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    Michigan government unleashes armed raids on small pig farmers, forces farmer to shoo

    Video at link below from Mike Adams

    http://www.naturalnews.com/035585_Mi...rms_raids.html

    This story has been breaking big over the last 12 hours as a NaturalNews exclusive: There is total outrage echoing nationwide over the State of Michigan and its Dept. of Natural Resources (DNR) forcing small-scale Michigan ranchers to destroy their entire livestock herds.

    One farmer wrote, nearly in tears, how he was forced to shoot 20 pregnant sows and piglets in order to avoid being arrested as a felon by Michigan tyrants.

    "I have killed all my hogs," he wrote in an email acquired by NaturalNews. "All [DNR] saw were dead hogs laying around from my mass slaughtering. It took 12 guys 4 times in there to kill all of them, sows with young, Pregnant sows, dozens of piglets, and old mature boars. It has been a sad few weeks. Does anyone know what it feels like to open fire on 20 baby piglets in one group which weigh between 5 lbs and 15 lbs. They are so adorable and cute..."

    This is from the direct order of DNR director Rodney Stokes who ordered the armed raids on Michigan ranchers.

    Today, we call upon NaturalNews readers to demand an investigation into Rodney Stokes and the DNR, to bring them to account for their actions which can only amount to state-sponsored terrorism directed against innocent farmers and ranchers.

    Here's my report of the mass slaughter ordered by Michigan's DNR thugs:
    http://www.naturalnews.com/035585_Mi...rms_raids.html



    NaturalNews exclusive: Michigan government unleashes armed raids on small pig farmers, forces farmer to shoot all his own pigs

    Monday, April 16, 2012
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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    (NaturalNews) NaturalNews can now confirm that the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has, in total violation of the Fourth Amendment, conducted two armed raids on pig farmers in that state, one in Kalkaska County at Fife Lake and another in Cheboygan County. Staging raids involving six vehicles and ten armed men, DNA conducted unconstitutional, illegal and arguably criminal armed raids on these two farms with the intent of shooting all the farmers' pigs under a bizarre new "Invasive Species Order" (ISO) that has suddenly declared traditional livestock to be an invasive species.

    See our previous report on this subject at:
    Insane Michigan government announces plan to destroy ranch livestock based on hair color and arrest hundreds of ranchers as felons

    And hear my interview with Mark Baker, who runs one of the farms to be targeted by the Michigan government, at:
    Michigan government plans to destroy entire livestock of local pig farmers - Interview with Mark Baker - NaturalNews.tv

    The ISO also deems farmers who raise these pigs to be felons, and DNR officials were ready to make arrests on the scene and haul away these farmers to be prosecuted as hardened criminals.

    Farmer forced to shoot his own baby piglets in cold blood
    "I think this is an unconstitutional order, these actions of the DNR are way out of bounds," attorney Joseph O'Leary told NaturalNews in an interview today. He is representing one of the farmers who was targeted in these raids. "To take what was six months ago an entirely legal activity, and suddenly people are felons over it. They're not growing drugs, running guns or killing anybody, they're raising animals pursuant to USDA regulations and state of Michigan regulations. They haven't done anything wrong here, and the DNR is treating them like they are hardened criminals."

    In anticipation of the DNR arriving on the scene, one farmer engaged in what can only be described as a heart-wrenching task of shooting his own pigs, one by one, including baby piglets before the DNR arrived. This was to avoid being arrested as a felon. His livelihood is now completely destroyed, as the state of Michigan has put him out of business. Even after this farmer informed the DNR that he had destroyed his entire herd of pigs, the DNR continued to illegally acquire a search warrant by providing false information to a court Judge, then conducting an armed raid on his ranch to verify that the entire herd of pigs had indeed already been shot to death. That this took place satisfied the DNR, which is now showing itself to be engaged in the mob-style destruction of targeted farming businesses through its mass-murder agenda of Michigan's small-scale farm pigs.

    "It was very traumatic for him. These guys are farmers, and I know how much he cared for the animals there, and the DNR treats these like they're some kind of a plant that needs to be exterminated rather than animals that people care about," said O'Leary.

    Here is what one of the raided farmers had to say about his experience of being forced to destroy his pigs:

    "I was served a search warrant yesterday at 7: 45am. I have killed all my hogs. [DNR] gave me papers that say I do not have any hogs on my property. All they saw were dead hogs laying around from my mass slaughtering. It took 12 guys 4 times in there to kill all of them, sows with young, Pregnant sows, dozens of piglets, and old mature boars. It has been a sad few weeks. Does anyone know what it feels like to open fire on 20 baby piglets in one group which weigh between 5 lbs and 15 lbs. They are so adorable and cute. They commented to everyone that they never saw a fence built so tough and no way would a hog get out of this area." (www.BakersGreenAcres.com - Your Pastured Poultry People)

    One of the raids targeted Ron McKendrick of Renegade Ranch in Cheboygan County. His ranch was raided on Saturday morning, and DNR agents reportedly conducted an interrogation of his customers and his 75-year-old senior citizen employee. In order to gain access to his property, DNR bureaucrats acquired a temporary restraining order which was used to bully their way onto the property (a violation of the Fourth Amendment).

    Another raid was conducted against the farm of Dave Tuxberry. He's the man who was forced to shoot all his own pigs before DNR agents arrived, in order to avoid being arrested as a felon.

    See the recent interview with Mark Baker on the Alex Jones Show
    This embedded video gives you additional details relevant to this case:



    Call for arrest of Michigan's DNR agents
    Based on the actions of the DNR, it is my belief that the DNR is a rogue, criminal gang of government thugs who are murdering livestock, destroying the lives of farmers, violating the constitutional rights of Michigan citizens and engaging in outrageous acts of destruction of private property.

