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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on April 04, 2016, 11:26:51 PM
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Mink on the Run: Animal 'Terrorists' Smacked by Federal Prosecutors
http://www.newsweek.com/mink-animal-activist-release-illinois-fur-farm-440125
The two young men believed they were doing the right thing, even though they knew it was against the law, and could even put them in prison. They set out from California in 2013 on a mission to free animals from fur farms in the Midwest. Inside their car were bolt cutters, a police scanner and a handwritten diary with entries like, “We should all feel the pull. Animals are waiting in cages. Take action.â€
Kevin Johnson and Tyler Lang took action in the dead of night on August 13, 2013. They drove to a mink farm in Morris, Illinois, pulled up the fences that surrounded the property, and released more than 2,000 animals from their cages. Johnson and Lang wore masks as they used red spray to write “Liberation is Love†on the barn before they left.
The aftermath was ugly. Dozens of minks were crushed by traffic and about 400 were never recaptured. The mink farmers shuttered their business and lost their retirement savings. When Johnson and Lang were arrested the next day driving toward a fox farm they planned to vandalize, there was mink hair on their clothes.
They should be sent to a Turkish prison.
Animal rights terrorism is just as a big menace than ISIS, Boko Haram, Islamists, etc.