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Terrorists attack home , Researcher won't quit. #601734
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC Santa Cruz biomedical researcher shares details of attack by activists
J.M. Brown, Sentinel staff writer
02/26/2008
http://origin.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_8370044

Signs posted on science hill building doors urge users to exercise
caution when entering the building where biological research is done.
(Bill Lovejoy/Sentinel)SANTA CRUZ - A biomedical researcher who was
the target of Sunday's attempted home invasion by masked animal rights
activists said Tuesday that she and her young children were terrified,
but she will not be deterred from her work to fight breast cancer.

"I am flabbergasted that people would target me," said the UC Santa
Cruz faculty member, who the Sentinel is not naming because of ongoing
security concerns. "All our work we do with animals is regulated. They
are treated well."

The woman, who said the university has hired security to protect her
and her family, has no plans to halt her work with mice.

"I'm a scientist, I do research that's really valuable," she said.
"One in seven women get breast cancer."

She also said she refused to move from her Westside Santa Cruz home,
where police say six masked intruders banged on her door and tried to
forcefully enter.

"I'm going to keep on keeping on," she said. "It's my home."


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A few years ago some AR terrorists targeted a scientist that was doing AIDS research using chimpanzees. I wondered then if this scientist had found a cure and one of the bunny huggers got AIDS if he would refuse the treatment. I highly doubt it.

These same people are probably protesting that the government isn't doing anything about breast cancer.


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she needs a gun and and a will so use it especially if people are coming to here home.



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If she did use a gun on one of them the others would make a martyr out of him. But so be it, I'd rather he be a martyr than walking around terrorizing innocent people.


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Shoot the bas---- in the knee caps!

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He'd sue and probably get a liberal jury and win, especially since she probably has a little money and he's probably broke or living off a trust fund.


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Santa Cruz Sentinel
Police probing possible ties to attacks on UC Berkeley, Santa Cruz researchers
By J.M. BROWN
02/28/2008 09:25:11 PM PST
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_8399299

Berkeley police detectives investigating a two-month string of animal
rights-related vandalism targeting the homes of UC Berkeley scientists
will begin probing possible connections to a spate of similar crimes
in Santa Cruz, including last weekend's attempted home invasion of a
local biomedical researcher.
Sgt. Mary C. Kusmiss, a Berkeley Police Department spokeswoman, said
detectives have not identified suspects in the rash of sidewalk
chalking, brazen daylight trespassing and bullhorn-powered yelling
incidents that have unfolded every Sunday afternoon since New Year's
Day outside the homes of at least six Berkeley researchers who use
cats, mice, rats and other animals in their research.

Kusmiss said detectives are investigating leads based on license plate
numbers and photographs of masked protesters captured by residents or
officers as suspects fled. A Feb. 17 case - during which protesters
wearing bandanas to hide their faces smashed a flower pot and dumped
garbage in a backyard - closely mirrored Sunday's demonstration at the
home of a UC Santa Cruz researcher, whose husband fought off six
masked intruders after they banged on the porch and shook the door
during their 8-year-old daughter's birthday party.

The Berkeley incidents have not been widely reported by police or UC
officials until Thursday, and there is no immediate evidence they are
related to the Santa Cruz cases, though Berkeley detectives and Santa
Cruz city police have yet to compare notes, Kusmiss said. However,
officials said university police in Santa Cruz and Berkeley campuses
have been working together to determine possible links, as have
Berkeley campus and city police.
"It's always prudent and intelligent to collaborate and share
information with each other," Kusmiss said.

Animal rights protesters also have targeted UCLA researchers in recent
weeks, prompting the university to seek a restraining order against
animal liberation groups with suspected involvement. No groups have
taken responsibility for the Santa Cruz or Berkeley incidents.

Several targeted Berkeley professors - whose names have been posted by
protesters on activist and social networking Web sites - did not
immediately return messages seeking comment Thursday. Some of the Web
sites have published home addresses and phone numbers of the
researchers, as well as graphic descriptions of the alleged animal
testing protesters say the professors conduct.

Santa Cruz scientists, four of whom have been targeted by a series of
chalking and other vandalism during the past two weeks, say their work
with animals is not harmful and furthers vital cancer research. In a
1999 university news release discussing her work recording signals
from "deep within the brain of a cat," one of the targeted Berkeley
professors, Yang Dan, said "Fundamental understanding of brain
processes is crucial to understanding illness and eventually could
help us come up with treatments."

