| Animal Rights Militia |
Article Index for Animal |
Website Links For Animal Rights |
Information AboutAnimal Rights Militia |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT ANIMAL RIGHTS MILITIA | |
| animal rights movement | |
| animal liberation front | |
|
The Animal Rights Militia (ARM) is a name used by animal-rights activists willing to engage in Direct Action that might endanger human life. __TOC__ DIRECT ACTION ARM first emerged in the UK in 1985 as animal-rights activists shifted their focus away from demonstrations and more on direct action, including violence, intimidation, and the destruction of property. In 1986, ARM claimed responsibility for sending letter bombs to individuals involved in Vivisection , and in 1994, ARM activists set fire to stores on the Isle Of Wight , causing $6 million worth of damage. Barry Horne was subsequently jailed for 18 years for the arson attacks, dying in jail in 2001 during a Hunger Strike . Robin Webb , who runs the Animal Liberation Press Office in the UK, narrowly avoided being charged with conspiracy (Best 2004). ARM came to widespread public attention in the UK in December 1998, during one of Horne's earlier hunger strikes, which lasted 68 days — carried out in protest at the British government's refusal to order a commission of inquiry into Animal Testing — when it threatened to Assassinate a number of individuals involved in vivisection should Horne die. Those threatened were Colin Blakemore , chief executive of the Medical Research Council ; Clive Page of King’s College, London , a professor of Pulmonary Pharmacology and chair of the animal science group of the British Biosciences Federation; Mark Matfield of the Research Defence Society; and Christopher Brown, the owner of Hillgrove Farm in Oxfordshire , who was breeding kittens for laboratories. Webb has implied that ARM and ALF activists, as well as activists from another violent group, the ? Simply put, the third policy of the ALF take all reasonable precautions not to endanger life no longer applies." [http://www.nocompromise.org/issues/22robin.html] GLADYS HAMMOND ARM claimed responsibility for removing from a grave the body of the mother-in-law of Christopher Hall, part-owner of Darley Oaks Farm , which bred guinea pigs for Huntingdon Life Sciences , and which had been the target of an animal-rights campaign called Save The Newchurch Guinea Pigs . Gladys Hammond's body was removed in October 2004 from a churchyard in Yoxall , Staffordshire . ARM also threatened to kill a member of the Hall family or one of their friends if the farm continued to breed guinea pigs. Despite several arrests, no one has been charged, and Hammond's remains have not been recovered. {Link without Title} The farm closed in January 2006. REFERENCES
|
|
|