I'm no legal expert, but that has to be unconstitutional. Not allow to film or even be on your own property? Who knows what the heck those people could be doing out there with no witnesses. Put CWD aside, this is just flat out wrong.
I said the same thing years ago, 'what are these folks capable of doing'?
so, let me show you, from my experience.
now, before going there, remember what our fine federal friends did with tobacco and asbestos. they covered that up for 100 years, and lied to us.
I am reminded of another similar incident. the mad sheep of mad river valley. what a mess that was. now that was all politics. a mistake made by government officials to let the damn sheep in to begin with, when they knew there was an atypical BSE case in Belgium, but they let them in anyway, and then had to back peddle fast. the owners took the blunt of that blunder, but were well paid for it afterward. I fought that case for 10 years via FOIA's, and the producer of the film even sent me the script to proof read for them. I did not agree with the science they were going by, and it _has_ been proven wrong since then, as I told them. but their plight was indeed a disturbing one. I felt for them, their family, their animals, and the Gestapo type tactics that followed.
in short, a decade or so ago, a family with exotic sheep that made cheese imported from Belgium to the USA, some exotic Belgium sheep. right afterward, it was discovered that these sheep should have never been allowed to come to the USA, but they were already here. all this became suspicious to me, so i begin my FOIA's request way back around 2000 or 2001. I believe a plan was put forth to find some suspect cases of TSE prion disease in those sheep. at first, it was stated that they tested some of these sheep and they came up positive with an atypical type TSE. this is what they based their scorched earth policy on, and scorch it they did. but the only problem was, those sheep never had any TSE prion disease, and the feds _knew it all along_. this was a sad story indeed. all the way around. but this is the TSE prion disease and politics at it's worst. what we already know about TSE prion disease is scariest enough, it's what they don't know that scares them so bad.
now I know everyone of these pen owners here are going to jump all over this. but it needs to be told here, this is the other side of this nightmare. it will not end soon. too much money involved, and enough stupid to go around for everyone.
here is this story of 'the mad sheep of mad river valley', the sheep that never were mad, and testing was _manipulated_ by the government...I'm just saying!
I'm going to get a bit long winded again, but this is for your files, if anyone is keeping any. I might disappear some day and good or bad, I want this stuff filed away...terry
From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 12:25 PM
To: BSE-L@LISTS.AEGEE.ORG
Subject: [BSE-L] APHIS Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Appeal Mouse Bio-Assays 2007-00030-A Sheep Imported From Belgium and the Presence of TSE Prion Disease Kevin Shea to Singeltary 2015
APHIS Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Appeal Mouse Bio-Assays 2007-00030-A Sheep Imported From Belgium and the Presence of TSE Prion Disease Kevin Shea to Singeltary 2015
Greetings BSE-L Members et al,
you can’t believe what I got in the US Postal mail today. the wife would not pick it up yesterday, because there was a $6.00 charge for a certified letter from USDA Kevin Shea for about 5 pages. I went to the PO today, told the girls in the back that if it’s an affidavit, a warrant, summons, I don’t want it, send it back. but it was certified. scared me. but the curiosity got to me, so i coughed up 6 bucks, and took a chance. low and behold, after my last appeal to this decade plus old quest was turned down, even though I already had the answer from another source, APHIS et al finally stumbled across those old mouse bio-assays. they had them all along.
what the industry sent me first was better, because it had some of the good stuff i.e. redacted.
this all started way back around the year 2,000, when in my opinion, the USDA et al let these sheep in the USA from Belgium, when they should not have because of atypical BSE in Belgium. I started asking for the these mouse bio-assays back in or around 2003 or before, then I had to get official with FOIA, because no one would answer my questions.
well, it’s February 20, 2015, over a decade later, and I don’t know how many denials, here’s what was in the mail yesterday, February 19, 2015 ;
United States Department of Agriculture
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Marketing and Regulatory Programs Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Legislative and Public Affairs Freedom of Information 4700 River Road Unit 50 Riverdale, MD. 20737-1232
FEB 10 2015
Terry S. Singletary Sr. P.O. Box 42 Bacliff, Texas 77518
Re: FOIA Appeal # 2007-00030-A
Dear Mr. Singletary:
This letter is in response to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) appeal that you submitted regarding FOIA request 07-566. Your appeal challenged the APHIS FOIA Office's search for the "Mouse Bio-Assays" on the sheep imported from Belgium. We apologize for the delayed response.
