HLS Protest

[Guest guest]

For almost the past week I have been here. I have been here reading

e-mails, answering telephone calls, and aiding activists financially,

and doing what ever I can do to help them. This past week I have

recieved many bad e-mails regarding the e-mail that I sent out on Monday,

October 29, 2001. Although I have only responded to one or two, I have

read all of them with a sad eye.

I have been called a traitor, a scum bag, and a horrible person. People

feel that I have betrayed the animal rights movement, a movement that if

I could save animals would die for. How I am a traitor I have not yet

figured out. But more and more people are saying it and I need to address

this.

Although I cannot apologize for my letter because I believe that direct

action is not the way to go, I do feel that calling fellow activists

"terrorists" was harsh. Over 500 animal die every day in HLS factories,

factories that need to be shut down, and a practice that needs to be

abolished because of its inreliabilty, and inhumaneness.

Animal exploitations needs to end, but us causing violence will not solve

our problems. Violence will not solve the wolds problems, and we need to

grow and understand that not everything will go perfectly.

The United States is a great country. We have our Constitution, we have our

Bill of Rights, and we have our right to freedom. A freedom that we have

because we want it. We are entitled to it. If you want that freedom, you

need to have the patience, you need to understand that you can’t have

everything right away, and you need to work for what you want.

If you want those animals out of HLS labs, if you want those animals out

of circuses, fur farms, slaughterhouses, and anywhere else that animals

are enslaved, then you need to work for it. You cannot go out and threaten

anyone. You cannot try to prove to the world that we will get what we want,

or we will reak havic in to everyday life.

We shouldn't threaten with violence, words, or any other unacceptable manner.

It’s unappropriate, and immature. We cannot spend our entire lives

encouraging compassion towards all living creatures, saying that the

things that are happening inside of slaughterhouses is uncompasionate and

inhumane, an then turn around and harrass employees and break down barriers

that are on public property.

Even though I wasn’t there, and don’t have much room to talk, I know what

happend. I know that there was suprisingly unbiased news coverage of why

people are protesting the HLS. After the protest, the message was lost. The

only thing that was covered in the news was the fight the protesters put

and the disrespect they had towards the the police.

I made all the e-mails that were sent to me availible online through the LAA Website. You can see these e-mails by visiting http://www.loveallanimals.com/pm.html

 

 

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