Obama Ban on Youth Farm Chores Part of Larger Power Grab

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Kurt Nimmo
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April 25, 2012

Dredging up Dickensian horrors of child labor, the Obama administration has ordered the Labor Department to apply child labor laws to family farms. The new rules would make it illegal for children to perform a large number of labor tasks that have been performed by farm families for centuries. Traditionally, adults and children alike helped with planting and harvesting in the spring and fall, but the federal government is now determined not only to make this a historical footnote, but a criminal offense.

Obama Ban on Youth Farm Chores Part of Larger Power Grab children%2Bon%2Bfarm%2BtractorChildren have worked with their families on farms for centuries. It is the reason there is now a “summer vacation” for school kids.

Under the rules, children under 18 would be prevented by the federal government from working “in the storing, marketing and transporting of farm product raw materials” and prohibited “places of employment would include country grain elevators, grain bins, silos, feed lots, stockyards, livestock exchanges and livestock auctions.”

In addition to making it far more difficult for families to work their farms, the new rules will revoke the government’s approval of safety training and certification taught by independent groups like 4-H and FFA and replace them with a 90-hour federal government training course, the Daily Caller reports.

In other words, the federal government will forcibly insert itself in the business of teaching animal husbandry and crop management, disciplines traditionally passed on by families and local communities.

Government apparatchiks will now oversee the business of local farming the same way Stalin did when he collectivized farms and “socialized” production at gunpoint in the Soviet Union. Resistance by farmers and peasants to Stalin’s efforts resulted in the government cutting off food rations, which resulted in widespread famine (the “terror-famine in Ukraine” killed around 12 million people) and millions were sent to forced labor camps.

The Labor Department’s effort to further erode the family farm falls on the heels of an unconstitutional executive order Obama issued last year establishing so-called rural councils.

“According to this new executive order, the Obama administration plans to stick its itchy little fingers into just about every aspect of rural life,” the Economic Collapse Blog noted at the time. “One of the stated goals of the White House Rural Council is to do the following….”

Coordinate and increase the effectiveness of Federal engagement with rural stakeholders, including agricultural organizations, small businesses, education and training institutions, health-care providers, telecommunications services providers, research and land grant institutions, law enforcement, State, local, and tribal governments, and nongovernmental organizations regarding the needs of rural America.

Obama’s plan to make life miserable for family farmers coincides with an effort by the United Nations under Agenda 21. Section one of the executive order mentions “sustainable rural communities,” language right out of Agenda 21. (For more on the draconian aspects of Agenda 21 and the plan to roll back modern civilization under the aegis of “sustainability,” see Rosa Koire’s Behind the Green Mask: U.N. Agenda 21.)

The federal government has recently moved to clamp down on family farms. For instance, last year the Department of Transportation proposed new burdensome rules for farmers. Incidentally, DOT Secretary Ray LaHood holds a seat on the newly created White House Rural Council.

In Late May, the DOT proposed a rule change for farm equipment, and if it this allowed to take effect, it will place significant regulatory pressure on small farms and family farms all across America – costing them thousands of dollars and possibly forcing many of them out of business,” writes Mike Opelka. “The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), part of the Department of Transportation (DOT), wants new standards that would require all farmers and everyone on the farm to obtain a CDL (Commercial Drivers License) in order to operate any farming equipment. The agency is going to accomplish this by reclassifying all farm vehicles and implements as Commercial Motor Vehicles (CMVs).”

Late last year, House Republicans moved to prevent the EPA from further burdening farmers with a rule that would ban “farm dust.” Outrage in response to the proposed regulation came fast and furious and EPA boss Lisa Jackson was forced to back down as Democrats complained that the government was not targeting small family farms with the proposed regulation.

A concerted effort by the federal government to attack small family farms cannot be denied. Infowars.com has covered dozens of efforts, including the attack on Rawesome Foods in California, numerous efforts by the feds to attack raw milk and dairy farmers (including attacks by the FDA on Amish farmers), and a recent effort by the Department of Natural Resources in Michigan to destroy open-range pig farms.

In addition to attempting to micromanage – and run out of business – family farms through federal labor regulations, the government is trying to insert itself in the relationship between parents and their children.

The ongoing attacks on family farming are not merely misguided efforts by control freak bureaucrats. They are part of a larger “comprehensive plan of action” to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations to institute “sustainable development,” a philosophy designed to bring humanity under tight control of the global elite.

As George H. W. Bush said on September 11, 1990, the plan is “based entirely on social control mechanisms.” For the elite, controlling food – especially healthy and natural food produced by family farms – is a primary objective in their plan for global conquest.

