Posted on 08/22/2006 6:46:53 AM PDT by george76
The constant calls, the people frightening his children, and the demonstrations in front of his home apparently became a little too much.
Dario Ringach, an associate neurobiology professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, decided this month to give up his research on primates because of pressure put on him, his neighborhood, and his family by the UCLA Primate Freedom Project, which seeks to stop research that harms animals.
Anti-animal research groups are trumpeting Ringach’s move as a victory, while some researchers are worried that it could embolden such groups to use more extreme tactics. . . .
Colleagues suggested that Ringach, who did not return e-mails seeking comment, was spooked by an attack on a colleague. In June, the Animal Liberation Front took credit for trying to put a Molotov cocktail on the doorstep of Lynn Fairbanks, another UCLA researcher who does experimentation on animals. The explosive was accidentally placed on the doorstep of Fairbanks’s elderly neighbor’s house, and did not detonate.
If people were doing this to animal-rights activists, it would be called fascism.
(Excerpt) Read more at instapundit.com ...
As to the Molotov cocktail, Vlasak said that “force is a poor second choice, but if that’s the only thing that will work … there’s certainly moral justification for that.”
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/08/22/animal
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is currently investigating the incident...
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/08/22/animal
( No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo!)
Did this ever work on abortion doctors?
Isn't that Goebbels?
http://www.adl.org/learn/extremism_in_america_updates/movements/ecoterrorism/alf_ucla.htm
ALF Targets UCLA Professor with Incendiary Device
Posted: July 28, 2006
The Animal Liberation Front (ALF), one of the most active ecoterrorism movements in the United States, issued a statement on July 12, 2006, taking credit for leaving an incendiary device at the home of a UCLA primate researcher.
In its communiqué, ALF said it placed a “molotov cocktail” on the doorstep of a Lynn Fairbanks, the director of the Center for Primate Neuroethology at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, on June 30, 2006, because of her involvement in animal experimentation.
The incendiary device, however, was not left at Fairbanks’ home, but rather at home owned by a 70-year-old woman, according to the FBI. Arson investigators said the device failed to ignite, but had it functioned properly, it would have made escape difficult or impossible.
Federal authorities have announced a $30,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.
Fairbanks has been the focus of a campaign by the Primate Freedom Project at UCLA, whose mission is to “end the use of primates in biomedical and harmful behavioral experimentation,” according to it Web site.
There is no indication that the Primate Freedom Project at UCLA is connected to the incident, however, in a press release issued by the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, a Primate Freedom Project spokesperson says the professor “is riding a gravy train to personal gain, nothing else, and I hope the ALF stops her in her tracks.” A photo of the professor and her address are posted on the Primate Freedom Project at UCLA Web site, as is a flyer for “distribution in her neighborhood.”
This is the very same Vlasack who went on 60 Minutes and said that he supports the murdering of any medical researcher who works on animals.
He's a genuine psychopath...meaning that DUmmie Land thinks he's great.
Vlasak and his wife, the former child actress Pamelyn Ferdin, are both directors of a militant “direct action” Los Angeles group called the Animal Defense League (ADL-LA).
Ferdin herself is the president of SHAC USA, a violent animal rights group described by the United States Department of Justice as a “domestic terror threat.”
And Vlasak has stumped publicly for SHAC, appearing at rallies and protests in support of the group’s “no compromise” plan to rid the world of animal laboratories.
Vlasak has personally been arrested several times for animal-rights-related activity...
http://www.activistcash.com/biography.cfm/bid/3437
Jerry Vlasak was defending his 2003 statement (made as a PCRM spokesperson) that political assassination "could be used quite effectively from a pragmatic standpoint ... for 5 lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human lives."
Great Britain has banned Vlasak and his wife (former child actress Pamelyn Ferdin) because of this and other threats.
http://www.animalliberationpressoffice.org/history.htm#guide
For Immediate Release
August 6, 2006
“You Win”- UCLA Vivisector Dario Ringach Quits Animal Experimentation
Los Angeles - In an email received by the Press Office today, UCLA vivisector Dario Ringach stated he will no longer experiment on non-human primates. Although no reason was expressly stated, the correspondence asked that his name be removed from websites exposing his atrocities, and asked that his family be left alone. There was no mention of regrets or plans for atonement.
The subject and first line of the email stated “You win”, evidently a response to animal activists who have ceaselessly sought to expose the animal suffering emitting from his laboratory. Ringash's home had been the subject of numerous demonstrations, and his neighbors provided with leaflets detailing his unscientific and unnecessary violence. A fellow researcher at UCLA, Lynn Fairbanks, was the target of an attack by the underground Animal Liberation Front last month, in which an incendiary device was reportedly left on her porch. Fairbanks is notorious at UCLA for keeping hundreds of Vervet monkeys in cages, purportedly to study psychological and social problems such as substance abuse, criminality and violence.
According to UCLAPrimateFreedom.com, a website featuring Ringach's work, he “ has been approved to kill 30 macaque monkeys for vision experiments. Each monkey is first paralyzed, then has coils glued to her eyes during a single session that lasts up to 120 hours, and finally killed. Ringach says his experiments will advance our understanding of how monkeys process what they see. This is a far cry from life saving research.”
For more information visit www.uclaprimatefreedom.com
Contact: North American Animal Liberation Press Office
(818) 932-9997
press@animalliberationpressoffice.org
( No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo!)
I wonder how Dr Vlasak would feel if several scientists (or their supporters) were to do a drive-by shooting on his house?
