The Crazy Rants of Samantha BurnsBeen Hit With The Stupid Stick?
An animal rights group called the Animal Liberation Front, or ALF, is thought to be responsible for supplying a threat to the Leapfrog Day Nurseries in the UK.
The threat suggests that the animal rights group wants the daycare to stop providing care for the parents who work at Huntingdon Life Sciences, an animal testing company. The daycare states that they already have security measures in place to protect the children they care for, and the HLS chief executive states that
"They were not threatening the children," Mr Cass said. "They were threatening the directors."
He also said that the ALF had planted a number of incediary devices, but they were still "very few".
Now I don't know who's acting denser: the group threatening a nursery or the chief exec. trying to deny that it's serious? Okay, I think it's clearly animal rights groups, but Brian Cass doesn't make the best name for himself in this instance.
If the ALF has no heart about children whose parents struggle to feed them after they've lost their jobs due to an explosion, and no heart about who they could kill when one of their bombs goes off, what makes anyone think those idiots wouldn't do something so extreme that it kills some children - all just to make a statement that we've heard a million times already.
We don't support you f*cknuts, get over it!
They're terrorists (and that word doesn't slip out of my mouth too easily), and as we've seen with other terror groups, they are capable of resorting to the worst, most foul acts possible.
Taking this lightly could end up putting you into my Moron Of The Week category, Brian Cass.
Does anyone else find it odd that this group has labelled themselves ALF. I mean, if you'll recall that 80's show ALF, which was about an alien living in America, you'll realise that the alien enjoyed feasting on cats. If I'm interpreting this correctly, I'd say that the ALF is pro-eating meat if Alf ate meat.
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Unfortunately, Leapfrog bowed to pressure and severed their links with HLS.
It's understandable when threats to kids are involved, but if we all caved in, London would be a leper colony after the recent bomb attacks.
I work 50 metres from where one of the four went off and we were locked into our building, in case it was a 'dirty bomb' - but we all came back in the next day, just to show 'em!
Posted by: Mr.D. | October 4, 2005 12:35 AM
Unfortunately terrorism works. You can bully and scare most people into doing what you want. The problem people dont' get is, when you give in they just come right back at you trying to get more out of you.
Pluto likes eating cats. I won't let him catch any. But he tries. Why do all my neighbors have cats?
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October 4, 2005 08:17 AM
When you give in they just come right back at you-
Hmmmm Maybe that's why Bush is still in Iraq?
Posted by: Diane | October 4, 2005 10:45 AM
Diane - great analogy
PlutosDad - Pluto eats cat? Just kills or actually eats them? And if eats, does he get sick afterwards?
Posted by: Sam | October 4, 2005 01:29 PM
I just think it's sad that extremist groups make everyone stop caring about the plight of animals...sure ALF is out of line, but the issue they raise is a real one: how can you, in good conscience, work for an organization that inflicts pain and suffering on living things because it will help them make a profit? I bet the animals in the labs wish they had a family to go home to at night, like the workers do. Every cause has extremist groups -- but that doesn't mean we have to ignore the issue or group all animal activists in one category.
Posted by: Sara Granovetter | October 8, 2005 05:16 PM
"I just think it's sad that extremist groups make everyone stop caring about the plight of animals...sure ALF is out of line, but the issue they raise is a real one: how can you, in good conscience, work for an organization that inflicts pain and suffering on living things because it will help them make a profit?"
When my daughter was young she required a kidney-related operation that was pioneered with animal research. What difference is it if you threaten her at her daycare or threaten to stop medical research that has allowed my daughter to live a healthy life?
Please go talk to someone whose just given birth to a premature infant and tell them that the animals who died to pioneer and produce lung surfanctant are more important than the survival of their children.
Posted by: Brian Carnell | October 18, 2005 01:25 PM