    I believe it is the duty of law-abiding Michigan citizens to call for the immediate arrest of DNR officials who must be brought to justice for their crimes against Michigan farmers. Every agent of the DNR that participated in these raids must be brought to justice to answer for their crimes. If the use of force is necessary to make a lawful and legal arrest of these criminal Michigan government agents, then such use of force is fully authorized under the United States Constitution as well as the Constitution of the State of Michigan. It is under these laws, in fact, that police officers are given firearms to use in the protection of the People. In Texas, the state Constitution even says that farmers have the right to use lethal force to prevent someone from committing a felony crime against their property. This includes shooting horse thieves, for example, and being in the right to do so.

    No government has any right to terrorize its citizens in the way that has been witnessed here with the DNR of Michigan. These people are utterly out of control, waging a private armed war against selective targets, using taxpayer money to destroy the lives of productive Michigan citizens. These DNS agents are dangerous and clearly psychologically imbalanced. They desperately need to be reminded of the tenants of lawful government and the rights of citizens. They need to be immediately arrested and given the privilege of a trial by jury to answer for their crimes against farmers.

    While I do not espouse the use of violence to resolve issues with government, when innocent farmers are faced with being raided by criminal gangs of rogue government operatives who are forcing them to destroy their entire livestock herds, there is little choice but to halt the actions of these criminals through lawful arrest and bring them to justice in the court system where they must face charges of conspiracy, destruction of private property, the violation of the civil rights of private citizens, illegal trespassing and much more. This is the whole point of the Second Amendment, by the way: To give the People some balance of power so that they might protect themselves against the overzealous, tyrannical agendas of out-of-control governments which inevitably try to rule over the People as violent dictators.

    Take action: Join the hearing this Friday
    A court hearing is scheduled this Friday at 9:00 am at the courthouse in Cheboygan County. I have been told that a very important legal strategy to halt this DNR madness will be unveiled in the courtroom that morning. Ron McKendrick, whose ranch was raided by DNR over the weekend, will be appearing in this hearing.

    I am calling upon all patriots, farmers and food rights activists in Michigan to be there on Friday morning and join in this show of support for farming freedom and fundamental human rights. Do we not have the right to raise livestock without the state raiding our property and murdering our animals? And why is this not being covered in the national media?

    Also: This battle continues to be waged by Mark Baker at www.BakersGreenAcres.com - Your Pastured Poultry People who desperately needs additional legal funds to continue his fight against the out-of-control government tyrants in Michigan who are trying to destroy farms. Please check his website for updates and make a small donation (even $5 or $10 helps) using the "Donate" button on his website.

    NaturalNews will continue developing this story and we anticipate bringing you more details after the Friday hearing. In the mean time, I will continue to call for the immediate arrest of DNR officials who are now, by any standard, runaway criminal thugs who are operating under the false cover of government. If anyone has a list of the names of these people, please contact NaturalNews with that list so that we can publish them under a "WANTED FOR CRIMES AGAINST THE PEOPLE" heading as we continue to call for their arrest.

    Watch NaturalNews for more breaking news on this front. In the mean time, as a message to Michigan farmers: Yes, they really ARE coming for you. You need to get together and deputize a 20-man posse to catch these thugs and arrest them at gunpoint, then haul them into the local Sheriff's office to be booked and prosecuted.

    Take Action
    Today, I am urging you to join hundreds of thousands of NaturalNews readers, DrudgeReport readers and InfoWars listeners across the country in taking action to loudly and aggressively denounce the Michigan state government's actions in terrorizing farmers and forcing a slaughter of their traditional animal herds.

    Here's how you can help:

    #1) CALL the office of Governor Rick Snyder
    PHONE: (517) 373-3400
    PHONE: (517) 335-7858 (Michigan constituents)
    FAX517) 335-6863

    When you call, DEMAND the investigation and arrest of the DNR workers who conspired to conduct these illegal and illegitimate armed raids on Michigan farmers.

    #2) CALL the Michigan DNR offices and loudly complain about their total tyranny against Michigan farmers and ranchers:

    DNR - DNR Lansing Office

    Director, Rodney A. Stokes
    Phone: 517-373-2329
    e-mail: DNR-Director@michigan.gov

    Acting Natural Resources Deputy, Kelley Smith
    Phone: 517-373-2329

    Chief Administrative Officer, Mark Hoffman
    Phone: 517-373-2329

    Legislative Liaison, Gary Owen
    Phone: 517-373-0023

    Public Information Officer, Ed Golder
    Phone: 517-335-3014

    Upper Peninsula regional Coordinator, Stacy Welling
    Phone: 906-228-6561

    Policy Coordinator, Donna Stine
    Phone: 517-241-3774

    Senior Executive, Patricia Stewart
    Phone: 517-335-1833

    #3) CALL the law enforcement division of the Michigan DNR to condemn them for using gun-toting officers to enforce the mass slaughter of privately-owned livestock:

    Law Enforcement Division
    Gary Hagler, Chief
    Phone: 517-373-1230
    Located: 530 W. Allegan St.
    Mason Building, Fourth Floor

    #4) CALL the Michigan office of Attorney General and demand an investigation into the illegitimate and unlawful activities of the DNR operating in that state.

    G. Mennen Williams Building, 7th Floor
    525 W. Ottawa St.
    P.O. Box 30212
    Lansing, MI 48909
    Main Number (517) 373-1110
    Facsimile (517) 373-3042

    AG - Contact AG

    #5) SHARE this story on Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere. LINK to this page and spread the word.

    Special thanks to Alex Jones and Matt Drudge for covering this breaking story. More details to come here on NaturalNews.

