European Commission to criminalize nearly all seeds and plants not registered with government

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From: legal_reality@earthlink.net
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Sent: 5/7/2013 12:07:38 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
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7 May A.D. 2013

Reflect on how a "commercial" system gets into the business of regulating seeds.

Obviously, the "funny money" in Great Britain is the "euro," which is simply the next outgrowth of their having first strayed from real silver, getting into a "funny money" version of the "Pound" before the arrival of the "euro."

The point is that they're as "funny money"-based as we are.

Thus, regarding the question as to how it'd be possible, in a "funny money" system, to get into the business of regulating seeds, clearly, the "trading" part of that statute involves transactions involving their "funny money." That's an "easy" part of the analysis.

As for growing or reproducing, though, where's the commercial nexus?

The cruel reality is that there may be one. Having not studied that statutory scheme, which may overtly indicate where the commercial nexus is, if that language is not codified in a penal code, but in some code outside the penal code, in the same way that "transportation" matters are "criminal" but not codified in the penal code (and in the same way that "income tax" matters are "criminal" but not codified in the penal code), then there's only one conceivable way for that language to produce basis for criminal enforcement: some commercial nexus or other.

If that programme is somehow tied to the use of the land, itself, then the "message" is that where the land is owned/held in such a way that this or that governmental agency is a beneficiary, then it's the use of the land so owned/held that gives rise to the problem.

The obvious solution, then, is to terminate that form of ownership/holding.

The motivation for making these observations is that we're facing this identical type of issue here. It has shown up in the "over-throw" of the use of one or more dairy farms as a manufacturer of cheese (or other products) from whole/"raw" (non-pasteurized) milk. We're hearing about it in the context of "tax" on the amount of rain that falls on one's property. All of this has, in whole and in part, to do with how the land, itself, is owned.

Where the "government" is benefiting from the nature of the ownership, then that "benefit" is going to prove to be, more and more, the equivalent of the camel's nose under the tent. Pretty soon, the whole camel is in the tent.

That "seed control" programme cannot be "law." It has to be "commercial." Thing is, those people over there are as seduced into bad/wrong legal thinking as we are over here. For us to come to terms with the reality is for us to be a light on the hill that cannot be hid, for the benefit of the entirety of Western Civilization. Think that an exaggeration? Just keep reflecting on how "they've" "fallen," but we haven't (quite yet). They're disarmed; they're at the mercy of the financial-system tyrants (but for their ability to learn the reality and apply it sensibly) (that's just to say that should they actually need firearms, the black market will supply everything they need). For so long as we muster the intellectual militia, they have a fighting chance, as well.

That said, we're no good to anyone until we start to be of benefit to ourselves.

Legal Reality -- it's not just for breakfast, anymore.

By learning it well enough to apply it right here "at home," the tyrants will lose their stranglehold over Liberty-preserving people the world over. We'll see it first in Western Civilization, because "we're" the ones providing "room and board" for these particular tyrants. And, we'll see it first at home, because the individual is the one in the position to apply it. (Companies can, as well, of course, but a company can't do what has to be done in court without "representation." Clearly, if the "representatives" understood the problem, they'd not have allowed their clients (the companies) from "volunteering" into the obligations in the first place. Since the "representatives" don't know enough to avoid the problem, they aren't a source of the solution. Owners of small businesses who "get it" will find that it may be more cost effective to close out the existing enterprise and start up a new one (or "sell" the existing one to a new one), so as to start from scratch on these various "gotcha agreements" so as to avoid them from the outset with the new entity.)

While we're thinking about seeds in Europe, we can reflect on how the USDA gets its fingers into the ag production activity here in the STATEs. It's one and only one way: commercial consent (of the land owner).

Harmon L. Taylor
Legal Reality
Dallas, Texas

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Subject:	European Commission to criminalize nearly all seeds and plants not registered with government
Date:	Tue, 07 May 2013 07:38:16 -0500

http://www.naturalnews.com/040214_seeds_European_Commission_registration.html

BREAKING: European Commission to criminalize nearly all seeds and plants not registered with government

Monday, May 06, 2013
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

(NaturalNews) A new law proposed by the European Commission would make it illegal to "grow, reproduce or trade" any vegetable seeds that have not been "tested, approved and accepted" by a new EU bureaucracy named the "EU Plant Variety Agency."

