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October 29, 2005
Animal Rights Activist Advocates Murder
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.
Posted by Van Helsing at October 29, 2005 11:32 AM
Comments
His weird name Vlasak sounds lunatic, sick and satanic.
I am not surprised that he has such sickening notions.
The man should be sent to a mental home as soon as possible before Vlasak causes havoc.
Posted by: Orikinla Osinachi at October 29, 2005 3:02 PM
I think this tends to happen to people who become too wrapped up in a particular cause. Conventional, rational ethics ceases to have much bearing for them. Instead, their ethics becomes centered around the cause. That which furthers the cause, no matter what it is, is good. That which takes away from the cause is bad. It's a sort of bizarre tunnel vision in which everything is seen through the distorted lens of what they have devoted their life to and which gives their existence meaning.
Posted by: Dangerous Dan at October 30, 2005 1:56 AM
If he really wants to be consistent, he'll go after Orkin as well. Think of all the poor defenseless rats and mice they've killed just so we can be protected from those silly diseases they carry.
Somehow, so far, Orkin has been exempt from his wrath. What makes them so special? Damn it! I insist he bomb the Orkin pesticide plants or at least torture the CEO's children.
Posted by: Von Oyster at October 31, 2005 8:58 AM
He sure can't dress worth a damn.
Posted by: ex-expat at October 31, 2005 10:09 AM
Um, Mr Vlasak, pay no attention to all the people who seem to be following you. Those clicks in your phone line are also nothing to worry about. As for the sharpshooters posted on the roofs of all the houses around you, they're there for your own protection.
Seriously.
You bold, humane rat-lover, you.
Posted by: Cato the Elder at October 31, 2005 4:17 PM
Oh, by the way, Jerry is a physician and former animal researcher.
Posted by: Cato the Elder at October 31, 2005 4:34 PM
