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Publicado hace 7 años por Cineojo a diagonalperiodico.net

El 5 de noviembre de 2001, un vecino de Northampton de nombre Barry Horne murió bajo la custodia del gobierno británico. Cumplía 18 años de condena, acusado de llevar a cabo lo que denominaron una “campaña incendiaria” contra la farmacéutica Boots, que experimentaba sus productos en animales. La condena de Horne era la más larga que se ha impuesto a un activista por la liberación animal.

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Pezzonovante

Que curioso que en la noticia apenas explica porque este pobre hombre estaba en la carcel. Debe tratarse de un preso p[olítico de esos que por aquí gustan tanto.



"After his release in 1994, Horne reportedly began to work as a one-man clandestine cell. Keith Mann writes that the nature of police interest in animal rights activists was such that working alone was safer, and Horne was anyway a reserved man, happy to go out alone and "do stuff," as he put it.[15]

A number of night-time firebomb attacks, using home-made incendiary devices, took place over the next two years in Oxford, Cambridge, York, Harrogate, London, Bristol, as well as Newport and Ryde on the Isle of Wight. The attacks targeted Boots stores, Halfords, stores selling leather goods, and stores run by cancer research charities. Some of the attacks were claimed by the Animal Rights Militia, a name used by activists unwilling to abide by the Animal Liberation Front's policy of non-violence. Mann writes that it "wasn't rocket science" to deduce that Horne had something to do with the attacks, because very few activists were willing to plant incendiary devices, and Horne was known to be one of the hard core who would. The police were therefore watching him closely.[16] According to Mann, Horne knew he would be caught, but he saw animal rights activism as a war, and he was willing to become a casualty.[17] Police raided his home in Swindon, Wiltshire after the bombing campaign on the Isle of Wight, and reportedly found material advocating such attacks, but he was not charged.[5] Police kept him under surveillance, and he was arrested in July 1996 and charged with planting two incendiary devices in the Broadmead shopping centre in Bristol—one in a charity shop and the second in British Home Stores, set to explode at midnight, when he assumed they would be empty.[4] Police found a further four devices in his pockets.[18]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Horne#Firebombing_and_arrest

D

#4 Por lo menos quemaba tiendas y objetos asegurándose de no dañar a nadie. Yo a la gente que ppr ideales destruye y quema cosas sin causar bajas humanas la respeto. A no ser que quemen mi coche, claro. Mi coche no.

D

En su honor sacrificaremos un cordero lechal.

Cineojo

#1 A ver si eres capaz de asesinar con tus propias manos. Espero que no seas tan hipócrita de pagar mercenarios para que asesinen para ti.

D

#2 Tío, yo cazo mis propias ardillas. A saber que mierdas le ponen en los grandes hiper mercados. No me fío.

Cineojo

#3 Comete a tu perro.

D

#6 Si está caliente.

Cineojo

Extracto del articulo: "Sin pruebas concluyentes sobre su participación en la acción concreta que se le imputó, la condena histórica fue entendida por miembros del movimiento como “ejemplarizante”."

Ni siquiera lo pueden explicar los jueces. Debe ser esa prisión preventiva que por allí os gusta tanto.