Santa Cruz police have declined to disclose the content of chalking
scrawled outside local researchers homes say, but Kusmiss said the
messages scribbled in front of Berkeley residences said: "bird killer"
and "animal killer lives here."

Berkeley professors first reported vandalism incidents in December,
but it wasn't until after Jan. 1 that detectives realized they were
dealing with serial demonstrators. Every Sunday afternoon in 2008,
nearly the same set of professors or their relatives have called
Berkeley police to report incidents at their homes, prompting police
to station officers near the houses every Sunday.

Kusmiss said some targeted professors leave their homes to avoid the
weekly harassment, but "others feel strongly that their homes are
their protected places and sanctums for them and their family, and
therefore they should have the right to live peacefully and not be
bullied into leaving every Sunday."

Kusmiss said professors and family members have reported that
demonstrators using megaphones have stood outside their homes yelling
"bird killer" or "cat murderer," and written in chalk on the sidewalk.
Protesters also have affixed 3-by-3 inch stickers to front windows and
mailboxes that show a rat behind jail bars and carry this inscription:
"Unseen they suffer, unheard they cry, in agony they linger, in
loneliness they die."

Kusmiss said all of the incidents have happened during the day.

"Their activities have been quite public," she said. "Part of their
approach is to not only share their message to a particular
researcher, but to other homeowners to get attention for their cause."

The incidents have been what Kusmiss called "minor" until Feb. 17,
when a faculty member reported that 15 protesters entered his property
at 3 p.m. and smashed a flower pot on the front porch before turning
over a garbage can in his backyard. He and his family were in the
residence, and told police protesters had visited 10 other times.

"We are concerned about any form of escalation," Kusmiss said.

Berkeley has a long history of animal rights advocacy, including among
student populations, but Kusmiss said it is not clear if students are
involved in the recent vandalism or trespassing cases. After Sunday's
incident in Santa Cruz, police raided a home where three UCSC students
live but have not named them as suspects.

Contact J.M. Brown at 429-2410 or jbrown@santacruzsentinel.com.


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If Jerry Vlasak were to tell the turth about these incidents he would choke before he completed his first sentence.



Santa Cruz Sentinel
Animal rights proponents say Santa Cruz protesters not connected to
larger networks
J.M. BROWN - SENTINEL STAFF WRITER
02/28/2008 04:01:46 AM PST
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_8391057

SANTA CRUZ -- Nationally known animal rights proponents said Wednesday
that what they call a weekend "home visit" by protesters to a
biomedical researcher's Santa Cruz residence was likely the work of an
independent, local group and not a large, established network.

Jerry Vlasak, a Los Angeles-area surgeon connected with the
underground Animal Liberation Front, said members of that group are
typically more stealth in their confrontations with researchers who
use mice and other animals. He said ALF operatives would not drive to
a target's home and depart with a visible license plate, as occurred
during Sunday's Santa Cruz incident.

But that is what ALF is. A organization that is made up of cells that are supposedly not connected by a central command center. Also note that his claim is that "We would be much more Sneaky in our operations if ALF central were the operatives." That eases my mind to know that these ALF operatives are capable of such acts but would make sure they weren't caught. Truth is Vlasak was charged by Canadian courts after he and 19 other seal protesters attacked six sealers. The sealers held their own and Vlasak had his nose busted so he ain't smart enough to be sneaky. Left a trail of blood all the way back to Paul Watson's protest ship at the ice floes. Vlasak was fined and had to pay a $1000 fine or spend jail time. Vlasak is also the nut job, wanting ALF types to shoot dead a few researchers to send a message to the other researchers to stop Biolab research.


"This sounds like an above-ground group doing a demonstration at
someone's house," Vlasak said.

He said he did not believe confrontations ALF protesters have
instigated with UCLA faculty were related to the Santa Cruz case,
which left a UC Santa Cruz researcher's husband with a minor hand
injury. Though Vlasak and two other supporters said they have no
firsthand knowledge of the loud encounter at the Westside home and
didn't know it was planned, they doubted whether it was a "home
invasion," as police have dubbed it.

While Vlasak acknowledged that knocking by protesters on the
researcher's door could have gotten "out of hand," he said, "It
doesn't sound like they hurt anybody or were doing anything
illegally." He said it was likely that "police and animal abusers were
spinning whatever happened" to demonize demonstrators.

