August 4, 2008
Forward from Consumer Freedom
www.consumerfreedom.com
VIOLENCE: California Animal Rights Lunatics Make Their Point With Firebombs
When People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Vice President Bruce
Freidrich famously told a convention of animal rights activists that
"blowing stuff up and smashing windows [is] a great way to bring about
animal liberation," and added "Hallelujah to the people who are willing to
do it," it turns out he was very well plugged in to the movement. This
morning, we imagine PETA's number-two is directing his Hallelujahs toward
Santa Cruz, California. That's where two biomedical researchers were the
victims of premeditated animal-rights firebombs over the weekend.
In one attack, a university researcher's family (including two small
children) narrowly escaped a smoke-filled home through a second-story window
after their home was firebombed. The other arson attack engulfed a
scientist's car on the campus of U.C. Santa Cruz. Just last week a series of
"wanted" posters surfaced in Santa Cruz featuring the names, photos, phone
numbers, and home addresses of researchers whose work involves the use of
animals.
They read, in part: "[B]eware; we know where you live; we know where you
work; we will never back down."
In this morning's San Jose Mercury News, long-time animal-rights violence
promoter Jerry Vlasak called the arson attacks "necessary" to bring about
the goals of his movement. Vlasak is best known for openly advocating the
"political assassination" of medical researchers in 2003, while a spokesman
for the PETA-affiliated Physicians Committee for Responsible
Medicine (PCRM). "For 5 lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives," Vlasak said, "we
could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human lives." Luckily, no
one perished in Saturday's vicious attacks. But we're chalking that up to
luck, not design.
It's important to remember that the animal rights movement is one big happy
family. Its leaders have decided that the life of a lab rat is so
important that human suffering -- whether from AIDS, breast cancer,
leukemia, tuberculosis, or any other disease -- simply isn't reason enough
to justify the forward march of science. And these activists who want legal
standing for lab rats are the very same people who want "rights" for cows,
chickens, and pigs.
Here's a fair question: If organizations like PETA, PCRM, and even the
Humane Society of the United States have decided that they don't care if we
live or die, do they have any business deciding what we should eat, or how
we should feed our families?
We didn't think do.
Breaking News
Here's a sampling of other stories that have caught our interest today. To
see a one-week archive of these items, click here.
a.. CCF to Tucson Citizen readers: The Humane Society of the United States
has a radical agenda
b.. Oregon columnist brings Roseanne Roseannadanna into
personal-responsibility debate. What?
c.. ... and in Forth Worth, they've discored that inactivity is "the real
villain" in obesity
d.. CCF to Chicago Tribune readers: Big-Brother intrusion in our meals won't
solve anything
e.. The straight skinny on organic milk: Health benefits require drinking a
whole cow's worth
f.. Quote of the week: Louisiana governor won't give up crawfish for PETA
g.. California animal-rights ballot campaign gets $3.3 million from HSUS
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