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Today's material brought to you by the letter A and the words Activist, Asshole, and Anarchist.

Here's A Guy That Needs A Slap On The Head

You may never have heard of this guy before, I sure didn't. His name is Stephen Best and there's a " PhD ' at the end indicating he is educated. In fact, this guy is an associate professor at University of Texas at El Paso. That says something - not just anybody off the street gets a job like that.
It seems that Mr. Best has a web page that states old Stephen is a philosopher, a writer, and an activist.
Don't get me wrong, I never got as far as university, but reading up on this guy I'm thinking maybe all that education has got the better of him and has created a monster.
Take the following as evidence of my assertion:

(from Blogs Of War website - http://www.blogsofwar.com) Animal Liberation Front: "We will break the law and destroy property until we win." Dr Steven Best, a philosophy professor and exponent of the Animal Liberation Front, told about 200 activists at the International Animal Rights Gathering 2005: "Now communism is dead, we are the new spectre in the world. We are named as the number one terrorist threat in the US and UK. Can you believe it?" He added: "We are not terrorists, but we are a threat. We are a threat both economically and philosophically. Our power is not in the right to vote but the power to stop production. We will break the law and destroy property until we win." He compared the animal rights struggle to the fight against slavery. "We are abolitionists. We don't want to reform them [vivisectionist companies], we want to wipe them off the face of the earth. We will fight, and die if necessary, to free the slaves."

That's interesting, he says that he will break the law and destroy property until he wins. Jeez - why hasn't this guy been shown the inside of a jail cell? If he comes into my house and starts going through my refrigerator and freezer, I'll have to break both his arms and legs to save my property. Son of a bitch, ..... then I'll be going to the bighouse. Someone has to stop this guy!

Actually, I never got through his whole web page - there's so much material there it would take most of the day and night. But the following lengthy item caught my attention:

The Coming Crisis:
Environmental Disaster, The Global Meat Culture, And Your Health

"Where there is disharmony in the world, death follows," an ancient Navajo saying

I. The Dialectic Of Western Culture

In so many ways, western culture is the pinnacle of human civilization: it is without parallel in its scientific and technological achievements; it is home of the enlightenment and critical reason; it has borne a pantheon of philosophical geniuses from Plato and to Kant and Nietzsche; it spawned the tradition of democracy that grants every person, theoretically at least, basic rights regardless of race, color, gender, or creed.

But there is another aspect of western culture that we donít like to think about, another face that is ugly and scarred, a dark side of the light of reason; here we find a culture bent on the domination and exploitation of all forms of life.

Side by side with the bible, Greek philosophy, the discovery of new worlds, the declaration of independence, and brilliant medical and echnological advances we find slavery, authoritarianism, inquisitions, imperialism, genocide, an appalling abuse of animals, and the rape of the natural world.

This dark side of western culture has brought us to the brink of disaster -- ecologically, socially, economically, spiritually, and in our very bodies.

Read The Complete Post

If you made it all the way through the above, I did warn you that it was a lengthy item.

No doubt about it, old Stephen has done his homework writing something the size and weight as the above item. However, I think Stephen is a man before his time. I know that I'm not ready to drop weiners 'n beans for a vegetarian salad.

Yup, this guy is a menace and I think the cattle industry or even the dairy industry has gotta take him out before some of this nonsense catches on. A world without weiners 'n beans is not a world I wanna be part of! Jeez, just think of all the congestion over at the general store with all those cows, sheep, ducks and whatnot just standing around interfering with everybody trying to pick up their mail or get some gas pumped.

The oddsmakers in Vegas would say that I made my point the hard way. I know, I do tend to go on at times, but it was important that I convey my point to you. Did you get the point? What the hell was the point.. oh, yes, the point:
Here's a guy that has a solid education and judging from his website, he's got a lucrative carreer going for him. But I gotta ask why in the hell he figures he can make certain statements like "We will break the law and destroy property until we win" and not be challenged?
I love strawberries. So - if all the local strawberry farmers don't send me three cases of berries every season I'm gonna go visit them in the dead of night and start cutting the throats of the farmers' wifes.
Would the above not get me in front of the local magistrate with my legal aid lawyer at my side? I would think so.
So maybe this Mr. Best Phd should rework his material just a tad. Just because he considers himself a writer, philosopher and activist, he should not get away with outrageous outbursts such as "We will break the law and destroy property until we win".

So that's today's post fer ya, but you'll have to excuse me now while I go out back and hop my fence. It's time to restock my freezer with some beef and I know my farmer neighbor doesn't really mind my yearly cow raids. Some day, I suppose, I should just build a gate in that fence to make this whole exercise easier!

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