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| Saturday, June 30, 2007
LOS ANGELES - A group of animal rights activists representing several grassroots groups from Los Angeles and Orange Counties convened for mobile demonstrations against four of UCLA's most notorious primate vivisectors.The university squanders $200 million taxpayer dollars every year to addict monkeys to crystal meth and investigate such commonplace and self-limiting conditions as strabismus (also known as "crossed eyes" or "lazy eye." )The results of testing on one species cannot be extrapolated to another, and vivisection remains an archaic, barbaric and unreliable practice persisting in the 21st Century despite innumerable modern non-animal testing methodologies much more humane and accurate. First, the activists visited the neighborhood of Arthur Rosenbaum - recent target of the Animal Liberation Brigade who claimed in an anonymous communiqué to have set alight an incendiary device under the vivisector's fancy BMW. The police contend that the mechanism did not ignite. What is known, however, is that Rosenbaum likes to restrain fully conscious, unanaesthetized monkeys; glue muscle force transducers (MFT's) to their eyes; paralyze the lateral rectus muscle by injecting the drug Botox; and then stimulate it with electrodes in a misguided and demonic attempt to study strabismus. One of the protesters made sure that Rosenbaum's neighbors - and the millions of listeners of KFI 640 AM Talk Radio, who did an extensive interview with her - knew that she had been born 60 years ago with strabismus for which a simple operation at age four shortened the affected muscle, realigned the eye and conferred normal appearance and function. Because of the respects paid to Arthur Rosenbaum by the ALB (the Animal Liberation Brigade,) police presence was unusually heavy - including members of the LAPD Arson Unit. They videotaped activists through telephoto lenses. Unperturbed, above-ground and legal demonstrators continued about their business of making Arthur's neighbors aware that a monster reminiscent of Nazi Germany's Dr. Mengele was squarely in their midst and using NIH grant money (paid for by taxpayer dollars) to perform his immoral and fraudulent experiments. Feeding at the troughs of the government grant gravy train, Arthur lives in the lap of luxury in a multi-million-dollar home in the heart of Los Angeles, next to Westwood and the campus of UCLA. Torturing animals and retarding true progress in human medicine pays the big bucks, and Arthur and his fellows are puttin' on the Ritz while primates endure horrific procedures and brutal deaths at the hands of people who don white lab coats and masquerade as "scientists" looking to cure methamphetamine addiction and strabismus. And, as stated, they already knew what to do about strabismus (usually a self limiting impairment anyway) over 60 years ago. Next, it was off to Chancellor Norman Abram's house. Eternal shame on a Jew who likely had relatives and friends murdered in Hitler's gas chambers and who now fully supports and defends another holocaust against a group of equally defenseless and undeserving beings. Ensconced within the recesses of the protective womb of his fancy home, he shouts at the activists to "leave him alone." One wonders if the primates inside the UCLA laboratories might not do the same were they able! Ah, the psychopaths of the world are always so cocky and unmerciful toward their hapless victims - but so cowardly and whining when called on the carpet for their evildoing by outraged citizens. Off to the neighborhood of Joaquin Fuster. He has to be in his seventies or eighties by now - and still vivisecting! No immediate plans for retirement, apparently. Psychopathy manifests itself in early childhood and is a lifelong, irremediable malady. If only the vivisectors would find a cure for that ailment, the world would definitely be a kinder place! But they would be unable to use "animal models" of the disease - it seems to be species-specific to humans. They would have to do clinical studies on people naturally exhibiting the condition, like George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Alberto Gonzales - or any of their fulsome fellows at UCLA. Some teenagers who exited their homes near Fuster's house were very interested in their neighbor; and an activist gave them three DVD's showing what goes on inside primate labs which they promised to share with all their friends and neighbors! Captain Adams with the University Police Department kept implying that protestors would be arrested if they used their bullhorns - yet, when he was pinned down with a demand for a definitive answer to the question, "Is it legal or not to use amplified sound?" he refused to answer and would walk away! He was clearly attempting either to allow protestors to believe that such citations and arrests would be forthcoming and thus chill their freedom of speech - or trick them into believing that it was permissible to employ amplified sound and so afford a valid reason to issue such citations or make said arrests. Activists and their legal representative were unsuccessful in getting through to the LAPD Watch Commander. They used their voices to chant and will find out before their next protest exactly what the situation is. They have always used amplified sound in Los Angeles without incident. The legal observer present, stated that he would set up a meeting with Adams' supervisor to discuss this attempt to chill activists freedom of speech and to demand that activists are allowed to exercise their constitutional rights during legal pickets. We will let you know any updates.
Finally, the band of picketers set sail for the neighborhood of Nelson Freimer - the vivisector who individuals at UCLA tell us, gets his kicks depriving primates of water. Knowing that made it particularly ironic and poignantly tragic to witness the delivery of boxloads of bottles of fresh, cold alpine water to the dozen or so police officers stationed in Nels' yard, on his porch, around the block, and in the alley. A teenage looking male dressed in a SMPD uniform, held a noise calibrator to measure the sound output of animal rights activists who have the audacity (imagine!) to speak up for tortured and murdered animals inside the limits of their fine city. Because the noise ordinance in Santa Monica disallows ambient sound greater than 65 decibels (db), activists were obliged to march silently past Nels' home. The screams of the animals in UCLA's labs are guaranteed to be way above the 65 db limit the SMPD has placed on the activists. The neighbors there - and at all the venues - were well aware of the demonstrators' presence however, and emerged from their homes to ask for information and discuss the issues. Since there is no focused picketing law in Santa Monica, activists did a"sit-in" in front of Freimer's home. Always that one neighbor to taunt protestors and reveal an ugly soul with no concern for anyone or anything but himself, a resident approached the demonstrators to quarrel about their presence and avow that Freimer was doing lifesaving work for the benefit of humanity. One activists pointed out that it was a very hot day (in the nineties) and speculated that the provocateur might be thirsty and planning to pour himself a nice glass of cold water or iced tea upon re-entering his house. She then informed him that Freimer deprives primates of water in his lab. He was effectively silenced at that point and shuffled off in ignominious defeat. The sit in was incredibly effective and activists sat in front of Freimers home for over an hour. |
