Some idiot in the US government has decided that a certain class of innocence US citizen must now provide the United States government an itinerary of
their travel plans including not only where they want to go but a detailed list of their cargo. These same people already must inform the US
Government whenever they leave their property and are subject to random searches of their kitchens and baths!
Who are these “dangerous people”? Are they convicted felons, sex offenders, arms dealers, immigrants from possibly hostile countries,
suspected terrorists?
No these people, who are considered by the US government to be so dangerous to the US public that their Constitutional freedoms must be trampled, are
the people who show up at your child's birthday party with a bunny or lamb for the children to pet! These are the people who the US government
considers so dangerous movement off their property must be monitored.
How many of these people are their in the USA? Five years ago I personally knew 11 in my area. Then the US Government decided to regulate them. Now
most of those I knew have been driven out of business and there are only 400 left in the entire USA according to the government.
To the general populous this does not seem a big deal, however petting farms are just a trial balloon. With the food safety bills this type of
regulation is aimed at ALL farmers and anyone who fits the bills description. A description that includes just about everyone.
In reading the bill HR 875 also known as the
"Destruction of
American Small Farms and Gardens Act" I did not find a list ANY EXCLUSIONS! On the contrary it specifically states
link
"..facility owned or operated by a person located in any State that processes food or a facility that holds, stores, or transports food or food
ingredients." link
Notice it does not say a person SELLING food, it says a person
holds, stores, or transports food or food ingredients. Trial runs
against ordinary citizens have already occurred:
Inspector Targets Old
Ladies Selling Homemade Pie at Church Fish-Fry
This is the e-mail I received. The 8.6 itineraries per year tells you just how out of touch the US government is with reality. The only time
traveling exhibitors are NOT on the road is when the weather is too severe. Heck, before I sold-out I had a petting farm under a tent at an event
during a hurricane as well as during snowstorms. You go to work every day unless specifically told not to why would a professional traveling
exhibitor be any different? You can not make a living with 8 - $200 - $1000 gigs a year. The new regulations make sure operating is just too
expensive and the paperwork to much of a headache for anything but very pigheaded professionals to be left.
For those of you who are traveling exhibitors, here are the new proposed
changes to usda regs (see attached PDF file). We have until Nov 1 for
public comment – they are wanting to require complete itineraries for
EVERY offsite exhibit/show. They are guessing that with weekly
itineraries, each of us will only submit 8.6 itineraries per year – not
52 per year. They have no idea of how much some of us travel...please
send them your comments ASAP.* *
usda proposed changes.pdf
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First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me. Niemoller
