Terrorism bill would stiffen penalties for animal rights threats

[Lori Price CLG]

Terrorism bill would stiffen penalties for animal rights threats

A terrorism bill would add Ohio to a growing number of states seeking harsher penalties for attacks by animal rights activists and environmentalists, including those against dog food makers, farms where animals are caged and university animal labs.

Arson, vandalism, assault, break-ins and other tactics used by extremists already are illegal. A national group of conservative state lawmakers has been promoting laws creating a separate offense of ecoterrorism since 2003, when California passed such a law. Similar bills have died in Texas and Arizona, and others are pending in Pennsylvania, New York and Missouri.

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Lori Price

[Southsideirish]

1. Like all sentient beings, animals have a right not to suffer.

[ixion]

2. soon they'll 'exapand' the defintion to include book readers and

non-believers and free thinkers as well, calling us 'intellectual terrorists' because we have the gaul to question our glorious leader. :grr:

[RebelOne]

3. Though I am an animal rights advocate,

I do not condone vandalism and violence used by groups such as ALF. Nothing is solved by that.

[Richard Steele]

4. Meanwhile, Aryan-First Hitler worshippers go unnoticed...

...on the oficial LIST of domestic 'terrorist' groups.

EarthFirst: TERRORISTS!!!!!!!Be afraid!!! They have spray paint! If approached, they may say things which hurt your feelings!

AryanNation: Who? TIMOTHY McWhatnow???
Oklahoma City Bombi...bumbling? ...wobbly? Oklahoma City Mumbling?

Sorry, loyal citizens, we seem to have lost that thread...We'll come back to that story later.

Until then, please be on the lookout for anyone who gives a rat's ass about the environment!