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Lobster Liberation Front declares war on fishermen
London Telegraph ^ | 30/07/2004 | Richard Savill

Posted on 07/30/2004 7:20:04 AM PDT by Area Freeper

Police are investigating a claim by an animal rights extremist group that it was responsible for releasing a fisherman's lobsters, seriously damaging his boathouse and splashing red paint around his home.

The statement by an organisation calling itself the Lobster Liberation Front included a warning that "the war against the lobster industry has begun". The notice, which was posted anonymously on the Southern Animal Rights Coalition website, added: "We will attack anywhere, at any time, and pots will be smashed, boats sunk and sea life liberated."

It added: "No animal should be sacrificed for human greed, let alone boiled alive."

The statement, which was being treated "seriously" by police, follows attacks on the property of Jonathan Lander, 42, a fisherman from Swanage, Dorset. In May, his boathouse was badly damaged and 50 of his lobster pots were vandalised. Last month, his boat was damaged, 30 live lobsters and three crabs were released from his pots and returned to the sea, and red paint was thrown over his house.

Mr Lander, a father of two, said: "The Lander family has been lobster fishing in Dorset for over 200 years. If these people have a real problem with what we do they should have the decency to come and speak to us and not threaten my family or our livelihood."

The LLF claimed that its "buccaneers" had torn off the front of the boathouse, and cut up the 30 lobster pots before crushing them. A further 20 pots were sabotaged on the slipway.

In the second attack, the group said two of its members went out to sea in a boat and found 30 lobsters and three crabs being stored in pots with their claws bound with elastic bands.

It added: "The bands were cut and the marine life returned to the sea." The group said its members then ripped down the radio mast from Mr Lander's lobster boat, put the engine out of action and cut the anchor cable. Fish crates, rods, lifejackets and other equipment were thrown overboard.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: animalrights; animalwhackos; ecoterror; environment; lobsterlibfront; lobsters
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1 posted on 07/30/2004 7:20:05 AM PDT by Area Freeper
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To: Area Freeper
It added: "No animal should be sacrificed for human greed, let alone boiled alive."

OK -- I hearby endorse the boiling of Lobster Liberation Front members. In fact, I am going to have lobster for dinner tonight (my way of supporting the lobster fishing industry).

2 posted on 07/30/2004 7:22:21 AM PDT by PetroniDE (A.N.S.W.E.R and IndyMedia -- AMERICA'S FIFTH COLUMN !!!)
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To: Area Freeper
It added: "No animal should be sacrificed for human greed, let alone boiled alive."

Are they suggesting that we eat our lobster raw?

3 posted on 07/30/2004 7:24:25 AM PDT by TBarnett34 (CA Dems: "Ohmigawd! We are soooo not girly!")
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To: TBarnett34

I don't know if any of the seafood joints near you have a "Lobster Zone" game yet, but I can assure you that they are fun for the whole family.

4 posted on 07/30/2004 7:27:49 AM PDT by Area Freeper (PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!!!)
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To: Area Freeper

Destroying a mans life to protest an animals life. Did they learn this in college?

Hope they like living in Prison when they get caught. Funny that they will end up in cages like the lobsters.


5 posted on 07/30/2004 7:33:44 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: American in Israel

Hope they like living in Prison when they get caught.

From your lips to Gods ear!


6 posted on 07/30/2004 7:35:56 AM PDT by Valin (Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.)
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To: Area Freeper
The statement by an organisation calling itself the Lobster Liberation Front included a warning that "the war against the lobster industry has begun".

Oh good Lord, get a life
7 posted on 07/30/2004 7:36:29 AM PDT by Vision (www.MarylandBowhunter.com)
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Oh boy. These guys better not mess with my brother's or my brother-in-law's traps. They're liable to be looking down the barrel of an 870 Marine Magnum...

8 posted on 07/30/2004 7:43:36 AM PDT by Ol' Sox (Isa u Akbar)
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To: American in Israel
Hope they like living in Prison when they get caught. Funny that they will end up in cages like the lobsters.

I don't know any lobstermen, but I don't think I would be messing with people in that line of work. I just get the image in my mind of hard-working men working over a bunch of wanna-be ecoterrorists who have never seen a real hard day's work in their life.

9 posted on 07/30/2004 7:45:00 AM PDT by Fudd
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To: Ol' Sox

...and body parts make great bait. :^O


10 posted on 07/30/2004 7:45:09 AM PDT by Ol' Sox (Isa u Akbar)
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To: Area Freeper

I have always wondered what the animal rights nuts do when they find roaches (which are related to lobsters) in their homes.


11 posted on 07/30/2004 7:47:02 AM PDT by auntdot
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To: Area Freeper

"buccaneers"? No, pirates.

Hopefully these yahoos get caught red-handed at sea, where admiralty law applies. Then perhaps they could be charged with piracy, which I think is still a hanging offence, under admiralty law.


12 posted on 07/30/2004 7:51:20 AM PDT by jimtorr
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To: Area Freeper
I'm confused. Are these people members of the Lobster Liberation Front, The People's Front of Lobsters, The Lobster's People Front, or the Lobster's Popular People's Front?

Well at least they're not the Romans. I'm mean, what good have they ever done?

13 posted on 07/30/2004 7:51:46 AM PDT by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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To: Area Freeper

How funny...

I'm just off to the store to pick up 2 lobsters for my wifes birthday dinner. We'll be sure to enjoy them even more now.


14 posted on 07/30/2004 7:55:57 AM PDT by locochupacabra (If God didn't want us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat.)
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To: Ol' Sox

Back in the 80's, lobstermen were caught with LAW rockets, not long after the Valhalla got snagged. Scary for a young coastie, keeps you on you toes.


15 posted on 07/30/2004 8:03:17 AM PDT by Fierce Allegiance ( "Stay safe in the "sandbox", cuz!)
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To: Area Freeper

Never heard of a Lobster Zone, though I have a sudden inclination to move and go find one...


16 posted on 07/30/2004 8:07:05 AM PDT by TBarnett34 (CA Dems: "Ohmigawd! We are soooo not girly!")
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To: avg_freeper
I'm confused...or the Lobster's Popular People's Front? Well at least they're not the Romans. I'm mean, what good have they ever done?

...Now you've done it, You've started another Monty Python (Life of Brian) thread... :))

17 posted on 07/30/2004 8:09:27 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :)
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To: Area Freeper

Excellent...another excuse to go eat Lobster again tonight.


18 posted on 07/30/2004 8:11:47 AM PDT by ApesForEvolution (DemocRATS are communists and want to destroy America only to replace it with the USSA)
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To: Area Freeper
Too cool - a combination of "choose your own lobster" water tank and a claw machine! BTW, the Lobster Liberation folks *hate* that contraption. They urge anyone offended by it to write to the restaurant manager, etc., etc. yada, yada.

Looks like fun to me!

19 posted on 07/30/2004 8:12:17 AM PDT by Cloud William (The Second Amendment is the Statute of Liberty! - Col. Jeff Cooper)
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To: Area Freeper

Lobster...yum! I know what I'm having for dinner....


20 posted on 07/30/2004 8:14:26 AM PDT by FeliciaCat
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