You get what you put into the ground.
California Regents Sue Animal Activists
It was late into the night when 25 people in ski masks descended on professor Dario Ringach’s family home. Pounding on the door, frightening his small children, they screamed into megaphones, “Animal killer! We know where you live! We will never give up!”
And they apparently meant it. That year, 2006, according to court documents, animal rights activists launched a summer-long campaign of harassment against Ringach, an assistant professor of psychology and neurobiology at the University of California at Los Angeles and other scientists who conduct research with laboratory animals.
They hurled firecrackers at his house in the middle of the night and planted Molotov-cocktail-like explosives at other faculty houses, threatening to burn them to the ground.
UCLA hired private security, but Ringach feared for his family. “Effectively immediately, I am no longer doing animal research,” he finally wrote in an e-mail to his persecutors, pleading to be left alone. “Please don’t bother my family anymore.”
Personally, I would have put one or more of them into the ground. Just being a neighbor of his would have been enough for me.
I mean really: Ski masks, Molotov cockatils, simulated gun shots, threats of arson with murderous intent? Yeah, there’d be dead ELFers in the yard come sun up, screw getting a security guard.
But no, these “civilized folks” give up their jobs and go to the courts to sue a group with no known membership, no known assets or headquarters and no known leader.
When the UC system fosters this attitude toward the “rebellious youths” within their schools, they cannot act surprised when groups like this emerge and justify terrorizing employees and their families to save a bunny.
Terrorize the terrorists. When outside actors take effective actions to cull their group’s numbers, they will stop their cowardly acts.
Sounds like the Castle Doctrine should be enabled.
I really think that it would have just taken one elf death and the organization would evaporate like the water vapor it is. That’s pretty nasty stuff to do.
Were this to happen to my neighbor, I would fear for my neighbor’s life. A ghost organization, with no membership, meetings, headquarters or leader, there would be nothing preventing one nut from carrying the terrorism to a new and even more personal level than what you described.
I’m not sure if castle doctrine would be a necessary prerequisite in CA. The perception for the homeowner of all the things happening should be sufficient to make the fear for his life and the life of his family reasonable, and the use of deadly force reasonable.
Besides, it would only be an ELF. No humans involved.[sarcasm off]
This is why they pick on college professors and not big game hunters.
Predators pick prey, not bigger badder predators.
Jerry Vlasik, spokesman for the North American Animal Liberation Press Office makes no bones about it:
I guess I take that to mean that you can’t tell which of these lunatics is willing to kill you, so you pretty much are forced to assume they all might be. And that means one warning shot (if time and circumstances permit) then light ’em up.
Incidentally, that’s why “high capacity” magazines promote safety: they allow you to fire a warning shot or two before firing for effect. If I’m limited to 10 rounds, I’m not going to be overly generous with warning shots.
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The little bastards probably know exactly how far they can go before they cross that line justifying their victims to employ lethal force. Now me, as soon as I heard some little shits were making threats, I’m be on the phone to my lawyer and my local precinct to make sure I was up to date on the latest rules for lethal force, and just for good measure, I’d ask about how much trouble I’d be in for pumping a few loads of rock salt into their tender backsides, because I don’t want to waste ammo on warning shots.