WE'VE FOUND YOU - Demo report, Tuesday 30th May

We're waiting - what's keeping you?After a hard day at the site dedicated to animal abuse and self interest, the last thing you would want is for your anonymous and sordid enterprise to be exposed.  Well, all that has just changed. Despite the best efforts of Oxford University and its sycophantic friends in the government, over 30 supporters of the SPEAK campaign launched a surprise visit to Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire and the Fire service college. Information passed to us identified the college as being used by the masked extremists building the Oxford animal torture lab.

On arrival the activists quickly lined up outside the entrance as bemused security guards looked on, banners were lined up along the roadside and we were immediately subject to hooting car horns as passing motorists showed there support for us. It wasn't long before the security guards locked the main gates shut, much to the annoyance of many other vehicles trying to enter the extensive site. One activist approached the security guards and asked "if the workers building the animal torture lab at Oxford had returned yet", the blank faced security guard said "I don’t have any idea what you’re talking about".

Five minutes after issuing this statement a motorist stopped his car and approached the demo. He told SPEAK supporters he worked inside the college and that they had been aware that the Oxford builders were on the site and that those connected to the Fire service "were not happy about them being there." Eventually, the police arrived and again tried to give the impression that they had no idea what was happening but the agitated security guards and locked gates told a very different story indeed.

Given the appalling media coverage of late you could well be forgiven in thinking we were public enemy no 1 with no support, but the support of passing members of the public painted a very different picture indeed.

A receptionist who works at the college was asked "why dont you kick the builders out" to which the reply came "I WOULD BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO SEE THEM KICKED OUT". The only hated figures, it would seem, are the workers building a lab that will be involved in a redundant scientific practice, and one that is responsible for the deaths of million of sentient creatures and thousands of human animals. They deserve no sympathy. Their only motivation is the money they are making. They care about no one but themselves.

SPEAK understands that the wages paid for working on the Oxford animal torture lab are three times greater than would normally be paid and there’s a bonus at the end of it as well. This coupled with the news that Oxford University’s legal fees for the recent High court injunction case are to be met by the government (taxpayers) tells you all you need to know about this alliance of shame. But Oxford University can rest assured that SPEAK has friends everywhere and we will never back away from exposing the deceit and lies that are being employed by those whose only interest is in keeping their own dedication to animal suffering and dark age science alive.

Please make every effort to attend the demonstration on Sat 3rd June. Together we can stand up to the extremists of Oxford university and put an end to the violence of vivisection and the scandalous waste of resources that should be dedicated to real scientific research.