Comments on: Analysis of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA)

By: Activists Challenge Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act in Federal Court « Striking at the Roots

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:54:10 +0000

[...] Specifically, the AETA creates the terrorist offense of traveling in interstate or foreign commerce, or using the mail or any other facility of interstate commerce, “for the purpose of damaging or interfering with the operations of an animal enterprise,” when in connection with such purpose, an individual (A) intentionally damages or causes the loss of any real or personal property used by an animal enterprise, or by a person or entity with a connection to an animal enterprise; (B) intentionally places a person in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury through a course of conduct involving threats, vandalism, property damage, criminal trespass, harassment or intimidation; or (C) conspires to do so. (Investigative journalist Will Potter has an excellent analysis of the law on his site.) [...]

By: What’s a blog? « jimbalex

What’s a blog? « jimbalex — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 21:38:28 +0000

[...] Potter, Will. Analysis of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. Green is the new Red. http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/aeta-analysis-109th/ [...]

By: September 14th, 2011 « bhreaugh

September 14th, 2011 « bhreaugh — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:46:01 +0000

[...] http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/aeta-analysis-109th/ [...]

By: If a Tree Falls : Kingdom Animalia

If a Tree Falls : Kingdom Animalia — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:50:05 +0000

[...] threat.” Groups like the ELF and the ALF (Animal Liberation Front) have been targeted with special legislation and singled out despite the absence of physical injury or fatalities that are central to what most [...]

By: Seven (or more) Links in Sunny June « The Fivefold Path

Seven (or more) Links in Sunny June « The Fivefold Path — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:21:24 +0000

[...] bullshit of going after activists and dissenters reminds me of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (some analysis of the AETA at Green is the New Red for those who are curious). Doing effective activist work sure skeers the [...]

By: Green Is the New Red: The Crackdown on Environmental Activists | Unsilent Generation

Wed, 11 May 2011 15:27:43 +0000

[...] Potter’s book, published last month and also titled Green Is the New Red, documents the scare tactics used by the government, often in concert with large corporations, against even patently non-violent activist groups, which they dub “animal rights extremists and eco-terrorists.” Prime targets were the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and especially Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC). Far from targeting only their clandestine operations (which focused on corporate property damage), the FBI “argued that terrorism laws must be radically expanded to include the above-ground campaigns of groups like SHAC,” Potter writes. In November 2006, George W. Bush signed into law the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. [...]

By: Livestock Care Standards Advance Without Enforcement Plan « Sentient Cincinnati

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 02:43:01 +0000

[...] that would make unauthorized photography on farms a first-degree felony, to the 2007 federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, which allows a person causing “damage” to a farm operation to be tried as a terrorist, [...]

By: Livestock Care Standards Advance; Enforcement is Uncertain « Sentient Cincinnati

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 02:41:17 +0000

By: Show Details for Monday April 25th, 2011 « The Monitor

Show Details for Monday April 25th, 2011 « The Monitor — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:44:00 +0000

[...] rights and environmental activists as “eco-terrorists.” And he has closely followed the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, the Earth Liberation Front arrests in “Operation Backfire,” and the landmark First [...]

By: The Green Scare : Kingdom Animalia

The Green Scare : Kingdom Animalia — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:19:51 +0000

[...] Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act which gave new sweeping powers to law enforcement against Animal Rights activists, plays a [...]