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A farm is to stop breeding guinea pigs for medical research after years of intimidation by animal rights activists. The family-run Darley Oaks Farm in Newchurch, Staffordshire, has been at the centre of a campaign of abuse. Owners and staff have received death threats during the six-year onslaught. The family said they hoped the decision would prompt the return of the body of their relative Gladys Hammond, whose remains were stolen from a churchyard. The remains were taken from her grave in nearby Yoxall in October. Mrs Hammond, who was buried in St Peter's churchyard seven years ago, was the...

ANIMAL rights activists face trial on terrorism charges in America next month for their campaign against a British research centre. The seven members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (Shac) are all from America, but at least one trained as an activist in Britain. They were arrested in FBI raids across four states over their alleged activities against Huntingdon Life Sciences. The company’s headquarters are in Cambridgeshire, but it has a laboratory in New Jersey. The seven, who face trial in New Jersey, are charged with conspiring to commit animal enterprise terrorism. If convicted they face heavy fines and up to...

Authorities seek to question van driver in arson; Vehicle was seen leaving Charles Co. development; 'Potential witness, but possibly something more' INDIAN HEAD -- More than one arsonist is believed to have set fires that destroyed 10 homes under construction and damaged 16 others in a Southern Maryland subdivision, investigators said today. Deputy State Fire Marshall W. Faron Taylor said fire investigators also discovered 11 other arson attempts in the Hunters Brooke subdivision. Evidence collected at those houses, which were not damaged, is of monumental value to investigators, he said. "We are strongly considering that this act had to have...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A graduate student was convicted Friday of setting fire to dozens of sport utility vehicles and causing more than $2 million in damage, but was cleared of the most serious charge against him. William Jensen Cottrell, 24, was found guilty in U.S. District Court of conspiracy to commit arson and seven counts of arson. But the jury acquitted him of attempting to use a destructive device in a crime of violence - Molotov cocktails - a charge that carried a sentence of at least 30 years in prison. He will be sentenced March 12, and faces...

E-mail Author Send to a Friend <% printurl = Request.ServerVariables("URL")%> Print Version August 11, 2004, 8:59 a.m. New Terrorists on the BlockAnimal-rights activists turn to violence. By Wesley J. Smith If you want to see the future of animal-rights/liberation (ARL) advocacy in America, you need only look across the pond to the United Kingdom. It isn't a pretty picture. Increasingly, radical animal liberationists are resorting to violence, threats, and intimidation to prevent people and businesses from engaging in the proper and humane use of animals. Here is just a sampling of the violent seeds these extremists have recently sown:...

A Caltech grad student implicated in an arson spree that destroyed or damaged 125 sport utility vehicles will have to face a charge that carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 years in prison, a federal judge ruled Monday. William Jensen Cottrell, 24, is charged with participating in attacks last August that targeted SUVs at three dealerships, as well as four privately owned vehicles. Authorities said the attacks caused $2.3 million damage. He faces a nine-count indictment, including one count of using a destructive device in a violent crime. Cottrell's lawyers asked U.S. District Judge Gary Klausner to throw out...

Amidst the government warnings that al Qaeda has targeted America for further attacks was a news story concerning another kind of terrorism, some of whose perpetrators were indicted on May 26. They were members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC). Federal authorities in New Jersey and three other states charged that the defendants, six men and one woman, belonged to SHAC and had engaged in acts that included vandalism, sending threatening letters, making threatening phone calls, home invasions, and physical assaults. "Their business, quite frankly, is thuggery and intimidation", said US Attorney Christopher Christie at a press conference following the...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Authorities are investigating a vehicle explosion at Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Resort that has left one person dead. Authorities say the vehicle was in a parking lot used primarily for staging and overflow parking during the holiday season. Police say Gaylord security officers notified them just before midnight of the explosion.

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OutFront Beware Of People Heidi Brown, 07.26.04 Animal-rights activists are getting more violent. Late on the night of May 30 an off-duty police officer was guarding the Monrovia, Calif. house of Mitchell Lardner.... The guard was there because Lardner, his wife and two small children have been under siege for weeks by animal-rights activists. They had spray-painted his home with words like "Puppy Killer" and "You Can't Hide" and paraded by in frightening masks and black robes, announcing with bullhorns "Mitchell Lardner kills 500 puppies a day!" Animal-rights activists are no longer content to set up picket lines. Groups such...

About Us Archives Op-eds Games Cartoons Donate! May 28, 2004 SPECIAL REPORT: PETA and PCRM Tied to SHACkled Animal Rights Militants A stunning development in the domestic war on terror unfolded this week, as seven hard-core militants from the violent animal rights group SHAC (Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty) were taken into federal custody on terrorism-related charges. In addition, SHAC itself (which, it turns out, is an honest-to-goodness corporation organized in Delaware), was named in a five-count federal indictment -- which outlined violations of the Animal Enterprise Protection Act as well as a conspiracy to stalk innocent victims across state...