LCA - Stop AETA

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Our First Amendment rights are under attack!

Stop the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (S. 3880 & H.R. 4239)

On Friday, September 29th, the U.S. Senate attacked America’s Constitutional rights by unanimously approving S. 3880, the Senate version of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA).

If the AETA becomes law, causing any business classified as an "animal enterprise" (e.g., factory farms, fur farms, vivisection labs, rodeos, zoos and circuses) to suffer a profit loss, it could be defined as a "terrorist" act punishable by a long prison sentence -- even if the company's financial decline is caused by peaceful protests, boycotts, media campaigns or leafleting.

Defining non-violent activist tactics that cause exploitive corporations to lose profit but don't physically hurt anyone as "terrorism" is both a deceptive misapplication of a serious term and a completely unacceptable violation of our Constitutionally-granted First Amendment rights to freedom of speech. Industry groups are pushing the AETA through Congress quickly and with little public scrutiny.

Call your representative when they return to session on 11.9.2006 and urge him/her to oppose the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (H.R.4239). Let him/her know that animal rights activists are not terrorists.

If our voices are silenced, who will speak for the animals?
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Read more from LCA, or visit www.noaeta.org/ to take action today!

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