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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - New Jersey is using an anti-terrorism law for the first time to try six animal rights activists charged with harassing and vandalizing a company that made use of animals to test its drugs. Prosecutors say the activists, who will stand trial next week, used threats, intimidation and cyber attacks against employees of Huntingdon Life Sciences, a British company with operations in East Millstone, New Jersey, with the intention of driving it out of business. The six, members of a group called Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), are charged under the Animal Enterprise Protection Act, amended in 2002...

Because I wrote about the panther problem, and numerous articles appeared as a result, the Agencies got together with an animal rights group and caused a compliant judge and prosecutor to investigate me. The charge - conspiracy to commit animal cruelty. If that charge sounds like something out of Alice In Wonderland to you, you are right. I'll get to the legal circus, after I bring you up to date on the activities of the PantherPersons here in the Swamp of Socialism, and the event that triggered the whole thing. My neighbor, down Dill Road, is retired, and has Parkinson's...

WASHINGTON, April 1 (UPI) -- Animal-rights activists want U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld to order the military to stop using dolphins and other animals to detect mines or chemical attacks in the war in Iraq. In a letter sent to Rumsfeld on Tuesday, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals contends that the troops deserve the best defense but that using animals this way is cruel and may cost lives instead of saving them. The request follows reports that a 33-year-old dolphin, named Takoma who was charged with hunting for mines in the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr,...