Regarding Hate and Crime

September 30, 2008

Your government is more interested in protecting people who abuse animals than in protecting ordinary people:

“[California] Assembly Bill 2296, or the Researcher Protection Act of 2008, makes it a misdemeanor to publish personal information about academic researchers or their family members with the intent to use this information to threaten or attack those researchers.

“The bill also makes it a misdemeanor for protesters to enter researchers’ property for the purpose of interfering with their academic practices.” (source)

So, if ‘intent’ to ‘threaten or attack’ is the issue, then why not make a law like this protect ALL people, not just vivisectors? Hmmm?

As Obama said regarding similar federal legislation years ago:

“I do not want people to think that the threat from these organizations [ALF and ELF] is equivalent to other crimes faced by Americans every day. According to the FBI, there were over 7400 hate crimes committed in 2003 - half of which racially motivated. More directly relevant to this committee, the FBI reports 450 pending environmental crimes cases involving worker endangerment or threats to public health or the environment.” (source)

I think it’s sadly interesting that many feminists and anti-racists would rather spend time criticizing PETA’s marketing campaigns than spending time criticizing the government. If the claim is made that PETA “spits in the face of traditionally marginalized groups,” (source) just stop and take a look at what your own government is doing.

Posted by Elaine Vigneault | Filed Under Animals, Politics, Racism, animal-rights 

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  1. Tracy on October 1st, 2008 8:13 am

    I totally agree. I don’t particularly want my address and photograph published to incite violence against me. But since I’m not an animal experimenter, I’m not special enough to be protected?

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