Author Topic: EXTREMELY SAD NEWS - The Free Felix Campaign  (Read 15311 times)

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Re: EXTREMELY SAD NEWS - The Free Felix Campaign
« Reply #26 on: October 02, 2007, 16:06:48 PM »
I've said it before, but I hope there will be a day when mankind has to answer for all of the barbaric acts they've bestowed on other creatures.

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Re: EXTREMELY SAD NEWS - The Free Felix Campaign
« Reply #25 on: October 01, 2007, 19:24:18 PM »
 :censored: hell !!!

What is wrong with people ?

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Re: EXTREMELY SAD NEWS - The Free Felix Campaign
« Reply #24 on: October 01, 2007, 19:11:56 PM »
Have just read this - SO sickened and saddened by this  :'(  Rest in peace Felix where no evil human can ever hurt you again xx

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Re: EXTREMELY SAD NEWS - The Free Felix Campaign
« Reply #23 on: September 12, 2007, 21:29:26 PM »
 :RIP: Felix i'm sorry you had to suffer, rest well big guy xx
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Re: EXTREMELY SAD NEWS - The Free Felix Campaign
« Reply #22 on: September 12, 2007, 20:29:11 PM »
That is such a sad story about poor Felix's life  :(   It is times like this I am ashamed of our human race

At least your pain is over now Felix, bless you.

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Re: EXTREMELY SAD NEWS - The Free Felix Campaign
« Reply #21 on: September 12, 2007, 15:01:57 PM »
RIP Felix. No more pain or suffering.
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Re: EXTREMELY SAD NEWS - The Free Felix Campaign
« Reply #20 on: September 12, 2007, 12:53:21 PM »
I have absolutely no qualms with the activists breaking and entering to remove these creatures..the terrorist bits i wouldnt condone but i'm surprised they dont get more of these animals out  :-:   

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Re: EXTREMELY SAD NEWS - The Free Felix Campaign
« Reply #19 on: September 12, 2007, 12:49:20 PM »
I did not see this first time round either.  This is so sad.  I have looked on the website to see if there is a statement from Oxford University but I cannot find anything?  I wonder how many more vivisection laboratories there are?  Poor Felix at least you are no longer suffering now, but unfortunately some other poor monkey probably is.

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Re: EXTREMELY SAD NEWS - The Free Felix Campaign
« Reply #18 on: September 12, 2007, 11:52:27 AM »
RIP Felix....you are free now  :(

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Re: EXTREMELY SAD NEWS - The Free Felix Campaign
« Reply #17 on: September 12, 2007, 11:47:05 AM »
Awwww, poor Felix.

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Re: EXTREMELY SAD NEWS - The Free Felix Campaign
« Reply #16 on: September 12, 2007, 00:51:54 AM »
Whoever did this deserves the same treatment. I hope they suffer in hell for it - scum scum scum.

Someone should pay for this with their life.
« Last Edit: September 12, 2007, 00:55:19 AM by Mark »
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Re: EXTREMELY SAD NEWS - The Free Felix Campaign
« Reply #15 on: September 11, 2007, 21:10:10 PM »
I didnt see this first time round,  Well i guess this is one of those times i really would like to swear to get my emotion out but i'm not allowed to.  How anyone could have looked at that little cherub and not snatched him away i just dont know, really i dont.

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Re: EXTREMELY SAD NEWS - The Free Felix Campaign
« Reply #14 on: September 11, 2007, 20:30:17 PM »
Had some really sad news today concerning Felix, he is now dead thanks to Oxford University.........I hope they are ashamed of themselves  >:(  >:(  >:(

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Re: URGENT - The Free Felix Campaign
« Reply #13 on: April 13, 2007, 11:05:01 AM »
I dont see the relavence we are not monkeys.

I do agree it's awful. Primates are the animal closest to us biologically, which is how all the experimentation on chimps etc. are justified by the people that do it.




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Re: URGENT - The Free Felix Campaign
« Reply #12 on: April 03, 2007, 21:05:10 PM »
Signed & sent the link down under with a bit of luck.  Who do these arrogant  :censored:  think they are?  Fingers crossed for poor Felix  :'( :'(

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Re: URGENT - The Free Felix Campaign
« Reply #11 on: April 03, 2007, 17:58:27 PM »
Signed.

