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-- criminalizes threatening conduct and protected speech as well as communication with anyone engaging in these practices;
-- protects corporate animal abusers with a vested interest in silencing dissent, and
-- targets any form of civil disobedience or protest activity, and designates animal advocates as terrorists, even when they cause no physical harm; in addition, the bill's language is so broad and vague, it's hard knowing the difference between legal and illegal behavior, making it easy to target anyone for any reason, even if no harm was done.
Other provisions make it a federal crime to travel in interstate commerce or use the mails to harass, intimidate, criminally trespass, damage or, in any way, interfere with animal enterprise operations, as well as potentially risk bodily harm or death to anyone, or conspire to do so.
Green Scare Defined
The term may first have been used in 2002, referring to legal and extralegal government actions against animal liberation and environmental activists. The Spirit of Freedom support network defines it as "tactics the government and (enforcement agencies use) to attack ELF/ALF" activists and anyone supporting them.
Will Potter's Green Is The New Red.com (http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/) calls it exploiting terrorism "to push a political and corporate agenda," specifically "how animal rights and environmental advocates are being branded 'eco-terrorists,' " for their socially responsible civil disobedience in defense of animal rights and environmental conservation and preservation.
Like the 1917 - 1920 and McCarthy era Red Scares, "Green Scare (operates) on three levels: legal, legislative, (and) extra-legal....scare-mongering (to) instill fear, chill dissent," and protect corporate profits, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) saying:
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