Animal Rights Hall of Shame: Rodney Coronado

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Meet Rodney Coronado.

Convicted Arsonist. Anarchist. 

Rodney Adam Coronado, like the majority of animal rights activists has no education in animals.  He's just an anarchist looking for fame and glory.   The animal rights field gives that in spades.  Coronado is a worldwide celebrity. 

He started out as a pirate joining the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society back in the mid-80's as a teenager.  The terrorists of Sea Shepherd are famous for ramming and sinking fishing ships.   Their boats are fitted with water cannons, a concrete filled bow to help them 'ram' other boats and an attachment labeled the 'can opener' to help them tear open ship hulls.  Sporting skull and cross bones flags, anarchists like Coronado and his pal Paul Watson have made a career out of terrorizing other nations because they disagree with fishing of whales.   There is nothing cruel or inhumane about fishing for whales.  Whales are nothing more than a really big fish.  Fishing for whale is no different than fishing for salmon.   Whales just feed a lot more people. 

With Watson's support Coronado executed an attack to ram and sink two fishing boats and destroy a processing facility causing $2 million in damages.  The operation was successful and on November 9, 1986 he and a fellow terrorist sank half of Iceland's whaling fleet.

In November 1986, Coronado and David Hewitt sabotaged a whaling station and sunk two whaling ships in Reykjavik, Iceland.

After boasting about the operation in the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) publication, No Compromise, he was arrested in Canada and jumped bail.  Coronado then turned to fire for fun and kicks, by burning down a university research lab in Michigan, a farm at Oregon State University and broke into more than one farm to steal animals and 'set them free.' 

From middle to late 1991, he attacked Oregon State University and five other sites, including private farms and other research facilities.   The attacks ranged from vandalism to firebombing.  One attack completely destroyed a farm in Yamhill, Oregon. 

In 1992 he firebombed a laboratory at Michigan State University.  The explosion and resulting blaze destroyed three decades of medical research turning it into ash, some of it previously unpublished and now lost forever.   The fire caused more than $1 million in damages.  The ALF immediately claimed credit for the fire.   Coronado was quickly suspected since the FBI already suspected he was behind a number of other arson attacks.   What Coronado didn't know is that the FBI had finally decided to go after these domestic terrorists and had launched "Operation Bite Back."

He wiggled his way through a first-floor window of Anthony Hall before kicking down the door to the office of Richard Aulerich. The MSU researcher spent decades studying nutrition and the decline of the natural mink population. Coronado believed Aulerich's research was funded by the commercial fur industry.

Inside Aulerich's office, Coronado built a pyre using wooden desk drawers, research papers and a makeshift firebomb. He recorded his actions on video, donning a mask to protect his identity.

Coronado set the timer on his makeshift bomb before walking out. He had confidence in his work; he'd perfected the technique while carrying out half a dozen prior attacks against other universities and fur farms on behalf of the Animal Liberation Front.

At the time his bomb went off, the building was filled with students.  Luckily they all managed to get out and no one was harmed.  While firefighters were attempting to put the blaze out, Coronado and other terrorists were overwhelming University fax lines by sending an avalanche of animal rights propaganda to University machines, clogging and shutting down the phone lines. 

He went on the run and spent two years hiding on a series of Indian reservations under aliases such as 'Leonard Robideau.'  First at Standing Rock Sioux in South Dakota before ending up in Arizona while the FBI searched for him.  Finally caught, he plead guilty to arson in a deal to have other charges against him dropped and was sentenced to almost five years in prison.    Even then, at one point, he attempted to flee while handcuffed. 

During the fight, his support committee received a check for over $70,000 from PETA while he played one victim card after another.  He claimed he was innocent.  He claimed to have simply been in the area.  He claimed his First Amendment rights and stated he was just a 'spokesman' for ALF.    

