Daily Archives: October 22, 2001

Animal Liberation Front Claims Responsibility for $1 Million Coulston Fire

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On October 11, 2001, the Animal Liberation Front took credit for a September 20 fire at a Coulston Foundation facility that caused an estimated $1 million in damages.

An incendiary device was detonated at a building at The Coulston Foundation’s White Sands Research Center in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Coulston spokesman Don McKinney called the fire an act of terrorism, but police say their investigation has not yet determined a particular group responsible for the fire.

The building was a maintenance facility where no animals were housed, and no one was injured in the blaze.

In a press release, the ALF terrorists wrote, “We intend for this act of nonviolent economic sabotage to bring an end to this truly evil institution.

McKinney had other words for this violent act of terrorism,

This has been an assault on Alamogordo, an assault on New Mexico and an assault on the United States, and it has been done by a citizen of the U.S. right at the time that our nation is under attack. I find that considerably less than acceptable.

Sources:

Animal rights group claims responsibility for fire at primate lab. The Alamogordo Daily News (New Mexico), October 12, 2001.

A.L.F. claims responsibility for Coulston Federation Fire. Frontline Information Service, Press Release, October 11, 2001.

PETA Ridiculed in MAD Magazine

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Massachusetts-area animal rights activist Lorraine Nicotera recently posted a message to an animal rights e-mail list pushing a parody of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in this month’s Mad Magazine as some sort of publicity victory.

The actual Mad feature is a spread called “Only a true PETA nut…” which then has various endings to that sentence stem such as “…will try to reason with a mosquito,” accompanied by humorous graphics.

Rather than see this for the ridicule it is, Nicotera thinks the piece “shows that PETA and Animal Rights Activists and other organizations have gone so far into mainstream, we are even in MAD Magazine!”

Talk about wishful thinking — although I do hope that Mad continues to poke fun at the insanity that is the animal rights movement.

Source:

Only a True PETA nut . . . MAD mag. Lorraine Nicotera, e-mail communication, September 18, 2001.