Stop MONSANTO backed legislation!

While even that still makes a bad bill, there is NOTHING in that bill that specifically targets organic farming, nor FORCES them to stop using organic methods.

There is ZERO amount of words in that bill dedicated to criminalizing organic farming practices, and ZERO with respect to heirloom seeds.

It just isn't there. Oh sure, you could interpret the power to do so INTO it, but that doesn't mean it is in fact there, or that this is the intent of the bill.

In fact, it's this perpetual lack of knowledge and understanding and refusal to READ THE LAW, and automatically assume that it applies to EVERYONE, that is the problem.

How can we make the case that the Federal government is out of control and that they don't follow the constitution, when so many people REFUSE to see that very few laws are unconstitutional?

The problem isn't how the law is written, it is how people ASSUME it applies to people it doesn't apply to. Just because a law says "all" or "persons" doesn't mean EVERY HUMAN in the U.S. It usually means a very small subset of 'every human.' (and sometimes, not even natural people at all)

Learn to read the law and realize that Congress ONLY has power in this regard with respect to INTERSTATE commerce, and thus that is how this bill will be interpreted and enforced by the courts.

If you persist in insisting on following the assumption and presumption that Congress has such a power, and that the law does apply to intrastate farming, then you are CREATING the presumption in the minds of the public and the enforcers, that this law DOES apply to those areas, when in fact it DOESN'T.

We all need to take responsibility for our government run amok. A large part of that is our own lack of understanding of what the law says, and doesn't say, and what it absolutely can't say if it is to pass constitutional muster.

Otherwise, we stand on quicksand when we walk into court, and the feds will increase their draconian hold over us.

Break the cycle.

Do the homework.

Stop passing on sensationalism if you don't know first hand what you are talking about.

I used to be of the impression that most of our problems would be solved if we put the Federal Government genie back into the Constitutional bottle. The real problem is ignorance on the part of the people. Most laws are NOT unconstitutional, and they aren't because they are very LIMITED in scope.

But all to often, people ASSUME the law applies to them, and so they think they have to follow it, and they try to do so. This creates HUGE distortions in the market. And is the real cause of most of our problems, not the law, but our ignorance of it.

To be sure, Congress may THINK it has power to affect everyone, but that is only because we ignorant citizens never challenge them on it, and the longer it goes on, the harder it is to do so.

Let's keep the freedom train rolling.