In 2001 the USDA swooped down on two farmers in Vermont and killed all their sheep without proof of any disease in the animals. This is a scary foreshadowing of the USDA’s plans for NAIS and depopulation. What happened to these people and their livestock is something I’ve thought about often. The government has no business doing what they did. There was no emergency. There was no need to rush. It was not a wildfire. In the end, the hundreds of sheep the USDA killed turned out to not be diseased after all. Our government simply over reacted and in the process they not only killed innocent, healthy livestock but they violated the Constitutional rights of citizens and destroyed the dreams of farmers. And our government officials wonder why we don’t trust them???
When Linda Faillace sat down to write a memoir about the events in 2001 that led to the federal seizure of her family’s sheep, she wasn’t motivated by fame or fortune. Her impetus was purely personal.
“Basically, Larry (my husband) had said I’d gotten too difficult to live with,” Faillace recalled. “He said, ‘You really gotta do something.’”
So she set to work putting their story on paper, as much for her own peace of mind as for posterity. And now, just five years after the USDA forcibly removed the couple’s 125 sheep on their 90-acre homestead in East Warren, Faillace has a book in hand that details the family’s struggle for answers.
In “Mad Sheep,” Faillace writes that they still don’t know why their flock was targeted by the USDA for testing for the rare brain-wasting disease known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. Since the seizure and subsequent liquidation of the flock at a laboratory in Ames, Iowa, government scientists have determined that none of the sheep had TSE, a condition related to mad cow disease. The Faillaces meanwhile, lost all hope of fulfilling their dream of sheep farming and producing artisanal sheep-milk cheese.
-Times Argus
The government should not have these sorts of unlimited powers that allow them to reach into our homes and lives. It is time to rein the mad dogs of government in and muzzle them.
“There ought to be a leash law for governments.” -WJ
This was such a tragedy and is a good part of the basis of my fear of NAIS. What if a horse five miles from me turns up with West Nile or Strangles. Is the govennment going to come to murder my healthy, nearly extinct, rare strain Egyptian horses? Will they kill me for standing in their way?
No one should live in fear in their government, but anyone who is paying attention right now is.
Comment Patricia Hampton — September 25, 2006 @ 7:36 am
This reminds me of what is going on right now for the couple in the comments.
I remember the Faillace’s story at the time and it horrified me back then–what a waste. It horrifies me now that the USDA still hasn’t learned their lessons or changed their tactics.
This ties into a point made about one of the huge dangers of NAIS very early on–even if you comply 100%, pay all the fees, file all the paperwork, work yourself to the bone to follow the rules, the Goons can still swoop in and steal everything you have worked so hard for without warrant, cause for suspicion or proof. It is insane.
To needlessly kill all those animals without first testing is beyond stupid. It’s like the USDA has some fear about testing–they didn’t test the sheep, they didn’t test the hogs they just murdered, they refuse to allow private testing of Cattle for BSE, and they’re cutting back their own Mad Cow program. It is insanity. The mighty few on a power-trip of life and death over the masses. There needs to be reform and a touch of the short, sharp shock for these “terrorists”.
“Mad Sheep” is one book I’ll be buy to give for Christmas, it’s already on my own reading list.
Comment Podchef — September 25, 2006 @ 8:25 am
OK, I live in Texas and this is the first time I have heard of this happening. Why was the news kept out of it? What hush-hush was put on this story. As I read it, to me this sounded more like the USSR or Germany from years past. Was there an uproar over it in VT? If so it never made the national news.
No government should be able to go on a persons property and start killing for no reason, or even if that reason is they “think” or “suspect” the animals are sick. The proof has to be in hand. If I’m at work and come home to a mass killing on my property what action do I take? Or do I just have to sit back and take it from the country that is supposed to protect me? Protect me from themselves?
[Yes, Suzy, there was quite a bit of an uproar in Vermont about this theft of the sheep by the USDA. Do a Google for some interesting reading. -WJ]
Comment Suzy Minck — September 25, 2006 @ 10:02 am
Take our land,
Take our guns,
Take our animals…
How do we take back our freedom?
Comment Breederville — September 25, 2006 @ 10:21 am
Breederville, thanks for that. . .now I have even more to stay awake at night over. . . . Unfortunately the Great American Land Grab is in full swing. Between the International Property Maitenance Code and Eminant Domain you can pretty much be regulated and cheated right out of your property unconstitutionally. I fear it will only get worse.
