It's a Palovian reaction.
Posted on 01/05/2006 6:54:55 PM PST by Darnright
The arrest of six suspects in a string of eco-terror arsons has generated a string of related stories, including many about the jail-cell suicide of one defendant described as the "ringleader" behind eco-terror fires in several states. In a follow-up report that caught our eye, The Seattle Times talked to defendant Kevin Tubbs' mother. Tubbs is charged with setting a $1.2 million fire in June 1998 which consumed the USDA's Animal and Plant and Health Inspection Service facility in Olympia, Washington. He's also accused of torching 35 sport-utility vehicles at a Eugene, Oregon car dealership. And according to his mother, he used to work for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
In 1993, an Associated Press photographer snapped a picture of Tubbs and PETA employee Matt Rossell, after the two were arrested for trying to disrupt a meeting of cattle ranchers. Tubbs wore a colorful cow costume. And the following year, Tubbs (then described by The Philadelphia Inquirer as "a PETA supervisor"), was charged with assault after he and two PETA interns attempted to douse the headquarters of a pharmaceutical company with buckets of urine. Unfortunately for PETA, they ended up drenching several police officers by mistake.
Tubbs, now a terrorism defendant, didn't end his association with "mainstream" animal rights groups a decade ago. In a recent newsletter, United Poultry Concerns president Karen Davis thanked him for "staffing our table" at a March 2005 University of Oregon environmental law conference.
Kevin Tubbs, of course, is innocent until proven guilty. But given the FBI's reported use of his own friends as informants against him, it appears likely that Tubbs will soon join the colorful pantheon of criminal PETA employees both past and present. This list includes Gary Yourofsky, a convicted Animal Liberation Front burglar; accused eco-terror arsonist Tre Arrow, who protested for PETA as Michael Scarpitti before changing his name because "the trees told me" to do it; and current PETA campaign director Bruce Friedrich, whose rap sheet includes a 15-month federal jail sentence (although he only served 5 months) for attacking a U.S. Air Force F-15 fighter jet with a hammer and a bucket of blood.
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Funny, the last time I caught a group of petas handing out ALF literature, they said they didn't support terrorism.
Hmmm,I guess that doesn't include that California surgeon (can't recall his name) who was recently featured on 60 Minutes saying that he supported the murder of medical researchers who experiment on animals.
I called the State of California Physician Licensing Board after his appearance to question his fitness to practice medicine and they said that they were aware of him and that he was already under investigation.
I myself am a faithful member of PETA.
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It's a Palovian reaction.
A lot of folks think PETA is made up of sweet, but misguided animal lovers. Not so. They support terrorism, and it's time the powers-that-be start taking a harder line with them.
>Every time I read an article about PETA, I get a craving for a nice, thick, delicious juicy burger.<
Yum! That thing looks tasty. BTW, how are you doing after that wreck?
with all these terrorists in PETA, why isn't the AG, the FBI aqnd Homeland security cracking their heads as a terror organization? How about a little RICO?
Is Peta-Rico made with chicken or beef?
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