English assassin
08-23-2005, 14:38
So, a farm in the UK that breeds guinea pigs for medical experimentation has been forced to stop.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/4176094.stm
For those unfamilar with the animal liberation movement in the UK, the stock in trade of its more extreme members is violence, death threats, criminal damage, and the like. Finding that people actually involved in animal experiementation usually tough this out, they habitually target anyone dealing with them. (You will read in the story that the supplier of fuel to the farm was targeted, as was the local pub and many other businesses. Even banks who run their bank accounts or insurers who give them cover get atacked). One detail that gave this particular campaign added spice was that the activists dug up and stole the body of the farmers mother in law, (who as it happened had nothing to do with the farm,) alongside the more routine violence and intimidation.
I do not, of course, have anything against people who think animal experimentation is wrong. Frankly I very much doubt they are qualified to hold an intelligent opinion on the subject, but since when did that ever stop any of us. What I do object to, very strongly, is instead of debating the issue in public, where the arguments can be tested and the will of the majority (hopefully well informed and rational, ha ha) can prevail, probably no more than ten or twenty people have decided on behalf of the whole UK that this farm should close. And they have used methods with which the SA would have been very familiar to do it.
I am bloody cross about this, and bloody cross that the courts will not give people protection from these extremist nutters.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/4176094.stm
For those unfamilar with the animal liberation movement in the UK, the stock in trade of its more extreme members is violence, death threats, criminal damage, and the like. Finding that people actually involved in animal experiementation usually tough this out, they habitually target anyone dealing with them. (You will read in the story that the supplier of fuel to the farm was targeted, as was the local pub and many other businesses. Even banks who run their bank accounts or insurers who give them cover get atacked). One detail that gave this particular campaign added spice was that the activists dug up and stole the body of the farmers mother in law, (who as it happened had nothing to do with the farm,) alongside the more routine violence and intimidation.
I do not, of course, have anything against people who think animal experimentation is wrong. Frankly I very much doubt they are qualified to hold an intelligent opinion on the subject, but since when did that ever stop any of us. What I do object to, very strongly, is instead of debating the issue in public, where the arguments can be tested and the will of the majority (hopefully well informed and rational, ha ha) can prevail, probably no more than ten or twenty people have decided on behalf of the whole UK that this farm should close. And they have used methods with which the SA would have been very familiar to do it.
I am bloody cross about this, and bloody cross that the courts will not give people protection from these extremist nutters.