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Wesley J. Smith Testifies to US Congress in Support of Strengthening the Law Against “Animal Rights”” Terrorism

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Testimony of Wesley J. Smith, JD, Before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Hearing: May 23rd, in Support of Strengthening the Law Against “Animal Rights” Terrorism

“The federal government has an urgent role in protecting the proper and humane use of animals,” Smith writes in his testimony to Congress. ” Understanding why extremists in the animal rights/liberation movement are resorting to terrorist tactics is necessary in order to understand that strong action is urgently needed.”

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Wesley J. Smith

Chair and Senior Fellow, Center on Human Exceptionalism
Wesley J. Smith is Chair and Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism. Wesley is a contributor to National Review and is the author of 14 books, in recent years focusing on human dignity, liberty, and equality. Wesley has been recognized as one of America’s premier public intellectuals on bioethics by National Journal and has been honored by the Human Life Foundation as a “Great Defender of Life” for his work against suicide and euthanasia. Wesley’s most recent book is Culture of Death: The Age of “Do Harm” Medicine, a warning about the dangers to patients of the modern bioethics movement.