NY District 22-Maurice Hinchey [D]

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Comment by Michael P McMahon, GA-9 CD Coord on September 2, 2009 at 12:21pm

Is there any conservatives left in the 24th CD? I am astounded that there has been no activity on this page since July 6th. Has Gov. Paterson started the round up?

I was born and raised in southern Broome County, graduated Binghamton High School in 1987, was a member of the New York Army National Guard's HSC 204th Eng Bn on West End Ave in Binghamton from 1989 - 1997, when I moved to Georgia.
Come on Upstate New York, you will have a major battle fighting the Welfare and union thugs from N.Y.C., but you can win! Get Active, Get Loud and Take back New York from the Socialists! Luckily here in Georgia, we the Conservative base slightly outnumber the Socialists in Atlanta, and we know that we will have a major battle to keep our state, but we will do what we have to! God Bless

PRO DEO ET PATRIA!

Comment by James Kelty on July 6, 2009 at 6:04am

Donna, HR 875, is just one of two bills that is intended to control what one can grow in their back yard. ( There is a petition everyone can sign to help stop Hr 875. just go to: www. thepetitionsite.com/1/food-seeds-HR875)
The other Bill is HR 2749, Food Safety Enhancement act of 2009. Here is some INFO on HR 2749:

HR 2749: Totalitarian Control of the Food Supply

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Food Freedom
June 17, 2009

A new food safety bill is on the fast track in Congress-HR 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009. The bill needs to be stopped.

HR 2749 gives FDA tremendous power while significantly diminishing existing judicial restraints on actions taken by the agency. The bill would impose a one-size-fits-all regulatory scheme on small farms and local artisanal producers; and it would disproportionately impact their operations for the worse.

HR 2749 does not address underlying causes of food safety problems such as industrial agriculture practices and the consolidation of our food supply. The industrial food system and food imports are badly in need of effective regulation, but the bill does not specifically direct regulation or resources to these areas.

To read a detailed account of the bill, go to: http://www.ftcldf.org/news/news-15june2009.htm

(Read the section on tracing. That is NAIS, isn’t it? – highly disguised yet triggered by the word “trace.” )

Alarming Provisions:

Some of the more alarming provisions in the bill are:

* HR 2749 would impose an annual registration fee of $500 on any “facility” that holds, processes, or manufactures food. [isn't this every home in the US, every garden?] Although “farms” are exempt, the agency has defined “farm” narrowly. [What is the definition?] And people making foods such as lacto-fermented vegetables, cheeses, or breads would be required to register and pay the fee, which could drive beginning and small producers out of business during difficult economic times. [Yes. There are laws against this corporate-size-destroys-the-little-guy policy, aren't there? Are home bread or cheese or lacto-fermented vegetable makers who make for their own families included in this?]

* HR 2749 would empower FDA to regulate how crops are raised and harvested. It puts the federal government right on the farm, dictating to our farmers. [This astounding control opens the door to CODEX. WTO "good farming practices" will include the elimination of organic farming by eliminating manure, mandating GMO animal feed, imposing animal drugs, and ordering applications of petrochemical fertilizers and pesticides. Farmers, thus, will be locked not only into the industrialization of once normal and organic farms but into the forced purchase of industry's products. They will be slaves on the land, doing the work they are ordered to do - against their own best wisdom - and paying out to industry against their will.

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There will be no way to be frugal, to grow one’s own grain to feed the animals, to raise healthy animals without GMO grains or drugs, to work with nature at all. Grassfed cattle and poultry and hogs will be finished. So, it’s obvious where control will take us. And weren’t these the “rumors on the internet” that were dismissed but are clearly the case?]

* HR 2749 would give FDA the power to order a quarantine of a geographic area, including “prohibiting or restricting the movement of food or of any vehicle being used or that has been used to transport or hold such food within the geographic area.” [This - "that has been used to transport or hold such food" - would mean all cars that have ever brought groceries home so this means ALL TRANSPORTATION can be shut down under this. This is using food as a cover for martial law.] Under this provision, farmers markets and local food sources could be shut down, even if they are not the source of the contamination. The agency can halt all movement of all food in a geographic area. [This is also a means of total control over the population under the cover of food, and at any time.]

