Revolt of the Schmoo!
Posted on 08/02/2009 5:08:09 PM PDT by jazusamo
SANTA CRUZ - A year ago today, UC Santa Cruz molecular biologist David Feldheim and his wife woke up at 5:45 a.m. when a firebomb exploded on their front porch of their town home on Village Circle, a small enclave of modest housing near campus.
The couple and their two children, then 2 and 4, fled the flames by climbing down a second-floor fire escape. Feldheim bruised his feet as he scrambled to safety, but the rest of his family was unharmed.
Minutes later, outside a cluster of faculty residences on campus, a second firebomb ripped through an unoccupied Volvo station wagon belonging to one of Feldheim's colleagues. Because the incidents occurred just four days after the discovery of fliers threatening harm to UCSC scientists who use animals in their research, it was immediately clear to police what likely motivated the attackers.
The fliers, left on a community billboard at a downtown coffee shop, contained pictures, photos, home addresses and phone numbers of Feldheim and a dozen other UCSC scientists. The crudely made pamphlets, printed on 8-by-11-inch white copy paper, warned: "We know where you work, we know where you live."
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Feldheim studies brain development to treat neurological disorders, and like all UCSC researchers, uses only non-primate animals such as mice, rats, fruit flies and worms. But activists say using even those specimens is morally wrong.
"What those researchers do is terrorism," said longtime activist Peter Young, who moved back to Santa Cruz in 2007 after serving prison time for setting minks free from farms in the Midwest. "When you infringe on the rights of a creature without the consent of that creature, you forgo some of your own rights."
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This is where the whack job Young and those like him show their ignorance. Animals don't have the rights of humans and never should though these crackpots lobby for that very thing.
ALF Ping!
A spokesperson for the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) has said that while the attackers are unknown, the attack was necessary response.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/print/article/258199
The spokesperson is...
Thanks, George. I figured the spokesman was that creep Vlasak.
It’ll be a great day when his license to practice is revoked.
While a spokesman said he didn’t know who committed the act, the Animal Liberation Front called the attacks a “necessary” act, just like those who fought against civil rights injustices. Spokesman Dr Jerry Vlasak showed no remorse for the family or children who were targeted.
“If their father is willing to continue risking his livelihood in order to continue chopping up animals in a laboratory than his children are old enough to recognise the consequences,” said Vlasak, a former animal researcher, who is now a trauma surgeon.
Vlasak said often the people responsible for these types of acts notify his group eventually.
In the meantime, they revel in the firebombing.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/04/usa1?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
“When you infringe on the rights of a creature without the consent of that creature, you forgo some of your own rights.”
Forgo to who, Peter Young? That pendulum swings both ways, creature.
It’s Santa Cruz... Isn’t it still a ‘sanctuary city’ for ALF, ELF and other lawbreakers? (...I guess I gave up trying to follow all the various antics of the City Council a while back.)
A year ago today, UC Santa Cruz molecular biologist David Feldheim and his wife woke up at 5:45 a.m. when a firebomb exploded on their front porch of their town home on Village Circle, a small enclave of modest housing near campus. The couple and their two children, then 2 and 4, fled the flames by climbing down a second-floor fire escape. Feldheim bruised his feet as he scrambled to safety, but the rest of his family was unharmed. Minutes later, outside a cluster of faculty residences on campus, a second firebomb ripped through an unoccupied Volvo station wagon belonging to one of Feldheim's colleagues. Because the incidents occurred just four days after the discovery of fliers threatening harm to UCSC scientists who use animals in their research, it was immediately clear to police what likely motivated the attackers... Feldheim studies brain development to treat neurological disorders, and like all UCSC researchers, uses only non-primate animals such as mice, rats, fruit flies and worms. But activists say using even those specimens is morally wrong. "What those researchers do is terrorism," said longtime activist Peter Young, who moved back to Santa Cruz in 2007 after serving prison time for setting minks free from farms in the Midwest. "When you infringe on the rights of a creature without the consent of that creature, you forgo some of your own rights."That's why Young, and everyone else in that movement, needs to HANG.
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