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[rozk]

Gakked from tsubaki_ny this piece from Rolling Stone documents the tactics being used by Operation Rescue against Tiller's clinic and its staff. Tiller's killer was part of this sub-culture; what worries me, though, is that I can imagine similar tactics being used by anti-abortion fanatics in this country as well as in the US. My admiration for people who stand up to this sort of bullying knows no bounds.

Some while ago, I had a row with some of my animal rights supporting friends and said that the tactics they approve of against fox-hunters or vivisectionists could be turned against minorities or pro-choice forces any time. I fear I was right - Operation Rescue have moved on from picketing clinics.

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[rozk.livejournal.com]

My point though is that the animal rights movement has increasingly engaged in the sort of secondary and tertiary picketing that the anti-abortionists are shown here as taking up. I am not accusing anyone of violence, just saying - and I am aware of my own responsibility here as someone who has kicked off demonstrations - that we should maybe think twice about tactics we would not like used on us.

[feorag.livejournal.com]

We're dealing with what is essentially a single organisation based in Oxford and suggesting that what they're up to is the activities of the animal rights movement in general is like saying that dissident republicans in Northern Ireland are somehow representative of Irish Catholics in general.

In both cases, what we are dealing with is a few extremist bampots whom the mainstream would rather were duly convicted and locked up, or flee to some remote location on the other side of the planet, or something.