Inside D.C.
The horror at Harris Ranch
The sheer stupidity and arrogance of animal rights thugs never ceases to amaze me, even after 25-plus years of fighting these yahoos. When word reached me early this week from the North American Animal Liberation (NAAL) press office that “anonymous” criminals set “digitally controlled incendiary devices” – that’s terrorist-speak for fire bombs on timers – beneath 14 cattle trucks and trailers at 4 a.m. Sunday at the Harris Ranch feedyard in California, my blood boiled.
This destruction was, in the drivel of these proto-terrorists, to protest “the horrors and injustices of factory farming.” Excuse me – what greater horror is there than a group of miscreants who would elevate criminal violence to some form of self-defined noble action? No thinking, feeling human being, no one with a shred of honor and decency, ever lowers him/herself to physical violence and destruction against someone with whom they disagree just to make a philosophical point. This is the action of cowards and vigilantes, not self-styled heroes.
Insulting to the intelligence of anyone with an IQ higher than a plant is the following statement from the criminals’ email to NAAL: “We weren’t sure how well this was going to work, so we waited until there was (sic) news reports before writing this.” If you go back through the media reports of similar attacks over the years, you’ll find story after story in which the criminal talks of how sophisticated these operations are, how well-planned and well-thought out they are. It frightens me then to think they’re slipping, or there’s a new generation of criminals who skipped their bomb-making class and/or just don’t do their homework.
These juveniles were lucky – again – that in the destruction of the Harris trucks there was no collateral damage that killed or injured an innocent employee, security guard or some poor soul who may have been at the wrong place at the wrong time. But then I’ve heard a spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) tell a U.S. Senate committee that human murder is justified in the pursuit of animal rights. I’ve heard animal rights leaders say human beings are a blight on the planet.
This is sheer, unmitigated insanity. It is unfathomable to me how any group of people convinces themselves their cause is so just, so noble, so “pure” and “righteous” as to be above the laws of society and civilized behavior and the rules that guide honest disagreement and debate. What they do is destroy their own cause, and destroy not only their own credibility, but that of those within the non-violent parts of the animal rights movement.
It’s time for the leaders of the animal rights/welfare/protection movement — the whole gang – to join together and publicly and loudly denounce this brand of terrorism perpetrated in the name of animal rights. It’s time for those companies who profit from association and cooperation with the animal rights movement to join that denunciation.
It’s no longer enough to respond to a reporter’s question with, “Of course, I/we don’t support or condone violence, but we can understand the motivation.” That’s unvarnished crap, and those days are over. It seems to me anyone is either repulsed by such criminal acts and the people who commit them, or by their silence, admit that in some dark part of their soul, they support the violence and revel in the destruction.
This is the one area of the debate over animal use on which all sides can agree – violence in any shape, way or form is always and forever wrong.
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“Animal rights” is an invalid concept. Animal welfare, on the other hand, is what animal stewards such as farmers, ranchers and pet owners practice.,
http://time4dogs.blogspot.com/2012/01/why-animals-dont-have-rights.html
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The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) boasts about their horrific act of terrorism while sadly public sympathy for the animal rights movement is at an all-time high, with groups like The Humane Society of the United State (HSUS), PETA and the ASPCA, attracting the financial support for their radical and very lethal agenda! WAKE UP, AMERICA!
As a person who is PRO animal welfare, I think it is important to make sure the definition of the animal rights groups does not include the word…welfare. Reason is this…those of us who are pro-animal welfare and who like and use animals, from pets to meat to research, are not on the same bandwagon as the animal rights radicals and their followers. Animal rights is against ANY and ALL use of animals.
Animal welfare is for the humane and appropriate care and handling of all animals.