{"id":7743,"date":"2012-11-13T17:32:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T00:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=7743"},"modified":"2012-12-08T15:23:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T22:23:38","slug":"alfs-case-mercy-vs-auschwitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/alfs-case-mercy-vs-auschwitz\/","title":{"rendered":"(A)LF&#8217;s Case: Mercy vs. Auschwitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>What the Corporate Meat &amp; Dairy Industry Doesn&#8217;t Want You to See<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>**WARNING:\u00a0<\/strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The video included in the following article contains shocking graphic cruelty and violence. Viewer discretion is advised and parents may want to prevent their children from viewing it.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>ALF is the accepted acronym for Animal Liberation Front, a radical underground movement opposed to animal cruelty, slaughter, and exploitation. The illegal actions against the industry responsible for these abuses has been controversial and given rise to laws in a few state jurisdictions criminalizing the covert filming of animal cruelty as documented in the video below.<\/p>\n<p>ELF (Earth Liberation Front), ALF, and (A)narchists consider themselves &#8216;affinity&#8217; groups&#8211;meaning they tend to like each other or the cause each represents. Ironically, the Pacific NW (A)narchists spearheading the protests against the federal Grand Jury inquiries\/subpoenas into the Seattle May Day street violence have issued &#8216;fatwas&#8217; against photojournalists who video record\/photograph these events (including rallies\/vigils) in public venues. Yet, the same elements would be the first to applaud the publishing of police\/state violence\/abuse or cruelty to animals. In the same breath, they&#8217;ll argue (sometimes violently) they&#8217;re entitled to prevent their photos from being taken. It&#8217;s a given the police and abattoirs don&#8217;t either. Each conveniently ignores those guarantees enshrined in the 1st Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>The following video displays ample reason why investigatory photojournalists must be protected:<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALL CREATURES, GREAT &amp; SMALL<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/THIODWTqx5E\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Journalism is the printing of what someone doesn&#8217;t want published. Everything else is Public Relations.&#8221;<\/em> -George Orwell-<\/p>\n<h1><strong>Gary Yourofsky Argues Animal Rights<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/es6U00LMmC4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the Corporate Meat &amp; Dairy Industry Doesn&#8217;t Want You to See **WARNING:\u00a0The video included in the following article contains shocking graphic cruelty and violence. Viewer discretion is advised and parents may want to prevent their children from viewing it. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/alfs-case-mercy-vs-auschwitz\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7743"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8048,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7743\/revisions\/8048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}