How to Withdraw from NAIS (National Animal Identification System) STEP BY STEP
7 June 2009 at 12:20:56 PM
salon
I saw this video and thought I would also put in the links step by step. As the video says, it's voluntary and you don't have to be in it and in fact, some people have been put in withou their permission. Unless you LIKE the government being able to violate your constitutional rights, go withdraw if you're signed up. It is, again VOLUNTARY and even though stooges like Tom Vilsack want to try to make it mandatary, people don't WANT it, and are fighting it. You fight too by getting out if you're in.
Step 2. There is a link called "Register Your Premises Today". Gee, where's the GET ME OUT OF THIS BIG BROTHER PROGRAM? Well, you have to click on the Register Your Premises Link because it's buried under there.
Step 4: Find your State, either through the drop down box or scroll down the page. Copy and save the name and address and all contact information about your state NAIS administrator. Is there anything on the web there that lets you get out? Nope. But you're going to
Step 5: Write a letter to your State NAIS administrator and ask him or her to remove you permanently remove your name and property from the STATE AND the Federal NAIS registers. Ask him to send you a copy of his letter to the USDA and to notify you immediately when your name and property have been removed. Copy your letter and send a copy to your state representatives, your congressman and both senators and be sure and put the CC information on your letter to the State NAIS administrator. Make a copy of the letter for yourself. Send the letter to the state NAIS administrator by certified mail and keep a copy of your receipt.
Step 6: Keep a log of all your activity and requests of the NAIS Administrator. After 2 weeks of sending the certified letter (and getting back the receipt thus showing that he or she picked it up from the post office), call the state NAIS office (which you have from the contact information, above) and ask if the letter has been forwarded to the USDA and when that was done. Write down on your log the date and conversation and a note about it. As the video says "Be diplomatic, but diligent". If you don't get a reply back within another week, call up again. Be persistent until you get back a written reply that you and your property have been removed.
Very interesting. Apparently NAIS is voluntary in the sense that you can go through a lot of stupid b.s. to be removed. However, if you're a small-timer, the Feds will have to go through a lot of b.s. to find you, won't they?
Civil disobedience is the solution. If they 'find' you, then follow the instructions in the video. Otherwise, forget it and go fishing.
The problem, hb, is that the government is enlisting the assistance of organizations at the local level to help register premises, etc. Right now NAIS is voluntary except that, as the video notes, there are those who have been added to the database either without realizing what it was or, in the case of, say, 4h kids, being required to be part of it in order to show cattle at youth shows. I am not myself registered so I don't have to go through with this. One very good reason to de-register if someone IS registered is not only the reasons above, but also so that the USDA has even less numbers than they already do (poor showing) of those who are enrolled. I am with you about civil disobedience if this does become mandatory, but the organization is structured so that veterinarians and local and state animal health agencies will be enlisted as eyes and ears.
