Animal cruelty law favors money makers

That new law regarding employees who video any animal cruelty in an agricultural facility proves that our Iowa Legislature caters to big money/big business. Its real purpose is to prevent the public from seeing what goes on behind closed doors. The Nazis wouldn't have allowed anyone to video inside Auschwitz, saying “it's an intrusion of the inmates' privacy.”

Legislators created favored status for the operators and owners of animal agriculture.

The primary purpose of the U.S. and state constitutions are to protect the rights of the minority from the mob rule of the majority. I know there are high-up government officials who can cleverly construe and interpret our constitutions to neuter them or make them mean the very opposite of what they say. Their job is to “be politically correct.”

The constitutions are like the speed limits. They're violated all the time and enforced poorly. I hope some group or organization challenges the constitutionality of that tyrannical new law.

If the ag-animal owners/operators are so sure there is no cruelty going on in their places, they shouldn't object to having anyone do video at any time, just like the drivers who do not speed or run red lights do not object to having speed and red light cameras everywhere.

Herman Lenz

Sumner