The Times (London) ran a horrifying op-ed by Sally Staples about her experience after being targeted by animal rights terrorists in Great Britain who want to shut down Huntingdon Life Sciences.
Staples has no connection at all with HLS. Her crime was that she sat on a residents committee. On that committee with her was a man who worked for a bank that in turn had helped to finance HLS. This sort of association with HLS was enough to cause Staples to be inundated with threats, pornographic magazines, obscene phone calls, and a variety of other harassment techniques.
Staples writes,
For the past two months I have been bombarded with obscene phone calls, threatening and abusive mail and rape threats. Pornography, fetish magazines and even a Haitian voodoo curse have come rattling through my letterbox.
Yes, you read that correctly, a voodoo curse. Staples writes that the curse came on a photocopied piece of paper saying, “Whilst in Haiti a voodoo spell was cast upon you. You will soon feel the effects of it. The spell will be lifted when your involvement in HLS ceases. Do not underestimate this warning.”
Staples reports that many of the people who served with her on the residents committee received letters claiming their spouses were having affairs. One received “a stack of paedophile literature sent to his address” (exactly what are activists doing when they’re not worrying about the suffering of animals?)
Staples urges readers not to donate to the terrorist behind such acts,
Next time you are out shopping in your high street and see one of those trestle tables covered in gut-wrenching pictures of suffering animals, look closely at the people seeking your support. They may seem well-intentioned and caring, they may be eloquent in their arguments . . . But before you open your wallet, remember that money donated to this cause is often spent on promoting terrorism against people like me . . .
Animal rights activists keep claiming that their terrorism efforts are in the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi. Funny, I don’t remember King or Gandhi urging followers to send pornographic magazines and paedophile literature to his opponents.
Source:
Terror behind the trestle tables. Sally Staples, The Times (London), January 24, 2002.