Bleeding Purple wrote:

La Crosse (Wi) Tribune
By LORI VOLDEN | Cashton, Wis.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to make every owner of even one
horse, cow, pig, goat, sheep, chicken or pigeon register in a government
database and subject their property and animals to constant federal and
state government surveillance.

Under the present USDA plan, as of Jan. 1, 2008:

# Every homeowner with any animals must obtain a seven-digit USDA ID
number keyed to Global Positioning System satellite surveillance
coordinates, with all the property and owner’s information permanently
stored in a USDA database.

# Every animal must be tagged with a radio frequency tag or chip,
readable at a distance, with a 15-digit USDA ID number.

# The owner must report, within 24 hours, every sale or purchase of an
animal, every death or slaughter, every missing animal, every placement
or loss of an ID tag and every time an animal leaves or returns to the
owner’s property.

Call and tell your representatives to draft legislation to protect you
by not making this program mandatory in Wisconsin.

Here are some phone numbers: Gov. Jim Doyle, (D), (608) 266-1212; U.S.
Sen. Russell D. Feingold, (D), fax: (202) 224-2725; U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl,
(D), fax: (202) 224-9787; U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, (R-1), fax: (202)
225-3393; U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, (D), fax: (202) 225-5739; U.S. Rep. Tom
Petri, (R), fax: (202) 225-2356.

You can read the USDA’s Draft Program Standards and Draft Strategic Plan
at www.usda.gov/nais.

It is the only way we can defeat the enemy. Just buck up and bear it,
would you? It is only for a few hundred more years.