THE WAR ON TERROR
Despite condemning a group of animal rights fanatics ‘terrorists’, a judge has refused to grant the victims of that terrorism an order for a 25 mile exclusion zone, which would have kept those terrorists away from the affected locality.
Instead, the judge said that he would give the terrorists one last chance.
This is despite a long campaign against the Halls, who had run a guinea pig farm. The local residents had also been affected and targeted. This included graffiti, night-time use of loudhailers, hoax bombs, cars being damaged, bricks thrown through windows, firebomb attacks, smear campaigns and cut telephone and electricity lines.
Most depraved of all, the corpse of Gladys Hammond had been dug up from her grave and stolen. The body has not been returned and is still missing.
The judge granted an injunction which would allow protests to continue on Sundays only, between 12pm and 3pm.
One of the terrorists, John Curtin, had previously been convicted for trying to dig up the body of the Duke of Beaufort. This had been an anti-hunt protest. Another, Mel Broughton was jailed for 4 years in 1997 for trying to smuggle incendiary bombs into an animal testing facility. Another, Kerry Whitburn, is a full-time activist and has been jailed several times.
One wonders what kind of a track record it will take before a judge understands that these terrorists will not stop.
Instead, the judge said that he would give the terrorists one last chance.
This is despite a long campaign against the Halls, who had run a guinea pig farm. The local residents had also been affected and targeted. This included graffiti, night-time use of loudhailers, hoax bombs, cars being damaged, bricks thrown through windows, firebomb attacks, smear campaigns and cut telephone and electricity lines.
Most depraved of all, the corpse of Gladys Hammond had been dug up from her grave and stolen. The body has not been returned and is still missing.
The judge granted an injunction which would allow protests to continue on Sundays only, between 12pm and 3pm.
One of the terrorists, John Curtin, had previously been convicted for trying to dig up the body of the Duke of Beaufort. This had been an anti-hunt protest. Another, Mel Broughton was jailed for 4 years in 1997 for trying to smuggle incendiary bombs into an animal testing facility. Another, Kerry Whitburn, is a full-time activist and has been jailed several times.
One wonders what kind of a track record it will take before a judge understands that these terrorists will not stop.
posted by erc @ 11:59 pm
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