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Bill would criminalize dog's first bite: Colorado, 04/17/2006
New FBI Smoking Guns Point To PETA
The ACLU unveils documents released by the FBI, indicating a solid connection between PETA and the animal-rights movement's violent underbelly. AnimalScam.com has compiled the documents, showcasing the FBI's conclusions that (among other things) PETA recruits interns from overseas for "the sole purpose of committing criminal acts." One witness interviewed by the FBI (whom other sources have indicated was a former long-term PETA employee) also told the feds that PETA was formed as a cover for the Animal Liberation Front (ALF.) (Animal Scam, March 8, 2006.) |
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A mouse could save your life
The recent pro-vivisection demonstrations are prompting many in the green movement to rethink their stance on animal testing. Steve Connor argues that an intelligent debate is long overdue. (Online Independent (UK), March 6, 2006.)
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Rod Coronado released on bail; orderd to report to San Diego court Monday
After considering the matter all this week, Tucson Federal Magistrate Charles Pyle released environmental activist Rod Coronado on bail. Coronado must report for a hearing in San Diego on Monday, March 6. (Portland Independent Media Center, March 6, 2006.) |
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Bill to Protect Public Hunting Land Moves Forward in Sunshine State
A Florida bill to ensure the protection of hunting on state land has
advanced through its house committee. The ‘no net loss’
directive requires the state to open compensatory huntable land if an
area is closed to the sport. (U.S. Sportsmen Alliance, March 3,
2006.)
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Bill Gives Alaska Hunter Hasassment Law More Bite
Hunter harassment has been illegal in Alaska since 1991, but recent
actions by animal rights activists have led state legislators to back
a bill that will strengthen the current law. The bill will help
curb recent incidents in which animal activists have been tampering
with traps and releasing animals from traps. (U.S. Sportsmen
Alliance, March 2, 2006.)
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ELF spokesman talking 'direct action' strategy
Craig Rosebraugh, who served four years as the public face of the radical
environmental group the Earth Liberation Front (ELF,) is talking
strategy at a workshop on "direct action" at the University of Oregon
on Sunday. Rosebraugh, who promotes the overthrow of the
U.S. government and hints that murder may - in future times - be a
legitimate tactic, said he has been subpoenaed to testify March 16
before a federal grand jury in Eugene in relation to the group's
clandestine activities. (The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), March 2, 2006.)
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PETA's 2005 Kill Rate Jumped To 90 Percent, Plus New Photos
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has just
updated their animal-control statistics for 2005, and the numbers
aren't pretty. According to the Virginia state veterinarian,
PETA killed 1,946 cats, dogs, and other pets last year, in addition to 141 wild
animals. In 2005 PETA managed a startling 90 percent
kill rate (up from 86 percent the year before), adopting or
transferring out only 215 animals. Added to PETA's earlier
numbers, these new figures tell us that since July 1998 the group has
killed over 14,400 cats, dogs, and other pets in Virginia. (Center
for Consumer Freedom, March 3, 2006.)
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Domestic Terrorists SHACkled By A Jury Of Their Peers
Yesterday in a New Jersey courtroom, six leaders of
a radical
animal rights group known as SHAC (and the organization
itself) were
convicted of a
variety of domestic-terrorism charges. When they are
sentenced on June 7, The New York Times reports this morning, a
few of
the "SHAC 6"
may be
jailed for as
long as 23 years. (Center for Consumer
Freedom,
March 3,
2006.) |
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Activists
guilty of terror campaign
A
US jury has found an animal rights group, which has a base in Britain,
and six of its members guilty of inciting violence and terror during
an ongoing campaign to shut down a firm that tests on animals.
The group, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC,) which has a UK
branch in Worcestershire, maintained its actions constituted free
speech protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
(The Scotsman,
March 2,
2006.)
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Accused of Aiding Animals by Making Prey of People
At least two threads connect many attacks nationwide from 2001 to 2003, according to federal
prosecutors. All of the victims worked for companies that did business
with Huntingdon Life Sciences, a British company that operates an
animal testing lab in Somerset County, N.J. And their home addresses
and other personal information were all posted on the Web site of the
animal rights group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC.)