Does anyone know a way of defeating this stuff before it is too late? Beyond Regime Change, I mean. This stuff goes beyond terms and current administrations–look at all the Crap Bush is passing now, it all starts in 2010–after his term is up! What’s that about. Government should only be allowed to enact new legislation which will begin within their term of office. This use of position of power to stockpile cash, power, tyranny for times beyond has got to end!
Comment Podchef — September 25, 2006 @ 3:51 pm
Looks like U.S. citizens aren’t the only folks concerned about their national sovereignty.
Appointed bureaucrats are making all the decisions for us.
SPPMeetinBanff
Comment donna — September 25, 2006 @ 5:33 pm
The guest list for the SPP meeting in Banff:
nonelected
Comment donna — September 25, 2006 @ 5:38 pm
I remember when this happened and I remember the horror of that incident,I hope that we will not see this become a trend and I hope that some justice will be served and compensation will be forthcoming to these folks.
(Barbara, Western Pa. almost Ohio)
Comment LEE — September 25, 2006 @ 5:56 pm
Everyone, in the U.S.A., use this LINK below to write the Virginia Governor, on
behalf of CINDI HENSHAW and her husband to save them from the “DEATH SQUAD” of
the USDA, murdering her animals and pets, in Gladestone, VA..
I would be deeply grateful to you all if you do this…………
link
Dean A.Ayers
Glenwood, Iowa
IOWANS AGAINST NAIS
Comment DeanAFOSI (IOWA) — September 25, 2006 @ 6:14 pm
I shall Mr Ayers, once I am convinced we have the entire story.
You have to be close to see the truth. I am not close enough yet.
respects, Wm
Comment Mr Dirty Nails — September 25, 2006 @ 9:22 pm
Depopulation threats would profoundly affect the relationships of animal owners to veterinarians and to each other. Who is going to call a vet onto their property to diagnose a sick animal if the vet’s visit has the potential to trigger a mass neighborhood killing? It heralds a dark age of shoot-shovel-shutup animal care, rather than risk the mortal enmity of every other farmer in the vicinity. Is that the effect being sought, divide and conquer, animal owner against veterinarian and against each other?
Comment henny brown — September 26, 2006 @ 6:31 am
Unfortunatly, if NAIS gets in, I fear this WILL be the norm, and we’ll see more and more of this.
Our animals and property will not be safe. Instead of having to worry about 4 legged predators, we now have to worry about Federal predators, which, in my opinion, are much more of a problem and more dangerous.
4 legged predators only kill to eat or defend themselves. Federal predators kill because they can, and they have an agenda. I do believe some get off on the power high as well.
Comment Kim P. — September 26, 2006 @ 11:14 am
Thanks Walter, I did and sent it on to several friends. Is the USDA just untouchable? I take it they can’t be sued. You’d think some lawyer would love to get his name in the news to set the standard. If the USDA can’t be sued then they will do whatever they want to get NAIS into play.
This family needs to be paid by the U.S. for every animal that was killed, the income that was lost, the emotional stress alone is too much to handle. There has to be a standard to go by and I for one think this family deserves everyones support. I sure wouldn’t want to be around when those involved in this slaughter meet their Maker. Can you just see them explaining it to God why they “had to do what we had to do”?
Comment Suzy Minck — September 26, 2006 @ 11:24 am
I haven’t read the book yet, but it sure sounds scary and unfortunately believable. I agree with your comments #11.
I’m curious to know if the Mad Sheep scenario was an instance where The ACLU could have helped out. While I own several copies of the Constitution and Bill of Rights I’m a little uninformed on our rights when it comes to suing the Government…did they try to? Under what instances can we ? (sue the Government?) Anybody?
Comment Bob Constantine — September 26, 2006 @ 3:41 pm
The story link to SPPMeetinBanff went into the newspaper’s archive found at:
NorthAmericanUnion
These ’secret’ meetings are causing the Canadians to express concerns, too.
Comment donna — September 26, 2006 @ 5:13 pm
Okay, this is way, way out there. I’m not sure if it is practical, financially speaking or if it can even be done.
What if. . .you insured your livestock? What would the policy say when the USDA came to erradicate your animals–what proof would they have to provide that they were diseased, etc? Surely the insurance company would request a full inquiry before they paid out a claim.
