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Titolo: Frontline:The A.L.F. Steps Up Anti-Fur Campaign (US)

   Frontline Information Service   -   News 8/16/99
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The A.L.F. Steps Up Anti-Fur Campaign
More raids, firebombings to come, group says
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Aug. 16, 1999
By BRIAN HANSEN
Colorado Daily Staff Writer
The Animal Liberation Front last week claimed responsibility for
raiding two Wisconsin mink-breeding facilities and for firebombing a
third, and warned that there will be "more to come" in its guerilla
campaign to shut down the "blood-soaked" fur business.
The ALF, an underground organization dedicated to abolishing what it
terms the "animal abuse industry," made the pronouncements in a series
of e-mail communiques forwarded to the Colorado Daily via an anonymous
Internet remailer.
"We will not stop or be stopped until every cage is opened and every
oppressed creature is free," declared an Aug. 10 communique. "1999
will be a crippling year for this blood-soaked industry."
The recent spate of alleged ALF actions began on Aug. 3, when
approximately 3,000 mink were released from a Bristol, Wis., farm
owned by Richard Krieger. On Aug. 7, the ALF claimed responsibility
for the raid.
"The conditions on Kriegers death camp were the worst we had ever
seen," stated the communique. "Throughout the farm there were open
ditches full of feces and urine. In several cages, we saw the
decomposing corpses of dead mink."
According to the ALF, Kriegers farm was targeted, in part, because it
allegedly supplies mink pelts to retail furrier Neiman Marcus.
"It appears that Neiman Marcus is allied with Krieger and his fellow
murderous farmers in their love of profits and greed over Life and
Freedom," declared the ALF communique.
ALF activists claim they destroyed most of Kriegers breeding records,
thereby significantly increasing the economic damage inflicted by the
raid.
Less than a week after the raid on Kriegers farm, the ALF allegedly
struck again  this time in a brazen two-pronged attack.
In the pre-dawn hours of Aug. 8, some 2,000 mink were released from a
Plymouth, Wis., farm owned by Gene Myers. That same morning in nearby
Greenbush, Wis., a warehouse owned by United Feeds, Inc.  which was
allegedly used to manufacture and store feed for fur farms  was burned
to the ground.
On Aug. 10, the ALF claimed responsibility for both actions.
"Once we had finished sweeping (Meyers) farm, we headed off to United
Feeds," the communique stated. "We entered the building and checked
from top to bottom to ensure that no living thing was inside. Four
incendiaries were strategically placed throughout the building,
ensuring that it would burn to the ground."
The property value of feed mill, which was completely destroyed by the
blaze, easily exceeded $1.5 million, said ALF spokesman David Barbarash.
Barbarash, who spent time in a Canadian prison for taking part in a
1992 assault against a University of Alberta animal research
laboratory, called the Wisconsin raids "highly successful actions."
"The owner of the Plymouth fur farm stated on television that hes
ready to close his business," Barbarash said.
Rod Coronado, who spent nearly four years in prison for taking part in
a 1992 firebombing of an animal research laboratory at Michigan State
University, said the ALFs direct-action campaign forces fur farmers to
spend more money on security. More importantly, he said, banks have
become wary about extending loans to anyone involved with the "high
risk" fur farm industry.
"Its a sign of the effectiveness of the strategy," Coronado said.
Coronado and Barbarash both said that the actions of the ALF are
widely misunderstood.
"We dont view what the ALF does as terrorism  we view what the fur
farmers are doing as terrorism," Barbarash said. "Anal electrocutions,
neck breaking, gassing  if those arent forms of terrorism, I dont know
what is."
Barbarash said that the firebombing of the Greenbush warehouse last
week as well as the torching of the Vail ski area last year  were both
"non-violent acts."
"The ALF believes that destruction of property is not a violent
activity," he said. "The lives of animals are far more valuable than
the property of animal abusers."
Last October, a group calling itself the Earth Liberation Front
claimed responsibility for firebombing the Vail ski area.
Coronado said that while neither the ALF nor the ELF have any central
leadership or hierarchical structure, there are some commonalities
between the two movements.
"The ALF and the ELF are really fighting the same enemy," he said.
"Typically, the animal abusers are the same people as the environment
destroyers."
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Perdona la mia grande ignoranza Giovanni, ma potresti darmi una breve
traduzione dell'allegato di cui scrivi?
Scusa ma l'inglese lo parlo poco poco ;-))
Ciao e grazie
Daniele a famiglia pelosa

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