Like many convicted felons in the animal rights field, he's now a sought after public speaker and author.   From at least 2002 until his arrest in 2006, under the guise of the First Amendment, he advocated violence against various targets including during a 60 minutes interview. 

In 2002 in one of his public speaking events, he bragged that he was responsible for at least six other arsons.   In January 2003 during a speech at Washington, DC's American University, he demonstrated how to built a firebomb to university students.    During an August speech in San Diego held 15 hours after a $50 million dollar eco-terrorist caused arson fire at a condominium project nearby, he stated that fire is a cleansing force.  When an audience member asked him about it, Coronado stated, “I wouldn’t be surprised if investigators found a device similar to this at the fire scene last night."  While the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) took credit for the fire, authorities have wondered of Coronado was involved.  For a time he was an editor at their Earth First! publication.

He served eight months in jail for interfering with and trying to kill U.S. Forest Service employees who were trying to capture two to four mountain lions in 2004.   Officials had closed Sabino Canyon to capture and relocate several mountain lions who had attacked humans and were stalking pedestrians near an elementary school.   Coronado and his friends laid traps for the agents and laid false scent trails.  He was indicted on a felony charge of trying to injure an officer of the United States.  To terrorists like Coronado, the life of a mountain lion is more important than the lives of children engaging in everyday activities like going to school. 

After 10 days of protests, Game and Fish decided to try to tranquilize, capture and move the lions to a wildlife rehabilitation center in north Scottsdale, more than 120 miles away.

But in the next six days, a state-hired trapper using dogs found only scattered lion tracks. The only dramatic moment came March 24, when authorities arrested Rod Coronado, an EarthFirst! activist who was dropping lion scent liquid into the canyon to mislead the dogs.

Coronado was arrested in February 2006 and charged for teaching and promoting terrorism during his numerous public speeches and interviews over the past several years.   He hid behind the First Amendment and claimed victim status.   He plead guilty and was sentenced to serve a year in prison.  After being released in 2008 he reconnected with his terrorist network and was sent back to jail for violating the terms of his probation. 

It shouldn't shock you that he eventually figured out that he could make a living running a non-profit scam.   In 2013 he founded "Great Lakes Wolf Patrol," a non-profit that promotes protecting wolves from legal controlled hunts.

In a 2017 interview he admitted that he regularly goes into the woods to track and confront hunters in Wisconsin and Minnesota and waits 'outside their homes' so he can stalk them.  He drives a camouflaged truck with a fake 'hound box' in the bed to help him blend in with the hunters he's stalking and setting cyber lynch mobs online.   Hunters have faced online death threats because of his harassment.   He also admitted that he'd continue his criminal ways if he could get away with it and admitted that he frequently lied about his criminal past.  He was responsible for all of the attacks the FBI said he was.   

“This is another over-the-top move by a convicted violent animal rights activist,” said Nick Pinizzotto, USSA president and CEO. “Coronado is known for his extremism and I encourage all sportsmen to be very aware when they enter the field in Wisconsin. Hunter harassment is illegal and should be reported immediately.”

Coronado today. 

Animal Rights Hall of Shame: Walter Bond

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Meet Walter Edmund Zuehlke aka Walter Bond aka 'ALF Lone Wolf' aka Abdul Haqq.

ALF Supporter. Dog Killer. Arsonist.  Convicted Felon.

Another animal rights terrorist that fits the profile to a 'T' is Walter Bond.  Bond goes by numerous names.  Bond has no documented education in animals.  In interviews, he claims to have dropped out of school in the 8th grade.  Bond claims he has committed his crimes due to his love of animals but he has no known history of connection to animals.  He just loves fire.   Saying he loves animals gives him moral cover that he doesn't deserve. 

Bond started his career as an arsonist in Mason City, Iowa back in 1996.   He was convicted of criminal mischief and trespassing when he tried to torch a church.  A year later he was caught setting fire to a house that killed the dog inside.   He was convicted of second-degree arson and sentenced to 10 years in prison.  He served three and was released in May 2001.  

