Posted by zog
on July 31, 2009, 11:06 am
That incredibly complex and onerous food safety bill I was warning about passed in the House. It still has to bounce around the senate then get signed, etc, like everything else but they really want this one so odds are it is going to fly.
I'll distill it down to it's simplest form..all but the hugest factory/corporate farms are gonna be in a world of hurt eventually. Here's just a little thing, the largest food production facilities pay the same 500 bucks a year registration fee as the smallest little podunk vegetable stand. Stuff like that. Comply with warrant-less searches of all facilities and records. Hordes of new dotgov workers and inspectors and so on, hey "jobs!" ,,grumble. Bureaucrats to set all sorts of new "standards" meaning anything they come up with now becomes law. All sorts of new paperwork and inspections. Huge fines/jail time for missing some detail. Big exclusion zones around production areas. Government dictates to you how to grow this that and the other and everything else. Government gets authority to immediately quarantine huge areas and stop all traffic, or whatever else they want to do, again, the details will "be announced" as bureaucrats dream them up.. All sorts of stuff.
Now, combine this with the huge Fed water grab, where they are reclassifying "navigable" waters to ALL surface waters so they have authority over then, and the Feds have basically just pwned the population by controlling all the food and water.
Here's the major deal, this law allows bureaucrats later on to add in anything new they think up and it automagically becomes law. As is stands, it is one thing, but it gives them the legal right to change the fine print as they see fit later on, meaning you can't even tell right now exactly what this will be.
It's an *enabling act* more than anything else. That's the real issue there that isn't being really talked about, this is what they really want. They can change the rules later on without having to go back to congress, it gives the executive branch the ability to just keep passing new regulations that theoretically could be quite open ended and even more involved and complex..
Boxing. One of the techniques used in boxing (or any martial thing, up to wars) is known as the feint, or misdirection. Typically it is a pulled short jab, that makes the opponent slightly turn away or start to block a blow from the feint direction, when the real strike is coming from the other, and you turn into it and get nailed.
Ok, the last administration and congressional setup appears to have been the feint, causing the expected reaction, which happened, bringing in a radically different top to bottom set of goofballs. They got everyone (enough) so thoroughly abused and whizzed off previously that they just voted "no more of that mess!" And I think not really paying attention to what the alternative might be. So we got the "big change". Stuff sure is changing!
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