The APHIS FOIA Office received your appeal, on July 7, 2007 and assigned it FOIA case number 2007-00030-A.
In response to your appeal, the APHIS FOIA Office performed a second search of records responsive to your initial request. The Agency has since found four (4) pages of responsive records for the "Mouse Bio-Assays" dated October 22,2009. Although these records postdate both your initial request and subsequent appeal by approximately two years; we enclose them in the interest of responsiveness to your request.
We now consider this appeal closed and will take no further action. If you are dissatisfied with this decision, you have the right to judicial review in an appropriate United States District Court in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552, (2)(4)(B).
Prior to seeking judicial review, you may contact the Office of Government Information Services (OGlS). OGIS was created within the National Archives and Records Administration when the Open Government Act of 2007 amended the FOIA. OGIS provides mediation of FOIA disputes between appellants and federal agencies. Participation in mediation does not affect your right to judicial review. Contact information for OGIS can be found at http:/www.archives.gov/ogis.
Sincerely,
Kevin Shea Administrator Enclosure
snip...end
the next 4 pages is exactly what I received from an industry source way back on Saturday, February 27, 2010. see ;
Saturday, February 27, 2010
FINAL REPORT OF THE TESTING OF THE BELGIAN (VERMONT) SHEEP
February 27, 2010
http://foiamadsheepmadrivervalley.blogspot.com/2010/02/final-report-of-testing-of-belgian.html see history below ;
From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 10:04 PM
To: Terry S. Singeltary Sr. Subject: mad sheep mad river valley...NOT...never was
Veterinary Laboratories Agency – Weybridge
New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB United Kingdom
Telephone +44 (0)1932 341111 Facsimile +44 (0)1932 347046 '
Web site
http://www.vla.gov.uk Veterinary Laboratories Agency
Your ref: MPL-6197-7-37
Our ref: FT1294
This is the FINAL report for contract MPL-6197-7-37 The testing of the Belgian (Vermont) sheep.
Background
Brain homogenate (10% in normal saline) from each case was inoculated intracerebralty into panels of 20 Rlll and 20 Tg338 mice.
FT1294/0001 (Sample 4677) was inoculated into mice on the 14/12/06
FT1294/0011 (Sample 4703) was inoculated into mice on the 20/12/06
Method
The brain from each mouse was examined histologically for any evidence of TSE-related vacuolation, and immunolabelled using anti-PrP antibody Rb486 as described elsewhere1, All slide interpretation was undertaken blind with regard to the clinical status of the mouse, or the source of the inoculum.
Final bioassay results
FT1294/0001 (Sample 4677)
Tg338 mice - All 20 mice are negative by histopathology, and immunohistochemistry
Rlll mice - All 20 mice are negative negative by histopathology, and immunohistochemistry
FT1294/0011 (Sample 4703)
Tg338 mice - All 20 mice are negative by histopathology, and immunohistochemistry
Rlll mice - All 20 mice are negative by histopathology, and immunohrstochernistry
The survival times for these mice can be seen in the figures below. Additional data sets from positive and negative inocula (J Spiropoulos, pers. comm.) have been included for comparison._
1 Beck KE, Chaplin M, Stack M: Sallis RE, Simonini S, Lockey R, Spiropoulos J. Lesion Profiling at Primary Isolation in Rlll Mice Is Insufficient in Distinguishing BSE from Classical Scrapie. Brain Pathol. 2009 epub ahead of print
FINAL report for contract MPL-6197-7-37
VLA is an Executive Agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
snip... (2 pages of charts and graphs of survival and comparison of tg338 data NOT included here...TSS)
CONCLUSION
These mice have survived for long enough to have demonstrated the presence of classical scrapie, atypical scrapie, or ovine BSE if any of these strains was present in the inoculum.
