Over 1,200 Mink Released at Farm in Rural Jewell, Ia (considered an act of domestic terrorism)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.animalliberationpressoffice.org/

October 7, 2011
By Pat Powers,
KQWC, Webster City

Officials in northcentral Iowa are investigating vandalism at a mink farm. The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a report of an incident early this morning in which several mink cages at a rural Jewell residence were opened.

Approximately 1,200 to 1,500 mink were released from those cages. Unknown persons opened pens in several buildings and let the mink loose. The sheriff’s office is being assisted by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation and the F.B.I.

Hamilton County sheriff Dennis Hagenson said the release of these animals is considered an act of domestic terrorism.



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[Worship Money]

1. This is a good thing n/t

[Drahthaardogs]

30. No, it is cruel.

Those are caged-raised mink. They have no idea how to survive. Whoever did just ensured that the mink will suffer a long slow death of starvation and exposure to the elements. The lucky few will be eaten quickly by owls and hawks. This is an act of idiocy perpetuated by city people who do not understand agriculture, ethology, or biology.

[DRoseDARs]

2. Sooo, by releasing 1200-1500 carnivorous animals, were they hoping to decimate local bird pops?

Not to mention how many will starve to death or be run over. If you're going to pull a stunt like this, distribute and release the creatures across the breadth of their natural habitat (most of North America), not a small area in rural Iowa. Congratulations on saving these animals from a horrible death and dooming most of them to an equally horrible death.



Edit: Removed an extraneous ' and corrected "them animals" because I speak proper English, damn it.

[MoonRiver]

13. At least they now have a chance.

Some will survive. Some will die. Just as nature intended things to be. When man intervenes against nature horror happens.

[Archae]

17. Sure thing.

No more farm animals.
Let all the cows go!

Let all the hogs go!

These are *DOMESTICATED* animals.

Real life is nothing like Disney's "Bambi."

[DRoseDARs]

19. Not sure of the relative sizes, but possible a mink would have killed and eaten Thumper.

Now imagine 1200-1500 hungry minks surrounding Thumper and his family...

[DRoseDARs]

18. Sooo, fuck all the local fauna that will now fall victim to the appetites of 1200-1500 new preds?

Jesus, does NO ONE try to think these things through? Did NONE of you take even a 100-level natural science course in college?

[MADem]

24. Who, well, fuck like minks, too!!! Don't those things reproduce early and often?

Wonder what will happen with rabies in the area?

The people who did this are not the brightest bulbs on the holiday tree....I feel sorry for people with henhouses.

[NYC Liberal]

25. "Shoot first, ask questions later" - though without the "asking questions" part.

[tama]

27. So

man is not part of nature, but external to nature, with the ability to intervene against nature?

[Drahthaardogs]

31. None of them have a chance.

All these mink know is cage, water dish, food bowl. They have no survival skills. They cannot hunt, do not understand cover, hell...mink live around water. These guys were not even given the luxury of being put near a lake. Stupid people. I hope they all get to experience starving to death just like these mink will.

[Ikonoklast]

37. Man intervening against Nature is how you eat every day.

Even if you grow 100% of your own food, you are changing the local ecology.

[tnlefty]

3. Domestic terrorism..

bullshit.

[tabasco]

4. When I was kid, I let the dogs loose from the dog pound.

Just a wooden shack. Maybe 10 dogs. One of them followed me home and was my best friend for many years.

Come and get me, I'm a terrorist!!

:scared:

[Zorra]

9. My son let a friend's dog out of a dogcatchers truck and he got arrested!

[Angry Dragon]

5. a pretty low bar for domestic terrorism

[Capitalocracy]

23. Time for a drone strike. nt

[Warpy]

6. It likely caused terror in the poor weasels

who have absolutely no idea how to survive in the wild.

[Zorra]

7. Most of them will die very quickly if they were raised in captivity and

are not re-captured.

[Archae]

8. This release from the wacks at ALF ignores the facts here

Those released minks will starve, most of them.

The rest will become easy prey for local predators and scavengers, and a few will be recaptured.
Meanwhile the farmer takes a HUGE financial hit, but to hell with him and his family. :eyes:

The ALF are radical terrorists. No ifs, ands, or buts.
And anytime they actually are arrested, guess who comes up with lots of $$$ for their lawyers and such?
PETA.

While these wacks are nowhere near the level of Al-Qaeda or the right-wing terrorists in the US, they do serious damage to livelihoods, jobs, and have no real idea how much damage they do to local ecosystems.

They got their ideas about nature from watching "Bambi."

[tama]

28. Let's not forget

the way we treat animals that have formed coevolutionary relation with us (domesticated) in industrialized production is terrorism and torture.

And minks and other fur animals for vanity production (mainly for the 1%) are not really domesticated, just captivated.

[AnnieBW]

10. They DO know that their Acronynm is ALPO

Right?

[Archae]

12. Appropriate, I'd say.

Since all they are is the final product of Alpo.

Dogshit.

[MoonRiver]

11. Very happy they are free and won't suffer a horrific death from torture.

k&r

[DRoseDARs]

16. Sooo, you're pleased they'll die of starvation, prey for larger preds, or die as roadkill instead?

These guys were doomed no matter what. Had the dimwits who released them made a least at little effort to plan this intelligently, the creatures might have stood a better chance of surviving.

