Animal Activist Approves of Murder to Further Cause

November 9, 2005 — 

During testimony before the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works in October, the press officer for the North American Animal Liberation Press indicated that murder would be an acceptable means to further their cause.

Dr. Jerry Vlasak, MD and former spokesman for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine responded that "if people who hurt animals won't stop when told to stop, one option would be to stop them using any means necessary." When asked by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) if that included the use of deadly force, Vlasak replied that murder "would be a morally justifiable solution to the problem."

The FBI currently considers radical animal activist groups to be the number one domestic terror threat in the US. They include groups like Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) as well as the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Environmental Liberation Front (ELF) among others. Radical animal activist organizations have been implicated in a number of violent acts against people and property. The level of aggression utilized by these and other radical animal activist groups has escalated significantly in the last few years. Their tactics now include targeting individuals and their families. Their activities have gone beyond rhetoric to acts of bombing of facilities, harassment of employees and family members, death threats, office invasions, destruction of research facilities and projects to actually testifying before Congress that murder is a "morally justifiable solution". Threats from SHAC reportedly contributed to the New York Stock Exchange refusing to allow the listing of Huntingdon Life Sciences.

[Ed. There is currently a bill in Congress entitled the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (S. 1926) introduced on October 27, 2005 by Sen. James Inhofe [OK] that is aimed at providing the Department of Justice the necessary authority to apprehend, prosecute, and convict individuals committing animal enterprise terror. It's not a huge stretch to think that animal agricultural facilities, their owners, families, employees, stakeholders and allied industries are likely targets. I urge you to email Sen. Inhofe's office and your congressman to express your support of this and similar legislation. You can find contact information for your representative at: http://www.house.gov/writerep and your senator at: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm ]

Source: The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act: http://thomas.loc.gov/

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