Terrorism Court Cases

SHAC 7: “Doin’ Time Without Doing a Crime”

I love this: new from the SHAC 7 support committee:

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NYSE Announces Deal to Protect Corporations From Activists

It looks like the scare-mongering ad campaigns and “terrorist” rhetoric have worked: Life Sciences Research Inc. has negotiated a deal with the New York Stock Exchange where the controversial animal testing company will be listed on the exchange’s new, anonymous, all-electronic trading platform called Arca– a move intended to hide public business operations from pesky […]

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Project Censored: Halliburton Subsidiary to Build Detention Camps in U.S.

From Project Censored’s “Top 25 Censored Stories” for last year: Halliburton’s subsidiary KBR (formerly Kellogg, Brown and Root) announced on January 24, 2006 that it had been awarded a $385 million contingency contract by the Department of Homeland Security to build detention camps in the United States. According to a press release posted on the […]

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Struggling Fur Salon Owner Says “Eco-terrorism” Legislation Should Be Used Against Protests

A 111-year-old Portland fur store closed last week after ongoing protests by local activists, and the owner of the store says he has been “terrorized.” Greg Schumacher of Schumacher Furs & Outerwear says the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act should be used to silence the protestors. The New McCarthyists are rushing to his defense, trying to […]

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Gingrich Says “Different Set of Rules” Needed for Free Speech in War on Terrorism

Most of the scare-mongering rhetoric from the New McCarthyists thus far has been about national security and looming terrorism threats. At an event in Manchester, New Hampshire, honoring those who have stood up for free speech, Newt Gingrich made a few comments that indicate a much broader, more overt attack on First Amendment activity in […]

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Wisconsin Victory for Activists Draws Attention to Green Scare Legislation

Here’s some interesting news from Wisconsin, the land of Joseph McCarthy and two of his torch-bearers, Representatives James Sensenbrenner and Tom Petri. Animal rights activists won what they called a rare victory this week, when a judge sided in their favor in a contract dispute about building a museum condemning animal experimentation between two University […]

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Activist Resisting Grand Jury Witch Hunt Released From Jail

Jeff Hogg was released from jail this week, six months after refusing to cooperate with a federal Green Scare grand jury investigating “eco-terrorism.” Hogg, 33, is a longtime environmental activist and nursing student from Eugene, Ore. He was jailed on Thursday, May 18, when U.S. District Judge Michael Hogan found him in contempt for refusing […]

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Animal Activist Faces Contempt Charges for Resisting Grand Jury Witch Hunt

During the Red Scare it didn’t matter if you actually were a commie: merely associating with one or having similar political views was used as grounds for harassment (not that the scare-mongering was justified against card-carrying communists, either, in any way). The guilt by association tactic of the Red Scare is alive and kicking in […]

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Coronado’s Attorney Asks for Dismissal of Case on First Amendment Grounds

Rod Coronado, the government’s poster-child for “eco-terrorist” scare-mongering, is involved in multiple court cases right now, including charges under an obscure section of a law dealing with “Distribution of Information Relating to Explosives.” At a speech in San Diego, someone in the audience asked how Coronado committed an arson years ago in the name of […]

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DOJ Rejects 87 percent of FBI’s Terrorism Cases

A new report from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse says that in the first nine months of 2006, federal prosecutors have rejected about 87 percent of the international terrorism cases brought by the FBI. The feds, surprise surprise, dispute those damning numbers. USA Today notes that Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said: …the department’s […]

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