Animal rights thugs terrorizing Berkeley researchers
I am so sure we’ll see the Left rise up and condemn this radical thuggery against animal rights researchers. I am so sure we’ll see UC Berkeley students organize to protest the property destruction, vandalism, and harassment of the targeted academics. I am so sure we’ll see Nancy Pelosi deliver a House floor speech in defense of the Bay area scientists.
Sure.
Via the SFChronicle with a hat tip to reader Andy G.:
Officials have been trying to keep it quiet, but 24 UC Berkeley researchers and seven staffers have been harassed by animal rights activists in recent months, in some cases having their homes or cars vandalized.
“What they all have in common is that they all work in animal research,” UC Berkeley spokesman Robert Sanders said of the targeted employees.
In several instances, the activists have shown up outside researchers’ homes in the middle of the night with bullhorns and chanting, “Animal killers.” Sometimes they have scrawled slogans on the sidewalk in chalk.
On more than one occasion, rocks have been thrown through the researchers’ windows and their cars have been scratched up.
“Sometimes (the activists) go up to the door,” Sanders said, “which can be very frightening to the family.”
According to UC, there have been 20 reports of damage to researchers’ homes in Berkeley, Oakland and El Cerrito since August, including seven broken house windows and three vandalized cars.
Thirteen researchers have been harassed on more than one occasion, authorities said. One researcher, who studies how cat brains work for epilepsy research, has reported seven incidents at his home.
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Two words: concealed weapon.
Why concealed? Open carry.
No permit necessary. If they came up to my door, I’d be more than happy to introduce them to my friend, Col. Colt.
Does this mean they lost their parking space in front of the recruiting office?
Obama (pbuh)god forbid these good peta people were held accountable for these crimes. Yes they are crimes.My first thought too. Shotgun peaking out the window politely asking them to leave or die. Oh wait, this is
California where you’re not allowed to protect yourself.
I woudl prefer a strong spotlight followed by a bullhorn announcement stating that persons on the property are trespassing and any further trespassing will be met with extreme measures. Then follow that up with the telltale red lights of laser scopes accross the chests of said individuals…
Make sure to record and youtube the reactions and show the faces as clearly as possible so they are easy to identify by others at school. Sure they may wear masks but they also mainly own about 3 shirts total and all of them have some animal rights slogan on it so they are still easy to identify.
This is what will happen when liberals are in control. They get to do anything they feel like doing while the “others” must follow the laws. Without the rule of law for everyone, there is anarchy and if you use that concealed weapon on one of the elite, it’s you who’ll wind up in jail.
*Bang* *Bang*
I swear officer, I thought they were trying to gain entry to my home to do harm to my family and me.
Okay. If I can’t actually shoot them, then I like Brian’s idea.
I really find it interesting that the powers that be are trying to keep this out of the news. I guess we know where their interests lie and it’s not with the people who are trying to do something for the greater good.
This is why Obama’s call banning guns within 5 miles of a school is so dangerous.
I bet many of those researchers live within 5 miles of Berkeley. All must live within 5 miles of a school or park.
And yet they wouldn’t be able to defend themselves if one of those loons entered their house or lab with the intent to kill ‘for the animals’.
It’s not a giant leap to go from this to having thugs harrassing people who drive SUV’s or eat at fast food restaurants or water their lawn too much. Just a little preview of what will happen once the messiah gets in. I have no doubt there will eventually be neighborhood watch type things set up to make sure no one is using too much heat, eating too much food, using their car too much. No doubt at all.
California’s concept of self-defense is having an experience, trusted attorney at your disposal.
#12:
Gun stores, not guns. Though I suspect he’d like to ban them as well.
Everyone knows how those guns like to jump out of their secure cases all on their own and kill everyone…
Show Them For The Mental Cowards They Are
I want a hospital/research center to challenge the guts and spines of these oh-so high minded “animal rights” people and invite them on a tour of a children’s hospital ward and dare them to tell these kids to their faces that the life of a white rat or monkey is more important than your getting over your marrow disease/horrible burns/ malady and ever having a chance of a half-way normal life.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
Sounds like a business opportunity to me.
Pop up pepper spray nozzles in the lawn, right next to the sprinklers.
Directional, of course.
Baseball bat to the groin.
I say set up some diabolical, booby trap for them like exploding balloons full of animal blood, let them go wash that crap out of their 3 outfits. Oh I guess that would just antagonize them.