* HR 2749 would empower FDA to make random warrantless searches of the business records of small farmers and local food producers, without any evidence whatsoever that there has been a violation. [If these bills cover all who "hold food" then this allows for taking of records of anyone at any time on no basis at all.] Even farmers selling direct to consumers would have to provide the federal government with records on where they buy supplies, how they raise their crops, and a list of customers.

[NAIS for animals and all other foods?]

* HR 2749 charges the Secretary of Health and Human Services with establishing a tracing system for food. Each “person who produces, manufactures, processes, packs, transports, or holds such food” [Is this not every home in the US?] would have to “maintain the full pedigree of the origin and previous distribution history of the food,” and “establish and maintain a system for tracing the food that is interoperable with the systems established and maintained by other such persons.” The bill does not explain how far the traceback will extend or how it will be done for multi-ingredient foods. With all these ambiguities, [with all these ambiguities, it is dangerous, period, separate from the money] it’s far from clear how much it will cost either the farmers or the taxpayers. [It is massive and absurd and burdensome beyond the capacity of people to comply - is this not fascism? - so it is a set up for being used to impose penalties endlessly and/or to eliminate anyone at will.]

* HR 2749 creates severe criminal and civil penalties, including prison terms of up to 10 years and/or fines of up to $100,000 for each violation for individuals. [Does it include judicial review, Congressional oversight, a defined and limited set of penalties and punishments for a defined set of “crimes”? Or is it entirely ambiguous and left to the whim and sole power of “the Administrator”? Who is that person set to be? Is it Michael Taylor, Monsanto lawyer and executive, as Food Democracy has said? That is, do these bills set up an agency by which the entire US food supply will be turned over to the control of a multinational corporation under WTO regulations (and not to US farmers and not to US laws under the Constitution), with boundless freedom to do what it wants, and one infamous for harm to farmers and lack of safety of food?

If it was not clear before how frightening these bills were, this small section of provisions, should make their actual fascism clear now. It goes way beyond “food safety” to absolute control over farms, animals, food, and us, including our movements and access to food at all.

Action to Take:

Contact your Representative now! Ask to speak with the staffer who handles food issues. Tell them you are opposed to the bill. Some points to make in telling your Representative why you oppose HR 2749 include:

1. The bill imposes burdensome requirements while not specifically targeting the industrial food system and food imports, where the real food safety problems lie.

2. Small farms and local food processors are part of the solution to food safety; lessening the regulatory burden on them will improve food safety.

3. The bill gives FDA much more power than it has had in the past while making the agency less accountable for its actions.

HR 2749 needs to be defeated!! Please take action NOW.

To contact your Representative, use the finder tool at www.Congress.org or send a message through the petition system (the petition will be on our website this evening) athttp://www.ftcldf.org/petitions_new.htm. Or call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.

To check the status of HR 2749, go to www.Thomas.gov and type “HR 2749″ in the bill search field. HR 2749: Totalitarian Control of the Food Supply

Comment by James Kelty on June 27, 2009 at 9:18pm

Here is something I thought would interest everyone.

Thank you for sending the 8 republicans that turned on us on the cap and trade bill. Here the fax numbers since I tried calling them and many of the mail boxes were filled. Below are some talking points I planned to use but will put it in writing and fax.


THE SHAMEFUL REPUBLICAN YES VOTES CAME FROM:
Mary Bono Mack - California - (202) 225-2961

Mike Castle - Delaware -302.428.1950
Frank LoBiondo - New Jersey- (609) 625-5071 (fax)
John McHugh - New York - (202) 226-0621
Mark Steven Kirk - Illinois - 202-225-0837
Leonard Lance - New Jersey Fax: (202) 225-9460
Chris Smith - New Jersey -202-225-7768
Dave Reichert - Washington -(202) 225-4282 Fax


Gathered from the heritage foundation
cap-and-trade is very expensive and amounts to nothing more than an energy tax in disguise. This is a convoluted attempt at economic central planning this nation has ever attempted--the bottom line is that cap and trade works by raising the cost of energy high enough so that individuals and businesses are forced to use less of it.
The entities directly regulated by Waxman-Markey would be the electric utilities, oil refiners, natural gas producers, and some manufacturers that produce energy on site. So, nearly all the costs will get passed on to us (the tax payer that you’re your salary).

