Animal rights activists claim McDonalds firebomb responsibility
Published: 10 Jul 11 14:38 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/34848/20110710/
The Animal Liberation Front has claimed responsibility for Friday's fire attack at a hamburger restaurant in Gothenburg, according to local media reports.
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The posting continued, “We were in a hurry as the sun had risen and it was light outside, so we threw the containers with written ALF-messages on them and some lighted matches into the restaurant and it went up in a big fire instantly. Burn in hell animal killers and capitalists!”
Nobody was in the restaurant at the time of the attack, said to be around 5 o’clock in the morning, though damage is extensive. Police have confirmed that the perpetators will face charges of aggravated arson.
On the Bite Back website activists also claimed responsibility for other attacks in Sweden including a hunting and fishing shop in Nyköping where windrows and doors were destroyed, a Pressbyrån shop in Eskilstuna and another McDonalds in the same city, where stones and tar bombs used to smash windows in the fast food joint.
Bite Back was founded in 2001 by Nicolas Atwood, an animal rights activist in West Palm Beach, Florida, with a mission to "support animal rights prisoners of conscience and report on current events in the struggle."
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Society as a whole is helped by not eating McDonalds for the week or so it takes for the restaurants insurance company to fix things up.
Whoever did it: thank you!
Indeed.. Very well put
The Oxygen we use to breath is living creature and we kill them because we need to survive, so it not only animals.
If you look at human teeth and the animals who are eating meat. If you look at their teeth it is designed to eat meat. Like Lion tigers. we have two vampire styles teeth.
But if you look at the teeth of animal which are not designed for having meat, they eat grasses and fresh vegetables like cow, sheep and their teeth are straight flat not designed to eat meat.
Allah has designed humans to have meat and vegetables coz we got flat teeth as well.
They are set of rules that we must follow and we should not eat the unlawful animals like Pigs, Pigs eat dead animals and is very dirty and acts like pimps instead we should have animals who eat fresh vegetables like cow, sheep.
But if you can survive without having meat then it is perfect :) coz meat price would go down :)
The rights of Dog in Islam: youtube .com/watch?v=Hd24WhlFZAs&feature=related
Or just type in Youtube rights of Animals in Islam.
ALF are a bunch of cowards who need a good kick.
Yaha!!!
Haven't eaten at McD's in almost 10 years. On my way now.
To the ALF. You are just like the fundamentalist Muslims, Christians, Jews, 12 steppers and the other groups who are intent on imposing their view on everyone else.
Please bear in mind that there are people all over the world who are starving. The money you spent on petrol would have fed someone.
Sadly, ALF is just another group of children with too much time on their hands.