The Proud Political Junkie’s Gazette
Despite some really eloquent speeches to the contrary, our ‘for sale’ House of Representatives passed the Food Fascism Act euphemistically called a food safety act, by a margin of about 140 over the naysayers.
True to form, Rosa DeLauro spoke about things she knows nothing about and couldn’t care less; Rosa just loves her some Monsanto!
And that exclusion for farms??? Gone! And that includes you organic idiots who thought you had kissed enough behinds to have your industry excluded.
The newly revised bill that appeared overnight after the original was defeated 29th of July, now includes all those farms we were told would not be affected by this legislation. Of course those big agri-corporations made out like bandits. Biopiracy is going to have a profitable future thanks to the political whores in congress we call our representatives.
The entire HR 2749 bill was completely wiped and replaced with an amendment that was the text of another bill similar to, but far more lethal than the first. Now, please tell me again that backroom deals and pre-planned votes don’t happen in congress. To make it look bi-partisan, some Democrats voted no, and some Republicans voted yes. This was to make you think they had actually debated and considered what they all intended to do anyway.
The bill that passed does only two things..it seizes control of food production and supply and then hands it over to big agri-corporations. The remaining content of the bill is a primer on enforcement – meaning all the powers they have granted themselves to prevent you from claiming Constitutional protections, and enabling them to violate your rights on multiple levels..all for food safety of course.
There is NOTHING in this bill that will address, prevent or otherwise affect the safety of food. This was federal encroachment which will be extended to the states with the cooperation of state officials. This bill did nothing but establish a police agency, granting it massive and uncontrolled enforcement capabilities allowing it to make up even more rules to benefit its corporate sponsors, as it moves along.
Oh! And did I mention this will be done by expanding the FDA? The FDA for god’s sake!
A November 2007 report titled “Subcommittee on Science and Technology, FDA Science and Mission at Risk” doc was a scathing review of the not only the inadequacies of FDA, but the fact that it in no way can assure the safety of food in the United States.
That report cited the massive failure of FDA to perform even its basic functions, going on to declare the agency’s problems were the result of corporate influence and funding. It should have been declared defunct right then and there, but of course the lobbyists who stalk the hallways of congress on behalf bio-pirates and other parasitic corporations just wouldn’t hear of such a thing.
I can only assume the report on the massive failure of FDA to operate on even a cursory level ended up in the restrooms to wipe the behinds of all those royal asses who hold down seats in the House and who voted today to end competition for industrialized corporate producers while wiping out family and independent operations.
And it wasn’t just the House that sold us out. In the last few months various organic associations and other assorted producers came out with what they described as “myths on the net” about the intention of these bills. These bills were not going to apply to family and independent farms and ranches and surely not to organic growers. That was just internet hysteria! I wonder who was hysterical last evening as this bill passed specifically bringing them under the expanded FDA authority?
And drinks all around!
I have no doubt that dinner and drinks were being supplied last evening by corporate lobbyists as a way to thank House members for passing this seizure of the US food production and supply. FDA was probably pouring the champagne.
I wonder if anyone thought to invite those organic groups?
Maybe they could give everyone a big dose of Vioxx when they arrive, spike it with a Gardasil shot and then wash it all down with a big giant super sized diet soda loaded with that yummy aspartame. This should all be followed by a meal consisting of gmo infected fruits and veggies with a big slab of genetically altered meat just oozing antibiotics, growth hormones and the residues from chemicals of all kinds, shipped in from a country who gave their word they ‘inspected’ the food before shipping it.
After all, thanks to Henry Waxman and his cohorts in Constitutional Crime, that’s what is going to end up on our plates.
(C) 2009 Marti Oakley
July 31, 2009
Tags: bio-pirates, fake food safety, farms, food fascism, GMO, Henry Waxman, industrialized corporate farming, organic growers, ranches
I think we all need to decide what we are going to do as individuals when the ramifications of this come waltzing up our driveways. To all who read this, for your consideration:
Civil Disobedience: The Right of Revolution
http://spktruth2power.wordpres.....evolution/
AMEN Barbara. Resistance is EVERTHING.
Growing your own food garden is a PATRIOTIC act of resistance.
The more you grow, the less they sell. Heritage seeds are best.
Resistance is everYthing.
Yeah, I can’t wait till the garden police come up the driveway.
Thankfully we are surrounded by hundreds of acres of fields so
there’s lots of room to buy lots of FDA bodies ;o) If those
bastards think I’m going to eat meat, veggies and fruit from the
grocery grocery store they have another thing coming in the form
of a load of buck shot. I can’t wait till they face the farmers
around here who are locked and loaded.
Well, now we know why the Obamas planted that White House garden in untested & lead laden soil. The “toxic produce”, from that garden, includes the passage of this House Bill.
The problem is that US citizens haven’t been teaching the Constitution and its history to their children for many generations. Otherwise citizens would be able to stop Congress dead in its tracks with respect to trying to regulate agriculture based on constitutionally nonexistent federal government powers. This is evidenced by the following case precedent established by Justice Owen Roberts.
1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sCpsq55uic
2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3MSX_YM1Gc
3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYzXp2eUGz8
4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abZp6MkSFx0
5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38burerNKB8
Wow…just wow. And the stupid lefties that are organic growers would not listen to me when I warned them…..because I am a conservative. A conservative that was an organic beef producer for 23 years. Maybe they should try and remember that you can’t have “conservation” without conservative.
What happened to the progressives screaming about factory farms and ranches,hmmm? What happened to all the lefties screaming about America inc.?
Their “messiah” and his cronies just handed everything over to the biggest and worst corporations in America.
I hope they like eating hypocrisy….because that’s what is being served up.Well, that and a big dose of Monsanto…the worst corporation to ever come down the pike.
I am sick of the bought and paid for Congressional Whores representing the CEOs and CFOs of Agricultural Corporations and the Illuminati. I will go back to the Code of the Hills, come on my land and my 20 dogs will eat you, as they did the female census taker in NC. Touch my food and eat a bullet.
…and how is this not in violation of the 10th Amendment?
We should be able to indict everyone who voted for this via statewide grand juries.
Sigh. Where’s the line in the sand now?
Marti or Barbara,
What exactly is in the “revised” version that passed?
Is there someplace to see the highlights or some truthfull analysis?
Does it still have to pass in the Senate to become law?
THANKS for all your dedication to what this country is really supposed to be about.
Here is the latest version of HR 2749: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/.....1:H.R.2749:
Yo! Does anybody have the yea/nay list? And if anybody knows who got bucks from Big Pharma, Agri-Biz, etc. I’d like that too! I’m going to try to educate the Senate before Doomesday! (Couldn’t believe the “skip the rules, change the bill, let’s vote” phenom!)
Let me know if you’ve got anything! Use the term “Jackasses” in the subject title. KathleenMLarkin@aol.com (that’s real, so be nice! But I am running out of time! :) (Aren’t we all?)
Marti, I just heard Derry Brownfield read your article and I was in hysterics and sad at the same time. Oh goodness, what is going to happen to all of us “useless eaters” as Rockefeller and Ted Turner calls us? Are we all going to be forced to eat this franken food? Look I already have symptoms of M.S. and epilipsy, what else do these evil, non humans, want to do to us?
All I can say is, “Come quickly Lord Jesus.”
MTC in California (The Tarnished State)
what can we do, When they force GOD out the hedges that protect us are gone is it written that all these things are to take place so Jesus can come, sooner than later?
I see that the whores of congress are going to continue to destroy as much as possible until we kick their asses out in November. Never have so many individuals been so stupid about so much that the few will become richer and the rest of us will have to fight another war for our freedom.