Word: razors
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...comes as little surprise that a group of animal rights activists is getting violent--this time mailing razor blades in letters to medical researchers. We have been very fortunate in the United States to have experienced so little violence and terrorism by the animal liberation movement. In Great Britain, where animal rights violence has become commonplace, there have been dozens of incidents annually in recent years: mail and car bombings, razor letters, arsons and violent home demonstrations...
What is surprising is that the leader of the largest "non-violent" animal rights organization in the U.S. should step forward and applaud these latest mailings. Commenting on the razor letters, Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), said, "I hope it frightens [the scientists] out of their careers...
Last week, an animal rights organization calling itself Justice Department sent six Harvard Medical School researchers razor blades and threatening letters in the mail. This startling disturbance to Harvard's well-respected research community reminds us how frightening it can be when activists resort to violence...
Altering the public mindset about an issue as controversial as animal rights is best achieved through education, negotiation and extensive lobbying. To resort to such threatening and petty acts as sending razor blades via the mail is to undermine a group's credibility as a purveyor of information and as a vehicle for change...
...WHEN LETTER WRITERS ATTACK: Razor-edged vituperation may not add to enlightened discourse, but it has its pleasures--when you're not on the receiving end, at least. Our readers get wrathful at outspoken supporters of controversial politics, such as Lisa Bochard [NATION, May 24], shown with her M-16, whose recommendation that "teachers should be encouraged to have guns" earned the animus of 52: "When I read that, I had to scream." "Bochard's pathological relationship with her weapon makes me hope there are no little children who call her Mommy." "Pistol-packing pedagogues can teach the four...