Feds Back Off Mandatory Livestock Registration – For Now
December 1st, 2006Good news? Maybe. Maybe not. My guess is that this will be back with a vengeance, and slammed through VERY fast under the guise of an “emergency”. The system will be up and running on a voluntary basis. After the “emergency” it’s just a flick of the president’s pen to make it mandatory.
The hissing, snarling fascists tell Americans that they don’t have to microchip their chickens and it seems like a great victory. Meanwhile, the government has been secretly assigning threat index scores to all travelers entering and leaving the United States! But, again, you don’t have to microchip your chickens. For now…
This is the state of things now. These are the little glimmers of hope that people grasp for when they live under diabolical regimes:
The Bush administration is abandoning plans to make farmers and ranchers register their cows, pigs and chickens in a nationwide database intended to help limit disease outbreaks.
Faced with widespread opposition, the Agriculture Department said Wednesday the animal tracking program should remain voluntary.
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It’s likely family farmers concerned about animal identification will remain leery, rural Mountain Grove resident Doreen Hannes said.
Hannes, who helped organize a session at a local livestock auction earlier this year to discuss the proposal, said she wants to see how “voluntary” is defined before letting her guard down.
“The real key here is the word voluntary has to be defined,” said Hannes, who raise goats on her family’s small farm.
Even if the department says it is for voluntary participation, it’s possible there will be so much pressure on family farmers that a voluntary program causes the same disruption as a mandatory program, she said.
Research Credit: MM
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/11/30/traveler.screening.ap/index.html
That’s another link to the tracking travelers thing. I can envision it already:
“Sir, we’ve got another vegetarian on our hands, in Seat 33J on New York – London flight. What shoul we do sir?”
“Arrest him. Them there veggetarians are all hippie pinko terrist sympathizers!”
“But Sir, what do we charge him with.. his only crime being he has vegetarian meal preferences and he’s on a flight overseas?”
“Doesn’t matter! Do as I say, now!! We’ll arrest him now, worry about making up something to charge him with later. That’s an order, go do it now!”
“Yes, my dear overlord, I’ll be on my way”
🙂
IT’S A GODDAMMED MAGIC 8 BALL! _____ <-- Fill in the blank with what that thing says about any of us.
Travel Restrictions
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061201/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/traveler_screening_7
ack, forgot to add comment.
My suspicion is that the database is a query from a much larger, personal profile database, that can be used in a myriad of ways.
Certain information related to travel profile can be culled and labeled “propensity for terrorism”, when what it means is propensity for *travel-related* terrorism.
Another query could cull data They consider propensity for domestic terrorism, propensity to vote, to vote republican/democrat, propensity to shop, repay loans … a ton of ways to slice and dice How You Behave.
That database would be quite lucrative to a number of donors to elected officials. Thus, it would be useful for an official to use every resource of the government to compile it, and start shopping it around.
We have strong reason to believe that this database is *not* limited to travelers.
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the survivalacres pic top right send me to a 403-forbidden page. is that the way it should be ?
[…] Stories like this reinforce the nagging fear I have that Peak Oil just isn’t going to be the kill shot that many of us think it’s going to be. Don’t get me wrong, Peak Oil seems real to me (if engineered to happen), and my wife and I are using hand tools to accomplish as much of the work that we do as possible. But, more and more, it’s going to be clean, green fascism, with the alternative energy buildouts taking on maco scale proportions, “sustainable” Walmarts and industrial-organic pHood. And we won’t even have to put microchips in our chickens, for now! Ahh, freedom! […]