    Learn more: NaturalNews exclusive: Michigan government unleashes armed raids on small pig farmers, forces farmer to shoot all his own pigs
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    Conspiracy, Capital C: Michigan Farmers Learn Hard Way How Agenda 21 Affects Them
    April 17, 2012 byTad Cronn
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    03312012ObamaLiberals love to dismiss any talk of a global plan to take over small farms and destroy private ownership as “conspiracy theory.”

    Michigan farmers are starting to learn that there’s nothing theoretical about it and the conspiracy is quite real.

    NaturalNews.com reports that the state’s Department of Natural Resources recently conducted at least two armed raids on pig farmers, including bringing the entire goon squad of at least six vehicles and about a dozen armed officers.

    Were the farmers criminals?

    According to the DNR they were, and the raids included felony arrest warrants. But the actual crime was … raising pigs.

    Under an “invasive species order,” or ISO, the state of Michigan has declared the pig farmers’ livestock to be an invasive species, and the raids were planned for the purpose of killing said pigs.

    Farmer Dave Tuxberry reported slaughtering all of his pigs in advance of the DNR raids, hoping to avoid arrest. But according to NaturalNews, the DNR conducted the raid anyway, tossing the place and generally doing the jack-booted thug thing.

    After four hours, the DNR officers decided that all the pigs were indeed dead, and they gave the farmer papers to the effect that he was no longer breaking the law because he was out of business.

    Another farmer reported the interrogation of his customers, and he says his regular meat processor was so terrorized that she will no longer take his pigs for fear her company will be raided, but the loss of business will cause her severe financial harm.

    The invasive species order issued by the state declares that nearly all small family farms raising open-range pigs are engaged in illegal activity. The pigs are declared to be “wild hogs” under the ISO, distinguished by their hair type. Raising pigs of the wrong hair color is punishable by up to four years in prison.

    Wrap your head around that for a moment. First, how can a hog be “wild” if it’s being “raised”? And now it’s criminal to even have one of these evil creatures in your possession.

    The farms, most of which have been in business for decades, are competition to “Big Pork,” in this case the Michigan Pork Producers Association, which explains the ISO on its website.

    This is straight out of Agenda 21, the United Nations’ plan for global “sustainable development.” Part of that plan aims for the elimination of small farms as a waste of resources.

    It also seeks a reduction of the population. And if you’re going to do that, targeting the diversity of a nation’s food supply could be a good way to start.

    Nationally, the federal Department of Transportation has been going after family farms by reclassifying most farm vehicles as commercial vehicles, requiring anyone driving a tractor to invest in training and a commercial drivers license, and placing the equipment under laws intended for semi-trucks driven on the road. It would also ban young, underage farmers from using a tractor.

    Note that the DOT Secretary Ray LaHood holds a seat on the recently created White House Rural Council, which has ties to George Soros and the Center for American Progress.

    The EPA, of course, is getting in on the act, taking small farms as “buffer zones” for waterways to protect them from pesticides. Under Agenda 21, these areas are designated as not inhabitable by humans, as detailed by the Wildlands Project.

    EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is on the Rural Council, which was established, according to President Obama, “to strengthen rural communities and promote economic growth.”



    Conspiracy, Capital C: Michigan Farmers Learn Hard Way How Agenda 21 Affects Them - Godfather Politics

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    Latest On The Situation
    April 17th, 2012 at 06:06 pm by Bakers in Green

    Here is the Latest Video from Mark. Thank you all for asking about Donating and if PayPal doesn’t work for you, you can send to us directly. We really appreciate all of your support. The legal fight is hard, but we will overcome.
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    Call to action - Join the demand to investigate Michigan DNR director Rodney Stokes over forced shooting of baby piglets in cold blood

    Tuesday, April 17, 2012
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
    Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...)




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    (NaturalNews) There is nothing more pathetic, ugly and insidious than a tyrannical government thug who uses his power to destroy the lives of law-abiding citizens. Today, we have witnessed the outrageous acts carried out by jack-booted scumbags in Michigan's Department of Natural Resources (DNR) who masterminded armed raids on two ranches in that state, all with the intention of shooting and killing traditional livestock and arresting ranchers as felons. This is part of Michigan's new "Invasive Species Order" which maliciously and unlawfully targets traditional pig livestock as an invasive species, based entirely on their hair color and other physical traits. (Insane Michigan government announces plan to destroy ranch livestock based on hair color and arrest hundreds of ranchers as felons)

    According to our sources, the person behind this effort is DNR director Rodney A. Stokes (see contact information below). Rodney Stokes, we've been told, is the decision maker behind these armed raids on Michigan ranchers. He's the one who demands that traditional heritage pigs be slaughtered at gunpoint and that Michigan ranchers be arrested and charged as felons if they resist.

    In investigating this story, I called and left a message for the DNR's media contact, but he has so far failed to return my call. I am not necessarily expecting a return call, as experience has taught me that these cowards prefer to operate in darkness and quickly flee when someone with any real journalistic integrity begins to ask real questions.

    Forced to murder his own livestock
    This entire story stems from the DNR's forcing of Michigan small-scale pig ranchers to slaughter their own livestock or be arrested as felons. (Yes, you read that correctly.)

    Just this last week, one Michigan farmer was forced to shoot his own livestock in cold blood -- including twenty baby piglets and pregnant sows. As he says in his own words:

    "I was served a search warrant yesterday at 7: 45am. I have killed all my hogs. [DNR] gave me papers that say I do not have any hogs on my property. All they saw were dead hogs laying around from my mass slaughtering. It took 12 guys 4 times in there to kill all of them, sows with young, Pregnant sows, dozens of piglets, and old mature boars. It has been a sad few weeks. Does anyone know what it feels like to open fire on 20 baby piglets in one group which weigh between 5 lbs and 15 lbs. They are so adorable and cute. They commented to everyone that they never saw a fence built so tough and no way would a hog get out of this area." (www.BakersGreenAcres.com - Your Pastured Poultry People)

    This is directly a result of the orders of DNR director Rodney Stokes.

