Austria: '....menacingly armed operations are a strike against all forms of civil liberty...'

Nobel Laureate Elfriede Jelinek comments Austrian police raids

"I find such brutal actions against unsuspecting people scandalous.

Criminal acts should be punished, but this operation against animal welfare activists appears thoroughly excessive.

All citizens have the right to actively stand up for or demonstrate against something.

It is particularly important to stand up for animal rights because animals cannot stand up for themselves. People must do it for them.

Animals, like all the defenceless, rely on this protection.

Such menacingly armed operations are a strike against all forms of civil liberty and must be strongly rejected."

Elfriede Jelinek, Author
2004 Nobel Laureate in Literature

Source: Message Elfride Jelinek (scroll)

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