These people need to be hunted down like dogs and thrown in jail.
While a spokesman said he didn’t know who committed the act, the Animal Liberation Front called the attacks a “necessary” act, just like those who fought against civil rights injustices. Spokesman Dr. Jerry Vlasak showed no remorse for the family or children who were targeted.
“If their father is willing to continue risking his livelihood in order to continue chopping up animals in a laboratory than his children are old enough to recognize the consequences,” said Vlasak, a former animal researcher, who is now a trauma surgeon. “This guy knows what he is doing. He knows that every day that he goes into the laboratory and hurts animals that it is unreasonable not to expect consequences.”
The Santa Cruz Police Department said it was “unconscionable” for anyone to defend such acts.
As someone who works in the pharmaceutical industry, I agree. This kind of research not only help people, but animals as well. Every drug on the market today was tested on animals (and people too, which the ALF loonies never seem to mention).
Authorities suspect that an animal rights group created the list, which warned: “Animal abusers everywhere beware; we know where you live; we know where you work; we will never back down until you end your abuse.”
Any biomedical researcher in the Philadelphia area who would like to learn how to defend yourself with a firearm, send me an e-mail.
Hat Tip to Thirdpower
These eco-terrorists are sorely tempting a lot of people to turn vigilante…fun in theory, bad move politically.
And you have every right to defend yourselves from these cowards. We (police) cannot be everywhere at once – and in Philly, we can’t hardly be anywhere ever with our manpower – so you need to make yourselves safe.
The funny thing is, usually for a human trial, you want to test on healthy volunteers. Typically the volunteers are paid, of course. But what demographic of people are generally healthy? People in their late teens and early twenties. What demographic typically needs money? College students.
Yes, most drugs when they first go into human trials are tested on healthy college kids. You don’t see ALF standing up for the cruel experimentation on college students, do you?
What I don’t get is how Dr. Jerry Vlasak manages to avoid being arrested on conspiracy charges.
@Wyatt Earp
well…I meant vigilante like “sitting in a car outside of researcher’s residence with a Dragunov waiting for eco-terrorists to show up” or “ready to go on the warpath” kind of deal.
But yeah. Even the civil rights movement didn’t have nutters as wacked out as this (at least I think) – and I don’t think MLK would approve of violence on his cause’s behalf…
To repeat a comment at Mad Rocket Scientist; it’s Santa Cruz – not just anywhere but a hippie free-love super-greenweenie hemp and patchouli paradise. My Alma Mater.
When I was there I knew some kids who would readily plot and go out on “direct action” – but mostly it was hippie/Eco oriented spray-paint Anti-Regan graffiti on buildings – but they would do somebody’s car if they felt like it. It was all completely impulse driven, straight from the Id kind of behavior, and SUV Psychosis (Bush Derangement Syndrome for vehicles) was just beginning in the late 70’s.
The most interesting part to me, and what made their self-justification so easy and workable, was that they were art students, and they really only knew jack-squat diddly about the issues (ANY issue) in any kind of depth. What was enough was that they felt the way they did for them to do “it.”
My gut feeling on this, my mental profile, is these psychos are dumbass Art Students or something similar…Dancers maybe or Theater…dumbasses anyhow and ignorant – and a product of the academic Left’s brainwashing.