Give me a scalpel and a vivisector - inhumane b******ds - they all deserve a painful death!!!!!

The worrying thing is, I'm not sure how long this has been running but 800 signatures is nothing  :(
« Last Edit: April 03, 2007, 17:59:38 PM by Mark »
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Re: URGENT - The Free Felix Campaign
« Reply #10 on: March 30, 2007, 13:08:22 PM »
No worries, I'm just glad they've got a petition........people are more likely to support something like this if it's just a case of signing their name........that sounds awful but most people haven't got time to sit down to write letters, I know I don't  :tired:

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Re: URGENT - The Free Felix Campaign
« Reply #9 on: March 30, 2007, 12:56:35 PM »
Thanks for finding the petition for this Dawn. I have emailed onto friends.

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Re: URGENT - The Free Felix Campaign
« Reply #8 on: March 29, 2007, 21:46:59 PM »
Thanks Dawn ...Petition signed and I have cross posted onto the hovel.

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Re: URGENT - The Free Felix Campaign
« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2007, 21:36:41 PM »
Just had another email.

There is now a Fighting for Felix Petition online.
 
Please go to: http://petitionthem.com/default.asp?sect=detail&pet=3793 and sign the petition
 
Wherever you live in the world you can play your part in helping us to Fight for Felix.
 
The SPEAK Fighting for Felix petition is just a part but nonetheless an important part in our fight to get Felix released.
 
It's important that we act NOW before it's too late.
 
Please cross post widely and forward the petition details to family and friends.
 
Felix needs each and everyone of us, let's not let him down.
 
Watch the Felix video: http://www.speakcampaigns.org/Felix/fighting_for_felix_video.php

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Re: URGENT - The Free Felix Campaign
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2007, 14:36:54 PM »
That poor animal, Im now crying and feel sick to the stomach.

Is there a petition set up or could someone set 1 up?

I dont see the relavence we are not monkeys.

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Re: URGENT - The Free Felix Campaign
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2007, 14:25:27 PM »
Just had another look at the site and I think you have to send protest letters:

http://www.speakcampaigns.org/letters.php/
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Re: URGENT - The Free Felix Campaign
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2007, 13:59:06 PM »
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I've tried looking for a petition on the sites and their doesn't appear to be one

Glad it is not just me then, I though I was missing something. Well I know I am missing something 'a brain' but that is another story.
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Re: URGENT - The Free Felix Campaign
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2007, 13:45:15 PM »
I've tried looking for a petition on the sites and their doesn't appear to be one  :censored:  The only thing I can find is about making Oxford University aware that this isn't acceptable.  I will email Speak and ask if there is a petition that people can sign and I'll let you know  :)

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Re: URGENT - The Free Felix Campaign
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2007, 13:34:57 PM »
How can we help Dawn .... is there a petition or something?
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EXTREMELY SAD NEWS - The Free Felix Campaign
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2007, 02:18:40 AM »
Felix is a primate who is currently incarcerated inside Oxford University and will be used in a series of experiments into brain function. Felix was featured in the BBC2 documentary, 'Monkeys, Rats and Me', shown in November 2006.
 
Imagine being condemned to live your whole life behind bars in a cage that is barely big enough to hold you. Imagine, never being able to see beyond the bars into the natural world that is your birthright, never breathe fresh air, never interact and form relationships with your own kind. In this life, you will be 'trained' to do tricks for a reward, and will be punished if you fail; you will have electrodes implanted deep into your brain through your skull, you will experience years of abuse and then at the end of that abuse you will be put to death. This is the fate that awaits Felix.
 
Perversely his tormentors have given him the name 'Felix' which in Latin means happy. It is a sick 'in joke' by Oxford University vivisectors, which tells us a great deal about the mind of a vivisector.
 
The Home Office licence granted for the long-term experiments on Felix allows the infliction of severe/substantial suffering.
 
Felix is a bright sentient individual whose life belongs to him and no one else.

 
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