At this very moment, through the streets of Phnom Penh, in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro slums in many Caribbean, all places inhabited by poor people fight for survival with little hope of improving their living conditions will also find strays, hungry, limping and mangy. In the Southeast Asian sun bears connect to serum bottles, like ketchup dispensers of living, and they drain bile for medicinal purposes in the Eastern tradition. There is great demand for rhino horn, bear paw, shark fin parties are still living creatures of all kinds of scenarios for its healing properties, or as a holistic alternative to the VNo two businesses adjacent-devastated Manrique's house, his car sprayed with acid and threatened him with phone calls and letters.
Most unforgivable is that Manrique sent a videotape, filmed surreptitiously from her garden, which shows his wife and child of two years in the house, along with a letter warning them that they are being monitored.
is a tactic unworthy of the mafia. He has not even sunk so low the Gambino crime family, to my knowledge. Is the type of activity envisaged by the Central American death squads and clans of the drug in Colombia, and it is surprising - nay, is obviously horrible, to be deployed such crime at the core of the correction cornyNo politics.
But on the other hand, is a symptomatic act of cowardice and self-delusion of these believers anti-yuppies. Possibly accomplices - as all-with its comfortable shirts and shoes without leather (funded by the underpaid labor of a dictatorship far), goes around strutting their preppies fuel-efficient cars to Sonoma (which is not far from their homes estate) and destroy small businesses of victims that have nothing to do with the controversy. Terrorizing a mother and child.
I've always been a mixture of revulsion and gratitude the people of * PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) (if it supports the objectives of the alleged breakaway faction responsible party is held to beof the means), I personally do not buy or I will never skins, provided there is some other material. I do not do hunting as a sport. I find it distasteful and unnecessary. Although I have killed rabbits for food, the experience gave me deletie one, and never again repeated. The idea of testing cosmetics on animals seems chillingly cruel and unnecessary. (Unlike the medical evidence, I accept, albeit reluctantly.) I have an adorable kitten I adopted three kilos in a shelter and is the queen of my home. For irritating, offensive, stupid or lacking heard that PETA members are sometimes, I always glad to be there to remind us that carry the cost in lives and pain, the luxuries we enjoy. Whileeros illegal. There are also dog fighting and cockfighting. But people who runs these businesses can be armed, and if anything we can be sure of is that those who committed extortion Manrique do not want holes in their clothes. They do not want to miss her job at the health food store. Not do anything that its proponents or the attorney for dad to throw them in the face afterwards. Instead of risking damage or disruption in the real fronts in Burma, China, Africa or even in the streets of Oakland, have preferred to commit the crime of extortion relatively affordable to a chef and his family. If these guys are convinced, like people of Hezbollah, the correctness of their cause, were capable of shame, thenis undoubtedly would be embarrassed now.
The burglary, property destruction and extortion are serious criminal offenses. Acting as a group, by mutual agreement in a criminal enterprise - as no doubt these people made hateful, hateful, is comparable to organized crime. Décourager Pour les autres, I hope that when they throw down the gauntlet, the judge and condemn as the federal RICO conspiracy statute, so as to spend the rest of their lives eating prison ranch. And I offer my full support and understanding to Laurent Manrique, a great chef, a good man and a proud Gascon.
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