These days more schooled in how to generate sympathy from his unquestioning followers, he claims the house he torched containing the dog he killed was a 'meth lab' and therefore he was justified in his acts.  He claims it was an act of vigilante justice and he personally shut down the largest meth lab in Iowa.  As if burning down something explosive is the best way to handle the situation?  What about the danger to the neighborhood if his story is true?  Let alone this doesn't explain his prior arson attempt at a church. 

After his release from prison he underground for a number of years before resurfacing in 2010 with another string of violent arson fires.  In April, he set fire to the Sheepskin Factory store in Glendale, Colorado.  The arson destroyed the business and caused $500,000 in damages.  He vowed to return in a couple of years and torch it again. 

"According to a federal arrest affidavit, a security camera captured images of a shadowy figure wearing a dark-hooded, long-sleeved shirt and carrying a backpack outside the Sheepskin Factory about 3:15 a.m. April 30 — just minutes before a massive fire broke out at the building."

In June he torched the Tandy Leather Factory store in Salt Lake City, Utah causing $20,000 in damages.  Just like his prior fires, he vowed to return and torch the Tandy store again.   In July he burned down the Tiburon Fine Dining restaurant, known for serving wild game, in Sandy, Utah causing $500,000 in damage.  He claimed responsibility for both on ALF websites.  He claims to have targeted these businesses because they represent animals that wolves would hunt in keeping with his 'Lone Wolf' alias.   

"The arson at the Sheepskin Factory in Denver was done in defense and retaliation for all the innocent animals that have died cruelly at the hands of human oppressors. Be warned that making a living from the use and abuse of animals will not be tolerated. Also be warned that leather is every bit as evil as fur. As demonstrated in my recent arson against the Leather Factory in Salt Lake City. Go vegan! -- ALF Lone Wolf."

Bond didn't give a damn that he killed a dog in 1997 that died a terrible death in an arson fire but now in 2010 he claims to be acting for them.  Right!  Bond wasn't hard to find.  He boast on social media of his successful 'advocacy' and admitted to his crimes to various associates.  Then of course there is his bizarre appearance and known arson history.  A two-year-old could have put together the connection.

When arrested he had a book in his possession with the long title of, "The Declaration of War - Killing People to Save the Animals and the Environment." 

Bond accepted a plea deal in the Colorado case.  The charging documents stated that he used 'fire or explosives to damage property involved in interstate commerce.'  He was sentenced to five more years in federal prison.   He was ordered to pay $1,17 million in restitution.   He received another slap on the wrist in Utah and was sentenced to 7 years for destroying three businesses.  Given his previous history as an arsonist, these are insanely short sentences.   He was also convicted of one count of violating the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA). 

At his hearing in Colorado Bond said he was honored to be a prisoner of war in the fight against "inter-species slavery."  He told the judge he had no remorse for his crimes.

The judge noted sarcastically that Bond just sets fires because that's his way of acting out when he doesn't get his way.   It should also be noted that while he has an ugly graphic 'Vegan' tattoo on his head, he is known for loving hamburgers.  Witnesses claim he indulged in two of them the day before he was arrested.

As a condition of Bond's eventual release, the court ordered he have no "association with the Animal Liberation Front or any member either in person, by mail, by phone, by email by third person or by any other method."

Bond spent the first part of his sentences at the federal prison in Marion, Illinois.   Housed there from 2012 to 2015, he changed his name to Abdul Haqq, claiming its his 'religious name' while he is a prisoner of war.   Bond remains defiant to this day, spending his time in prison giving interviews and publishing articles.  He's currently imprisoned in Indiana until his scheduled release in 2021.   

It should not surprise you that his fellow terrorist network maintains a "Support Walter Bond" website to this day.  This anarchist is considered to be a hero among animal rights activists. 

Animal Rights Hall of Shame: Joseph Buddenberg and Nicole Kissane

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Meet Joseph Buddenberg and Nicole Kissane.