But the researcher, whom the Sentinel is not naming for safety
reasons, has said six masked protesters banged on her porch before
pulling her front door so aggressively that she feared her locks
wouldn't keep them out. Her husband approached the protesters after
she huddled with their children, 2 and 8, and two other children at
the house for a birthday party, and told police he was struck on the
hand with an unknown object before chasing them off.

The FBI is investigating possible links to "domestic terrorism," and
police and university officials have roundly characterized the event
as a shocking attack. No arrests have been made and no one has claimed
responsibility. UCSC students living in a house raided by police in
connection with Sunday's incident have declined to comment.

UCSC's Student Organization Advising and Resources, an office that
keeps track of student groups, reported Wednesday that there is no
official student-led animal rights organization on campus, and they
had not even heard of any recent advocacy activity. ALF said it does
not recruit on college campuses.

A spokeswoman for the UCSC tree-sit demonstration outside one of the
buildings where animal testing is conducted said she does not believe
her group was involved in Sunday's incident. While tree sitters, who
are opposed to the university's geographic expansion plans, have
expressed strong opposition to a new biomedical facility, Jennifer
Charles said animal advocacy "is certainly not our main issue."

Peter Young, an animal rights advocate who returned to Santa Cruz
County just weeks ago after serving prison time for setting minks free
in the Midwest, said he didn't know how connected Sunday's contingent
of protesters may be to other animal liberation groups and said he
doesn't know who the protesters are.

Camille Hankins, an ALF press officer in New York, said her group
operates by a strict creed not to harm humans or animals during
advocacy activities, but said agents have destroyed millions in
property and committed arson to make a point or liberate animals. She
said "loud banging at the door" does not constitute a crime and that
protesters wear masks as a precaution against being wrongly accused of
assault.

"It's easy to get over-enthusiastic when you have a message to
deliver," she said. "When we talk about terrorism -- terrorism is what
goes on in a vivisection lab. More than likely people have tried to
reach out and talk to [UCSC biomedical researchers] in an above-board
way" before Sunday's incident.

The researcher whose home was targeted said protesters never contacted
her about her work, which she said does not harm mice. Weeks before
the incident, the sidewalk or driveways in front of several UCSC
biomedical researchers' homes were scrawled with chalk decrying
alleged animal abuse.

Contact J.M. Brown at 429-2410 or jbrown@santacruzsentinel.com



Start banging loudly on my door and try to intimidate me in my home and I guarantee that the jerks would be much safer in another yard then mine because I don't scare but I do get even.


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The Daily Californian
Officials Seek Restraining Order Against Animal Rights Activists
Protesters' Lawyers Say Demonstrations at Professors' Homes are
Protected Free Speech
By Vanessa Lord
Contributing Writer
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
http://www.dailycal.org:80/article/100739/officials_seek_restraining_order_against_animal_ri

Campus officials say they are trying to get a restraining order
against animal rights activists who stage weekly demonstrations
outside the homes of UC Berkeley professors who test on animals.

The activists, who are not formally organized, have been yelling into
bullhorns and writing phrases like "animal killer" and "cat torturer"
in sidewalk chalk outside the homes of at least six professors on a
routine basis since the beginning of the year, campus officials said.

But the activists said their actions are peaceful, legal home demonstrations.

"There's a long history of home demonstrations in this country," said
Ryan Davis, a UC Berkeley student and activist who took part in the
demonstrations, in an e-mail. "The civil rights movement used this
tactic. (It sends) the message that individuals are not morally exempt
from the atrocities they commit on the job," he said.

Campus officials said professors believe the activists' behavior
amounts to harassment.

"It frightens spouses and children and irritates neighbors," said
campus spokesperson Robert Sanders.

According to Sanders, the activists have also broken pottery in front
of a house and thrown a rock through a window.

"The typical method of operating is to hit at random so that police
can't predict where they're going to be," Sanders said of the
activists. "If the police aren't there, (identifying suspects and
making arrests) is not easy to do."

The Berkeley Police Department declined to offer details on the
incidents because they said they were concerned about the professors'
safety. Professors also declined to comment.

The campus is working with Berkeley police and the FBI to try to
identify the demonstrators. Courts have said that because the sidewalk
chalk washes away easily, it is not vandalism, Sanders said.

