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ARI Press Release: Animal Rights Activists Are Not Pro-Animal, They Are Anti-Human Submitted by Ayn Rand Center on Thu, 2008-08-07 21:07.
Ayn Rand Institute Press Release Animal Rights Activists Are Not Pro-Animal, They Are Anti-Human Irvine, CA--Last Saturday, animal rights activists used firebombs to attack two UC Santa Cruz biologists--exploding the car of one scientist, who was not present, while bombing the townhouse of another, who sustained minor injuries while fleeing with his wife and two small children. "This sort of attack is shocking and reprehensible, but unfortunately it is not surprising," said Dr. Keith Lockitch, resident fellow of the Ayn Rand Institute. "It is not surprising when supporters of animal 'rights' use violence and intimidation, because their cause is fundamentally anti-human." "Animal activists claim that their goal is to stop gratuitous torture inflicted for no reason. But that is a smokescreen. They fight against such benign practices as keeping animals in circuses and zoos, or even as pets--no matter how well-loved and well-cared-for they are. Worst of all, they oppose the use of animals in research, no matter how humanely they are treated and no matter how many lives could be saved from the medical advances this makes possible. "All of this is based on the false notion that animals have 'rights.' But the concept of 'rights' properly only applies to rational beings, who can recognize and respect the rights of others. In the name of the imagined 'rights' of animals, they have no hesitation about assaulting the actual rights of individual people. "It is a mistake to regard these criminals as 'extremists' who are hijacking an otherwise valid cause. It is the cause of animal 'rights,' itself, that is vicious and anti-human." ### ### ### Dr. Lockitch has a PhD in Physics from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and is a resident fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute. He writes and edits for ARI and is a professor in the Objectivist Academic Center, where he teaches undergraduate writing and a graduate course on the history of physics. His writings have appeared in publications such as the Orange County Register and the San Francisco Chronicle. Dr. Keith Lockitch is available for interviews. To book him for your show, please contact Larry Benson: For more information on Objectivism's unique point of view, go to ARI's Web site. Founded in 1985, the Ayn Rand Institute promotes the philosophy of Ayn Rand, author of "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead."
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Journalist trivializes horror
A side bar on that site, Mr. McKeever, refers to a story in the Globe and Mail, a story written by Joe Friesen, as "How a madman's blade cut Tim McLean's reunion short."
I go in for clever wording myself, but straining to find a double meaning in a case of this tragic nature shows an inhuman lack of perspective on the part of whoever worded that title. Tim McLean was going home, thus the idea of a reunion. He was stabbed to death, and pieces of his body were carved off. That's the "madman's blade" part. "How a madman's blade cut Tim McLean's reunion short," that's Friesen's (or whoever wrote it's) summary of the event.
{"An innocent, sleeping bus-rider is attacked and hacked to pieces. Let's see, that should be good for a laugh..."}
The mentality that can write such a thing has monstrously perverted values. The editor who let it go through is nearly as bad. It would act as salt in their wounds to the victim's friends and family. It affronts all civilized readers.
In that it belittles a man's life, and trivializes a nightmare-ish death, rhetoric like this shares the murderer's implicit view of the importance of life.
Some things aren't funny. It takes a sick mind to find titillation in them. "It was all in fun" is the confession of a pervert.
--Mindy
this is very disturbing.
this is very disturbing. those people should be taught the hard way.
And if that's not bad enough...
And if that's not bad enough: on July 30, 2008, in Manitoba (Canada), a sleeping 22 year-old bus rider was stabbed, then beheaded, then eaten, by the passenger next to him. (see http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080805.wbus_beheadi... ). It took only until August 6th for PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) to launch an absolutely disgusting ad campaign that plays on that event and equates the cannibalism of July 30th to the eating of animal meat by humans.
Here's the image of the poster: http://westernstandard.blogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorize...
Here's a link to the story: http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2008/08/peta-goes-way-o.html#co...
Perhaps ARI needs someone to draft press releases for Canada, just to keep up with all of the patently evil statements being made? Ahem.
Lie and the world lies with you.
Tell the truth, and the world lies about you.
-Oscar Wilde