A run in with the Animal Mafia

I have never known any organization who actively pursues people to make force them see their way. I don't know about you, but even as an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints I don't come and knock down your door and force you to see my way. That is just not the way anything works. That's the beauty of this country. No one can force you to do anything! It's all about the freedom of choice. That is, unless you piss off PeTA. Then they come after you and just like a terrorist organization they will make your life hell unless you do things their way. Bloody Fur Fashion shows anyone??

My dad works at the same Stock Brokerage firm that I do. He has been Trader all my life. In fact, he is how I first got my job. A broker at the firm needed another assistant because he was getting so busy. I worked there for several years and then eventually got licenced myself. He makes his living making money or "spreads" as a trader in the stock market. (Google it) If someone wants him to become a Market Maker for their company, and it trades well then he will normally do it. This one particular company- and I don't think he could even tell you the name of it- asked him to be a market maker. The company was based in London, and had good activity. Do we care what the company does? I'll be honest when I say that a lot of the penny stocks we deal with we have no idea what the company even does. As long as we can buy it from this guy at a price and sell it to this other guy at a different price then you can make some money. Most of the time. (a stock market lesson another time perhaps) He picked up this one particular stock first thing in the morning. The next thing we knew the phone lines started ringing like crazy and we would answer them and they would have a screeching sound on the other line, thus effectively tying up all our phone lines. A guy called our CFO at HOME and threatened his wife! They didn't know WHO was trading the stock, other than a guy named Neil. They would call and talk with another owner, of whom thought we shouldn't drop the stock just because they were bulling us to do so. They asked if they could come to the office and show a video of what this terrible company did. Apparently this company had a product for which they did animal testing. What the mafia didn't know was that this company was actually merged off and didn't even do the same thing anymore! They kept asking our firm to drop the stock. By this time our firm had called the police. The FBI had come later that day with a huge file on this guy. He was part of an animal rights group back east that was wanted for a different type of corporate terrorism. That's right... car bombings. Neil finally dropped the stock after the FBI suggested it would be best. They told us that it could have been a lot worse and to consider us lucky. Of course Neil was afraid to start his car after work that day. And I had to ride home with him!

What irks me the most is that these people can get away with this! They are using their "Freedom of Speech" rights in order to conduct this type of terrorism. All except the car bombings, of course. Does anyone else have stories about the animal crazies? Are YOU an animal crazy?? Let's discuss.