[RebelOne]

34. At least they have a fighting chance at survival in the wild.

It's better than be trapped in a cage, dragged out and having electric rods shoved up their asses to kill them.

[DRoseDARs]

35. Evidently you haven't read any of the thread or are being purposely obtuse. n/t

[AngkorWot]

14. ALF did this before.

The mink immediately started fighting each other and tore each other to shreds.

The perps trampled over mink on their way out when they panicked.

[RebelOne]

33. They have been doing this for many years. n/t

[-..__...]

15. Yep.. these shit-stains REALLY have their priorities in order...

How they've even managed to survive this long in any society is puzzling to say the least.

Communiqué from the Arson Unit
Date: September 26, 2011
Institution Targeted: Rocky Mountain Firework and Fur Company

Received anonymously:

In the early morning hours of September 26th, a visit was paid to the Rocky Mountain Firework & Fur Company, a shop that (quite foolishly) sells both highly flammable and explosive toys, and the chemically-treated skins of thousands of tortured animals (among some other nasty things, like trapping supplies). A hole was drilled into their storage space, and several gallons of fuel were pumped through, as well as multiple other charges being set beneath an adjoining structure. Ignition devices were set to finish up our work, once we were safely on our way.

By oppressing innocent life, you've lost your rights. We've come to take you down a notch. Stay in business, and we'll be back.


Yours truly,
The Arson Unit

Communiqué from Unnamed Activists
Date: September 14, 2011
Institution Targeted: Various Businesses

Received anonymously:

Midwest, USA -

Hundreds of rodent 'bait traps' have been smashed and destroyed.

These traps contain poison. The traps are manufactured by companies like Orkin, and are usually black or grey in color, and line the perimeters of buildings in every town - outside fast food restaurants, malls, grocery stores, movie theaters, and so on. Some are even hidden in the bushes and designed to look like large stones. All types of businesses have these disgusting traps. They are smashed, and the poison is double bagged and thrown away indoors, to insure that no living being comes into contact with it.

This is an almost riskless, yet effective action. Rodent traps are not cheap - each one costs the business around sixty dollars.
Some businesses have even stopped replacing the traps, rather than deal with the economic costs of having to replace them regularly.

In addition, this saves the lives of the rodents that have to deal with the constant assault of life within industrial civilization. We now routinely see rodents running through the bushes and parking lots.

Communiqué from the Frente de Liberación Animal
Date:September 13, 2011
Institution Targeted: KFC, Unnamed Turtle Captor

Received anonymously:

We claim the following actions in support of Luciano Pitronello :

-Liberation of two turtles that were held in captivity. They were released into a large lake where they can now live freely.
-We sprayed 4 liters of gasoline around a Kentucky Fried Chicken and set it on fire; as we fled, the flames violently spread and motorists turned, surprised by the action.

Animal Liberation Front
Mexico State

Communiqué from the Animal Rights Militia
Date: August 01, 2011
Institution Targeted: California Board Shop

Received anonymously:

July 29 2011. Vandalism at BoardShop. United States, California, Sebastopol

The local boardshop owner is a scumbag who was selling leather shoes at his store. He wouldn't reason with me. I told him to leave town. I put a brick through his front window, smashing his neon sign. GO VEGAN

A.R.M

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[saras]

20. Anyone want to adopt 1500 neurotic weasels? Sell them to jugglers?

When you rescue someone after being tortured for a long time, they can be so damaged that they cannot make a functional life for themselves afterwards. Does this mean that you should leave them to be tortured?

Unless the mink were all insanely hungry and sicced on a trapped crowd, terrorism is a completely unreasonable term, or legal concept, for it. It's vandalism, petty property damage. No more. There may be a stupid law that says otherwise, but writing it into law doesn't stop it from being stupid.

We could use them in my neighborhood if they'd only learn to kill and eat deer. But that would be some scary mink.

[Lizzie Poppet]

21. These people are cretins.

Their self-indulgent bullshit doomed many of those animals to a far slower, more horrible death than they'd have suffered in captivity (although I don't approve of raising them for their fur, either). The lucky ones will get taken by larger predators. The rest will eventually starve...but only after they do untold damage to the local ecosystem. If these morons aren't going to bother to learn the first thing about basic biology and ecology, they should find some other way to feel good about themselves. Pathetic assclowns...

[MrScorpio]

22. Hamilton County is probably going to be roadkill central for the next few days. nt

[SoCalDem]

26. Neighboring coyotes, owls, hawks & eagles will be happy n/t

[B Calm]

29. That is my thoughts too. I raised rabbits a long time ago. It made me

sick to have to butcher them, so I released around 30 of them. Lop Ear bunnies didn't have a chance. Most were killed in the first few days. But one lived for over a year by stealing food from my brothers chicken coop.

[Feron]

32. People releasing non-native animals in the wild is typically...

how invasive species get their start. Florida has this issue with pythons and we have nutria here.

You don't release domesticated animals into the wild ever. Rehome or surrender to a shelter any unwanted domesticated animals. Dumping animals is cruel to the animal and damaging to the ecosystem if the animal survives.

Anyhow animal rights wackaloons like ALF are considered domestic terrorists for actions such as http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/03/MNMI124HSI.DTL">this.

[Liberal_in_LA]

36. run free little mink