"We're going to fucking kill you."

As previously noted, "animal rights" terrorists are not renowned for their modesty or healthy self-doubt any more than they are for their ability to sustain a coherent debate without resorting to intimidation and outright thuggery. It can't really be all that surprising, then, to observe the boorish, bullying tactics employed against the 16-year-old Laurie Pycroft, founder of Pro-Test, for having the temerity to speak his mind.

Pycroft's successful organisation of a march through the streets of Oxford yesterday to demonstrate and encourage support for the construction of a replacement (as opposed to further) biomedical research laboratory in that city, during which he was hailed as "human excrement" by the terrorists (in another shining example of their willingness to debate civilly), was dismissed by Robert Cogswell, spokesterrorist for Speak (the organisation responsible for that facile, fatuous attempt at a character assassination linked above), with the usual revealing resort to self-aggrandising military vernacular:

It is an indictment for [sic] the vivisectionists if the only forces they can muster against us are led by a 16-year-old boy. We have made clear from the outset that Oxford University is the battleground where the arguments for or against will be won or lost. We are going to pursue Oxford University wherever their interests may be.

Is it, though? Is it not rather an indictment of the terrorists that a) the case against them is so obvious that even a 16-year-old can articulate it with sufficient conviction to inspire hundreds of civilised people to mount a protest, and b) it falls to a teenager, with the adolescent's fine disregard for personal safety, to take up the case against these vicious, violent, self-righteous fascists? Out of the mouths of babes, indeed.