Grand Juries

Grand Jury 101 From the Rockford Files

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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FBI Admits Utah Grand Jury May Lead to ALF “Sympathy Attacks”

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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Utah Activists Resisting “Animal Enterprise Terrorism” Witch Hunts

[caption id="attachment_1170" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Activists protest grand jury in Utah investigating the Animal Liberation Front."]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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“Eco-Terrorism” Grand Jury Witch Hunt in PA, And Flashbacks of the Red Scare

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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Government Arrests Activists for 8-year-old ELF Action; Daniel McGowan Refused to Cooperate with Grand Jury Witchhunt

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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Another Grand Jury?

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 […]

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Grand Juries Against Puerto Rican Activists

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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Two Minneapolis Grand Jury Subpoenas Dropped

UPDATE: Tony Wong and Brandon Elder won’t have to appear before the grand jury in Minneapolis at this time. (Background on the grand jury is here). The district attorney dropped the order to appear after Wong and Elder sent in a declaration of their intent to plead the fifth and not cooperate.

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New Grand Jury in the Midwest: Another “Eco-terrorist” Witch Hunt?

In a country where so many people get most of their news from The Daily Show, and 1 in 4 people read ZERO books last year, I can only imagine how many people get most of their information about the legal system from Law & Order. In Law & Order episodes, grand juries (if they’re […]

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New Report from National Lawyer’s Guild, With Section on “Applying Terrorist Label to Activists”

Just like during the Red Scare, the National Lawyer’s Guild has been consistently out front during this “Green Scare” as well. The guild has condemned the politically-motivated application of the “terrorism” label to property crimes, and the use of vague and overly broad legislation like the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act to chill dissent. A new […]

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