re: #232 SixDegrees

Speaking of slavery, rumors are beginning to circulate about this story, a barn in Ohio that burned down killing two people and 65 race horses, alleging that ALF or some other animal rights group was behind it. Some of these groups consider pets, race horses and farm animals to be “slaves” and advocate violence against facilities that house them to be justified on these grounds, since death (according to them) is preferable to a life of servitude.

I can’t find any actual news sources lending any credence to this interpretation; it seems too early to tell what the cause was.

Sadly, though, deliberate arson by animal rights groups is not something that can be dismissed just yet.

Damn. That is extremely screwed up. Some domestic terrorism sources have warned that escalation by ELF and other animal rights/Gaia/anarchist groups was inevitable, and that people would be killed.

I hope that is not the case here.