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Man Sets Himself on Fire at Portland Fur Store

Friend | 28.01.2010 16:42 | Animal Liberation | Ecology

Memorial demos worldwide or what?...



Serious news.

A man set himself on fire Wednesday outside Ungar Furs in Portland, Oregon. After dousing himself with gasoline, he attempted to enter the store, shouting “There are animals dying! Animals dying!” After police extinguished the flames, he was taken to Legacy Emanuel Hospital where he later died.

The man was identified as 26-year-old Daniel Shaull from Kansas. Among the local activists I have spoken to, none are familiar with Shaull by name, nor recognized him as being a part of the active, long-running campaign against Ungar Furs. Yet the location and witness reports strongly indicate this man sacrificed himself to bring attention to the horrific treatment of animals on fur farms.

A news report, which aired prior to Shaull being announced dead, can be viewed here.

Ungar Furs is a retail fur store in Portland which has been the target of a prolific campaign by local activists. Ungar became a target after frequent protests successfully closed another Portland fur store, Schumacher Furs. The owners of Schumacher Furs gave animal rights activists full credit for shutting them down in 2007.

Amidst a range of speculation, I think it is important to assume this is a genuine action by a person driven to make the ultimate sacrifice by the severity of animal suffering. When every legal channel to affect change is closed, people will increasingly be driven to actions which bring both attention to the plight of animals, and a disruptive effect to those who kill them.

Shaull is not the first to give his life in the U.S. animal liberation struggle. This is a time to remember William Rodgers, who took his life in an Arizona jail in 2005 while being held for numerous Animal Liberation Front actions. It is also a time to remember Alex Slack, who took his life while awaiting trial for the A.L.F. bombing of the Utah Fur Breeder’s Agricultural Cooperative in 1999.

If anyone knows Daniel Shaull, please contact Voice of the Voiceless, so that we can make the full story of this action known.

To those who claim the animal rights movement is “violent”, this action should be yet another reminder that every casualty to date has fallen on our side. Daniel Shaull is just the latest victim.

“If this is what the world has made of us, then let it live with the consequences”.

-Peter Young

Original article with links  http://www.voiceofthevoiceless.org/man-sets-himself-on-fire-at-portland-fur-store/

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Latest victim?

28.01.2010 17:49

"To those who claim the animal rights movement is “violent”, this action should be yet another reminder that every casualty to date has fallen on our side. Daniel Shaull is just the latest victim"

He is his own latest victim? and yes his death was violent.

Eh?


i hate thinking of titles

28.01.2010 18:05

Oh come on mate, dont disrespect the dead like that, his death may have been at his own hands but it's no reason to discredit him this way, no one would have said that about (and please excuse the spelling) Thich quang duc. He made his protest now crack on with yours and don't troll.

Anti-fash


Typical police

28.01.2010 19:20

As usual they were attempting to stop an animal rights protest!

Anon


Reality check

28.01.2010 20:00

'Amidst a range of speculation, I think it is important to assume this is a genuine action by a person driven to make the ultimate sacrifice by the severity of animal suffering. When every legal channel to affect change is closed, people will increasingly be driven to actions which bring both attention to the plight of animals, and a disruptive effect to those who kill them.'

You are an idiot.

The poor bastard wasn't an animal rights martyr but a very ill individual who was suicidal:

 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-man-on-fire,0,3411771.story

Durruti


LA times reports:

28.01.2010 20:07

LA TIMES SAID THIS TWO HOURS AGO:

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The father of a man who died after setting himself on fire in downtown Portland says his son was mentally troubled and living on the streets.

Authorities say 26-year-old Daniel Shaull, of Dodge City, Kan., died Wednesday shortly after setting himself on fire near a downtown fur store. His father, Warren Shaull, tells The Oregonian newspaper that his son arrived in Portland last week and was suicidal when he left Kansas.

Shaull says his son called home Wednesday to ask for a sleeping bag and money, saying it was cold on the streets at night. Although the fur store has been the site of numerous protests, Shaull says his son's act was not political. He says his son was mentally ill and tired of living.


this doesn't mean it wasn't political, but its interesting that they made the point of mentioning his father's side. we dont even know at this stage if he got on with his father, as i wouldn't trust my mother to tell the press about the ins and outs of my mind, even if she thought she knew me well......

fly in peace
(rest in peace sounds to final, in my opinion)

fran


"it is important to assume"

29.01.2010 10:35

I can't quite believe that the OP actually wrote "it is important to assume".

so you are instructing us to suppose something is the case without sufficient evidence, just because it fits with an AR activist ideology?

not good enough i'm afraid

unassumer


seems pretty straightforward

29.01.2010 15:01

At the end of the day, a guy walks from wherever to a fur emporium, covers himself in gasoline ignites himself shouting that animals are dying in which I presume he may, only may have been making reference to the fur emporium he was standing, aflame, outside. RIP

2+2


Hardly an animal rights martyr

29.01.2010 18:22

> At the end of the day, a guy walks from wherever to a fur emporium, covers himself in gasoline ignites himself shouting that animals are dying...

Hardly the actions of a sane, rational person methinks. To attempt to claim this as some sort of victory for the AR movement is frankly pathetic and plumbs new depths even for these sickos. The poor guy was clearly a few sandwiches short of a picnic and almost certainly had no idea what he was doing.

Sane Person


FFS

29.01.2010 19:36

i wanna get something straight as far as this guy is concerned. there is still nothing to prove that he was "insane" or indeed, that insanity, whatever the measurement, is a prerequisite to acting to raise awareness of something one feels strongly about in such an extreme manner23rrrr.
yes his father said he had "illness", but the criteria for "illness" is far reaching and massive in scope. for example, around 1800 or more criteria exist for to call someone "schizophrenic". that basically means there are approx 1800 or more things that can be "symptoms" of schizophrenia. its a complex thing to "diagnose" someone with an "illness".
isn't it the world that is ill, and that this man was completely rational and driven to it by the extreme and horrible nature of animal cruelty and animal enslavement and its industry?
why cant he be a martyr?
please discuss, as most of you seem to think that just because his dad, who even says he was a clever lad, says he was ill, you then automatically assume he couldn't have made an informed choice to end his own life, one that made him suffer as he was aware of the true struggle that faces us, a struggle under the weight of this horrible system, this vile and corrupted and enslaving system.
why couldn't he have thought, "bugger it, i'll do ity and then we'll see what the reaction in the "movement" is......im sure he wouldn't have wanted us to bicker thus, but to carry on the fight, and remember him, and, as he allegedly said, to love him.........

fran


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