Medium is the message - the tactic is the ideology

Globe and Mail, Toronto.
Animal protesters turn village into a living hell for one family.
DOUG SAUNDERS begins his assignment as The Globe's London correspondent with a look at a disturbing new tactic in the war over animal rightsBy DOUG SAUNDERSMonday, August 30, 2004 - Page A1
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NEWCHURCH, ENGLAND -- The Red Lion pub, a wood-shingled building on the edge of this quiet English farm village, is a decent place to grab a pint and a light meal -- unless your last name happens to be Hall. In that case, you're ordered to stay away.
Likewise the golf course, whose gym the Halls were politely asked to stop using this year. The newspaper deliveryman has decided to stop coming to their farmhouse. And the milk trucks and diesel-fuel suppliers have made it known that they won't be coming around the farm, for fear of their safety.
In a community known for its open doors and friendly neighbours, the Halls live behind an electric fence, high-intensity lights and security cameras, visited only by the dwindling list of business people and friends who dare enter.
"We're victims of terrorism," said Chris Hall, one of the brothers who have run the farm for more than 40 years.
"Our friends and employees and neighbours have all had their lives threatened and their properties damaged unless they stay away from us. It's a terrible situation."
The root of all this fear and secrecy? Guinea pigs.
The Hall family raise the portly rodents, tens of thousands of them, to be sold to universities and research labs. Animal-rights protesters, enraged by experiments on animal subjects, have developed a radical new direct-action strategy, and it's being tried for the first time against the Halls.
"Before, we would just target those directly responsible for the killings, the researchers and farmers," said David Hughes, 23, who stood holding a megaphone with a dozen fellow protesters outside the Halls' farm last week, yelling "shame" and "murderer" at anyone who entered or left.
"But now we're targeting the entire supply chain, anyone who benefits from this murder, shaming them and letting them know they're profiting from the killings."
The strategy is part of a recent broadening of scope by animal protesters. It has extended to researchers and students who use the rodents, targeting their families, their colleagues and anyone with whom they do business.
In Newchurch, the entire village has in effect been punished for the Halls' guinea-pig operation.
The homes of farm suppliers, shopkeepers, merchants and their employees have been picketed, and people only remotely associated with the farm, such as waitresses at the pub, say they have been subjected to threatening letters and telephone calls.
At the golf course where Mr. Hall once used the gym, activists picketed the facility and somebody dug up the greens at night, causing $25,000 in damage. The news agent and fuel supplier felt sufficiently frightened to cut the family off entirely.
At first, the Red Lion pub remained a voice of defiance, even as its windows were being broken.
"They started sending letters to our customers, telling them that we were serving 'scum' and urging them to stop coming here," Kate Marklew, who ran the pub with her husband, told a radio interviewer.
"But we didn't think [the Halls] had done anything wrong and we wouldn't stop serving him. He only had the odd meal and a pint, and you have to have a reason to bar someone."
But then the activists began targeting Union Pubs, the corporation that runs the Red Lion. Company officials said this week that they were afraid of further damage and loss of business, and told the Marklews to either ban the Halls or lose their jobs. They chose to quit this summer and are currently jobless.
The Halls have also had a hard time keeping employees. One worker at their dairy operation was urged to quit; when he declined, the protesters sent letters to village residents claiming that he was a pedophile and that his wife had a venereal disease. Two other staff members quit, fearing similar pressure.
Police have made some arrests for public-order offences, and the British government has announced plans for new anti-terrorism laws to crack down on such tactics. But the protesters, who have picketed the Halls' house twice a week for almost five years, say they consider the new strategy a success.
"We are very happy with our progress toward putting a stop to this," said Amanda Richards, 30, an organizer with Save the Newchurch Guinea Pigs. "People are beginning to understand that we are the victims, that tens of thousands of animals are being killed and protesters are being attacked . . . these people haven't suffered a single serious injury or death."
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Except for Spain, Mother Nature's RIGHT TO LIFE for animals is not enshrined in the Constitution for all countries, because of human supremacists' psychopathy of speciesism. ...Jg

----- Original Message -----

From: John Gilbert(2)

To: Eric Moot - AFU

Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 2:22 AM

Subject: Fw: [4LEGS] The medium is the message -- The Internet is the anarchist -- the tactic is the idiology

Hi Eric Moot,

If you have time to scan this thread below, you'll see part of my trajectory. If you then sense that we have then have some overlapping values or goals, you'll sense whether to trust my judgement in those areas of mutual interest.

