I just noticed a new comment pending approval on our site. Turns out it’s from being linked by the charming thugs at Negotiation Is Over, the people who put up all that personal information about animal researchers¬†on their web site and encouraged their comrades to terrify and humiliate the children of researchers, etc.

And we’re in good company! It’s the first time I’ve ever seen our name on the same page as such luminaries as PZ Myers and Orac. The page they put us up on¬†explains how we are the enemy of all that is good. There are bad photoshopped pictures of people in torture devices, and then Camille, the insane woman who appears to run this site, makes her plea:

At UCLA we take our stand. In the guarded stench of privilege and speciesism on the green hills of this campus, where terrorism and murder have for too long been ignored and tolerated, here is where we draw a line in the sand and reinvigorate the militant direct action tactics that the pundits and pacifists say are outmoded and counter-productive. Here is the Rubicon for us to cross, and once we do, we fight, and we take the fight anywhere and everywhere animals are imprisoned, held captive, tortured, and murdered, as we burn into our hearts the words that species terrorism is never justified under any conditions!

Yes, that’s right. They aren’t terrorists. But they are reinvigorating the militant direct action tactics of days gone by. Well, I for one don’t plan on living in fear. Sorry, my new terrorist pals, but me thinking you’re a creep isn’t about to change. Gnash your teeth and cry out for fuzzy four-footed justice against me and all my vivisectionist pals while we sit around enjoying “carefree days of bathing in blood and peaceful evenings spent dreaming up torture regimens”. Or better yet, read what I originally wrote and understand the words I chose.

I support animal testing, but I don’t support cruel or unnecessary tests. I think that it’s important to have groups who keep the interests of the animals in their minds. We disagree on where the line is drawn. I make my case by commenting on a blog and hopefully triggering some conversation. You make your case by threats, intimidation, terror, and in general, being a dick. Congratulations.

Jim