PICFA is a larger activist group (on the pennsylvania state level) which is associated with CARE, of which i am a member in order to buy grassfed dairy products from a farmer in lancaster county. NAIS, i believe stands for national-animal-identification-system, and, as i understand it has the goal of giving identification to every (salable?) animal in our country with many malevolent consequent controls in view.
June 3, 2009 Dear fellow lovers of Freedom and Liberty,
As you may know, the USDA held a “Listening Session” concerning NAIS on May 14, 2009 in Harrisburg at the Farm Center Complex. Five other similar “Sessions” were held in various locations during the remainder of May. Seven more “Listening Sessions” are scheduled during this month, the last one being in Jasper, Florida on June 27, 2009.
Daniel Shirk, Kathy Cook and William Taylor Reil, the current PICFA Board of Directors, attended the May 14th Harrisburg “Listening Session” along with approximately 175 other individuals. The first hour of the morning session was spent by three USDA employees making presentations to all those in attendance. The rest of the morning was consumed primarily by very interesting 3 minute, plus or minus, passionate speeches by concerned farmers, ranchers, consumers and others against NAIS. Only four of the 27 speakers, who were chosen by a ticket lottery, spoke in favor of this USDA program. Mr. Reil not only spoke about the unconstitutionality of NAIS and the fraud being committed by those in government, but also submitted one of the three written papers handed in that day. Tom Maurer, after affectively speaking against NAIS, also submitted written comments to the USDA. Individuals can still submit their written comments to USDA Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack.
Kathy Cook and Ruth Hockley took pictures and video recordings of many of the morning speeches. The speeches against NAIS received loud applause for such statements as: NAIS is unconstitutional and the government has no authority to do this; NAIS will destroy small farms and ranches; The term “Mandatory” scares the heck out of me; “What part of NO don’t you understand?”; and repeatedly – “We will not comply!” The three afternoon breakout sessions were meant to deal only with 7 questions posed by the USDA as to how to make the objections to NIAS go away and to come up with ways to sell the program or “make it a system that everyone can support.” Based on reports about all three afternoon sessions, the passionate objections to NAIS being implemented at all continued despite the obvious plants’ and UDSA employees’ consistent attempts to guide the discussions toward the desired government agenda.
As planned, following the May 14, 2009 “Listening Session”, the PICFA Board of Directors had our monthly meeting on May 20th , with all Board members and several other PICFA members attending, to plan what we will do next to help stop the implementation of NAIS and its attendant “Premise ID” requirement in Pennsylvania.
It was decided that PICFA would: 1) prepare and serve a letter on each State Senator and Representative at their Harrisburg office in the Main Capitol Complex on June 1, 2009; 2) send a copy of that letter to all of you; 3) compile, copy and distribute supporting information and law that prove the unconstitutionality and destructive affect of NAIS and Premise ID; 4) prepare proposed legislation that will prohibit Pennsylvania from participating in NAIS and Premise ID; 5) build support and involvement for our positions among our members and other groups; 6) meet with State Legislators and work with them and their staffs to understand, support and get the legislation that stops NAIS implementation in Pennsylvania introduced and passed into law as soon as possible.
The first phase of our plan has been accomplished. A personalized letter, addressed to each State Senator and Representative, was hand delivered to their office in Harrisburg. The attached “general” letter is a copy of the letter which was served at each Legislator’s office. While delivering the letter, we had an opportunity to briefly speak with the secretary or a staff member of almost all of the Legislators about the letter and to tell them that we will be back to help them more fully understand the problems with and the solution to this very serious problem for our small farmers in Pennsylvania. Generally, the reception to our comments was sincere concern and support.
Sending this letter, with its attachment, to you is the second phase.
Now comes the hard work. We all need to get involved in this important effort and stay involved for the long run. We need to network with others of like minds and concerns to make this, or any other, plan successful. Apposing NAIS has always been and remains a major part of PICFA’s Vision and Mission. Obviously, we are continuing to move forward with this, and other, important work to reclaim our freedoms and liberties.
We need involved individuals all across Pennsylvania to contact their State Senator and Representative on an on going basis. The corporate forces will surely be doing the same in support of NAIS. We must make our voices personally heard in person and through repeated, written personal letters from constitutes.
Obviously, cash, for such things as copying, envelopes and postage, is also necessary to complete this PICFA mission. Please also consider this type of support. It is extremely essential that we all get actively involved now and continue to provide our individual talents and time toward this end.
Please contact Kathy Cook, by email at: PICFA@verizon.net or by snail mail at: PICFA, c/o P.O. Box 15, Rossville, Pennsylvania, 17358, to confirm your support and to let us know what you can personally do to help with the Anti-NAIS plan.
Together, and with God’s blessings, we can and will succeed. We look forward to hearing from you very soon.
Sincerely your,
PICFA Board of Directors
Pennsylvania Independent Consumers and Farmers Association
c/o P.O. Box 15Rossville, Pennsylvania 17358
June 1, 2009
State Senator (Full Name) or (State Representative) (Full NameRoom (Number), (Building)Main Capitol Complex Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120
Dear Senator (Last Name), or Dear Representative (Last Name)
We are writing this letter to you to express our sincere and profound concerns about the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) and its attendant “Premise Identification” requirement; and to respectively request that you introduce and/or support legislation that shall explicitly prohibit Pennsylvania’s participation in both NAIS and Premise ID.
As you may know, the USDA sponsored a “listening session” at the Farm Center Complex in Harrisburg on May 14, 2009. According to USDA Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, the “listening sessions” are being conducted “in strategic locations across the country to ask stakeholders for their solutions to overcome existing and new obstacles to implementing NAIS”. In other words, this federal government program, which was started by those within USDA approximately five years ago, is in trouble and the USDA wants to develop a marketing plan to “develop a system that everyone can support.”, or a “NAIS that we can all live with”.
Like many other government programs, NAIS is being sold as the only way to protect “public health and safety”. However, the evidence proves that these proposed systems have little or nothing to do with “public health and safety” and everything to do with international commerce and trade. While international trade may be important to very large commercial/ corporate farms and ranches, and to some of those in government, the NAIS and Premise ID government programs are very destructive to family farms and ranches. In fact, it should be apparent that any attempt to apply NAIS and/or Premise ID to private individuals, private property, private business and/or private contracts violates both the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Constitution for the United States of America.
Over the coming weeks and months, we in PICFA shall be compiling, copying and distributing documents which shall assist in understanding the truth about NAIS and Premise ID and their serious adverse affects on private farms and ranches in Pennsylvania.
We look forward to working with you and your staff in the necessary efforts to prevent NAIS
and Premise ID programs from being implemented in pennsylvania
Sincerely yours,
one of the myriad of battles raging right now across america. Lord, give us each the ability to do exactly what You want us to do. we cannot do everything. show us what to do each day. we know our hope and salvation is in You. we know all these woes have come upon us because of our myriad daily sins against You. bring us to repentance, Lord.
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