Why don't you try to bring some friends along to the AFU meeting on Sunday. We need all the support we can get, if you are willing to help me clean up a few of the misguided ( as in a long slow carefully planned project). Some of the key hierarchical dominators see AFU only as a school rather than a vehicle of social change with an unlimited number of possibilities (parallel directions) such as the campus Anarchist Clubs. Maybe if fascist critics don't want to operate in the collective under the rules of consesus, you and I may be the beginning of another group of hierarchical dominators to add some balance.

I have another more relevant message to send to you, almost composed to follow hopefully before Friday.

Om ...peace

John Gilbert

PS - If you can't to reply at this time, I'm having trouble with my ISP's spam filters so to let me know that you got this message just click reply and send your brief two or three words such as "Got your message".

----- Original Message -----

From: John Gilbert(2)

To: Ahmed

Cc: David Evans anarU

Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 5:06 PM

Subject: [4LEGS] The medium is the message -- The Internet is the anarchist -- the tactic is the idiology

Ahmed, thanks, I'll remember to say communistic not communist when I remember the Joe Hill movie which I loved so much around 1971. Together with a few articles over the years, including Wikipedia just now, is about all I know about the wobblies.

Within the context of Kitchener Julian's anger against "sectarianism" and to help stop Ontario Ontario anarchists' infighting, your helpful Anarchist branding of Hillstrom overtop of my earlier communist branding or label was usefull for me to *revise* my consciousness for seeing history's path of communism/anarchism more clearly from the 1917 Russian Revolution to today.

I like Ward Churchill's phrase "I'm inclined to anything that works" - " ...need some 50-year-olds to get off their fat asses and stop reading books. Understanding minus the ACTION is masturbation in politics," he says of the academics who theorize and pontifcate without acting" He adds...."I'm inclined to anything that works. ...Ward Churchill." (whatever works - especially now in the early stages before the (2020? - 2050?) water wars begin, when everyone should want to grow all movements' memberships in a non-sectarian way of the comrads) Julian of KW Youth seems to have similar beliefs to mine when he trashed sectarianism. Maybe he also believes that all activists should skip idiology and organize around issues with direct actions.

I've only met Julian twice and had no conversation with him of any substance like this email thread. From several face to face chats at some of Sam's meetings, I know Sam better than other OCAPpers.

Personally, I must reject IWW only because I want to "go with the flow". If the wobblies (or any group) surge ahead with great leaps forward in growing numbers of members, I will like everybody jump on that bandwagon and identify with them until they slow down and get bumped by a faster growing group - just as I did before I knew what an anarchist was. The New Anarchists. - Did you wonder how it all started in Eugene, Oregon (greenanarchy.org/) in 1999 ? Here is a three minute read of the story: The New Anarchists http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/9935/features-parrish.php :: further reading for those "protest demo tactics researchers" who have the time see the Wikipedia definition.

The basic issue behind all issues

I have never heard of any of the world's problems of man or animal that would not be solved by "culling human spraw" (population control) by any means inluding stateism (like China does) by a benevelent dictator (this leaves me vulnerable to be called a fascist by some). So what ? The world for animals and man is almost dead. If it's not too late to save the biosphere from Easter Island syndrome, I repeat - "I'm inclined to anything that works", because I believe that strategy and tactics trump a group's sectarianism or idiology. --

The medium is the message -- The Internet is the anarchist -- the tactic is the idiology

The dying victims of the genocidal war - the earth's animal species say - "All is fair in love and war, Mother Nature's 'slow' germs, prions are bio-weapons of mass destruction to help us cull human sprawl.". ... Jg

"The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic." ...E.O. Wilson

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If there was a group or a few people that started a quasi-religeon/quasi-politic group called The Mother Nature Party of God(s?)", I would join.