It's called the Plant Reproductive Material Law, and it attempts to put the government in charge of virtually all plants and seeds. Home gardeners who grow their own plants from non-regulated seeds would be considered criminals under this law.

The draft text of the law, which has already been amended several times due to a huge backlash from gardeners, is viewable here.

"This law will immediately stop the professional development of vegetable varieties for home gardeners, organic growers, and small-scale market farmers," said Ben Gabel, vegetable breeder and director of The Real Seed Catalogue. "Home gardeners have really different needs - for example they grow by hand, not machine, and can't or don't want to use such powerful chemical sprays. There's no way to register the varieties suitable for home use as they don't meet the strict criteria of the Plant Variety Agency, which is only concerned about approving the sort of seed used by industrial farmers."

Virtually all plants, vegetable seeds and gardeners to eventually be registered by government

All governments are, of course, infatuated with the idea of registering everybody and everything. Under Title IV of the proposed EU law:

Title IV Registration of varieties in national and Union registers
The varieties, in order to be made available on the market throughout the Union, shall be included in a national register or in the Union register via direct application procedure to the CVPO.

Gardeners must also pay fees to the EU bureaucracy for the registration of their seeds. From the proposed law text:

The competent authorities and the CPVO should charge fees for the processing of
applications, the formal and technical examinations including audits, variety denomination, and the maintenance of the varieties for each year for the duration of
the registration.

While this law may initially only be targeted at commercial gardeners, it sets a precedent to sooner or later go after home gardeners and require them to abide by the same insane regulations.

Government bureaucracy gone insane

"This is an instance of bureaucracy out of control," says Ben Gabel. "All this new law does is create a whole new raft of EU civil servants being paid to move mountains of papers round all day, while killing off the seed supply to home gardeners and interfering with the right of farmers to grow what they want. It also very worrying that they have given themselves the power to regulate and licence any plant species of any sort at all in the future - not just agricultural plants, but grasses, mosses, flowers, anything at all - without having to bring it back to the Council for a vote."

As a hint of the level of insane bureaucracy that gardeners and vegetable growers will be subject to under this EU law, check out this language from the proposed EU law:

Specific provisions are set out on the registration in the Union variety register and with regard to the possibility for the applicant to launch an appeal against a CPVO decision. Such provisions are not laid down for the registration in the national variety
registers, because they are subject to national administrative procedures. A new obligation for each national variety examination centre to be audited by the CPVO will be introduced with the aim to ensure the quality and harmonisation of the variety registration process in the Union. The examination centre of the professional operators will be audited and approved by the national competent authorities. In case of direct application to the CPVO it will audit and approve the examination centres it uses for variety examination.

Such language is, of course, Orwellian bureaucraticspeak that means only one thing: All gardeners should prepare to be subjected to total government insanity over seeds, vegetables and home gardens.

RealSeeds.co.uk warns about any attempt to actually try to understand the law by reading it:

You cannot just read the first 5 pages or so that are an 'executive summary', and think you know what this law is about. The executive summary is NOT what will become the law. It is the actual Articles themselves that become law, the Summary has no legal standing and is just tacked on as an aid to the public and legislators, it is supposed to give background information and set the proposed legislation in context so people know what is going on and why.

The problem with this law has always been that the Summary says lots of nice fluffy things about preserving biodiversity, simplifying legislation, making things easier etc - things we all would love - but the Articles of the law actually do completely the opposite. And the Summary is not what becomes the law.

For example, the Summary of drafts 1, 2 & 3 talked about making things easier for 'Amateur' varieties. But the entire class of Amateur vegetables - which we have spent 5 years working with DEFRA to register - was actually abolished entirely in the Articles right from the start. Yet the Summary , and press releases based on it, still talked about how it will help preserve Amateur varieties! The Summary is completely bogus. Do not base your views of the law on it!

So, be warned. By all means, read it yourself. But you have the ignore the Summary as that is not the Law, and does not reflect what is in the Law.

As you might suspect, this move is the "final solution" of Monsanto, DuPont and other seed-domination corporations who have long admitted their goal is the complete domination of all seeds and crops grown on the planet. By criminalizing the private growing of vegetables -- thereby turning gardeners into criminals -- EU bureaucrats can finally hand over full control of the food supply to powerful corporations like Monsanto.

