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Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act Vs The 1st Amendment
Federal and state governments violated the first amendment re filming
animal slaughter. After the passage of AETA, the Animal Terrorism Enterprise Act, which defines as terrorists not those who torture and murder animals by the brillions but those who seek to expose their crimes to the public, (the bill originally initiated by 4 Republican senators: Coburn
and Inhofe of Oklahoma and Chambliss and Saxbe of Georgia, only Inhofe still in the Senate) at least 3 state governors, Iowa's Terry Bradshaw, Utah's Richard Herbert and Missouri's Jeremiah Nixon, criminalized the filming of slaughterhouses, factory farms, laboratories crucifying animals etc. Also involved in this repression was Richard Blum, husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein, when chairman of the overseers of the University of California.
Besides axing to death the animals, the federal and these state governments
have axed the first amendment. While hospital, pharmaceutical and government labs often cut out the vocal cords of animals (called laryngectomies, debarking etc.), these politicians controlled by
butchers' mammon hope to silence the screams of the animals by muzzling
the microphones and darkening the video cams.
How different is their response to that of President Theodore Roosevelt who
when confronted with the hideous agony of slaughterhouses worked in the
opposite direction, to ameliorate
the suffering of the animals.
On April tenth the New York Times editorialized that
the people have a right to know how their food is made.
Thank you to the Times.
Butchers are exposed crushing baby chicks into paste,
kicking animals in the face and udders, etc.,
driving them into fences with forklifts, suffocating them,
electroshocking them, whipping them, punching them,
skinning them while alive, dropping them alive into boiling water.
All humane societies and animal charities have a right to act as citizen
humane officers.
In the meantime, every year millions more know that animals are not food, and choose
to stop eating the cadaver pieces
that their consciences know peace. In addition, drones are doing
surveillance of these torture places, full not of just suffering animals
but illegal workers recruited by these industries, workers who cannot
complain about anything because of their legal status.
http://mercyforanimals.org/hatchery
http://mercyforanimals.org/pigs
http://ohdairy.mercyforanimals.org