    NaturalNews has received word that many of the front-line DNR enforcement officers are completely opposed to this agenda put forth by Stokes. I will state here on the record that any DNR officers, employees or whistleblowers who wish to come forward with information about this case can contact NaturalNews with the complete assurance that their identity will be protected. You can reach us at this contact page. Obviously, do NOT use government computers to reach us or send us email, as that will be tracked. Do this from a public internet cafe using a hosted email address such as Gmail. Reach us through:
    News Tips - NaturalNews.com

    We are specifically looking for whistleblowers who wish to step forward and expose the actions of Rodney Stokes or others who are directly responsible for the terrorizing of Michigan farmers. We will expose this information publicly, and we will aggressively defend the anonymity of our sources in order to see justice served.

    Michigan's DNR is out of control
    As anyone can see from the facts surrounding this case, the Michigan DNR is, under the "leadership" of Rodney Stokes, acting as a rogue government agency gone completely mad and now running across the countryside with the intent of murdering livestock and terrorizing farmers.

    As a freedom-loving American and strong advocate of common law, farm freedom and the rights of citizens to be free from such acts of government aggression against the People, I have called for the immediate arrest of those responsible for these illegitimate and utterly unjustified armed raids. At the very least, a criminal investigation needs to be initiated against the DNR and its director. Someone must resign over this fiasco for there to be even an inkling of justice served in this case.

    I, for one, will not stop investigating Michigan's DNR until I see justice served against those responsible for these actions. And I assure NaturalNews readers that I will immediately go public with every piece of information on the DNR that comes my way. Lawyers are standing by (as usual) to defend my right to exercise my First Amendment, even if Michigan's DNR thinks it can deny people their entire Bill of Rights.

    By the way, I also question just the basic I.Q. of the Michigan DNR about this whole issue of feral pigs. You know, here in Texas, we're smart enough to shoot the pigs running around OUTSIDE the fences (well not me personally, but others who actually shoot the pigs). But in Lansing, Michigan, where these city bureaucrats have apparently never even seen a farm, they're so stupid they think feral pigs can be eradicated by shooting pigs INSIDE the ranch fences! That's about as retarded as thinking you can eliminate a coyote problem by shooting your family dog... (see below).

    Michigan DNR can come and shoot your dog next
    Just how out of control is the DNR? Imagine this: Using the exact same logic they have now put forth to justify their recent raids of farmers, the Michigan DNR could simply declare domesticated dogs to be an "invasive species" and then unleash swarms of armed DNR agents across the state to enter your house and shoot your dog, then arrest you as a felon for even owning that now-dead dog!

    This is exactly -- precisely! -- what the DNR has done with farmers' pigs, which they claim are "feral" pigs. But that's no different than claiming your household dog is a "feral" dog. If it's domesticated in your house (or on your ranch, within the fences), then it's not feral, is it? It's domesticated. It's fenced in.

    Michigan's DNR argues that "your pigs MIGHT escape" into the wild, and therefore the state of Michigan has the right to come shoot all your pigs on sight, with no judge, no jury, no trial, no law, no due process and no opportunity for appeal! How's that for total, runaway tyranny in Michigan?

    But by the same logic, the DNR could argue that "your DOG might escape" into the wild, and therefore the DNR should just murder all family dogs in Michigan, see? It's the same (warped) reasoning. These people are insane! I wonder if DNR director Rodney Stokes has a family dog? And I wonder how he would feel if four government vehicles stopped at his house, a dozen armed agents burst into his home, and then they shot his dog right in the head? That's what he ordered done to Michigan pig ranchers, you see. It's no different. (For the record, I am not calling for anyone to actually shoot Stokes' dog, if he even has one. I repeat my call for non-violent resolution of these issues -- even though that's a philosophy the Michigan government has long abandoned in favor of violent escalation.)

    If the DNR is not sharply rebuked for its outrageous actions of forcing farmers to shoot their own baby piglets in cold blood, there is no telling where this madness will end. Emboldened by the mass slaughter of pigs, DNR director Rodney Stokes could simply declare (like the Emperor) that cows are now an invasive species. Or goats. Sheep. Cats. Backyard chickens. Without any law being passed whatsoever, the DNR could simply invent its own new "directives" (exactly as happened in this case) and then use those directives as the quasi-legal justification to just run around the state using people's animals as target practice.

    And by God, the DNR front line agents would do what they were told, too! "We're just following orders!" they would say as they put a bullet in the head of your family dog. Such is the nature of tyranny -- there's always some poor sap willing to carry it out in exchange for a government paycheck and the promise of retirement benefits that they'll never receive because the state will be bankrupt long before that date ever arrives anyway.

    If government will not halt its own abuses of power, such tasks fall upon the People
    So the question right now is whether the Michigan government will reign in these outrageous abuses of power by the DNR -- a rogue, criminal agency operating right under the nose of Governor Rick Snyder.

    I urge you to contact the Governor (and other key state officials) using the contact information I'm publishing below. It's time to let these people hear what you think about their policy of the mass slaughter of pregnant pigs and baby pigs because of the ego-tripping power desires of its most insane departmental tyrants.

    If Michigan will not investigate itself and put an end to this tyranny, I fear the only solution to this will involve deputized citizens rising up against their state government and making these lawful and legal arrests on their own, without the assistance of government, if it comes to that.

    After all, when government becomes the criminal, there is no option left but to invoke the Constitutional right to keep and bear arms in a common defense of the People against tyranny. This is precisely what our founding fathers wrote about when they spoke of the "right to keep and bear arms" as well as the Fourth Amendment's protections against illegal search and seizure. In Michigan, we have now approached a decisive moment where either the government must investigate its own terrorist activites, or the People of that great state will inevitably rise up against their oppressors and assert their protections under law to be free from government tyranny. (And to be free to farm without ill-conceived government interference, above all.)

