Activist telling UCLA police detective what Rosenbaum does to primates.
LOS ANGELES - Animal rights activists convened for a series of legal pickets, availing themselves of their civil liberties to obtain redress of grievances for which the framers of our Constitution and supreme court justices have upheld for over three hundred years. Not surprisingly, UCLA with their money and hubris, believe they are above the law and are doing everything in their power to silence activists from exposing what happens to primates being tortured behind the cinderblock walls of UCLA laboratories.
UCLA addicts monkeys to crystal meth and nicotine. Instead of using the multiple hundreds of millions it receives in grant money to identify, evaluate and address the psychodynamic and socioeconomic contributors to substance abuse and to intervene before populations at risk flirt with ruinous and life-altering decisions, it tortures with forced artificial addiction a species with no inclination towards self-intoxication and no ability to communicate their agony inside the lab.

We've known for decades that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer. And while we harbor no love for the tobacco companies and can still feel sorry for people who make foolish lifestyle choices, the fact remains that smoking is a voluntary activity whose perils have long been fully documented and exposed. Why should primates have to suffer the miseries of having liquid nicotine injected into their veins and coerced to be dependant on cigarettes because human beings engage in self-destructive behaviors unique to our species?

Another of UCLA's ongoing "studies" is its attempt to simulate strabismus - "crossed" eye - a largely self-limiting condition for which a simple and successful operation was known and practiced at least six decades ago. UCLA injects the paralytic drug Botox into the ocular musculature of primates whose heads are held in draconian restraining devices for the procedure and adheres metal coils (electronic force transducers) to their sclerae in a vapid, cruel, and medically worthless endeavor to replicate a common condition whose correction basically involves the shortening and tightening of the affected muscles. This draws the eye back into natural position and confers normal appearance and function. One of the activists participating in the demonstrations was born with strabismus - easily remedied at the age of four, fifty-seven years ago.

UCLA recently applied for and was awarded a TRO (temporary restraining order) against five outsoken and vociferous but legal activists who are wont to air its dirty laundry to the neighbors of the vivisectors carrying out the above-named primate experiments. Because UCLA is frustrated by the underground activity that has been directed at some of its vivisectors, it is harassing and punishing above-ground legal activists who have no connection to or ability to control illegal direct action and who make every effort to demonstrate - openly and publicly - within the confines of all municipal, state, and federal laws. Those targeted by the unlawful and unconstitutional TRO in a shameful attempt to abridge their First Amendment rights are admittedly loud, boisterous, and occasionally inclined to employ some off-color vocabulary, but such clearly fall within the realm of protected free speech activities.

Without further preamble, let's get on to the pickets! The first stop was Joaquin Fuster - at 2440 La Pesquera in West Los Angeles - a career primate vivisector long past retirement age who just can't bear to give up his favorite psychopathic and lucrative pastime of torturing monkeys to death in his vivisection lab. By marching around the block; reciting the customary vivisection chants; and speaking on the issues, activists informed local residents of Whacky Joaquin's penchant to torment primates for a living at UCLA.

Vivisection is both an animal rights and a human rights concern. The results of testing on animals cannot be extrapolated among species with better than 5%-25% accuracy. (Note that simply tossing a coin would yield 50% reliability and spare the animals.) The 130,000 people who suffered adverse cardiac events from the diabetes drug Avandia - tested "safe" in animals - is a salient case in point. (Conversely, how many drugs tested "unsafe" in animals and consequently discarded and never marketed might prove of immense benefit to humans?)

Next up was the neighborhood of Edythe London - at 1249 Shady Brook Lane in Beverly Hills. Since her father succumbed to lung cancer from volitional tobacco abuse, Egregious Edythe addicts monkeys to nicotine. (At one point in her illustrious vivisection career, she was even involved in addicting lambs to cocaine!) A child of Holocaust survivors, she doesn't grasp the megalithic incongruence therein of imprisoning, torturing, and murdering innocent sentient beings unable to defend themselves against a mindset and behavior no different from those of Adolph Hitler.

For how long have we been aware that cigarette smoking induces chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) - a combination of emphysema and chronic bronchitis - and lung cancer? UCLA accepted 7.6 million dollars from Phillip Morris to conduct her "study." After months of demonstrations exposing this and other issues which UCLA tries so hard to keep underwraps, UCLA announced that it would no longer accept funding from the tobacco giant after it was slammed in a Los Angeles Times article about the patent conflict of interest. In that same article, Vice Chancellor of Research Roberto Peccei stated tellingly and unabashedly that UCLA does not bother itself about what its funders do afterwards with the research data. So, unless Phillip Morris is planning to sell cigarettes to monkeys, we can only assume its motives are to learn how to make its product more attractive and addictive - especially to "hook" vulnerable adolescent consumers.

Off to the neighborhood of Arthur Rosenbaum - 465 Loring Avenue in West Los Angeles - the vivisector who studies strabismus. Activists marched around the block, letting the neighbors know how Atrocious Arthur spends their hard-earned taxpayer dollars causing pain and death to blameless and helpless monkeys. Chanting, "For every primate who suffers and dies, we refuse to close our eyes!" activists made their feelings known about what Arthur does for a living and to pay the mortgage on his fancy home purchased with the blood of tortured animals.

Then, completely without warning, two of the activists named as defendants in the TRO - and who had been making every good faith effort to abide by their TRO by marching across the street at all protest locations - were arrested for allegedly violating one of its conditions! Taken into custody on the UCLA campus and not given the information for which they repeatedly asked as to how they violated the TRO (both were utterly dumbfounded by the charge), they were later released on their own recognizance (OR) and ordered to appear in court in late April. The TRO mandates a 50-foot distance between the protesters and "home" of the 'target' (for lack of a better term). If, indeed, such breach occurred, it was patently unknowing and unintentional - and the decent thing for the police to do would have been simply to advise the demonstrators who would have happily and immediately rectified any alleged inadvertent and unwitting discrepancy.

But, it turns out that the two did NOT violate their temporary restraining order conditions. After the arrests, the other activists went back to the home of Edythe London (where the violation was said to have occurred) and measured with a tape measure the distance from the home to where the two activists marched. It was FIFTY NINE FEET; nine feet MORE then the condition of said TRO!

If it's true what they say, "You can gauge your effectiveness by measuring your oppositions response to your actions," activists in LA must be doing something right! The more repression reigned down upon you by the oppressor, the more certainly you are on the right track!"