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"arminius" <richard norton@cybertrails.com> wrote in message 
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> "Bunn E. Rabbit" <bunnerabbit@verizon.net> wrote in message
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>> Here's my opinion on the matter:
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>> http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/7767/hunterbgone14rh.jpg
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>> Bunn E. Rabbit
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>> The National Animal Identification System is the bureaucrats' latest
>> grab for power
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>>  http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/silveira98lw.html
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>> You've always got to be on your toes these days to keep the government
>> from making a grab for ever more power over our personal lives. And
>> very often the power grab goes hand-in-hand with a deal the government
>> has made with big business. They always claim it's about protecting
>> "us." Ha, Ha! What a joke!
>>
>> The latest grab for power in order to protect "us" is called the
>> National Animal Identification System (NAIS). It's a system proposed
>> by agribusiness and embraced by the United States Department of
>> Agriculture (USDA) to track livestock in this country. It's supposed
>> to help keep terrorists from intentionally infecting our food supply,
>> and also protect us from things like avian flu, mad cow disease, and
>> whatever else they can think of as an excuse to implement it by the
>> target date of January, 2009-or earlier if they can continue on the
>> fast track they are on now.
>>
>> Here's how NAIS will operate. On the individual level, your home
>> (including your name, address, telephone number, and Global
>> Positioning Satellite coordinates) will have to be registered with the
>> Government. Your livestock-every fish, fowl, cow, hog, sheep, pigeon,
>> etc.-will have to be registered. Your animals may have to be
>> electronically tagged so they can be tracked by satellite. They may
>> also have to have blood drawn so they can be identified by their DNA.
>> They may even have to have retinal scans. Agribusinesses, promoters of
>> the system, will have it easier than the individual: they'll register
>> their stock in lots, i.e, one entry covers a herd.
>>
>> Who pays for all of this? The family raising a pig, cow, or flock of
>> laying hens for its own consumption must absorb the cost of compliance
>> themselves. Agribusiness gets to pass their costs on to the consumer.
>>
>> The NAIS is also meant to increase exports, something important to
>> agribusiness, but not so important to small farmers, homesteaders, or
>> people like you and me. Will it actually improve agribusiness exports?
>> Probably not. What will do that will be examining animals as they are
>> slaughtered and going to market, like the Europeans and Japanese
>> already do with a system they have perfected. It protects the public.
>> If protection of the public is required, the European and Japanese
>> systems have already shown us how to do it. The NAIS is just a power
>> grab by big Government.
>>
>> Government bureaucrats like to portray themselves as capable
>> organizations that can ride to the rescue of ordinary folks like us in
>> an emergency, like FEMA did-or, actually, didn't-during Hurricanes
>> Katrina and Rita. The "national herd" concept the USDA now embraces
>> does not bode well for those who like freedom.
>>
>> The NAIS will also turn your veterinarian into a spy. He will be
>> required to report you if you are not in compliance. And what if you
>> do fail to comply? Enforcing compliance is one of the things not
>> spelled out in detail yet. It's a bitter enough pill-the intrusions
>> into our lives, the cost, the corporate welfare-without discussing
>> penalties that will make it more difficult for average Americans to
>> swallow. But expect enforcement to be the way bureaucrats always
>> enforce laws: with threats of hefty fines, imprisonment, and seizure
>> of your property. And, if cited, don't expect to be brought before a
>> jury of your neighbors. Your freedoms will become subject to the
>> discretion of bureaucratic tribunals, similar to the IRS courts, the
>> DMV, zoning boards, etc.
>>
>> Who actually stands to benefit from this program? Not the public. It
>> will be agribusinesses and the high-tech companies that will provide
>> the tracking and identification systems that will be mandated. I'm not
>> antibusiness, but I am anti-business-in-bed-with-government.
>> Businesses, whether they're multibillion dollar corporations or a
>> mom-and-pop operation with a farm or laundromat, should prosper-or
>> die-based on their ability to provide a product or service the public
>> wants. They should not prosper because they've received government
>> handouts or favors. NAIS is out and out welfare of the worst kind. It
>> is a program to benefit large corporations and to expand bureaucratic
>> power.
>>
>> Who loses with NAIS? The consumer, the small farmer, the family who
>> wants to raise a few organic hens for eggs, even the 4-H kids-yeah,
>> even 4-H'ers will have to comply. And by increasing the burden on the
>> small producer, the NAIS will help destroy the small producer's
>> market, even when that market is a single family.
>>
>> NAIS is not a program that was proposed by consumer groups or voters.
>> It wasn't even run through Congress. It is, pure and simple, a naked
>> attempt to profit and increase power on the part of both corporations
>> and bureaucrats at the expense of small farmers and the public. It
>> will be run by agribusiness and it will be agribusiness who makes the
>> decisions as to what happens to small farmers and the consumers. You
>> will not have a say.
>>
>> The USDA, agribusinesses, and the tech companies involved in creating
>> the hardware and software for this tracking system are trying to move
>> fast on this. For them, the windfalls will be enormous, whether it's
>> expansion of bureaucratic power or big bucks. They have much to gain
>> by forcing it through. The small farmer, the rural family, and the
>> consumer have much to lose.
>>
>> There's still time to stop this. Call, e-mail, or write your
>> congressman and governor to protest it. You can usually find their
>> addresses and phone numbers in your local newspaper. Or on the Web you
>> can go to: www.house.gov/, www.senate.gov/, or
>> www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/govemail.html.
>>
>> Let's not let Government cancel our individual freedoms with phony
>> programs like NAIS
>>
>> Fed up with illegal immigration?
>> _____
>>
>> Forums to discuss news items of illegal immigration:
>>
>> http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/listarticles.cgi?117
>> http://www.saveourstate.org
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>> http://www.minutemanhq.com/hq/index.php
>>
>> Indexes breaking news of illegal immigration:
>>
>> http://idexer.com
>>
>> Other important links:
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>> http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frostyA.htm
>> http://www.rescuewithoutborders.org/index.html
>> http://www.americanpatrol.com/LINKS/LINKS.html
>> http://www.vdare.com/links.htm
>> http://fairus.org/
>> http://numbersusa.com/index
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>> _____
>>
>> "Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death
>> of a sparrow in the corner of a barn." -Anouk Aimee, French Actor
>> _____
>>
>> "Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny", Aeschylus (525BC-456BC),
>> Agamemnon
>> _____
>>
>> "I wear no Burka." - Mother Nature
>
> The biggest threat to the social fabric of America is the continuing flood
> of third world immigrants. And the "gummint" still fumbles in it's 
> pathetic
> attempt at controls.
>
> Hank
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I'll register my animals when they pry them from my cold, dead fingers.