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.

A Government For the People and By the People and the People are Pissed!

24 hours later, 24 hours of reflection, and I'm still pissed.   In fact, I'm even more pissed than I was yesterday.  As I think over the nitty gritty, the small print, the fine details, I'm even more pissed.  There is never a more important day to be pissed.  Today is 9-11, the day America was attacked by foreign terrorists.  But while we are focused on enemies from without, we completely miss the enemies within, the statists of both the right and the left who spend their days dreaming of ways to take our rights away.  And we let them.  The United States Constitution, which is the highest law of our land spells it out very clearly.  The federal government is tasked with just four limited and defined powers.  The power to make war, peace, negotiation and promote foreign commerce.  That's it!  All other powers are reserved to the states.  The vast majority of what our government is doing today is unconstitutional.  

"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined… (and) will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected."   James Madison, Federalist #45.

Does that resemble the vast behemoth we taxpayers are supporting today?   We are paying unelected bureaucrats to take our rights away.  As I listened to the APHIS/USDA teleconference yesterday, the animal rights activists dominated the call.  Over and over again they expressed to the APHIS bureaucrats by personal name, just how thrilled they all were with this massive regulatory overreach by APHIS.  Thrilled I tell ya!  Which means they already knew what it said.  Which means, while Americans had no more than 12 hours notice of this teleconference call and the resulting new regulation which has the power of law, the animal rights front already knew all about it and what would be said.  Right Kevin?  Dog breeders, exhibitors, cat breeders, rabbit breeders, all were taken by surprise by this sudden announcement just one day before 9-11.   Animal rights activists already knew it was coming.  And why not?  After all, they wrote it.  You can tell because they are all on a first name basis with the bureaucrats and representatives of three major animal rights groups all got through on the call while most of the animal industry was shut out.  It should then come as no surprise that the mother ship of animal rights extremists posted their gloating joy at the early Christmas present, at the same time as the APHIS press release.  Now just when did Whiney Wayne have the time to write, edit, and proof all of that if he had no clue about this Rule's release until the rest of America did?   Yeah, whatever.  Spray Tan Wayne, we aren't that stupid.  

Now the final rule has not yet been published so I can only go with what was said in the teleconference and the newly released FAQ's.  But twice during the call, APHIS Airheads specifically said that dog show exhibitors are covered under this rule.  They also said ALL animals on a person's premises would be covered and counted.  ALL.  A breeder managed to get through on the call and told the government lawyers and animal rights activists listening (idiot) who she was, what she raised, and that she owned five females and her daughter owned three females, but that they lived in the same house.  Hey, want to tell the world your street address and GPS coordinates while you are at it?   The government lawyers said, we don't care who owns the animals.  We see them, we are counting them.  You own eight, you are covered under this law.  People you just don't get it.  The government does not care!  You are nothing but a number to them, nothing but a revenue source and that federal monster is hungry.  That government inspector who forces their way into your home in violation of the Fourth Amendment is going to count everything they see with a pulse, no matter what specie it is.  Destroyed Virginia dog breeder Jean Payne-Cyhanick already knows that.  She was caring for several of her daughter's dogs when state and local inspectors came looking.  They all counted and Jean was convicted of criminal charges for having too many dogs, failing to brush their teeth, blah, blah, blah.  Guess what professional dog show handlers, this means you.   APHIS said at least twice that dog show dogs are covered and APHIS doesn't care who the owner is.  They can see it, its counted, and you are out of luck.

I can hear handlers screaming, "I'm untouchable.  My dogs are healthy and beautiful."   Repeat after me, the government doesn't care.  When are you going to get it?  They don't care!   One brilliant commenter on the Internet said, when your head is in the sand, your ass is in full view to be shot down.  You betcha!

Now think about this.  The USDA maintains minimum cage size standards for "primary enclosures" and mandates that your business must be available for inspection during normal "business hours" 365 days a year.  Think about that one dog show handlers.  You aren't there.  You are on the road with your string of show dogs.  Which means you will have to provide your road schedule to the USDA just like any other traveling "animal exhibitor."  What's your dog's primary enclosures at a dog show?  Is that USDA compliant?  Hell no!  You think the USDA wouldn't come and shut down a dog show and go from exhibitor to exhibitor demanding to see your license?  Why wouldn't they?  Just six months ago, Jack booted thugs from the Rhode Island Environmental Police raided a Pedigreed Cat Show.  Men in combat gear armed with guns and tazers were interrogating little old ladies over their cats at a professionally sanctioned cat show.  Think that can't happen to you?  PETA, HSUS, and ASPCA are just drooling to raid a dog show.  