Now this probably would be for your run of the mill flock or herd, but perhaps for your prize winning breeding stock, or a special type of breed, rare and expensive. If people can insure their hands, eyes, etc, and pets can be insured, than surely livestock should be able to be insured against erradication or any other malady. The costs might be prohibitive–but think of the alternative of being wiped out.
I got thinking about this because of my new little bitch. She set us back a bit. Already we’re completely attached to her. If she proves to be as good a livestock dog as I think she will, what is her value? Certainly double or triple what we paid for her. Granted we can re-coup that by breeding her to some extent, but there again are risks, etc. Yes, she is a pet, but she is also farm property, livestock if you will. Seems to me that if a vet certs the animal as grade A and then the USDA comes and starts shooting, there should be some sort of definite financial claim. A policy which covered this sort of thing could possibly be another layer of defense against rampant, radical, murderous agents and their shoot to kill policies.
Comment Podchef — September 26, 2006 @ 5:36 pm
Somehow I don’t think insurance would protect against the government destroying your livestock. Most policies have numerous exclusions (like acts of war). I couldn’t find anything covering “depopulation” in my policy, but I’m sure it must be in the small print somewhere.
Comment Barbara — September 26, 2006 @ 7:44 pm
Re: Post 10, Mr Dirty Nails,
Correct! Wait until we have the whole story on Cindi and Danny Henshaw.
A very smart person from one of the Yahoo Groups called Virginia Dept of Game and Fisheries and was told it was a hoax.
I personally don’t believe it is or isn’t. I’ve seen the gov lie and I’ve seen people lie.
We will have plenty of time to scream to high heaven about it once we know what we need to scream about.
:)
Comment Breederville — September 26, 2006 @ 8:04 pm
I live not very far from a small livestock auction in NH. I was attending the auction regularly at the time the sheep were stolen. It caused quit an uproar in the farming community here. Sheep and goats from all over the north country appeared for sale. People were dumping the extras left and right in fear of the USDA. Animals from out of state were walked onto the grounds. Animals coming off out of state trucks were claimed to be the property of a NH resident and the truck was just borrowed from “Uncle Fred”. In several instances licensed NH livestock dealers would claim outloud that the animals coming out of the Maine or VT trucks were theirs and the truck was just being borrowed or rented.
It caused an instant animal underground where the animals were not traceable. Exactly opposite of what the USDA hoped to achieve. Had one of those animals been ill nobody would have really known where it came from.
Never did hear the final outcome of the sheep snatching story. We all heard they were destroyed but beyond that silence.
Mad Sheep would be a good book to buy and donate to the town library.
Comment Sue F — September 27, 2006 @ 3:04 am
Contact: Richard Bean 434.263.8704
Deborah Stockton 434.295.7176
The National Animal Identification System (NAIS) cannot be found in the U.S. Code. Should the Talent – Emerson bill become law, NAIS will be inserted into the U.S. Code for the first time, giving the USDA the authority to create and develop a national animal identification program without ever defining the most important word in its creation. “Voluntary” is at the crux of the matter, and small-scale producers, family farms, homesteaders, pet owners and the person who owns even one chicken for breakfast eggs have as much reason to fear a coercive “voluntary” system as a mandatory program.
The Talent – Emerson bill attempts to achieve two main political functions. First, it is designed to politically take the edge off this contentious issue. Since first announcing its intention to create the NAIS, the USDA has heard from a very vocal and active grassroots movement that opposes this government identification and tracking program. After over a year of opposition and ridicule, the USDA announced that the program would remain “voluntary.” But their words and their actions do not match. Indiana and Wisconsin have both implemented mandatory premises identification — with USDA funding — and many other states are considering mandatory premises identification, which is the first step in the USDA’s three step implementation plan of premises registration, followed by tagging every animal, then tracking every animal. Still the USDA insists the program is “voluntary” and now there is a bill introduced in Congress that attempts to splinter the grassroots opposition by offering a compromise to one small portion of the coalition who never really understood the danger of or opposed the creation of a coercive “voluntary” NAIS.
