Stupid Is As Stupid Does!

Mink Activist 'Would do it all over again' (Animal Rights Terrorist Alert)Madison.com via AP Wire ^

October 8, 2005 Staff Writer from AP

Peter Daniel Young, an animal rights activist who faces federal prison for freeing thousands of mink from Midwestern fur farms, says he'd do it again, and doing time will be nothing compared to what caged animals suffer. Young said in an interview from jail he believes he saved the minks from slavery. "I would do it all over again," he said. "As bad as it could get (in prison), it will never be as bad as it was for those mink."
Federal prosecutors believe Young and an accomplice were acting on behalf of the Animal Liberation Front when they broke onto mink farms in Iowa, South Dakota and Wisconsin in 1997 and freed about 7,000 mink. The FBI considers groups like ALF the nation's top domestic terrorist threat.
"If saving thousands of lives makes a terrorist, then I certainly embrace the label," Young said. "I would have been just as fast to act if those cages had been filled with human beings."
Teresa Platt, executive director of Fur Commission USA, a national association of fur farmers, called Young's philosophy nonsense. Alex Ott, owner of a fur farm Young raided in Tomahawk, WI said he treats his mink well and has every right to make a living. "These people ... skulk around. They attack and they terrorize," Ott said.

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And what kind of wonderful existence are these minks in for now??

By Tomas Alex
Tizon Times Staff Writer
August 31, 2003 SULTAN, Wash.

For a few days, the roads were paved with mink. Dead ones mostly. They were mangled by dogs, withered by summer heat and run over by cars and trucks. Their carcasses were reduced to tufts of blue hair on the pavement. In the early morning darkness on Monday, in what residents call an act of eco-terrorism, animal activists released 10,000 Blue Iris minks from the Roesler Bros. Fur Farm in this former logging town east of Everett. The animals spread like a flash flood. "They were everywhere. They covered the road, they were all up in the brush," said Sultan Police Chief Fred Walser. For a time, there were more than three roaming minks for every resident of this town of 3,000. Minks by the hundreds were captured by neighbors and friends and returned to the farm. By the end of the week, there were still as many as 2,500 loose animals, and they were, one local said, creating havoc. The hungry animals invaded chicken coops, raided fish ponds, stole pet cats and ducks and ate salmon fry in streams and rivers. Some feared the local ecosystem would be thrown off by so many new predators in the area.


Enjoy prison!