WEEK OF ACTION DAY 3 >>

Oh boy the vivisectors sure showed their true colors today!

In the afternoon a handful of activists again showed up to protests AALAS and their bloody ties to Huntingdon Life Sciences. Media also showed up and took DVD's of the cruelty footage inside Huntingdon Life Sciences and Covance. While speaking with the photographer for the Deseret News, a conference attendee approached one of the activists and said "if you are ever sick you should just die instead of going to the doctor, because any treatment you receive was tested on animals." We are intelligent people and we absolutely would refuse any treatment that was developed on the basis of animal studies - look where that got recipients of the first radial keratotomy who were permanently blinded because the rabbit eye is different from the human eye; or the countless other people that have died because of misleading animal studies. We tried giving her a DVD and engaging in polite conversation but her macho boyfriend felt like intimidating and assaulting the activists. He made violent gestures and shouted threats at the activist while conference attendees stood by smirking and security at the event stayed put filming the incident. If any activist would've done what he did to us we would be in jail and accused of committing terrorism. Police did eventually respond, track down this violent person, and the gentleman is now being charged with assault. When police asked the security for the footage they shot of the event, they were less than forthcoming. No one from the conference who watched was willing to be a witness to aid prosecuting this violent man. Boy, they sure care about people!

Videos and a police report of the entire fiasco will be on this website at a later date.

That evening, still angry from being threatened with violence by people associated with conference, we wanted to display we wouldn't back down. We think only of the animals inside your labs and nothing you can do to us can possibly be as bad as what they go through. We showed up at the Layton home of IACUC administrator Steven Dickman who was also a presenter of the AALAS conference. We saw him going in and out of the Salt Palace throughout the week and we wanted to have a chat with him about the experiments he's approved when he was at home and out of his element. We knocked on his door and we saw him through the window. He promptly turned off his lights, closed his blinds, and called the police. Because we are law-abiding peaceful protestors, we promptly left his property and carried out a protest on public property. Police showed up and demanded everyone's ID even though they admitted no law was broken. With the exception of one activist, no one showed any identification for the entire 45 minutes they pressured us to do so. After creating an enormous spectacle with literally more police than protestors and a million bright lights, they finally let us leave.

We don't back down - we know you're violent people, that's why you vivisect. You can try intimidating us, taking our photo, or suing us and we'll keep coming back strong until animals no longer suffer at your hands.

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