remember, tuesday is soylent green day
Is this sort of thing we need to do to tell the world Soylent Green is made of people?
DN!:
We look one of this country's most controversial cases involving the prosecution of activists for animal rights. Earlier this year, six people were convicted for their role in a campaign to stop animal testing by the British scientific firm Huntingdon Life Sciences.
The activists are with a group called Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, or SHAC. Unlike other cases, the activists were never accused of causing physical damage. Instead, they were convicted of targeting Huntingdon workers, shareholders, and associates by posting personal information about employees and their families on the internet. The case has drawn scrutiny from civil rights advocates who say groups like SHAC have been singled out because they campaign against major corporations. The FBI has called animal rights groups the nation's number one domestic terror threat.
Worth a listen, though you may wanna load it twice. I still can't understand what's going on here. A few thoughts:
First, it's still not entirely clear what Stepanian's being charged with, though he's also pretty vague about what he was actually doing as "New York coordinator" for SHAC. In fact, he says, he wasn't actually a member of SHAC...or something. Anywho, both Stepanian and his lawyer are being very coy about the differences between exhortation and "reportage" on affiliated websites.
Second, how exactly is this a movement? There is no Kansas frontier any more, no need for a John Brown. This is a rich vein activists could mine - academia, scientists, medicince - so much opportunity to create a dialogue, and this is the best you can come up with? Threats? Putting up emails and phone numbers? You know who else does this?
All that kvetched, it continues to boggle the mind that so much in the way of taxpayer money and federal time is being wasted on a bunch of over-the-top kids. Aren't we in a clash of civilizations or something?
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