Stop First Amendment attack

Sun., Jan. 1, 2012

The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act is a law signed by President George W. Bush in 2006 at the urging of corporate lobbying groups profiting from animal exploitation. AETA attempts to eradicate the First Amendment rights of animal activists so that cruel, socially unacceptable practices of exploitative animal industries will be insulated from public scrutiny and democratic discourse.

Crossing this law is considered an act of “terrorism,” and will be dually processed as such. This is an outrage! Please call or write your representative or senators to express our blatant loss of our First Amendment rights and the rights to protect abused animals.

Gandhi said, “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the ways its animals are treated.” Stop the madness!

Bonnie Bogart

Plummer, Idaho

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