Last week, agents of the USA (United Speciesists of America) captured the fire-happy animal liberator ALF Lone Wolf, aka Walter Bond. His neck tattoo — “Vegan” — already marked him as a deviant flesh-abstainer in our bloodthirsty world, but it was his alleged arson against a sheepskin factory, leather factory and restaurant that served fois gras that gave us an excuse to cuff him.
Do vegans support this renegade for giving a voice to the voiceless by any means necessary, or do they wish he’d stuck to buying vegan soy frappuccinos at Starbucks?
Dnadenzien: Fellow vegans - don’t do stupid shit like this in the name of veganism, the vast majority of us will not have your back.
Sneakay: This is fucking nuts, my god.
Saucercrab: Yeah, needlessly skinning thousands of sheep to sell archaic commodities is pretty nuts!
Alex Melonas: I for one FULLY support the use of “violence”, be that property destruction or physical aggression, in principle, to stop a moral wrong. … Our exploitation of nonhuman animals is an enormous moral wrong, causing as it does unimaginable quantities of unjustifiable harm and death. So, the moral question at issue (re: is “violence” to stop this horrible wrong justified) is Yes, as it was in the past.
Eugene: The people who are ultimately responsible are the consumers: People who consume meat and other animal products. … So, since the people responsible for the torture of animals consists of all our closest family and friends, what are we going to do? Set all of their homes on fire?
Michele McCowan: Should we feel bad for the loss of livelihood of murderers? The loss of a building? … They make money off of the cruelty and death of others. How can I feel for them?
veganbikepunk: the vast majority of vegans are more interested in feeling a sense of superiority and fitting into a clique than ending animal suffering. The ALF saves animal lives, absolutely. Can PETA say the same?
‘til it breaks: Suffice to say, we hope the informant gets what’s coming to them, and may the fires of revolt burn ever more fiercely.
Ian: May the informant rot in hell.
Clare Godwin: The ALF only acts in this way once they’ve done all they can in a non-violent way but when nothing seems to be being done and the extreme suffering still exists despite the millions of petitions and protests you kind of learn that they won’t change without direct action being taken…
Mario Righi: full solidarity with him…
Ali Stone: When the breaking news came through that Lone Wolf had been captured…there was overwhelming silence from the Animal Rights so-called Community. … The silence is shameful. Have we all been so cowered and brainwashed by the likes of Roger Yates and Gary Francione that we are a movement of “non violence” (do nothing for fear of doing the wrong thing) instead of FIGHTING FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS. … It’s time the Animal Rights “community” started to realise this WAR will not be won by abandoning those doing the fighting.
ShadowVegan: May this hero soon be free so that he may go on defending the innocent.
Alice: Our official stance here at [Tiny Green Bubble] is that we do not condone violence at all, in any way. Use your words, Bond — come on! That being said … well, foie gras pisses us off, too.
