USDA SWAT Team Goes Shopping for Night Scopes

It’s an exciting day for me, one in which I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and envision the publication of my next book.  It’s on track to be completed soon and visions of cover themes are dancing through my mind.

Then something happens to make my light dim. I read this. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) wants to buy sub-machine guns.  What do they need them for? Are they afraid of felonious alfalfa? Or murderous tomatoes? Or do they plan on slaughtering American citizens? After all, today’s USDA is no friend to farmers, no friend to agriculture. The USDA is led by Tom Vilsack, the most animal rights leaning Secretary to date. In fact, the USDA is rife with extremists from top to bottom.

In just the past few years, the USDA attempted to fine a rabbit breeder in Missouri $3.9 million dollars for failing to get a federal license to breed a couple of rabbits. Animal rights extremist, and USDA Branch of Enforcement officer Sarah Conant said they could settle the government claims for $90 thou and agree to never own an intact animal again in their lives. The Dollarhites channeled their inner Clive Bundy and said, NO THANKS, and complained to Congress. Perhaps Bunny Team Six needs sub-machine guns when they go after a single magician with a rabbit in his hat?

Or how about Dean Moyer of Sand Valley Farms in Pennsylvania who breeds hamsters, mice, rats, and gerbils for a living?  Sarah Conant attempted to put Dean Moyers out of business and fine him $450,000 for a $2 hamster. Or how about Triple F Farm also in sunny Pennsylvania? Conant and PETA attempted to destroy the Triple F Farm for “dead ferrets” except that there weren't any dead ferrets. What the USDA found was some minor rust on a chair leg and a few bits of broken wire on six enclosures. Turns out ferrets love to chew wire. Do we need sub-machine guns to shut down Triple F Farms?

Or how about USDA elephant <cough> 'expert' <cough> Denise Sofranko? Does she need a sub-machine gun while she travels around the North American continent trying to steal elephants and gift them over to her animal rights buddies? She tried to destroy Doug Terranova in order to steal his elephants after already successfully stealing a tiger from one of his employees. She also hushed up the inhumane transport of the Toronto Zoo elephants to California after animal rights activists succeed in pressuring Toronto politicians into giving the elephants to an animal rights sanctuary with Tuberculosis and a history of dead elephants.  Experienced elephant transporters refused to have anything to do with the Toronto situation and turned down the job.  Instead a novice shipper transported them chained into semi-tractor trailers, unable to stretch their limbs, sit or lay down for over 60 hours while being trucked over the Donner Pass known as the worst stretch of highway in the world.   The Toronto Zoo keepers who deeply cared about their elephants wanted them sent to an accredited TB-free facility in Florida but were overruled by politicians who know nothing of elephants.

And what about those 30 round magazines listed in their Solicitation? Do you really need 30 rounds to take down an elephant handler? And night sights? When are the pencil pushing bureaucrats at the USDA bothering to work nights? Hell we can’t even get them to protect America’s food supply in the day time. They’d much rather spend their time destroying Aunt Millie and the litter of puppies she had in her bedroom to protect America from the joys of owning a dog.

Or maybe the USDA needs those sub-machine guns with night scopes and 30 rounds a pop to take out the Tennessee Walking Horse industry. After all, Dr. Rachel Cezar, a USDA horse <cough> 'expert' <cough> has already admitted that they hate horses.

All these stories and more will be in my upcoming book due to be released this summer. Thank you USDA for providing me with yet more ammunition.

The USDA Hates Horses

Every day stories surface of bureaucratic overreach. The EPA is a regular target and deservedly so, but rarely does the media cover the USDA. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) was formed to protect and promote agriculture. Seems clear right? That's why it's called the Department of Agriculture, after all.  In fact the USDA’s mission statement is “We provide leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, rural development, nutrition, and related issues based on sound public policy, the best available science, and efficient management.” So why then, is the USDA on a crusade to destroy farmers, horse breeders, dog breeders, hamster breeders, circuses, zoos, animal exhibitors, and magicians? Why then is the USDA hell bent on destroying anyone who owns an animal? 

While this anti-animal attitude at USDA isn't new, it has accelerated in recent years under the current secretary, Tom Vilsack, who takes his marching orders from the extremists. Other anti-animal extremists have infiltrated the USDA such as Sarah Conant, the Branch Chief of Enforcement at APHIS, a division of USDA. But that isn't all. Down to low level inspectors, the anti-animal attitude is pervasive.  Take for example the Tennessee Walking Horse. The USDA has singled out and targeted the entire Tennessee Walking Horse industry for destruction.  Government inspectors regularly harass children at shows until they are in tears. Inspectors, many of whom know nothing about horses are fabricating allegations of horse abuse to destroy the horse’s owners.  Why?  Because they hate the horses and their owners and are using federal government power to crush and destroy them. 

At the 2012, Tennessee Walking Horse national show called the Celebration, notorious USDA horse hater Earnest Johnson disqualified numerous horses that had just passed inspections by other inspectors.  When a horse is "disqualified" by a USDA inspector, that horse is declared to have been "abused" by its owner or trainer.   Animal abuse in other words.  A vicious dirty charge on level with accusing someone of being a pervert.   Only evil people abuse horses, right?  

"[A] local horse passed USDA inspection twice on Thursday and was found to be free of scars.  On Friday, the same horse was disqualified under the scar rule, even though it is medically impossible to develop a scar on both feet within 24 hours."  Dr. Stephen Mullins, president of SHOW. 

How did this horse fail inspection and as such be declared to have been abused?   The following email was sent by Dr. Rachel Cezar to Earnest Johnson in 2010.

"I hear several of us say when we are around each other that we hate horses, we know nothing about horses, or we are doing this for the money.  No one may say this to someone in the industry but even if we say it around our peers, it still may get back to the industry."
USDA Horse Protection Coordinator Dr. Rachel Cezar.  

Please explain to me why this woman still has her job!  The American taxpayer is paying this woman's salary.  They should demand that she and all the other USDA horse haters be fired immediately.  

In just two years, the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders' and Exhibitor's Association has lost 2,300 breeders and exhibitors due to the USDA.   For those that are left, they are taking action to protect themselves from the bureaucrats at the USDA including undercover filming of abusive and threatening inspectors.   In May of 2014, a video surfaced showing a USDA inspector attempting to pretend he had discovered a 'scar' in order to eject a horse from a horse show and charge its owner with abuse.  Amazingly enough, when caught in the act, the USDA was bold enough to tell the media that "sweat, dust and dirt" can cause a violation of the so-called scar rule for horses.  That violation will be reported to the public as cruel horse abuse. The public will believe that these owners are actually beating and cruelly abusing their horses, instead of the real truth.  The horse was simply sweaty.  Since when has sweat become abusive treatment of a horse?  

The infiltration of animal rights extremists, the resulting federal overreach of the USDA and their victims in the Tennessee Walking Horse industry are just one part of my upcoming book, Animal Rights = No Animals Left, due to be released later this year.