http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/alf/ en-us Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:41:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395042/posts A federal magistrate judge agreed Wednesday to temporarily stay the release of a Minneapolis man facing federal conspiracy charges in connection with the 2004 animal-rights vandalism on the UI campus. Scott DeMuth, 22, will remain detained until at least 4 p.m. Monday, a federal magistrate ordered. The emergency stay of release will allow federal prosecutors a chance to appeal a release order issued Tuesday. The release order would have allowed DeMuth, a University of Minnesota graduate student, to return to Minneapolis while the federal case is pending. As part of that release, he was to be placed on home detention... Cedar Rapids Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395042/posts#comment Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:41:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385248/posts U.S. District Judge Dee Benson on Thursday rejected a plea bargain that called for a Layton man to serve six months in prison for releasing hundreds of mink last year in support of animal rights. Instead, Benson said he plans to sentence William James Viehl to at least two years behind bars and could go even higher. The law allows a maximum of five years imprisonment. The judge said he generally deals leniently with offenders who have no criminal record. But he said Viehl's actions -- letting more than 600 mink out of their pens at the McMullin Fur Farm... The Salt Lake Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385248/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:05:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371411/posts A federal grand jury in Davenport is investigating a nationally publicized, animal-rights-related break-in at a University of Iowa lab in 2004, according to a 20-year-old woman from Minneapolis who says she is a possible target of the inquiry. Carrie Feldman refused to testify when she was subpoenaed to testify at the federal courthouse on Oct. 15, she said. She will refuse again at a second ordered appearance on Nov. 17, she said. Ultimately, she could be held in contempt of court and taken into custody. At least four masked people released hundreds of animals and caused hundreds of thousands of... Quad City-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371411/posts#comment Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:14:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370661/posts BOSTON — Six Harvard University medical researchers were poisoned in August after drinking coffee that was laced with a chemical preservative, according to university officials. In an internal memo first reported in the Boston Herald's Sunday editions, the school said the coffee came from a machine near their lab that later tested positive for sodium azide, a common preservative used in labs. The six reported symptoms after drinking the coffee Aug. 26, ranging from dizziness to ringing in the ears, and one passed out. They were treated at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and later released. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370661/posts#comment Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:37:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2306761/posts SANTA CRUZ - A year ago today, UC Santa Cruz molecular biologist David Feldheim and his wife woke up at 5:45 a.m. when a firebomb exploded on their front porch of their town home on Village Circle, a small enclave of modest housing near campus. The couple and their two children, then 2 and 4, fled the flames by climbing down a second-floor fire escape. Feldheim bruised his feet as he scrambled to safety, but the rest of his family was unharmed. Minutes later, outside a cluster of faculty residences on campus, a second firebomb ripped through an unoccupied Volvo... Mercury News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2306761/posts#comment Mon, 3 Aug 2009 00:08:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295040/posts Link Only per FR posting rules Inside Higher Ed http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295040/posts#comment Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:22:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2276485/posts Many animal-rights and welfare organizations pose serious threats to all animal agriculture, the livestock sector and production agriculture in general. Altogether, they have combined annual budgets of $300 million. The ones that pose the greatest threat are the Humane Society of the United States, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the Sierra Club, Citizens for Decent Agriculture, the Dust Police, and the Animal Liberation Front. This group actually supports elimination of all animal agriculture, turning all domestic animals loose to roam, and even goes as far as to advocate assignation of people to free all farm animals. This group... The Joplin Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2276485/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:34:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264779/posts It was 4 o'clock in the morning when David Jentsch, a neuroscience professor at UCLA, awoke to a loud bang and the sound of his car alarm. He hurried to his bedroom window and saw the orange glow of his new Volvo luxury sedan burning in his yard. He suspected immediately that it was the work of animal rights activists. "Enough of my colleagues had been attacked that I had a feeling they were responsible," Jentsch said about the March 7 torching of his car. "Two days later the Animal Liberation Brigade took credit for it. The irony of the... