Darius Fullmer speaks about his experiences as a member of the Shac 7.
Excerpts from Wikipedia - SHAC 7
On March 3, 2006, a federal jury in Trenton, New Jersey convicted six members of SHAC of "terrorism and Internet stalking," according to the New York Times, finding them guilty of using their website to "incite attacks" on those who did business with HLS.[68] In September 2006, the so-called "SHAC 7" received jail sentences of 3 to 6 years.
Originally, seven individuals were charged, along with Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty USA. The individuals were Kevin Kjonaas (former president of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty USA), Lauren Gazzola, Jacob Conroy, Joshua Harper, Andrew Stepanian, Darius Fullmer, and John McGee. McGee was later dropped from the case.
The defendants were charged with conspiracy to violate the Animal Enterprise Protection Act, in the first application of the 1992 statute. Kjonaas, Gazzola, Conroy, and Harper were also charged with conspiracy to harass using a telecommunications device (sending black faxes). Kjonaas, Gazzola, Conroy, and SHAC USA were charged with conspiracy to commit interstate stalking and three counts of interstate stalking via the Internet. The case first went to trial in June 2005, but ended in a mistrial when one of the key defense attorneys fell ill during the opening statement. It resumed on February 6, 2006. The defense of the SHAC 7 rested largely on the 1969 case Brandenburg v. Ohio, in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that political speech is legal unless it can be shown that a defendant has told specific individuals to commit specific, imminent acts of violence. On March 3, 2006, the defendants were convicted and sentenced to an aggregate of 24 years in prison, and ordered to pay a joint restitution of $1,000,001.00.
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) is an international animal rights campaign to close down Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), Europe's largest contract animal-testing laboratory. HLS tests medical and non-medical substances on around 75,000 animals every year, from rats to primates. It has been the subject of five major leaks or undercover investigations by activists and reporters since 1989.
SHAC was started in November 1999 by British animal rights activists Greg Avery, Heather James, and Natasha Dellemagne after video footage shot covertly inside HLS in 1997 by PETA was aired on British television. The footage showed staff shaking, punching, and shouting at beagles in an HLS lab. The employees were dismissed and prosecuted, and HLS's Home Office licence to perform animal experiments was revoked for six months. PETA stopped its protests against HLS after being threatened with legal action, and SHAC took over as a leaderless resistance.
HLS tests household cleaners, pesticides, weedkillers, cosmetics, food additives, chemicals for use in industry, and drugs for use against Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and cancer. It uses around 75,000 animals every year, including rats, rabbits, pigs, dogs, and primates (marmosets, macaques, and wild-caught baboons).
It has been the subject of five major leaks or undercover investigations by activists and reporters: Sarah Kite for the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) in 1989, Zoe Broughton for Channel Four in 1996, Michelle Rokke for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in 1997, Lucy Johnston for The Daily Express in 2000, and in 2001, internal reports and documents were leaked anonymously to SHAC.
A beagle filmed inside HLS during PETA's investigation.A diary kept by Sarah Kite of the BUAV, who worked undercover for HLS for eight months in 1989, alleged that HLS workers routinely mishandled the animals, shouting at them, throwing them into their cages, and mocking them for having fits in response to toxicity tests. In 1997, reporter Zoe Broughton filmed undercover inside HLS after taking a job as a lab technician, and came out with footage showing puppies being hit and shaken. A year later, PETA filmed inside HLS in New Jersey, obtaining footage of the vivisection of monkey, where the technician is heard to express concern that the animal is inadequately anaesthetized.
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Sorry dude but what you did makes meatworks starve their animals before slaughter so there is no chance of fecal contamination. You can't win here. First you need meat eaters to go cruelty free (expensive) and then, cutting down on meat! Don't know where you live but standard food is unaffordable.
enteecee 7 months ago
love you dari
veganshani 1 year ago
I wish there more people like this brave soul. He is truly a hero to the animals!
asilverfoxlaughs 1 year ago