Thursday, March 6, 2008
UC Berkeley Seeks Restraining Order Against Animal Rights Activists
Crime / Education / Environment Jennifer Wadsworth — Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 5:25 PM
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They may be vegan and animal-friendly, but apparently that doesn't mean activists protesting animal lab testing at UC Berkeley are your everyday peaceniks. By some reports, a few have taken to rock-throwing, window-smashing, and stalking a scientist or two to get their point across. Now, UC Berkeley aims to file a restraining order against the aggressive activists, the San Jose Mercury News reported today.
One university spokesman compared the activists to "domestic terrorists," adding that "the FBI has started treating them just as they would al-Qaida," the article cited.
San Francisco animal rights lawyer Christina Garcia refuted that comparison. "There are more similarities between the vivisectionists and al-Qaida than there are with the vegan animal rights picketers."
And now Berkeley police are jumping in on the search to identify the rowdy picketers, who they say are difficult to track because they wear masks and take pains to hide their identities. Last month, Sanders noted, police documented a case where a group of bandanna'd activists trespassed onto a researcher's property and smashed flower pots and dumped garbage in the backyard. Berkeley police are following the lead of law enforcement at UCLA, another school that claims harassment by animal rights groups.
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There's a website associated with the campaign at www.freewebs.com/stopucberkeleyvivisection
In veiw of the nature of Vivisection; The practice of cutting, dissecting, burning, crushing, slicing, electrocuting, poisoned with toxic chemicals, injecting man's diseases into living breathing creatures of our planet, as well as psychologically tormenting animals in the name of science, clearly the Terrorists here is the white-coated tormentor in the research laboratory. Government subsidized sadism - the gravy train for the White Coats has made this atrocity against animals possible.
The awakening public has discovered that we are all responsible for making this atrocity possible by willing to be duped into accepting Institutionalized Legalized Animal Cruelty as the only method to find the cures for diseases for which these protected Terrorists have still NOT found. If not for animal advocates/animal rights groups, the public would still be in the dark regarding the huge extent of using animals as "things" while raking in our tax $$$$$ for their gruesome experiments.
Time to end White-Coat Welfare and recognize the REAL Terrorists - and while no protection is afforded the animals in our nation, then who will protect them? If not us, who? No more funding for torture!
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