Both samples are negative by bioassay.
Dr. Marion M Simmons
22nd October 2009
February 27, 2010, INVESTIGATION OF MAD SHEEP OF MAD RIVER VALLEY COMPLETE. THEY WERE NOT INFECTED WITH ANY TSE. ...TSS
Greetings again BSE list members,
The investigation of the Mad Sheep of Mad River Valley may be complete now, but, I still have questions.
PLEASE SEE MY FINAL FOIA HERE ;
Monday, September 1, 2008
RE-FOIA OF DECLARATION OF EXTRAORDINARY EMERGENCY BECAUSE OF AN ATYPICAL T.S.E. (PRION DISEASE) OF FOREIGN ORIGIN IN THE UNITED STATES [No. 00-072-1] September 1, 2008
Greetings again BSE-L members,
I had a pleasant surprise this past Saturday. I got an unexpected package from O.I.G. on my old F.O.I.A. request, of the final test results of the infamous mad sheep of mad river valley. IF you all remember, back on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:00:20 -0500 I wrote ;
Greetings,
With great disgust, I must report, that after years and years of wrangling over the infamous mad sheep of mad river valley, I have failed in getting an official answer via FOIA on the outcome of the TSE testing of those imported Belgium sheep. The USA Government refuses to tell the public, exactly what the testing outcome was, and in doing so, shows just how corrupt this administration has been. and the excuse given in their answer to my final appeal, which they have now officially denied, was bizarre to say the least ;
"I am denying your FOIA appeal. This is the final agency decision. You may seek judicial review of this decision in the United States district court for the judicial district in which you reside or have your principal place of business or in the District of Columbia, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. & 552(a)(4)(B)."
FOIA OF DECLARATION OF EXTRAORDINARY EMERGENCY BECAUSE OF AN ATYPICAL T.S.E. (PRION DISEASE) OF FOREIGN ORIGIN IN THE UNITED STATES [Docket No. 00-072-1] ...snip...end...TSS
NOW, out of the wild blue, AFTER them telling me they denied my FOIA appeal for the final time, any further action would have to be judicial review in the United States district court, I get 25+ pages, a lot of redacted names, etc, but this is the first time they sent me anything about this in the 6 years of waiting for my FOIA request. IT will take me a long time to get this online due to the fact you cannot hardly read it, very poor quality and eligibility of text. BUT, the just of it is, somebody (REDACTED) screwed those tests up. I will work to get all the data online next week or so, but it is odd how much they were concerned for human and animal health from an atypical scrapie of foreign origin back then, but yet when we document it here in the USA, you don't hear a word about it. it's a completely different story.
IN SHORT ;
August 15, 2000
OIG case # NY-3399-56 REDACTED, VT
''Enclosed is OIG's notification that they have scheduled an investigation of the following individual. REDACTED is alleged to have provided possibly inaccurate test results involving diseased sheep. However, because the results were determined to be inconclusive, no actual violation was actually committed.''
snip...
IN SHORT ;
August 15, 2000
OIG case # NY-3399-56 REDACTED, VT
''Enclosed is OIG's notification that they have scheduled an investigation of the following individual. REDACTED is alleged to have provided possibly inaccurate test results involving diseased sheep. However, because the results were determined to be inconclusive, no actual violation was actually committed.''
snip...
[only bush et al could have interpreted it that way. don't all criminals wish this is the way the system worked. ...tss]
JULY, 28, 2000
Case Opening Memorandum
snip...
An investigation regarding the subject identified below will be conduced and a report submitted at the conclusion of the investigation. If you have or should later receive additional information concerning this matter, please forward it to this office.
If you believe that administrative action should be taken before all criminal and other legal matters are completed, please coordinate that action with this office in order not to jeopardize the ongoing investigation.