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31 Responses to “Obama Ban on Youth Farm Chores Part of Larger Power Grab”

  1. Picture of the dad and son working together pulls on my heart strings, very sad. Of course Most farmers will just say F you Feds!!!!! Good for them, f the feds.

    burntumbra Reply:
    April 25th, 2012 at 1:04 pm

    But the feds will threaten to take the kids, Child Protective goons.

    HIGH BRASS Reply:
    April 25th, 2012 at 2:06 pm

    When the child protective goons show up to take the kids? Make shur they meet with a farm accident.

    Peace Frog Reply:
    April 25th, 2012 at 2:10 pm

    yes we can

    wiggins Reply:
    April 25th, 2012 at 2:20 pm

    Combine Harvester? God is good.

  2. While in the Marine Corp some of the strongest most capable men and woman that I’ve met were farmers. They worked hard, were honest and had an excellent outlook on life. Now when I say farmers I mean they worked the farm when they were kids. Many of these good Marines did not re-enlist for another stint because they missed the farming and wanted to go back, it was in there blood. So what our government is doing is cutting the life-line of farmers by not letting kids milk cows, pitchfork the hay, plant the corn and so on. So in essance just one more generation of American farmers will have strong desires to farm, then in about 20 years, they will have no desire to farm. Just what our government and Monsanto wants.

    Carol Ann Reply:
    April 25th, 2012 at 4:25 pm

    Almost everyone was a farmer in this country in past generations. They have attacked the family and the farm. This was the real strength of our Nation in the years of the signing of the Constitution. The Nazis took the strongest and brightest children for their indoctrination in Youth camps. They demanded that children be raised only as they dictated. They brutally killed innocent Jewish children and others that they deemed “unacceptables” who were not part of their evil occult plan. The hypocrisy and twisted reasoning of mankind who seek power over their fellow men is outrageous!

    The actions of these so called governmental agencies are hypocritical at best and potentially very evil in twisting the rightful concern about the abuse of children to encompass the family farm so broadly. It has been proven in countless studies that the Federal government does a horrible job when it interferes with our family, our children and our farms. Witness the corrupt out of control evilness that is practiced in the Federal Government nowadays. Clean your own house first before you mess with ours.

  3. Wow, what’s this going to do to the 4H club? Last time I checked they are mostly farm kids raising their own animals. I believe I smell a rat.

    captain obvious Reply:
    April 25th, 2012 at 2:12 pm

    they’ve already screwed the 4H kids with permits, vaccinations etc.

    Peace Frog Reply:
    April 25th, 2012 at 3:26 pm

    not a day goes by without the kenyan destroying america,

    then he shucks and jives the whooping idiots on late night tv.

  4. Now Farming Families have a very Good reason to be pissed off.Obama is very EVIL.Let kids help their Parents on their Farms.The United Nations A21,is at the core of this EVIL.This is a Break up of the Family unit.Families make up a decent Society.This is just one more break up of Society,done by Design.

  5. Comrade Obama doesn’t want youth wasting time growing food and caring for animals. That’s what gentech laboratories are for. Our youth need to be engaged in activities that promote social justice and the common good. Hurray for the Youth Labor Corps!

    The noose tightens. The walls are closing in…

    the sage Reply:
    April 25th, 2012 at 1:24 pm

    Obama believes these disenfranchised farmer children would better serve America by servicing him as low payed staff in gay bath houses.

  6. Maybe in addition to farming, farmers should teach their children the fine art of resistance to tyranny

    RageAgainstTHEM Reply:
    April 25th, 2012 at 2:24 pm

    I will be sharing this with all the local, hard working farmers that I patronize for their organtic produce and meats. I never thought I’d say I’ve seen it all.

    RageAgainstTHEM Reply:
    April 25th, 2012 at 2:24 pm

    please don’t spell check me, I’M PISSED

  7. once again our federal govt. say they love us and do the exact wrong thing, all the time every time. why dont they just come out and say “we are going to destroy you and your way of life and if you dont like it you can die or go to prison (insert evil laugh here).” at the same time everyone calls ron paul crazy for wanting to limit federal govt.

  8. Farmers children won’t be allow to milk a cow because it’s against child labor laws and the child might get hurt, but that same child will be groped, felt up and violated if they use the airport. According to our government this is logical.

    MILLSNWOTHEMEASURE Reply:
    April 25th, 2012 at 2:07 pm

    When i was a child,i would muster Cows,do all those Little Farm Jobs.If the TSA want to Grope everybody,they should learn how to AI,a cow in heat,We called them springing Heifers when my Dad had 500 Head.TSA can learn how to Grope a cow,with your arm up a cows ass,way past the elbow.We did AI our cattle,with Bulls from all over the World.

    wiggins Reply:
    April 25th, 2012 at 2:24 pm

    They certainly won’t be allowed to drink the raw milk, as we did as kids.