    State-sponsored terrorism
    Let's be honest about what we're witnessing here. What Michigan has done is an act of state-sponsored terrorism that specifically has targeted innocent farmers who have done nothing wrong.

    As the DNR refused to debate their ISO (Invasive Species Order) in the courts and instead resorted to an escalation of violence by bringing guns onto illegal farm raids, their actions are clearly those of government tyrants who resort to tactics of fear, intimidation and violence in order to get their way.

    This is simply not acceptable. Such actions must be halted by peacekeeping citizens who lawfully and ethically act to preserve their rights to pursue life, liberty and happiness. Even if it means lawfully and legally arresting government terrorists who have been conspiring against them.

    While DNR director Rodney Stokes could have decided to hold off on the armed raids and argue the merits of the ISO in Michigan's courts, he instead decided to escalate the violence and bring guns to farms where unjustified violence has now been committed against the animals there. This shows a striking disregard for valuing life and liberty. It is a very dangerous sign to see a departmental director openly advocating such acts of terrorism against the People. (Should Rodney Stokes be prosecuted under the Patriot Act? That's something worth investigating, even if the Patriot Act is a bad law to begin with...)

    Regardless of the evidently unstable psychology of the man who masterminded this criminal conspiracy against Michigan farmers, the actions of the DNR are wholly illegitimate, unethical, immoral, illegal, unconstitutional and despicable. This is the kind of government behavior you might expect in North Korea, not Michigan. Yet through its recent actions on threatening home gardeners, SWAT-teaming innocent mothers while stealing their children with CPS workers (http://www.naturalnews.com/032090_Ma...lth_freedom.ht...), and now raiding farms at gunpoint, the state of Michigan has cemented its reputation as the most terror-driven state government in America today.

    Where is Michigan Governor Rick Snyder on these issues? Why has he not spoken out for the People of Michigan and sought to defend them against the tyranny of the very rogue government agencies he now commands? Governor Rick Snyder could put a stop to this with a single phone call (or by firing a single person, probably). Encourage Snyder to take action by contacting his office about this issue (see contact information below).

    DNR director Stokes could have stopped it, too, but he actually ordered the raids to move forward. At no point have the representatives of government in Michigan actually stood up to protect the fundamental rights and protections of Michigan farmers and ranchers. We aren't asking the Michigan government for handouts here. This isn't a request for corporate welfare or even individual welfare. We are only requesting that government get the Hell off our farms and leave us in peace to pursue the difficult work of being a rancher.

    In this time of economic desperation, with Detroit gutted by the downfall of the automobile industry in America, and with agriculture suffering under GMO contamination and the onerous regulations of the FDA and USDA, it is beyond belief that the state of Michigan would spend taxpayer dollars to seek out and destroy local farming and ranching operations that are contributing to the economy at many levels.

    Take Action Now!
    Today, I am urging you to join hundreds of thousands of NaturalNews readers and InfoWars listeners across the country in taking action to loudly and confidently denounce the Michigan state government's actions in terrorizing farmers, and demand an investigation into the actions and decisions of DNR director Rodney Stokes -- decisions that led to the inexplicable terrorizing of Michigan farmers and the forced shooting of one man's entire herd of livestock.

    Here's how you can help:

    #1) CALL the office of Governor Rick Snyder
    PHONE: (517) 373-3400
    PHONE: (517) 335-7858 (Michigan constituents)
    FAX517) 335-6863

    When you call, DEMAND an investigation into DNR director Rodney Stokes.

    #2) CALL the Michigan office of Attorney General and demand an investigation into the illegitimate terror-style tactics of the DNR operating in that state.

    Main Number (517) 373-1110
    Facsimile (517) 373-3042

    AG - Contact AG

    #3) CALL the Michigan DNR offices and loudly complain about their terrorist tactics used against Michigan farmers and ranchers:

    DNR - DNR Lansing Office

    Director, Rodney A. Stokes - this is the top man responsible for the DNR's actions against farmers.
    Phone: 517-373-2329
    e-mail: DNR-Director@michigan.gov

    Other contacts at the DNR:
    Acting Natural Resources Deputy, Kelley Smith
    Phone: 517-373-2329

    Chief Administrative Officer, Mark Hoffman
    Phone: 517-373-2329

    Legislative Liaison, Gary Owen
    Phone: 517-373-0023

    Public Information Officer, Ed Golder
    Phone: 517-335-3014

    Upper Peninsula regional Coordinator, Stacy Welling
    Phone: 906-228-6561

    Policy Coordinator, Donna Stine
    Phone: 517-241-3774

    Senior Executive, Patricia Stewart
    Phone: 517-335-1833

    #4) CALL the law enforcement division of the Michigan DNR to denounce their use of taxpayer dollars to conduct armed raids on private ranches and farms:

    Law Enforcement Division
    Gary Hagler, Chief
    Phone: 517-373-1230

    #5) SHARE this story on Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere. LINK to this page and spread the word.

    #6) WATCH this video interview of Mark Baker on the Alex Jones Show, who provides yet more details of what led up to these mass slaughter hit squads being deployed by the Michigan DNR:



    Heed my warning or you may be next
    This is real, my friends. This is happening. After we published our first article on this topic (Insane Michigan government announces plan to destroy ranch livestock based on hair color and arrest hundreds of ranchers as felons), I remember reading some of the ignorant comments from the usual trolls who claimed we were "exaggerating" the directive. "There won't be any raids, that's ridiculous," one comment claimed. Another said that we made up the whole thing, that there was no such law on the books (it's not a law, it's a "directive") and that our entire story was pure fiction.