Second, one should never underestimate the politics behind the introduction of this bill. While the Virginia Independent Consumers and Farmers Association (VICFA) has not taken a position on the coming election we do understand that politicians face an increasingly angry electorate over NAIS and that they are looking for ways to take the emotion out of this issue before November. We won’t make a determination about the motives behind the introduction of this bill, but we need to ask what do we have to gain by a supporting a bill that creates a new government program that currently does not exist in law, and that will negatively affect the livelihood of thousands of family farmers? The introduction of this new piece of legislation is a prime example of how government continues to grow while the politicians take credit for limiting the growth of government programs. Several years ago, a national animal identification plan was just the dream of a few industry folks who saw dwindling breed registries and an opportunity to make a buck using the power of the U.S. government. Now, instead of just saying no to this new expensive and unnecessary government program, the Talent–Emerson bill actually would create a new government boondoggle in federal law. Only in Washington, DC would the creation of a new government program be considered limiting government growth. Sure, it might be a little less than the USDA and their partners in industry want, but they will get ninety percent of what they want, and under a coercive “voluntary” program farmers will be left holding the bill.
The Talent –Emerson bill is flawed in other respects. Section 2 of the bill grants the USDA a blanket exception from public disclosure laws that would allow the USDA to run this program under a cloak of secrecy while at the same time allowing producer information to be widely disseminated. It appears that this poorly worded bill was a feeble attempt to protect participant animal owners from having their personal information released. However, the bill grants the USDA the right to disclose livestock owners’ information to law enforcement, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, by court order, and even to a foreign government if the USDA determines an animal poses a “disease or pest threat” or a “danger to human health.” The exceptions swallow the rule. One can hardly think of a reason why the USDA would not routinely hand out your information to untold numbers of administrative agency bureaucrats and individuals. This is not the protection of personal information that livestock owners are demanding under a “voluntary” program.
Finally, VICFA cannot support this bill because of its conspicuous silence on the definition of “voluntary.” As we have mentioned, the USDA has made no secret of its desire to have full participation in the NAIS. The Talent — Emerson bill creates NAIS, and then says “livestock owners” cannot be mandated to participate. However, this leaves a universe of market entry points that can and will be regulated under a new congressionally created program. Imagine the difficulty of a producer who chooses not to participate when his children are excluded from 4-H competitions, processors refuse to accept his animals, and he cannot transport animals to buy and sell because a veterinarian cannot issue a health certificate without a premises registration or animal identification.
Call your Representatives and Senators today and tell them that the Talent – Emerson bill does not pass muster.
S3862–Animal Health Protection Act of 2006
HR6042–Animal Health Protection Act of 2006
Comment LuAnn — September 27, 2006 @ 8:40 am
Just a thought someone proposed? Ethanol is touted as a great substitute for oil. Corn is the product used to produce it. The price of corn has increased 11% just this year and the pig industry is primarily dependent on corn for feed. The price of food is about to jump considerably across the board when farmers realize that corn brings a much greater profit than raising pigs or for that matter vegetables where profits are significantly less than growing corn. Is Ethanol a suitable solution or will it cause an explosion in prices and a shortage of vegetables and meat?
Comment LuAnn — September 27, 2006 @ 10:45 am
LuAnn, re #20– While pro-ethanol pundits claim the price of corn won’t go up, it has and will continue. Those opposed to Ethanol–big Oil–claim that field and forest around the planet will be plowed under to grow the new cash crop.
I think both are probably true, and both are probably a bit false too.
The real fact of the matter is that just like everything else in our economy, Big Business will become involved in ethanol on a collosal scale. American farmers won’t see any improvement in their condition because of an Ethanol boom. Already cheap corn is being shipped from oversees to coastal ethanol plants at a price, delivered, that is cheaper than the cost of American grain alone.
Of significant interest is the fact that, already in the US, enough corn is grown to provide all our food needs–if you call high-fructose corn syrup a food–and then some, even if much of it is diverted to Ethanol. However, the farmers and the subsidy freaks in Government won’t let you believe that. The truth of the matter is ethanol is a good thing, but ethanol from Corn is not. There should be no shortage of food or meat due to it, but power and money hungry corporations won’t let you see that, they will create a demand and price things accordingly.
Ethanol from corn is quite costly. There is the fuel, fertilizer–derived from oil–and transportation of the corn from planting to harvest: all powered by standard old petroleum diesel. Then there is the production of the ethanol. All in all it take about 3 gallons of petroleum product to produce one gallon of “environmentally friendly, clean burning” ethanol–how is that good? Hemp, switch grass, corn stalks–all these things should be viewed as the source of Ethanol–not vital crops. And until they can reduce the amount of crude oil involved, it really isn’t a viable alternative.
