This is the amazing story of the rise of the most innovative,
efficient and effective animal rights campaign in the world! SHAC!
These are powerful times, with
more at stake than we ever dreamed possible when the campaign against
Huntingdon Life Sciences started. At that time the cycle of closing down breeder
after breeder attracted little government interest and the movement stormed
ahead, closing down Consort Kennels, Hillgrove Farm,
Regal Rabbits and Shamrock Farm in quick succession, businesses that had been
breeding and selling animals to be killed by deviants and sadists in labs
worldwide for decades. They were fairytale campaigns, with thousands of animals
coming out and being rehomed nationwide, covered by an ecstatic press who hailed us all as heroes
where weeks previously we were terrorists and fanatics as we fought to save
these animals lives. These campaigns were UK
based and UK
driven, localised wars that did not affect the industry enough for the
government to do anything about trying to stop us.
All that changed with Huntingdon Life
Sciences . . .
Suddenly we were attacking the
very industry that brings in an estimated 16 billion pounds a year to the
British economy. Suddenly, rather than being outside some cat farmer’s house
stuck out in Witney, here was the movement on the
doorsteps and in the faces of some of the most powerful people in British
industry, threatening their tranquil existence and ability to profit from and
support animal cruelty and get away with it. Piece by piece we have stripped
away from HLS the very foundations it is built on: banks, shareholders,
financial institutions, its listing on the London
and New York stock exchanges,
workers, suppliers and customers. At the same time SPEAC halted the building of
a primate lab at Cambridge University
to the incredulity of the vivisection industry worldwide and SNGP has put Newchurch farm under powerful pressure to close. The
government and the industry have rallied to the support of HLS, shamefully,
despite their record of unbelievable incompetence, abuse and fraud. Let us not forget
that HLS are the only lab in British history to have their licence
revoked by the UK
government on account of what was uncovered there. The government
make great play of ALF attacks on those associated with HLS and others
and use them to bring in piece after piece of legislation designed to thwart
compassion and strip away peoples’ rights to protest against animal abuse. Make
no mistake - what they seek to do is silence the voice of dissention and render it impossible to oppose evil in whatever form it
manifests itself in. Well we have news for them, THEY WILL FAIL.
A High Court judge speaking about SHAC made the analogy of SHAC as a snowball
that was thrown at the start of the campaign and that has turned into an
avalanche. With activists all over the UK
and all over the world waging war against HLS, they have not got a hope in
hell. They can imprison us, they can legislate against us, they can try to cut
off our funding, they can arrest, harass and try to
intimidate us. We have a message for all of them: we do not care what you do to
us and you do not affect us one little bit. We thrive on the challenge of you
trying to stop us and you make us ever more resourceful and focused in our
strategy. All we care about is the animals, they are our reason for fighting
and we will never ever give up fighting for them until the day we drop down
dead.
Stay strong, stay focused and
never underestimate the force of our actions in the campaigns against HLS, Oxford
and Newchurch. These campaigns are different fronts
in one war against one evil, disgusting industry. We will fight them and WE WILL WIN.
As part of an incredible
movement, you, each and every one of you, hold the key to victory in your hands
and in your hearts.
The animals have no-one but us. We
will not fail them.
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty –
February 2005 www.shac.net Home