Posted on 07/18/2004 7:50:25 PM PDT by samtheman
The cast of characters at the recently concluded "Animal Rights 2004" convention including a tenured university professor, a self-described ocean-going pirate, and a husband-and-wife team seemingly dedicated to "animal liberation" by any means necessary. Meet Jerry Vlasak and his wife Pamelyn Ferdin, both of whom have close connections to PETA's quasi-medical front group, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM).
Vlasak has been arrested several times, and urges others to "get arrested." Referring to a violent subset of the terrorist Animal Liberation Front (ALF), he described himself during the convention as "heavily involved in the SHAC campaign." And then, in a stunning comment, Vlasak predicted a particularly violent future for his social movement:
It won't ruin our movement if someone gets killed in an animal rights action. It's going to happen sooner or later. The Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front -- sooner or later there's going to be someone getting hurt. And we have to accept that fact. It's going to happen. It's not going to hurt our movement. Our movement will go on. And it's important that we not let the bully pulpit of the FBI and the other oppression agencies stop us from what we're doing. They are the violent ones. They are the terrorists ... we have to keep doing what we're doing. (click here for video.)At last year's "Animal Rights 2003" event, Vlasak specifically advocated the murder of doctors who use animals in their research, saying: "I don't think you'd have to kill -- assassinate -- too many ... I think for 5 lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human lives."
Vlasak has represented PCRM on issues of animal testing. He writes for PCRM's magazine, and is identified in the magazine as "PCRM's Jerry Vlasak." In a February 2002 press release, Vlasak is called a "PCRM spokesperson."
Pamelyn Ferdin is an aging B-movie actress best known as the voice of the bossy Lucy Van Pelt on the "Peanuts" television specials. Vlasak and Ferdin are both officers of the Animal Defense League Los Angeles (ADL), which made headlines last year for waging an all-out holy war (including aggressive, at-home protests) against the Los Angeles bureaucrat in charge of the city's animal shelters. Ferdin told Animal Rights 2004 convention-goers:
We want to make people who walk down to a park, or walk their animals who are unaltered feel ashamed, feel humiliated, that they dare have a companion animal who is unaltered when there are thousands being killed in our city shelters because of this problem. (click here for video)In addition to her affiliation with ADL, Ferdin carries a PCRM business card. Amazingly, it identifies PCRM's business address as the same location in Santa Monica, California where ADL receives its mail.
A look at ADL's board of directors fleshes out the bigger picture. In addition to Vlasak and Ferdin, its officers include Gary Yourofsky, a convicted Animal Liberation Front felon who openly advocates arson and murder. Yourofsky's most recent job was indoctrinating middle-school and high-school children on behalf of PETA. Also on ADL's board is Allison Lance Watson, the wife of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society pirate Paul Watson. When she is tried later this year, she will face five years in prison for lying to a federal grand jury about her possible role in a 2001 ALF arson. Jerry Vlasak is also Sea Shepherd's treasurer.
The broad connections among PETA, PCRM, SHAC, ADL, and Sea Shepherd suggest that few things on the animal-rights radical fringe happen in a vacuum. And with the movement's leaders openly advocating in-your-face tactics and outright violence, Jerry Vlasak's stunning prophecy may soon be realized.
Look for these people to start siding with Al Queda.
They want us to stop eating meat, stop wearing leather shoes, stop taking drugs or having implants made from or tested on animals, stop killing predators that kill humans, and stop owning pets for companionship. That's a few items from the animal rights wish list and it doesn't end there. Imagine a world with no wool, fur, milk, and cheese. And its one for which these wackos and loons are willing to die.
These same folks who would kill to save a cat, also support the violent murder of unborn chilren.
Violence. Leftist Socialism is violence and murder and
intolerance.
Every one of you leftist POS will reap the fruits of your planting....
Animal Rights Leaders Predict Violence, Death
I am glad they can see THEIR OWN future - however short it will be.
Look for these people to start siding with Al Queda.Absolutely. If they're not in direct communication right this minute, it's probably only because AQ is a little hard to reach these days.
Wrong..People seem to forget What does GOD say about Animals how we should treat them? how we should kill them for food, and not every frigin animal is for eating or torturing...
I think there are people that so hate the mere presence of human beings that they would do it. I don't know which PETA leader said it, but a woman said she would committ suicide to lessen the burden on the earth.
Your going a little overboard...
Some animals are for food and should be killed according to the bible.
Animals are not for torture as in Cock , Dog and Bull fights, and animals are great companions many times better than people companions.
a woman said she would committ suicide to lessen the burden on the earthShe would definitely lessen the burden on the rest of us. As long as she did a solo, and no bomb-strapping. So did she do it?
Tell that to a total vegan.
I tried to look. I think it was Newkirk that said it but not sure. I don't recall any dying lately UNFORTUNATELY.
"a woman said she would committ suicide to lessen the burden on the earth."
Sounds like a winning idea to me! One less peta/elf/alf/spca gestapo to worry about.
Let me guess though - typically of the leftist-radical, I bet she didn't kill herself and later explained that she only meant that BUSH should do it and not her.
Of course not. The liberal MO is to deliver death, mayhem and complete social upheavel for everyone else BUT THEMSELVES.
You are right about torturing animals. I agree with you. We can't let these eco-terrorist scum --- who use "animal rights" as a smoke-screen for their marxist/terrorist agendas --- to allow us to forget that the phrase "animal welfare" does have meaning. It takes a mean human being to want to torture an animal.
God told Peter all creatures could be received with thanksgiving (for food).
Torturing animals is not what animal liberationists oppose - they want humans to eliminate animal use period.
Animal righists are cultists and modern gnostics who hold human life in very low regard. They suck.
FMCDH(BITS)
what cracks me up is they are probably pro-choice too...
FMCDH(BITS)
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