I am convinced that unless they change course very soon, animal rights terrorists will soon kill someone. I bring this up because animal rights nuts apparently set fire to the home of Dr. Edythe London:Authorities are investigating a fire caused by a device left Tuesday at a house owned by a UCLA professor who conducts animal research—the second time the house has been targeted in less than four months. The device was placed Monday morning on the front porch of a Westside house owned by Edythe London, FBI officials in Los Angeles said. London, a professor of psychiatry and bio-behavioral sciences and of molecular and medical pharmacology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, uses lab monkeys in her research on nicotine addiction.FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller confirmed that officials with the Joint Terrorism Task Force were investigating the incident. “It was ignited and caused damage to the property,” Eimiller said. “No one was home at the time and nobody was hurt.”
If someone died in such a fire it would be murder under the law. Arson is not mere vandalism. It is terrible criminality, brutal and dangerous. The animal rights movement should rise up and declare unequivocally that such sheer terrorism is utterly unacceptable and cooperate with law enforcement and the FBI to catch the arsonists.
But I predict that most won’t, or will praise with mere faint condemenation.
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