By: Marti Oakley (c)copyright 2009
There are times when I am researching a subject that something just jumps out at me because it is out of place, seemingly unconnected to the issue, or seems totally irrelevant. Sometimes, gut instinct tells me to pursue it and see where it leads. This is what happened with an unusual comment made By Bruce Knight of the USDA.
On June 8, 2007, Under-Secretary of Agriculture Bruce Knight, speaking at the World Pork Expo in Des Moines, Iowa, said, “We have to live by the same international rules we’re expecting other people to do.” (end quote)
Knight was referring to the return and adherence to the International Criminal Court: a global court which cedes itself the right to act with impunity and with no adherence to national or local laws, but only to the laws it has created itself……and not for your benefit.
Bruce Knight was promoting the National Animal Identification System known as NAIS. What could the International Criminal Court have to do with that?
In every instance in the Draft National Animal Identification System Users Guide, land is referred to as a premises. A “Premises” has no protection under the Constitution of the United States, while property indicates exclusive private ownership and is protected by the Constitution.
This is where the return to the ICC comes in. The ICC is in part modeled on the Vienna Diplomatic Relations Conventions where [premises] is defined globally and with a global use intended with no recognition afforded to the rights of private individuals, national laws or protections, or the rights or recognition to private property ownership.
[At this point we have to remember the use of UN Agenda 21 mandates regarding rules and guidelines in NAIS, and now we add one more point of interest to 21: It calls for the complete ownership of all lands to be held by the [state] citing land as a source of wealth and one that should not be held by the common individual.]
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court
3.1.2 Ownership and control of property privileges Description
“premises to mean the buildings or parts of buildings and the land ancillary (connected to or existing as) thereto, irrespective of ownership, used for the purpose of…”. The word “premises” includes a place and a conveyance in this section. Conveyance is the transfer of ownership of real property from the original owner to another… such as land….such as what happens when you sign up for Premises ID under NAIS and CONVEY ownership and control of your land and livestock to the USDA acting as agent for the federal government.
[Now we know how and why the word [premises] was used. The word premises is not only a redefinition of ownership and control within our legal system, but now under the International Criminal Court is also globally recognized and eliminates our private property rights and makes our own laws unavailable to us.]
Sect 3.2.1 cont.
As reflected in the discussions of the ICC Preparatory Commission Working Group, “the concept of legal capacity means that States (countries, provinces, commonwealths, or sovereign nations) will not subject the Court to national jurisdiction or legislation, and the Court will consult national authorities when it needs to act. Implementing legislation should not restrict the Court in the exercise of its functions or fulfillment of its purpose and should reflect the fact the Court is not subject to national law.”
States may need to ensure steps are taken to guarantee the Court will have the capacity that may be necessary to exercise its functions and fulfillment of its purpose in that State, such as the capacity to contract, acquire and dispose of property and participate in national legal proceedings.” ICC codes reports.
There is far more to this, but you get the idea: Bruce Knight was advocating a return to the International Court System because it would facilitate the NAIS. It would do this by ignoring Constitutional laws and rights, substituting global efforts to seize privately held lands and material property and any suits brought against state or federal agencies attempting to force NAIS would now be directed to the ICC…..where the individual is not recognized as owning or controlling property.
Think they can’t get away with this? Well..here is a law from 1949 that says they can and you can’t do anything about it.
Agreement on Privilege and Immunities of the Organisation of American States.
Now…….on to the “World Conservation Bank”…….another piece of the global wealth puzzle.
© 2009 Marti Oakley
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Jan 21, 2009 @ 05:07:09
I see. Well, one thing I’m wondering about – and this is just my gut feeling, but it’s an educated guess, as well – is how compartmentalized Obama is. Surely, he isn’t completely aware of the full agenda he’s serving. He’s just a puppet. So, I can’t help thinking they are setting him up and that what they are setting him up for is something that will further the broader agenda; i.e., his assassination (if you don’t hear from me again after this post, I’ve probably been abducted to a black site in China where I’ll be beaten to death). Picture this: Obama is assassinated within the next month or so, his murder blamed on a patriot group (the “assassin” will be a patsy who has been set up in advance; either someone who has infiltrated a real patriot group or someone who is a NWO thug posing as a patriot from a group that is really an intelligence group) and this will be used as a pretext to round up dissidents. Either that, or they’ll set off a low yield nuke or dirty bomb, or they’ll unleash the bird flu they’ve been weaponizing and have been testing covertly in China and Obama will be catapulted into the same sort of position Bush was in right after 9/11 when he had everyone believing he was going to protect us by enslaving us.