    And yet, once again, we were right and the trolls were wrong. Again and again, this is how it works: NaturalNews warns readers about the coming tyranny, and people ignore it and think we're making it up. Then that tyranny kicks in and people end up in jail (or dead) thanks to government tyrants. Read the story of Andrew Wordes if you don't believe me (Insane Michigan government announces plan to destroy ranch livestock based on hair color and arrest hundreds of ranchers as felons).

    Or listen to my interview with James Stewart, the senior citizen "milk man" who was tortured by LA County for distributing fresh milk! (James Stewart tortured in LA County jail - hypothermia, food deprivation, raw human sewage, involuntary medical tests - NaturalNews.tv). That story is also reported at: http://www.naturalnews.com/035208_Ja..._county_jail.h...

    Read the true story of Julie Bass, a resident of Oak Park, Michigan who was threatened with 90 days of jail time for growing a garden in her own front yard! Food freedom alert: Bureaucrats in Michigan threaten woman with jail time for planting vegetable garden in her own yard

    These reports are all real, folks. You won't find them in the lamestream media, however, because the mainstream media is a journalistic joke. They don't report much real news anymore, didn't you know? They only report sports, entertainment and corporate-packaged propaganda. Mainstream media is to your brain what junk food is to your body.

    The real news about what's really happening in America is now solely reported in the alternative press -- sites like NaturalNews.com and InfoWars.com -- where real journalism is still kept alive by hard-working writers and researchers who dare to ask the tough questions and pursue the tough stories. Sure, any word-wrangling hack can win a Pulitzer prize at a mainstream newspaper by coughing up a feel-good propaganda piece, but the real news in America today isn't going to be found at any conventional media outlet (all of which are driven entirely by corporate interests and government boot licking). With rare exceptions, the only place you'll find real news now is the alternative press and independent sites, from the Drudge Report on down.

    That's why it's up to YOU to help get this story out there. The mainstream media won't touch it. It reveals far too much about the corrupt, criminal nature of government. While daily newspapers are more than happy to run stories about school shootings where citizens go crazy and government comes in to rescue everybody, they absolutely will not touch stories where government goes crazy and the citizens are victimized.

    See the difference? A school shooting gets front-page press, but a farm shooting waged by government tyrants gets zero coverage.

    The real agenda? Total destruction of America's small farmers
    It's all an agenda, my friends. It is layer upon layer of dark agendas of control, tyranny, economic destruction and public brainwashing. There is an agenda at work today to destroy America's farms and gut the small-farmer agricultural sector in its entirety. The federal government wants nothing left but a centralized corporate-controlled genetically modified factory food monopoly, where food is stripped of all its nutrient value and contaminated with GMOs, MSG and other toxic chemicals. Michigan's DNR is playing right into this agenda with its attempt to crush and outlaw local pig ranching (for starters).

    The FDA openly says it wants all food to be irradiated, pasteurized or fumigated in order to kill everything living. That's the agenda, folks: Dead food and centralized corporate control over all food and seeds. Mass chemical contamination. Mass genetic modification. Police state gunpoint enforcement. Criminalization of non-hybrid seeds. Armed teams of state-sponsored "hit squads" running around shooting your animals. Criminalization of farmer's markets, raw dairy, raw almonds, backyard gardens, live foods and medicinal herbs. It's already here. More than half of what I just described already exists and has been reported and documented here on NaturalNews.

    We are already so deep into this quagmire of food tyranny that I seriously wonder how we're ever going to restore liberty in this nation. In Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Illinois and California, we are now seeing criminal government gangs running rampant and terrorizing the citizens. In those states (and many others), government has gone from being just plain bad to insidiously evil -- to the point where it now threatens the very fabric of our republic.

    This is a time when, more than ever, we must heed the warnings of people such as:

    • Ron Paul

    • Judge Andrew Napolitano, author of It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong: The Case for Personal Freedom.

    • Jonathan Emord, author of Restore the Republic and The Rise of Tyranny (Emord actually predicted much of what we see happening today).

    • Alex Jones, the InfoWars pioneer who has been proven right over and over, again and again, so many times that he's actually become one of the most reliable sources in the world for intel on what's about to go down.

    • James Wesley Rawles from SurvivalBlog.com, the former Army intelligence officer who wrote about much of this nearly twenty years ago!

    These people all warn about the dangerous rise of tyrannical government; the stripping away of due process and the Bill of Rights; the dangerous centralization of power in Washington, and the terrible price of citizen apathy, where people refuse to take action against the destructive forces of bad government.

    Food fascism is upon is NOW
    Allow me to add my voice to their urgent warnings: Freedom is rapidly eroding in America at a pace we've never before witnessed in human history. We are losing our nation not by the decade, not even the year, but by the month! At this pace, we are less than five years away from a total police state takeover of the economy and a permanent end to nearly all freedoms and liberties among the People.

    Runaway tyranny is biting at our heels right now, at this very moment, and tyrants in state capitols are hurriedly plotting their dictatorial takeovers of their own regions, even while bowing down and kissing the boots of the black-garbed federal thugs in Washington. Their agenda is clear: Obliterate freedom at all costs! Enslave the people! Destroy local food and farms! Tax and regulate people into a state of perpetual economic slavery! Invoke fear and intimidation to keep everyone in line! These are the very tactics now openly demonstrated by the Michigan DNR, which can only be honestly called a terrorist organization run amok.

    These are the dark signs of the new fascist Amerika that's now rising from the underworld like some sort of undead demonic force of evil. This evil is what we must meet at the gates, with our courage and our defenses, and we must defeat this infectious tyranny before we lose our nation and our future into its screaming, slithering jaws. Everything is at stake here -- our future, our liberties, our dignity, our children, our farms, our land, our very souls. We must not let these tyrants stomp our faces into the dirt. We demand justice; we demand protection under the law; we demand fundamental human rights; and we demand the arrest and prosecution of those agents of government evil who plot in the dark corners of their diseased minds to strip us of those rights.

