Posted on 06/22/2002 6:12:07 AM PDT by republicangel
NORFOLK -- PETA doesn't let political correctness get in the way of a good ad campaign, be it a menacing Ronald McDonald wielding a bloody butcher knife or ``Got Beer?'' billboards mocking the milk industry. But now the attack dogs are PETA's critics, and they're portraying the world's largest animal-rights group as an agent of domestic terrorism.
The mention of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in the same sentence as al-Qaida, by critics and on Capitol Hill, has the fur flying at the organization's waterfront headquarters here. There is even a push to revoke PETA's tax-exempt status because of a contribution it made to an organization accused of committing terrorist acts.
``The whole notion that PETA supports terrorism is false and defamatory,'' said Jeffrey S. Kerr, PETA's general counsel and director of corporate affairs. ``When you use the word `terror,' look at the terror inflicted on billions of animals in this country every year. That's real terror.''
Kerr calls the attacks ``desperation tactics'' by adversaries who know they are losing a years-long PR war. ``They're trying to smear us any way they can,'' he said.
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Kerr is doing the talking for PETA these days rather than the organization's president and founder, Ingrid Newkirk, who rarely is at a loss for words or shrinks from controversy.
Kerr is fielding queries because PETA is ``seriously considering litigation'' against its attackers, though he declined to name the organizations or individuals PETA might sue.
``When you use the word `terror,' look at the terror inflicted on billions of animals in this country every year. That's real terror.''
What an idiot, what more can be said after that statement?
Ingrid Newkirk, the President of PETA, said that it would be a good thing if hoof-and-mouth disease swept through America -- that it would be preferable for a virulent disease to kill millions of cattle than for Americans to eat them, and that it would be "good for animals, good for human health, and good for the environment."
That is known as "Sanctioning and inciting bioterrorism".
PETA is a terrorist group.
The other one is Pamela Anderson.
...India vs Pakistan =
...OSAMA diverts to get Pak's NUKES to ship to us for denotation.
...If only CLINTON had said "YES" not "NO" to putting OSAMA in jail here in the 1990's...?
NEVER FORGET
ALF
ELF
Earthfirst
Greenpeace
are all cut from the same cloth.
They are expressing their Rights as American Citizens.
We need to leave them alone, or at least be sure if they ever plan an attack that they are let out on bail! ;)
Janet Reno just had a bad hair day!
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