The animal rights movement has already convinced a large segment of America and most of the legal system that all dog show dogs are mistreated and kept in cruel and inhumane conditions.  What you say?  You have Champions?  Let me tell you from personal experience, the animal rights moment doesn't give a shit about your Champions.  While you were off in your fancy goldfish bowl floating in the sky showing your dogs, oblivious to what is going on in the real world, the animal rights movement has been propagandizing to America that your fancy show dogs are mistreated.  You were oblivious.  You thought you were untouchable.  You were wrong.  Since all America heard was their viewpoint, guess what they believe?  

But what about cat breeders?  Rabbit breeders?  APHIS said clearing during the teleconference that ALL ANIMALS that fall under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) count.  ALL.  Thought this rule was about closing down puppy mills?  Think again.  Are those cat and rabbit cages used at exhibition shows USDA compliant?  There's a giant nail in the coffin of all sanctioned dog, cat, and rabbit shows.  

Should you be worried about raid trucks as I said yesterday?  I don't really think so.  Animal rights activists are lazy.  They want to destroy you and they want your money but at heart they are lazy.  It's about power, money, and control. It's not about the animals.  Most activists actually hate animals.  So what will they do?  Why not do what they have already demonstrated that they are capable of doing.  Why not simply just send out an "enforcement letter" to you like they did to the Dollarhite Rabbitry, discussed in Rand Paul's most recent book.   Like the Dollarhite case, the letter will simply state that their judgement of you is final and issue a fine. No appeal.  The Dollarhites were fined over $90,000 for an alleged illegal $200 profit.  How much will your fine be?  Quick, easy, and painless for them.  The power and might of the federal government used to destroy you by paper.  I'm sure that uber HSUS animal rights lawyer, Sarah Conant, now Chief of the Branch of Enforcement at APHIS is already dreaming of the days....

Now Chief Deadhead Kevin Shea kept saying the costs to Americans who are covered under this rule will be minimal and just a one time cost.  He's right.  The vast majority of people who face a choice between removing all animals from their home and putting them in a sterile concrete kennel in their back yard and give up their rights under the Fourth Amendment will say no.  They will simply spay and neuter everything they have and retire.  No puppies for you!  After all, vegan Whiney Wayne ever so famously said, "One generation and out."  There you go.  45 AKC dog breeds are already facing extinction.  Just what do you think this regulation will do for that situation?  There might be those that are willing to consider building a USDA compliant kennel and maybe they have the tens of thousands of dollars to do so, but most zoning laws in America now forbid that.  The APHIS knows this.  Just try to get your local zoning board to approve your permit for a USDA complaint kennel, I dare you!  You will get nothing but public ridicule and the run around when you go before your local zoning board and all the animal rights activists in your community rise up against you and tell the zoning board they don't want no puppy mill in their town!  Who do you think the local bureaucrats will listen to?  Let me tell you, its not you.

What about the pet industry.  Shea says the costs are going to be minimal.  How long will it take before the pet industry notices a massive blow to their business?  After all, under USDA rules, soft plush "stuffie" toys are illegal to give to dogs and cats.  How many millions of those things are sold per year?  You think the industry wouldn't notice?  You think dog show magazines like the Canine Chronicle and ShowSight won't notice when all their advertisers slowly trickle away?  What about all the groomers who will eventually be driven out of business?  What about veterinarians who will have fewer customers?

The government doesn't care.  I can't say that enough.  You can attempt to appeal to their common sense, their empathy  and how your situation is "different" but you just don't get it.  The government doesn't care.  The cold hearted and clueless bureaucrats at APHIS don't care.  They have been on the firing line of the animal rights movement for decades and they don't care about your 15 year old dog you didn't spay for health reasons.  They don't care that you have been a professional dog handler for 20 years and have no other way to make a living.  They just don't care. 

The animal rights movement is deliberately targeting the knowledge base of the dog breeds.  They are trying to wipe out that insider knowledge that you can't find in a book or on the internet.  Breed magazines run articles on the history of their breeds, certain dogs, and breeder interviews but that is still nothing more than the tip of the iceberg.  They have figured out that wiping out the knowledge base is the key to wiping out the breed.  You.  And APHIS is coming.  One generation and out is here.