Animal rights extremist in federal custody for murder-for-hire plot
posted at 12:08 pm on February 23, 2012 by Howard Portnoy
What is the difference between animal rights advocacy and the liberation of World War II concentration camps? None, if you are Meredith Lowell, who uses the Facebook alias Anne Lowery. The Daily News reports that Lowell/Lowery, 27, was the target of a sting operation conducted by the FBI last November after the Cleveland Heights woman advertised for a hit man to shoot or slit the throat of a random fur-wearer.
An FBI affidavit filed with the U.S. District Court in Cleveland maintains that Lowery offered to pay $830 to $850 for the hit and identified the ideal candidate as someone living in northeast Ohio. The document further states that an undercover FBI employee posing as a possible hit man entered into an email correspondence with Lowell, who offered him $730 in jewelry or cash for the killing of a victim of at least 12 years but “preferably 14 years old or older.” The killing was to take place outside a library near a playground in her hometown.
In one email, Lowery wrote:
You need to bring a gun that has a silencer on it and that can be easily concealed in your pants pocket or coat…. If you do not want to risk the possibility of getting caught with a gun before the job, bring a sharp knife that is (at least) 4 inches long, it should be sharp enough to stab someone and/or slit their throat to kill them. I want the person to be dead in less than 2 minutes.
Lowery stipulated that she needed to be near the site when the slaying took place so she could distribute “papers” afterward. She also expressed her desire to be arrested so as to call attention to her beliefs and “get out of the home she shared with her parents and brothers who eat meat and eggs and use fur, leather and wool.”
Another email offered into evidence quotes Lowell as saying that she sees nothing wrong with “liberating” animals from fur factory farms and laboratories since “soldiers liberated people from Nazi camps in World War 2.” In still another, she criticize a new aquarium in Cleveland, saying “it is wrong for animals to be taken against their will and put into their (equivalent) of a bathtub.”
Lowell was ordered held by U.S. Marshals Service pending a hearing next Tuesday to determine whether she will be given the opportunity to post bail or be detained without bond pending resolution of the case.
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Um, is she not aware that human beings are animals?
rbj on February 23, 2012 at 12:41 PM
Post bail? Nah, she aint no “flight risk.” Hell nah, dawg.
Jeddite on February 23, 2012 at 12:45 PM
Moral idiocy is rampant.
mchristian on February 23, 2012 at 1:10 PM
So much for the anti-gun argument that no one “needs” a concealed handgun near a library or playground, eh.
JackBurtonJr on February 23, 2012 at 1:13 PM
Is it a theology now?
Nom de Boom on February 23, 2012 at 1:28 PM
was she wearing sensible leather shoes?
NaCly dog on February 23, 2012 at 2:51 PM
these sorts of anti-fur people are generally always screamingly sociopathic and a nanosecond away from violence.. here’s my little story.
in the late 80s i was in downtown boston to go to dinner with a friend. it was a gothy punk rock-y time so we had on all black and leather coats like the rest of the cool kids. it happened to be the day the fur freaks would protest the then famous jordan marsh (or was it filene’s?) fur sale.
there were quite a few protestors making their way through the streets-so we stood on the corner waiting for them to go by so we could cross- you know, so we wouldn’t interrupt their right to protest in a free society . neither of us said anything to or at or about the protestors when suddenly one of them comes right up to me , gets in my face, and starts screaming at me over my leather coat.
she was rather small but backed up by her rag tag homies, who swarmed and formed a semicircle of shame around me to provide me with a teachable moment about my crimes against cows. i must not have been particularly threatened because i casually looked down at her feet and said,” hey, aren’t those leather shoes you’re wearing?”. she stopped and everyone looked down at her hooves.
then she let loose pretty much the vilest torrent of homophobic comments and slurs i had ever heard uttered in public. he used the f word, the other f word( rhymes with bag) and told me i i was probably ‘ crawling with AIDS’ and should get myself back to “bay village[ part of the then heavily gay south end] and blanking die ” like i deserved to.
some of her comrades did look a bit sheepish at that but no one thought to perhaps stop her or drag her away or perhaps consider how she made them and their cause look in front a city street packed with people.
that’s about when i realized exactly how homophobic the radical left was and that they were using gays and women .and how bat poop crazy they were- fanatical ideologues picking out heretics and non-believers to pillory and harm. and that i wanted no part of it. at the time i was even a vegetarian for ethical reasons-and they even completely alienated me .
mittens on February 23, 2012 at 4:15 PM
She sounds like a well-adjusted individual.
John the Libertarian on February 24, 2012 at 9:25 AM
Fur coat makes excellent cover garment. Just sayin’.
Kenosha Kid on February 25, 2012 at 12:43 PM