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Standing Up to Violent Animal-Rights Activists (Los Angeles)
Associated Press ^ | April 14, 2009 | Larry Gordon

Posted on 04/14/2009 11:34:48 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

(AP) — LOS ANGELES -- As soon as he heard his car alarm blare and saw the orange glow through his bedroom window, University of California, Los Angeles neuroscientist J. David Jentsch knew that his fears had come true.

His 2006 Volvo, parked next to his house on the west side of Los Angeles, had been set ablaze and destroyed in an early morning attack March 7. Jentsch had become the latest victim in a series of violent incidents targeting University of California scientists who use animals in biomedical research.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: animalsarepeopletoo; animalwhackos; terrorism

1 posted on 04/14/2009 11:34:50 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Question to Animal Rights Activist:

Q: "Did you bathe this week?"

A: "Yes."

Reply: "You Murdered all those bacteria!"

2 posted on 04/14/2009 11:37:43 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (If Liberals' GOAL was the Destruction of Western Civilization, would their behavior differ?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The proper does of 00, 5.56 or .45 should cure their ailments.


3 posted on 04/14/2009 11:39:48 AM PDT by wastedyears (April 21st, 2009 - International Iron Maiden Day)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
“Jentsch, according to Vlasak, “is hurting and killing nonhuman primates every day. And if it took harming him to make him stop torturing, it is certainly morally justifiable.”

These people are certifiably insane

4 posted on 04/14/2009 11:40:05 AM PDT by SonnyBubba
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To: Uncle Miltie

Are animal-rights activists equally concerned about the innocent babies in the womb? Nah!!!!!!!


5 posted on 04/14/2009 11:43:06 AM PDT by SonnyBubba
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To: Uncle Miltie; Mrs. B.S. Roberts

WRONG question to Animal Rights “activists”
Question: “Do you refuse ALL medical treatments and advances that have come about from animal research?”
I’ve asked this question several times...no answers buy several very dirty looks.


6 posted on 04/14/2009 11:46:49 AM PDT by CaptainAmiigaf (NY Times: We print the news as it fits our views)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I really hate medical research being done on animals. I really, really don't like it. HOWEVER, anyone who has a loved one suffering would gladly accept medicine and/or treatment that was created as a result of this kind of research.

As much as I love animals, my children are more important. I guarantee any of these militant "hurt the researcher" types would change their tune if they needed a medicine or cure found in this manner.

7 posted on 04/14/2009 11:46:58 AM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

While I certainly don’t condone this sort of violence, all of us who do not, would do well to be more vocal in our opposition to the use of sentient animals in research that benefits only self-destructive humans (not to mention all the worthless research that benefits only the academic careers of scientists with dubious qualifications).

Much of Jentsch’s published research is about the effects of street drugs such as cocaine and PCP (phencyclidine) on these poor monkeys. There’s a huge supply of humans who have freely chosen to damage their brains with this garbage, and if there’s any worthwhile research to be done on the topic, THEY should be the study subjects. Leave the innocent monkeys alone.

It would be a lot harder for extremist/violent animal rights groups to recruit activists, if there wasn’t so much animal research going on that really *is* morally reprehensible.

Impairments of reversal learning and response perseveration after repeated, intermittent cocaine administrations to monkeys
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11790514

Clozapine normalizes prefrontal cortex dopamine transmission in monkeys subchronically exposed to phencyclidine (this one claims that inducing some schizophrenia-like symptoms in monkeys by giving them PCP somehow creates a useful model for studying a drug that might help humans with schizophrenia — never mind that this is not how schizophrenia arises in humans who do not take PCP)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17507917


8 posted on 04/14/2009 12:09:02 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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