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Animal "rights" legislation

Ohiosam

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Dear Cavalry Group Members:

As you know, a major congressional legislative victory for animal enterprise industries in the battle against animal activist extremists was the enactment of the Animal Enterprise Protection Act (AEPA) in 1993, and the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) in 2006. (See AETA chronology here.)

The FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies use the AETA and AEPA to investigate and prosecute animal rights/ecoterrorist violence against animal facilities, and legitimate animal businesses.

Supported by a broad coalition of animal industries, led by the Farm Animal Welfare Coalition (FAWC) and the National Association for Biomedical Research (NABR), AEPA for the first time made animal rights/activist violence against a facility holding animals a federal crime. AETA built upon that victory and amended AEPA to expand the protections not only to a broader definition of animal facilities, but to organizations and individuals working in or with legitimate animal industries.

Attacking these important legislative protections, the New York City Bar Association has called upon the American Bar Association (ABA) House of Delegates Resolution 116, urging Congress to repeal USC Title 18, Sec. 43, AEPA/AETA, and for the Department of Justice et al, to cease prosecutions under the law until the constitutionality is upheld.

The ABA House of Delegates meets Monday, August 12, as part of the ABA annual meeting in San Francisco. The NYC Bar claims AEPA/AETA are overbroad, unconstitutional and “chill” free speech, right of assembly, etc.

The need for AEPA and AETA was/is clear; animal agriculture, the pet industry, the scientific research community and animals in education/entertainment are under siege.

The FBI declared that animal rights and ecoterrorism are this country’s major domestic terrorism threats.

BE AWARE: The New York City Bar Association has reported to the American Bar Association (ABA) House of Delegates to consider at its annual meeting on August 12, a resolution calling for ABA to urge Congress to repeal AETA (USC Title 18, Sec. 43), and “that until such time as the constitutionality of the Act is resolved, urges the Department of Justice to forebear from any further prosecutions under the Act.”

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