United Press International’s Shaun Waterman has an article on the wire today about President Bush signing the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act into law. Here’s an excerpt from the text that appeared in today’s Washington Times:
Will Potter, a freelance journalist and animal rights sympathizer, said the bill would chill legitimate protest but not discourage real extremists.
“These people have shown that they are not going to stop doing these actions,” he said, pointing out that after the successful prosecution and jailing of campaigners against a research firm in New Jersey earlier this year, other militants staged a break-in at a laboratory in Massachusetts and dedicated their action to their jailed comrades in an Internet communique.