{"id":2905,"date":"2012-01-10T01:16:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T07:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=2905"},"modified":"2013-02-03T15:58:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T21:58:13","slug":"coalinga-ca-claim-of-responsibility-for-arson-of-14-cattle-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=2905","title":{"rendered":"Coalinga, CA: Claim of responsibility for arson of 14 cattle trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.abclocal.go.com\/images\/kfsn\/cms_exf_2007\/_video_wn_images\/8498386_600x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" \/><em>anonymous communique from <a href=\"http:\/\/directaction.info\/news_jan09_12.htm\">bite back<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>at about 3:40 am on sunday, january 8th, 14 cattle trucks caught fire at the harris feeding company in coalinga, ca <em>[near Fresno]<\/em>. containers of accelerant were placed beneath a row of 14 trucks with 4 digital timers used to light 4 of the containers and kerosene-soaked rope carrying the fire to the other 10 (a tactic adapted from Home Alone 2 [if you&#8217;re going to try this make sure to use kerosene, gasoline dries too quickly]). we weren&#8217;t sure how well this was going to work, so we waited until there was news reports before writing this. we were extremely pleased to see that all 14 trucks &#8216;were a total loss&#8217; with some being &#8216;completely melted to the ground.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->we&#8217;re not going to use this space to expound upon the horrors and injustices of factory farming. there is more than enough armchair-activists and those of passive politics who are more than willing to do that (anything to keep from getting their hands dirty). we, the unsilent minority (the 1%, if you will), choose a more direct form of action.<\/p>\n<p>we&#8217;re not delusional enough to believe that this action will shut down the harris feeding company, let alone have any effect on factory farming as a whole. but we maintain that this type of action still has worth, if not solely for the participant&#8217;s peace of mind, then to show that despite guards, a constant worker presence, and razorwire fence, the enemy is still vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>finally, to all those who fantasize and romanticize about direct action yet remain on the fence: there is a lot of stuff that needs to be destroyed and we can&#8217;t count on spontaneous combustion and careless welders to do all the work.<\/p>\n<p>until next time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/kmph.images.worldnow.com\/images\/16473661_BG2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.abclocal.go.com\/images\/kfsn\/cms_exf_2007\/_video_wn_images\/8498386_600x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>anonymous communique from bite back: at about 3:40 am on sunday, january 8th, 14 cattle trucks caught fire at the harris feeding company in coalinga, ca [near Fresno]. containers of accelerant were placed beneath a row of 14 trucks with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=2905\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2532,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[880],"tags":[176,197,59],"class_list":["post-2905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actions","tag-california","tag-fresno","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2532"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2905"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2934,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions\/2934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}