From Gary Barnes, CT... to Lisa Mei, Lorraine - GA 8..., Linda Elmenhors..., GIT-R-DONE, jack k boswelland 37 more
Sent Jun 26

Comment by Dona Wilson on June 26, 2009 at 10:15am

In yesterday's mail, I received a piece of drivel from Maurice Hinchey regarding his views on HR 875, aka the Food Safety Modernization Act.

This morning, I went to his sight and told him in not so many words that I don't believe a word he is saying.

He claims that food distribution will be make more efficient. I asked him since when has the government ever made anything more efficient.

And then, I answered the question: Never.

He claims that there is nothing in the bill that will make criminals our of backyard gardeners. Yeah, right!!!

I don't believe a word he is saying. Anybody else feel this way.

Comment by Jim on May 9, 2009 at 8:25am

I am having a very difficult time understanding where these definitions of extremism and extremist are coming from. We must be looking at two different dictionaries. One insight I have made is that these people rule through crisis creation, confusion, deception and panic. It is the only way they can rule and try to hold on to power. It is so imperative that we keep cool heads, educate ourselves and others through calm and informed discussion of the facts. Lies will always surface.

Thank you for your leadership, James. I am with you...just recieved my flag and the pole will be up shortly.

God bless you all and God bless America

Comment by Mark on May 6, 2009 at 11:40am

Dona, ...and they probably already have it. They tagged my house about 2 weeks ago in Saugerties. I live back in the woods and if it was not for my barking dog I never would have known she was there. Never knocked or announced herself. They get out of their car, stand next to your house and log the GPS on their hand-held gadget. I stepped outside just as she was going back to her car. She said she was from the census and asked if other dwellings on the property.

Comment by Dona Wilson on May 6, 2009 at 10:17am

I found an article in World Net Daily this morning that was deeply distrubing. Seems like now they want the GPS corrdinates of our front doors.

Comment by NYS Events Coord: Tony Leone on March 30, 2009 at 11:49am

BIG NEWS: 1ST THEY FIRE THE CEO OF GM, HOW CAN YOU FIRE SOMEONE IF YOU DON'T OWN THE COMPANY ? AND NOW
YOUR CAR WARRANTY WILL BE GUARANTEED BY THE GOVERNMENT IF YOU HAVE A GM OR CHRYSLER, SOCIALISM IS HERE !!!!!!
NOW THEY HAVE AIG /GM /CHRYSLER WHO'S NEXT.
LET THOSE COMPANY'S GO BANKRUPT AND REORGANIZE THEY WOULD BE JUST FINE!!

Comment by NYS Events Coord: Tony Leone on March 30, 2009 at 10:47am

Hi James
we had some very bad floods in the past few years and when some people died. every local dem libs showed up for the picture opportunity with Schumer, Hillary and Hinchey they came with all the Biggest news people in the world, then on the news they make the promises to help us with the flooding, well it's been a few years and not one thing done yet.
and now Hinchey gets millions of dollars for a ferry, but not for flood mitigation to help with the floods, every time we hear a big rain storm is coming we think of the people who died in the floods, if they the dem libs lived here or lost a family member (God forbid) we would have the best rivers and creeks in ny state. oh my mistake we do have one dem lib living in district 3 of the legislative districts, he lost a Racial discrimination law suit a few years ago and had to pay over a hundred thousand dollars back to a Little old lady. you don't here this in the news.

Comment by James Kelty on March 30, 2009 at 6:24am

Hi Anthony, yes they are opportunist. Schumer, who tramples over people just to get his face on camara. Hillary, vote for me, no, I`m not running for president. This people have no regard for us (upstaters). They know that are votes are canceled out by the voters in NYC and the other four barrows. Yes they come here, show concern for our issues, promise things, but they don`t do anything. As for Hinchey, his just a lap dog for Schumer and our Hillary replacement- Sen Gillibrand, a upstater, But that remains to be seen.

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