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2002-05-07 International

Fortuyn murderer said to be an animal rights nut

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2002-05-07 12:52 pm|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I might say, Fred, that this is the logical culmination of radical environmentalism. Ever since Ingrid Newkirk's infamous declaration "A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy", animal-rights extremists have been engaging in a particularly poisonous species of moral equivalence that even goes so far as to place the lives of non-sentient animals ahead of human beings. I'm sure you're familiar with the case of Earth First out in the Northwest, and the radicals who endangered the lives of loggers by hammering metal spikes into trees in such a position that they would splinter into shrapnel when the loggers did their jobs. Not to mention, of course, the notorious incidents in which laboratories conducting medical experiments with animals - often very delicate and critical experiments, sometimes experiments in which it's _dangerous_ to let microorganisms or chemicals out into the general population - have been raided by animal-rights types who are intent on the "liberation" of the experimental subjects.

If there's any surprise at all to this tragedy, it's not that it happened, but that it hasn't happened before. The danger is that a deadly precedent has been set. For example, _any_ fashion designer who works in fur or leather must now really look over his shoulder, because there might be a PETA freak with a gun coming for him.

Posted by Joe 2002-05-07 17:18:15|| 2002-05-07 17:18:15|| Front Page Top

#2 The "moral equivalence" is envisioned as bringing animals up to the same level as human. Instead it puts humans into the same category as animals. It's a lot easier to kill an animal than it is to kill another person.

Posted by Fred 2002-05-07 20:43:11|| 2002-05-07 20:43:11|| Front Page Top

#3 The first post I made on the second day of my blog concerned how the tactics of radical enviros/animal rights activists would eventually evolve to murder. And that they would find a way to justify it. The "cause" is much more important than any person, especially an infidel.

Posted by CH 2002-05-07 20:52:00|| [crankyhermit.blogspot.com/] 2002-05-07 20:52:00|| Front Page Top

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