Or at the mimimum, throw a brick through his front window with a note attached telling him to give his spokesman job or end up dead?
Methinks that Jerry wouldn't take very well to all the threats.
I'll bet they support human embryo research.
I thought ALF was named a domestic terrorist.
Yet, they have a website, web communications, internet communications that require a PGP key and continue to add their agendas to our Federal and State bills.
I told her about his comments and she said that the board was "aware of his activities" (I didn't realize that the 60 Minutes piece was a repeat).I asked her if she thought that Valasack was psycitrically or morally fit to practice medicine in California.
Her last words to me were something like "his case is currently under review by the board".If they do try to pull his license,you can be damn sure that the ACLU will get involved....big time!
Well, well, well. Look at who's planning a rally in D.C.
http://www.takingactionforanimals.org/
Confirmed Speakers Include:
Sara Amundson, Doris Day Animal League
Councilman Tony Avella, New York City Council
Julie Baker, Committee to Restore the Dove Shooting Ban
Dr. Neal Barnard, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Gene Bauston, Farm Sanctuary
Sarah Baeckler, student, Lewis & Clark Law School
Francis Battista, Best Friends Animal Society
Josephine Bellaccomo, author, Move the Message
Andi Bernat, The Humane Society of the United States
Nancy Blaney, Doris Day Animal League
Debora Bresch, ASPCA
Dr. Theo Capaldo, New England Anti-Vivisection Society
Michelle Carolla, WBTW-TV
Alka Chandna, PETA
Catherine Clyne, Satya Magazine
Katie Conlee, The Humane Society of the United States
Joseph Connelly, VegNews Magazine
Susie Coston, Farm Sanctuary
Karen Dawn, DawnWatch
Karen Davis, United Poultry Concerns
Carter Dillard, The Humane Society of the United States
Christine Dorchak, Grey2K USA
Adam Durand, Compassionate Consumers
Blake Dvorak, The Washington Times
Monica Engebretson, Animal Protection Institute
Jennifer Fearing, The Humane Society of the United States
David Feld, GeesePeace
Shannon Ford, StopWizardOfClaws.com
Nicole Forsyth, United Animal Nations
Camilla Fox, Animal Protection Institute
Rory Freedman, author, Skinny Bitch
Bruce Friedrich, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Julie Barko Germany, Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet
Lisa Gallo, Doris Day Animal League
Caryn Ginsberg, Priority Ventures
John Goodwin, The Humane Society of the United States
Che Green, Humane Research Council
Dr. Michael Greger, The Humane Society of the United States
Gloria Grow, Fauna Foundation
Dr. Kim Haddad, Captive Wild Animal Protection Coalition/Kimya Institute
Dr. John Hadidian, The Humane Society of the United States
Joe Haptas, Humane Research Council
Holly Hazard, Doris Day Animal League
Robin Henderson, Marist College
Steve Hindi, SHARK
John Hlinko, Grassroots Enterprise
Bill Johnston, Jane Goodall Institute
Allan Kornberg, World Society for the Protection of Animals
Tracie Letterman, American Anti-Vivisection Society
Philip Lymbery, Compassion in World Farming
Jonathan Lovvorn, The Humane Society of the United States
Michael Markarian, Humane Society Legislative Fund
Gaverick Matheny, University of Maryland
Patrick McDonnell, creator of Mutts
Beverlee McGrath, Doris Day Animal League
Erica Meier, Compassion Over Killing
Cori Menken, ASPCA
Katherine Meyer, Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal
Kathy Milani, The Humane Society of the United States
Carol Moon, Farm Sanctuary
Kari Nienstedt, Arizonans for Humane Farms
Lauren Ornelas, Compassion Over Killing
Wayne Pacelle, The Humane Society of the United States
Nicole Paquette, Animal Protection Institute
Adam Parascandola, Washington Humane Society
Miyun Park, The Humane Society of the United States
Nancy Perry, The Humane Society of the United States
Peter Petersan, The Humane Society of the United States
Alyson Powers, The Humane Society of the United States
Lori Prantil, America Online
Heidi Prescott, The Humane Society of the United States
Adam Roberts, Born Free USA
Dr. Bob Roop, The Humane Society of the United States
Dr. Andrew Rowan, Humane Society International
Martin Rowe, Lantern Books
Suzanne Roy, In Defense of Animals
Jason Rylander, Defenders of Wildlife
Stephanie Shain, The Humane Society of the United States
Dr. Ken Shapiro, Animals and Society Institute
Paul Shapiro, The Humane Society of the United States
Bernie Sieracki, Business Government Relations
Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation and The Way We Eat
Kim Stallwood, Animals and Society Institute
Vicki Stevens, Doris Day Animal Foundation
Kim Sturla, Animal Place
Cullen Schwarz, Serkaian Communications
Joyce Tischler, Animal Legal Defense Fund
Carey Theil, Grey2K USA
Michelle Thew, Animal Protection Institute
Stephanie Vance, AdVanced Consulting
Megan Waters, Strategic Solutions
Zoe Weil, International Institute for Humane Education
David Wolfson, Milbank Tweed
The FBI has said that they are the largest domestic terrorist threat to America.
Vlasek pretends that he does not know these other ALFs. So he can say this garbage with protection from the ACLU.
Like the old Irish IRA pr people pretended not to know the operational people ( Bomb throwers ).
>>>The FBI has said that they are the largest domestic terrorist threat to America.
Is that differnt than being declared a domestic terrorist?
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