These folks seem to like animals. Just send out the pit bulls to greet them. Come on researchers, be creative. Go to the protestors house and drop them off a load of about 500,000 cockroaches and then take your own bullhorn and start singing la cucaracha.
that should be
Why aren’t these idiots up in Alaska, stopping that woman with the sledgehammer, or “Woodchuck Johnny?”
It seems to me that the folks defending their gardens by CLUBBING animals to death are far worse than the researchers.
Both?
UC Berkeley is always the most cartoonish, or at least near the top. But the Left’s ability to use violence and intimidation without recrimination and prosecution always bothers me. Let some thug call themself eco friendly and they seem to get a pass for all kinds of violence including spiking a tree that destroyed a mill works face.
I guess it really started in the late 60s when they let the anti-war hippies occupy building, bomb building, throw paint on people and use physical violence against returning GIs from Viet Nam.
Hopefully the authorities will do something, anything but tut tut the situation. In the meantime the agrieved may well have to take matters into their own hands and arms as it were.
I’ve been saying it for over a year. The same cabal of crackpots that harasses the marines, lives in the trees on the U.C. campus,vandalizes private property is involved in this. They are soliciting tax free donations on-line for their activities. They are all part of the same group, including the mayor and city council. If some journalist or blogger actually did some research, it would be pretty easy to expose and shut donw this ongoing criminal enterprise. Here’s a start for anyone wanting to do the research:
http://saveoaks.com/SaveOaks/Main.html
http://saveoaks.com/SaveOaks/Donate.html
Love animals so much? Get off my lawn or you can cuddle up to the Rott, a.k.a., “The Warehouse.”
These people did the same thing at FSU in the late 80’s. They are cowards who work under the cover of darkness. This would would be better off without their kind in it.
Maybe the victims could lay in a supply of bricks to return fire?
On June 11th, 2008 at 10:43 am, Ron Rockstar said:
These folks seem to like animals. Just send out the pit bulls to greet them.
Ron Rockstar, I think this dog would be a good one to send out.
I like the way you think, add in a couple “animals that they apparently love” such as dobermans or rottweilers to “greet them at the door” and this would turn into a great movie in no time.
Surely no one would be going for a drive at that time of night, when these peaceful protesters are probably in the street in dark clothing.
I wonder if any of the researchers have their own pressure washers. Those things don’t feel so good on the business end.
For anyone who thinks this is about love of animals (or even trees), it isn’t.
Good reading here:
The Ayn Rand Institute
Sounds like the prefect occasion for a fishin trip, got bait? Out here some of the pols have sympathy for these mobbers but I can assure you the police and the people are fed up with it. I wouldn’t want to be them when the dam finally breaks. That’s one reason you don’t see them venturing far from their campus sanctuaries. You won’t find them amongst the restless natives they know better. I’ve never heard of anyone who was prosecuted for legitimate self defense, besides I would rather be tried by twelve than carried by six. The nuts have convinced some people that you can’t even kill a coyote in your backyard. Oh yeah, well if one comes around and you feel you are threatened, blast it, you’ll find out that it’s perfectly legal. Just don’t bury afterwards, now that’s against the law.
Damn, Tre. That is one huge dog.
sounds like the right idea to me. one for each hand
Save the planet, punch an environmentalist.
I do. A guy who lived right across the street from me was arrested and tried for protecting his house and family. In honesty, he was acquitted….after three years in the court system, bankrupted by attorney’s fees and suffering a nervous breakdown at the thought of going to prison. Our legal system is fickle and it’s a fantasy to think justice prevails.
Let me try this again. If you look at my earlier post #25, there is a link. If you follow that link you will find the names of U.S. servicemen killed in World War I. The names of these Americans is invoked on that web page as propaganda for a group that is committing illegal acts and soliciting TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS for their activities. They have cost taxpayers nearly a half million dollars. These people are part of the same culture and some of the same people that are harassing the marines and researchers cited in this thread. I have been contacting congress, veterans groups, the attorney general, anyone that I can about this ongoing criminal enterprise. The response has been crickets chirping. No wonder these people think they can get away with anything.
Not here, not anymore. The lege passed something called the castle doctrine. They trespass and appear to pose a threat, you shoot them. Strictly legal, quick investigation, no repercussions.