Animal rights attorneys argue that activists are fully within their
free speech rights in staging protests outside professors' homes.

"Calling a person an animal abuser and a puppy killer is protected
speech," said Christine Garcia, a UC Berkeley alumna and animal rights
attorney. "Constitutionally protected speech is not harassment."

Other animal rights activists said the home demonstrations are
justified due to the professors' animal testing.

"It would be nice if they would stop abusing (the animals) when we ask
them nicely," said Jerry Vlasak, a doctor and spokesperson for the
Animal Liberation Front press office. "But sometimes these tactics are
required. Nothing that comes out of animal research couldn't be
discovered in a more efficient way."

UCLA and UC Santa Cruz have seen similar demonstrations, some of which
have led to arrests.

Two weeks ago, a Santa Cruz researcher's husband was injured after
fighting off six masked protestors banging on his front door during
his daughter's birthday party, Sanders said.

A Los Angeles County judge also approved a restraining order against
activists who had harassed UCLA researchers.

"Some of the things they've been caught doing in UCLA and in Santa
Cruz have been felonies," Sanders said. "We hope it's not going to
escalate that far."

While UCLA researcher Dario Ringach stopped doing research on primates
because of the activists, Sanders said Berkeley professors will not
allow themselves to be intimidated by the demonstrations.

"They want absolutely all animal research stopped and here at UC
Berkeley that's not going to happen," Sanders said. "There are too
many important medical health problems that can only be solved with
animal research."
Contact Vanessa Lord at vlord@dailycal.org.
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Contra Costa Times
UC Santa Cruz faculty debates use of force in campus protests
By Jennifer Squires
MEDIANEWS STAFF
03/08/2008
http://www.contracostatimes.com/teens/ci_8502514

SANTA CRUZ -- The proposal by a UC Santa Cruz professor to re-examine
how the university responds to protests spurred an emotional debate
among faculty members Friday before being referred to committee for
closer study.

Carolyn Martin Shaw, an anthropology professor who drafted the
proposal, said she was pleased by the discussion during the Academic
Senate meeting, but thinks the proposal will be lost in committee.

"I don't expect anything to come of it," Martin Shaw said after the
meeting. "I think it's been killed."

She raised the issue Friday because she felt that during recent
protests during which police used pepper spray and batons on
protesters, the university had not followed policies recommended after
the "Tent University" controversy in 2005. Those recommendations
included three levels of police response to demonstrations.

"How should we respond when people become uncivil?" Martin Shaw asked
senate members during the meeting. She urged the university to reduce
the use of police force and the number of arrests at nonviolent
protests.

However, several science faculty members came forward to share
unpleasant experiences working on Science Hill through the tree-sit
protest, which began Nov. 7. As a result of the tree-sit, one building
has been locked down for four months.

Others said they're worried about their safety and that of their
families following the attack on the home of a UC Santa Cruz
biomedical researcher last month.

"I think the community has lost some important lines between free
speech and academic freedom," said Steve Thorsett, dean of the
Division of Physical and Biological Sciences.

Those who spoke in favor of the resolution also condemned violence.

"It is not to be tolerated and it is to be prosecuted," said Shelly
Errington, a professor in the anthropology department. "The point is
we do not have an effective way to bring together our campus to deal
with demonstrations."

However, Martin Shaw said the recent focus on demonstrations linked to
the campus -- the animal rights activists and the tree sitters -- may
have distracted her effort to critique how those incidents are
handled. She had hoped to separate the two issues.

"It didn't work. It was the wrong moment," she said, adding that she
supports plans to continue the conversation in other forums on campus
and the possibility that more faculty members will be involved in
demonstration advisory groups.

After deciding to not rule on Martin Shaw's proposal, the Academic
Senate overwhelmingly approved a resolution authored by Joel Yellin, a
professor in Natural Sciences, commending UC Santa Cruz administrators
for their efforts to protect faculty, staff members and students.

Yellin called it "a reasonable first step" to show support for
university leaders and Vice Chancellor David Kliger thanked the
faculty for their backing.

After the meeting, Chancellor George Blumenthal said he thought the
faculty discussion was a positive step. He pointed out that most
seemed to share values of free speech and nonviolence, despite their
varying opinions on the recent protests or the resolution.

"I think what's important is we find unity in issues," he said.

Blumenthal also said there are no plans to alter the police
department's response to protests but said, "I think we are open to
discussion."


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