Our farmer neighbors there were no longer independent farmers as we would picture, were instead just employees working for the government, tentative workers on what used to be the family farm. They were required to keep up the personnel folder on each animal, and if one died outside of government say so, they were in trouble. Killing an animal for themselves was unthinkable.
No smiley faces here or hopes it will be more benign. Up close it is ugly socialistic smothering control, very real, and soon to come unless stopped.
It is saying, when you think about it, the same thing it said in the Schindler-Schiavo slaying, and in the confiscatory Kelo decision as well. It is saying that it no longer respects our unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. What used to be the American government and is now only a shadow of its former self told the Schindler family members they could only maintain the life of their dear daughter and sister with the government's expressed permission, and the government withheld that permission. It told the homeowners in the Kelo case they could only occupy their own homes with the government's permission, and the government withheld that permission. Now, through NAIS, everyone who owns a livestock animal of any kind is being told they can only own them with the government's permission. Does anyone see a pattern here? When will we see it, and put a stop to it as well?
To answer our original question, then, NAIS is not a benign attempt to curb the bird flu, or any other imagined or actual biological threat. It is a socialistic power grab with ramifications far beyond what might be immediately apparent. Just because an agenda is achieved through regulation rather than legislation doesn't give it the right to remain unconstitutional. What is the point of vigorously defending our freedoms abroad while calmly handing them over to bureaucrats back here at home? What do life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness mean any more, if they are to be constantly redefined by those with the power to back up that redefinition through the power of the sword?
NAIS: Get the government out of my barnyard!
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