Smile For The Camera
By Mitch Berg
While the left barbers endlessly about the alleged venality and hatefulness of right-wing groups, it would seem all the genuine hate-based violence in this country is coming…
…from the left. Via the LA Weekly, a fascinating, and eye-opening, story about the nascence of a violent animal-rights “movement” whose ends, to it, justify the means:
On Sunday, June 24, just that kind of person struck. Rosenbaum, a highly regarded pediatric ophthalmologist who had been regularly harassed by animal-rights activists for his research work with cats and rhesus monkeys at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA, noticed a device underneath his luxury sedan. The bomb squad was dispatched to the scene and hauled away a makeshift — but deadly — explosive. A faulty fuse was the only reason it didn’t go off.
Three days later, the so-called Animal Liberation Brigade sent a typo-riddled “communiqué” to the North American Animal Liberation Press Office in Los Angeles. It was posted on the NAALPO Web site:
Read the whole thing.
August 13th, 2007 at 11:41 am
[…] Molotov cocktails left on doorsteps. Bombs placed under cars at the homes of targets. Death threats in public communiques. Are these new tactics for al-Qaeda or Hezbollah? In fact, they’re part of the new offensive by animal-rights activists targeting the Jules Steyn Eye Institute at UCLA, and only incompetence has kept them from scoring their first kill (via Mitch): THE HOME OF DR. ARTHUR ROSENBAUM isn’t hard to find. He lives a few blocks south of Sunset Boulevard, near the UCLA campus, in a white two-story house with a front yard jammed with aspen trees. There is a short driveway on the side of the home, and during the evening, a bright, white light illuminates the carport. If someone wants to sabotage the doctor’s car under the cover of night, a flashlight isn’t needed. […]
August 13th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
It sucks that someone would have to go to that extent, but if I were in Rosenbaum’s shoes, I’d be making my home a lot less easily accessible. Sounds like a great reason for a ccw permit also.
August 13th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
This has long been the MO of the anti-vivisectionist movement. They have been doing stuff like this since the mid-1990’s in the UK (Huntingdon Life Sciences). That is one reason why I left the AR movement back in the 80’s. They were just starting into that crap way back then.
LL
August 13th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Wait, which side is anti-science?