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264779/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jun 2009 17:56:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234867/posts An American vegan who has made it his life’s mission to shut down a British animal-testing company has become the first domestic terrorist to be listed on the FBI’s most-wanted list of terror suspects. The name of Daniel Andreas San Diego, who is accused of carrying out the 2003 bombings of two US companies affiliated with Huntingdon Life Sciences, of Cambridgeshire, is listed alongside the likes of Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Adam Yahiye Gadahn. San Diego, who is shown on the FBI’s most-wanted poster with short brown hair and glasses, is said to have several unusual tattoos that... The Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234867/posts#comment Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:31:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2196781/posts Vandals who claim to act in the name of animal rights and the environment are expanding their targets from laboratories and constructon sites that offend them to homes and cars of those with whom they disagree. On Feb. 19 in Tucson, a UA researcher had her water valve cemented shut and a mining company employee had her car tires flattened and her windows etched with hateful sayings. A press release posted on the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center site by a group calling itself "Tucson H.A.A.N.D." or "Hooligans Attack at Night, Duh," claimed responsibility for the acts. It... Arizona Daily Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2196781/posts#comment Sun, 1 Mar 2009 19:26:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2191226/posts Note: The following text is a quote: http://sanfrancisco.fbi.gov/pressrel/2009/sf022009.htm FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 20, 2009 Four Extremists Arrested for Threats and Violence Against UC Researchers On February 19 and 20, the Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested four animal rights extremists suspected of terrorizing University of California researchers. A complaint filed in federal court in San Francisco on Thursday alleged Adriana Stumpo, 23, of Long Beach, California; Nathan Pope, 26, of Oceanside, California; Joseph Buddenberg, 25, of Berkeley, California; and Maryam Khajavi, 20, of Pinole, California used force, violence, or threats to interfere with the operation of the University of California in... SanFrancisco.FBI.GOV - Press Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2191226/posts#comment Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:10:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158356/posts Bandera local farmers and rancher charge that the I-69 Trans-Texas Corridor Tier One Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) has failed to meet important environmental standards. Barbara Mazurek, Bandera County Farm Bureau President says that these failures are indicative of the problems that exist with the entire Tran-Texas Corridor (TTC). “Because these environmental standards have not been met, the Texas Department of Transportation should seriously consider alternatives to its current model,” Mazurek said. According to Mazurek, there are three main reasons that the DEIS is flawed. • It limits its analysis to alternatives that fit the TTC “vision” of a multimodal... The Bandera County Courier http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158356/posts#comment Sun, 4 Jan 2009 03:42:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2145026/posts Terrorists have struck again. In the predawn hours one morning last month, they used an incendiary device to destroy two cars. You may not have heard about this, even though it followed a series of firebombings of homes and other vehicles. The attack didn't take place in Mumbai or Baghdad but in Los Angeles. Yet the news couldn't break through the reports on the holiday season and our economic woes. The intended target of this violence, a researcher at the University of California at Los Angeles, was a scientist who uses animals in his work. But the terrorists, reportedly from... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2145026/posts#comment Mon, 8 Dec 2008 19:13:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2143687/posts UCLA Chancellor Gene Block condemned violence by animal rights activists in a university statement last week after two vehicles were torched outside of a Los Angeles home on Nov. 20. Students and Workers for the Liberation of UCLA Primates claimed responsibility for the attack which targeted a UCLA researcher. “Through these reprehensible tactics and reckless behavior, anti–animal research extremists demonstrate repeatedly that they are willing not only to risk the lives of those who spend their careers working to help others but also the lives of the unsuspecting general public, including children,” Block said in a UCLA statement. An improvised... Thw Daily Bruin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2143687/posts#comment Fri, 5 Dec 2008 22:46:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2139786/posts Los Angeles, CA (AP) -- Anti-animal research activists are claiming responsibility for torching two vehicles they thought belonged to a researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles. Activists connected to the Animal Liberation Front say they destroyed the vehicles on Nov. 20 to protest the work of Goran Lacan, a researcher who used animals while investigating treatments for morbid obesity and eating disorders. The group accidentally targeted the wrong address, . . . AP via SFGate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2139786/posts#comment Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:01:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134980/posts We need your help in locating these four fugitives. Click on their names or photographs to see their wanted posters. It has been 10 years since a group known as “The Family” torched a ski resort in Vail, Colorado, causing $26 million in damage and drawing international attention to eco-terrorists—those who break the law in the name of the environment and animal rights. Since that time, we’ve joined our federal, local, and state law enforcement partners in establishing Operation Backfire to bring these criminals to justice. Our efforts have been successful, but four individuals under indictment remain at large. At... FBI.GOV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134980/posts#comment Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:41:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099235/posts FBI Warns of Potential Terror Attacks The FBI and Department of Homeland Security today issued an analytical "note" to U.S. law-enforcement officials cautioning that al-Qaida terrorists have in the past expressed interest in attacking public buildings using a dozen suicide bombers each carrying 20 kilograms of explosives. Authors with the U.S. Office of Intelligence and Analysis added that they have "no credible or specific information that terrorists are planning operations against public buildings in the United States." The FBI and DHS analysts said they were releasing the note because "it is important for local authorities and building owners and... Previous Thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099235/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 