Notification of Illegal Transport (Notice the sign is in grid fashion)

Celeste Bishop

In this article I photographically documented 2 miles of checkpoint signs leading up to the actual checkpoint. These photographs were taken on Friday, July 30, 2010 in Montana.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —

Are you aware that an international agricultural health code has been implemented down to the state and local level? There is actually a trilogy in the Terrestrial Health Code (THC) series, each over 1300 pages with the mandate to control all life. Many of us have become desensitized to the mostly unconstitutional travel checkpoint. In researching this article I made an attempt to discover the history of travel checkpoints but was unable to find their origins. Societies that desired the strong arm of control instituted capricious and demanding checkpoints. Today the government has expanded their checkpoint system from border crossing inspections to state and local roads for a variety of “reasons” from the war on drugs (DUI), insurance mandates, vehicle defects, to seatbelts. Most Americans are unaware that around 2006 most states have instituted unconstitutional agricultural checkpoints. What are the implications of such actions taken by these United States of the Republic?

If your state is moving towards state sovereignty or you know someone in the trenches fighting for state sovereignty this is a must have manual.  The book is written by Bill Howell and Bill Redd.  It is 524 pages with a Table of Contents and an index.

You can listen 24/7  to a riveting interview with hostess  Devvy Kidd and co-author  Bill Howell  on Devvy’s June 8, 2010 show.  www.devvy.com (under archives)

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From the trenches,

Celeste

A National AgLaw Center Research Publication

Elizabeth R. Rumley

Staff Attorney

National Agricultural Law Center

On February 5, 2010, the Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, announced the abandonment of the National Animal Identification System (“NAIS”), which was a voluntary federal program meant to identify and trace the movement of animals throughout their life cycle. NAIS was implemented in order to facilitate the quick identification of animals that had been exposed to a potential disease threat. Instead of NAIS, Secretary Vilsack explained that a new approach would be taken, with states and tribal governments bearing responsibility for their respective identification programs. Since the programs are now state-based, they will necessarily be governed by state-specific laws as well. This compilation of States’ Animal Identification Statutes provides the statutory text of each state’s laws dealing with animal identification programs, along with the date of its possible expiration. The primary aim of this compilation is to provide the researcher with easy and free access to a state’s statutory language by simply clicking on the state’s image in the map below.

For the map go to this link:  http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org/assets/animalid/index.html

I will be posting this excerpt and other founding liberty documents & articles at www.nonaiswa.org.  We can use these foundation tools as we go forth tackling tyranny on a personal level and together in the political realm.

http://www.nonaiswa.org/?p=6052

The Common Law

Robert D. Stacey, PhD.

Commenting on Sir William Blackstone

[God] has been pleased to contrive the constitution and the frame of humanity, that we should want no other prompter to inquire after and pursue the rule of right, but only our own self-love, that universal principle of action.  For he has so intimately connected, so inseparably interwoven the laws of eternal justice with the happiness of each individual, that the latter cannot be attained but by observing the former…”

Man’s true and lasting happiness then, is found to adherence to God’s law, which God has graciously given him the faculty to discern.

Food Safety: The Worst of Both Bills (HR 2749 & S 510)

BY PETE KENNEDY, ESQ.

File: 050610–Food_Safety_The_Worst.pdf

If S 510 (the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act) passes the Senate, there would be a conference committee between members of the House and Senate to draft a food safety bill that would combine provisions of S 510 and HR 2749 (the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009) into a final version of the bill. The full House and Senate each would vote on this version of the bill to determine whether the food safety bill becomes law.

S.510 and HR 2749 represent landmark legislation that will significantly increase the federal government’s power to regulate intrastate commerce while hurting this country’s ability to produce safe food and to become self-sufficient in food production.

Both bills take a one-size-fits-all approach towards food regulation, threatening to leave small farmers and local producers unable to afford the cost of complying with the legislation’s requirements. They would also significantly increase the power of the federal government to regulate intrastate commerce and give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) substantially greater power overall while making the agency less accountable for its actions.

In reality, neither bill would improve food safety; in fact, the new requirements would cause an increase in imported food, a major source of the food safety problems in this country. Either bill would diminish the freedom and liberty Americans currently have to obtain the food of their choice from the source of their choice. What follows is a review of the more damaging provisions of the two bills under the following subheadings:

A. National Agriculture and Food Defense Strategy

B. Authority over Movement of Food

C. Criminal and Civil Penalties

D. HACCP Plans

E. Food Traceability

F. Safety Standards for Produce

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Convention Schedule Friday May 21, 2010 10am-6:00pm Registration at The Adams Center 12pm-5:30pm Booths open* 2-4pm Rally Caras Park Missoula 3-5:30pm Tailgate Party – details soon 6-7:00pm Opening Ceremonies – Mona Docteur 7-8:30pm Main Speaker: Chuck Baldwin 8:30-10:00pm Dance- Kyle Shobe Band *Booths will not be open during main events Saturday May 22, 2010 8am doors open and registration 9am-1:00pm Red Beckman, Sheriff Richard Mack and Gary Marbut 1-1:45pm Lunch break 1-5:45pm Booths open* 1:45-4pm Workshops -Learn how to start your own “Celebrating Conservatism” model group -Learn how to implement “Liberty Bell” system 4-6:00pm Dinner break 6-7:00pm Band – The Lifers 7-10:00pm Schaeffer Cox and Kitty Werthmann Closing ceremonies Mona Docteur *Booths won’t be open during main events Times subject to changes.

Today the United States Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Stevens that a federal law banning videos showing animal abuse violates the First Amendment right to free speech.

The ruling was 8-1, with Justice Alito the lone dissenter. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion for the majority, which can be accessed by clicking here. Roberts found the law was overly broad, and according to Robert Barnes reporting for the Washington Post, Roberts “rejected the government’s argument that whether certain categories of speech deserve constitutional protection depends on balancing the value of the speech against its societal costs.”

Karen Leeb, JD, MLS, Denise Chrysler, JD, and Richard Goodman, MD, JD, MPH, recently authored the article “The Social Distancing Law Project Template: A Method for Jurisdictions to Assess Understanding of Relevant Legal Authorities” in the March issue of the journal Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, © 2010 American Medical Association. The article summarizes the Social Distancing Law Project (SDLP) and its implementation by 17 selected jurisdictions in 2007, and reports on the experience of one jurisdiction, Michigan, as a case example. Ten additional states are implementing the project in 2010. The article also describes the SDLP template developed for other state and local health officials’ use in assessing their legal preparedness for communicable disease outbreaks. The template and additional resources can be downloaded from http://www2a.cdc.gov/phlp/SDLP. The CDC Public Health Law Program gratefully acknowledges the American Medical Association’s permission to post this article.

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“As part of its plan to address these action items, HHS asked CDC to evaluate the sufficiency and understanding of states’ existing legal authorities to implement such social distancing measures as suspension of public gatherings, quarantine, and curfew, among other limits on movement, as well as their legal authority to dispense antiviral and other prescription drugs on a mass or community-wide basis.”

Study suggests environment may impact apes’ ability to understand declarative communication

[Watch the sudden pulse of human activity be commingled with that of the animal kingdom as we go down the slippery slope of the legal status between animals and humans]

March 15, 2010 When we notice somebody pointing at something, we automatically look in the direction of the gesture. In humans, the ability to understand this type of gesturing (known as declarative communication) may seem to be an automatic response, but it is actually a sign of sophisticated communication behavior. Numerous studies have tried to determine if great apes (for example, chimpanzees and bonobos) are able to understand declarative communication, but results have been mixed.