As for the corn, vegetables and meat all rising in costs, much of that is due to fuel increases because of poor foreign policy and bad energy policies at home. Our government has known such a day was coming, they could have planned for it and opened up free exploration into alternative energies with incentives long ago. Another thing which would help is to demand changes in a matter of a few years, not a decade wherein things will only get worse.
Temper all of this with the fact that each of us–average Americans that is–consumes up to 400 gallons of fuel each year for our food, much of which is in transportation. A tiny percentage is in consumers obtaining the food at the market, but a large portion goes towards the fertilizers, pesticides, planting, harvesting and processing of the food. Unless alternatives such as polyculturally grown organic food systems supported by a local economy are employed, then food will only continue to get more expensive–and not in a good way. Instead of spending more money for a superior, healthy, quality product of known origin we will be paying more for the same old crap we are fed now–mass produced, over processed pablum with suspect chemicals, problems and diseases and God knows what else (GMOs, traces of birth control hormones, heavy metals).
One day in the near future we will be total slaves to our food system and the corporations which control it unless something is done today.
Comment Podchef — September 27, 2006 @ 1:46 pm
I forgot to link to this interesting article from the BBC on this biofuel debate.
Comment Podchef — September 27, 2006 @ 1:54 pm
Just so you all know, the story of the Henshaw’s is absolutely true. I have spoken with authorities there and the occurence and methods are verified as being accurate by others than the Henshaws. I have more authorities to speak with, and this may take a little time, but it’s on the up and up.
Comment doreen — September 27, 2006 @ 3:41 pm
Thanks, doreen. What happened to the Henshaws sounded so terrible that at first, half of me hoped it wasn’t true. After what Breederville said in Post 18, I truly was beginning to wonder. Certainly wouldn’t want to be fooled for a false story. For if we folks fell for a hoax, the USDA would say we are blokes.
So thanks for clearing up my doubts, and by all means keep investigating. The USDA has really gotten out of hand, if they are doing “raids” like this. We certainly have a bone to pick with them.
Y’all might find the following interesting. It is a link to a page in the Veterinary Services section of the USDA website. My brother found it by googling pseudorabies. link
God Bless
Comment Goatman — September 27, 2006 @ 6:39 pm
Here are some other interesting links people may want to peruse: Wikipedia and USDA and USDA on Pseudorabies and USDA on depopulation and USDA Pseudorabies Q&A.
According to what is in the second to last document the Henshaws’ case has been completely mishandled.
Comment walterj — September 27, 2006 @ 7:10 pm
I’m not sure if this is the forum for this suggestion but here goes…I believe the average person and average legislator (that knows where votes come from) will agree with us that No Nais is a good idea once they
are “enlightened”.
Our problem remains getting the word out…which brings me to consider buying some radio air time or newspaper space or both, anybody know what it would cost and has this been suggested or done before? I know many of us have different economic backgrounds but I’d kick in a few bucks ($25?, $50?) if that would help. I’ve sent a few editorials out to New Hampshire newspapers which should run soon, good but I’m afraid not enough. I’m sure many others have done the same and more in their respective locales. I’m just concerned because most lay people I talk to express dismay over Nais, but had never heard of it before we talked. I respectfully suggest we need to get more main stream awareness…Anyone interested in an organized protest in front of the State house? (New Hampshire, but I’d drive to area states too if that’s what it takes)…might draw some media and requests for interviews etc.
[Ads are an excellent idea and quite a few people have done it using ads of their own design, reprinting the http://NoNAIS.org/handout or using ads from the directory http://NoNAIS.org/ads which I created. If you have specific needs for ad layout, let me know and I may be able to help. Sue F. who is in NH too is interested in doing something like you suggest. Barbara of http://MyDogVotes.com has also just created some ads which I’m about to post as well. Stay tuned. -WJ]
Comment Bob Constantine — September 27, 2006 @ 7:15 pm
The story about the Henshaw’s is extremely frightening in that it portends how the USDA will deal with “producers” who don’t want to cooperate.
Claim there is a disease, arrest anyone who may get in the way, and then kill everything and destroy the evidence, all while telling the unknowing public that they are “protecting” them.
This sounds much more like communistic Russia than the USA. I’m already feeling trepidation about making my views public for fear that I’ll be singled out later to be “made an example” for others.
