Just because the duck is lame doesn't mean it can't still do terrible damage to American freedom. Our new Congress, especially the new House, isn't yet seated, and this current Congress can still wreak terrible havoc on our rights if not stopped.

Case in point: Senate Bill 510, believed to be coming to the floor Wednesday, November 17 (pending). This is the food safety version of ObamaCare. Reading the thing will make your head hurt for all its cognitive dissonance. Trying to winnow out its complexity and hidden empowerments is stultifying.

Introduced by Dick Durbin of Illinois, the bill has moved through the usual phases of amalgamation and deal-making. The monstrosity advancing to the floor on Wednesday is not so much "food safety" as it is the decadence of the rights of small farmers, hobbyist food producers, garden-variety farmers markets, and your average small producer of foodstuffs. Under the rubric of safety, this Senate proposes a bill that establishes such new and sweeping powers over how you and I produce and consume foodstuffs that even the Pew Charitable Trusts are calling S510 a clear and present danger.

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S510 calls for putting control of the nations food production and distribution under the Department of Homeland Security (Janet Napolitano) and the Department of Defense (the Military). They will insure standardization (eliminate biodiversity) and enact one-size-fits-all laws which will drive small growers and producers out of business.

DHS - we'll have the TSA inspecting our food, or maybe they'll be inspecting US in the grocery store checkout lines when we try to buy the food.

DOD - have you ever eaten C-rations or MREs (meals, ready to eat) also known as Purina Soldier Chow? (Hint: you know how commercial foods come in bright packages with beautiful photos of the contents to tempt your taste buds? - MREs come in a monotone brown plastic wrapper, dogshit color.

Why does the federal government want to control everything? They've screwed up the economy and healthcare, they're controlling the network news and the big papers, they're after our guns, they're searching us instead of the muslims at the airports. They didn't get the message on November 2nd at the ballot box. Do we need to draw blood to get their attention?