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These graphic photographs, removed from laboratories during the recent raid on the University of Iowa, have recently been obtained by the Press Office and are available as larger files upon request. Shown are non-human primates used at UI in depraved psychological experiments. Click for Press Release.
 
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"The
Animal Liberation Front is claiming responsibility
for the liberation of 401 animals from the University
of Iowa in the early hours of November 14th,
2004. All animals on the third floor of the
UI psychology department -- 88 mice and 313
rats -- were removed, examined and treated by
a sympathetic veterinarian, and placed in loving
homes.
Additionally,
two animal labs and three vivisector's offices
were entered and all contents relating to animal
research were destroyed.
These
are:
4th
Floor - Spence Labs:
Vivisector Ed Wasserman's lab entered. Dozens
of computers and devices used in experiments
on live pigeons were destroyed.
Basement
- Spence Labs:
Lab of vivisector Mark Blumburg and others entered.
Surgical equipment and small animal stereotaxic
devices, as well as "shock boxes"
and other instruments of torture destroyed.
4th
Floor - Seashore Hall
Primate researcher Joshua Rodefer's office entered.
Computer discs, hard drives, paperwork and photos
showing Rodefer's work confining drug addicted
primates in small glass boxes removed. The remaining
paperwork detailing his monstrous work addicting
primates and rats to narcotics was soaked in
acid and the computer destroyed.
1st
Floor - Seashore Hall
Primate researcher Amy Poremba's office entered.
Computers destroyed, documents removed, and
the remainder soaked in acid.
This
raid was carried out to halt the barbaric research
of the UI Psychology Department's 7 primary
animal researchers: Professors Poremba, Freeman,
Blumburg, Johnson, Robinson, Rodefer and Wasserman.
This
was not thoughtless vandalism but a methodical
effort to cripple the UI psychology department's
animal research. Only equipment in rooms where
animals were confined and tortured were targeted.
Only computers belonging to or used in the work
of vivisectors were destroyed. Only documents
of animal researchers waere doused in acid.
The acid a deliberately chosen paper dissolving
agent. Our goal is total abolition of all animal
exploitation. Achieved in the short term by
delivering the 401 animals from UI's chamber
of hell. And in the extended term by shutting
down the labs through the erasing of research
and equipment used in the barbaric practice
of vivisection. The entire raid was a careful
and deliberate 5-pronged assault on UI's animal
research.
Behind
the laboratory doors we found drug addicted
rats, rats subjected to stress experiments involving
loud noise, rats undergoing thirst experiments,
unanesthetized rats with protruding surgical
staples and oozing wounds, and mice and rats
affixed with grotesque head implants. Inside
the labs of UI's Psych Department, we found
a bloody torture chamber showcasing the cruelest
whims of our earth's sickest minds. Professors
Freeman, Poremba, Rodefer, Johnson, Robinson,
Blumburg, and Wasserman are monsters. Tonight
401 animals are spared their reach.
Our
deepest sadness is reserved for the animals
on the 4th Floor kept from our arms, those we
were unable to save, including hundreds of mice
and rats, pigeons, guinea pigs, and 8 primates.
No
animals were released into the wild. All 401
were placed in comfortable, loving homes.
We
acted as operatives not only of compassion,
but good science. Animal research is not only
cruel but hazardous -- as data derived from
the animal models is not applicable to humans
and therefore dangerous.
Our
bypassing of UI's sophisticated, key card-access,
4-walled security system (perimeter, elevator,
corridor, animal room) should be interpreted
as a two-fold message:
1)
Our utter seriousness in achieving animal liberation.
2) If you torture animals and we not be stopped
from liberating them.
On
the ears of these monsters who know only profit
and blood, who hide behind unjust laws, our
breath has been wasted. Justice for the victims
of vivisection will be achieved not by the blows
of boycott nor protest -- but of our sledgehammers
to laboratory doors.
Let
this message be clear to all who victimize the
innocent: We're watching. And by axe, drill,
or crowbar -- we're coming through your door.
Stop
or be stopped.
A.L.F.
