Once inside the fence, Foster cranked a giant wheel-like valve until it closed, temporarily stopping the flow of tar sands oil. Earlier this month, the judge sentenced Foster to three years in prison; Jessup received two years of probation. There are already laws in place to send environmentalists who tamper with fossil fuel infrastructure to jail, as Foster’s case demonstrates. Congress also quietly passed the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act in 2005, a sweeping law that classified many forms of animal rights protest as terrorism. “I’m afraid of climate change.” The full letter ALEC attached to its bill:ALEC letter by Alexander Kaufman on Scribd

Source: Huffington Post February 20, 2018 16:07 UTC