The Blog of Legal Times (BLT) reports on a hearing this week before the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee focused on creating a new law that supposedly would not be as sweeping as the first one. The new legislation is supposedly aimed primarily at crush videos, which show animals being crushed to death by "scantily clad, high-heeled women," as described before the committee by the Humane Society of the United States' (HSUS) vice president for government affairs Nancy Perry.
The BLT, notes that "ACLU lobbyist Michael Macleod-Ball," testified against the bill warning that although animal cruelty is illegal, but that banning such acts would still violated free speech.
In post for the HSUS blog, the group's leader Wayne Pacelle writes that the matter of trying again to ban crush videos has "united members of Congress across the spectrum," noting that the House of Representatives has already passed a bill "to ban interstate and foreign commerce in these abhorrent videos."
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Animal Cruelty Videos
This should be a no brainer. Pass the law and put in place stiff penalties for anyone who abuses animals. While I've never seen a crush video, just because it would tear my heart out to see one, they should be right up there with the most abhorent of animal abuse penalties.
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