Animal Killers. Thieves. Felons.

The media portrays this Bonnie and Clyde pair as just misguided animal lovers who are unfairly being punished for their compassion.   The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) calls them political prisoners suffering for their cause. Social media abounds with petitions demanding they be freed from their ‘captivity’ and labels them as US-held political prisoners of state repression against revolutionary social justice movements.

The reality is, this felonious couple went on a cross-country two-year crime spree using the moral cover of animal love. They don’t love animals. They deliberately killed thousands of them. They are against environmentally friendly and renewable resources like fur. They demand that everyone wear plastic-based clothing and contribute to the ecological disaster that plastic has brought to this planet. In order to ensure you live your life the way they demand, they were determined to destroy as many farmers and businesses as they could. They deliberately caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages to lawful businesses while they shoplifted to support their lifestyle.

“The couple vandalized furriers from California to Pennsylvania — gluing locks, slashing tires, breaking windows and trying to flood the home of a fur industry worker.” 

They spray painted the word “murderer” and “killer” on stores and barns. They stole and ‘liberated’ thousands of mink who died horrific deaths at their hands. Let alone causing the deliberate mental anguish of dozens of motorists who hit and killed the scared mink on roadways. Every step of the way they issued press releases through the ALF websites and publications boasting of their crimes.

Unemployed bums, the vegan pair trafficked in stolen goods to pay for their crime ridden lifestyle. Serial shoplifters, they stole from REI, CVS and Michaels in particular and sold the stolen merchandise on eBay. 

Nicole Kissane

They hit the road in 2013 driving Kissane’s Honda Fit to San Diego, California to start their multi-state crime spree. They used various acids, paint stripper and super glue to vandalize one of the last small mom and pop fur stores in the area. They glued all the locks shut. They destroyed the store windows with etching chemicals. They sprayed acids all around the store floor. But that wasn’t enough for these two felons. They drove to the homes of the Graf family in two different cities vandalizing their houses and cars with paint stripper, acids and spray-painted murderer on their homes. They poured acid all over their driveways to destroy the concrete and painted their daughter’s car red. Furs by Graf closed shortly after their attack. Out of business for good thanks to these two criminals.

From there, they drove to Montana to steal and set free a bobcat from an exotic animal farm and vandalized a Montana Police Chief’s car. Oh, they didn’t stop there. They vandalized both the Darby Police Chief’s personal and official cars. ALF posted a press release about the stolen cat claiming the pair had ‘rescued it’ and were determined to cause a financial loss to animal owners through the damage and destruction of their property. So, tell me, what did they gain by vandalizing a cop car?

Kissane and Buddenberg were just getting warmed up.

Next they drove to Burley, Idaho to attack a mink ranch. They stole and released 1,800 mink from the farm. Many died terrible deaths. They were hit and killed by cars and carried off as dinner by the local coyote population. They destroyed all of the breeding records of the farm to ensure the business was destroyed for good. The terrorists bragged online that they had destroyed 30 years of genetic selection records and no recovery possible.

“They didn’t have a chance,” Cindy Moyle of the Moyle Mink Ranch in Burley, Idaho, wrote in a letter to the judge [regarding the minks terrible deaths]. She said her family’s farm has been on the forefront of raising mink in a humane way. 

They briefly returned to San Francisco to glue the locks shut of multiple businesses, shatter the windows of a market and slashed the tires of multiple cars parked at a wholesale meat distributor. Can you imagine going to work one day at your job and coming out to find that the tires on your car and all of your co-workers have been slashed because some fruitcake is ideologically opposed to eating meat? That’s what they did.

After a quick few weeks on their Bay Area vandalism spree they hit the road again. Driving to Minnesota to vandalize a store in Minneapolis, then they vandalized and attempted to flood out the home of an employee of the North American Fur Auctions in Sun Prairie Wisconsin. Just three days later they drove to Keota, Iowa to attack the Conrad Fur Farm and stole between 400-500 mink and set them loose in the countryside while they high tailed it back to the west coast.

