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TexasTowelie

(112,102 posts)
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 04:38 AM Feb 2017

Ecoterrorist admits firebombing Michigan State University 25 years ago

EAST LANSING – In the early morning hours of Feb. 28, 1992, Rodney Coronado crept onto Michigan State University's campus. He wiggled his way through a first-floor window of Anthony Hall before kicking down the door to the office of Richard Aulerich. The MSU researcher spent decades studying nutrition and the decline of the natural mink population. Coronado believed Aulerich's research was funded by the commercial fur industry.

Inside Aulerich's office, Coronado built a pyre using wooden desk drawers, research papers and a makeshift firebomb. He recorded his actions on video, donning a mask to protect his identity.

Coronado set the timer on his makeshift bomb before walking out. He had confidence in his work; he'd perfected the technique while carrying out half a dozen prior attacks against other universities and fur farms on behalf of the Animal Liberation Front.

“I won’t sugar coat it; we were about psychological warfare,” Coronado, who was in his mid-20s at the time, said. “We wanted researchers like Aulerich never to know when they came to work and opened their office door whether there had been an attack. We wanted them to live in fear.”

Read more: http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2017/02/23/25-years-later-admitted-ecoterrorist-discusses-firebombing-msu/98059752/

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Ecoterrorist admits firebombing Michigan State University 25 years ago (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2017 OP
That dimwit missed two things Warpy Feb 2017 #1

Warpy

(111,243 posts)
1. That dimwit missed two things
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 04:50 AM
Feb 2017

First, wild mink are rarely used, the quality of the fur is much better with farm raised animals who never face hunger or predation (except by the fur industry).

Second, the fur coat craze of the 80s had just about run its course and it was once again more fashionable to leave the fur on the original animal, fur coats being sold at auction or (shudder) in Filene's Basement.

Coronado vandalized a professor's office for just about nothing.

I inherited 2 mink coats from the mink coat craze of the 1950s. I have no clue what to do with them, they're too heavy and uncomfortable to wear even when the house is freezing. My fake fur is lighter and warmer.

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