Strange Martial Law via Food Control: HR 2749

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Strange Martial Law via Food Control: HR 2749

 

Not what the American people ordered – HR 2749, martial law

and the enslavement of their farmers

Farm Wars

Sunday, July 5, 2009

HR 2749 is a strange bill in many

ways. While the other “food safety” bills have been around since

winter, allowing for much public

discussion

on the internet, HR 2749 has only suddenly appeared. It is a mutant

conglomeration of the worst of the other bills, with the addition of

one very original part – martial law.

When it was a draft, it was

Waxman’s bill. But once given a number, it became Dingel’s who already

had a “food safety” bill, HR 759. So Waxman got none and Dingel got

two. (Was this because Waxman, being Jewish, was a hideous choice to

introduce a bill with Codex in it – designed

by the Nazi pharmaceutical companies that funded Hitler, provided the gas for the gas chambers,

experimented on prisoners with vaccines – and is expected to kill

millions?)

 

* HR 2749 would give

FDA the power to order a quarantine of a geographic area, including

“prohibiting or restricting the movement of food or of any vehicle

being used or that has been used to transport or hold such food within

the geographic area.”

[This - "that has been used

to transport or hold such food" - would mean all cars that have ever

brought groceries home or any pickup someone has eaten take-out in, so

this means ALL TRANSPORTATION can be shut down under this. This is

using food as a cover for martial law.]

Under this provision, farmers

markets and local food sources could be shut down, even if they are not

the source of the contamination. The agency can halt all movement of

all food in a geographic area.

[This is also a means of

total control over the population under the cover of food, and at any

time.] See this DailyKos

entry.

 

 

The bill is unusual, too, because slow as it was to appear. The

little bugger of bill has made up for it since. It got a number on

June 10, went to committee on June 17, passed instantly, and is headed

for a vote on the floor of the House.

The first Patriot Act was passed using fear of terrorism. This

Patriot Act is more coy, hiding under a cloak of “food safety” and but

also using fear – fear of food contamination. Evidently, Americans are

supposed to be so frightened by the slightest possibility of a

terrorist or of E-coli, they would trade away all their

precious, hard fought freedoms for the promise of safety. Or at least,

that is what the trade-off has become. “Terrorism” and “contamination”

are great bugaboos used to open doors to an end to the US Constitution.

That is exactly what we are left with after those who wrote HR 2749

are done.

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Who did write these bills? It seems Monsanto had not only a hand,

but a “defining” influence. http://farmwars.info/?p=594

This redefining of reality is what seems to be underlying all the

loss of freedom. Normal and free are disappearing into the maw of

corporate definitions of reality. See this Yup Farming piece.

So, we begin with contaminated food from filthy corporate processors

and concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). And what do we end

up with after that reality is ground up by corporate legal hands?

Changes in the definition of risk so that natural things are treated

as dangerous and toxic things are untouched, such that:

 

Healthy, normal farms are taken over by government as though they

were run by criminals and contaminated corporate slaughterhouses are

untouched;

The necessary freedom of individuals to live and grow food and be

left alone are somehow suddenly destroyed, though they were never the

source of any food contamination issue; and such that

The profit and control and power of corporations which were

absolutely the source of the increasingly terrible food, is somehow

suddenly vastly increased.

 

Thanks to corporate control over reality, our wanting to clean up

corporate processors and feedlots and CAFOS and end up with farmers’

markets and local farms and organic food has become the

industrialization and potential destruction of every healthy part of

the food system and the triumph of the most contaminated and toxic

part. And in the non-bargain, we lost all freedoms and they took all

control. And “all” is not a hyperbole here, for one need only look at

another provision of HR 2749 to feel how insane, how distant from all

we ever wanted.

 

* HR 2749 would empower FDA to regulate how

crops are raised and harvested. It puts the federal government right

on the farm, dictating to our farmers.

[What is missing in pointing out this astounding control, is

that it opens the door to CODEX and WTO "good farming practices" will

include the elimination of organic farming by eliminating manure,

mandating GMO animal feed, imposing animal drugs, and ordering

applications of petrochemical fertilizers and pesticides. Farmers,

thus, will be locked not only into the industrialization of once normal

and organic farms but into the forced purchase of industry's products.

They will be slaves on the land, doing the work they are ordered to do

- against their own best wisdom - and paying out to industry against

their will. There will be no way to be frugal, to grow one's own grain

to feed the animals, to raise healthy animals without GMO grains or

drugs, to work with nature at all. Grassfed cattle and poultry and

hogs will be finished. So, it needs to be made clear where control

will take us. And weren't these the "rumors on the internet" that were

dismissed but are clearly the case?] See this DailyKos

entry.

 

When we wanted not to get E-coli in processed meat, did we

intend to put our farmers into corporate servitude? Did we plan to

have our own lives straight-jacketed by a million new controls over our

own gardens, our own desire to grow food, our own plans to start small

businesses, our own dreams to have a small piece of land and farm

ourselves? Who has the audacity to take our needs and grotesquely

bastardize them in these ways, while giving the destruction and

totalitarian control the sham name of “food safety”?

We wanted good food. We never wanted to trap our farmers into an

industrial prison on their own land, afraid moment to moment of not

fulfilling some monstrous set of instructions that never end – rules

the farmers loathe, rules that have not only nothing to do with real

farming but which are antithetical to it. Why have we ended up with HR

2749, an intense corporate nightmare around the most central and

necessary aspects of a free country and of free human beings – farming

and food?

American

farming needs to be relieved of the burdens it has been under, not

finished off by its corporate competition. It needs freedom to

flourish again. Obviously – and Congress people who would think to

vote for such absurdities, take note – the imposition of surveillance,

monitoring, warrantless entry, taking of all records, licensing, fees,

Codex and NAIS, in addition to massive penalties and prison terms (all

without judicial review over even appropriateness and validity), are

not how one thanks American farmers for holding together the only

working part of our food system. See Literal Enslavement by Linn

Cohen-Cole.

HR 2749 is the most vicious and insane bill one could imagine. Who

treats our farmers in this way? Who believes that such police measures

can provide for the rebirth of farming and the return of healthy food?

Who wrote this bill that trashes the freedom of all our lives? HR

2749 was not what we ordered and it should be sent back the bowels of

hell it came from.

HR 2749 is both insane and cruel. And the deceptiveness of hiding a

Patriot Act in it and the brutal rush to slip it through Congress are

ANTI-democratic.

Go here to tell Congress, “No.” http://www.ftcldf.org/petitions/pnum993.php

 

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