Scott DeMuth, a Minneapolis activist, has been indicted for conspiracy to violate the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, apparently in relation to a 2004 Animal Liberation Front raid at the University of Iowa. He faces up to 5 years in prison. His indictment marks a continued expansion of the scope of the new terrorism law, which [...]
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Carrie Feldman refuses to cooperate with a grand jury that apparently is investigating an ALF raid at the University of Iowa.
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Posted in Grand Juries, Legal Issues on Oct 14th, 2009
A Utah animal rights activist has been indicted by a federal grand jury on felony contempt charges for asserting his First and Fifth Amendment rights, and refusing to cooperate with the “animal rights terrorism” witch hunt. His trial is scheduled to begin on November 2.
The grand jury is investigating the release of thousands of [...]
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Posted in Grand Juries, Legal Issues on Mar 24th, 2009
A Utah animal rights activist, Jordan Halliday, has been jailed for refusing to testify before a grand jury about his political beliefs and political associations. But you know what, he’s in good company. Check out this clip of Jim Rockford in the Rockford Files as he is hauled before a grand jury and jailed for [...]
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Posted in Grand Juries, Legal Issues on Mar 16th, 2009
An animal rights activist in Utah, Jordan Halliday, has been jailed for refusing to testify about his political beliefs and associations before a grand jury. In response, the FBI is going into Orwellian overdrive. Here are two ways the public statements by the FBI and prosecutors about this “animal rights terrorism” case just don’t add up:
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[caption id="attachment_1170" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Activists protest grand jury in Utah investigating the Animal Liberation Front."]
[/caption]“Eco-terrorism” witch hunts in Utah haven’t kept local activists from speaking out and defending those targeted as “animal rights terrorists.”
When two animal rights activists were subpoenaed to a federal grand jury on February 18th, local organizers showed that the activists had public support, and that no one would be intimidated into remaining silent.
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Posted in Grand Juries, Legal Issues on Sep 13th, 2008
A well-known author, speaker and artist in the radical environmental movement has become the target of another “Green Scare” grand jury witch hunt.
The grand jury is investigating six “eco-terrorism” cases in Pennsylvania. The actions by the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front, in 2002 and 2003, caused about $1.5 million in damage, including [...]
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Eight years ago, the Earth Liberation Front claimed responsibility for sabotaging the U.S. Forest Service Facility in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, because the facility was performing genetic engineering research on trees. Underground activists “girdled” about 500 trees, removing a strip of bark, a few inches wide, around the circumference of the trees that caused them to die. [...]
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Posted in Grand Juries on Jun 18th, 2008
The last grand jury “eco-terrorism” witch hunt in the Midwest didn’t go too far; the Feds dropped it after it was clear that the two activists wouldn’t cooperate in any way. From SupportDaniel.org, it looks like the government may be at it again:
It’s 10 pm on the east coast and a few hours ago we [...]
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Posted in Grand Juries on Jan 16th, 2008
Through my reporting, I focus on how the “War on Terrorism” is being used to target environmental and animal advocates. But one thing I try to hit home again and again is that this “Green Scare” doesn’t exist in a vacuum. The attacks on environmental and animal advocates are strikingly similar to other eras of [...]
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