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Bloggermann: Bush owes us an apology - Bloggermann - MSNBC.com

by cgigliotti | October 4, 2006 at 03:03 pm | 542 views | add comment | 0 recommendations

With increasing rage, he and his administration have begun to
tell us, we are not permitted to disagree with them, that we cannot be
right, that Colin Powell cannot be right.

Olberman is not
only to be supported in his comments on Bush and his administration's
mistakes, but also to be joined in his outspokeness. Many examples of
the limits of free speech have been cropping up over the last 6 years
of this administration, the latest falling under the heading of the the
Animal Enterprise Protection Act.

SHAC 7 (Stop Huntington
Animal Cruelty) member, Andrew Stepanian, whose jail term begins today,
has been sentenced to three years in prison, the maximum allowed under
the Animal Enterprise Protection Act. He is the first SHAC 7 member to
go to jail following the convictions. He was convicted mainly on
evidence stemming from his attendance at a protest against an auditing
firm by the name of Deloitte & Touche, previously connected with
Huntington Life Sciences. The prosecutors claim that because Deloitte
& Touche severed its relationship with Huntingdon Life Sciences,
Huntingdon Life Sciences may have incurred more than $10,000 in
damages. The damages, the act and prosecution contends it sustained,
are $10,000 of intellectual damage. In other words because he spoke out
by attending a demonstration against the use of animals in research
experiments, Stephanian, according to the prosecution and the AEP act,
participated in intellectual property damage against Huntington Life
Sciences. For more details about this case and its implications for
free speech in the US of any kind, see
[url]http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/03/142235[/url]