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Sunday marked the 1 year anniversary that UC Santa Cruz molecular biologist David Feldheim and his family awoke to a firebomb that exploded on their front porch. As stated in the San Jose Mercury News, “The couple and their two children, then 2 and 4, fled the flames by climbing down a second-floor fire escape. Feldheim bruised his feet as he scrambled to safety, but the rest of his family was unharmed.” As I have stated before in my blog entry, “Just Another Day of Some Good Ole Fashioned Domestic Terrorism”, resorting to violence and putting people, especially innocent children, in jeopardy to make a point about your cause is tantamount to anti-abortion protestors rallying with signs of aborted fetuses in places where children can be scarred by those children. Does it make sense to harm the innocent while you are attempting to protect…the innocent? This is a counter-productive tact that simply does not work and makes no sense. Do they really think that these bombs are going to stop animal testing? Sure, you may scare the specific person into pursuing other, less explosive, career options; but there will *always* be someone in the wings, ready to take their position. Further, this strategy only serves to give animal advocates in general a bad name. Do you know the old saying, “People remember bad customer service experiences; not the good ones”? This is not specific to customer service. It is often human nature to remember the more outlandish, and negative, actions in any situation, than the better ones. Extreme measures, such as bombing people, are of course going to make front page news. Is this how animal advocates want to be represented? I sure don’t! For the full article from San Jose Mercury News, click here.
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