A Stitch in Haste

The New York Times has an update to my previous post and update, on animal rights terrorists:

"It has been an incredible year for us," said Greg Avery, a spokesman for Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, a group that wages a continuing campaign against Britain's largest research lab, owned by Huntingdon Life Sciences, near Cambridge. "The animal-rights movement is bigger and stronger than it has ever been."

The militants' successes have alarmed investors, scientists and drug manufacturers, who warn that Britain - a dominant force in the pharmaceutical industry- could face a serious drop in biomedical investment if the campaigns are not curtailed.
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[GlaxoSmithKline] was spending tens of millions of dollars to protect workers and buildings in Britain. The company's legal counsel recently moved out of his house with his children after receiving threats, Mr. Garnier said...adding that several unnamed companies looking to invest had decided against Britain because of the intensity of the animal welfare campaigns.
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Everyone associated with the lab, including cabdrivers, caterers, delivery workers and bank executives, has become a target.
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This year, 51 suppliers cut off business relations with Huntingdon, a number that is tallied by the animal welfare groups. The attacks can also be personal. The managing director of the lab, Brian Cass, was beaten by men with baseball bats, and the cars and homes of Huntingdon employees have been vandalized in attacks linked to animal welfare advocates.
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Mr. Avery said his group was not responsible for any violence, and he defended its right to make life difficult for companies associated with the lab, calling them fair game.

"The companies involved are valid targets," he said. "Auschwitz would not have existed without people supplying gas, chemicals, food. Every single one of those, big or small, is a cog in that machine."

Auschwitz?

My advice to the British pharmaceutical industry: Come to the U.S.! We know a thing or two about combating terrorists, especially terrorists who seek nothing less than the total destruction of something they deem evil in any degree. We also know about protecting private property and preventing harassment of private citizens.

And we value, even celebrate, the contributions of high-tech industries as much as, if not more than, any other nation. We're especially fond of pharmaceutical development and other biomedical research.

And remember: The philosophical underpinnings of animal rights terrorists are just as toxic and decrepit as al Qaeda's. Just as Islamic terrorists are motivated not by love of Islam, but rather by hatred of the West, animal rights terrorists are not motivated by love of animals, but rather by hatred of humans.

UPDATE: A case in point here, from California, against the very animal rights terrorist group that has been such a threat in the U.K.