Sick Michael Vick is No Ecoterrorist

Say what you will about the vicious, cruel, animal torturer Michael Vick, he never (as far as we know) tried to poison consumer products, nor claimed to. Animal rights groups are rightly upset with Mr. Vick and others of his sadistic ilk. But some of those animal rights folks might want to look inward to their own fellow activists, such as a group of ecoterrorists that call themselves, unimaginatively, "The Animal Rights Group." According to September 6 article at Le Figaro's English web edition: The Paris Criminal Brigade is working flat out to trace those who may have contaminated liquid used for contact lenses, as revealed last Friday [31 August]. The Animal Rights Group claimed it had carried out such action on Bite Back, an Internet site based in the United States. "Over the last five days, over 250 bottles and tubes of the antiseptic product Savlon from Novartis have been tampered with," the group claimed on the Internet last week. The justification it gave was cause for concern: "We do not want to kill any living beings like Novartis, but the side effects and the inevitable hospital stay will give people an idea of what Novartis pays for inside Huntingdon Life Sciences," they wrote. Huntington Life Sciences is one of the laboratories that carries out experiments on animals. This short but interesting article also addresses non-animal-rights terrorists that have, or have attempted to, poison humans by tampering with consumer products: The poisoning of consumer products is something that haunts anti-terrorism experts in France. And one should not be surprised that the threats issued by this small English group were immediately described by the specialist magistrates as "ecoterrorism." In one Islamism case relating to Chechen networks, police had discovered that a group was seeking to use ricin to kill "non-believers." "Poisoning is an obsession for some people," said one judge who follows antiterrorist issues very carefully. Among members of radical networks who left for Afghanistan several claimed to have received personal training in poisoning, using their dogs for testing purposes. FULL ARTICLE...