The fact that this subject is under investigation should not be discussed with anyone who does not have a need to know and all inquiries on the investigation should be referred to the office of Inspector General.
snip...end
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY FEBRUARY 7, 2002
SUBJECT OIG CASE NY-3399-56 REDACTED VT HEALTH/SANITATION VIOLATION
TO: William Buisch, Regional Director Eastern Region, VS Raleigh, NC
Enclosed is the official investigation report on REDACTED. If you will recall, REDACTED is alleged to have provided possible inaccurate test results involving diseased sheep.
OIG is closing their file upon issuance of the Report of Investigation (copy enclosed). We are, therefore, also closing our case file.
REDACTED
Resource Management Systems and Evaluation Staff
Enclosure
cc:
REDACTED IES, Riverdale, MD (w/cy of incoming)
APHIS:RMSES: REDACTED 2/7/02 "NY-3399-56-REDACTED Closure''
END...TSS
NOW, the question is, who screwed those test up, and was it done on purpose, just to cover someone's [censored] for letting those sheep in here in the first place ???
WHICH tests were compromised, one of them, all of them, and, can we trust the outcome of any of these test under the circumstances here ???
i.e.
"It is significant that four of the sheep which first tested positive on REDACTED Western blot tests, thereby providing the type of confirmation the plaintiffs argue is lacking on the current record."
UNDER what circumstances were these test compromised ???
MY basic, simple question, was not answered in layman term, i.e. exactly what strain of TSE did those sheep have ???
IS this the best we can do ???
>>>"REDACTED is alleged to have provided possibly inaccurate test results involving diseased sheep. However, because the results were determined to be inconclusive, no actual violation was actually committed.''<<<
PLEASE SEE FULL TEXT HERE ;
http://foiamadsheepmadrivervalley.blogspot.com/2010/02/final-report-of-testing-of-belgian.html Saturday, February 27, 2010
*** FINAL REPORT OF THE TESTING OF THE BELGIAN (VERMONT) SHEEP February 27, 2010 IN SHORT ; August 15, 2000 OIG case # NY-3399-56 REDACTED, VT ''Enclosed is OIG's notification that they have scheduled an investigation of the following individual. REDACTED is alleged to have provided possibly inaccurate test results involving diseased sheep. However, because the results were determined to be inconclusive, no actual violation was actually committed.''
FINAL REPORT OF THE TESTING OF THE BELGIAN (VERMONT) SHEEP February 27, 2010
(10 YEARS LATER, FOIA, none of the sheep had any TSE at all...tss)
http://foiamadsheepmadrivervalley.blogspot.com/2010/02/final-report-of-testing-of-belgian.html Thursday, April 24, 2008
RE-FOIA OF DECLARATION OF EXTRAORDINARY EMERGENCY BECAUSE OF AN ATYPICAL T.S.E. OF FOREIGN ORIGIN IN THE UNITED STATES [Docket No. 00-072-1]
http://foiamadsheepmadrivervalley.blogspot.com/2008/04/re-foia-of-declaration-of-extraordinary.html Monday, September 1, 2008 RE-FOIA OF DECLARATION OF EXTRAORDINARY EMERGENCY BECAUSE OF AN ATYPICAL T.S.E. (PRION DISEASE) OF FOREIGN ORIGIN IN THE UNITED STATES [No. 00-072-1]
http://foiamadsheepmadrivervalley.blogspot.com/2008/09/re-foia-of-declaration-of-extraordinary.html FOIA MAD SHEEP MAD RIVER VALLEY
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
DECLARATION OF EXTRAORDINARY EMERGENCY BECAUSE OF AN ATYPICAL T.S.E. (PRION DISEASE) OF FOREIGN ORIGIN IN THE UNITED STATES [Docket No. 00-072-1]
To: Garfield.O.Daley@aphis.usda.gov
CC: phyllis.Fong@usda.gov; bse-L@aegee.org;
Re: FOIA APPEAL 07-566 DECLARATION OF EXTRAORDINARY EMERGENCY BECAUSE OF AN ATYPICAL T.S.E. (PRION DISEASE) OF FOREIGN ORIGIN IN THE UNITED STATES [Docket No. 00-072-1]
November 13, 2007
Greetings Garfield O. Daley, Acting FOIA Director, and USDA et al,
SNIP
for those interested, please see full text answer below received from USDA et al below on latest appeal ;
http://foiamadsheepmadrivervalley.blogspot.com/2007/11/declaration-of-extraordinary-emergency.html http://foiamadsheepmadrivervalley.blogspot.com/ http://scrapie-usa.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html6. WHAT happened to the test results and MOUSE BIO-ASSAYS of those
> imported sheep from Belgium that were confiscated and slaughtered from the
> Faillace's, what sort of TSE did these animals have ? Imported
> Belgium/Netherlands Sheep Test Results Background Factsheet Veterinary
> Services April 2002 APHIS ...snip...