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Jan 21, 2009 @ 04:42:28
I agree…….thats what I meant by he has good intentions…..I think this man has good intentions but is soon to find out he is running nothing.
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Jan 20, 2009 @ 20:46:36
Marti, I meant “Anti-Christ” figuratively, not literally. However, I don’t see how you can say Obama has “good intentions.” He’s just another in a long line of CFR-selected sock puppets and he is there to carry this NWO agenda to its conclusion, which, as the elites themselves have said, is to occur by 2010 or 2012 – well within the reign of Obama. In fact, Obama controls nothing. He, like all of his predecessors, is nothing more than a figurehead. The real power behind him is the international banking cartel and its minions.
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Jan 20, 2009 @ 19:25:15
If there is such a person as the anti-Christ …he just left the office of president. Over the last eight years we became so accustomed to a lack of intellectualism, to incompetence, to the total lack of ability to put two sentences together without making some horrendous mistake or blunder…..that the appearance of someone who is educated, studied, and who can speak with dignity and precision is frightening some people.
I believe Obamas intentions are good….i also believe there are those still at work behind the scenes who will do everything they can to sabatage his efforts.
I do not personally engage in what I believe are magical and mystical belief systems. I don’t believe in anti-Christs, or that a devil is reeking havoc in my life. I don’t believe in the actions of men who have shown historically they cannot be trusted with power on any level.
Which only leaves women…….who have carried the load throughout history anyway.
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Jan 20, 2009 @ 19:15:33
Sue,
I would like to post this letter of yours as an article.
Very well said. Marti
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Jan 20, 2009 @ 18:16:32
Yes, I’m afraid that, even if this “Great Awakening” occurs today, it’s already too little, too late. The Anti-Christ has just been sworn in and his handlers are quickly going full-tilt toward their New World Order now. Meanwhile, here we are with most of the sheeple still asleep, some of them even so brainwashed they probably believe the economy is “booming.”
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Jan 20, 2009 @ 09:35:39
It is so wonderful to finally see people who understand the full reaches of NAIS and the connection of all of these new programs, trade agreements and “events” with CODEX and the UN!!! (You realize that the US currently holds the chair for the CODEX meeting rounds, right?)
Even Clinton has come out and said that had he realized then what he knows now, most of the trade agreements he got into he would have never touched – and that he did this nation a “grave disservice” by buying into all these new agreements. Though even he did not mention the WTO/UN/OIE connections directly – nor any of the onerous programs spawned from those alliances.
Aussies have seen, with their NLIS, the INTRODUCTION of animal diseases that had never appeared on their island before, the increase in food-borne human illnesses due to fewer inspections and lowering of quality standards. They have seen their small farmers and people who only raised animals to feed their own families destroyed.
Similar things are going on now in Canada. And the Canadians have been told in print that if they cannot afford to comply they’d better find a new business. For WHAT? There IS NO PROTECTION FROM ANYTHING IN ANY OF THESE PROGRAMS! They won’t prevent bird flu. They won’t prevent introduction of communicable nor zoonotic animal diseases. They won’t protect the food supply. They will destroy farmers, homesteaders, and with them endangered species of livestock.
Gene banks, you say. I say no bank has enough generators to guarantee its collection. Patented livestock you say – I say check the stats – they can’t tell where those genes go, what they do, or where they will land in the host animal, and double that for the human consumer. Save your seeds you say. I say it is now all but impossible due to the outlawing of the seed cleaners. If you can’t buy this year, there is nothing to save for next year. Sue you say. Right – has been and is being attempted. NADA. Legislate you say. Been there, three years rolling, and only 4 states managed (and the USDA put in the federal register last week that their RULES will over-ride all state LAWS.