The advantage of an anarchist group like that:- it's like a faith-based religeon. Detractors cannot use reason to talk people out of joining up. Wow - guaranteed loyalty and no competition. Enemies wouldn't be able to use logic to change the minds of Mother Nature's anti-climate change *fundamentalist* devotees. Despite my habit of trashing the Christians, Jews and Muslims I do have my non-thiest cosmology/spiritual path.

John

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Here is Mother Nature's message to Milton. He never replied. He probably thinks that I'm a wacko

----- Original Message -----

From: John Gilbert(2)

To: Milton Hill

Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 10:28 AM

Subject: Fw: Yes, I am alive. My work continues.

Milton,

Thanks for your cosmology. Mine is at the beginning of http://j8472.tripod.com which says much the same thing as yours in your message below. Since we are both greenanarchists with a compatable cosmos with Mother Nature as another name for the universe/cosmos, should we begin to have some meetings with others under the label THE Mother Nature Party of God(s) ?

As I look at my old psycho-galvanometer (a bio-feedback meditation aid) that I used in the 1970s for experimenting with states of consciousness, I'm reminded of the success of Ron Hubbard who selfishly used the galvanometer to make himself rich with his Scientology cult. If Ron the con can start a cult, you and I can certainly help wake people up to realize the following:

Everyone on earth is already a member of The Mother Nature Party of God, but they don't know it. - Everyone: --

-- Zerzan and his greenanarchy proponents who were the innaugural seed of anti-globalization.

-- All cults and religeons, anarchists and leftists.

-- All social critics, scientists and activists.

-- Everyone and every thing everywhere.

Milton, are you up to the grandiose challenge to ride the emerging crest of The Mother Nature Party of God, which will (has?) take over the world.

I think that I see what you see ? Do you think that you see what I see ?

...John Gilbert ( http://del.icio.us/godhas4legs?page=1 )

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The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic. ...E.O. Wilson

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----- Original Message -----

From: Ahmed

To: Anarchist University

Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 5:52 PM

Subject: [Suspected Spam]Re: [4legs] Ottawa and Kingston are dead for a while. On the other hand ...

Thank you John, I really appreciate it. While I do respect your desire for
transparency, I am myself not like that and I thank you for respecting my
desires as well.

However you make a mistake when you say that the IWW is communist. The IWW
is largely a revolutionary union. It chooses not to align itself with any
political orientation. Perhaps you have heard that almost all of the
Ottawa IWW are anarchists (most of the members of IWW worldwide are
anarchists)? Perhaps you have also heard of the Panhandler Union (a part
of the Ottawa IWW) actions in Ottawa on MayDay and June 1st? When we
blockaded the Rideau Centre and police station in an effort to stop
beatings and illegal ticketing of panhandlers and the homeless? Perhaps?
No? You should check the videos and pictures @ Ottawa indymedia, however
it is somewhere in the archives.

Have a good day,
Ahmed

> Information log, only
> Ahmed asked me to delete much of the message thread "(3) University of
> Ottawa Anarchist Club seems stalled" at
> http://campusanarchistclubs.blogspot.com/, so, on Monday December 18, 2006
> I deleted the whole entry: "(3) University of Ottawa Anarchist Club seems
> stalled" (below, is a copy of the deleted page). I deleted it all because
> Ottawa is actually more than just "seemed stalled".
> Ahmed is a valuable resource and I think that we should help him whenever
> possible; but, for now without more local Ottawa contacts for me to work
> with, it looks like, Ottawa (and Kingston) are dead for a while. On the
> other hand you or I could go there and wing it. Simply grab any compliant
> semi-interested student and have him register your six point campus
> Anarchist Club (draft_1) constitution then try to do the rest by our email
> support from Toronto. An interesting tough challenge, maybe impossible
> that would really spark my sense of satisfactiion were I to succeed.
>
> I don't know whether Ahmed had discovered this truth until I had posted it
> earlier this month >> Everyone in world was becoming a communist in the
> 1920s: http://anarchistuniversity.blogspot.com/
> I don't know why Ahmed has not discovered that the wobblies (IWW) are
> communists.
> I don't think that Ahmed knows about the value of email messages being in
> the publc domain to enhance an online learning environment for community
> currency. I will be attempting to remember to add the public domain blur
> as my signature when relevant on my outgoing email messages as I have done
> immediately below.
> John
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Each letter sent to godhas4legs@gmail.com will be treated as does the
ethicalpublicdomain ...as in - These wise organizers say:

