Homeland security has been caught monitoring circus protests (I wrote this!), vegan potlucks, and even a demonstration outside of a Honey Baked Ham store. It’s one of the clearer examples of national security resources being diverted to a domain in which they do not belong.
Along with the Department of Homeland Security and state and local police departments - often working in concert via fusion centers located across the country - the FBI has a lengthy history of surveilling individuals and groups affiliated with a movement that, according to historian and MIT PhD candidate Ryan Shapiro, has never physically harmed anyone. The FBI has long considered the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and ALF to be the number one domestic terror threat–9/11 and frequent right-wing terrorist attacks notwithstanding.
If you’re not familiar with the persecution of environmental and animal rights activists across the United States, let me briefly - and sloppily - catch you up to speed. I’ll be the first to admit that watching videos of these extremely risky rescue operations inspired me to want to do the same - until I realized just the kind of threat these activists face. What should vegans think about the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), the anarchistic, black-clad, surreptitious, direct-action radicals that quite literally save animals’ lives through more than their diet?
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