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Texans to face $1,000 per Day Fines for Possession of Baby Chick
http://nonais.org/index.php/2006/01/30/texans-to-face-1000-fines-for-possession-of-baby-chick/ ^

Posted on 02/15/2006 11:15:31 AM PST by vrwc0915

Texans to face $1,000 per Day Fines for Possession of Baby Chick Alert - State — walterj 1:52 am With House Bill 1361 Texas legislators are determined to keep track of every single little baby chick in Texas. Each cutie must be tagged with a 15 digit number to identify it. All locations containing livestock animals must register as farms. $10 annual premise ID and premise registration fee will be required for all homes where any animal ever exists, even if just visiting. Anyone found not reporting a baby chick hatching, movement or death will face a fine of $1,000 per day for non-compliance. Similar fines for all other forms of livestock were also enacted.

With all this paperwork, fees and fines forget about 4-H. Forget about Future Farmers of America. Forget about that baby chick hatching school project. Homesteaders, you better eat your chickens now and don’t bother counting them. No more eggs. No more summer pigs. Slaughter that fatted calf. From now on plan on purchasing your food only at government approved distribution centers with sufficiently powerful lobbyists and friends in high places. Sorry small farmers - no more farmer’s market or farm stands in the future. The paperwork will destroy small farmers. So dies the Buy Local movement.

This monstrosity was originally brought to you by your friends at the USDA under the guise of NAIS - the National Animal Identification System. The Texas Animal Health Commission, which developed the rules in Texas, can be reached with comments on this absurdity by email until 5pm February 6th, 2006. The question is, are they really listening. Be sure that after that short “public comment” period they’re going to cover their collective eyes and ears as the food supply consolidates into the hands of the big producers. Do you think that will make the national food supply safer?

Perhaps our pseudo-elected Govi-Corp doesn’t have enough to do, so they sit around thinking up things like this. Remember: Idle hands do the devil’s work…

http://www.theeagle.com/stories/012906/business_20060129065.php


TOPICS: Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bigbrother; cw2; fascism; nais; peepingtoms; peeps; tagging
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1 posted on 02/15/2006 11:15:35 AM PST by vrwc0915
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To: vrwc0915; Calpernia

Ping


2 posted on 02/15/2006 11:15:59 AM PST by vrwc0915 ("Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants,)
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To: vrwc0915
Fines for Possession of Baby Chick

As apposed to those in possession of an adult chick.....

3 posted on 02/15/2006 11:17:39 AM PST by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: The_Victor

apposed = opposed


4 posted on 02/15/2006 11:18:00 AM PST by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: vrwc0915

Ignore them.

See if they can enforce it.

No way!


5 posted on 02/15/2006 11:18:52 AM PST by American_Centurion (A liberal is a socialist who isn't quite willing to get blood on his hands yet. -KarlInOhio)
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To: vrwc0915

It's a shame they don't worry this much about the teeming hordes of "visitors" crossing the Rio Grande.


6 posted on 02/15/2006 11:19:05 AM PST by Slump Tester ( What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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To: The_Victor

"As apposed to those in possession of an adult chick....."

Wasn't possession of adult chicks covered by the Mann Act?


7 posted on 02/15/2006 11:19:44 AM PST by No Truce With Kings (The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
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To: vrwc0915

I guess the pink Easter chicks are out of the question?


8 posted on 02/15/2006 11:20:00 AM PST by Ben Mugged ("Television is the most perfect democracy, You sit there with your remote control and vote")
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To: The_Victor

"As apposed to those in possession of an adult chick....."

The adult chick costs MUCH more!


9 posted on 02/15/2006 11:20:04 AM PST by Hoodlum91 (pcottraux says I'm special!)
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To: vrwc0915
Damn it,mosquitoes are *far* more dangerous than baby chicks.
I demand that each and every one in this country be registered with a 15 digit ID number.
10 posted on 02/15/2006 11:20:13 AM PST by Gay State Conservative
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11 posted on 02/15/2006 11:20:38 AM PST by BureaucratusMaximus (It´s way past time to shut the barn door on illegal aliens.)
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To: vrwc0915
State gov't run amok...
12 posted on 02/15/2006 11:21:02 AM PST by LIConFem (A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.)
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To: subatomicdust

ping!


13 posted on 02/15/2006 11:22:13 AM PST by hiredhand (My kitty disappeared. NOT the rifle!)
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To: BureaucratusMaximus

A bucket of peeps!

(ok - a while back KFC called their nuggets "chicken littles". I had my sister convinced they were made of squashed baby chicks)


14 posted on 02/15/2006 11:22:30 AM PST by Hoodlum91 (pcottraux says I'm special!)
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To: American_Centurion

Ignore them.

See if they can enforce it.

No way!""

Sex offenders are only required to register once a year and we all know they do pretty much as they please.
"violent" sex offenders are required to register every 90 days.

The layers of government cannot keep these convicted criminals where they belong, so now they want to make a criminal of every animal owner in the USA???

Good luck making this work. I own 3 dogs. I have 6 horses. I am not a criminal. I don't even have a traffic ticket in the last 20+ years. This will make me an instant criminal or the government can feed and care for my critters.
Good Luck to them with that. This legislation will bring out the guns and cause a revolution, IMO.


15 posted on 02/15/2006 11:22:56 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: LIConFem

Its a fed program that is "not mandatory:


16 posted on 02/15/2006 11:23:24 AM PST by vrwc0915 ("Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants,)
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To: vrwc0915

17 posted on 02/15/2006 11:23:33 AM PST by evets (God bless president Bush!)
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To: Hoodlum91
I had my sister convinced they were made of squashed baby chicks

Well, of course they are! ;)

18 posted on 02/15/2006 11:24:16 AM PST by BureaucratusMaximus (It´s way past time to shut the barn door on illegal aliens.)
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To: ridesthemiles

A few show of force raids will get most in compliance.


19 posted on 02/15/2006 11:24:19 AM PST by vrwc0915 ("Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants,)
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To: LIConFem

State gov't run amok...""

NAIS is a federal program.

Help us fight it, please.


20 posted on 02/15/2006 11:24:22 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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