Two animal rights activists who allegedly released thousands of animals
from a mink farm about sixty-five miles southwest of Chicago have been
indicted on federal terrorism charges.
Both Tyler Lang and Kevin Johnson were indicted by a grand jury in the
Northern District of Illinois for allegedly releasing 2,000 minks from
captivity on August 14, 2013, and for conspiring to “damage and
interfere with the operations of a fox farm in Roanoke, Illinois,”
according to the Justice Department.
Media are reporting on the indictments but what is missing from the
coverage is the fact that these animal rights activists were charged
under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA), which means they were
not just indicted with “freeing minks”—a violation of private property.
They were indicted for allegedly committing an act of terrorism.
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