All this to avoid being targeted for “unfair trade restrictions” with countries known to have lower quality and more (and newer – read as “emerging”) diseases? To benefit whom? Certainly not consumers or independent farmers. That much is so plain a first grader could read it.
We need to put a stop to the corporate takeover of our nation, our farms, our homes and our bodies – and we need to do it now.
If you enjoy pesticides, herbicides, hormones, antibiotics, terminator genes, radiation and God-knows-what (GE) in your food, sit back and take a breather. BUT – if you value wholesome, clean, nutrient rich foods from sources of your own choice – well… then you’d better get involved fast, because those choices are being elminated on a daily basis.
We didn’t wake up when gas hit $4+ dollars. We didn’t wake up when they chipped our driver’s licenses and passports. We didn’t wake up when the banks failed and the government printed money out of the ethers (and then those banks got that money and tripled their interest rates as well). We didn’t say much either, when all those failed banks were sending American jobs overseas to save all that money they did WHAT with?!
We didn’t wake up when they bailed out the car makers. We didn’t wake up when they claimed one of the top-ten food allergens on the planet was the perfect food. We didn’t wake up when 2/3 of our kids wound up with ADHD and ADD. We didn’t wake up when Monsanto talked about “rural cleansing” and tried to patent their own species of pig. We said nothing when they eliminated the seed cleaners in the midwest, thereby preventing farmers from saving seed and making them slaves to Monsanto’s terminator gene technology and GE corn, soy and other crops. We said nothing when an entire family, including the children were raided by the USDA and a local SWAT team and detained at gunpoint for several hours. We didn’t wake up when average citizens were being listened to with ILLEGAL wire taps. Heck – we actually enjoyed the fact that while many of the 19 hijackers in NY were Saudis, the Bush administration openly advocated torture of Iraqis and others at Gitmo.
We said nothing when an entire herd of HEALTHY sheep was “depopulated” after the USDA entered the property with no search warrant, conducted no testing until the animals were dead and provided no reimbursement to their owner. We said nothing when the same thing happened to a pig farmer, and even the pets were killed. We said nothing when peoples homes have been invaded and private property taken without warrants for MAYBE selling a federally forbidden item.
We said nothing about the 100-fold increase in human cases of food-borne diseases due to lack of mandated USDA and FDA inspections. We said nothing when honest farmers were forced to put stickers saying “For Pet Use Only” on gallons of raw milk WE consume, because the USDA and local health departments might raid them – even though the USDA, FDA, all 50 state health departments and departments of agriculture AND the CDC COMBINED cannot find a single undeniable documented case of illness caused by raw milk in decades, but any moron can find hundreds of cases in the pasteurized/homogenized non-milk sold in stores. We said nothing when pasteurized almonds started being labelled as raw.
We said nothing when the farmer growing the spinach was blamed for a nationwide salmonella outbreak that killed several people instead of the factory farm next door that had the faulty irrigation that leaked tainted water onto his fields. While we moan about loss of American jobs, we said nothing about the American firm that grew salmonella tainted tomatoes in Mexico to save a few bucks on labor that also killed several people, and now its peanut butter. We said nothing about the FDA decision to tell pregnant women to ignore the mercury and eat the fish. We said nothing about the FDA claiming first that 0 particles of melamine would be allowed, and then less than a month later establishing standards to allow traces of melamine in our foods. And, by the way, this is the same substance that killed so many beloved pets in the whole pet food recall from last year. We think nothing of buying from China! In fact, its near impossible NOT to buy from China. We said nothing when the government decided that the agencies budgets (USDA and FDA) should come from the very companies they were created to regulate, yet they were not given the power to do their own testing, the personnel to perform inspections, or the facilities to enforce quarantines.
Are we going to wake up and say something when they destroy the only source of decent food on the planet? When the government owns our land? When the land will no longer produce at all? When our kids are dying of cancer, diabetes and heart disease even MORE often than they do now? Once our entire families have been poisoned with pills and non-foods? When we can’t afford a single ear of non-GE corn to feed the entire family with? When our elderly starve in the street or on our doorstep? When all our babies are bloated and screaming like the kids in those TV commercials we walk away from or turn off because we can’t stand to look?
