{"id":1052,"date":"2012-08-27T19:09:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T03:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2012-08-27T19:09:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T03:09:34","slug":"animal-group-warns-of-more-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2012\/08\/27\/animal-group-warns-of-more-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal group warns of more attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By ADA SLIVINSKI, QMI AGENCY<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:ada.slivinski@sunmedia.ca\">ada.slivinski@sunmedia.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The animal rights group behind attacks on Vancouver fur businesses says store owners can expect more assaults.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would fully expect (the attacks) to continue and perhaps escalate,\u2019\u2019 said Jerry Vlasak, spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front, based in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t really care what the law says. We care about what\u2019s right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Recently Snowflake Furs and Spieser Furs both had a noxious substance that smelled like sour milk sprayed through their mail slots. The individuals responsible remain anonymous but the Animal Liberation Front claimed responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just the latest in a series of attacks. Snowflake has been targeted three times in the last year.<\/p>\n<p>Megan Halprin, the store\u2019s co-owner, said she is afraid of what she\u2019ll find when she arrives at work in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Activists have also targeted her home. Bleach was poured on the front lawn and \u201cmurderer lives here\u201d written in chalk on her driveway.<\/p>\n<p>Vlasak said he supports these acts by the Vancouver branch. He compares the treatment of animals in the fur industry to racism and homophobia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt one time it was legal to own and enslave black people,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>Vlasak believes human rights should not supersede animal rights and promises to use whatever means necessary to fight for this cause.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver police are asking for the public\u2019s help in identifying those responsible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese people are committing criminal acts,\u2019\u2019 said Const. Lindsey Houghton of the Vancouver Police Department. \u201cThey\u2019re committing mischief, perhaps worse, if they\u2019re involved in other incidents. We want it stopped and we want to be able to hold the people responsible accountable.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By ADA SLIVINSKI, QMI AGENCY Email: ada.slivinski@sunmedia.ca The animal rights group behind attacks on Vancouver fur businesses says store owners can expect more assaults. \u201cI would fully expect (the attacks) to continue and perhaps escalate,\u2019\u2019 said Jerry Vlasak, spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front, based in Los Angeles. \u201cWe don\u2019t really care what the law &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2012\/08\/27\/animal-group-warns-of-more-attacks\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}