Negotiation Is Over!

On May 2, 2012 we have an opportunity to use all the publicity surrounding my trial for the benefit of the animals.

The enemy has given us a gift! It’s our duty to exploit it.

This fight is in honor of Queenie!

Wednesday, May 2, 2012: 12 – 2 pm

Coleman A. Young Municipal Center
2 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, MI 48226

by Camille Marino

I have been deeply troubled that all of the energy being focused on my court case threatens to divert attention from the animals if we do not use it effectively. I am humbled by the dedication and loyalty of my immediate team and overwhelmed by the outpouring of love from our extended community. But I want everyone to understand that the most meaningful way in which anyone can support me is to liberate animals wherever we can, take on their tormentors personally, initiate aggressive and targeted local grassroots campaigns, and adopt an attitude of defiance in the face of the enemy. This is about the animals, not me. Let’s use my trial to shift the attention back to them where it belongs…

Great effort has gone into redirecting the publicity surrounding my case into raising awareness for the animals. A vivisection campaign has been launched against Wayne State University and an open records request has been filed to obtain the vet records of a given “researcher” who experiments on dogs.  On May 2 this initiative will move to the streets outside the Detroit courthouse.

The Trial

The vivisector whom we all know at WSU was granted a Personal Protection Order (PPO) by the Michigan Courts in October of last year to compel me to remove his information from NIO. I am charged with 3 counts of criminal contempt for allegedly failing to comply. My trial will begin at 1:30 pm on May 2. I have not entered a plea on the charges because we hold that the underlying PPO is invalid on the grounds that:

1. Michigan has no jurisdiction over me; and,
2. the material in question is constitutionally-protected speech.

So, while we have filed an appeal to challenge a previous ruling on jurisdiction, on May 2 we will argue First Amendment issues and that there was no “true threat.” Therefore, the PPO is invalid.

The Demonstration

I was surprised by the media attention this case got when I appeared in the Detroit court after my extradition. And we suspect there will be even more coverage when we go back to court next month. The nameless vivisector at Wayne State has done an extraordinary job of facilitating a smear campaign against me and, simultaneously, raising my public profile tremendously. So now it’s up to all of us to exploit his efforts to advance our agenda.

Activists have been focused on implementing a strategic long-term campaign against WSU. On May 2, NIO Michigan intends to seize control of all the media attention the “researcher” in question has generated for us and redirect the publicity squarely back at him and the animals that die at his hands. Please go the the event page and hit the street in Detroit with us!

NIO Florida and NIO Michigan urge activists everywhere to take on your local university. We will support your efforts.

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by Rick Bogle (Primate Freedom)

It wasn’t a coincidence that the smash TV hit The Sopranos was set in New Jersey; the state has a reputation for being a home base to organized crime. This might explain why the New Jersey Association for Biomedical Research (NJABR)says that filing a formal complaint with law enforcement officials or the court is the same as throwing a rock through a window. Having to obey the law posses serious risks to vivisectionists the New Jersey front group claims. Corruption is deeply ingrained in New Jersey’s culture; NJABR’s worry about getting caught breaking the law is understandable.

A little less understandable is the group’s subtle undermining of the taxpayer dollar gravy train’s regular stops at places like Rutgers and Seton Hall. Surely they strongly support — without question or consideration — taxpayer support of the cocaine and alcohol addiction research on animals at those institutions. Surely they would say this is important research because of the effects on the people who are addicted. Surely.

But they use such people as bugaboos; who else would break into an empty building and squat there, turn it into a garbage dump, and then burn it down? Odd. Surely they think such people ought to be helped? Or maybe they just want the vivisectors hurting and killing rats in the name of helping such people to keep getting their millions of dollars. Who knows, but it reminds me of some scam being run by the Mob.

Anyway, read the document below, part of their Animal Research at a Crossroads fear campaign. It’s reproduced here in more or less the same form as it appears on the group’s website. Clearly, they are freaked out, and believe that everyone else in the industry will be too after hearing that wild-eyed animal rights activists have had the gall to ask law enforcement officials to intervene to stop criminal animal cruelty. What’s next, limits on what they can do to animals?

You pass a building with a broken window Do you notice? Probably not.

The window is not repaired and a few more are broken. Do you notice? Possibly.

Squatters break into the abandoned building. Garbage collects. Decay sets in. Maybe a fire breaks out, and soon the entire neighborhood is threatened. Everyone starts to pay attention, but is it too late?

For far too long animal rights activists have been throwing rocks at our windows. As a community, we cannot afford to wait for the building to burn down before we begin to pay attention. As a united community, we need to craft a national strategy to confront the many threats to our future research capabilities.

Here are a few of the legal challenges we must pay attention to:

• In July, four employees of now-­defunct Professional Laboratory and Research Services Inc. in North Carolina were indicted on felony animal-­cruelty indictments by a grand jury in Gates County, N.C. The charges follow the release of a videotape provided by an undercover worker from Norfolk-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals that showed animals being hit, kicked and thrown. PETA lab investigator Kathy Guillermo called it a groundbreaking case for animal rights and the first she is aware of where research lab workers have been charged with felony animal cruelty.
• In a legal complaint sent to a Hinds County prosecutor, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) requested that authorities investigate the University of Mississippi Medical Center for alleged violations of the state animal cruelty statute and “take steps to prevent further violations of Mississippi law.” PCRM has previously filed similar complaints against Johns Hopkins University, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital and Baystate Medical Center.
• PETA and Alliance for Animals (AFA) recently sent a letter to Dane County Wisconsin’s district attorney requesting University of Wisconsin-­Madison researchers be charged with criminal animal cruelty for allegedly violating a state law against “instigating fights between animals.” At issue are experiments by a team of UW-­Madison scientists involving aggression in mice.

What can we learn from these cases?

First, we all need to pay attention. Second, we are all in this together and need to be aware of attacks and tactics that have potential to affect any part of our community. Remember: collaboration and improved communication are essential components of a strong biomedical research community.

The New Jersey Association for Biomedical Research (NJABR) is your window on the world of animal activism. We monitor the media; we analyze the trends; we connect the dots. We are here for you. Let us know what you need.

Jayne Mackta, President Tel. 908.228-­2203; E-­mail: [email protected]

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