Wisconsin, Indiana Premises Registration NAIS

Here is some sound advice for those of you who are going to be faced with forced, voluntary, premises registration in Indiana, because that starts very soon. It comes from an email exchange on one of the anti-NIAS Yahoo groups.

Unfortunately you are probably going to have to sign up until we get this thing killed nationally. If you do, here are a few suggestions. First, get the entire
document you are going to sign. Make sure there are no other pages, make sure there are no additions or other document referals when you read it. Ask the highest
authority you can that this is the only document, and that there are no attachments. You might even print something up and get them to sign it. If they are telling the truth, they should have no problem. If they refuse, then state their full name, possition, date, time and that they refused to veirify in writing that this is the only document and that it is complete.

Everywhere where it says, 'shareholder', you cross it out and put 'Animal Owner', in capitals! Everywhere it says 'national herd' you cross it out and put 'My Animals'.

Then you state at the bottom, just above your signature that you 'Absolutely retain all Rights and privelages under the Constitution. You waive no rights what so ever.' Where ever it says on the document that they will come onto your property to search or enforce compliance, you cross that out and say you retain your 4th Amendment rights, and that a warrant will be necessary for any and all searches or enforcements.

Then you absolutely state right above your signature that you are signing up under durress and against your will, and that this is illegal under the Constitution.
Imediately ask for or make a copy of this, and keep it in your records.

Tell everyone you know to do it this way. To sign under durress (sp) and against the Constitution, retaining all your Rights, may help in the future. I don't know, but we can try. Best of luck.

Greetings to the USDA NIAA APHIS

My blog has been scanned again by members of the USDA. I guess going to the NIAA ID EXPO 2006 put me on their radar.

Yes, I went to Kansas City, MO last week to see just what the USDA and cronies have in mind. The USDA means to tag every livestock animal in this country. It is a redundant plan being that there are already enough disease tracking systems in place. Why they think they can control disease is beyond my ken. Individually, the people who work for these agencies are just doing their jobs for the most part, but how do they look at their little children and not feel bad for what they are casting onto their futures? A brave new world with no farms, no petting zoos and poisoned food. Who will want to raise a few chickens, have a horse, or keep a llama if Big Brother is watching.

What alarms me is that NAIS is just one of who knows how many thousands of other programs that are being foisted on an asleep nation, run by a bunch of old cronies who stand to make a fortune with impunity. Don't get me wrong, I am all for capitalism, but greed has taken over in every sector. Who cares about us? Not any company that I can think of.

To read my daily report about my experience at the NIAA's Id Expo 2006, click your way here nonais.org.

And a note to USDA/APHIS/NIAA - I will not comply.

Smoke and Mirrors in Vermont

It looks so good in the paper and on TV: Steve Kerr, Agency of Agriculture Secretary, has put a hold on premises registration because of a sudden realization that information send to the USDA might not be kept confidential. Well, DUH!

But that is not what this is all about.

Let's look at the facts:

Steve Kerr is on record since before 1996 in strong favor of a full implementation of an animal tracking system.

Kerry Rood sits on the Animal Identification Committee for the NIAA.

Back in Feb. when the "memo" came out, the Agency listed their initiatives that included getting $214,000 from USDA to implement the full three prongs of NAIS. I like to imagine they were sitting around a big table kicking around ideas. The subject of how the farmers might take the program, someone says, "Those guys are so deep in manure that they won't know until we go knocking on doors telling them it's mandatory." And starting fining the crap out of those who won't comply.

In April the number of people who showed up in Montpelier to make their anti-NAIS comments was a surprise to the Agency. I remember Steve Kerr sitting in the hall outside of the chamber, stone faced, in the dark (as befitting his Dark Lord status).

The appropriations bill passed in May gave specific guidelines to the Agency with regard to holding educational outreach, which somehow morphed into public hearings, in each of Vermont's 14 counties. Their educational outreach is not that at all. It is the shabbiest attempt at propaganda, the State Vet and his cohorts have not been prepared to answer questions, it's just sad.

I think that the Agency plain old under estimated the intelligence of people. In other words, they were blind sided by the 30, 40, 50 or more people who turned out for the public hearings and totally unprepared for the backlash.

Being that elections are coming up and Steve Kerr's boss, Governor Douglas is up for re-election, they probably thought better of trying to ram NAIS down our throats until the legislature starts up again with the new members.

There is one thing that bothers me greatly right now. The Brattleboro Reformer had an article which said, in part:

“He (Kerr) said he wants to sever the link with the USDA, and create a separate Vermont database. At the end of the week the Agency of Agriculture will ask the USDA for a block of animal registration numbers so as not to mess up the countrywide standardized numbering system that ensures none are repeated, and speeds up the response time between states in the event of an outbreak.”

A block of animal registration numbers? I thought we were talking about "just premises registration".

See, smoke and mirrors.