SHAC 7 Convictions Upheld in US Appellate Court

the news is repulsive, but not surprising at all Carcass. You hit the nail on the head with "as soon as a social justice movement discovers an effective tactic, the state will make it illegal."

"...this excellent tactic got railroaded before it could've been adopted by other social justice movements. " there is the exact reason WHY it was.

as i see it, the only thing positive that has come of this whole clusterfuck is that more people are aware of HLS and the extraordinary lengths the US government will go to to prop them up. i was recently at a talk given by Darius Fullmer (who was released after spending a year of his life in a federal pen) and his spirit was not broken, his words inspiring and supporters unwavering.

the 'message' that the Shac7 case was meant to deliver to the AL movement (and in fact to ALL social justice movements), was made out of fear to silence and intimidate (like all repression)...and i do not think that it was entirely successful. time will tell.

 

from what i hear, this is the next move from the SHAC7 defendants:

"A 2-1 panel of the Third Circuit
upheld the convictions (but vacated and remanded the restitution order because it
was procedurally defective).
This isn't the end of the show, though. They are
petitioning for en banc review (by the entire Third Circuit, not just a panel), and
for the Supreme Court to hear the case. "