Animal Rights Activists & Terrorist Tactics
A gang of animal rights protesters described by a judge as “determined and cold-blooded defenders of their perceived cause” have been found guilty of conspiracy to blackmail.
The gang gained UK wide publicity when they were accused of grave robbing earlier in September 1999.
Their ’cause’ on this occassion was to try and pressure the owners of a Guinea Pig farm into shutting their business down.
Their method was to embark on a campaign of intimidation, threat, terror and culiminated in the removal of Gladys Hammond’s body, the Mother-in-law of one of farm owner’s, from St Peter’s churchyard in Yoxall in October 2004.
The case is the latest in a growing trend of animal rights groups taking their tacticts to terrorist levels and it must sureley raise the question, could animal rights terrorists being turning the general public against them and, by association, against their (worthy) causes?
The epsiod reminds me of an episode of the cartoon comedy series South Park where the school is charged with the task of debating whether or not the town’s flag (depicting a black person being hung by a group of white people) was racist.
The traditionalists who wanted to keep their flag made a well reasonsed debate that history and heritage was at stake and no racism was intended. Their ’cause’ drew the support of the local Ku Klux Klan, which in turn immediately made the vast majority of people instantly take the opposite side.
In order to try and win the vote, the town’s traditionalists approached the Klan and asked them to support the anti-flag campaign on the assumption that ‘whichever side you’re on, people will support the opposite’.
Animal rights terrorists are in danger of causing a similar reaction amongst the fair minded majority and surely that will only harm and hinder their cause as well as damage the reputation of organisations who fight a fair battle to improve the rights of animals in a variety of situations.
The last thing animals need is for the majority to instantly take the opposite side on the back of the distasteful actions of a few thugish terrorists.
I feel strongly that it’s time for those who head up the animal rights groups to weed out those people intent on finding an outlet for their inate violence in the name of animal rights, otherwise I fear it is the animals who will suffer in the long run.
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Story posted by Stan Lawrenson.
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If you knew anything about the animal rights movement you would know that there are NO heads.
The movement is made up of individuals who are responsible for their own actions, and can do whatever they want.
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I am really surprised by the moral outrage people are expressing about animal rights “extremism.” For one thing, the press reports have been incredibly biassed, and haven’t reminded people of what the guinea pig breeders actually did. Without that context people won’t understand why anyone would take “extreme” action. I’m sick of people comparing animal rights activists to terrorists, or Al Qaeda. How can a world wide movement that has never killed anyone be equated to people who murder thousands?
Get a grip folks. Terrorists kill people. Gruesome though the grave robbing was (and let’s remember, the folks who have been locked up are not charged with grave digging but blackmail) it’s not murder or rape. There are sodding rapists who get less than these men will serve. Where is the justice in that?
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I agree wholeheartedly with mary’s comment.
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The “big brother” society takes another step forward today with MSP,s voting for another ban- this time on tail docking! The absolute arogance by the people bringing forward this bill is astounding. We won a devolved parliament after centuries, and this is how they improve the lot of the scottish people? The problems facing scotland today are not hard to see- poor infrastructure, education and health in utter chaos! and DRUGS. Nothing is being done constructively to deal with these! Yet our flabby overpaid ( and too many) MSP,s pontificate on long held cutural matters that they and their wooly headed advisors have deemed ” Not condusive to modern thinking”. Wake up people! What makes Scotland is its people, cuture and history, dont let the essence of scots be crushed by even more legislation on our lifestyle!
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the animal rights movement will be won with peaceful progress not with fear…. but if we were talking about concentration camps as oppossed to vivesection labs, breeding farms and other such establishments, maybe people would think differently.
A dead body is a dead body…. the guinea pigs were alive. I do not approve of such actions because of the bad publicity that it gives to the animal rights movment. The press dont seem to like us at all lately… Terrorists and all. i’m sure if you met me you’d be soooooo terrified. NOT.
( also…. what has this got to do with dogs exactly? or are you trying to make animal rights activists look bad too? why noy publicise some of the positive effects that occur from our actions?)
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I don’t agree with the desecretation of a grave (if they ARE guilty of this), but I do understand the frustration faced by ani-vivisectors when no real change or progress is made. The end result was that the vile guinea pig farm closed down, and to me that is a cause for celebration. Simply put, direct action does has its place, and if somebody raided HLS or any other god awful research lab and rescued the caged animals, lots of people would want to shake their hand, me included. The fact that they got 12 years for “blackmail” offences is sickening, when paedophiles get 5 years. Where is the justice in that?
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I think the way the ‘terrorists’ did this was clever and right.
The bastards that where farming guinea pigs to be sold to be tested on needed something like this to close down the company.
The guinea pigs have as much right as us to be alive.
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