I know its serious, but I'm having a hard time not laughing at that sentence so here is a pic of Roast Cuy, an Andean delicacy.
Posted on 05/11/2006 5:13:47 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
THREE animal rights activists were jailed for 12 years each and a fourth imprisoned for four years for a terror campaign against an English guinea pig farm that culminated in a grave robbing.
John Ablewhite, Kerry Whitburn and John Smith were today each handed 12-year prison terms at Nottingham Crown Court in central England after pleading guilty to a charge of conspiring to blackmail the farm owners.
Josephine Mayo was jailed for four years after admitting a lesser part in the six-year campaign against the Hall family who own a farm in Staffordshire, central England, which bred the rodents for medical research purposes.
What began as a peaceful protest outside the gates of Darley Oaks Farm in the hamlet of Newchurch in 1999 escalated into threats, intimidation and even violence against the owners and any person or business linked to it.
That included a pedophile smear campaign, death threats, hate mail, malicious phone calls, hoax bombs and arson attacks against the owners, the pub in which they drank, their golf club and even their cleaners.
In October 2004, animal rights extremists stole the remains of the 82-year-old mother-in-law of one of the owners from a churchyard in the nearby village of Yoxall.
Her body was only recovered earlier this month after Smith revealed its location in a nearby beauty spot in Cannock Chase to police.
Smith raised a defiant fist to the court room as he was taken down to the cells with his three co-defendants.
Judge Michael Peat told the four that they could have resorted to lawful means to change a law they did not like because they lived in a democratic society.
"You thought to enforce your view not by reasoned debate or lawful protest but by subjecting wholly innocent citizens to a campaign of terror," the judge said.
He said that the Hall family had run a lawful business and said he had read 38 statements taken from victims targeted in the campaign.
"Your stated aim was to put the Hall family out of business, to that end, you targeted them, their employees and their families. You targeted people who did business with them and friends of them," he said.
"What is clear is that you have, in the vast majority of these cases, ruined their lives over a period of years and perhaps forever," he said.
"The lowest point of your campaign was the theft of Gladys Hammond's body. Few reading or hearing of these events could imagine that anyone could stoop so low," he said.
"You not only disinterred her but kept her family on tenterhooks as to whether you would return her body. Having stolen the body you used it as a weapon," he said.
"We are not going to start guarding country graveyards on the off chance that some other lunatic fringe group emulate you," he said.
Sweet.
yeah, 'it's for the guinea pigs' you a*****e
They act as if those who disagree with them hate animals. That is so wrong.
I love animals. They're delicious!
Medium-to-welldone, please!
Ewww.
Me too!
that looks suspiciously like a rat... well done of course
Excellent. Throw a few rats in their cells for company. They'll still see the rats as their "equals" when they're gnawing off their legs, right?
Cuy is the Quechua name for Guinea Pig. They eat them in parts of the Andes. Thats why they were domesticated in the first place.
In October 2004, animal rights extremists stole the remains of the 82-year-old mother-in-law of one of the owners from a churchyard in the nearby village of Yoxall.
It would not bother me if these terrorists were each executed.
Bury them alive, and tell them they'll be dug up a few years hence and put on public display.
If they had murdered the farmers they would have most likely received lighter sentences. (Not a suggestion, just an observation)
If the Halls had began breeding gerbils they could have had the gays coming to their defense, and the PC crowd would have have been on the horns of a real dilemma.
"In October 2004, animal rights extremists stole the remains of the 82-year-old mother-in-law of one of the owners from a churchyard in the nearby village of Yoxall."
You know, yank, I have written about this incident on FR posts in the past.
There's a lot of folks who think AR activists (terrorists is my preferred term, in most cases) are harmless -- Just a bunch of beautiful, compassionate people saving animals :)
If they ever have their demands met, ANIMALS (and the lesser, in their mind, species of evil humans would too) suffer greatly.
And if one of these SOBs comes here and digs my GRANNY up, I'll start shooting ;)
Ping.
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