I normally don't get rankled by news clips. But this one got to me.
Two loony PETA activists are on felony trail for 21 counts of cruelty to animals. They are accused of taking animals from a shelter under false pretenses (finding them homes), immediately killing them in a van with a home-made-kill-kit, and then dumping their carcasses into the garbage bin of a local Piggly Wiggly Supermarket.
That’s pretty ghoulish stuff. I have three Labrador Retrievers (that's Gipper pictured with me) and I have difficulty imagining such perversion. I think it’s time PETA be recognized as not only obnoxious, but as an actively destructive and morally bankrupt organization.
PETA claims they were trying to spare the animals the horrors of the shelters. If convicted, I believe this will be found to be a case of two sick people who got their jollies out of killing defenseless animals; and who then justify their actions with weird moral acrobatic rationalization. Neither of the defendants was licensed to possess the deadly drugs found in their possession. Neither of the defendants was trained to euthanize animals, or licensed as a vet; which begs the question of just how humanly the poor animals were killed.
PETA's official position is that euthanisa is an acceptable alternative to the shelter and therefore justifies the actions of their people. This rationale rings a bit hallow given the circumstances of the case.
I have no patience for activists who cloak their social maladjustment with a loud love of animals, as PETA does.
The official AP Report is:
Trial scheduled this week for Va. PETA workers
by The Associated Press
published January 22, 2007 8:09 am
Winton, N.C. – A trial is scheduled this week in northeastern North Carolina for two animal activists charged with animal cruelty after they were discovered dumping dead animals in a trash bin.
Adria J. Hinkle, of Norfolk, Va., and Andrew B. Cook, of Virginia Beach, are charged with 21 counts each of animal cruelty. They also are charged with littering and obtaining property by false pretenses.
The trial was scheduled to begin Monday in Hertford County and was expected to last the week. The pair works for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in Norfolk.
PetaKillsAnimals.Com:
This site lists "7 Things You Didn't Know About PETA." Number three was the most damning:
3) PETA has given tens of thousands of dollars to convicted arsonists and other violent criminals. This includes a 2001 donation of $1,500 to the North American Earth Liberation Front (ELF), an FBI-certified “domestic terrorist” group responsible for dozens of firebombs and death threats. During the 1990s, PETA paid $70,200 to an Animal Liberation Front (ALF) activist convicted of burning down a Michigan State University research laboratory. In his sentencing recommendation, a federal prosecutor implicated PETA president Ingrid Newkirk in that crime. And PETA vegetarian campaign coordinator Bruce Friedrich told an animal rights convention in 2001 that “blowing stuff up and smashing windows” is “a great way to bring about animal liberation.”
The complete list of seven items is on url page:
http://www.petakillsanimals.com/article_detail.cfm?article=134 )
Yet despite all this malice, by one estimate PETA rakes in over $25 million a year in tax free donations. What's wrong with that picture?
JP
2 comments:
I couldn't agree more about PETA - dangerous loonies indeed. And the unspeakable cruelty of taking the lives of innocent animals waiting for loving homes, animals that are so trusting of people...it just makes me sick to think of their final moments.
Thank you for posting this awful thing peta is doing.
I did not know this about them. I only hope the news covers this more.
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