SPEAK are claiming a good turnout for their day of action against Vodafone. Surprise surprise. One man and a dog would be a triumph for SPEAK!

Well I went to my local Vodafone store and there wasn’t a protestor in sight. SPEAK claim “not one negative comment was received”. No surprise this time. I imagine people have got better things to do than invite a torrent of abuse from aggressive animal rights campaigners! 

It amuses me to see how some animal rights groups are apparently not aware how ridiculous their anti-violence statements are. SHAC is a good example. On the SHAC website they celebrate the dreadful harassment of the company in the last couple of years, by their own supporters. Here they also publish contact details of employees, suppliers, customers etc and encourage people to take direct action. And then they distance themselves using “weasel words” (a word used to deprive a statement of its force or evade a direct commitment, according to the dictionary). Thus on the site this “disclaimer” ... “Please note that SHAC does not encourage or incite illegal activities”.

I was pleased to hear about ‘posh’ Jan Lawrence’s sentence earlier this month – and even more pleased when I saw that the ALF has posted her prison address for all to see on their website. Although the idea is to encourage fellow fundamentalist fanatics to write letters of support to her, I can only hope that her victims, and others disgusted by her obscene behaviour, use this opportunity to write to her expressing their opinions of her actions - although perhaps not using her own threatening and malicious missives as inspiration (example below).

"You are a sick, evil, perverted deviant. You are now a legitimate and priority ALF target. The animal rights militia exists just for filthy, animal-abusing scum like you. You have been warned."

The Daily Telegraph - 4th Nov 2005

So when exactly is work going to start again on the research facility at Oxford University? For us at RDS the wait is frustrating enough.  For the researchers, students and other staff at Oxford University, it must seem interminable. 

We should be proud of the international quality of research carried out at our universities in the UK. Oxford and Cambridge have recently risen to third and fourth in the rankings of international research quality.  However, Cambridge University was forced to shelve plans for its neuroscience centre last year, partly as a result of animal rights extremism. 

The empty shell of the uncompleted building at Oxford stands as an international symbol of the government commitment to defeating animal rights extremism.  We cannot to lose this one.  RDS is totally supportive of the University in its plans to get building work restarted.

Why is it that animal rights extremists seem to get such a kick out of digging up graves?  It can’t be a very pleasant activity. 

When asked to defend or justify these actions in the media, the extremists often claim that no harm was done!  There can be few better examples of how hopelessly out of touch with society these anarchists are. 

Let’s hope we get to see a few more extremists behind bars in the next year or so.  They can do all the digging they want in there!