Bradford Councillor Anne Hawksworth cars vandalised
Grouse Liberation Front | 23.01.2009 21:04 | SHAC | Animal Liberation | Ecology | Social Struggles
Bradford Council’s Executive member for the Environment, Councillor Anne Hawksworth, who supports the return of grouse shooting to Ilkley Moor, found her cars paint stripped and tyres let down during the night. The attack put her Vauxhall Tigra and Vauxhall Astra out of action.
Councillor Hawkesworth fears the attack is the work of animal rights activists, although no cell has yet claimed the attack. She thinks the attack is related to the jailing of the UK SHAC 7 for "conspiring to blackmail" companies profiting from vivisectors Huntington Life Sciences (HLS). [See 
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/419733.html]
“The paint has been stripped off," she said. "One of the cars is going to have to be resprayed, and it’s gone on to the drive as well. The police will have to come first, then the cars will be taken away.”
Hawkesworth said she was hesitant to speak out about the attack and her suspicions about who is responsible, despite doing so, as she does not want to publicise the cause of animal liberation.
West Yorkshire Hunt Saboteurs are heavily campaigning against Bradford Council, including Hawkesworth herself, for signing a ten-year deal with the Bingley Moor Partnership last year to licence grouse shootings on the moor. [See http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/09/407963.html]
The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and Grouse Liberation Front also destroyed grouse pens and traps on the moor last summer. Shooting has not taken place on the council-owned moor for over 11 years, after Bradford councillors refused to renew a shooting licence in the late 1990s. [See http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22ilkley%22+site%3Adirectaction.info&meta=]
Hawkesworth says she had previously taken advice from a council emergencies officer, who advises councillors on personal security. But her home address is made public on Bradford Council’s website and in Ilkley Parish Council newsletters.
“I actually display my address which, as a representative, I should be able to do and not feel intimidated to do so,” said Coun Hawkesworth.
Source http://www.ilkleygazette.co.uk/news/news_local/4071173.Acid_attack_on_Ilkley_councillor_s_cars/
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/419733.html] “The paint has been stripped off," she said. "One of the cars is going to have to be resprayed, and it’s gone on to the drive as well. The police will have to come first, then the cars will be taken away.”
Hawkesworth said she was hesitant to speak out about the attack and her suspicions about who is responsible, despite doing so, as she does not want to publicise the cause of animal liberation.
West Yorkshire Hunt Saboteurs are heavily campaigning against Bradford Council, including Hawkesworth herself, for signing a ten-year deal with the Bingley Moor Partnership last year to licence grouse shootings on the moor. [See
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/09/407963.html] The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and Grouse Liberation Front also destroyed grouse pens and traps on the moor last summer. Shooting has not taken place on the council-owned moor for over 11 years, after Bradford councillors refused to renew a shooting licence in the late 1990s. [See
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22ilkley%22+site%3Adirectaction.info&meta=] Hawkesworth says she had previously taken advice from a council emergencies officer, who advises councillors on personal security. But her home address is made public on Bradford Council’s website and in Ilkley Parish Council newsletters.
“I actually display my address which, as a representative, I should be able to do and not feel intimidated to do so,” said Coun Hawkesworth.
Source
http://www.ilkleygazette.co.uk/news/news_local/4071173.Acid_attack_on_Ilkley_councillor_s_cars/
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hypocrisy
23.01.2009 22:02
Animal rights activists polluting the environment with paint stripper... hypocrisy.
anon
Intimidation
23.01.2009 22:13
anon
most like solidarity
23.01.2009 23:04
keep fighting!
@ntispeciesist
Hypocrisy??
23.01.2009 23:50
anon
not hypocrisy
24.01.2009 18:48
That's a strange argument. If grouse shooting doesn't return to Ilkley Moor, the benefit to the environment will far outdo the small damage done to it by a small bit of paint stripper.
You could say a similar thing about anything: "hippies using any form of fuel-powered transport to go to a demonstration or action against environmental destruction... hypocrisy." Clearly bogus.
Every single action we take in our lives has a negative impact on the environment - at the final analysis, entropy only goes one way. The question is whether one small negative impact can help prevent a future much larger negative impact. But I'm sure you realised this and are just trying to confuse people with trite statements.
veganon
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29.01.2009 15:23
RedGrouse
ALF Communique
29.01.2009 19:11
"Persons unknown recently visited the property of self serving Councillor Anne Hawkesworth. The two cars in the driveway were paint stripped and had their tyres slashed.
The entire council is responsible for choosing to turn Ilkley Moor into a blood bath. Doubtless many will be queueing to spectate when the shotguns come to blast these birds out of the sky. In the meantime the moor will be managed in such a way as to promote the growth of grouse, while terminating the existence of many of their predators, who have an equal right to exist in this habitat.
We have already called for Ilkley Moor to be a wildlife haven, and have been ignored. This is the use of public land to allow the 'fun and games' of a few sadists led by Ed Bromet (Bingley Moor Partnership) and is, as we have said, completely unacceptable.
ALF"
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