02:27:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088527/posts KAYSVILLE - Three Utah members of the Animal Liberation Front claimed credit Monday for breaking into a Kaysville farm early Sunday, destroying property and releasing thousands of minks. A statement posted on the ALF Web site states that the group entered the farm, released the minks and destroyed all breeding records. It states that they destroyed an electrical fence, vandalized trucks and equipment and cut about 100 holes in the perimeter fence. Juan Becerra, spokesman for the the FBI's Salt Lake City office, said his bureau was assisting local detectives, but that it was too early in the investigation to... Salt Lake Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088527/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:23:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083461/posts The chair of the Connecticut College history department, Catherine McNicol Stock, has suggested that Sarah Palin is somehow associated with Pacific Northwest hate groups such as Posse Comitatus and the Aryan Nations. Her proof? Well, because Palin lived in areas with low "diversity." I kid you not. Here is the professor's "learned thesis" presented in a Philadelphia Inquirer opinion column melodramatically titled, "Intolerance thrives in Palin's Pacific Northwest" (emphasis mine): Despite her efforts to portray herself as an average, small-town, "folksy" American, Sarah Palin's political views - ardently pro-gun, pro-censorship, antichoice and antigay - make John McCain's conservative credentials pale... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083461/posts#comment Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:04:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080338/posts St. Hedwig has homes on large lots and a longtime tradition of rural living. And folks there want to keep it that way. “We want to be able to maintain as best we can the reason we moved out here in the first place,” said Kathy Palmer, the city’s planning and zoning commissioner. But a new master plan and recently updated zoning maps are no match for a proposed route of Trans-Texas Corridor 35 that would slice straight through the city of about 2,000 people and create headaches for several city departments, officials said. With neighboring Wilson County, St. Hedwig... The San Antonio Express-News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080338/posts#comment Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:32:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/554529/posts While the remains of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York and Washington, DC's Pentagon are "ground zero" for the horrible destruction wrought by foreign terrorists, the nation's forests, research labs, resorts and housing developments have long been "ground zero" for domestic environmentally-driven "ecoterrorists." There may be diabolical links between the two forces. There is a strong possibility that Animal Liberation Front (ALF) terrorists have come into possession of Anthrax as the result of having invaded laboratories that have been researching the disease. This certainly merits investigation as a source for the Anthrax attacks. The fact ... CNSNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/554529/posts#comment Tue, 23 Oct 2001 11:49:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064397/posts A Spokane woman was sentenced Tuesday to three years in federal prison in the May 2001 firebombing of the University of Washington Center for Urban Horticulture. Lacey Phillabaum, 33, of Spokane, is one of five people -- members of a domestic terrorist group called the Earth Liberation Front -- who were accused by federal prosecutors of the arson attack that destroyed the building along with precious samples of rare and endangered plants species being cultivated for reintroduction into the Cascades. The ELF cell, dubbed "The Family," acted on the erroneous belief that a scientist at the center was doing the... Seattle PI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064397/posts#comment Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:56:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059482/posts Despite fears, most academics say they will not be intimidated by violent tactics.Two firebomb attacks last week on UC Santa Cruz scientists who conduct animal research have angered and worried academics throughout the UC system, who said their work has broad public support and that they will not be intimidated by bombers who crossed the line by targeting families. "It is outrageous when people's families are targeted," said UCLA Chancellor Gene Block. "This is incredibly serious because it could have led to loss of life. It's chilling." But Block, a biologist who uses mice in his research on circadian rhythms,... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059482/posts#comment Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:17:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057784/posts Terrorism: The time comes in every fringe group's existence when it must decide to stay legitimate and obey the law or leap into violence and terrorism. The animal rights movement seems to have chosen the latter.Make no mistake: The terrorism committed by the animal rights movement and some extreme environmental groups is real. Like all terrorists, they use force, threats and destruction of property to intimidate people into submission. Having lost the debate in the marketplace of ideas, they choose instead to terrorize. As Jerry Vlasak, a spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front, told the AP, "If you had to... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057784/posts#comment Thu, 7 Aug 2008 01:23:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056814/posts Imagine if a group of rabid creationists started fire-bombing the homes of University of California professors to prevent them from teaching evolution. Area politicians would be holding competing press conferences to assure the public that they would take on the violent zealots, who have declared war, not only on good academics and their families, but on science itself. No need to imagine. Across California, a different group of zealots has done just that. True believers have distributed personal information on scientists and their families. They've placed firebombs in medical researchers' homes and cars. They've donned hoods on their heads and... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056814/posts#comment Tue, 5 Aug 2008 14:48:28 GMT