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October 29, 2005

Animal Rights Activist Advocates Murder

Posted by Dave Blount at October 29, 2005 11:32 AM

If only all animal rights activists were harmless kooks like Hot Lips. The Center for Consumer Freedom reports that during a hearing last Wednesday before a US Senate committee, animal rights activist Jerry Vlasak "reiterated his support of murder and other violence against medical researchers whose lifesaving work requires the use of animals."

According to Vlasak, the use of lab rats to find cures that have saved millions of lives and promise to save millions more has to stop. After all, the lives saved by scientific research are only human; the rats' lives are much more important, from a moonbat's point of view. If scientists won't stop when activists tell them to, then according to Vlasak, "one option would be to stop them using any means necessary."

Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) confirmed this threat to be as ugly as it sounds by asking if Vlasak endorsed the use of deadly force. Vlasak responded that murder "would be a morally justifiable solution."

Congratulations to Vlasak for being ahead of his time. He has taken liberal ideology to its natural conclusion. Most liberals are still at the relatively primitive stage of siding with dictators and terrorists against their own country. But cutting-edge activists like Vlasak have advanced to siding with rats against their own species.

Vlasak would like to kill scientists not so much as punishment, but as a terrorist tactic, intended to intimidate. He holds that assassinating doctors and researchers "could be used quite effectively from a pragmatic standpoint … for 5 lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human lives."

By the same logic, assassinating the children of doctors and researchers would also be justified, and might be more effective. But why stop at assassination? Torturing the children of scientists might be more effective still. Just by kidnapping the child of say, the head researcher at a pesticide company, and mailing back ears and fingers, you might save millions of cockroaches. Anything goes when moonbattery has liberated you from the concept of right and wrong.

The animal rights movement illustrates almost as well as communism that liberalism isn't the well-meaning wrong-headedness it appears to be at first glance. It is a form of degenerative moral insanity, that if unchecked leads by its own depraved logic to absolute evil.

Thanks to V the K for the tip.