I found this article interesting in how the lab workers describe their experiences with a particular animal rights group.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/02/20/animalrights.trial.ap/index.html
I am not sure I would call some of those tactics just "scary." I am a normally peaceful person but if someone was sending me emails threatening my family and damaging my property I would buy a shotgun and borrow Fetz . <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Leah

Funny how all this concern for an animals rights makes human rights slip their mind.

Well, we can all do something to help people victimized by these cowardly morons - write about it and let people see their cowardly actions for what they are, which is terrorism.

Seriously, write a "letter to the Editor" for your local newspaper denouncing the idiots. Do it often.

Write your Government officials ( *all* of them!! ) and ask they go after these domestic terrorists with all the powers that law enforcement has - people shouldn't be victimized by fools and law enforcement should be able to use their tools to track down and prosecute criminal like this.

And your elected representatives won't know that this is a problem unless we, their voting constituents tell them it is - so tell them often ( Aim to send them all an email or letter at least four times a year regarding this, and encourage your like minded friends to do the same ).

Just my two cents worth.

I am almost afraid to touch this one with a 10 foot pole. I read the CNN article about the harrasment and terror that the protestors are subjecting these people to. These people have a right to protect their families at any cost. However, some of the "scientists" are not blame free. I support animal experimentation for the BENEFIT of mankind but not animal cruelty. I checked out the website that these "people" have created and some of the video footage of animal abuse is very disturbing. Mind you, anyone who threatens to open a 7 year old and fill him with poison is obviously more than a little unstable, but a man that treats an animal, in some of the ways depicted in the footage on their site, must also have mental issues. If cruelty to an animal is a means of emotional detachment and escape from guilt for those conducting such experiments then they should seek a new profession! I do not mean to sound as though I am in support of this group; I most definately am not. However, they are trying to pass a message and their intentions are good, unfortunatley they are no better than those whom they are protesting against using such barbarac methods. I don't mean to offend anyone here, I just wanted to say a piece so that we, here on this forum, think of the victims themselves but also remeber the animals too.

I had this long post written out and thought about posting it, but the bottom line is, a terrorist is a terrorist (domestic or abroad) and should be shot. They threaten our way of life.
AL

Bradley - you need to be careful about what you write. None of us cares to see animals treated poorly. When these people terrorize US citizens who are not breaking the law - well they themselves should fear for their personal safety.

I wrote an article on PETA and Mink farms - got some shitty emails. None that bothered me because I told them I would welcome a visit and I would ruthlessly hunt them, their friends, their family and those associated with them. The animal liberation fron headquaters is not that far from me. There is more than one way to deal with domesitc terrorist.

Maybe if a few honest citizens took this approach pukes like this would rethink what they do.

Botom line is they should spend their time changing the law if they dont like it, or spend their time seeing that the existing laws and followed.

Now with this said - I would never recommend anyone takes the law into their own hands :-)

first-one should take ALL videos on websites hosted by these people with TONS of SALT. 99% of the time the vids aren't even from the facility the crazies say they're from--they're from some 3rd world emerging nation. are there ever any credits/sources for most of this crap?

second--animal research in this country is pretty well-regulated, the facilities involved in using mammals especially have protocols overseen by the USDA in addition to their own policies on the treatment of the animals.

having worked in a university research animal facility, in addition to having a friend who's made a career of it, it offends me DEEPLY when accusations are leveled that the animals are abused and neglected. nothing could be further from the truth if, for no other reason, than research done under those conditions would have to be thrown out the window. and any person who's had a family member die because the research wasn't there yet would say (or at least i would imagine would say)--it's ok to sacrifice an animal in order to save my Dad/Mom/Brother/Sister's life.

the same reasoning holds for big dairy/feedlot/hog facilities--the animals are treated well, or they wouldn't produce. neglected animals do not perform. period.

rant over... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

To Ed, Ann, and any others...

I too was on a rant. My intent was not to offend and I was trying to be quite careful in my wording. Now, I guess what I was really trying to say (to sum it all up) is that animal cruelty in any form is wrong. However, when people such as these extremists take matters into their own hands to "deal" with such alleged issues in savage ways, then they too become less than human. Ann, I do take things with a grain of salt. And I am sceptical whether the footage on that web site is authentic, but, someone did beat a puppy on one of their clips (for example) and if that man is a staff member at a research facility or one of these terrorists staging an incident to strengthen their own credability then he deserves to be lined up against a wall with a blind fold, just like the rest of them.
To anyone who was offended by comments, believing that I was accusing anyone here of being pro-cruelty or insensitive, I do appologize; that was not my intent.