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Behind double doors in the depths of the windowless caverns three floors below the basement of the Loma Linda Medical Centre Bailey the baboon butcher desecrates healthy animals. Gennarelli and his henchmen cripple and torture animals in the sub-basement of the University of Pennsylvania. In underground "restricted areas" right around the world there are hell-holes far from public gaze in which eighthundred thousand defenceless animals who have committed no crime are imprisoned, burned, frozen, starved, diseased, blinded, battered, raped, shocked, poisoned, disemboweled, driven insane and worse - every day of the year. These crimes are committed by vivisectors working safe within the laws that protect them. The purpose??... Academic acclaim, profits for multi-nationals and the greed and power of governments.

There is just one fly in the ointment - The Animal Liberation Front

In 1850 fifty thousand negroes escaped from slavery by an underground fictitious "railway" or "line"... upon which "freight" or "packages" were escorted by "conductors" along a torturous route which sometimes took years - from lives of servitude and misery in Kentucky and Virginia to the Northern States of USA - or Canada to freedom. In 1985 few would argue that the liberators of the slaves were wrong... But 130 years ago they plotted underground and against the law - to abolish human slavery.

...But the slavery of non-humans continues
The more "civilized" the country - the more rife the slavery

In the 1900s many women struggling in a dangerous underground movement broke the law repeatedly - being themselves broken in return by imprisonment, harsh treatment, forcefeeding and other victimisation which cost many their lives... until they were by sheer persistence finally accorded the "right" to vote.

Few modern women attending today's polling booths think of the high cost paid by a slim minority of "cranks" "radicals" "lunatics" "second-class citizens"...
Nor does the modern woman reject her "right" to vote on the ground that the suffragettes operated against the law.

Suffrage - Rights - Justice

In the second world war...

The underground movement plotting against unjust laws saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of Jews destined for deportation and death. Similarly the French Resistance scheming underground paved the way for the invasion of Europe by allied forces undertaking hardships and risks beyond description - preferring death to oppression and tyranny. After the war these law-breakers received recognition, were decorated for bravery, were heroes.

Whilst the New Zealand Anti-Vivisection Society is in no way involved with the Animal Liberation Front it believes that animals have waited far too long for justice...

Protests through conventional channels have failed to cause a ripple in the sea of public apathy - have failed to bring about meaningful legislation to help animals: The animal liberationists are causing mighty ripples - there is an upsurge of anger in many countries.

Animals are the last of the minority groups...

They cannot organise their own resistance. But as we approach the 21st century the modern liberators in a tight-knit, expanding and well-organised underground network are risking their livelihoods, their physical well-being and even their lives. They stand to lose their homes, their jobs, their friends their futures. The pre-requisite for entry to their ranks is a sophisticated training in passive resistance, a preparedness to go to prison for the cause...

...And that they don't eat animals...

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