The Abyss

Several months ago I announced that I would be shutting down this blog.  I made this decision during a particularly dark time in my life and certainly the lowest point of my involvement in the fight to save animals.  For several years I attempted to get information out of the University of Alberta regarding the animals that are tortured and killed in their "labs" in the name of "research"  In light of the horrific ways that animals are tortured and killed by sadistic, subhuman "researchers" at this institution it came as no surprise that the University refused to provide me with any information.  Since this barbaric institution's "research" is funded to the tune of nearly HALF A BILLION TAXPAYER DOLLARS I appealed their refusal to provide the information to the Privacy Commission of Alberta which turned out to be a complete waste of time because, as I found out, in the undemocratic province of Alberta there is no way to win a case based on the argument that the information is a matter of public interest.  No matter what argument I made the privacy commissioner sided with the University of Torture.  Apparently citizens have no right to know what their tax dollars are going to fund and after all why should they - it's only the public's money! 

The University was forced, when I filed my appeal with the Privacy Commissioner, to defend their refusal and I was provided with a copy of their submission.  I cannot even begin to describe the anger and hatred that I felt as I read the submission that Harry Davis, the "Privacy Advisor" submitted.  To call it a hatchet job would be far too mild but it is the best description I can come up with.  It comprised 2 volumes most of which concerned how much of a danger I was to the University.  Simply by making a legal request for information I was, as far as the University of Alberta was concerned, a "terrorist" who might attack the University at any time!  Harry Davis quoted at length from posts on this blog which he claimed backed up his claim that by providing me with information on the horrors taking place behind closed doors on this publicly funded campus would put the safety of the institution and researchers at risk.  This is the same tired justification that every institution and lab puts forward to keep the horrors in their labs secret.  It is always that vivisector's lives are in jeopardy from the horrible animal rights activists.  The fact that there has never (unfortunately) been a vivisector seriously injured or killed by an animal rights activist makes no difference to them,  In fact the closest a vivisector has ever come to receiving the punishment that they so rightly deserve was when a number of brave activists attacked Brian Cass of HLS as he was walking to his car several years ago.  Unfortunately Cass was not killed and he went right back to running the HLS torture chambers.  Apparently I should find a new way to describe the "facilities" at the University of Alberta and other institutions since Harry Davis used this terminology to justify his allegations of my dangerousness.  I wasn't aware that accurately describing facilities was part of the profile of a terrorist but apparently it is.  One of the aspects of my blog that offended and horrified Mr. Davis was my posts on the sadistic youths who decided it would be a lot of fun to break into a house and then torture and kill the family's pet cat by putting it in the microwave and then turning on the microwave.  As was revealed in court Princess, the cat, screamed in agony for 10 minutes before she died.  I stated in several posts on this blog, as well as elsewhere, that these pieces of garbage should be publicly identified and not allowed to hide behind the anonymity that the law in Canada provides them with.  I also stated that they deserved to die for what they did.  I was hardly the only person to express these sentiments and I stand by them.  Mr. Davis was, however, appalled that I felt this way and had expressed it.  I obviously offended Mr. Davis' extremely delicate sensibilities.  Personally I would be far more worried about someone who defended and sympathized with these sadistic, unfeeling pieces of garbage than I would be about someone who felt that they should pay the ultimate price for the horror that they inflicted on a defenseless animal.  In Mr. Davis' world, however, believing this and expressing it makes me a terrorist and a threat to the University.  Mr. Davis and people like him are apparently unable to differentiate between a threat and an expression of an opinion.  At no point did I say that I wanted to kill or injure the cat killing freaks but I certainly will not shed any tears if someone else does or if they do the right thing and end their miserable useless lives themselves.  I will definitely celebrate if this happens to them, however and I will not apologize for that.  Mr. Davis was even more upset at one of my posts were I said that those who were opposed to animal rights or my stand could call me a terrorist or anything else because I got called that regularly by opponents.  While I did put this in one of my posts it was actually paraphrasing the great Keith Mann who has made this comment on several occasions.
Mr. Davis was so appalled at my posts and my request for information that he or someone else at the University decided that I should be reported to CSIS.  They couldn't report me to the police because I had not broken any laws or even threatened to break any laws but just the suspicion of a person being a "terrorist" is enough to get CSIS interested.  It never fails to amaze me how pathetically stupid some people can be.  If I was planning to attack the University or the torturers that are employed by this foul institution I would certainly not have openly requested information.  It is not like it is particularly difficult to find out where the labs are located at the University if I, or any other person, intended to attack them.  All anyone would have to do is spend an afternoon at the University and speak to some students.  They will quite happily point you in the right direction. 
I have deleted a number of posts from this blog not because I don't stand by what I wrote (I stand by everything that I have ever posted here) but because it was time to start fresh.  Since I posted that I was not going to be posting here any longer I heard from a number of you who read my blog encouraging me to continue posting.  I actually didn't realize that there were as many that followed my postings as there were.  I will post here again on a semi-regular basis as time allows, however, I do have a life outside of animal rights and there are only so many hours in a day.  I have changed the comments settings so that anonymous comments are no longer allowed.  I have done this because the majority of anonymous comments were from those who disagreed with my writings and were quite often abusive.  I have no problem with people disagreeing with what I write but if all you want to do is fire off a string of obscenities or making threats then I have no interest in reading them.  To those of you who encouraged me to come back and post again I thank you and I look forward to hearing from you regarding my future posts be the comments positive or negative.

As for Harry Davis it is my fervent wish that you, and the vivisector slime that you defend and support, rot in the darkest corner of Hell for all eternity after enduring a prolonged and painful death from any one of the multitude of diseases that are out there.