    RageAgainstTHEM Reply:
    April 25th, 2012 at 2:44 pm

    When I was 9-12 years old, the highlight of my life was to visit my best friends’ dairy farm. I was suprised that my friend was up at the crack of dawn to run a huge tractor, or herd several hundred kicking hooves into milking machines. UNREAL, they are attacking the family farm now. NOW the government is saying “don’t teach the value of an honest days work”. Yea, sit your competant children in front of an XBOX and let migrant workers run your family farm. I want to PUKE.

  9. they did the CDL (commercial drivers license) garbage to Laird Funk..
    he was the successful manager of the Grants Pass Oregon water district,
    who started and ran the JoGro business (Josephine County organic recycling)
    chipping shredding mulching very nice, cheap, fertilizer and landscape cover.

    old Laird liked his occaisional doobies, never drove or needed to drive a dump truck,
    the whole think was a ruse to demand a urinalysis for the CDL he didnt need,
    to get rid of him permanently after over 20 years of great service,
    and screw him out of anything retirement benefits, which they did.
    best manager they ever had too of course.

    demanding the same CDL for farming equipment is just as loony,
    it’ll be just as much a screwjob to farmers as it was to Laird Funk.
    the CDL test is all about driving SEMI TRACTORS and LIMOSINES,
    they have zero to do with anything farming equipment.

  10. A Wood Chipper is better,makes a fine Mulch.Organic good the the Earth.

  11. We need a law where it is illegal to buy products not grown or manufactured in the US.

  12. Another move against self sufficient White people.

    Obama won’t stop until everyone is on food stamps and sucking at the government teet.

    RageAgainstTHEM Reply:
    April 25th, 2012 at 3:34 pm

    YOU’RE GODAMNED RIGHT ABOUT THAT, Phil

  13. Leave it up to Obombya to wreck another part of our lives. You SOB – get the hell out of our lives. My entire family on both sides came here and were/are some of the most productive farmers in the midwest. This was our way of life – big families joined together by working on the land, sharing the crops and livestock with one another. Obviously this freak fake pres thinks he needs to stick his black nose into our farms again. If the mid-west had libtards even they can see what a SOB we have in such a high place. He will fall from his perch and hopefully into a prison far from the USA.
    Do not let this insane person take what we have fought for since the 1600′s. Every year when school was out we brought in the harvest and worked the whole summer. We were healthy and happy and had a great sense of accomplishment from the work we did and the amount of fresh foods we helped can. Those foods held everyone over in bad times – weather related times. Will America let this Communist get away with this shit? Ron Paul needs help from any of you in WA that can help. All states must reject the Commie’s crap.

  14. foodfreedomgroup.com/2012/04/23/obama-seizes-farmers-money/ And if this fails to destroy small farms, the feds allocate the power to just empty your bank account if they don’t approve of your paperwork

  15. They will go all out to destroy the kulaks. This is Bolshevik Russia all over again, and its the same filthy evil doing it. We must meet these hideous monsters with a rod of iron. Now is the time.

    A Time for Everything

    1 There is a time for everything,
    and a season for every activity under the heavens:
    2 a time to be born and a time to die,
    a time to plant and a time to uproot,
    3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
    a time to tear down and a time to build,
    4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
    a time to mourn and a time to dance,
    5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
    a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
    6 a time to search and a time to give up,
    a time to keep and a time to throw away,
    7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
    a time to be silent and a time to speak,
    8 a time to love and a time to hate,
    a time for war and a time for peace.

    Ecclesiastes 3

  16. Agenda 21 And the bottom feeding scumfish turds at their best. F.O.A.D. If there were any burecrats that had 10 IQ above a nail and a rudimentary spine stem the UN turds wouldnt be leaving stains on US soil. This country is going to need ethical clensing IE removal of those who have no ethics and support bulls%^t like this.

  17. Anyone can understand wanting to guide the few who would fail child labor laws miserably; but the farm families I know WANT to work together; to help their parents and to keep costs down so that they can keep the farm, apart from learning the lifelong art of farming and animal husbandry. Going too far with this kind of legislation separates the family unit, and reminds me of some kind of soulless collective. If farmers can’t afford hired help, many will lose their land. With corporations scooping up land left and right, these laws need to tempered with common sense democratic freedom in mind. Farmers aren’t like city folk. They band together to get things done.

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