THIS is the kind of solidarity with activists persecuted by the FBI and Homeland Security that can deter the kind of aggression that give people years in prison for running a website.
It does not matter if you are an animal rights activist, a pro-Earth activist, an activist obstructing military recruiting, an anti-sweatshop activist, or any other kind of progressive activist targeted by the Enemy.

THIS is what prosecutors understand in deciding their strategy and tactics! They've been here before, when HLS sought injunctions against legal, nonviolent protest, only to get a tenfold increase in punitive and other strikes by underground warriors.

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Here is the press release from the North American ALF press office:
For Immediate Release
September 19, 2006

23 Rabbits Liberated from Massachusetts Laboratory; Action Claimed in Solidarity with Recently Sentenced Activists in Anti-HLS Campaign

Hardwick, Massachusetts- Twenty-three imprisoned rabbits were recently liberated from a rural Massachusetts animal-testing laboratory. In an anonymous communique received by the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, an unnamed group claimed the action at Capralogics in "honor" of 6 activists sentenced this week and last to lengthy prison terms for their role in the campaign to close Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), another notorious laboratory that kills 500 animals daily testing oven cleaners, pesticides, and pharmaceuticals.

According to the communique, insider-taken photographs demonstrate the rabbits "restrained in headlocks, their skin shaved off so they could be injected with various compounds. When their experiment concludes they are terminally bled, meaning they are cut and left to bleed until their life has drained away. Then, as the pictures show, they are thrown into the surrounding fields for coyotes to eat." Activists claim they will release the photographs soon.

In claiming the action in solidarity with the recently sentenced activists protesting HLS, activists are demonstrating the expected reaction of the animal liberation community to the unjust jailing of fellow activists, activists who themselves were never charged with any act of underground direct action on behalf of animals, but only for providing a website that highlighted the cruelty behind HLS and recognizing those trying to stop it.

The communique continues, in part-
"Jake, Lauren, Kevin, Andy, Josh, and Darius, as well as their 17 other lop-eared friends who have yet to be named, are all safe from the hands of those who had imprisoned and tortured them in the name of profit. This liberation is dedicated to the SHAC-7 and was done in direct response to the government's assault on them.

Not a single member of the judge, jury and prosecution have the compassion, the conviction, or the courage of any of those six individuals, and they never will. In this sick culture, we know that every day the sick, the stupid, and the evil bully and destroy those who are far their better. Every lab, farm and fur animal, every poisoned wild bird, every beaten child, every raped woman knows this. The case of the SHAC-7 is no different."

Read the entire communique here. For more information, email or call us at 818.932-9997.

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NAALPO
21044 Sherman Way # 211
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ph: 818.932.9997
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Here is the complete communique posted to the North American ALF press office.

Communiqué from unknown activists
Date: September 19, 2006
Institution targeted: Capralogics

Communique:

www.animalliberationpressoffice.org/communiques/2006-09-19_capralogics_shac7.htm

In honor of the SHAC-7, 23 rabbits have been liberated from Capralogics, a vivisection lab in rural Massachusettes. Jake, Lauren, Kevin, Andy, Josh, and Darius, as well as their 17 other lop-eared friends who have yet to be named, are all safe from the hands of those who had imprisoned and tortured them in the name of profit.

Capralogics is a small company that does contract testing on rabbits and goats in both the U.S. and the U.K. Some of the photos submitted with this communique, taken by a Capralogics employee in the U.S., show the way rabbits are treated by this terrible company - their bodies restrained in headlocks, their skin shaved off so they could be injected with various compounds. When their experiment concludes they are terminally bled, meaning they are cut and left to bleed until their life has drained away. Then, as the pictures show, they are thrown into the surrounding fields for coyotes to eat.

Of course, once we found about this we could not let it continue without trying to rescue some of the animals. So in the middle of a warm, foggy night, we hopped the cheap fencing around Capralogics' property and entered one of their four rabbit housing sheds. There were no locks to pick, no windows to pry open, no doors to bust down - the sheds are open structures and we simply had to step over a gate to enter them. One by one we went down the rows of small cages, each containing a rabbit which had most likely never felt the sun on its fur or the grass beneath its paws. Every cage in the shed was opened and we took as many rabbits as we could, 23 total.Several other rabbits were let loose into the surrounding field. With luck they will live their last days in freedom, but even if they get caught or killed as least they have had one decent night in their otherwise tortured lives.

Quickly our 23 new friends were hurried to our waiting vehicle and off we went into the night, laughing thinking about the faces on those bastards when they walked into their rabbit shed the next morning. Finally free, the rabbits quickly made friends with one another and quickly made themselves at home. The endless anger we feel towards those who torture these creatures was replaced with the immediate joy of seeing them free, happy, and on their way to a new life. We would like to point out how easy this action was - it didn't take any particular skill, just a little planning and a little committment.There are thousands of labs and farms across this country, many in isolated rural areas like this one, and most can be found online or in public directories - what's stopping you?

This liberation is dedicated to the SHAC-7 and was done in direct response to the government's assault on them. Not a single member of the judge, jury and prosecution have the compassion, the conviction, or the courage of any of those six individuals, and they never will. In this sick culture, we know that every day the sick, the stupid, and the evil bully and destroy those who are far their better. Every lab, farm and fur animal, every poisoned wild bird, every beaten child, every raped woman knows this. The case of the SHAC-7 is no different.

But we will fight back for them. Animal liberation is an idea whose time has come and a reality that any of us can create. The government and the industries it represents hate us so much because no matter who they surveil, raid, defame or imprison, they cannot kill the idea and so they cannot stop us. And while the SHAC-7 will soon go to jail for simply speaking out on behalf of animals, those of us who have done all the nasty stuff talked about in the courts and in the media will still be free. So to those who still work with HLS and to all who abuse animals: we're coming for you, motherfuckers.

Until all are free, the night belongs to us...

Owners and Location of Capralogics:

Stan and Abbey White
235 Czesky Rd
Gilbertville, MA
(413) 477-6866

Capralogics Inc,
PO Box 356,
Hardwick, MA 01037 USA
(800) 975-6866 or (413) 477-6866
Fax (413) 643-0067

Director of Capralogics in the UK:
Anthony Haines
22 Rwibibina Hill Carcliff,
South Wales United Kingdom

Capralogics Employee/Partner:
Prof. Angus Dalgliesl
7 Burdan Ln. Cheam,
Surrey SM2 7PP United Kingdom

Capralogics Employoee/Partner:
Dr. Jonathan Heaney
Biomedical Research Centre
Rijswijk, Netherlands

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Check out this report-there have been 13 actions against Huntingdonb "death" sciences related targets in the US. This is in addition to the ALF's rabbit liberation action dedicatred to the SHAC defendants.
The Federal courts have told us to "bring it on" so here it is!