ANIMAL MARTYRDOM

IN RECENT YEARS, agribusiness, the chief entity responsible for factory farms, the world’s worst pollutant of the atmosphere, water and oceans, and the main cause of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains, has used the Congresspeople it owns to pass some pretty outrageous legislation, primarily to deter animal rights activists from exposing some of the cruelest practices industrialized animal husbandry routinely employs to magnify its profits at the expense of everybody and everything. Will Potter has been chronicling this sordid affair from the start, with little competition throughout the mainstream corporate media (no surprise there of course).Below, some materials that sketch out the status of the current situation. The cynical branding of animal defenders as “terrorists” is deservedly called “the Green Scare” by Potter.  And keep in mind that all this “terrorism” crap we constantly hear, with quickly multiplying nuisances from airport scannings to real perils, like an encroaching police state, are the direct result of a criminal foreign policy implemented by the plutocracy for generations, and which eventually has elicited retaliation among some of the victims. If we had had a foreign policy as pure and righteous and noble as the prostituted politicians and media would have us believe, none of this would be happening.—Eds.

The American Animal Terrorism Act (AETA) is the main hammer being used by the system to crush anti-animal exploitation and anti-ecological abuse by business.  Read on to get a good idea what this latest concoction by the system portends for our civil liberties, and effective freedom in general.