Communique
Addendum 1.0
The continuation of vivisection is maintained
only insofar as it remains outside public sight
and scrutiny. The ongoing research uncovered
at UI's Psych Dept. is of such a sadistic nature
as to be inexcusable by all but the sickest
minds. UI code requires all animals be kept
behind locked doors of windowless rooms, and
most often on floors locked to the public. UI
has also tagged this raid as mere vandalism
and denied an animal liberation motive despite
numerous slogans left painted at the site, all
to divert attention from it's animal research.
We confiscated paperwork from UI's 7 primary
researchers to give the public a glimpse into
the sickness kept from their eyes:
Prof.
Freeman:
Drills holes into the skulls of rats and affixes
head implants in neurology experiments involving
"electrical brain stimulation". Rats
removed from his lab were grossly disfigured
by surgically implanted devices on the skull.
All
animals in his lab were rescued.
Johnson:
Exposes rats to a series of "chronic stressors"
including loud noise and strobe lights for the
aim of "experimentally induced depression".
Also performs experiments involving the withholding
of water from rats.
All
animals in his lab were rescued.
Blumburg:
Currently subjects infant rats to prolonged
cold exposure. Famously deranged mind on record
as stating the cries of animals in labs are
an automatic response and convey no more emotion
than a sneeze.
All
animals in his lab were rescued.
Poremba:
Currently confines 8 rhesus monkeys in the NE
corner of the Psych building's 4th floor, subjecting
them to numerous stressors including reward/punishment
experiments. Places primates in a "behavioral
conditioning box", also known as a "shock
box", where primates are subjected to shock
experiments. Inside her office we found pieces
of primate brain encased in glass and blueprints
to the building.
Rodefer:
Addicts primates and rats to cocaine, methamphetamine,
and PCP in redundant drug experiments. His drug
possession license filed with the DEA stipulates
the drugs be kept in a locked safe in the building's
basement. However 2 stashes of narcotics were
found in his 4th floor office, including the
inside pocket of a jacket, suggesting he is
himself addicted to the drugs he has for years
forced on animals.
Addendum
2.0
Because of the established link between violence
towards animals and that towards humans, we
offer as a public safety measure the home addresses
of UI Psych Dept. vivisectors:
Mark
S Blumburg
536 S Summit St
Iowa City IA
Spouse: Jo McCarty
354-7339
Office: E232 SSH
Lab: 315 Spence Labs
John
H Freeman
1054 Red Oak Park Rd.
Tipton IA
886-1289
Spouse: Elizabeth Freeman
Office: E224 SSH
Lab: 307 Spence Labs
Kim
A Johnson
1401 Bristol Dr
Iowa City IA
338-5617
Spouse: Marlene
Office: E20 SSH
Lab: 318 + Basement B13 Spence Labs
Amy
Poremba
1330 Highland Ave
Iowa City IA
354-2618 (home)
319-594-1084 (cell)
Spouse: Mark
Office: E124 SSH
Lab: 4th Floor, Spence Labs
Scott
Robinson
1110 10th st.
Coralville IA
351-9455
Spouse: Karen
Office: E234 SSH
Lab: 317 Biology Building
Joshua
Rodefer
861 Normandy Dr
Iowa City IA
339-9842 (home)
331-3419 (cell)
Spouse: Pamela Keel
joshrodefer@myrealbox.com
Edward
Wasserman
1252 Oakes Dr.
Iowa City IA
354-9785
Spouse: Mary Losch
Office: E222 SSH
Lab: 4th Floor, Spence Labs
Tuyet
Nguyen
(assistant to Rodefer)
923 12th Ave
Corallville IA
319-339-7827 (home)
621-3668 (cell)
Lab
Assistants to Rodefer:
Lindsey Guynn 350-2082
Josh Fillinger 319-430-9792
Gina Huss 563-299-3434
McCabe Kenny 319-431-3615
Violet Lucca 319-431-3615
Lab
Assistants to Poremba:
Imelda 621-3079
Bethany 337-8220
Christina 708-334-9556
Damon 358-2946"
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