The San Diego Union-Tribune wrote about the incident in Iowa, saying the fur farmer found “dozens of mink turned into road kill, some with their backs broken but still alive. Hundreds more were running amok.” At least 130 of them died miserable deaths. 

They spent three weeks at home shoplifting and reselling stolen goods to finance their next trip before driving to Ebensburg, Pennsylvania to steal 1,000 mink from a farm owned by 92-year-old farmer George Rykola. They destroyed many of the cages making it even harder for this elderly gentleman to recapture and return the animals to the safe cages they had been taken from. Less than 10 days later they stole 2,000 mink from a farm in New Holstein, Wisconsin. 24 hours later they hit a farm in Grand Meadow, Minnesota, stealing 440 mink before hightailing it back to the west coast. All together they stole 7,000 mink and setting them lose to die in the wild. Captive raised domestic mink rarely survive in the wild. Many die horrific deaths either hit by cars or starvation. They don’t know to hunt for their own food and are very territorial. They will kill anything in their paths including cats and chickens.

The FBI caught up to them at last in July of 2015 and charged with them conspiracy to violate the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA). They should have been charged with thousands of state level charges of animal abuse and animal cruelty for their acts. When caught, they had two gallons of muriatic acid, multiple bolt and wire cutters, super glue, heat resistant gloves, knifes, night head lamps, encrypted computers and handwritten lists of farms to attack.

This wasn’t Buddenberg’s first rodeo. He had previously been busted for holding threatening protests at various private homes of University of California Berkeley professors. In 2010, a federal judge threw out the charges against him as being too 'vague'.

At first Kissane was offered a slap on the wrist plea deal of six months in jail. The judge rejected the deal stating that the pair had conducted a ‘calculating, premeditated campaign of terror.’ Instead, Kissane was sentenced to 21 months in prison and ordered to pay $423,477 in restitution. Buddenberg was more successful in getting his plea bargain deal accepted and was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay $398,272. Later the judge in the case stated he regretted the sentences he issued and wished that he had sentenced Buddenberg in particular to a much longer and harsher sentence. U.S. District Judge Larry Burns stated of Buddenberg, “He got a screaming deal.”

“Vandalizing homes and businesses with acid, glue and chemicals in the dark of night is a form of domestic terrorism,” acting U.S. attorney Alana Robinson said. “Whatever your feelings about the fur industry, these sentences are a pretty strong signal that this isn’t the right way to effect change.” 

The animal rights front has issued numerous press releases celebrating Buddenberg’s release from prison in 2018. At no time has either one ever been held accountable for the suffering and death they caused to numerous animals they professed to have loved. In an animal rights world, these activists believe animals are better off dead than owned and fed by humans.

Animal Rights Hall of Shame: Paul Shapiro

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Meet Paul Shapiro.

Shapiro started his career as an animal rights extremist in prep-school (paid for by his lawyer daddy) by founding a group he called Compassion Over Killing promoting a vegan diet. COK made a name for itself by framing farmers with highly edited and exploitative ‘undercover’ videos that activists would sit on for months or years until just the right political time came.   As with most of these activists, Shapiro has no documented education in animals. Just an ideological opposition to eating them based upon becoming a vegan at age 13.  Like many today, his feelings matter more than science.   His actual college degree is in "peace studies."  Another useless liberal degree. 

While at COK, Shapiro was fond of protesting outside of fast food restaurants and on occasion, climbing up on their roofs.  Yeah, that's him below on the right protesting 'McMurder.'   

Shapiro has also volunteered with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). At a PETA protest outside one fast food restaurant, he carried a sign that said “The Meat Industry Equals Systematic Murder,” according to the Washington Post. As of 2003, he admitted to having been arrested a half-dozen times and having had to perform 40 hours of community service.