There is something very wrong in this country that I would even have to worry about that.
[I have received independent confirmation of the Henshaw’s story from two separate independent trusted sources. Details to follow in time. We must be careful. This situation is the sort of nightmare we all fear from USDA Depopulation abuses.-WJ]
Comment Barbara — September 27, 2006 @ 7:22 pm
Bob, I’ve written the reps and senators several times. Last time I got nonsense babble about exotic milfoil. I do intend to keep trying. Somebody on staff is bound to get it eventually.
Walter has some nice ads already done on the sidebars of the page or if your artistic do your own.
Last ad I ran the little classified paper put in bold letters above the add OPINION. Don’t know if it helped or hindered the ad.
I’ve kept flyers and handouts on local bulletin boards. I do see people reading them and taking them but not nearly enough interest. Gets disheartening at times. I keep a few handouts in my car. Sometimes people ask and the handout explains it well. Gives them something to take home and ponder.
The flyers fly out of the holder at the local livestock auction. When I have the time to go I wind up talking until my throat is sore. Any animal related event would draw interest. One of the feed stores has left a poster hanging. The other an Agway, controled by Cargill did nothing with them. Owner did at least come to the conclusion that if implemented NAIS could drive up food costs 5 fold on his own.
I’m just a tiny hobby farm. I’ve dreamt since I was a kid of making a go at farming. Now that I have the land I have NAIS looming over my head threating to snatch it away. This farm itself has been in the my husbands family for over 250 years. I see NAIS as the death blow. I keep plodding along the best I can to restore this old farm and hopefully make it more than a hobby farm once again but the dark NAIS cloud makes it so very hard.
It’s sure uplifting to see somebody from NH taking more than a passing notice.
Comment Sue F — September 28, 2006 @ 3:42 am
have this people been FULLY compensated by the same authorities that commited such despicable and stupid mistake?
are there plans to compensate them? is the civil liberties group fighting in their behalf?
Comment gloria — September 28, 2006 @ 5:59 am
Re #20, 22, 23–I know this thread needs its own space, but one last thought, for the moment.
Fuel prices are on the decline. Grain, ie corn, prices are climbing. This is much like the state of affairs with the Nixon/Russia grain deal–an attempt at manipulating the vote. Gas will continue to drop until the election, then it will probably double rapidly. I don’t thing an outcome one way or another will help stabilize it. Grain prices will continue to rise as the promise of Ethanol looms–despite its realities. The farmers seeing an increase in their bottom line will be more likely to vote the party line. Never mind the fact that its the same party which has manipulated the costs all along. Subsidies are nothing more than buying votes one way or another.
Anti-NAIS sentiment could help swing the vote back into balance from this fuel/grain alteration, if we can get the word out in ever spreading circles.
Comment Podchef — September 28, 2006 @ 7:30 am
Premises Identification: A simple question begs to be asked…..who [b]*owns*[/b] Premises Identification Numbers and the information submitted on the supposed application form and your Ag profile? Your state? The USDA? The UN?
Anyone ever run across a document which specifies who owns it? And is the same entity who controls it?
I keep bumping into ‘administering’ and ‘managing’ but never who OWNS & CONTROLS your information!
Something to think about BEFORE considering signing on the dotted line.
Comment Celeste — September 28, 2006 @ 9:05 am
I Say: ” I Stand behind this article, of mine on www.Congress.org; as True and Accurate, as provided to me by CINDI HENSHAW.”
She is an Honest and Sincere person, who has been unduly assaulted, along with her husband.
There is “NO” excuse for GESTAPO-NAZI-like tactics of “Storm Troopers” PERIOD!
Last I knew, this Nation still had a working U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. Has anything changed here? Please let me know on the Constitution Issue! Should Congress and Law Enforcement with the USDA rename this Nation, NAZI-ville U.S. of J…ail!
When people of many NoNais groups, “claim” to be so righteous, and forthright, about fighting the USDA, and/ or their affiliates, that are Pro-NAIS, I have now observed the NoNais people, with some exceptions, to be: HYPOCRITES to CINDI and to the cause of freedom… involved in gossiping, circulating false, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th hand, information, and claiming to be investigators with no “EXPERIENCE, PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND, nor INTELLIGENCE!”
This article Stands! And I Stand by it!