    Live free or die, my fellow Americans. If we do not believe in that, then we are not Americans at all.

    JOIN ME in taking action on this day to demand the arrest and investigation of DNR agents working as terrorists for the government of Michigan. And if the Michigan government decides not to take action against its own rogue agents, then that government is, itself, illegitimate.

    Learn more: Call to action - Join the demand to investigate Michigan DNR director Rodney Stokes over forced shooting of baby piglets in cold blood

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    Michigan pig


    That’s when something is presented in a way that conceals its true nature—which is the case right now in Michigan. Action Alert!

    In 2010, Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) issued an Invasive Species Order (ISO), ostensibly to “help stop the spread of feral swine and the disease risk they pose to humans, domestic pigs, and wildlife as well as their potential for extensive agricultural and ecosystem damage.” So far, it sounds OK. But the swine in question are identified by such ubiquitous characteristics (mainly hair color) that most any open-range pigs, especially heritage or “old world” breeds—often being raised on small family farms—will now be defined as illegal “invasive species” and thus unjustly threatened with eradication. The order went into effect April 1, 2012.

    Possession of these animals carries up to a two-year jail sentence and $20,000 in fines. Moreover, the ISO allows the DNR to seize and destroy heritage breeds of pigs raised by Michigan farmers on the spot—and without compensation. So far, the Michigan DNR has conducted two armed raids on pig farmers in that state, one in Kalkaska County at Fife Lake and another in Cheboygan County. The raids involved six vehicles and ten armed men.

    Because the ISO deems farmers who raise these pigs to be felons, DNR officials were ready to make arrests on the scene and prosecute them. Mike Adams reports that one farmer, upon being served with a search warrant, heart-wrenchingly shot all his own pigs (including pregnant sows and dozens of piglets) to avoid being arrested as a felon. His livelihood has now been destroyed, but the DNR was satisfied and made no arrests.

    This ISO is a blatant attempt to take away property rights, freedom of food choice, and market share through the force of law. What’s really behind it?

    These are the very pigs that farmers and ranchers in Michigan have been raising for decades; there are indications that this ISO may have been nudged into position by the conventional pork industry as a tactic to wipe out competition from the local, specialty ranchers and farmers who don’t work for the Michigan Pork Growers’ Association. The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund sees it as an attack on the local food movement and a brazen power grab that threatens the livelihood of small farmers across the state. A video created by a family farmer clearly explains the issue.

    This is, however, part of a much bigger problem. Right now you get paid less for beef cows if they are the “wrong” color. Generally feeder cattle that are uniform in color, regardless of what color, will sell for a higher price than those that are less uniform in color. (More information about the economics of cattle color can be found here.) But heritage-breed cows, a vital pool of genetic diversity, are almost always “the wrong color.” If cows are bred for one color, you lose a lot more than other colors. You lose a great deal of genetic diversity which could prove to be very important for the future.

    A standardized color is only obtained with an engineered animal. If you control for color, you lose genetic diversity and are left only with “engineered” animals. It is, of course, much easier for Big Farma to create monopolies from engineered animals.

    You can see the parallels with seeds, crops, and vegetables. Just as we need seed banks, we need gene banks so that the heritage pig genes aren’t lost. If they outlaw pigs that are of a nonstandard color, why not outlaw all nonstandard animals to further the interests of agribusiness? The UN warned of this possibility in 2006: around 20% of domestic animal breeds are at risk of extinction, with a breed lost each month, due to a globalization of livestock markets that favors high-output breeds over a multiple-gene pool. Having that pool could be vital for future food security.

    So this isn’t just about Michigan pigs. This is about stopping agribusiness from enlisting the powers of government to control gene pools before it is too late.

    If you are a resident of Michigan, please contact Gov. Rick Snyder and your Michigan legislators and tell them you want the DNR to repeal its Invasive Species Order and support the heritage breeds of pigs being raised by small farmers. Please take action immediately!

    Take Action!


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    Michican Pigs, Police, and Muslims

    by David Yeagley · April 17, 2012 · 35 Comments · shareshare



    According to NaturalNews.com, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources DNR) just conducted two armed raids on two different pig farms in the state, with the intent of destroying all the animals, and arresting the farmers as felon criminals. All by order of the state.

    Mangalitsa pig species–for special sausage and
    pig products. Organically raised in Michigan.

    Why? The DNR declared the traditional livestock as an “invasive Species Order,” thus giving the DNA the authority (and legal incentive) to act.

    Rodney Stokes, director of the Michigan
    Department of Natural Resources. Stokes
    is a man of professional experience.


