(Santa Cruz, California) Apparently following up on a threat reported on 7/31/08, animal right terrorists firebombed the home of a University of California-Santa Cruz molecular biologist this weekend.
Just before 6 a.m. Saturday, molecular biologist David Feldheim's home was firebombed, forcing him, his wife and their two young children to flee down a fire escape.A spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front, Dr. Jerry Vlasak, said, "If their father is willing to continue risking his livelihood in order to continue chopping up animals in a laboratory, then his children are old enough to recognize the consequences." Although he expressed an attitude of apparent approval, Vlasak said he didn't know who did the firebombings.
About the same time, a car belonging to a different, unidentified researcher was destroyed by another firebomb.
Santa Cruz police described the explosives as a "Molotov cocktail on steroids," and said the attack on the Feldheims' house was being investigated as an attempted homicide because the family was at home.
Feldheim performs research on mice to determine how brain connections form during development and, as such, animal rights extremists believe he deserves to have his own and his family's lives placed in danger. Sick.
Hopefully, law enforcers will gather up the perpetrators of the firebombings before they kill someone.
Also: The Jawa Report
[Update 2/23/09]
Alleged perpetrators of the firebombs have been arrested.
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