What is a premise? (A conveyance on a deed). What is a stakeholder? (a person that holds property for its rightful owner). Farmers were NEVER called stakeholders until after the first international trade agreement was signed during the Clinton administration. Why does the USDA say that states should convince their farmers to “register their farms as premises?” Because it TRANSFERS OWNERSHIP. Volunteering for NAIS turns farmers and farms into stakeholders and premises. Why is there a separate database system set up for those who are “non-compliant?” Shouldn’t be too awfully hard to guess here folks. But – remember, if you sign, you are compliant – because you are volunteering.
In law… SEMANTICS COUNTS. The USDA has never defined those terms since the program’s inception (created by Ann Veneman, a former Monsanto legal counsel) in 2004. Could it be because they do not need to – that they intend to go by the legal definition of these terms instead of one of their own design? Just what does this MEAN? That, too, should be very plain and evident.
Come on… let’s chant Bush’s slogan one more time… WE ARE RIGHT (Got that, right? W. A. R.)… of course after tomorrow he is no longer president, so we can now change that to YES WE CAN… Maybe. Yes we can seems a lot more likely at the moment than change does – Vilsack is another of Monsanto’s good ole boys, and if you look, almost single-handedly destroyed small farm and homesteading agriculture in favor of factory farms and GE crops in his home state – so where’s the change?
The new regulatory head is a militant vegan with an agenda. Hillary is Secretary of State (hmm… didn’t we just talk about her dear hubby?) Maybe he’ll take George Ryan as his defense secretary – who knows? OH WAIT.. I hear Rod Blagojevich might be looking for a job when he gets out of prison – maybe they can hold Secy of Def for him…. (I’m from IL, I can say that!) Course, so are Obama (Chicago), Rahm (Chicago) Hillary (Park Ridge) Hmmm… Half our state sits in DC – how does THAT make you feel??? No real offense to Barry, but who the heck is on that transition team anyway? (Hitler, Hussein and Houdini???)
And while I’m on this part of the rant – haven’t heard much of anything being said about the federal bill to ban all private transfers of guns, either (sponsored and introduced by Bobby Rush – ding ding ding, you guessed it! From Chicago!!!)
They give away our jobs so we cannot afford our homes. We let it happen. They take away our food and substitute swill and poison. We RE letting it happen. And then they take away our access guns just in case we actually wake up to what is going on….. Its not a law to protect citizens from criminals – concealed carry is the ONLY thing ever statistically proven to drop violent crime where guns are concerned. This isn’t to protect children – responsible people don’t have issues with that. It certainly will not take guns out of criminals’ hands – So – why the guns? Three guesses. Really need them?
Tell ya what – they are afraid of shadows. The average person in THIS country is going to turn those weapons on his neighbors long before he thinks about politicians. And by the time he gets that far, A) he’s out of ammo, B) he’s more than likely dead on the street, or C) his neighbor got him first. They’re going to have to outlaw sharp knives in homes like they did on planes, because once the food and water start disappearing, people are going to turn on whoever is closest and has what they need. Washington, Chicago, New York, LA, Dallas – they won’t even be a twinkle in anyone’s eye.
What is it going to take, America, before we have finally had enough? Do we not remember our history? Do we even care? How many more have to die before we stand up – as individuals as well as collectively – and do what is right?
I’ll be seeing SOME of you in the trenches…. Patriotism is putting the country and its people first, not the government and its corporate handlers. (Re-read the Declaration of Independence for information on what our government deserves – after all… the same people that wrote that document also wrote the Constitution that has been raped and pillaged more and more frequently with each administration since Jackson was in the White House. – NO people… NOT Jesse (also from Chicago).).
Some people are talking about this “Great Awakening” – I, for one, would like to know where the heck its happening and when its coming to the Late Great Planet Earth….
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Jan 20, 2009 @ 07:54:42
Under CAFTA……..it is illegal for south American people to grow gardens even for personal use. We are next. The FDA is busying itself harrassing organic growers, the USDA harrassing livestock owners.
They want it all…everything…..and if they have to steal from you, kill you off, starve you out, or blow you off the planet they will get it.
God help us!