(NY Times, February 28, 2006.) |
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Farmers help postpone statewide mandate
Some farmers across Texas are crying victory. They helped postpone a
plan by the state and federal government (Texas
Animal Health Commission) to identify and register livestock and
poultry. (News
Channel 8 Austin, February 28, 2006.) |
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Arson in the name of activism
Prosecutors allege Kevin Tubbs
hopscotched the West, starting fires in the name of a cause. In
1993, Tubbs donned a black-and-white cow suit and joined college buddy
Matt Rossell in a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals protest,
crashing an Iowa Cattlemen’s Association meeting and yelling "meat is
murder" to television cameras. (Mail Tribune (Oregon), February
28, 2006.) |
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Militants meet their match
Rival demonstrations in
Oxford this weekend represent a turning point. For the best part of a
decade, militant animal rights activists have had the field to
themselves. The virulence of their methods, including extreme
violence, arson and snatching a body from a grave have intimidated
even the most stalwart into silence. On Saturday, a 16-year old
student, Laurie Pycroft, who had marshaled support via the Internet,
and two Oxford professors led a counter-demonstration of townspeople,
academics and students past the site of a controversial new research
center. They outnumbered the animal rights protesters three to one.
(The Independent (UK), February 27, 2006.) |
Marchers outnumber rights activists
Animal rights campaigners
protesting outside a controversial lab were heavily outnumbered as
hundreds rallied to its defense for the first time. Police
estimated that about 700 people, who included students, dons and
members the public marched through the streets of Oxford to the site
of the £18 million animal testing building. The event was timed
to coincide with a protest by the main animal rights group opposed to
Oxford University's planned biomedical research unit, which attracted
a further 200 to 300 people. At one point the two rival
demonstrations stood just a few hundred yards apart across a no-go
zone controlled by mounted police. (The Press Association, February
25, 2006.) |
Self-Proclaimed Member of the Earth Liberation Front Charged With Demonstrating the Use of a Destructive Device
United States Attorney Carol C. Lam announced today the unsealing of a one-count indictment charging Rodney Adam Coronado, a self-proclaimed member of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), with the felony charge of demonstrating the use of a destructive device. Coronado was arrested earlier today in Tucson, Arizona, by agents of the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. According to the indictment, on August 1, 2003, at a public gathering in the Hillcrest neighborhood of San Diego, Coronado taught and demonstrated the making and use of a destructive device, with the intent that the device be used to commit arson. Hours earlier, a fire had destroyed a large apartment complex under construction in the University Towne Center area of San Diego. United States Attorney Lam stated, "Teaching people how to build explosives in order to commit violent crimes is unacceptable in civilized society. There is no excuse for it." (U.S. Newswire, February 22, 2006) |
The pro-test protesters Until now, animal rights protesters have made all the noise in a dispute over a new research lab in Oxford. But this weekend the city's famed academics are planning to hit back just as loudly, as pro-testing campaigners hit the streets. According to one Oxford academic, a war is looming over "scientific freedom" and the "future of progress", no less. And this Saturday the battle for and against testing will shift from the city's dreaming spires to its historic streets. (BBC News, February 22, 2006.)
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Firms funding Oxford will be attacked, say animal activists
Militant animal rights activists are threatening violent attacks on scores of companies which fund Oxford University unless they announce today they are to end their financial support. The Animal Liberation Front, through its mouthpiece Bite Back magazine, based in West Palm Beach, Florida, gave 100 firms, ranging from large companies such as IBM to charitable trusts such as the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and small groups such as the British Deer Society, a week to pull their funding as part of the campaign to stop the building of a medical research laboratory at the university. (The Guardian (U.K.), February 20, 2006.) |
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| Revealed: 100 companies targeted in new animal terror hit-list: Animal rights extremists have threatened attacks on nearly 100 companies which donated money to Oxford University. The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) gave them a deadline of a week before attacks start on the homes of directors and employees, unless they promise never to give money to the university again. They made the threat because a medical research laboratory at the university which will do animal-testing is being built. Work resumed on it in December, after a 16-month postponement due to intimidation and threats of violence. (The Independent, February 19, 2006.) |
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Bought to Be Sold: A new documentary investigates a dealer’s maltreatment of dogs intended for medical research. Every year, close to 65,000 dogs are used for medical research in the United States. How do laboratories get the animals? Some come from licensed "Class A" dealers, who specifically breed dogs for research. But the majority of dogs are acquired from Class B dealers, who are also licensed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture—but who can obtain their dogs from various sources, including unlicensed sellers known as bunchers, for as little as $20. (Newsweek, February 19, 2006.) |
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| TROUBLEMAKERS:
What pit bulls can teach us about profiling. One afternoon last February, Guy Clairou picked up his two-and-a half-year-old son Jayden, from day care and walked him back to their house in the west end of Ottawa, Ontario. They were almost home. Jayden was straggling behind, and, as his father's back was turned, a pit bull jumped over a back-yard fence an lunged at Jayden. "The dog had his head in it mouth and started to do this shake," Clairoux' wife, JoAnn Hartley, said later. As she watched in horror, two more pit bulls jumped over the fence, joining in the assault.[The column continues to derail the commonly-held myths about dog breeds, and to draw an analogy to racial profiling]
(The New Yorker, February 6, 2006.) |
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Animals: attacks by extremists plummet Damage to
company, personal and public property by animal extremists halved
during 2005 compared with the previous year - and the number of
abusive or threatening messages has plummeted to almost a third,
according to figures released today by the Association of the British
Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI). The ABPI's figures show that, in 2005,
there were 85 instances of damage to property compared with 177 the
previous year. Even more encouragingly, only 10 were recorded in the
last three months of the year - a significant drop on each of the
other quarters. ( British Pharmaceutical Industry online, January 31,
2006.)
