Monkey-Basher wants to "Lie Low"
In a March 6 1983 interview with the Toronto Globe and Mail reporter Paul Palango, the monkey-basher Thomas A. Gennarelli (see page 13, Mobilise! 10 (http://www.nzavs.org.nz/mobilise/10/13.html) ) said:
"I'm not willing to go on the record to discuss the studies. It has the potential to stir up all sorts of unnecessary fuss. I would like to lie low... we're trying to keep ourselves out of the newspapers."
Fourteen months later
On the night of Monday 28 May 1984, five members of the Animal Liberation Front swooped on the underground laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and with pick-axes wrecked hundreds of thousands of dollars-worth of torture equipment. In the process they removed Gennarelli's prized collection of video tapes . These tapes subsequently emblazoned on television to an incredulous and horrified American public the University's million dollar "research programme" in which fully conscious baboons are battered to death to simulate traumatic head injuries.
Gennarelli
reportedly received U.S. eleven million dollars in the last fifteen years to torture and destroy once whole and intelligent animals. He reportedly battered monkeys repeatedly for almost a year and his laboratory is seen on the video tapes to be a blood-splattered hell - littered with unwashed instruments and filthy bandages.
Cat's out of the bag!
In a second raid on the University which took place in broad daylight on July 26 1984 ALF rescued four cats with electrodes implanted in their heads. They had been used in "sleep deprivation" experiments, eight pigeons with steel bands embedded in their wings and an assortment of other animals.
Simultaneously in far-away Great Britain...
ALF members were smashing their way into the London Zoo offices where they removed documented evidence they claim proves the Zoo is selling chimpanzees, prairie marmots, baboons, hamsters and other animals to vivisection laboratories. This expose hit the headlines in British newspapers.
On a sunny August Bank Holiday in this same enlightened year of 1984
the South Eastern Animal Liberation League raided the sacred bastions of the elitist Royal College of Surgeons' "Research Farm" . Hidden deep in the Kentish countryside. They escaped with a video film, a catalogue of cruelty and horror which, coming from this classy establishment, stunned the British public. On two television channels viewers in their comfortable sitting rooms were, without warning, riveted to their seats in dismay as surgically-abused monkeys and vomiting, sick and dehydrated dogs - too weak to stand were plastered across their television screens. In horror they saw monkeys trapped in cages dying whilst trying to reach food and water. They saw - but were spared the stink and stench of the dog-pounds running with urine and faeces. They were shocked into the revelation that the owner of the nearby establishment supplying the dogs for vivisection was not only a Fellow of the Royal College - but is also the Director of the Wickham Research Laboratories... where for payment "scientists" poison animal prisoners to death in the infamous LD50 "test".
In 1984... The combined animal liberation groups averaged seven raids a day
In 1984... In Great Britain alone 250 attacks on laboratories took place between may and september
In 1984... The Animal Liberation Front saved the lives of 175 animals every day of the year.
And right around the world - as daily papers and television screens plaster photographs and shocking documented evidence supplied at risk of life and limb by the Animal Liberation Front to their readers and viewers - the "respectable... "conventional"... "law-abiding" animal rights organisations...
Capitalise...
by increased membership... by increased bank balances... by the photographic evidence they are quick to use in their glossy magazines...
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