Posted on 01/18/2008 6:30:15 AM PST by Santa Fe_Conservative
CHENNAI, India (Reuters) - Police arrested the head of the animal rights group PETA for a breach of public peace and insulting religious feelings while protesting against a bullfighting festival in south India, officials said on Friday.
Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, was held on Thursday after she blindfolded a statue of Indian independence leader Mohandas K. Gandhi to protest against cruelty towards bulls in the ancient sport of "jallikattu."
Organized as part of the January harvest festival of "pongal," jallikattu is India's version of the running of the bulls which takes place every year in the Spanish city of Pamplona.
Fighters and muscular wild bulls -- often pepped up with large amounts of homemade liquor -- dash after each other in the streets of the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
Unlike the Spanish version of the sport, the aim is not to kill the bulls but to dominate and tame them, and pluck away bundles of money or other treats tied to their specially sharpened horns.
Police said Newkirk was held on charges of breaching public peace, hurting religious sentiments and damaging statues after she entered a park in Coimbatore town and put a cloth around the eyes of Gandhi's statue.
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Throw her into the ring with red spray paint all over her.
They have bullfights in India? That seems like it would be anti-Hindu.
“muscular wild bulls — often pepped up with large amounts of homemade liquor”
How the heck do they get the bulls to drink moonshine? And has anybody ever seen a flabby wild bull?
I LOVE this!! These morons believe they can do anywhere in the world what they can get away with here. How sweet is is to see them swept up and tossed in jail. I can only imagine the stunned, stupefied expression on their faces as they were hauled away screaming about their “rights”.
These and the other fools may one day learn that this isn’t the “hell” they try to make it out to be.
These PITA people just do not understand that most animals are made to be eaten.
Moonbeam PITA flakes believe animals are for loving such as their Muslim brothers who keep sheep in the bedroom along with little boys.
The bull is not killed here, but is tamed, or at least that’s the program.
“She’s the one, I believe, who wants her body barbequed when she dies, to illustrate our society’s “cruelty” to animals.”
If she’s so passionate about her cause, why wait?
I LOVE this!! These morons believe they can do anywhere in the world what they can get away with here. How sweet is is to see them swept up and tossed in jail. I can only imagine the stunned, stupefied expression on their faces as they were hauled away screaming about their “rights”.
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So true, but nothing will top Code Pink’s founder, and Castro worshipper, being thrown in jail in Cuba for writing an article that was critical of the regime.
I hope their prisons are as nice as the Turkish ones.
I don’t even know why I get angry with these fools. They really and truly are beneath contempt.
My daddy used to say: “If you mess with the bull, you’re gonna get the horns”.
Harry Reid's and Nancy Pelosi's fault... honestly can't they put a lease on these nitwits.
It does sound that way, especially given the amount of cows that wonder through the cities, protected because they are sacred. Odd.
My 16 year old daughter became attached to Season One of Hogan’s Heroes that I got my Father for Christmas. She thinks the shows that I watched as a kid were much better than what’s on now. Oh is she ever right.
Good. Throw her in the darkest, dankest hole in India and forget about her.
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