Simulposted with Voice of the Voiceless
18 months later mink are still found living near Utah farm where William BJ Viehl liberated 650 animals.
by Peter Young
Media reports of William “BJ” Viehl’s sentencing last week for the liberation of 650 mink never neglected to mention Fur Commission USA lies about the mink’s fate: Nearly all liberated mink recaptured, the rest “hit by cars” or dead from “exposure”. Take note of this TV report which recites the “death by exposure” fur industry stock-response, while showing open sheds which are clearly not climate controlled (as mink sheds never are). A lie, hidden in plain sight.
This recent blog post by a woman in Utah vindicates BJ, and the action for which he now serves a prison sentence. Here, she writes of finding a mink in her yard, near (from what we can extrapolate from details in the blog) the McMullin Fur Farm in South Jordan, Utah:
The mink kept coming back to check out what I was doing and I kept chasing him off. Luckily he ran into our garage so we trapped him inside and Clint and I armed ourselves with nets and after lots of banging and chasing caught him. He escaped about 5 times but we finally got him in a box.
Sadly, the heartless woman returned the mink to the prison from which the animal likely came:
We debated on killing him but I wanted to give him to a mink farmer so we found one and he was happy to take the mink…
Such reports are not uncommon. Regardless of the opinion of our “justice system”, reports of what are likely liberated mink are sufficient vindication for BJ’s actions, and the nightime efforts of the Animal Liberation Front.
- Peter Young
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Peter Young is NIO’s Senior Editor of Animal Liberation and the creator of VoiceOfTheVoiceless.org. Young is a veteran animal liberation activist and former political prisoner convicted for his role in liberating thousands of animals from fur farms across the country. Emerging from a grand jury indictment, 7 years of being wanted by the FBI, a federal prison sentence, and nearly 15 years in the animal liberation movement; today Peter is a frequent lecturer at universities and events, writer on liberation movements, and unapologetic supporter of those who work outside the law to achieve human, earth, and animal liberation.
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This is very sad. It was just a frightened living intelligent being, trying to find a place to belong. Human beings are monsters. Truly. And human monsters will skin him alive. The human race truly is sick and disgusting, and I’m truly ashamed to be part of these bipedal apes called people. Truly sick and disgusting.