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Animal rights terrorists and their defenders usually try to argue they’re only concerned with damaging property to stop experiments or registering their moral outrage, but a recent release from |Stop Quintiles' Animal Tests| (SQAT), reveals the true motives behind the activists ‘direction action.’
The release described a recent protest at |Quintiles|, a laboratory that conducts experiments on animals. Fourteen activists showed up to harass Quintiles employees as they were leaving work. According to SQAT’s press release, employees "were forced to run a gauntlet of shouting protesters … and several cars belonging to Quintiles staff were chase up the road by irate demonstrators."
And the goal of this protest – to instill a sense of terror and fear into the researchers.
Fear was evident on the faces of many of the workers, both inside the lab and as they were leaving, and several cowered in their cars in response to the verbal onslaught. Those who cause fear and terror to innocent creatures had been forced, in some small degree, to experience those feelings themselves."
Rhetoric almost identical to the pro-life movement’s strategy of intimidating abortion providers and their clients.