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Tying The Knot With NAIS
Before
I tell you something you are unlikely to believe, let me give
you a little background. PAWS set the stage on new legislation
which like most, is profit-driven. Like PAWS, defeating
NAIS will take a lot of education
and initiative from animal owners.
Connect the dots, call 'em knots, call it
a genuine, real-life conspiracy. Whatever. Read
this,
then call your friends!
Secrecy
surrounding the National Animal Identification System has finally sprung a leak
but has yet to reach the public. Read on and understand why its
been suppressed by the media. Even by dog magazines. Do you know anyone else
who knows what you're about to learn? Were it not for the
Shannons
[smokeyvly@toledotel.com] and Mary Zanoni, Ph.D.
(Cornell), J.D. (Yale)
mlz@slic.com TheDogPress would not have known either.
New
law mandates GPS satellite tracking - that is a major headline but it has been kept
quiet. Can you imagine the networks ignoring a law that
means tracking every food animal, even a
chicken raised for the family’s own consumption?
Can’t you just hear Rush Limbaugh’s
monolog? “The chickens are out! Call a Democrat!”
Seriously, every time a pleasure horse leaves the owner’s
premises, the government will know when and where it went, and
failure to report it can bring stiff penalties!
Bill O’Reilly, where are you? Did you know that every piece of
property on which resides a food animal must be registered in
Big Brother’s database? Did you know that detailed information
about the property owner will be part of that database?
Sean Hannity, the guy who broke the
figures on the Gulf Coast cleanup needs to know NAIS forebodes
even more staggering costs, part of which would be the massive
tracking database. The database is to be “privatized” i.e.
run by someone other than the government. Who will get the
NAIS contract?
NAIS
costs to be recouped by selling
private information. Some lucky company make money selling information about the premises owner
and their habits! The system will
record where and for how the horse, cow, pig, or chicken is
sold.
Why
has this been kept so hush-hush? Why hasn’t the secrecy/privacy
issue crossed the aisle of political debate? Probably for the
same reason PAWS never made media news. There's plenty of
payback to go around.
PAWS and NAIS connect profiteering politicians through a
tenuous but not surprising link. You know the old saying,
“follow the money.” In this case, follow
power and egotism, but be prepared; the path to political power is as
crowded as Sunday morning jogger routes in Central Park!
PAWS, Santorum, GPS connection. If you haven’t yet heard of
Digital Angel and Senator Rick Santorum, read on. Savvy dog
people know that the good Senator is the power behind PAWS,
still on the table in 2008.
TheDogPlace
called PAWS “the worst threat to dog
breeders in history.”
Wrong
on two counts:
NAIS is a newer, greater threat to all animal owners and
Santorum seems willing to abdicate his throne
on PAWS to Senator Durbin. See links below. Perhaps
there’s more prestige connected with a position on the Board of
Directors of Applied Digital Technologies, the parent company of
Digital Angel? The popular Tennessee politician Tommy Thompson
thought so. And what you ask, does Digital Angel have to do with
PAWS, and now this new thing, this NAIS?
Okay, the first answer is to be found in this self-description:
"Digital Angel Corporation develops advanced RFID and GPS
technologies that enable rapid and accurate identification,
location tracking, and condition monitoring of high-value
assets. Applications for our products include identification and
monitoring of pets, humans, fish and livestock through our
patented implantable microchips as well as message monitoring of
aircraft in remote locations through integrated GPS and
geosynchronous satellite communications systems. "
Now that you can see how enforcement of PAWS would profit a
microchip company and you know how one thing leads to another….
GPS Tracking $$$ After microchip technology to “protect our pets” and “stop the
importation of masses of foreign dogs” there comes GPS tracking
of every living thing on the planet.
Wow, forget about the
millions of dollars to be made from convincing USDA to institute PAWS, and don’t even count the profit potential for
“not for profit” organizations like AKC which agreed to take some of the burden of inspections off the USDA.
For a price of course. Either way, the taxpayer pays for PAWS.
And so does the dog breeder, private or commercial. We
predict inspection fees will be quickly instituted but that’s
another story.
Go back and reread the part about “monitoring” and “humans.”
Given no impediments to progress, your children will almost
certainly receive an implant and your grandchildren will welcome
it! Amber Alerts would no longer be needed. There are
admitted benefits to the technology. But let’s get back to the here and now.
NAIS is here now. It is already implemented on a voluntary
basis in many states and is scheduled to really roll over the
next couple of years. The same legislation-crafters and backers who
invented PAWS only took a tiny little stumble when dog people
said “no, we ain’t gonna roll over and play dead.” They just
hitched up their pants, dumped a few more bucks to the lobbyists
and PR machines and quietly proceeded to where the real money
is.
How many chickens and pigs are there in the civilized world?
Can’t count that high? Okay, then how many cows in Texas? Okay
let’s narrow the chip thing down to just a tiny little country
like – ummm, let’s see….. how about Portugal?
Chew on this for a minute, it’s from a Digital Angel press
release. “The Portuguese dog identification program is
being conducted in conjunction with the country's annual rabies
vaccination drive. The Portuguese ministry was prompted to
undertake the project because other countries in Europe had
experienced excellent results….. The deadline for all of
Portugal's approximately 2 million dogs to be identified and
registered in a national database is 2007. ….. (Digital Angel's
partner) is Atlanta-based Merial, one of the world's leading
animal healthcare companies. …. pet identification is prominent
throughout Europe, thanks also to the recently enacted European
Union's Pet Passport Initiative.”
There!
We didn’t have to count. Two million dogs will be chipped in
just the tiny country of Portugal. Remember, that doesn’t
include other pets and it doesn’t include Europe.
Microchipping was just a precursor to GPS tracking by NAIS.
Stop and think. PAWS was a first step. It brought up many
"issues" by AKC and HSUS.
Microchip, microchip, microchip. Forget about DNA but for
goodness sake, microchip. What if your dog is lost?
PAWS
was to smooth the way, enforce chipping, get AKC into your homes
via “inspections” and yes, ultimately, to insure that you live
up to those ridiculous USDA requirements written by non-animal
people who think of dogs as rabbits... But I digress.
Look at the words “animal healthcare companies.” If
you don’t make that connection, save this, we’re almost done,
and later, go to
Bad Medicine or
Project: Vaccines
Reference Vickie Haywood's column
SHOW ME
THE MONEY: spychips!
Yes, there’s more tying the knot to follow. This is a bit like being told your 14 year old
daughter is pregnant. First you don’t believe it. Then you
accept the truth and comfort her. Then you begin to think of the
implications and want to castrate the guy that did this to her.
Then you take another look at your beautiful daughter and decide
whether being a financially and morally responsible grandparent
(read that as owner) is in your future. There are no easy
decisions but they have to be made.
Barbara J.
Andrews
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