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Federal And State Governments Shred First Amendment Re Exposure of Animal Torture
After the passage of AETA, the Animal Terrorism Enterprise Act, which defines
as terrorists not those who spread terror in animals in slaughterhouse murder but those who seek to expose their
crimes to the public, (originally initiated by 4 Republican senators: Coburn
and Inhofe of
Oklahoma and Chambliss and Saxbe of Georgia) at least 3
state governors, Iowa's Terry Bradshaw, Utah's Richard Herbert and Missouri's
Jeremiah Nixon, have criminalized the filming of slaughterhouses, factory
farms,
laboratories crucifying
animals. 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.
Thank you to the New York Times for editorializing that
the people have a right to know how their animals are murdered into food.
Butchers in videos have been exposed crushing baby chicks into paste in Iowa, running them into wood chippers in San Diego,
bulldozing them alive into the ground in Newark, Ohio,
strangling them on small poultry farms,
kicking cows and other animals in the face, pitchforking them in the udders,
driving them into fences with forklifts, suffocating them,
electroshocking them, whipping them,
skinning them while alive, dropping them alive into boiling water, baking pigs to death in Iowa. Animals have been drowned
in lab forced swimming experiments, electroshocked, killed in experiments of thirst and hunger.
Thousands of varieties of animal suffering take place
such as truck disasters in which mangled animals lie
across the highway, furbearing animals are anally
electrocuted in fur farms in order not to harm their
coats, secret torture labs at NIH, CDC, several primate
research centers federally funded and the USDA Meat Research
complex in Nebraska, to name a tiny fraction.
All humane societies and animal charities have a legal right to act as citizen
humane officers.
In the meantime, thousands more daily refuse to be involved in the killing by
no longer eating animals, fishes, eggs or dairy. millions more know that animals are not food, and choose
to stop eating the cadaver pieces
that their consciences know peace.
