Animal rights and environmental extremists no longer limit themselves to demonstrations, publicity stunts and radical legislative proposals. Today they embrace physical assaults, vandalism, harassment, theft, property destruction, and terrorism to achieve their ends. Over the past two decades these attacks have mushroomed into the following events:
January 20, 2005 San Luis, CA: ALF activists cut through a 500’ segment of 8’ high fence at the GNK ranch and released a heard of European fallow deer. The owner, who sells venison at farmer’s markets, was able to collect and corral most of the herd. The claim posted on an activist website read “"Freedom for these creatures -- for whom death is a certainty -- was a simple and unskilled operation. We encourage compassionate people everywhere to locate farms in their area and tear down their walls. For the liberation of the helpless we will strike, A.L.F."
January 12, 2005 Auburn, CA: Five incendiary devices were found in an office building under construction. Devices of the same type were discovered in an upscale subdivision in near-by Lincoln on December 27. Official stated the firebombs were capable of extensive damage. Graffiti found on the Lincoln homes included “U will pay” and “Enjoy the world as it is – as long as you can.” In a letter sent to the Auburn Journal on January 18, ELF claimed responsibility, and warned of more terrorist attempts to come – "We are setting a new precedent, where there will be at least one or more actions every few weeks," it read. The Joint Terrorism Task Force is investigating.
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Source: http://www.naiaonline.org/body/articles/archives/arterror.htm
The Humane Society of the United States filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. Department of Agriculture for failing to provide numerous documents to the animal protection orgranization which has been requesting them since 2001 under the Freedom of Information Act. The suit also seeks to compel the USDA to make animal research facility annual reports available online.
"Freedom of information is critical to the way the animal protection community monitors the use of animals in research, so the inability to obtain information that should be publicly accessible is one of the greatest challenges animal advocates face," says Martin Stephens, HSUS vice president for Animal Research Issues. "The HSUS and other animal protection organizations base much of their work on information acquired from the government."
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