More pro-business reporting on the AR world by The Times Online (excerpt):
COMPANIES under pressure from animal rights protesters won a landmark High Court victory yesterday which paves the way for the seizure of activists’ funds.Not very, say... journalistic to make such editorial comments, but clearly serial harrassment was involved in tactics against HLS and others. I don't condone most of the more aggressive and intimidating tactics favored by some, but I do worry that this type of finance-theft-by-law could pilfer even more funds from legitimate groups, whose members donated those funds expressly for the animals. That money should not go to those companies, as it goes against everything those contributors were donating it for.
The unprecedented ruling gave Huntingdon Life Sciences permission to empty the bank account of London Animal Action, heralding the enforcement of a new tactic against the assets owned by protesters.
It is thought to be the first time that the finances of an animal rights organisation have been appropriated by one of its targets.
Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), Britain’s largest research laboratory, has suffered relentless intimidation (italics mine).
