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Showing posts with label AETA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AETA. Show all posts

Monday, December 29, 2008

Fight the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act
The website Change.org allows the Obama administration a window into public opinion that will help them shape their priorities for change over the next four years. Activists have submitted the idea to rescind the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) and we can help make this happen. Animal rights activists have posted the following idea on Change.org that is waiting for your vote:

"The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) was enacted in November of 2006 at the behest of the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries. AETA restricts the freedom of speech and assembly of animal and other social justice activists. It unfairly brands as terrorism any activities that cross a state line and interfere with the operation of an animal enterprise or of any entity that deals with one. Such activities may include website posts, peaceful vigils, nonviolent civil disobedience, undercover investigations, and whistle-blowing."

Please take a few moments to vote for this issue and help bring national attention to this profound violation of our constitutional rights. You can even add a widget to your blog that allows others to vote on this important issue.

Vote now to end the AETA!

Thursday, December 11, 2008

A full page ad ran in the New York Times this Thursday that demonstrates the Humane Society's ties to 'terrorist' groups.  The ad was sponsored by the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) that represents the fast food and dairy industries and has spoke out against the Mothers AgainstDrunk Driving (because CCF represents the alcohol industry too).  


For those of you who may not be hip to the flow charts, let me explain.  The ad shows the Vice President of the Humane Society speaking at a fundraiser for the Humane League.  The Humane League has members from the group "Hugs for Puppies" which has members from SHAC Philly.  SHAC Philly has members from SHAC USA and six SHAC USA members has been convicted under the Animal Enterprise Protection Act for running a website against a laboratory that performs unnecessarily cruel tests on animals.  

The ad is rather frightening because it proves that groups like the CCF are not only interested in stopping highly effective and 'radical' groups like the Animal Liberation Front, they also want to put an end to sweet animal loving groups like the Humane Society!

If we wanted it would be possible to connect the CCF to terrorism in a simple flow chart as well. The CCF is funded by Monsanto > Monsanto bought G.D. Searle & Co when their CEO was Donald Rumsfeld > Rumsfeld (just today) was officially linked to torture that was deemed illegal the U.S. law and the Geneva Conventions.  

That seemed pretty easy.  Maybe flow charts aren't a good way to 'prove' a connection.