Brooklyn, NY - Usually the animal activists are the ones tossing the red paint, but last night a woman’s home was targeted, allegedly because she’s the founding member of the Alliance to End Chickens as Kapparos (which is the annual chicken sacrificing ritual performed around Yom Kippur). Rina Deych told us:
I have our banner hanging on the second floor of my 3-family house in Brooklyn. When my son came home at 11:30 this evening (11/13/2010), he woke me up to inform me that someone had splattered red paint all over our front door and porch. Although we suspected it was anger at our banner, we weren’t sure until, while giving a police report, we noticed that someone had painted our sign with a roller.
Freedom of speech is legal. Destruction of private property is not. This act of vandalism is particularly troubling—especially since it was clearly done by so-called religious people.
Deych has called the Shomrim, who “said they could probably not help.” While the paint doesn’t seem to be that plentiful, she also noted that she and her son are asthmatic “and these fumes are detrimental to us and to our rescued animals.”
Freedom of speech is legal. Destruction of private property is not. This act of vandalism is particularly troubling—especially since it was clearly done by so-called religious people.
ReplyDeleteYom kippur is still a long time away and who is she to stop a religious custom. She can shlug kapores with whatever she wants and include the avera of stopping other people from doing a minhag. Does she live right next to a kaporas center?
ReplyDeleteAlthough I'm against destroying someones property, and its osur to do this legally and halachicly, I do have hanoha that someone had the guts. She's A PETA agent.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely DISGUSTING. Hope they catch these THUGS. I would like to see them publicly humiliated and made to clean up the mess. The sooner this barbaric ritual is stopped the better. Sick Bullies.
ReplyDeleteOdette London United Kingdom.