Oh wait, this is for Animal rights activists …
A federal judge struck down Idaho’s ban on undercover videos at factory farms Monday, saying state legislators wrongly criminalized free speech to protect powerful agricultural groups.
Animal rights advocates called the ruling the first such defeat for a so-called ag-gag law in the U.S. The laws have gained popularity in some states as activists continue to publish undercover videos showing animal abuse at facilities around the country.
U.S. Chief Judge B. Lynn Winmill of the District of Idaho swept away the state’s ban on the grounds that the law violated the 1st Amendment and selectively targeted activists or journalists who might be critical of factory farm practices.
“The effect of the statute will be to suppress speech by undercover investigators and whistleblowers concerning topics of great public importance: the safety of the public food supply, the safety of agricultural workers, the treatment and health of farm animals, and the impact of business activities on the environment,” Winmill wrote in a summary judgment.
The judge said that “the facts show the state’s purpose in enacting the statute was to protect industrial animal agriculture by silencing its critics.”
But three years and three-hundred hours of investigative videos on what is being done to human babies?
A Planned Parenthood executive admits in an undercover video that her doctors alter abortion procedures and she manipulates prices to accommodate specific fetal tissue harvesting requests — including delivering fully intact fetuses — though doing so may violate federal law.
In the nearly 16-minute, edited video, the fifth released by Center for Medical Progress, a woman identified as Melissa Farrell, director of research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, discusses pricing for specimens — ranging from intact fetuses to tissue and organs — for outside tissue procurement companies.
“Yeah, and so if we alter our process, and we are able to obtain intact fetal cadavers, then we can make it part of the budget, that any dissections are this, and splitting the specimens into different shipments is this,” Farrell said. “I mean it’s all just a matter of line items.”
Whatever, h8rs. You just want to suppress the sexuality of teh womyns.
“But, mammograms!”
Of which PP does zero percent. No rounding down, there. Liars, the lot of them.
It is like the law is arbitrary or something.
The rule of law? Yers. If you’re one.
Almost like some people get more legal protection from others when they’re, you know, too big to fail.
Also, about that 3% canard:
It’s as I suspected: the 3% is calculated by adding lots of fluff and chaff to the “procedure” count.
I know: this is my surprised face, too.
CA law is more restrictive on recording than Idaho. Federalism.
I side with Texas. The removal of intact fetal cadavers suitable for Genocide, Inc.’s deli counter is a surgical procedure and shouldn’t be getting done among pallets and meat lockers like so much sausage-making.
CA law is more restrictive on recording than Idaho. –
Yet, strangely, the CA Attorney General never went after Compassion over Killing
>CA law is more restrictive on recording than Idaho. Federalism<
so all the ca surveillance cameras the state has installed are illegal?
are police body cams illegal if the citizen is not informed?
No. But your surveillance camera footage of the cops ought to be an inadmissable invasion of their reasonable expectation of privacy if the cops think they’ve disabled it.
Ernst
They should ban public employee unions (idiocy only a police union would put forth)
and I say that as a (forced) PE union member …
yes yes ban em all
that would do more to help america than a thousand spa days
grief
I have no issue with private unions — 1A free association and all
but a PE union shouldn’t exist and didn’t until JFK allowed ’em.
yes yes i was agreeing that we should ban all public employee unions or at least do on em like how Mr. Governor Scott Walker did
he beat them savagely with his pimp hand to where they reflexively cower whenever they see him
therapy dogs desperately needed
Thanks dicentra, I assumed it was something like that. I was thinking that they were looking at all tasks and labor costs, including admin, and comparing to labor/hours devoted to abortion. The link demonstrates it is much like that.
I think it is funny / ironic that public employees feel they need a union to protect themselves from exploitation by their employers, state and federal governments. The same state and federal government that the rest of us should not question and accept as working in our best interest.
to protect themselves from exploitation by their employers, state and federal governments
Everyone in the management structure in gubmint offices is in the union as well.
They’re organized against the TAXPAYERS, who have no seat at the negotiating table. Our putative “representatives” have every incentive to give away the store (it’s not their money), so we’re eviscerated by the taxes that tear out of our hides and then again by the ineptly malicious “services” they provide.
*spit*
eek
Public Sector Unions were formed by collusion between Politicians and those of their supporters who they gave jobs to in order to more efficiently steal tax monies from the Sovereign People.