcement of this cost to our nation.

Darol Dickinson

NAIS will not be mandatory under my tenure. I repeat will not!

Mike Johanns on mandatory National Animal Identification Surrender.
Sec. of Agriculture Mike Johanns quit the job two months later.

NAIS will put Livestock owners under closer surveillance than terrorists, illegals aliens, drug dealers, and convicted sex offenders/child molesters. Currently, only convicted sex offenders/child molesters have to register their premises.

BSE, bovine spongiform encephalopathy takes five to seven years to develop. It's not actually a disease that you have to rush to trace. You can take about all the time you need. What you want to do is prevent it in the first place.

Reno, Nev. --- 11/29/07 Jay Truitt          
NCBA VP for governmental affairs,
on the USDA proposed 48 hour
emergency disease trace back.

Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gunna happen.

Will Rogers . . . . on NAIS

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.

Mark Twain

What this country needs are more unemployed bureaucrats.

Edward Langley

Each time we give up information about ourselves to the government, we give up some of our freedom. The more the government or any institution knows about us, the more power it has over us. When the government knows all of our private information, we stand naked before official power; stripped of our privacy, we lose our rights and privileges. The Bill of Rights then becomes just so many words.

Senator Sam Ervin, June 1974.

The USDA is a run away agency out of control, with total disregard for U.S. citizens, yet full regard for other countries and free trade at all costs.

Dr. Max Thornsberry, President R-CALF USA

NAIS . . . a program that somewhat resembles an expensive plan to use baseball bats to kill mosquitoes . . . when we haven't found the mosquito---and the plan was proposed by a bat manufacturer.

NAIS . . . when freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a fake front for the urge to rule.

H.L. Menchen

Is the USDA run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it?

NAIS is like a fat man in a swim suit - you may not appreciate what you see, but what isn't revealed is even more fearful.

NAIS Employee -- Never argue with a person whose job depends on not being convinced.

Remember - A major animal disease outbreak to a State Veterinarian is like a multi-car wreck to an auto body shop.

NAIS is the very model of how an unresponsive Executive Branch agency can cooperate with a globalist industrial agriculture and a technocratic corporate elite to force an undesired program upon an unwilling populace.

Mary Zanoni

NAIS press releases from USDA could present caviar in such a light we want to run from it like a falling meteorite.

Many associations embrace the NAIS because their paid leadership does so, regardless of what their members truly want.

Marida Favia delCore Borromeo

On NAIS - If USDA comes up with a stupid idea -- If Congress votes to fund it -- If 296,000,000 taxpayers write the check -- I'm sorry, it's still a stupid idea.

NAIS is a disease masquerading as its own cure.

NAIS is the result of looking for trouble, not finding it anywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying costly incorrect remedies.

As the government is doing wrong to us, like with NAIS, you gotta know they are doing wrong to people all over the world, right?  Why do all these countries hate the USA?

Linn Cohen-Cole

Once government gets its hands on new power, it is never relinquished.

Henry  Lamb ~~~ Sovereignty International