Top 20 terror tactics, the Research Defense Society
Project Eliminate Censorship! | 06.08.2006 18:02 | Animal Liberation | Social Struggles
This document was not produced by activists but is the memo of a meeting of UK animal vivisectors and the related industry analyzing the tactics used against them. It was leaked to the public. Following its publication by Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) in the USA it was used as evidence in court against activists who were finally convicted. Despite this US Senators still use its full text as an argument for their witch hunt against animal rights activists. Since the shutdown of the site www.shacamerica.net it has not been available.
In February of 2001, the Research Defense Society, an UK organization
"representing medical researchers in the public debate about the use of
animals in medical research and testing" released a list of sucessful
"terror tactics" used by activists against HLS.
"Top 20 terror tactics
The following tactics have been used by animal rights extremists
campaigning against HLS and similar companies in the last three years.
Repeated use of several tactics against one individual is not unusual.
* Demonstrations at your home or place of work, including verbal abuse
using a loudhailer
* Abusive graffiti, posters and stickers on your house, car and around
the area you live
* Invading offices, damaging property and stealing documents
* Chaining gates shut or blocking gates with old cars to trap staff on
site
* Physical assaults on yourself and your partner, including spraying
cleaning fluid in your eyes
* Smashing all the windows in your home when your family is at home
* Flooding your home with a hose attached to an outside tap and pushed
through letterbox or window, while you are away from home
* Vandalising your car (gluing the locks, slashing tyres, pouring paint
over it, etc)
* Sledgehammer attack on your car - while you are still inside it
* Firebombing your car in your drive, firebombing sheds and garages
* Bomb hoaxes requiring evacuation of premises
* Threatening telephone calls and letters (threats to kill or injure
you, your partner and children)
* Abusive telephone calls to your home, at all hours of the day and
night, and to your neighbours, relatives and friends
* Abusive letters and cards to your home, and posted through the
letterboxes of every house in your neighbourhood
* Email 'bombs' to attempt to crash your computer system
* Ordering goods and services in your name and address (eg mail-order
goods, deliveries of gravel, rubbish skips, car-towing etc)
* Placing hoax free ads for (non-existent) cheap goods using your name
and number, so you get numerous calls from would-be buyers
* Sending continous black paper to your fax, causing it to burn out
* Telephone blockades: repeat dialling preventing you from using your
telephone
* Arranging for the undertaker to call to collect your body"
"representing medical researchers in the public debate about the use of
animals in medical research and testing" released a list of sucessful
"terror tactics" used by activists against HLS.
"Top 20 terror tactics
The following tactics have been used by animal rights extremists
campaigning against HLS and similar companies in the last three years.
Repeated use of several tactics against one individual is not unusual.
* Demonstrations at your home or place of work, including verbal abuse
using a loudhailer
* Abusive graffiti, posters and stickers on your house, car and around
the area you live
* Invading offices, damaging property and stealing documents
* Chaining gates shut or blocking gates with old cars to trap staff on
site
* Physical assaults on yourself and your partner, including spraying
cleaning fluid in your eyes
* Smashing all the windows in your home when your family is at home
* Flooding your home with a hose attached to an outside tap and pushed
through letterbox or window, while you are away from home
* Vandalising your car (gluing the locks, slashing tyres, pouring paint
over it, etc)
* Sledgehammer attack on your car - while you are still inside it
* Firebombing your car in your drive, firebombing sheds and garages
* Bomb hoaxes requiring evacuation of premises
* Threatening telephone calls and letters (threats to kill or injure
you, your partner and children)
* Abusive telephone calls to your home, at all hours of the day and
night, and to your neighbours, relatives and friends
* Abusive letters and cards to your home, and posted through the
letterboxes of every house in your neighbourhood
* Email 'bombs' to attempt to crash your computer system
* Ordering goods and services in your name and address (eg mail-order
goods, deliveries of gravel, rubbish skips, car-towing etc)
* Placing hoax free ads for (non-existent) cheap goods using your name
and number, so you get numerous calls from would-be buyers
* Sending continous black paper to your fax, causing it to burn out
* Telephone blockades: repeat dialling preventing you from using your
telephone
* Arranging for the undertaker to call to collect your body"
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