Animal Rights Terrorism Is Real

Long time Animal Liberation Front (ALF) activists Joseph Buddenberg and Nicole Kissane were arrested last week and charged with a long term cross country crime spree in 2013 that saw them attacking numerous animal related businesses and causing the death of hundreds of animals. It’s funny how so many people believe that animal rights will provide better lives for animals. All you have to do is follow the trail of dead animals to realize that “animal rights” means nothing of the kind, it is a movement that simply provides a moral cover to criminals. According to the federal indictment, the unemployed animal rights activists traveled more than 4,000 miles in the summer of 2013 alone to attack their victims, driving from Oregon to California to Montana, Iowa and beyond to commit their crimes. Proud of their actions and utterly unrepentant, they released “communiqués” to boast about what they had done. While on the run, using paint stripper, butyric and muriatic acid, bolt cutters, and lists of victims to attack and maps of the areas, they attacked stores in San Diego, Spring Valley, and La Mesa, and multiple locations in the San Francisco Bay area of California and later in Minnesota. In Montana, they attacked a farm , stole a bobcat and released it into the wild. The next day, they vandalized the Darby Chief of Police’s cars. They continued their spree by attacking farms in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Pennsylvania. The farmers suffered damages estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars. Both activists are now facing a federal charge of violating the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA), a law focused specifically on the animal rights terrorist front. This is the second time that Buddenberg has been charged with violating AETA. He and three fellow activists were able to beat charges in 2010 and continued their crime wave. They were defended by the left leaning social justice organization called the Center for Constitutional Rights who claimed that these violent thugs were simply exercising their free speech rights under the First Amendment. Besides attacking fur stores and farmers, both are accused of attacking meat businesses and medical researchers.