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A pair of California animal rights protestors have been federally charged with freeing 2,000 mink from an Illinois fur farm.Tyler Lang, 25, and Kevin Johnson, 27, allegedly released the animals from a mink farm in Morris, 65 miles southwest of Chicago last August, then daubed the walls of a barn with the words “Liberation is Love,†the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.The pair are suspected of travelling across the U.S. — including stops in Iowa and Wisconsin — to free caged animals, including those on mink farms and a fox farm in Roanoke, Ill.
Though some of the animals were recovered, many died after they were freed, according to Darren Caley, a neighbor who lives near the mink farm.“When I came home from work, (the owners) were out, trying to get the mink back,†Caley said in an interview Thursday night.“A lot of them got hit by cars, and a lot we found in a corn field dead. They were hand-reared and didn’t know how to hunt so many of them starved to death.
The Green Scare — that US government tactic of persecuting environmental and animal rights activists as terrorists — has not yet ended. While in the paranoid years since 9/11, ordinary Muslims in the US have taken pole position in terror suspect profiling, the government's draconian approach to eco-activism has not softened.Just this week, two activists have been indicted on terrorist charges. They did not hurt any people or animals, nor did they plan to do so. Allegedly, Tyler Lang and Kevin Olliff released 2,000 mink and foxes from fur farms in the Midwest. Apparently, it is enough to disrupt corporate flows and industry to earn the label "terrorist."This is no secret in US law. In 2006 Congress passed the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. As Will Potter, author of "Green is the New Red," noted, this act "sweepingly targets a wide range of political activity as 'terrorism' if done in the name of animal rights." While no individual convicted or charged under the act has been found to have physically harmed a single person or animal, according to the FBI, so-called eco-terrorists caused 200 million dollars in property damage between 2003 and 2008. Property, by the letter of US law, can occupy a vaulted position of victimhood above and beyond millions of animal lives.
'Green scare' my ass. You can believe anything you want, no matter how stupid (Hell, look at Stormfront and Obama For America), but you commit a crime, and you get treated like a criminal.
Wow! Those mink were so domesticated that they died of starvation before becoming coyote, fox, wolf, or feral cat food? Who'd athunk it?!
Prolixity much?
Nope. I use enough words to say exactly what I mean. And "Prolixity" isn't a verb. you know.
While in the paranoid years since 9/11, ordinary Muslims in the US have taken pole position in terror suspect profiling, the government's draconian approach to eco-activism has not softened.
2008 brought us the largest meat recall in history. Undercover video by The Humane Society of the United States at Hallmark /Westland Meat Packing Company in Chino, CA revealed cows so sick they couldn't move, being dragged to the killing floor by forklift. The video provided examples of needless animal suffering that led to the flooding of the U.S. meat market (including the National School Lunch Program) with unsafe food. Without this footage, the Chino slaughterhouse would have most likely continued business as usual.From Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" to Mercy For Animals' recent 2014 expose of animal abuse at livestock markets in Mississippi, undercover investigators have been one of the only meaningful sources of information from inside a factory farm industry that enjoys almost total lack of oversight from regulatory officials. But we all know what happens in slaughterhouses, right?There's a reason slaughterhouses don't have windows. This lack of transparency plays a vital role in keeping these industries out of sight and out of mind. But if we already know what happens in a slaughterhouse, then why are animal industries so desperate to hide their activities?
The lawyer for one of two California animal activists accused of sabotaging an Illinois mink farm and releasing about 2,000 animals into the wild last year said today he plans to challenge the constitutionality of the federal “animal enterprise terrorism†charges the men are facing.Tyler Lang, 25, and Kevin Johnson, 27, each pleaded not guilty today at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago. They were indicted this month on charges of conspiracy and interstate travel to damage and interfere with the operations of an animal enterprise.ADVERTISEMENTJohnson’s attorney, Michael Deutsch, told U.S. District Judge Milton Shadur he plans to file a motion challenging the constitutionality of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, the federal statute under which the charges fall.