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No cause justifies acts of violence, terrorism
The fire
that destroyed a house under construction on Camano Island earlier
this month apparently is the most recent work of ecoterrorists. While
the FBI investigates this latest action, recent events suggest law
enforcement is making some headway in tracking down some of these
violent criminals. (Herald-Net, Washington State, January 30, 2006.) |
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Green
goons and 'rights' loons
So, will the American Civil
Liberties Union apologize to the FBI? Just last month, the ACLU
screamed bloody murder that the FBI was "using counterterrorism
resources to monitor and infiltrate domestic political organizations,
despite a lack of evidence that the groups are engaging in or
supporting violent action." What will they say now — following a
65-count federal indictment of 11 members of the radical
"environmental" groups, Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation
Front? ( New York Post, January 28, 2006.)
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PETA asks
journal to retract paper:
Animal rights group argues
research violated journal policy by torturing animals. Animal rights
campaigners are calling on the Journal of Neuroendocrinology
to retract a
research paper it published in April last year by
Ei Terasawa
from the University of Wisconsin, saying it violated the journal's
editorial policy against studies that cause unnecessary pain and
suffering to experimental animals. Terasawa was temporarily barred
from serving as a primary investigator in
animal
research, but has maintained the research met local and national
guidelines. (The Scientist: January 26, 2006.) |
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Arson as Political Speech:
On Martin Luther King Day, 17
people were arrested in Kitsap County for blocking an entrance to the
Bangor Submarine Base. When the trial comes, prosecutors hope to
exclude from the courtroom discussion of the protesters' motivations,
international law, or the "necessity" defense. The government wishes
to keep court procedures narrowly focused on whether these
people committed the crimes of which they're accused—not why. This is
fairly standard for civil disobedience cases. (Seattle Weekly, January
25, 2006.) |
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Improving animal welfare: EU Action Plan adopted
- Concrete measures to improve the
protection and welfare of animals over the next five years are
outlined in a new Action Plan on the protection and welfare of
animals, adopted by the Commission today. The Action Plan aims to
ensure that animal welfare is addressed in the most effective manner
possible over the coming years, in all EU sectors and through EU
relations with Third countries. For the period 2006-2010, five main
areas of action are set out to meet this objective: upgrading minimum
standards for animal welfare; promoting research and alternative
approaches to animal testing; introducing standardised animal welfare
indicators; better informing animal handlers and the general public on
animal welfare issues; and supporting international initiatives for
the protection of animals. Detailed background on each area of action
is outlined in the Action Plan, in the accompanying impact assessment
and Commission working document, along with an indicative timetable
for the planned initiatives. (EU, Brussels, January 23, 2006.) |
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Radical activists justify violence to aid animals, environment:
Radical environmentalists like the ones indicted in Oregon on
arson and other charges believe such violent actions are a justifiable
means of protecting animals and the environment, a spokesman for the
North American Animal Liberation Press Office said Friday. (SFGate.com,
Friday, January 20, 2006.)
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The best of the archives
Michael Crichton speech to the Commonwealth Speech focuses on the religion of environmentalism, which Crichton asserts is the most powerful religion in the Western World. Author challenges public to distinguish reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda in the disinformation age.
Ground breaking 5-part series exposé on the environmental movement by Sacramento Bee staff writer, Tom Knudson: One of the best collections of articles ever written about the modern environmental movement.(April 21, 2001)
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