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Leading animal rights activist Luke Steele sent to prison

Anton | 30.01.2012 10:34 | Animal Liberation

Leading animal rights activist Luke Steele has been sent to prison after being arrested at a demonstration in Leeds on Saturday.

It was largely as a consequence on the campaign that Luke led against B&K Universal that Tory minister Eric Pickles decided to prevent the company getting planning permission for its new breeding facility near Hull. Luke is clearly regarded by the state as a serious threat to the vivisection industry which is why such onerous bail conditions were imposed in the first place.

Anton

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Well done Luke!!!

30.01.2012 10:51

Its a shame that other activists in the animal rights movement dont adopt the same courageous stance of Luke. He knew that by taking part in the demo could lead to his arrest but for him saving the animals was more important. Its a shame more people dont follow his example.

Debs

Bollocks

30.01.2012 12:17

Luke Steele does not have a "long history of grassing to save himself" – and I would challenge "Knows Steele" to give some supposed examples.

The reality is that Luke is disliked by SHAC activists because he has been far more effective in the past two years than they have been in the past decade.

What is known for certain is that some SHAC supporters have been responsible for smearing Luke with unfounded allegations such as this and that, to his credit, he has not responded, believing that there are other more important issues out there.

Pete S

wipe away

30.01.2012 12:19

You trolls from the industry love blasting away at the keyboard here on IMC UK don't you. It is because you are sad as fuck and are losing the fight.

anti-troll spray

And in comparison...

30.01.2012 14:28

Luke Steele has already achieved a significant number of successes. He can of course be criticized for getting involved in too many different issues and trying to run too many campaigns but this is surely better than maintaining a focus on one single company, as SHAC has done, which still seems as financially secure as it did 10 years ago.

Luke is far from perfect but he is clearly regarded as a far more serious threat to the vivisection industry than SHAC which is why the police have put so much effort into getting him sent to prison and, they hope, locked up for a far longer period if he gets convicted for his involvement in the Harlan protest.

Jed

Confused.

30.01.2012 15:00

I thought it was about a movement not an individual? You can win anything without people turning out, one person doen't make a movement.

This is the problem we face.

M Taylor

look what happens!

30.01.2012 18:16

An activist - a comrade for fucks sake - gets locked up for fighting an injustice. And what do we do? We stick him under the microscope and disect his activist credentials. Talk about vivisection!
I don't know him, all I know is that he's fighting against evil bastards and paying the price so he's my brother.

anon

respect

30.01.2012 19:09

If the guy is being harassed and jailed he's obviously causing the torturing, inbred, scumbag moneymakers problems-so well done him. It's a hell of a lot more than i'm doing.
If they filmed the pervert vivisectors doing their torturing and broadcast it at 7pm on every channel you would get many many angey people on the streets and outside the scumbags homes-fact!

Light stuff!!

30.01.2012 19:57

What's the diff betwen a vivi lab and a cactus???
A catus has it's pricks on the outside!!
Tributed to Crass..I think their last every single this joke is form!
NexT!

Monty

Well Done?

30.01.2012 22:06

are we saying 'well done' now for someone getting jailed?
why does the animal rights movement have an obsession with hero worship, what is this - the rock and roll hall of fame?! what about all the other campaigners and activists, equally dedicated, who don't end up in prison, are they not as worthy?

moose

Wouldn't surprise me if the self-serving little wanker didn't post this himself.

31.01.2012 00:07

Luke Steele is self-serving, thieving ego-maniac and a racist, who hangs about with local fascists and with other racists within the AR movement. His mother is a police informer and his brother a neo-nazi. A very fucked-up family indeed. Don't believe the bullshit Luke comes out with or posts on the internet, he's a pathological liar. It's shameful that the AR movement put up with him at all.

Vegan anarchist

If Luke Steele is in prison...

31.01.2012 00:10

...what's his prison address.

Vegan anarchist

We know whos side you are on

31.01.2012 01:02

>> are we saying 'well done' now for someone getting jailed?

Traitor

>> Luke Steele is self-serving, thieving ego-maniac and a racist, who hangs about with local fascists and with other racists within the AR movement. His mother is a police informer and his brother a neo-nazi. A very fucked-up family indeed. Don't believe the bullshit Luke comes out with or posts on the internet, he's a pathological liar. It's shameful that the AR movement put up with him at all.
Vegan anarchist

Another self-righteous traitor

anon

the only person

31.01.2012 01:09

who posts such hatred for a person who stands up for those who can't-is a fucking animal torturer or a fucking inbred copper who moniters this site.

"We know whose side you're on"

31.01.2012 01:26

So do I and it's not on the side of the cops and their lackeys, people who steal from the movement, racists, pathological liars, self-serving egotists, posing little idiots, worthless piss-heads, leather-wearing hypocrites, agent-provocateurs, grasses, fascist fellow travellers, or their fucking apologists.

Vegan anarchist

Best place to discuss?

31.01.2012 03:14

is this really the best place to be having this discussion?

comon guys, dont try and make it too easy for the state/industry/shacwatch.

Dave B
Homepage: www.animalrightsuk.org

My hero!

31.01.2012 08:08

What a great ambassador for the movement! Locally, he hangs about with fascists. Nationally, he brings racists along to AR meet-ups (Bradford). And when he steals the money to go to international AR gatherings he spends the whole time falling about drunk (Italy, etc). What a hero!

End the cover-up

'well done' and 'traitor'

31.01.2012 09:01

>>>> are we saying 'well done' now for someone getting jailed?

>>Traitor

Jesus bloody wept.

Everyone in the world cares about issues. It's only within our tiny subculture that you have to prove how much you care by going to jail over an issue. Amazing that a movement that claims to be about changing things in fact prioritises its members' persecution over the actual change. Guilt issues going into overdrive here I suspect.

We should support our comrades who go to jail to the hilt, of course we should, but we should be so SO wary of building a culture that teaches newbies that they have to go to jail first to be accepted. It should be obvious to anyone without a huge hole where their brain should be (unfortunately that rules out 95% of insurrectionary anarchists), that we shouldn't be TRYING to get locked up. I'd imagine as a convict it'd make me REALLY pissed off that the people who talk the talk about helping prisoners and ending imprisonment, the people who are meant to be shouting to the world about how horrible it is inside, have such a low opinion of how horrible it is, that they think it's a good idea to choose to do it themselves. And if I were personally congratulated on being locked up by someone claiming to be on my side, I'd be spitting blood. Really basic stuff this guys.

Jal