Thursday, January 26, 2006

WAR Goes to Wall Street

On Thursday, January 26 th a small group of dedicated WAR activists took to the streets of lower Manhattan to face two of the most prominent financial supports of Huntingdon Life Sciences, which trades on the OTCBB (Over The Counter Bulletin Board or Nasdaq) as LSRI. An educational outreach table was set up at the 75 Maiden Lane, New York offices of Seaboard Securities, which is headquartered in Florham Park, NJ. WAR has printed a large quantity of a full color flyers letting Wall Street folks know about Seaboard's loose to non-existent business ethics and shady practices. The header proclaims Seaboard as LIARS & CROOKS in large block letters.

After spending the majority of the afternoon educating Seaboard's building neighbors and passersby, we began to wonder if we would see anyone from Seaboard that day. Our patience was rewarded as 3 characters sauntered up to our table looking like they had just come from a casting call for the HBO mobster series, “The Sopranos”.

The men lied (what did you expect?) when asked if they were associated with or employed by Seaboard Securities. We were suspicious, as they seemed to know exactly why we were there. Activists offered the men the “Liars & Crooks” flyers and explained that Seaboard had more than once in the past sent written assurance that they were no longer trading LSRI stock, only to be found out to be lying about it. Couple this with their recent indictments and convictions for stock fraud and we feel that our “Liars & Crooks” headline is justified.

When the men refused the flyers, we assured them that they could take as many as they wanted as we have 5,000 of them printed for distribution around the Wall Street area. This caused one of the men to approach the table in a menacing and aggressive manner only to shout…... “You are a DOUCHEBAG”. He then identified himself as Anthony DiGiovanni, the PRESIDENT of Seaboard Securities!!! President Tony then made the following threat to activists: “You keep it up and I will have the FBI crawling up your ass”.

The threatened activists, shocked and disturbed by the outburst of gutter language and threatening behavior of the thuggish Seaboard executives, are wondering if they will one day awaken to a severed horse's head in their beds or a dead fish wrapped in newspaper sitting on their doorstep. Despite the threats, activists have vowed to distribute every single flyer. No wonder this company remains in bed with Huntingdon Life Sciences!!!

The remainder of the afternoon was spent educating the employees and customers of Fidelity Investments at their high profile Broadway office in the Wall Street area. Numerous flyers were distributed and we were able to speak with many of their customers as they entered and left the busy office. Most were shocked and appalled to find that their investment company was invested in the brutal killing of 500 animals every day at Huntingdon Life Sciences.