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reporting requirements are unbelievable. If the strain of all this added time and labor is not enough to
ruin family farms, the fees and potential fines for violating their stupid reporting requirements will
finish the job.

So, I told this lady, I am not cooperating with USDA because of their anti-family- farm policies
including GAP (see related thread), organic certification (see related thread), and especially NAIS. I
told her I did not trust their “privacy” assurances.
She was nice enough but finally said, “I’m not threatening you, but a federal statute requires you to
submit this census, and USDA can fine you. You’ll be getting letters from the USDA about this.”

This is outrageous. We need to be writing our congresspersons about the way USDA is being used to
bludgeon family/small farms. We need to build public awareness about what is going on. Let your
customers at your Market know, and urge them to talk to local, state, national officials about the
desperate need to nurture, rather than impede, community-based agriculture.

I see this situation worsening by the month, as nanny state bureaucrats seem to be crawling out of the woodwork
like so many termites. If we don’t get active and fight back, we are lost!

RE: USDA Census harassment
Yes, I too have been harassed by the USDA for not wanting to fill out their VERY lengthy survey about pretty
much nothing..in my opinion. I too finally 1/2 filled one of the three they sent me with SOME of the information
they needed to know. The rest was none of your business answers. I too was threatened with fines etc.
Personally, I was sick of the mailings, letters, and phone calls!!!

There are two fines – one if you do not reply to it and another if you provide incorrect information (lie to them).
So when I get this I write in bold letters “None of your business” on every page. Then on the last page I write
“This is my response and its the truth.”

Yes, I also was harassed 3 times. Called the USDA the rep. said they would not enforce the fine. Finally got
around to filling it out with several sections labeled “NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS”.
http://www.infowars.com/usda-agricultural-census-program-is-a-covert-surveillance-operation-to-compile-
government-database-of-food-and-farm-assets/

“Rights” in social justice theory are antithetical to our inalienable endowments; they are antithetical to
equal protection under the law; they are antithetical to equal opportunity within the law and they are
antithetical to the U.S. Constitution. Social justice “rights” are not natural rights. They are
privileges granted by a state powerful enough to coerce resource redistribution.

Social justice is a triumph of collectivism over liberty. Liberty is the power to take individual moral
responsibility. Collectivism is what automatically fills the void when too few people in a society take
individual moral responsibility. Some, of course, willingly embrace communitarianism. Collectivism
necessitates a central planning administrative state to dispense social justice.

18. DO ALL FORMS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT DIMINISH
LIBERTY?

Many who are up in arms against AGENDA 21 are casting dispersion on worthy community
enterprises that use terminology found in AGENDA 21 such as “sustainability”. Wikipedia defines
sustainability as “the capacity to endure. For humans, sustainability is the long-term maintenance of
responsibility, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions, and encompasses the
concept of stewardship, the responsible management of resource use. In ecology, sustainability