Marti
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Jan 19, 2009 @ 20:27:08
NAIS is but one of many instruments being used to merge our nation – and the nations of the world – into a world police state. The endgame of NAIS is the control of our food supply, pure and simple. They intend to starve us all (or rather, whoever is left after millions have starved to death) into submission and what better way to do so than to gain control of what we eat and where it comes from? It’s not merely an affront to farmers and cattle ranchers, but to every human being on earth, and the same thing is being carried out worldwide, NAIS is only the North American equivalent. The UN has been the nexus point for all these coordinated global attacks upon humanity’s food supply. They’ve been carrying out this agenda around the world, especially in Africa, for many years and now it’s our turn to die.
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Jan 19, 2009 @ 19:35:48
As we who have been fighting to stop the NAIS for three years have been telling people, the NAIS is not coming FROM our government, but THROUGH our government from INTERNATIONAL entities that do not have our good in mind. Especially our Constitution and private property rights. Stopping the NAIS is crucial to keeping our sovereignty as a nation. Four states have had the courage to pass laws to limit NAIS – Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska and Arizona. Arkansas has a bill in their legislative session right now called the Freedom to Farm Act HB1046. If you live in Arkansas or know someone there, PLEASE call the legislators and tell them they must support and vote for this bill – go even further, and as them to co-sponsor it. Meanwhile, the USDA/APHIS are moving at the federal level to push the program on Americans anyway despite their mantra of “if’s voluntary”. As one official said, You can voluntarily particpate in the NAIS or you can voluntarily give up your animals. Yeah, that’s voluntary. Our government agencies are arrogant and running amuck. We must stop them before it’s too late. Obama has already appointed people that we know are FOR the NAIS – such as the new Sec. of Agriculture. Obama’s “change” is still the same old globalist agenda that we saw with Bush and Clinton. There a several really good websites about the NAIS – educate yourselves quickly and then do everything you can to resist and stop this. Your GARDENS/PLANTS are next, folks. We knew this three years ago. Just because you don’t own animals doesn’t mean that this will not affect you. If you just like to eat – especially if you like organic or natural foods – this WILL affect you tremendously. Please spread this article to everyone you can. America has got to wake up while we still have time. Originally, the NAIS was to be fully implemented and 100% compliant by Jan. 2009. The resistance at the state levels has been enough to have kept that from happening. But don’t be deceived – they have NOT given up. It WILL be MANDATORY as soon as they can cause it to happen. The fact that the USDA/APHIS has had to move at the federal level is proof that the state resistance is having an effect. Please help!
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Jan 19, 2009 @ 04:49:55
After days of reading it became quite clear that the court gives itself immunity and protection from national laws and regulations and asserts itself and its authority as a separate and free floating body which can land anywhere…..and where it lands is declared an immediate “premesis”. again circling back and putting its own self out of reach of local and national laws. In fact, this court is so untouchable, nations, states and locals cannot even write any laws interfering with its actions. They aren’t looking for anyones acceptance.
Marti
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Jan 19, 2009 @ 02:34:53
The problem is that they don’t care if we agree or not. They’re not asking our permission. They are telling us the way it’s going to be – whether we agree to it or not. This is what so many people don’t understand about world government. It’s not going to be a cooperative arrangement among the world’s nations. It will be a global police state in which all the national governments of the world will eventually cease to exist altogether – along with up to 90% of the human race. That is their stated goal.
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Jan 19, 2009 @ 00:13:10
The international court is going to be a challenge to get countries to really back it due to its differences. With the strength of the state courts in the U.S., I imagine that there are similar situations in other countries. Then there is the fact that countries cannot agree…on about anything other than “free aid”.
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Jan 18, 2009 @ 10:12:23
Absolutely chilling and thoroughly Orwellian. Note the ICC Preparatory Commission Working Group; just the name says it all. First, it one of hundreds of such “working groups” established by the Security & Prosperity Partnership (SPP), created in secret between the bush administration, Vincente Fox and former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin in 2005. These “working groups” have been busily at work re-writing U.S. Code, laws and regulations to undermine, circumvent and bypass our constitutional laws and courts in every area of governance. But the most chilling thing about the ICC Preparatory Commission Working Group is the use of the word “preparatory” in its name. What are they preparing us for, exactly? Hmmm?
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