DON’T TREAD ON ME

Back on April 21st Doc40 angrily noted that the Supreme Court had struck down a 1999 law to forbidding sales of so-called crush videos, sexual fetish nastiness depicting the torture of animals and showing cats, dogs, monkeys, mice and hamsters being crushed to death by women in high heels. While we don’t mind too much what consenting adults do to each other, with heels or not, animals are totally off limits. We demanded something be done and seemingly it now is…

“Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court declared an important federal anti-cruelty law known as the "Crush Act" (18 U.S. Code Section 48) unconstitutional and therefore unenforceable. The Crush Act banned the creation, sale and possession of materials depicting genuine acts of animal cruelty where such acts are illegal. The Court made it clear that its major concern was the broadness of the law's language, which could make the law applicable in many circumstances not intended by its authors. While the ASPCA is disappointed with the Court's decision, we are moving forward! Representative Elton Gallegly of California has acted quickly and introduced a bill to amend the law. H.R. 5092 will make the Crush Act's language more specific and resolve the over-breadth concerns raised by the Supreme Court. Passage of H.R. 5092 will help prevent a revitalization of the crush video industry. The original Crush Act was passed with little opposition— help us ensure that this revision passes, too.” (Click here to help)