SHAC 7 Conviction Upheld.

Rebolg this is you want to be on the FBI’s terrorist watch list.

With 94% of all animal test results being non-transferable to humans it is a wonder why people support animal testing at all.  If people knew the whole truth about animal experimentation they would not support it.  The SHAC 7 are 7 activists who attempted to deliver that truth to consumers through the encouragement of civil disobedience and were quickly imprisoned.

The appellate court this week upheld the incredibly shortsighted ruling that encouraging civil disobedience is NOT protected speech.  Green is the New Red says the decision is “a landmark free speech ruling that lowers the threshold of what types of conduct are protected by the First Amendment, and upholds a law that is so broad that it targets civil disobedience as ‘terrorism.’”

The SHAC 7 were arrested for engaging in an effective (maybe too effective) campaign to expose the notorious animal testing corporation Huntingdon Life Sciences.  As part of their campaign, SHAC supporters were emailed about “electronic civil disobedience.” The email and message board posts included instructions on how electronically “sit in” on corporate web sites through emails, faxes and phone calls.

Animal defenders spoke out about the insane experiments taking place at HLS and were put in prison for encouraging others to do the same.  I think the only reason it is illegal to encourage civil disobedience is beacsue the target was a major corporation.  Should PETA campaigners be arrested for encouraging people not to eat at McDonald’s?  A boycott is an act of disobedience and there is nothing more threatening to a corrupt corporation/government than a public that refuses to obey.