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February 22, 2008
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Hooray for UCLA
Yesterday UCLA won round one in its lawsuit against terrorists targeting animal researchers:
UCLA has sued extremists to stop a campaign of terrorism, vandalism and menacing threats directed at faculty and administrators who conduct or support research involving laboratory animals.The lawsuit was filed Feb. 21 in Los Angeles County Superior Court. After a hearing, Judge Gerald Rosenberg granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting the defendants from harassing UCLA personnel or coming within 50 feet of them during a demonstration. The restraining order also requires that personal information about UCLA personnel be removed from Web sites maintained by extremists. Those failing to comply with the terms of the restraining order are subject to contempt of court.
The bit about the posting of personal information on web sites is major. These groups engage in open incitement against scientists whose research they revile, and there is just no way this sort of behavior can be regarded as free speech. I'd like to see more such actions taken against these groups. It may all seem like an abstraction if you don't know people who have been the subject of such behavior, but it shouldn't. And if you do know people who have been so targeted, the threat is all too real.
posted on February 22, 2008 8:56 AM
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