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HuffPost
February 20, 2018
Congress also quietly passed the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act in 2005, a sweeping law that classified many forms of animal rights protest as terrorism. It was used to prosecute Lauren Gazzola, the U.S. coordinator for a campaign against an animal product testing, on six felony charges that includedÃâà...
The Guardian
November 14, 2017
The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act is a piece of designer legislation written and paid for by the agriculture and pharmaceutical industries. It federalizes non-violent property crime and punishes it as terrorism – but only when the perpetrators are motivated by the belief that animals deserve to live free fromÃâà...
Care2.com
November 13, 2017
It's perfectly fine to convict non-violent animal activists under a law intended for “terrorists,” — at least, according to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the convictions of two men who freed minks from a fur farm. Tyler Lang and Kevin Johnson set out one night in August 2013 to do somethingÃâà...
Mintpress News (blog)
November 9, 2017
The Seventh Circuit on Wednesday upheld the prosecution of an animal-rights activist who freed 2,000 minks and foxes from a fur factory as a terrorist. In 2013, Californians Tyler Lang and Kevin Johnson freed 2,000 minks and foxes, and left the words “Liberation in Love” spray-painted on a barn at a furÃâà...
Courthouse News Service
November 8, 2017
They were prosecuted for their actions under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, or AETA, a statute that has raised controversy since its passage in 2006. Lang and Johnson admitted to causing between $120,000 and $200,000 in physical damage to property, plus the replacement cost of the minks andÃâà...
Newsweek
October 9, 2017
What is terrorism? According to the FBI, animal activists who stole two piglets from a farm were terrorists. As of now, Stephen Paddock, who killed 58 people at a country music concert in Las Vegas two weeks ago, has not been labeled a terrorist by the federal security organization. In a viral story posted onÃâà...
The Nation.
October 4, 2017
The state's enemies shift: In 2005, the FBI named so-called eco-terrorists “the nation's top domestic terrorism threat,” despite the fact that since the introduction of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act in 2006, no single animal or human has been physically injured by eco-activists. The terror, according to stateÃâà...
Westword
September 11, 2017
Activists took the pigs off of the property and have rehabilitated them at an animal sanctuary. The activists could be prosecuted under Utah's ag gag law for trespassing and theft, and potentially more serious federal charges under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, a 2006 law signed by George W. BushÃâà...
Common Dreams
September 6, 2017
Another important development that guided the second wave was Congress's passage of the Animal Enterprise Protection Act (later amended as the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act), which criminalizes animal and environment advocacy by equating it with terrorism, as well as the American LegislativeÃâà...
The Guardian
February 19, 2015
The hearing marks the first time that the law, the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA), will be legally challenged as a violation of the US constitution. Congress passed the AETA eight years ago under heavy lobbying from the pharmaceutical, fur and farming industries. Under its terms, anyone whoÃâà...
Huffington Post
August 8, 2014
According to the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, videotaping any livestock operation without consent can be considered an act of terrorism. Unsurprisingly, many animal rights activists have vehemently protested the law since it passed in 2006. Sarahjane Blum is one of those people trying toÃâà...
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