From an article in the Boston Globe reporting on the controversy over whether or not a Massachusetts farmer has been keeping cattle without a permit on his pig farm:
"At the hearing Tuesday, Krochmal owner John Cave Sr. made a brief plea for the paperwork that would allow him to keep his estimated 150 cattle on the parcel (disclosure of the exact count of livestock is restricted by Homeland Security regulations, according to [local public health official Gregory] Erickson). That prompted a lengthy and at times heated comment session involving a number of the approximately 30 people at the hearing." (Emphasis mine)
He can't be serious. Please tell me that this is just a case of a local dictator throwing his officious weight around, and not that the Federal government has really decreed that exactly how much livestock a given business has is now a state secret? What could the difference possibly be between "estimated 150" and the real number, say 164 for example?
Madness.
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Well, the terrorists just might use that count of livestock to use the farmer's manure pile as fodder for the famous "hog doot cannon."
http://jewishworldreview.com/dave/barry081406.php3
Just think what Al Qaida could do with one of these!
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