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from the when-does-activism-become-terrorism dept.
I was saddened to hear that two individuals who released fur animals and vandalized fur farms across America were busted: http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/fbi-arrests-activists-accused-of-releasing-mink/article_6c169b5d-dbbc-5dd1-adb0-534ee46af88b.html
But the arrest is sort of beside the point and there are two interesting tidbits in there. First and less interesting, is the ridiculous charge of terrorism under the "Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act" -- seriously, what they did is just plain old crime. Before you know it, going 10 over on the freeway will be considered an act of terrorism.
More intriguing, despite a lack of details on how they got busted, is this tidbit:
The indictment states that they covered their tracks by avoiding phones or logging into known online accounts and email. Instead, they used public Internet computers and encrypted email and cash for purchases while traveling. They would allegedly withdraw hundreds of dollars while back home in the San Francisco Bay Area before another trip.
The FBI states that they drafted communiques and posted them online to publicize their actions on websites associated with "animal rights extremists."
I'm going to guess automatic license plate readers were involved. Pure guess.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Tuesday July 28 2015, @02:30AM
The problem isn't the filming. It's that those doing the filming are not above staging incidents, and are not above abusing the animals (and in ways no actual farmer/rancher would tolerate) to stage those incidents.
If animal rightists need to torture animals in order to horrify the public into banning animal use, they will do so. To animal rights activists, the ends justify the means.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Tuesday July 28 2015, @05:33AM
Would you like some shrooms with your acid?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @06:28AM
It's funny how the original poster of the article has such an eloquent response. Typically, I could almost say