Animal rights extremists gathered secretly in a Kent field yesterday to hear an American activist declare: "We will break the law and destroy property until we win."
Dr Steven Best, a philosophy professor and exponent of the Animal Liberation Front, told about 200 activists at the International Animal Rights Gathering 2005: "Now communism is dead, we are the new spectre in the world. We are named as the number one terrorist threat in the US and UK. Can you believe it?"
He added: "We are not terrorists, but we are a threat. We are a threat both economically and philosophically. Our power is not in the right to vote but the power to stop production. We will break the law and destroy property until we win."
So we now see what the agenda of the animal rights movement is, "We will break the law and destroy property until we win." Sounds like a terrorist to me.
A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice. José Bergamín
http://www.naiaonline.org/body/articles/archives/animalrightsquote.htm
It has quotes from the leaders of some of these so called "animal rights groups". Which prove that they're not as concerned about animals - or humans - as they'd like to let you believe.
http://brianoconnor.typepad.com/animal_crackers/
A sampler:
A decade and a half ago, a raid like this would have me wondering if maybe the feds weren't making too much out of not much. But today I find myself being much more sympathetic, much more understanding, much more supportive of such raids than I ever would have imagined possible back then.
Some of my change of heart, and a great deal of law enforcement's interest, of course, is due to 9/11 — our law enforcement agencies were roundly criticized for not having "connected the dots" before that catastrophe, and they must be highly motivated now to "connect the dots" of the gathering threat of domestic terrorism before it erupts into something even worse than it already is (ELF's torching of Vail alone is said to have cost $12 million, and ALF and ELF together have damaged some $43 million worth of property since 1996 ).
Like, what dots?
First, there is the "ideology dot" — the core AR belief that the life of an animal and a human are of equal value, and therefore if it is immoral to do something to humans, it is equally immoral to do it to animals (link, link).
The ideology has spawned its own unique vocabulary, in which the word "speciesism" is a prominent feature. The AR true believer will inform you that just as it is morally indefensible to discriminate on the basis of race, it is also morally indefensible to discriminate on the basis of one's species.
A life is a life, they will tell us, and no life should be privileged above another simply because the one happens to be that of a human, the other that of a dog, cat or rat. To the AR true believer, "non-human persons" are as deserving of "rights" as "human persons."
Second, there is the "propaganda dot." The AR people, especially PeTA, operate a highly sophisticated system and it does several things. The propaganda recruits mainly (but not exclusively) kids to the incoherent AR ideology; it cements in true believers the righteousness of their cause; it incites to action some who are already true believers, and of those incited, it further incites a small percentage to violent action; it masks the radical liberationist goals of AR behind a facade of Animal Welfare appearing causes (link, link); and it raises money from a naive but well-meaning public who haven't a clue that some of their contributions may be used to support terrorist organizations like the Earth Liberation Front, or ALF/ELF operatives like arsonist Rodney Coronado; and finally, it publicizes, rationalizes and glorifies the "direct actions" of its violent acolytes (link, link)
Go read the original for working links.