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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] SE PA going to identifiable non-cash smart cardsfortransporta...
  • Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:20:24 EST


> >One thing about your point that no-one can know whats going on on your
> farm. That new NAIS memo to Veternarians is federal. If a vet comes on
> your
> property , he can , and is required, to enroll you in NAIS, your permission
> is
> not necessary.

First, enforcing that enrollment requirement is not a done deal. It is
aready being challenged.

Second, and far more important, there has never been a vet on the place and
there never will be. I've got a couple of good friends who are vets and can
get all the info I need from them without their coming around. Although when
one comes around for a ceilidh and happens to look at an animal, he is not
here
in official capacity and is under no obligation to the feds whatever.

Thus no registration and anyone who shows up had better have a warrant in
hand, that's the only leave to be on the place I recognize and of some odd
reason
people just don't want to challenge me on that.

Some medicines we need are available over the counter in Tennessee.
Tennessee, because of a guild law, does not allow some vet medicines to be
mailed to
anyone but vets. Fortunately VA has no such idiotic law and so we simply
order
what we need in the way of vaccines (such as rabies) and have them mailed to
a friend in Va.

Our personal danger from NAIS is just about nil. But just to play "what if",
if anyone ever wanted to do anything with any animal I have, the terrain of
craigs and notches behind this place would frighten the Devil to death. We
don't call it the Mirkwood for nothing. Yet we know it intimately. I'd just
send one of the crew out there with whomever we wanted to not exist and let
the
feds come and try to find it. Just how much resources do you think they are
willing to spend waiting for one cow or one horse to show up.

Nope, even the (temporary) unfortunate turn of events with NAIS is not really
a breech of privacy. I can see homesteaders getting together and using
someone's old barn or garage as a place they bring all their animals, one at
a
time, when they need vet attention. Let the vet register the garage as
having
twenty cows and 100 goats!

James




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