Animal Rights Group Claims
Credit for Botched Arson Attempt
The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) web
site is claiming responsibility for a failed arson attempt in
Los Angeles.
On June 30, an incendiary device, intended for the home of a
UCLA psychiatry professor, was placed at the wrong address.
Fortunately, for the elderly homeowner the device did not detonate
and no one was injured.
ALF claims that the intended target of the explosive device was
keeping monkeys to study "psychological, psychiatric and
social problems such as Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder,
substance abuse, criminality and violence."
Arson investigators stated that had the device functioned properly,
the 70-year-old homeowner would have had a difficult time escaping.
It is exactly this type of reckless crime that has led the FBI
to list animal rights terrorism as one of the largest domestic
terrorism threats in the United States. The press officer
of the ALF, Jerry Vlasak, recently declined an FBI invitation
to speak about animal rights activism at FBI headquarters in
Quantico, Virginia. Vlasak and his wife, Pamelyn Ferdin,
were convicted of illegally demonstrating outside the home of
a Los Angeles city animal service employee.
From the U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance and www.ussportsmen.org
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News you won't find in your local newpaper.
AVMA Refuses to Partner with HSUS
The organization representing more than
73,000 veterinarians across the country has dismissed plans to
ally with the nation's leading animal rights group.
According to the latest issue of DVM Magazine, the American Veterinary
Medical Association's (AVMA) Executive Board unanimously decided
in April to scrap plans for a joint letter to Congress with the
Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). The letter
was intended to promote animal welfare issues, but the AVMA soon
thought better than to get in bed with the anti's.
The key deal breaker is the HSUS' support of efforts to ban sow
gestation stalls. Such a stance vexes many veterinarians.
The AVMA thus ended its partnership with the multi-million dollar
lobbying group in response to concern from food animal counterparts,
said Executive Board Chairman Dr. Bud Hertzog.
Hertzog admitted that he believes there will be issues the two
organizations can work on, "but as far as having any joint
statement, I don't think that's a possibility."
HSUS President Wayne Pacelle, apparently bitter from the rejection,
called the AVMA withdrawal "mind boggling." He
conceded that "it doesn't look like HSUS and AVMA will be
working together in this capacity in the future."
Tom Burkgren, executive director of the American Association
of Swine Veterinarians added, "You can't send a message
to Congress showing unity with HSUS and then hold them at arm's
length on issues where we don't agree. You don't want to
send the message that HSUS has any role in policy-making at the
AVMA."
The U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance supports the AVMA's decision to
refuse to be linked with the nation's most powerful animal rights
group. The HSUS' agenda includes efforts to ban animal
use, including legal and regulated use of animals in agriculture,
for research, and hunting and trapping.
From the U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance and www.ussportsmen.org
Pot Calling the Kettle Black: PETA Boycotts China
for Dog Killing
In the latest example of its thirst to inject
itself into the news, PETA has called for a boycott on Chinese
products after the Chinese government's brutal killing of 50,000
dogs to control a recent rabies outbreak.
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