NEGOTIATION IS OVER! declaring war on abusers and oppressors!

Correction (January 25, 2010):  The two NIH grants awarded to Dario Ringach during 2009 totaled almost $675,000 — not $1.3 million as I previously reported.  The $368,685 and $308,000 figures represent the aggregates and, therefore, by adding all the numbers together I effectively doubled the actual award money.  I apologize for this error.  But, in all fairness, $675,000 is more than enough to buy a built-in swimming pool in Culver City (and maybe send the youngsters to private school).

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Simulposted with Thomas Paine’s Corner

by Camille Marino

I sent the following letter to Animal Mutilator Ringach.  I await his response.

Animal Mutilator Dario Ringach

From: “Camille Marino” <camille@negotiationisover.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 20, 2010 2:39 pm
To: “Dario L. Ringach” <dario@ucla.edu>

Dario Ringach, PhD
Professor of Neurobiology and Psychology
Jules Stein Eye Institute
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles

Dear Dr. Ringach:

I have a few questions and/or concerns. And, rather than publish misinformation, I want to give you an opportunity to defend yourself — far more than you ever afford your victims.

This email will be published. I invite your denials… sorry, I mean response.

1)  Here’s your chance to prove that you’re “not afraid“  and simply admit what we already know — that you do torture nonhuman primates.

Let’s be clear, it is equally deplorable to experiment on a defenseless mouse or a restrained primate (human or nonhuman). So why are you lying? Although you denied it last year, this information strongly suggested that you were still experimenting on monkeys.

And your most recent equivocation on this issue was prompted when your very own colleague, Paul Browne, confirmed our suspicions:

“Although he [Dario Ringach] did give up working with primates for a while in response to animal rights threats he has since resumed primate work, a good thing too given its importance, and [he] was a founding member of the scientific advocacy group Pro-Test for Science .”

Well, sir, are you suggesting that Paul Browne is a doddering old imbecile who cannot tell the difference between a monkey and a rat?  This was not a mindless slip of the tongue.  The phrase “HE HAS SINCE RESUMED” is an active acknowlegment and we all know it.  Or would you like to argue that Paul Browne is simply delusional? Do you think it’s time for him to retire his bloody white lab coat?

You said “I fully support and defend the use of animals (including primates) in responsible biomedical research.”  You are a vocal Mutilator Rights Activist. And I believe you are chopping up primates again… maybe for $1.3 million?

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2) According to the database maintained by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, from over 1,100 NIH grants  to UCLA in 2009, you received two awards totaling $675,000. Although their site is updated weekly, “it does not yet include contracts.”  So please feel free to revise this number.  By the way, would you care to share exactly how much pharma paid you last year and exactly for what?  (Jentsch has already admitted that this is part of the arrangement.)

Quantitative Studies of Cortical Visual Processing:  5R01EY012816-10 – 7582240

$ 242,758
$ 125,877
$ 368,635

Theoretical studies of visual cortex:  5R01EY018322-03 – 7665325

$ 200,000
$ 108,000
$ 308,000

This is not a formal FOIA letter, just idle curiosity.  How much is every dead animal worth to you? How many mice, rats, cats, dogs, and monkeys paid with their flesh and blood for… what?  maybe a new built-in swimming pool for the Ringach clan? Do you fill it with blood? How are the kids?

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3)  At least intellectually, I think I understand how you are able to commit such despicable atrocities.  Like all torture-murderers, you devalue and objectify the victim in order to enjoy the fetishized obscenity.  I think the closest comparison I can draw is to David Parker Ray.  He imprisoned, restrained, terrorized, and, with masterful precision, sadistically tortured and mutilated his victims — exactly like you. Ray referred to his victims as “packages.” You refer to your victims as “research.” The two of you may have been twins separated at birth.  But Ray is dead.

This description of your “work” proves that you are nothing more than a violent terrorist:  “Each monkey is first paralyzed, then used for a single session that lasts up to 120 hours, and finally killed.”

You hide behind welfare laws and bureaucratic technalities, but it doesn’t change the reality:  when the animals fight for their miserable lives, when they writhe in agony and scream in pain, when they clutch their mutilated bodies in a pathetic attempt to find comfort, do you feel anything at all? Do you enjoy their torment?  Do you find their helpless cries exhilarating?  This is not about science, Dr. Ringach.  You are a well-paid merchant of death.

And I can’t wait to see you out of business.

Regards,

Camille A. Marino

Camille Marino, Founder & Senior Editor. Negotiating with abusers is an exercise in futility and veganism is essential.  The only action that matters to the imprisoned is the one that imparts freedom.  It is a moral obligation to protect the innocent whenever we can — and direct action, sabotage, or subduing the violent with violence is acceptable and effective.  Free speech must be exercised or it shrivels up and dies.  Oppressors never simply relinquish their power.  They need to be subdued and removed.

If the nonhumans could fight back, their tormentors would have expired long ago. We have an obligation to expose the abusers. It is the LEAST we can do! I welcome your emails & contributions.

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