>
> 7. WHY is it that the Farm of the Mad Sheep of Mad River Valley were
> quarantined for 5 years, but none of these farms from Texas and Alabama
> with Atypical TSE in the Bovine, they have not been quarantined for 5
> years, why not, with the real risk of BSE to sheep, whom is to say this
> was not BSE ? (see later results via FOIA below...TSS)...snip
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/Comments/2006-0011/2006-0011-1.pdf From: TSS (216-119-138-157.ipset18.wt.net)
Subject: Re: More on the Mad Sheep from Mad River Valley
Date: August 12, 2000 at 8:44 am PST
In Reply to: More on the Mad Sheep from Mad River Valley posted by Terry S. Singeltary Sr. on August 12, 2000 at 8:42 am:
######### Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy #########
>BSE-suspected Vermont Sheep Get Another
>Reprieve, USDA Backs Off Slaughter Order
>
>BURLINGTON, Vt., August 10 (United Press International) -- Two
>flocks of exotic sheep scheduled for slaughter this week in Vermont
>because of fears some of the animals might be infected with a form
>of the deadly mad cow disease have won yet another reprieve.
>
>The U.S. Department of Agriculture has temporarily backed off plans
>to seize and destroy the animals, the Burlington Free Press reported
>Thursday.
>
Actually something else happened in the interim:
Vermont sheep still grazing as lawyers reach deal
Thu, Aug 10, 2000 Reuters
BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug 10 (Reuters) - Lawyers for owners of Vermont sheep
suspected of having a neurological ailment similar to mad cow disease
struck a deal with prosecutors on Thursday for a fuller court hearing on
the animals' fate.
Under the agreement, lawyers for the farmers will forgo afederal
appeals case in return for a more detailed hearing
Under the agreement, lawyers for the farmers will forgo afederal
appeals case in return for a more detailed hearing in a lower court, said
Tom Amidon, who represents sheep farmer Houghton Freeman.
"So the sheep are on the farm awhile," Amidon said. He hoped a new
hearing would allow for closer examination of claims by the U.S.
Agriculture Department, which wants to seize and eliminate the 350 sheep
under scrutiny as a health precaution.
U.S. District Judge Garvan Murtha ruled last week the Agriculture
Department could carry out its plan. But the farmers planned to appeal
before Thursday's agreement changed the legal picture.
"We will drop our appeal to the second circuit and in return the U.S.
attorneys office in Vermont will allow us to hold a fuller court hearing,"
Amidon said.
Four sheep on Vermont farms near Warren, Vermont, tested positive last
month for a disease known as TSE or transmissible spongiform
encephalopathy, according to USDA officials.
TSE can cause scrapie, a fatal disease in sheep. It is also part of a
family of diseases that includes deadly BSE, also known as bovine
spongiform encephalopathy or mad cow disease.
No cases of BSE or mad cow disease have ever been found in the United
States, but the human form of the disease is blamed for 75 deaths in
Britain during the 1980s.
Breeding pairs for the two flocks of diary sheep came from Belgium and
the Netherlands in the mid-90s.
Amidon said the Belgian government has sent a letter to the USDA
requesting the return of all 350 sheep and that Freeman had already lined
up a plane to transport them. Whether that will eventually occur remains
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