The curse that is animal rights activism - a recipe for true justice

Here we go again. After realising that their usual terrorist activities were no longer having any apparent effect, measured in terms of regular news coverage, some animal rights activist (read terrorists) in the UK have begun to send threatening letters to shareholders in the research company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). They are no longer content to threaten the company and its partners, but find it necessary to sink even further into the gutter than they already were.

I have come upon what may be the perfect solution to the plague upon society that these fanatics have become.

(1) All hospitals should immediately draw up a list of fanatical animal rights activists and their sympathisers. Hospitals all over the country (over the whole world if needs be) should be able to partake of information on this list, in the same way as they do in the case of organ donors, etc.

(2) Anyone who needs medical care, whether at a hospital or at a health centre, should be checked off against this list. If the patient appears on the list then he/she should be refused care with medicine that has been tested on animals – which may well be the bulk of all medicines required. The check should not be regarded as anything more than a routine matter, i.e., it should be regarded in the same manner as the checks which are conducted to establish whether a patient is allergic to certain drugs or has a certain blood type.

(3) Anyone who needs medical care, whether at a hospital or at a health centre, should be checked off against this list. If the patient appears on the list then he/she should be refused care with medicine that has been tested on animals – which may well be the bulk of all medicines required. The check should not be regarded as anything more than a routine matter, i.e., it should be regarded in the same manner as the checks which are conducted to establish whether a patient is allergic to certain drugs or has a certain blood type.

(4) Members of staff who begin to become soft-hearted should harden their resolve by simply considering all the victims who have been subject to crude attacks and been harassed by animal rights activists, as well as the number of hospitals, cars and offices that have been destroyed and lives ruined because sensible people dared to think in a different manner from the fanatics.

Would these people continue to behave in such a despicable manner if such a plan were implemented?