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Animal Rights Activists Assault English Anglers

Police refuse to lay charges

By Peter J. Smith

LANCASTER, England, August 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pack of animal rights activists brazenly assaulted anglers in the latest incident of an increasingly brutal campaign waged by animal rights activists across the United Kingdom.

According to the Telegraph, a small number of families and anglers were fishing at the Bank House fly fishery at Caton near Lancaster, when a pack of 35 masked animal rights activists armed with stones and bats viciously set upon them.

"They began throwing stones at my rod and one of them said, 'It's the easy way or the hard way. You've been sabbed,'” said Lucy Belson, a resuscitation nurse at Westmorland General Hospital in Kendal who went fishing that day with a friend. “They told me to pack up and go or I was 'going to get wet'."

A scuffle ensued as a couple of anglers fought against the terrorists, stubbornly trying to defend themselves. According to Miss Belson, the hooligans had assaulted another woman, and were vandalizing several automobiles as she fled the violence.

"I decided to get out of there and go home but suddenly they all ran towards me waving bats and blocks of wood, shouting, 'Get her'. I was jostled and they smashed my fishing rod."

At the climax of the melee, police forces arrived and called in a force helicopter, an armed response vehicle and nine other vehicles. However, the animal rights terrorists withdrew from the battle, and the police declined to reel in any arrests.

"They are cowards and I certainly won't be frightened to go back to the lake,” said an angry Miss Belson. “I love fishing and I have been doing it since I was a little girl."

A spokesman for Countryside Alliance said, "It does seem to be the way animal rights extremists are heading. Their issue is not animal welfare - it is about hating people. They simply want to cause trouble."

Tom Fell, the regional director of the Countryside Alliance for Cumbria warned, "These people will stop at nothing to achieve their ends. They are a real worry and a real danger."

Lancashire police revealed that the animal rights extremists moved to attack the fishermen after having failed to disrupt a grouse shoot earlier in the day.

Across the United Kingdom, animal rights activists have demonstrated increased fanaticism in an ideology that disregards human dignity for the sake of animals, targeting pharmaceutical shareholders, farmers, anglers, and hunters in ruthless terror campaigns.

Recently police apprehended four terrorists, who had persecuted a guinea farming family and their known clients with gasoline bombs, death threats, voodoo dolls, and vandalism until a judge ended their six year spree with a 12 year prison sentence after their last act of robbing the grandmother’s grave.

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