Hello:)

I was hoping to hear your view point Kathryn. We hear quite a lot from Australia that is negative about your NAISystem, NLIS. Ghosts in the system sort of stuff, increased consumer costs.

May I inquire as to the size and scope of your operation in terms of head? Are you hobbyists, or large producers, or homesteaders, that sort of thing.

Having been too busy to study NLIS, what with our troubles here, I am not competent to comment on the rules you must live by.

But, I do know this is a system going into place world wide and American is the last major stop in the developed world. I know there are int'l reciprocal elements in the various applicable treaties that are the origins of these systems. Meaning if US standards/technological expectations increase, then you Aussies will have to match us in order to remain trading partners and so on. A nice reasonable sounding methodology to turn the wrench.

What is obvious about our NAISystem is that the only impact it will have on the US's current trace back systems is that the costs will increase substainially without any health and safety improvement whatsoever. And that, for the small producers and homesteaders and backyard growers and hobbyists the system will force many to give up their horse and summer pig and their pet ducks(YOU BASTARDS).

I don't know about NLIS, but if our NAIS rules come into existence, there are 14 reporting points one must make to our gov, within 24 hours of the event. (These rules do not apply to the factory farms.) And that includes such mundane happenings as riding your horse off your premises, your goat visiting the neighbors garden(hopefully:), your chicken crossing the road, eggs hatching, the death resulting when the fox got into the hen house and more endless paperwork. Our rules also include fish, and though they insist not, there have been isolated public statements in support of this and the wording is sufficiently open ended that traditional pets such as parakeets, dogs and cats will probably need to be RFIDed too, eventually. Look at the Kiwi's, they must chip their dogs, although herdsmen did finally get some exemption.

Another point of interest as touching upon small producers, is that we will have to individually tag every animal while the factory farms will have batch numbers. I guess we know who made the rules huh?-)

And I almost forgot, our rules provide for unannounced searches of your premises, no warrant required, including the privacy of your home.

In addition, I know some history. I know that Stalin(& the USSR) would not have existed without the repeated funding and financial support of American Industrialists and financiers/Brits too. Same goes for Hitler. Our current presidents granddaddy played a major role, and escaped prosecution during the WWII when other Americans doing the same did not. I know America was the leader in eugenics development beginning in the late 19th century and that the USG gave pardons to German scientists in exchange for death camp experiment documentation. As best I can tell, America thought up the master race stuff, Nazi Germany was merely following the logical course we established. Which in fact some Germans used as their defense during their trials. Meaning there are monsters in the world today too. Who, given sufficient control, will perpetrate monsterous crimes against the powerless again, and happily. In fact, I would argue that what is going on in Iraq are crimes against humanity, if only for the depleted uranium armaments my country is using there and the remains they we daily add to their countries dust.

Dismiss it as a conspiracy if you like(though it surely is), but my point is very simple: the same kinds of people are behind today's international programs and treaties; the people at the tippy top, who can operate behind the scenes, where the curtain is never left open for a peek want the world managed.

But Kathryn! these assholes are all legalists, we don't need to see them, they put their plans on paper, lots and lots of paper. Which most folks don't have the time or interest to read because they are busy with their little piece of this big ol hamster wheel. They make their documents as official and high minded sounding as possible, knowing the suckers will accept it because their concerns are primarily(& necessarily) about the immediate, or that whistleblowing doesn't pay.

Anyhow, America is the last stop. NAIS is being sold as voluntary, yet the official literature says participation will be manditory by 2009. (America has a lot of big expansive rules coming due in 2009/2010) And just this week at the NIAA conference in Kansas City, Dr Weimers of the USDA stated, “we will drive every road in the country and find every animal”. Sounds like a true believer to me. But in what ...

I dearly hope you are right Kathryn, and I am but a silly conspiracist. Except, what crime am I trying to perpetrate, crime being elemental to a conspiracy? Is resisting the curtailment of human liberty now a crime?

By the way, Mad Cow Disease, is caused by feeding the ground up remains of other cows to cows. It is not transmitted to humans except by consumption. And yet! public health officials continue to allow this clearly indisputable unhealthy practice, which could so simply be solved-but they don't, hmmm. This was the first fearmongering excuse for NAIS here. Then it became something else, then Avian Flu and now bioterrorism. (Any ol excuse will do ... - Neville Brothers)

Do you really think it is I who am the conspiracist?

Thanks, and respects Lady (: