Animal Enterprise Protection Act(AEPA- PL 102-346)

[Lyrianna]

Companies that abuse animals - including the meat, fur, circus,
and vivisection industries - have convinced a small group of
politicians to introduce a bill called the Animal Enterprise
Terrorism Act (AETA). If passed, this bill would allow the
government to charge animal rights activists with massive fines
and jail time for using nonviolent tactics such as civil
disobedience, whistle-blowing, and undercover investigations.
AETA already passed in the Senate and may be voted on in the
House as soon as Monday, November 13. Animals need your help -
please contact your representative today and tell him or her to
vote "No" on this unconstitutional bill now.

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UPDATE
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This bill was voted on and PASSED.
This violates our right to freedom of speech and the right of peaceful protest.

[Lyrianna]

>.< I think this would be more logical under the 'Government' thread... Sorry Moderators...

[vortex222]

Hmmm, I'm not one for pointless animal cruelty, but I sure do like my steak....
The bill seems quite a bit harsh, but from my point of view maybe it will get thoes people thinking and helping with more pressing matters, oh you know such as world hunger, the aids epidemic, you know things that kill people....maybe....

[kininson]

I've read, what I could find, of the bill. And it seems as if our federal goverment is again using fear tactics to silence people who have the right to speak. Sadly the politcal jargon is so thick in that bill, like most bills, that your average intelligent person, is going to be drowned under all that jargon. It scares me how goverments can throw words around, without knowing their meaning, or shadowing their meaning to make it work for their case. Eco-terroism is one of those words that need to be nailed down and defined...and over all used properly to prevent the misuse of that term.

[vortex222]

Governments have been writing up fancy bills with long words to confound us mere mortals since the beginning of civilization. Any government will use whatever tools it can to be most profitable, the United States is no exeption. What we need to remember is we are uniqe to any other nation on the freedoms we have, I think somtimes we take that for granted. You should maybe move to china for a month or two...see human rights are being violated there...

[Chariot]

The point here isn't anout the animals(although that does bother me very much!), it's the fact that we just lost our freedom to speak out on one issue. Yes, we are a unique nation, but that doesn't mean we can let stuff like this go or else they'll just keep making these laws and in the end we'll be the same as everybody else.

[Polka Dot]

Mmm, I agree with you Em. The animal issue is one thing, one thing that truly bothers me, but the fact that they've made our freedom of speech illegal bothers me on such a higher level. Our freedoms are what make our country what it is. That's why people moved here. That's why people stayed here. The freedoms. And now they've taken that away? *cough cough* Excuse me, but that's completely against everything we decided to stand for when we created this country. Yeah, I think that this is an awful thing to have been passed... but what is there to do?

[vortex222]

Short of dedicating your life to fighting the big business animal enterprises, maybe nothin?

[tails]

This is a pretty sad issue about what's happening with our country, and that the government seems to be working toward taking away more of our freedoms then giving them

[Chariot]

Yep, cuz that's what governments do. *sigh* So what do we do? Any ideas?