UK Animal rights extremists in arson spree

[T_i_B]

Psychotic morons are not just found on the right you know.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/animalrights/story/0,11917,1514393,00.html

Animal rights activists have unleashed a new arson campaign in the run-up to the introduction of a law next month which could see them jailed for five years for economic sabotage.

Extremists are returning to the tactics of several years ago, using firebombs to attack anyone they perceive as having links to Huntingdon Life Sciences, the Cambridgeshire-based research laboratory.

A senior figure within the Animal Liberation Front told the Guardian that activists would not rest until they had shut down HLS. Speaking from prison, Keith Mann, who promotes arson as the best form of attack, said the government's clampdown on protesters meant "all that is left to them is extremism".

But an increasingly indiscriminate campaign has recently hit those who have no links to HLS or animal testing. An incendiary device was placed under a car belonging to a truck driver and his wife in Leicestershire last week. The firebomb, which did not go off, was intended to target a solicitor who worked for the pharmaceutical giant Fisons. The lawyer had moved from the property 18 months earlier. In another case, the finance director of a small brokers firm, Canaccord Capital, was in hiding yesterday after being firebombed by the ALF at his home in Bracknell, Berkshire.

[Maraya1969]

1. It was much better when they just went into the laboratories and took

the animals. I abhor animal testing and I think it is a big profit business. But bombing sounds too much like Po-birthers.

[China_cat]

2. I wonder how much money PETA will send

for the bombers' defense fund.

[flvegan]

3. Probably none.

This is also a very, very small number of folks committing these acts.

I like animal liberation, I loathe arson.

[T_i_B]

6. Yes it is much like the worst of the Pro-lifers

I for one never understood how anyone who claims to be "pro-life" can then go around bombing people.

The stupidest thing about the ALF's arson attacks is that they are attacking people who are not even linked to Huntingdon Life Sciences!

In Newtown Linford, Leicestershire, Andy Johnson and his wife Carmel, who were targeted with a firebomb which failed to go off last week, appealed for the extremists to leave them alone. Mr Johnson, who returned home to find a home-made bomb in his car port, said he had also had car tyres slashed and ALF graffiti daubed over their garage. His "crime" was that he had bought his cottage 18 months ago from a lawyer who works for Fisons.

"It's nothing to do with us," he said. "We have no links with Fisons. The ALF has just seen the previous owner's name connected to our address.

Like I have already said, psychotic terrorist morons are not just to be found on the right.

[Demonaut]

4. That's in my home town, had no idea they had a research facility there

Funny, I read Plague Dogs by Richard Adams when I attended St Peters.

[Lilyhoney]

5. When I met my husband

he would mention this movie plague dogs and look for it at various video stores. Finally one day he bought it at a small store selling off it's vhs collection. I cried so hard. I passed it along to others to make them cry too. I thought the animation was great, the story original and very very sad.