wvbygod (660 posts) Tue Aug-05-08 10:41 AM
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Animal rights activists defend firebombing attacks against US researchers
Advertisements [?]Source: Guardian News and Media
A University of California-Santa Cruz biologist whose home was firebombed this weekend feared for his family's future yesterday while a spokesman for a radical animal rights group said the attacks were the consequences for performing research on animals.
The volatile rhetoric left the university on edge yesterday, a day after a pair of firebombings on two university biomedical researchers had authorities looking for clues and tightening security around researchers.
FBI officials were expected to join the search today, in what authorities have called an act of "domestic terrorism".
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In the meantime, they revel in the firebombing.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/04/usa1?gusrc=...
bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-05-08 10:47 AM
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1. Another reason to oppose gun control
Cops cannot be everywhere at once, and sometimes it becomes necessary to dispose of violent thugs yourself.
slackmaster (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-05-08 11:30 AM
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15. I'm quite sure bluestateguy is serious, and I would shoot someone to stop a firebombing too
So far, so sensible, but this is DU.
TooBigaTent (836 posts) Tue Aug-05-08 11:16 AM
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9. Where is the condemnation of Amerikan military who murder, rape, and destroy the lives of innocent
Iraqis?
If those fighting for animal rights can be attacked (and murdered) for their actions, why do so many here still defend the atrocities in Iraq?
Like everything, it all depends on whose ox if getting gored. And most of DU seems to support animal abuse. Very disappointing.
TooBigaTent (836 posts) Tue Aug-05-08 11:31 AM
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18. I love how you and others totally ignore the atrocities that have provoked the aggressive response
by those who are fighting for animal rights.
It is obvious that most here (mirroring the US) do not care about those who are not themselves. Thus, abuse of non-human animals is perfectly OK.
If people are not to be held accountable for their actions (as the suspected "firebombers" obviously will be), you wind up with the current state of Amerikan government. The pukes have done whatever they want with no fear of consequences. And many here rant and rave against them.
I do believe that people need to suffer consequences for their actions. It is clear that most believe that does not universally apply.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3424528To be fair most do disagree with firebombing as a protest tactic.
