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Re: [RC] National ID - Joe LongYou think this is scary ... how long before they pass a law requiring microchips in people? Then they could track any time you enter a public building, or ride on a bus, train, or airplane. They have two rationales to use: terrorism and illegal immigration. Never happen here? I hope not ... but ... On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:33:10 -0800 (PST), Anita Messenger <libertymtn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: I beg to differ, but it has NOTHING to do with "controlling diseases". That may be what they are telling you, but it's not true. And I am not a "conspiracy" nut - We were breeders of a nationally known herd of registered dairy goats, and happen to know that this ID thing has been "in the works" for many years now, long before even "mad cow"...they were just waiting for the opportune time to start forcing people to go along with it despite the huge invasion of privacy/private property/loss of freedom issues this raises. When the federal government started forcing states to force sheep and goat owners to register their premises and issue state ID for every animal (even if you just have a pet wether that is born and dies on your place and never leaves it), our family chose to disperse our dairy goat herd and thereby completely lose decades of our breeding rather than let the federal government intrude on our privacy in such an unacceptable manner. In fact, we EXPORTED every kid we had born for the last five years of our breeding rather than leave them in this country. Those kids went through every kind of testing for diseases that you can think of - not a single one was rejected for export. Thousands of other dairy goats were also exported at the same time (part of "orders" from other countries), and the exporter said they all passed their testing. When you want to remain half way profitable in the world of breeding livestock, you HAVE to keep your animals healthy. We have been doing that just fine without the government intruding and saving us from ourselves. -- Joe Long jlong@xxxxxxxx http://www.rnbw.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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