Animal "Rights" Organization Ignores Restraining Order

Animal rights "activists" in Los Angeles are still resorting to terror tactics - and apparently remain in violation of a court order issued February 21 in LA County Superior Court with a recent posting to their web site (see image captured February 22, 2008 at 6:32 a.m. Central time). The name and address of the scientist has been removed to protect her identity.

The Animal Liberation Front, the UCLA Primate Freedom Project, and the Animal Liberation Brigade were ordered by Superior Court Judge Gerald Rosenberg to remove all names, contact information, and addresses of researchers who claim members of the three organizations have been involved in "a campaign of terrorism, vandalism and menacing threats directed at faculty and administrators who conduct or support research involving laboratory animals."

Apparently Judge Rosenberg's temporary restraining order is not being taken seriously by this organization which the FBI considers a domestic terrorism threat. According to the Los Angeles Times, Vlasak doesn't see the court order having any impact on the terror campaign the ALF has mounted against researchers, furriers and butcher shops across the country.

The Animal Liberation Front's website bore this terrifying, anonymous message from someone claiming to have left an incendiary device at the home of one UCLA researcher on February 3, 2008. The messages bears an ominous and threatening tone stating "As each day begins and nothing that you own is burning consider yourself lucky." The message also says "We know what we are doing and fires can be much larger."

The UCLA Primate Freedom Project's web site still bears the name and address of the same researcher, as well as a second scientist, as of 6:55 a.m. Central time today.

In addition to the three organizations named, the lawsuit names five individuals were ordered to stay at least 50 feet away from UCLA researchers. Those individuals are Linda Faith Greene, Hillary Roney, Kevin Olliff, Ramin Saber and Tim Rusmisel.

The Los Angeles Times and the ALF web site identify the lead "press officer" for the as Jerry Vlasak, a surgeon with ties to hospitals in the Riverside and San Bernadino areas, and apparently with privileges at the Loma Linda University Hospital. Vlasak maintains an office at 5699 Kanan Rd, #253, Agoura Hills, CA 91301. A call to Vlasak for comment was not immediately returned.

The U.S. Senate has Vlasak and the organization he fronts in its sights, quoting Vlasak saying it is "morally justifiable" to kill people.

Vlasak is quoted by the Center for Consumer Freedom as saying at the Animal Rights 2004 conference as advocating violence against animal researchers, which Vlasak later claimed to the Los Angeles Times as taken out of context. The government of the United Kingdom has banned Vlasak from entering any portion of that country, saying his presence "would not be conducive to the public good."

The FBI has identified the Animal Liberation Front, which publicly advocates violence to advance its aim of discontinuing the use of lab animals in research, as a top domestic terrorism threat. UCLA, the FBI, and a variety of other law enforcement organizations are offering a reward of $170,000 for information leading to arrest and conviction of those involved in the various fire bombing attempts.

Anyone with information should contact the FBI field office at (310) 477-6565.