Sunday, September 9, 2007

Park Avenue Puppy Killers Protested Again

Demo #1 - Derryck Maughan, GlaxoSmithKline Director

Activists started their afternoon at the corner of Park Avenue and E. 71st St at the home of GlaxoSmithKline Director, Derryck Maughan. Instead of the usual heckling and bad natured antagonism that protesters are subjected to by the building doormen, the afternoon found the jokers unusually quiet and somber. Perhaps they have realized that as long as the killing continues we will keep coming back, over and over again, until the killing stops. As always, we received excellent support from pedestrians and Derryck’s neighbors, who listened with interest as protesters chanted….”500 animals were murdered today, Derryck Maughan is to blame.”

Demo #2 - John Thain, Chief Executive Officer - New York Stock Exchange

Park Avenue, between 71st and 72nd Streets found activists in front of the swanky building where NYSE/Euronext CEO John Thain resides. In an attempt to curry favor with building resident Thain, a resourceful doorman was quick to tell us that John Thain hadn’t yet moved into the building. We guess he didn’t know that on previous demos, doormen admitted that Thain was a long time resident. When we pointed out that previous doormen had made a liar of him, he quickly changed his story to say that Thain lived in the building but was not home today and then changed once again to say that he resided on the other side of the building. We wonder if he realizes that telling three different stories about Thain seriously compromised his credibility?

A loud aggressive protest ensued, as activists were fueled by the knowledge that John Thain and his New York Stock Exchange had the power to let the animal killers at HLS sink or swim on their own. Instead they choose to throw them a lifeline by listing LSR on their new ARCA Exchange. It does make one wonder how the management of the NYSE Euronext can justify the listing of a company that is not only deeply in debt; but, one that had been delisted from the London Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange twice, the OTCBB and even the Pink Sheets. The New York Stock Exchange will find out the hard way….”We never give up, we never give in and we always win.” Sadly, LSR investors will be the big losers and the ones to pay the price.

Demo #3 - James Robinson III, Chairman of the Board, Bristol-Myers Squibb

The final Park Avenue stop was one block away on E. 73rd St. at the home of Bristol-Myers Squibb head honcho, Chairman of their Board of Directors, James D. Robinson III. The large graphic banner depicting the now familiar picture of a bloody mutilated beagle puppy was unfurled and activists got busy naming and shaming James Robinson of HLS customer Bristol-Myers Squibb. The sound of the raised voices of activists chanting in unison "We will never back down, until they stop the killing” filled the air and was heard from blocks away. Protesters distributed a record number of flyers at each of the three Park Avenue locations visited.

Demo #4 - John Guttilla, Partner - Rotenberg, Meril, Solomon, Bertiger & Guttilla

A short walk away on East 86th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues, protesters returned, once again, to the residence of John Guttilla of the virtually unknown public accounting firm of Rotenberg, Meril, Solomon, Bertiger & Guttilla. RMSB&G is the company that enabled Huntingdon Life Sciences to remain a publicly traded company after the internationally renowned public accounting firm of Deloitte Touche dropped HLS like a bad habit.

RMSB&G has been allowed to hide behind a bogus name to shield themselves from the international campaign that they knew raged on around them. Experience should have told them, that you can’t hide forever. They hid like cowards for 2 years behind a phony shell name that didn’t exist and now it is time for them to pay the piper.

Once again activists went toe to toe with drunken diners at the ever popular Mexican restaurant Maz Mescal. Seems that when people drink too much, every little bitty thing gets on their nerves. Luckily police were present to protect the protesters, while they continued to educate the many sympathetic neighborhood animal lovers and while they distributed hundreds of additional flyers.