Posted on 02/26/2008 8:41:55 PM PST by CCCnative
SANTA CRUZ - A UC Santa Cruz faculty member whose biomedical research using animals sheds light on the causes of breast cancer and neurological diseases was the target of an attack Sunday afternoon, reportedly by animal rights activists.
UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal confirmed late Monday that an off-campus home invasion by six masked intruders occurred at a faculty member's home. In a statement, Blumenthal called the incident "very disturbing."
Santa Cruz police reported that six people wearing bandanas tried to break into a Westside home just before 1 p.m., and that one of the family members, not the faculty member, was attacked before the intruders fled. The male victim had made sure his wife and children were safe in the back of the house before he confronted the attackers. He suffered minor injuries after being hit with an unknown object. None of the other four people in the house were injured.
(Excerpt) Read more at santacruzsentinel.com ...
Thank Gaia no occupant of the home had guns, otherwise, someone might have gotten hurt!
with .40 cal or larger.
Not every professor is a limp-wristed milquetoast. Some of them even own guns. I really hope that the next time this happens, it ends with two or three dead hippies, and the rest in jail for decades.
Anyone doing animal research who doesn’t have a home alarm system and something with some serious knock-down capability hasn’t thought the whole thing through.
Maybe one of these days they'll mistakenly break into the home of some less-meek academic -- Doug Giles, perhaps.
Your right, someone is going to get hurt. They’re going to have to put the hammer down on these idiots and make examples of them like they did to “The Family,” give em hard time.
Pretty good piece, george.
Oh, man, that means he had more than ample time to grab a gun -- if he had had one.
Keep it up, PETA loons!... See what happens to 'ya!...
Remington 870. Short deer barrel. #4 shot. Incident neutralized.
Just give me an excuse ecofreaks, come to my castle.
Jerry Vlasak has been busy recruiting a new family ?
” home invasion by six masked intruders “
And a mess to clean up.
Kinda looks that way doesn’t it.
Another thing they have in common with Phelps is they vote Democrat.
While the search was taking place, protesters taunted officers, asking them to reveal their badge numbers and shining flashlights in their eyes. When officers emerged from the house carrying evidence, some of the students were following the police, taking pictures of the undercover squad car and its license plates with their cell phones.
A friend of the students who were inside the Riverside home told the Sentinel the incident was related to animal rights and SHAC. A group, called SHAC7, includes six activists and a corporation, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty USA Inc. They were found guilty of multiple federal felonies for their role in shutting down an animal testing lab, Huntingdon Life Sciences. SHAC7 has an office in San Francisco
The University of California’s Board of Regents also sought permanent injunctions against the Animal Liberation Front, the Animal Liberation Brigade, the UCLA Primate Freedom Project and five protesters believed to be affiliated with those groups.
The lawsuit alleges that the defendants invaded researchers’ privacy, interfered with business practices and intentionally caused emotional distress.
Jerry Vlasak, a spokesman for the Animal Liberation Press Office, had earlier said underground protesters would not be moved by the lawsuit.
“Jerry Vlasak, a spokesman for the Animal Liberation Press Office, had earlier said underground protesters would not be moved by the lawsuit.”
Well, if they keep this kind of crap up, they will be moved.. and they’ll REALLY be “underground”.
I would be torn between a shotgun, my AR or my Garand in a case like this one.
The ecoterrorist groups are prosecutable under the RICO Act, if anyone had the gumption to do it. Thanks george76.
No problem, PETA has a fund to pay their legal costs if they get arrested.
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