Thursday, January 12, 2006
My Two Cents Worth
I usually don’t get very much into political matters here, but with this National Animal ID I figure I’ll put in my two cents worth, mostly because of the urging of others. First off, I’m totally against it, period. In my opinion it’s just a tool the industrialists are using for total control of everything. Three blogs on my link list cover the subject very well, check them out if you haven’t already. They are Antithesis In Agriculture, Sugar Mountain, and Adventures of a Turtle Mt Hillbilly. One thing I’d add to all of this is to get in and stay in contact with your Senators and Representatives. It is incredible how few people do this. Up until last year I was a volunteer for R-CALF, a cattlemen’s organization that represents real cattlemen, not the phony packer lackeys. My job was to stay in contact with one of our Senators in DC and let him know what the common man thought, not the misguided bull from the NCBA, National Cattlemen’s Beef Assn, which is just another title for packer serfs. When I first got in contact with them they said I was the only farmer to ever call about beef matters, the rest were just paid lobbyists and serfs from the NCBA. After a while the Senators agriculture aid was even calling me for advice. After a few months the Senators aide would call me with the results of everything we were discussing, it was incredible what one person can do. I still have some of the papers that they sent me, thanking me for helping them figure out what farmers “really” thought. So I would urge everyone to give it a shot, if we don’t we’re basically on the industrialist one world orders side. Don’t let these thugs take away our freedoms.
I’m disturbed enough on this issue to come out of retirement and do my part again. I’d rather not, it’s so much easier to just let the world slip by and mind my own farm, and hoping things will always be OK. Hoping the world would pass us by. But such is not the case; in fact it was never the case. This whole ID thing is a perfect example of a few people putting very heavy burdens on the many, for the profit of a handful. And you can bet the farm they’ll use patriotism as an excuse for it, the war on terror. National security they’ll say. Don’t believe for a minute that’s what it is. It’s control, short and sweet, control over one of the last segments in society that cherishes freedom, that haven’t sold out yet to the New World Order. While the beef and pork industries talk up all the benefits of this to the “modern” producer just remember, you could knock the brains out of a pig and come up with a more intelligent critter than these organizations are, combined. These people touting it up are so far in debt and so sucked into the modern whirlpool of destruction of the family farm that they’ll follow anything, with the slim hope it might help their crumbling situations. But it’s not entirely their fault, we let them go to DC and tell our representatives all that garbage and for the most part we stay silent.
After writing this I’m pretty well convinced that I’ll get going again, reluctantly but, once a person gets started he knows he’s doing the right thing. We have the freedom to do it yet, and how could I ever face my children and grandchildren and say I did nothing. God doesn’t want his people to stay silent.
http://northernfarmer.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_northernfarmer_archive.html
My Two Cents Worth
I usually don’t get very much into political matters here, but with this National Animal ID I figure I’ll put in my two cents worth, mostly because of the urging of others. First off, I’m totally against it, period. In my opinion it’s just a tool the industrialists are using for total control of everything. Three blogs on my link list cover the subject very well, check them out if you haven’t already. They are Antithesis In Agriculture, Sugar Mountain, and Adventures of a Turtle Mt Hillbilly. One thing I’d add to all of this is to get in and stay in contact with your Senators and Representatives. It is incredible how few people do this. Up until last year I was a volunteer for R-CALF, a cattlemen’s organization that represents real cattlemen, not the phony packer lackeys. My job was to stay in contact with one of our Senators in DC and let him know what the common man thought, not the misguided bull from the NCBA, National Cattlemen’s Beef Assn, which is just another title for packer serfs. When I first got in contact with them they said I was the only farmer to ever call about beef matters, the rest were just paid lobbyists and serfs from the NCBA. After a while the Senators agriculture aid was even calling me for advice. After a few months the Senators aide would call me with the results of everything we were discussing, it was incredible what one person can do. I still have some of the papers that they sent me, thanking me for helping them figure out what farmers “really” thought. So I would urge everyone to give it a shot, if we don’t we’re basically on the industrialist one world orders side. Don’t let these thugs take away our freedoms.
I’m disturbed enough on this issue to come out of retirement and do my part again. I’d rather not, it’s so much easier to just let the world slip by and mind my own farm, and hoping things will always be OK. Hoping the world would pass us by. But such is not the case; in fact it was never the case. This whole ID thing is a perfect example of a few people putting very heavy burdens on the many, for the profit of a handful. And you can bet the farm they’ll use patriotism as an excuse for it, the war on terror. National security they’ll say. Don’t believe for a minute that’s what it is. It’s control, short and sweet, control over one of the last segments in society that cherishes freedom, that haven’t sold out yet to the New World Order. While the beef and pork industries talk up all the benefits of this to the “modern” producer just remember, you could knock the brains out of a pig and come up with a more intelligent critter than these organizations are, combined. These people touting it up are so far in debt and so sucked into the modern whirlpool of destruction of the family farm that they’ll follow anything, with the slim hope it might help their crumbling situations. But it’s not entirely their fault, we let them go to DC and tell our representatives all that garbage and for the most part we stay silent.
After writing this I’m pretty well convinced that I’ll get going again, reluctantly but, once a person gets started he knows he’s doing the right thing. We have the freedom to do it yet, and how could I ever face my children and grandchildren and say I did nothing. God doesn’t want his people to stay silent.
http://northernfarmer.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_northernfarmer_archive.html