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G_j

(40,372 posts) Sat Jul 25, 2015, 01:23 PM Jul 2015

2 Activists Accused of Freeing Animals are Charged as Terrorists

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Every year around this time, the FBI busts a few animal activists under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act- in advance of the two annual national Animal Rights Conferences. This year, the FBI busted two activists for freeing 6,000 minks from a mink farm. These activists are not terrorists. Their motive was not to hurt business profits as the press tells it, and as the FBI shills and their corporate bosses want it framed. These activists are just caring, moral humans who were were trying to protect 6,000 of God's innocent creatures from being brutalized and skinned by an evil, sinful enterprise. The forced breeding, killing and skinning of animals for their fur is a perversion of God's Creation. These activists are heroes. The real terror-ists are the corporate blood merchants who peddle furs and the shills who protect their cruel enterprise.

http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/animal-rights-terrorism-arrest-buddenburg-kissane/8458/

WILL POTTER on JULY 25, 2015

The FBI arrested two animal rights activists today for allegedly freeing mink and other animals from fur farms, and vandalizing the property of animal-abusing businesses.

Joseph Buddenburg, 31, and Nicole Kissane, 28, were charged under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, a 2006 law that reclassified a wide range of petty criminal activity as “terrorism” if done in the name of harming the profits of animal enterprises.

The government alleges that since the summer of 2013 the two caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage to corporations that they viewed as being cruel to animals. They are alleged to have freed 6,000 animals, including mink and bobcat, from fur farms in Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

They’re also alleged to have traveled the west coast of the U.S. and used super glue and glass etching fluid to vandalize the property of fur retailers. Companies targeted included Furs by Graf, a retail shop in San Diego, and another fur shop in Minneapolis.

Buddenburg and Kissane are charged with conspiracy to violate the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, and are facing up to 10 years in prison.

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2 Activists Accused of Freeing Animals are Charged as Terrorists (Original Post) G_j Jul 2015 OP

All because we gave ourselves the right to own other living creatures regardless if AuntPatsy Jul 2015 #1

WTF onecaliberal Jul 2015 #2

Well duh! We all know once freed. These animals will rejoin their cell and continue Guy Whitey Corngood Jul 2015 #3

How sad. All around. nt elias49 Jul 2015 #4

I guess they should have shot up a theater in the name of the minks thelordofhell Jul 2015 #5

^ BlancheSplanchnik Jul 2015 #6

Pure usual kwolf68 Jul 2015 #7

These are more of the "Bambi animal activists" Archae Jul 2015 #8

I is very difficult to read your post without... SoLeftIAmRight Jul 2015 #10

those freed mink. will all just die. leftyladyfrommo Jul 2015 #9

AuntPatsy

(9,904 posts)

1. All because we gave ourselves the right to own other living creatures regardless if

Reply to G_j (Original post)

Sat Jul 25, 2015, 01:26 PM

Jul 2015

said owners abuse these living creatures, we are so shameful

onecaliberal

(32,902 posts)

2. WTF

Reply to G_j (Original post)

Sat Jul 25, 2015, 01:35 PM

Jul 2015

Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,505 posts)

3. Well duh! We all know once freed. These animals will rejoin their cell and continue

Reply to G_j (Original post)

Sat Jul 25, 2015, 01:38 PM

Jul 2015

to plot against...... OK. I got nothing. How ri-goddamn-diculous. If they vandalized property. Charge them with that and fucking be done with it.

elias49

(4,259 posts)

4. How sad. All around. nt

Reply to G_j (Original post)

Sat Jul 25, 2015, 01:41 PM

Jul 2015

thelordofhell

(4,569 posts)

5. I guess they should have shot up a theater in the name of the minks

Reply to G_j (Original post)

Sat Jul 25, 2015, 01:55 PM

Jul 2015

Because that's not terrorism according to the media and law enforcement.............

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)

6. ^

Reply to thelordofhell (Reply #5)

Sat Jul 25, 2015, 04:00 PM

Jul 2015

kwolf68

(7,365 posts)

7. Pure usual

Reply to G_j (Original post)

Sat Jul 25, 2015, 04:24 PM

Jul 2015

Too often "noble sounding" laws (hey, who doesn't oppose terrorism) essentially become a protective measure built to protect the oligarchy. That's all this is....a model to protect the unbridled and immoral march of capitalism. Remember, animals are only worth something if they can be scarified on the altar of greed and profit.

Archae

(46,354 posts)

8. These are more of the "Bambi animal activists"

Reply to G_j (Original post)

Sat Jul 25, 2015, 05:13 PM

Jul 2015

In that they got their knowledge about animals by watching Disney's "Bambi."

When masses of minks are "freed" like this, many of them end up killed by natural predators or cars on the roads, while others return to the farms they are from, to be fed and housed.

These are not wild mink, they are domesticated.

Don't like fur? Fine, don't wear it!

Vandalism, destruction of property and destroying farms is NOT the way to end wearing of fur, it just gets the public angry at these "animal rights" wack jobs.

SoLeftIAmRight

(4,883 posts)

10. I is very difficult to read your post without...

Reply to Archae (Reply #8)

Sun Jul 26, 2015, 01:51 AM

Jul 2015

being thrown out of du

may you experience the fate of a fur ...

leftyladyfrommo

(18,874 posts)

9. those freed mink. will all just die.

Reply to G_j (Original post)

Sat Jul 25, 2015, 05:24 PM

Jul 2015

They have no ability to survive outside. This a very cruel thing to do.

Instead of hurting the animals they should fight the indudtry itself and shut them down.

I hate fur farms but this isn't the way to deal with them.

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