[Vision2020] Otter Signs Ag-Gag Bill

[Scott Dredge]

Wow!  It seems like privacy is a double edged sword, isn't it?  You and Tom recently expressed your vehement outrage about how wrong and unethical it was for the NSA to be scanning metadata and for companies of so-called 'free' services (email accounts, search engines, etc.) to be recording your activity and scanning those records for information.  And now unsurprisingly you've flipped-flopped in favor of surreptitious video taping.  Just for the sake of consistency, please confirm that you yourself have absolutely no issue with being video taped against your knowledge on your own property and in your own home in order to ensure the you are not inflicting cruelty on <insert any living thing>.

For the record, I find animal cruelty to be reprehensible and I'm in favor of investigative efforts by anyone that roots out wrongdoing.

-Scott

> From: v2020 at ssl1.fastmail.fm
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 19:50:32 -0800
> Subject: [Vision2020] Otter Signs Ag-Gag Bill
> 
> Just when I think Idaho can't possibly slide any further into GOP insanity,
> I'm proved wrong:
> http://www.kboi2.com/news/local/Ag-Gag-Bill-Idaho-Law-Governor-Butch-Otter-D
> airy-247886431.html
> 
> This is beyond disgusting -- although not surprising -- that in Idaho, being
> a whistleblower is a bigger crime than tormenting and torturing sentient
> beings.  And if you think this kind of despicable treatment of "farm"
> animals is rare in Idaho, you couldn't be more wrong.  And, if you think
> this kind of abuse doesn't happen right here in Latah County, you're living
> in la-la land.
> 
> Good job, Otter & you damn GOP lunatics.  We'll now make it a point to make
> absolutely certain none of the meat or dairy products we purchase come from
> Idaho animals since you've decided to AGAIN condone animal abuse to protect
> agribuisness.  The Idaho GOP has just done perhaps one of the smartest
> things possible to kill sustainability because the little guys will pay a
> bigger price than the factory farms when people like me stop buying animal
> product in a state that values the almighty dollar over protecting farm
> animals from rampant abuse.  It's too bad those invested in sustainability
> didn't do a better job of speaking out against the ag-gag bill -- I was
> quite disappointed that while there has been some effective advocacy against
> GMOs, for raw milk, and in other issues, there seemed to be very little (if
> any) in-state organized opposition to the ag-gag bill.  At least, according
> to the news articles I read.  Pity.
> 
> 
> 
> Saundra Lund
> Moscow, ID
> 
> I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to
> protection by man from cruelty of man.
> ~ Mahatma Ghandi
> 
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