Most heirloom seeds to be criminalized

Nearly all varieties of heirloom vegetable seeds will be criminalized under this proposed EU law. This means the act of saving seeds from one generation to the next -- a cornerstone of sustainable living -- will become a criminal act.

In addition, as Gabel explains, this law "...effectively kills off development of home-garden seeds in the EU."

This is the ultimate wish of all governments, of course: To criminalize any act of self-reliance and make the population completely dependent on monopolistic corporations for their very survival. This is true both in the USA and the EU. This is what governments do: They seize control, one sector at a time, year after year, until you are living as nothing more than a total slave under a globalist dictatorial regime.

An online petition has already been started on this issue and has garnered nearly 25,000 signatures so far.

NOAH'S ARK and 240 other organizations from 40 European countries have also initiated an "open letter" appealing to Brussels bureaucrats to stop the insanity. Click here for a translated version of their petition.

I saw this coming

By the way, I am on the record predicting this exact scenario. Read Chapter Three of my fiction book, "Freedom Chronicles 2026." (Read it FREE, online.) It depicts a seed smuggler living in a time when seeds are criminalized and people earn a living as professional seed smugglers.

In my book, a woman uses a specially-crafted breast prosthesis to smuggle seeds to "underground gardeners" in full defiance of laws crafted by Monsanto. A vast underground network of grassroots gardeners and scientists manage to put together a "seed weapon" to destroy GMOs and take back the food supply from evil corporations.

Mark my words: Seeds are about to become contraband. Anyone who grows their own food is about to be targeted as a criminal. The governments of the world, conspiring with corporations like Monsanto, do not want any individual to be able to grow their own food.

This is about total domination of the food supply and the criminalizing of gardeners. And this is what big government always does after centralizing sufficient power. All governments inherently seek total control over the lives of everyone, and if you don't set boundaries and limits for government (i.e. the Bill of Rights), it eventually runs roughshod over all freedoms and liberties, including the freedom to grow your own food.

Additional sources:
http://open-seeds.org/bad-seed-law/
http://www.realseeds.co.uk/seedlaw.html

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From: legal_reality@earthlink.net
To: legal_reality@earthlink.net
Sent: 5/8/2013 2:46:01 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Supplement to prior note regarding Europe's intent to restrict seeds

8 May A.D. 2013

While Great Britain is part of the European Union, the euro is not the official "funny money" of Great Britain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_sterling#Euro

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_and_the_euro

http://www.ehow.com/facts_5998259_british-sterling-vs_-euro.html

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_great_britain_use_the_euro

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100730181316AAEvG3x


Here's the generic timing.

http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/euro.htm


Part of the problem on this issue arises from the political rhetoric in the beginning.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_does_Britain_not_use_the_euro (Labour promised a referendum on Britain joining the euro when it came to power in 1997. But in June 2003 the then Chancellor Gordon Brown ruled that the conditions for Britain's entry had not been met and rejected the euro[.])


Another part of the problem with this issue is that when it comes to business (in a hurting economy), some businesses will trade in euros before losing the sale. Thus,

http://www.chacha.com/question/can-you-use-euros-in-all-of-europe-including-england

(Actually … [t]he United Kingdom monetary system is based on the pound sterling. So it is best you carry pounds also. ChaCha ) [Key here is the term "also."]

[We have this same issue in the STATEs. Where the offer is in "funny money," then "funny money" in hand is far more likely to be the result than assertion of the preference for Money. As the national perspective comes to understand the economically poisonous nature of "funny money," that'll change. As we come to realize we're losing independent nationality by using "funny money," the use of "funny money" will fade all the more rapidly. It'll be a matter of national self-defense and preservation, and that'll be more important than individual transactions.]


Again from http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/euro.htm

Can I use the euro in the UK? While the UK is outside EMU, the euro will be like any other foreign currency. Businesses can decide to accept the euro if they wish. The same is true for Denmark and Sweden


Related topic

http://www.economist.com/blogs/charlemagne/2011/12/britain-and-eu-summit


So, it does need to be stated that the official currency in Great Britain is still the "funny money" version of the "pound," not the euro.


Harmon L. Taylor
Legal Reality
Dallas, Texas

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