> " Each letter sent to XXX@XXX enters the PUBLIC DOMAIN whenever it does
> not state otherwise. http://www.ethicalpublicdomain.org
> Please be kind to our authors!
> Have a look at our wiki where we are creating an online learning
> environment for community currency:
> http://www.findbetterways.info/wiki.cgi?FindBetterWays/CommunityCurrency "
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> (3) University of Ottawa Anarchist Club seems stalled.
>
>
> Ahmed,
> much thanks for your reply. I posted your vauable reply at
> http://campusanarchistclubs.blogspot.com/, so if want to edit out words or
> whatever, let me know. After reading our conversation email threads from
> organizers, the IWW, the anarchist orgs or any activist can see that "when
> he signs on as a member" he only pretends to be a member and appears to
> only be a watcher or seeking an identity. In fact, some painless tiny form
> of commitment may be required, perhaps only an enforceable solid pledge if
> only one hour per week to be posted at the honor roll site for credits.
> Even then as you point out so well, we shouldn't hold our breath.
> John
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ahmed
> To: John Gilbert(2)
> Cc: Ahmed ; David Evans anarU
> Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 1:35 PM
> Subject: Re: Fw: big chief of Wikipedia
>
>
> Hello John,
>
> Thanks for the clarification.
> I would like to reply to some of your points.
> Alex never shut down the last messageboard...all of it has been my doing.
> I put the website up, as well as the old and new messageboards, etc.
>
> About Anarchist Clubs...yes, I have tried to engage other students in
> order to achieve this but I have run into a problem that keeps occuring
> over and over again.
>
> I'm sick of having to start things and talk to people myself. I am only
> ONE person and it does not seem like other people will want to help me.
> I'll be a monkey's uncle before I start running back and forth between
> people who "might" be interested in starting a club, I've done this sort
> of bullshit in the past many times and I'm not going to do it again. The
> university has a number of Anarchists but of course we get into another
> problem. Starting a club is work and they already have studies, work, etc.
> Most of them are with the IWW union (so am I) and some others are
> interested but have absolutely no motivation to move their asses to get
> something done (*anything* done). This is why I'm SICK of dealing with
> student radicals, or perhaps I just suck at dealing with the younger ones.
>
> If there is to be any serious Anarchist presence at UofO there needs to be
> people who will jump at an opportunity like this. This needs people who
> will make up ideas out of their asses and toss them around and actually
> TRY to do something in order to make them practical. People who put HARD
> work into it.
> I'll end my rant before I over-do it. You get my point.
>
> Sol,
> Ahmed
>

>> Hi Ahmed,
>> Please excuse any lack of clarity in my message. There was no reference
>> to you ...(irrelevant remaining thread text has been removed from
>> godhas4legs's message)

--
"Rise like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many - they are few."

Percy Shelley

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John said:

I don't think that people realize the value of email messages being in the publc domain to enhance an online learning environment for community currency. I will be attempting to remember to add the public domain blur as my signature when relevant on my outgoing email messages as I have done immediately below.
...John
PS:

Each letter sent to godhas4legs(at)gmail.com will be treated as does the
ethicalpublicdomain ...as in -
what these wise organizers say:

"Each letter sent to XXX@XXX enters the PUBLIC DOMAIN whenever it does not state otherwise. http://www.ethicalpublicdomain.org
Please be kind to our authors!
Have a look at our wiki where we are creating an online learning environment for community currency -

http://www.findbetterways.info/wiki.cgi?FindBetterWays/CommunityCurrency "

Medium is the message - the tactic is the ideology

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