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Active Surgeon and Animal Rights Activist Publicly Advocates Killing Research Scientists
Life Site ^ | 03.21.06 | John-Henry Westen

Posted on 03/21/2006 10:22:36 PM PST by Coleus

Dr. Jerry Vlasak is a trauma surgeon who is certified by The American Board of Surgery and is also listed as a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons. Vlasak is also an outspoken animal rights activist who has, in an interview published this month, repeated his view that killing animal researchers is an acceptable way to stop animal experiments.

In the March 2006 issue of Abolitionist-Online, Vlasak is quoted as saying "Killing an animal abuser, who is not an innocent bystander, is morally defensible, and if they had the power to do so, animals would do it."

Vlasak compares killing of animal researchers to stop animal experimentation to "the killing of Nazi concentration camp guards and officers to free the prisoners being taken to the gas chambers."  He suggests that such actions, "most likely would have made the next crop of soldiers less likely to volunteer for duty."

"So yes, I think the threat of violence would save lives, innocent lives. I'm sorry to say its true," says Vlasak. 

He proposes, researchers should be allowed to cease and desist peacefully prior to being violently forced. "All animal abusers should be politely asked to stop killing animals in their work and explain to them the scientific fraud in animal experimentation, as I was. If they refuse, they should be told to stop immediately, or suffer the consequences. If they still refuse, then they should be stopped by whatever means necessary. I would hope they would stop the torture and killing when asked, but I suspect some would not."

LifeSiteNews.com contacted The American Board of Surgery (ABS) which certified Vlasak.  Communications Director Christine Schiffer, acknowledged that Vlasak was indeed currently certified, which according to Schiffer indicated that he is an active surgeon.  When LifeSiteNews.com inquired whether Vlasak's comments would result in his certification being revoked Schiffer explained that the state medical board takes up disciplinary issues and that ABS would cooperate with the state medical board in such matters.

Calls to the California State Medical Board were not returned by press time.

To express concerns:

Medical Board of California
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Complaints should be mailed to:
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To send an Electronic Mail please visit:
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Jerry Vlasak Biography  Jerry Vlasak Quotes



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: alf; animalwhackos; terrorism; wackjob
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1 posted on 03/21/2006 10:22:38 PM PST by Coleus
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To: Coleus

So when he gets some dreadful disease that will prove fatal unless he avails himself of some treatment made possible only by results of animal research, he *will* have the ethical courage to refuse the treatment, right?


2 posted on 03/21/2006 10:26:37 PM PST by Salamander (Cursed With Second Sight)
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To: Coleus
Careful there Dr. Vlasak.

Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

L

3 posted on 03/21/2006 10:28:34 PM PST by Lurker (I trust in God. Everyone else shows me their hands.)
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To: Coleus

If that sorry excuse of a doctor has no respect for the Hippocratic Oath that he took, his medical license should be revoked!


4 posted on 03/21/2006 10:31:05 PM PST by jazusamo (Excuse me Helen, I'm answering your first accusation. - President Bush)
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To: Coleus
This guy is dangerous. Instead of using animals, cut to the human trials and use him for the experiments, and others of his ilk.
5 posted on 03/21/2006 10:31:18 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Coleus

start with him: I can see no better way for him to express his sincerity than by volunteering to be a test-to-destruction lab animal.


6 posted on 03/21/2006 10:31:38 PM PST by King Prout (DOWN with the class-enemies at Google! LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE'S CUBE!)
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To: Coleus

Well, if this is the value he places on human life I pray that I NEVER have to go under the knife at whatever hospital in CA he is at when he is on call.


7 posted on 03/21/2006 10:32:23 PM PST by takeemout (God Bless Jesse Helms!)
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To: Salamander
I heard this guy on the Al Rantel radio show a few months ago. He is a looney toon and advocates violence. He puts all animals on the same level as humans. He is a domestic terrorist.
8 posted on 03/21/2006 10:32:26 PM PST by skimask (Ezekiel: 25/17)
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To: Smokin' Joe

beat me to it by 00:00:20


9 posted on 03/21/2006 10:33:49 PM PST by King Prout (DOWN with the class-enemies at Google! LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE'S CUBE!)
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To: Coleus
In the March 2006 issue of Abolitionist-Online, Vlasak is quoted as saying "Killing an animal abuser, who is not an innocent bystander, is morally defensible, and if they had the power to do so, animals would do it."


10 posted on 03/21/2006 10:34:27 PM PST by The Red Zone
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To: skimask

Excuse me, but isn't Eric Rudolph going to be touring with this guy soon? They seem to be promoting the same book. Maybe the NAGs can protest this doc at the same time.....


11 posted on 03/21/2006 10:36:40 PM PST by bpjam (Now accepting liberal apologies.....)
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To: Coleus

So they can justify militant violence to protect animals but they can't rationalize the Iraq War as a means to protect human lives? Figures.


12 posted on 03/21/2006 10:45:50 PM PST by TNdandelion
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To: Coleus

There are morons and there are dangerous morons, Vlasak is of the latter variety.


13 posted on 03/21/2006 10:47:12 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: Coleus
This man is a stark, raving lunatic.

A surgeon should know very well that he could not do his job saving humans, without the drugs and techniques developed through animal experimentation.

14 posted on 03/21/2006 10:48:10 PM PST by Bonaparte
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To: takeemout
I pray that I NEVER have to go under the knife at whatever hospital in CA he is at when he is on call.

Tell him you are a vegetarian.

15 posted on 03/21/2006 10:48:32 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: Coleus

What do you want to bet the good doctor is all for abortion on demand...


16 posted on 03/21/2006 10:48:45 PM PST by DB (©)
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To: Coleus

Oh, and I should add that many of those same drugs and techniques would also not be available to the veterinarians who save the lives of animals.


17 posted on 03/21/2006 10:49:34 PM PST by Bonaparte
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To: DB
From his bio link above --

    “I don’t think you’d have to kill -- assassinate -- too many vivisectors,” Vlasak said, “before you would see a marked decrease in the amount of vivisection going on. And I think for 5 lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human lives.” When one woman in the audience disagreed, saying that Vlasak’s approach was no different from that of abortion-clinic bombers, Vlasak was undeterred. “Absolutely,” he countered. “I think they had a great strategy going.”

I think the doctor may be an equal opportunity murderer -- of humans, not animals.

18 posted on 03/21/2006 10:54:44 PM PST by Bonaparte
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To: Graybeard58

and a frog, yep that's it I will tell him I am a vegetarian and a frog! Perfect.


19 posted on 03/21/2006 10:55:17 PM PST by takeemout (God Bless Jesse Helms!)
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To: Coleus

LOL! "Vlasak" in Czech means, "hairy one." ;o)


20 posted on 03/21/2006 10:56:25 PM PST by redhead (Alaska: Step out of the bus and into the food chain...)
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