AR-News: (UK) Animal rights activists are accused of inciting violence against celebritie

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

By Paul Kelbie, Scotland Correspondent 
02 March 2004 
Animal rights activists have posted the names, home addresses and telephone 
numbers of more than 100 famous people on a website inciting fellow activists 
to carry out firebomb attacks.
The celebrities, who include Billy Connolly, Harry Enfield and Jeremy Irons, 
have been targeted because of their support for hunting, shooting or fishing. 
Special Branch officers are understood to have been in contact with a number 
of people on the list warning them of the dangers.
Under the headline "Celebrity Bloodsports Scum", the website, posted by a 
previously unknown group of activists calling themselves Badgers Unknown, calls 
the celebrities "twisted perverts and walking advertisements for eugenics".
Yesterday a spokesman for the Countryside Alliance - the senior figures of 
which have also been identified - labelled the suspects believed to be behind 
the hate list as "vicious and dangerous people".
The alliance has been monitoring the site, which hints at violence and death 
threats, for a few weeks. It has already succeeded in having it pulled from 
one internet service provider only to see it pop up elsewhere. A previous 
version of the site also contained veiled threats and incitement to violence against 
the celebrities named. "These people don't live in fireproof houses. They're 
not immortal," it read.




full story:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=497004 
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