More Animal Rights Terrorism: Threats to Poison General Population in UK "For the Animals"
People like this deserve to be jailed and the key thrown away. The continuing rabid attacks against Huntingdon Life Sciences and any business that deals with the company, has now led these fanatics to threaten to poison the general population. This is an anonymous "communique" from a group of criminals calling themselves the Animal Rights Militia:December 10, 2007 -- A.R.M. Claims Contamination of Glaxo Products
anonymous communique: "In a series of coordinated actions on the 10th December by the ARM 49 bottles of Lucozade Energy have been contaminated with sodium hydroxide and replaced onto shop shelves in the North of England, London, and Northern Ireland. The affected flavours are Original, Orange, Apple, and Lemon of the sizes 500ml and 1l. Jean-Pierre Garnier the choice is yours, either you cut your companies ties with Huntingdon Life Sciences or these actions will continue. We've been watching GlaxoSmithKline closely and we know what you're up to, Novartis paid the price when we hit its products a couple of months ago the question is how higher a price are you willing to pay? As you can rest assured we will be back. This action is dedicated to the 500 animal who die at the hands HLS workers every day.Of course, nothing need to have been done to the bottles at all for this insidious terrorism to work. When and if these criminals are caught, the justice system should treat them without mercy.
Some might say that I am assisting the terrorists in printing this. But I think it is important for people to see how evil some in the animal rights movement have become. This isn't about being nice to animals. It is about terrorizing people and anarchy.
Labels: Animal RIghts Terrorism
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 9:48 AM
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3 Comments:
I know the picture is tongue-and-cheek, but if such an event occurred, the ALF fanatics would be glad that to die if it meant that the animals would not be harmed in the medical experimentation. In other words, view themselves as a martyr for such a cause.
Just a thought.
Hi Royale: It was either that cartoon or reprint another picture of those jerks in masks.
I think they have no idea of the harm they are causing. I think they are young, filled with their own rectitude, and blinded by ideology, are ignorant of the need for medical research with animals. A few might be willing to be martyrs, but most hide from the light and, I think, would not be willing to truly sacrifice their own lives for guinea pigs or monkeys.
Brief real-life horror story:
There's a series of games for the PC called "Creatures." This company named CyberLife was trying to build artificial life, rather than artificial intelligence, and used the funds from selling the games to the public to pay for their scientific research. The "norns" in the games have biochemestry and brains and all that good stuff, so technically I guess you can call them alive, since their systems are similar to human systems. The electronic "genes" in the norns can have random mutations in them so they "evolve" into different and more interesting creatures.
Richard Dawkins adored the game. I kid you not.
Anyway, someone going by the handle "AntiNorn" put up a norn-torture website, where he displayed pictures of people beating their little computer animals to death and doing other things to torture them. It was done as a joke because he was weirded out by how people talked about their norns being "alive" in the exact same sense that they talked about their real life cats and dogs being alive.
He got floods of hate mail, including some threatening bodily harm to him. I can provide links to info about it, if you want.
Now, these are people ranging from kids all the way up to adults, and they weren't (like me) concerned about the violence in the game desensitizing people to real violence (which is why I objected to "norn torture" at the time, because it reminded me too much of how murderers start out killing animals).
They were mad because the guy was "killing living creatures."
I'd forgotten all about this until just recently while going through old archives on my computer. People insisting that game components are living beings and threatening bodily harm to another human...
What is it about the human brain that makes us likely to want to do harm to other people over animals, or not even animals, but pixles that look like animals? What would drive folks like this?
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