    And they acted. NaturalNews.com reports that “raids involving six vehicles and ten armed men” were conducted on the pig farm in Kalkaska County at Fife Lake and on another in Cheboygan County. Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, interviewed one of the farmers, Mr. Mike Baker, before the raids. (Please listen to the interview.) Adams also talked with Baker’s attorney:
    “I think this is an unconstitutional order, these actions of the DNR are way out of bounds,” attorney Joseph O’Leary told NaturalNews in an interview today. He is representing one of the farmers who was targeted in these raids. “To take what was six months ago an entirely legal activity, and suddenly people are felons over it. They’re not growing drugs, running guns or killing anybody, they’re raising animals pursuant to USDA regulations and state of Michigan regulations. They haven’t done anything wrong here, and the DNR is treating them like they are hardened criminals.”
    Obviously, one has to question the states violent tyranny against its own citizens. What could possibly be the motive behind such actions of the state government against its own residents? The Invasive Species Act of 1996 and additional executive orders are the basis of the authority. But, why was such authority necessary?
    There is a legitimate concern over the introduction of foreign species (both animal and plant) into the ecology of American homeland. These foreign elements, be they aquatic or land animals, often disrupt the natural order in adverse ways. Law is necessary to control this. H.R.4283 National Invasive Species Act of 1996 was not drawn up for no cause.
    Mark Baker, however, suggests that, in the case of the pigs, there is a clear case of business competition. His pigs were what we could call “organic,” as opposed to the chemically, factory-produced livestock of the big state companies. The 1996 Act originally applied to aquatic species brought in through shipping processes in the area of the Great Lakes. It was a law to authorize the Coast Guard to inspect ocean vessels when they came into the Great Lake areas. Now the state of Michigan has manipulated the 1996 Act to empower the state to seize and destroy land animals–specifically farm animals. The law has become essentially unlimited.
    The 1996 Act is now a weapon in the hands of tyrannists, and Michigan citizens are subject to the black helicopters, the black SUVs, and the automatic weapons of black-uniformed paramilitary personnel.
    Mr. Baker observes that most people are compliant, and will do anything to avoid conflict. In the interview with Adams, Baker says that the state presumed that the farmers would not resist. But the state was wrong. Baker and others are resisting. Baker is calling for the arrest of the DNR agents, for the entirely illegal “invasion” of his property.
    I would also make this observation, which may be entirely irrelevant: what is the Muslim lobby in this matter of pigs? The Muslim aversion to pigs is universal and aggressive. Michigan has a higher concentration of Muslims that any other state in the union. The concentration of Arab Muslims in places like Dearborn, Michigan, is frightening. Talk about “invasive species.”
    We know that the Muslim influence, though apparently obvious, comes about through clandestine manipulation and subterfuge. There is not likely a single Muslim organization that does not have ties to terrorism. The excessive network of Muslim charities is clearly a socio-political tactic of invasion and influence.
    Is it possible to consider this pig problem without considering the Muslim presence in Michigan? There has been no research into this connection as yet. There is no known evidence of such. It would be advisable to examine the lobby in Lansing.
    In the mean time, the Michigan pig problem is regarded as an American political problem by those involved. The data on the cases, so far, contains no mention or even allusion to any Islamic lobby.
    We simply see a couple of large dots which might easily be connected.
    The useless slaughter of animals is a dramatic event. So, where’s PETA, the pig power provocateur? And where’s PETA Pam?
    Here’s a promotional video of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, state police force. It’s all about American tyranny, in the name of law and order. “Shields of Gold,” from the Michigan DNR.
    Michican Pigs, Police, and Muslims


    Bury a Pig

    In the village of Seville, Spain, some local people found a clever way to stop the construction of another mosque in their town. They simply buried a Pig on the proposed site, making sure this fact was known by the local press.

    The Islamic rules forbid them to erect a mosque on “pig soiled ground.” The Muslims cancelled the project when they read about it in the paper.

    No protests were needed by the local people … and it worked … as they simply got the fact announced around so the muslims could and would know about it.
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    Here’s a promotional video of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, state police force. It’s all about American tyranny, in the name of law and order. “Shields of Gold,” from the Michigan DNR.



    Guess they didn't pay attention to the video did they!!!!


    The useless slaughter of animals is a dramatic event. So, where’s PETA, the pig power provocateur? And where’s PETA Pam?
    Yep not a word, the same goes for Andrew Wordes and his chickens....



    In the mean time, the Michigan pig problem is regarded as an American political problem by those involved. The data on the cases, so far, contains no mention or even allusion to any Islamic lobby.

    We simply see a couple of large dots which might easily be connected.
    I would say keep looking....
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    Michigan government unleashes armed raids on small pig farmers

    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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    (NaturalNews) NaturalNews can now confirm that the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has, in total violation of the Fourth Amendment, conducted two armed raids on pig farmers in that state, one in Kalkaska County at Fife Lake and another in Cheboygan County. Staging raids involving six vehicles and ten armed men, DNA conducted unconstitutional, illegal and arguably criminal armed raids on these two farms with the intent of shooting all the farmers' pigs under a bizarre new "Invasive Species Order" (ISO) that has suddenly declared traditional livestock to be an invasive species.

    The ISO also deems farmers who raise these pigs to be felons, and DNR officials were ready to make arrests on the scene and haul away these farmers to be prosecuted as hardened criminals.

    Farmer forced to shoot his own baby piglets in cold blood

    "I think this is an unconstitutional order, these actions of the DNR are way out of bounds," attorney Joseph O'Leary told NaturalNews in an interview today. He is representing one of the farmers who was targeted in these raids. "To take what was six months ago an entirely legal activity, and suddenly people are felons over it. They're not growing drugs, running guns or killing anybody, they're raising animals pursuant to USDA regulations and state of Michigan regulations. They haven't done anything wrong here, and the DNR is treating them like they are hardened criminals."

    In anticipation of the DNR arriving on the scene, one farmer engaged in what can only be described as a heart-wrenching task of shooting his own pigs, one by one, including baby piglets before the DNR arrived. This was to avoid being arrested as a felon. His livelihood is now completely destroyed, as the state of Michigan has put him out of business. Even after this farmer informed the DNR that he had destroyed his entire herd of pigs, the DNR continued to illegally acquire a search warrant by providing false information to a court Judge, then conducting an armed raid on his ranch to verify that the entire herd of pigs had indeed already been shot to death. That this took place satisfied the DNR, which is now showing itself to be engaged in the mob-style destruction of targeted farming businesses through its mass-murder agenda of Michigan's small-scale farm pigs.

    Read more here
    NaturalNews exclusive: Michigan government unleashes armed raids on small pig farmers, forces farmer to shoot all his own pigs

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    Interestingly, I found the places I visited
    to be more free and less corrupt than the US.

    For example, the following travesty of Stalinist
    economics that's taking place in Michigan
    right now would NEVER happen in any of the
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