Dean A. Ayers
Glenwood, Iowa
Comment DeanAFOSI (IOWA) — September 28, 2006 @ 3:31 pm
Has the Henshaw’s story gotten to the press yet, and if not, why not??? Rumors are running rampant on the net about this case. Most dissenters are saying that it’s a hoax and I’d like to have the means to SHOW them that it is not. Can I get some help on this? I’ve Googled every combination about this story that I could think of and nothing has come up. You’d think that if something like this had happened that a news group would jump on it.
Comment Alicia — September 28, 2006 @ 5:47 pm
Don’t worry Alicia. Walter will have the info up here. With proof too. Be patient.
Comment Breederville — September 28, 2006 @ 8:31 pm
I’m trying to find national news outlets that will run items about NAIS..period, including this one. But so far, I don’t even get responses back. I think that the government has their tenticles out and the news media under their control. They’re afraid of the public to find out about the realities of NAIS.
The one thing that I am really afraid of with the Henshaw slaughter, is that the USDA has people so scared of rabies (yes it is bad, but I think you know what I’m driving at), rgar when the suposid reason of “pseudorabies” is given, all that will stick in the public minds is “rabies”. There will need to be some top notch information on what pseudorabies really are, included in any article about these, what I call “murders”.
Comment Kim P. — September 28, 2006 @ 8:54 pm
I had to borrow a computer to get this out. I just left Danny and Cyndi Henshaws place yesterday around noon. We got there early morning and spent half a day looking at the destruction and mess left by the kill. Now if these animals were diseased why did the USDA put them in trailers that leaked blood out where the slow death of the shotgun blasts killed these animals? The blood is everywhere not in the quarantine area but where they drug animals down the road and after loaded blood was left even after heavy rain so can not imagine how much before the rains.
I went to the lawyers’ office with Danny and Cyndi and was given all the documents pertaining to their cases. The lawyer handed them as they were copied to me. I had them in a big envelope. Harold and I then left to go on and had been up for two days straight with only cat naps so we were so beat we decided not to drive but three hours before we stopped and got a motel room.
We intended to take a bath, eat and then sleep. We were so in shock of the ordeal we saw the aftermath of and tired that we just fell asleep.
The car was locked and my nonais notebook, the envelope with all the documents for Cyndi and Danny were in the bottom floorboard of the car. I had intended to bring them in but Harold said I was asleep as soon as I laid on the bed and he did not think of bringing them in.
He did double check locking the car because he had to go to Wal Mart and left me sleeping. He did not even stop for food but came back and went to sleep. The car was broken into during the night but all that was taken were any legal documents pertaining to the USDA. “Someone” only took the legal documents that I have had faxed to me and replaced but left a DVD player, many DVD’s we forgot to bring in, other valuables. The doors were still locked when we got up and when I went to look at the documents to read something for someone on the phone, all were there but the ones for USDA involvement in the cases. Nothing else touched or gone.
The kill order and quarantine order are dated the same.
Also the cost of the entire operation is being billed to Danny and Cindy. Cindy was under armed guard even though she was not under arrest. They are just in shock. Their animals not in the kill zone were killed and drug down the drive. The bloodbath was appalling and all evidence of the animals burned. They were not allowed to test at their own labs nor have their vet pull tests. No way to know if the samples are even their animals at all. They could be USDA lab samples for all anyone knows. USDA is not accountable for truth to anyone or verifiable proof that these are even the real samples. No check or balance or safeguards.
I can not get my head around the mess they left, human fecal matter, trash from carry outs, toilet paper, blood everywhere that if these animals were diseased then so is the blood trail they left hauling them off. That clean, pristine land was raped by these agents. I was there and saw their aftermath. Blood everywhere.
Folk’s we had better stop NAIS and get a right to farm in every state and Federally or it will be you and me next they will wipe out and it may be more than animals. The people that did the depopulation slaughter at Henshaws were bloodthirsty and cruel. They enjoyed destroying these people’s lives and hard work. Threats abound and even IRS was threatened on them… It was worse than any nightmare we can imagine and out crys must come from each of us and keep yelling until we reclaim our precious United States of America. We must be united and willing to fight to stop this insane NAIS and slaughters without safeguards taking place under a USDA that wants to wipe us out.
Comment Sue Karber — September 28, 2006 @ 9:58 pm
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Comment walterj — September 29, 2006 @ 7:31 am