1:37 PM

You guys are the internet experts, but do any of these pictures look posed or Photoshopped to you?

Again, you are the experts, but:

The bird in the cat and bird photo looks fake or the picture is staged. I've had cats, why would the cat be looking away.

The cat in the cat rat photo is asleep. If real, that's easy to stage.

Similarly with the golden and cat photo.

I could go on and on.

But, this is illustrative:

The ALF Mission Statement:
To effectively allocate resources (time and money) to end the "property" status of nonhuman animals.

More from their web site:

Virtually all definitions of terrorism, even by “progressive” human rights champions, outright banish from consideration the most excessive violence of all—that which the human species unleashes against all nonhuman species. Speciesism is so ingrained and entrenched in the human mind that the human pogrom against animals does not even appear on the conceptual radar screen. Any attempt to perceive nonhuman animals as innocent victims of violence and human animals as planetary terrorists is rejected with derision.
But if terrorism is linked to intentional violence inflicted on innocent persons for ideological, political, or economic motivations, and nonhuman animals also are “persons”—subjects of a life—then the human war against animals is terrorism. Every individual who terrifies, injures, tortures, and/or kills an animal is a terrorist; fur farms, factory farms, foie gras, vivisection, and other exploitative operations are terrorist industries; and governments that support these industries are terrorist states. The true weapons of mass destruction are the gases, rifles, stun guns, cutting blades, and forks and knives used to experiment on, kill, dismember, and consume animal bodies.


I am sorry, but by their own rhetoric, this a a terrorist (ends justify the means) organization.

Maybe the reason that we can't all get along is that some groups are so convinced of the validity of their ends that they don't care what means they use to get there.

Sorry, sysm.

Maybe BA meant this to be a harmless link to some cute pictures.

I love your blog, but this is ridiculous.

Why send more traffic to the ALF web site?

Thanks,

Booger    

1:48 PM

Sorry to belabor the point, but I love this:

"The true weapons of mass destruction are the gases, rifles, stun guns, cutting blades, and forks and knives used to experiment on, kill, dismember, and consume animal bodies."

Why link to this site ba?

To be consistent you must be a vegan with no pets who eschews medical research involving animals, etc.

And, yes I am working on getting my own blog so that I don't clog up the comments sections of your blogs.

Thanks,

Booger    

4:44 PM

Upfront: I did not visit the ALF website. But I've been meaning to make an observation about non-profits, both well-meaning and selfish. I've worked for both types. This goes for our current political parties, too.

In order to get people to donate money, they must create a "bad guy" to pit themselves against. So, while the organization might have been founded to say, "Hey, I know we're not necessarily vegetarians or oppose necessary medical testing, but do we have to MISTREAT animals? Don't we demean OURSELVES in the process?"

While that's a noble statement, it's not enough to agitate people to action. So, the message gets tweaked. The story gets more dramatic.

I'm not singling out anyone. We're all guilty of this hyperbole and it's tearing our country apart. Because by demonizing the opposition, you lose any chance to sway them to the logic of your argument.    

5:58 PM

I guess that I disagree that we are all guilty of this hyperbole.

And, for this group it is not just hyperbole.

For Immediate Release
July 12, 2006
UCLA Vivisector Lynn Fairbanks Targeted by Animal Liberation Front
Los Angeles: In a communiqué received today, the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) took credit for an attack at the home of UCLA primate vivisector Lynn Fairbanks. An incendiary device was reportedly left on her porch, although it was not confirmed that the device was activated.

Fairbanks is notorious at UCLA for keeping hundreds of Vervet monkeys in cages, purportedly to study psychological, psychiatric and social problems such as Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder, substance abuse, criminality and violence. Translating her study results into human terms has, of course, remained problematic over the years, as she has killed thousands of her subjects.

The communiqué reads:
“On the night of June 30, we paid a visit to Lynn Fairbanks home at 2438 Roscomare Road in Belaire. Since she is rumored to have a cocktail every evening after a hard days work of breeding monkeys for painful addiction experiments at UCLA we thought we would give her a cocktail of our own a moletov cocktail. We left it on her doorstep but didnt hang around to see if it went off.

Lynn Fairbanks and those like her who make money off of addicting primates to drugs like ecstasy and cocaine or who keep primates locked up in cages and taken out of their cages only to be experimented on by sadistic monkey killers need to stop.

If the primates could escape from there cages they would do this to Lynn Fairbanks and worse. Since they cant we did. ALF.”

They put a bomb on her porch and took "credit" for it.

This is not hyperbole!

Please check out their web site.

Thanks,

Booger    

8:19 PM

Honestly, I think B.A. just likes monkeys.    

12:08 PM

Booger, you strike me as someone with too much free time. I look forward to you opening up your own forum, so that you can stop posting these exhausting, bring-down comments.

For Christ's sake! It's a monkey hugging a kitty! It's funny! Lighten up!    

10:54 AM

You know what else is great on that site? A cat giving a massage to a dog!

It's adorable! (but turn down your speakers first, the audio track is too loud).    

4:10 PM

Oh. My. God. That's ridiculously cute.    

1:03 AM

Your are Nice. And so is your site! Maybe you need some more pictures. Will return in the near future.
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