“I offer you a doorway into the truth. You can either take the blue pill or the red pill. The choice is up to you.”
jungatheart,
I’m not saying justice will prevail I know better. I won’t be frightened in to conformity though, some things are worth taking a stand on. That’s what they are counting on, us surrendering, its an ugly situation being caught between criminals and a justice system that favors them. Anyone want to bet that if the castle doctrine was on the statewide ballot here it wouldn’t pass? Of course the court would overrule the will of the people shortly afterward.
We agree. Just my fears coming out, sorry to have jumped on you.
$5 cha-ching
Is PeTA going to get rich on this thread too? LOL!!!
I will believe animals should get equal protection under the law when they start paying taxes. As for people committing crimes protecting animals and their rights, throw the book at them (leather bound preferably).
That was woth another $5!
How about we modify a bunch of Claymores … fill them with some of that brightly colored permanent ink they put in bank bags during robberies, and set them off when they come on the property and get too close or are damaging the houses or cars … they would be even easier to locate afterwards … might even use bright pink ink just to make them feel good …
Jungatheart, in Texas we have not only concealed carry, but a law that protects the property owner from retribution or suits.
khan, that essay knocked it right out of the park. I’ve known for many years the problem with many of these animal rights types and tree huggers isn’t so much that they love animals and nature as it is that they hate people.
I find it funny how if you propose intelligent design (which I’m skeptical about, btw) or if you oppose embryonic stem cell research, the left is quick to call you anti-science and anti-progress. But the left is silent on the crackpots who attack animal researchers and destroy laboratories. Aren’t those folks anti-science and anti-progress too? I completely respect the issues people have with using live animals in research, especially if it’s a scam to get money with no real results. Hey, I use cruelty-free cosmetics myself. But there’s no denying plenty of life-saving research has been done with animals and if it’s necessary to use live subjects to cure AIDS or diabetes or cancer, bring in the rats.
I blame the fools offering grants for any animal research to be performed at Bezerkely. And anyone applying for those grants who is based in the area.
That is like letting go of a cinder block and being surprised at how your foot hurts when it travels straight downwards to where your sandal-clad foot happens to be.
Given the moonbat prevalence, and the absolute failure of “Law Enforcement” personnel to ever catch the criminals doing the threatening and inflicting the damages,…
That should have been a “no-brainer”.
I would be willing to bet that the rock throwers are not just animal activists but also pro-abortion.
Did you read just how irrational these guys are?
And you think policy should be determined by the protester’s sense of morality?
Open carry takes away your tactical advantage of nobody knowing you’re carrying. If a criminal sees you carrying he might take you out first since he knows you’re armed. Concealed carry is the way to go.
I brought up that point a few threads ago. Then, I got to thinking – if these people (who have GOT to be vegans) eat seeds, is that not a form of abortion? I have to know!
I live in El Cerrito, right next to Berkeley. This little town is full of UC faculty and staff. One of the targets of these protests lives just up the street from me.
The reason for all this anger now is that UC is currently constructing a new underground animal research facility. The “protesters” can’t get at it, so they are enraged. About 7 or 8 years ago, UC put their existing animal research facility underground to keep the labs and workers safe from the constant harrassment from these idiots. The “protesters” have been in a huge snit ever since, as they can no longer run up and down hallways and in and out of labs screaming at grad students. What a pity. Don’t blame UC for these fools. The university hates these clowns, none of whom ever went to Cal. They infest the campus daily with their “protests” and various idiocies such as the oak tree protest. Some 99% of the 30,000 students go about their business and pay no attention. Those “students” who participate are usually Sociology or Ethnic Studies majors. Get my drift?
Soap, I say throw an Arabic book at them. From what I understand they are still using stone tablets.
May these thugs reap what they sow. Karma may suggest that one day they get violently sick, and need treatment derived from this research, only to be denied…No health insurance; insurance denied request; or, the line of research was terminated, due to the threats and violence perpetuated against the researchers during critical stages of testing. What goes around usually does come around.
So how are we supposed to fight disease if we have to spend millions or billions of more dollars in research by trying to find a back door?
They should be protesting people who are cruel to their pets, which is a much bigger issue than people who are trying to improve our health. Then again, these people probably can’t be reasoned with. If they redirected their anger, they’d firebomb the home of some senior citizen hoarder who suffers from dementia.
I’m just wondering what’s happening with the SCOTUS on the gun ban. Most opinions are released on Monday. So we only have 3 left for this session. Should be interesting.
Let’s see: homeowners minding their own business doing important research get harassed in their face at their homes in a state that has been overrun by illegal aliens and gun control
The Perfect Storm