That's not all, COK, remember founded and run by Shapiro, used to frequently promote the Animal Liberation front (ALF) an domestic terrorism group under long term investigation by the FBI.   Besides promoting ALF activities, COK offered several ALF propaganda videos for sale.  By mailing money to COK, activists could get their own copies of these promotional ALF movies.  

After 10 years at COK making a name for himself along with Josh Balk and Miyun Park, he was hired by the Humane Society for the United States (HSUS) to launch a new campaign aimed at putting farmers out of business. Joining them in 2005, as the senior director for their so-called 'factory farming' campaign eventually rising to Vice President.  

In 2008, he was inducted into the Animal Rights Hall of Fame.  Instead like all of these activists, he belongs in the Hall of Shame.

By 2010, the complaints were piling up. Such as HSUS volunteer Ashley Rhinehart. Rhinehart met Shapiro at a talk he gave at Arizona State University, near where she was living. Shapiro made passes at her over the course of a couple of days, Rhinehart told POLITICO, “and filled me in on the fact he’s in an open relationship and that he was free to have sex with other people.”

Two days later, after she happened to see him at another vegan event, Shapiro asked Rhinehart, a 25-year-old registered nurse, to come to his car to examine a bottle of pain pills that had expired. He tried to kiss her, she said, and she turned her cheek. Shapiro went on to pressure Rhinehart to have sex for over a year. Starting in 2012 she was hired to work at the HSUS headquarters and almost immediately was targeted by predator Wayne Pacelle who kept trying to corner her alone in his office. When she reported his behavior Shapiro told her that Pacelle was also in an open relationship.

Every former employee who spoke with POLITICO said Shapiro had a habit of making sexual jokes in the office, and several remembered how he kept on his bookshelf a book called Sex at Dawn, about the flaws of monogamy. He openly discussed his philosophy of having many sexual partners with colleagues.

Still HSUS leadership covered it up. In 2015, Shapiro also emailed four male employees from his personal account a pornographic image of a man and woman having sex, according to a copy obtained by POLITICO. In another email, also from his personal account, he sent male employees an article about spider bites being a natural form of Viagra, the erectile dysfunction drug.

In September 2016 he was accused of sexually harassing a female HSUS staffer on a business trip to Boston. He told lewd jokes and walked around naked with a piece of clothing held in front of his penis. When she returned to the office she joined five other women in reporting him to human resources for sexual harassment.

“The women said Shapiro, the vice president of Farm Animal Protection, asked them to have sex and told lewd jokes in the office, according to a POLITICO investigation based on new interviews with seven current and former employees, including four of the women who filed the complaint. According to interviews, emails and an internal document reviewed by POLITICO, Shapiro suggested a female employee should “take one for the team” by having sex with a donor, sent pornography and lewd emails to male employees and discussed with colleagues his sexual philosophies, such as having as many sexual partners as possible. His alleged behavior, staffers say, led to the resignations of no fewer than five employees from 2015 to late 2017.”

Instead of being disciplined, the good ol’ boys at HSUS gave him a lateral promotion. Shapiro denies it and claims the new position had less responsibility but, in either case, his behavior was covered up and he was allowed to remain on the payroll for another 16 months until head honcho Wayne Pacelle was caught in a sexual harassment scandal of his own revealing that objectifying women is pretty much institutionalized at HSUS. Nothing shows this more than when Pacelle hired Scotlund Haisley, a long time heroin junkie who only worked in the animal rescue field in his words, because it gave him better lap dances from strippers.

HSUS VP Paul Shapiro resigned in January 2018. He was allowed to leave on his own terms despite numerous women having accused him of toxic behavior.  It appears he didn't learn anything in college when he was studying 'peace studies.'

Today Shapiro has reinvented his image yet again as the author of a book promoting plant based alternatives to meat, giving TEDx speeches and founding The Better Meat Co.