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Animal Rights Activists on Trial
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| The other day I brought you the story of a New Jersey developer who's using billboards to knock the state's anti-business policies caused by environmentalist wackos and government bureaucrats. | |
| Well today I have good news from New Jersey. | |
| Six animal rights activists will go on trial this week charged with animal enterprise terrorism. | |
| They targeted Huntington Life Sciences, a British firm with offices in New Jersey for conducting animal research in testing pharmaceutical products, drugs for those of you in Rio Linda. | |
| Now according to prosecutors, the so-called activists invaded Huntington offices, damaged property, and stole documents. | |
| They sprayed cleaning fluid into the eyes of employees. | |
| They went to employees' homes. | |
| They smashed windows. | |
| They threatened to kill or injure family members. | |
| They also targeted companies doing business with Huntington. | |
| They swamped their phones and launched email attacks designed to shut down their computer systems. | |
| The activists called themselves SHACK, Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty. | |
| They now face a quarter million dollars in fines, three years in jail on the animal terrorism charge. | |
| Now, if they're also convicted of conspiracy to engage in interstate stalking, they could be hit with another quarter million and five more years in the slammer. | |
| Now, these activists, these domestic terrorists, they have a defense. | |
| Well, yeah, on their website, they argue that the charges violate their free speech rights and that they're victims of a government crackdown on dissent. | |
| They say this is a frightening step in the Bush administration's path to war on domestic dissidents. | |
| Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| It's Bush's fault. | |
| No, there you have it, folks. | |
| Animal rights activists, no. | |
| Bird brain kook vandals, pure and simple. | |
| My friends, what sounds like a story about illicit activity is actually something quite different. | |
| Lindenwood, New Jersey police conducted a sting of escort services, which were fronts for prostitution rings. | |
| They discovered that one of the rings called August Playmates was run by a seasoned citizen, quite seasoned, Vera Tercy, the madam, is 80. | |
| Grandma Vera ran the enterprise from her apartment. | |
| She charged clients $160 for an hour with a call girl. | |
| She kept 60. | |
| Cops began wondering about her age when they called during their undercover operation because grandma appeared to have trouble breathing. | |
| State Police Detective Sergeant Thomas Cornerly said, you get a feel for how old someone is when you talk to them. | |
| She sounded like an 80-year-old woman. | |
| Because of her poor health, the police didn't take her to the lockup when they arrested her. | |
| Now, I said this story is something quite different than it appears, and it is. | |
| You see, Grandma Vera told police that she had to work as a madam in order to supplement her social security check. | |
| Now, just think if Grandma Vera could have set up a personal savings account 50 or 60 years ago, she'd be living large in her senior years instead of having to depend on booking call girls to make ends meet. | |
| I mean, I actually feel sorry for this poor woman. | |
| Meanwhile, Grandma, since you still need to work and since you can book girls over the phone, apply it for a job at the Clinton Presidential Library and Massage Parlor. | |
| I mean, they might even provide you with health benefits. | |
| That is, if you're able to stay out of jail. | |
| Think about these private accounts, folks. | |
| Private accounts are prostitution. | |
| What's for you? | |
| All right, now I don't want to alarm you there. | |
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Democrats And School Lunch Safety
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| There's no specific threat here, but government officials are concerned that terrorists might target school lunches. | |
| An FDA administrator says the school lunch program is particularly vulnerable to tampering, but he says steps are being taken to improve safety. | |
| Now, if you're worried that your kids' government-subsidized lunch might be targeted by terrorists, I have comforting news. | |
| It's estimated that your kids throw away over $600 million worth of school lunch food every year. | |
| But if you're still worried, here's a novel approach. | |
| Fix the lunch yourself. | |
| It has been done in the past. | |
| Works when it's tried. | |
| But even if you do that, there's another threat. | |
| It's really bad out there. | |
| 17 states have banned or are in the process of banning soda and junk food because it makes kids fat. | |
| And okay, give them milk. | |
| No, can't give them milk. | |
| Turns out that milk makes them even fatter than sodas. | |
| Study published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Medicine found that the more milk children drank, the fatter they got. | |
| They surveyed 12,000 kids. | |
| Children who drank the most milk gained more weight, and it didn't matter. | |
| Skim milk, 1% milk, they got even fatter. | |
| Found out it's not the milk, it's the calories in the milk. | |
| So where are we? | |
| Terrorists are targeting your school lunch for your kids. | |
| Soda and milk are making your kids fat, but it's no big deal because kids are throwing $600 million worth of food away. | |
| We got an obesity epidemic. | |
| Give them water, folks. | |
| They'll throw that away, too, in the trash can, like the rest of the government-subsidized lunches they're getting. | |
| A handful of Democrats, Senator Joe Biden, John Edwards, the Breck Girl, and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, have gone public with mild criticism of Howard Dean following his remark that a lot of Republicans have never made an honest living in their lives. | |
| And that was just his latest rant. | |
| Not long ago, Dean said that he hates Republicans and everything they stand for. | |
| Now, Richardson said he wouldn't have made those comments. | |
| Biden and the Breck girl have made clear they don't consider Dean the party spokesman. | |
| But overall, there isn't much outrage among Democrats, and there's a reason for that coming up. | |
| But Dean isn't backing off. | |
| On the Today Show, Chairman Dean defended his remarks and went on to assert that Republicans are pretty much a white Christian party. | |
| Howard Dean, the former governor of the state of Vermont, 98% of that population, white. | |
| A greater percentage of minorities, including African Americans, voted for George Bush than live in Vermont. | |
| Now, the reason Dean's ravings don't trouble Democrats much is because their base agrees with him. | |
| They are Howard Dean. | |
| They're just as livid they're no longer in power. | |
| They're just as angry that judges they hate are being confirmed, just as convinced Christians are a bigger enemy than terrorists are, and just as sputtering mad as the guy who is the party spokesman. | |
| And he is the spokesman, despite what Biden and Edwards say. | |
| He is the guy articulating what Democrats want to hear, want to be said. | |
| You don't see anybody demanding he be gotten rid of, do you? | |
| The kooks in the Democratic Party define the mainstream of the Democratic Party today, and Howard Dean defines that base. | |
| In 1916, Anthony Crawford, a black cotton farmer, was arrested. | |
| He had accused a white buyer of cheating him by giving him less than white farmers were receiving for cotton. | |
| Hundreds of South Carolina residents hanged Mr. Crawford from a pine tree and then riddled his body with bullets. | |
| Crawford's great-great-granddaughter, author Doria Johnson, will be an invited guest when the Senate takes up a resolution expressing remorse for not adopting legislation to halt lynching, a crime that claimed almost 5,000 victims, mostly black, between 1882 and 1968. | |
| The resolution, sponsored by Virginia Republican George Allen and Louisiana Democrat Mary Landrieu, notes that nearly 200 bills were introduced and seven presidents asked Congress to end lynching. | |
| The Senate blocked all efforts and they used the filibuster to do it. | |
| Ms. Johnson says it'll be nice to have an apology from the same body that blocked legislation. | |
| Interesting that this resolution comes so close to the end of the filibuster that kept Janice Rogers Brown, daughter of sharecroppers, victim of state-imposed segregation, off the courts by the same political party, the Democrats, that blocked anti-lynching legislation. | |
| Yep, the same party whose Senate leader was once Robert Byrd, former Klansman. | |
| Same party that blocked civil rights legislation in the 60s using the filibuster. | |
| Same party now fighting personal accounts for Social Security, which would benefit blacks immensely given mortality rates. | |
| Friends, there has never been a true accounting of the damage caused by Democrats to blacks in America. | |