Posted on 11/17/2010 2:09:17 AM PST by Scanian
Just because the duck is lame doesn't mean it can't still do terrible damage to American freedom. Our new Congress, especially the new House, isn't yet seated, and this current Congress can still wreak terrible havoc on our rights if not stopped.
Case in point: Senate Bill 510, believed to be coming to the floor Wednesday, November 17 (pending). This is the food safety version of ObamaCare. Reading the thing will make your head hurt for all its cognitive dissonance. Trying to winnow out its complexity and hidden empowerments is stultifying.
Introduced by Dick Durbin of Illinois, the bill has moved through the usual phases of amalgamation and deal-making. The monstrosity advancing to the floor on Wednesday is not so much "food safety" as it is the decadence of the rights of small farmers, hobbyist food producers, garden-variety farmers markets, and your average small producer of foodstuffs. Under the rubric of safety, this Senate proposes a bill that establishes such new and sweeping powers over how you and I produce and consume foodstuffs that even the Pew Charitable Trusts are calling S510 a clear and present danger. National Health Freedom says,
"It is a dangerously broad regulatory bill giving extensive discretionary power to the FDA over the entire food supply chain without proper checks and balances to avoid abuse of power;
"It would impose one-size-fits-all-regulations on thousands of small and mid-sized farmers, small-scale local farms and food producers, and would drastically burden, to extinction, basic natural and organic food suppliers, thus endangering the lives of Americans who depend on local wholesome foods..."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
According to my friend who watched it ‘live’ on C-Span 2, the motion for cloture on debate on this bill has passed, and the bill will now come to the floor for a vote...
Admin Moderator - perhaps you could update the headline.....
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Senator Richard Burr (R-Dumbass) is a co-sponsor of this stinking pile of Soviet-era centralized-control-of-the-food-supply $#!+ --- !
Stop Senate Bill 510
TELL SENATOR BURR: WITHDRAW AS CO-SPONSOR
DO NOT VOTE ON THIS DURING THE LAME-DUCK SESSION.
At the very least, have the decency to put off a vote until January, 2011 – so that people can read this and evaluate whether it is a desirable piece of legislation for North Carolina. (Hint: it’s not.) Do not try to cram this down our throats just like Congress did with the Health Care Bill.
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The author of this monstrosity is none other than Illinois’ own, Dick Durbin. He has to be stopped and opposition has to be mobilized in his home state.
Pass or fail, do that anyway. Lessen your outside dependency as much as you can, before you HAVE to. Start in the spring, with some leaf greens in a windowbox. Set out a couple of tomato plants in gallon milk jugs. Plant some winter squash in an unused corner of your yard.
If it passes the Senate, then it has to go back to the House, right? Shouldn’t we be contacting our Reps?
I just bought a small farm. I will have a vegetable garden next spring. I will continue to fish. I will hunt. Obama can kis my puckered....
Time to hit the phones again and let our senators think about such freedom-hating legislation.
Dick Durbin sponsored it---need I say more?
Yup! Thanks for this thread, Scanian.
Bookmark.
But, they HAVE to pass the bill............so, we can see what’s in it!
“I also heard that ObamaCare has in it that if you sell anything over $600 on EBay Craigslist Yard Sale?????”
Yea, it’s any single item or purchase total of $600 over the course of a year. Let’s say a small family farm buys gasoline at the local gas station. If those purchases add up to $600 over a year, say for gas for the tractor, you have to submit a 1099 for the station and supply them with a copy. Same for ANY retailer you do business with. Office Depot for the copier. Best Buy for the computer, etc. etc. etc.
It will be a nightmare of paperwork.
Similar bills keep coming up. So far we have swatted them all down. We can’t rest now.
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what’s up with that? This is Glen Beck’s department.
The pressure seems to be working (for now anyway) - Isakson and Chambliss both voted Nay on cloture:
I had some very VERY strong words when I called/emailed today. I think a lot of us did.
This really needs to be a crusade taken up by the Tea Party (and by us all individually).
I heard this passed cloture (#122) and will soon be voted on in the Senate. Like today. Is it still worthwhile to contact Senators, or should we go on to contact Representativces (since the House will have to re-pass it)?
“There are plenty of FReepers gardening and saving seeds who will share seeds or cuttings.”
Don’t mail the seeds! Most if not every package mailed is X-rayed and possession of seeds will be criminalized. You’ll have to trade in person.
We need to start networks of FReepers in every state.
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