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Title: NY Dairy Farmer Turns the Tables When the Ag Inspectors Arrive for a Mystery Visit
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Published: Nov 9, 2007
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Post Date: 2007-11-09 11:20:47 by innieway
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Comments: 33

Over the last two weeks, Andrea Elliott has been writing emails to farm associations, her Congressman, and members of the U.S. House and Senate agriculture committees-- -all urging that the upcoming farm bill not include funding for the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). She and her husband, Jim, own a dairy farm in the Catskill Mountains of New York, and she made it plain in her notes that she is adamantly opposed to registering the farm's 80 cows under the federal program.

Yesterday (Monday) she received a call from an inspector with the New York Department of Food and Markets in Albany that he planned to come by the farm for a special inspection, based on "a complaint" made to the department's Division of Milk Control and Dairy Services.

Andrea couldn't imagine who might have complained, and what the complaint might have been about. Her farm, Crystal Brook Farms, sells nearly all its milk to a local creamery for pasteurization. She sells a few gallons of raw milk occasionally to individuals who stop in with their own containers, under New York rules that allow sale of 25 gallons a month without a permit.

Today (Tuesday), the inspector, Bradley Lyle Houck, arrived from Albany, two hours away, together with her regular local dairy inspector, and Andrea was prepared. As soon as they arrived, "I turned on my video camera. I think that made them a little uncomfortable. "

Then, she says, "I asked the state inspector to fill out my form." Her form is a three-page "public service questionnaire" that asks for the inspector's identity, his principal reason for doing the inspection, how the information he gathers will be used, and other such data. "He shook his head and refused," says Andrea. "He said, 'I have to be authorized by Albany.'" He tried to make a call on his cell phone, but couldn't complete the call because the farm area has no cell reception.

Andrea persisted. "I said, This is our property and I can require you to fill it out.'" He offered his state ID and badge.

Andrea moved on. "I asked him why he was here and he said a complaint was received in Albany."

What was the complaint? "He said he couldn't tell me."

Who filed the complaint? "He wouldn't tell me. He just wouldn't go any further. He said all complaints that come into Albany are treated as confidential. "

"I asked him what statute allows a complaint to be treated as confidential. He said he couldn't quote a statute."

At that point, the inspector asked if they could talk off-camera. Andrea declined.

"He said, 'I guess the best thing would be for us to come back another time." The two got back into their car and took off.

Andrea adds, "At no time did I deny him the inspection. I didn't ask him to leave. All I did was ask him for specific reasons for the inspection.. .I have a right to know who my accuser is."

Andrea seems to have added an entirely new dimension to the agricultural inspection. Especially one with such an intriguing coincidence connecting it to NAIS.


Poster Comment:

Here is a prime example of someone KNOWING that we STILL have rights in this country IF you KNOW what they are and HOW TO APPLY THEM.

NO ONE BUT YOU can assert your rights!!! Don't be fooled into thinking that assertion of your "rights" is something your lawyer can do for you. YOU must know WHAT they are, and WHEN and HOW to use them to have them. Otherwise, then NO - you DON'T have rights...

Here is a very important court decision (which has NOT be repealed) which outlines this perfectly. In US. vs.Johnson (76 Fed Supp. 538), Federal District Court Judge James Alger Fee ruled that:
"The privilege against self-incrimination is neither accorded to the passive resistant, nor to the person who is ignorant of his rights, nor to one indifferent thereto. It is a FIGHTING clause. It's benefits can be retained only by sustained COMBAT. It cannot be claimed by attorney or solicitor. It is valid only when insisted upon by a BELLIGERENT claimant in person."

It would probably be a good idea for everyone to have copies of the "public service questionnaire", and be ready to use them. You can download the form here.

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#7. To: (#0)

What kind of loser goes to work for the government as an inspector?

Alan Chapman  posted on  2007-11-09   11:54:32 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Alan Chapman (#7)

What kind of loser goes to work for the government as an inspector?

What kind of loser goes to work for the government - PERIOD?

Apparently there are a lot of losers out there. Government (on all levels) is by FAR the largest employer in this country.

innieway  posted on  2007-11-09   12:07:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: innieway (#9)

What kind of loser goes to work for the government - PERIOD?

Me.

I did it for 25 years. Best and worst job I ever had.

Not all Gubmint workers are slugs and drones. For every ten "workers" there are at least three burrowcrats that are stiffing the taxpayers.

Cynicom  posted on  2007-11-09   12:15:46 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: Cynicom (#12)

Not all Gubmint workers are slugs and drones.

Whether or not government employees are nice people is really beside the point.

They are paid with plundered loot and they have the power to ruin people's lives.

Alan Chapman  posted on  2007-11-09   14:16:44 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: Alan Chapman (#19)

Whether or not government employees are nice people is really beside the point.

I suspect I and most of the people here were aware of that quite some time ago.

Cynicom  posted on  2007-11-09   14:44:37 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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