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PETA: Lies, abuse and death
The American Partisan ^ | 2 September, 2003 | Dave Gibson

Posted on 09/03/2003 8:50:16 AM PDT by The Right Stuff

PETA: Lies, Abuse, and Death
by Dave Gibson, Columnist

September 3, 2003

TAP EXCLUSIVE!!

First of Three Parts

Part I: PETA's Horrible Secret

We all know that PETA is quite possibly the most annoying and certainly the most arrogant of all the leftist groups currently attempting to alter our way of life. However, I doubt that outside of a few nosy people and former PETA employees anyone knows how they care for homeless pets in Hampton Roads, Virginia (their headquarters, right)...They kill them!

That's right, this warm fuzzy bastion of animal rights kills every once beloved family pet who has the misfortune of being carried through PETA's doors. People take animals to PETA instead of local shelters because they believe that they will be place into a home and will not be put down. Unlike local animal shelters, PETA doesn't even bother trying to find homes for these pets. All of them are killed within a few hours. In fact, PETA has gone through several area vets, after they refused to euthanize healthy animals. Finally PETA constructed their own facilities for this practice.

A former PETA employee spoke of one particular incident that burned into her mind forever: A teary-eyed man showed up at PETA headquarters one day with his beloved pet rabbit. The man had grown old and sick and was no longer able to care properly for his friend. He supplied a cage, bed, toys, and even vet records for this pet. He was assured by PETA workers that they would take "good care" of his rabbit and find him a home. The man left distraught but no doubt believing that his friend would be able to live out the rest of his life in a loving, compassionate home...PETA workers carried him to the 'death house' immediately and ended his life!

PETA doesn't stop with animals who are dropped off at their facility. No, they actively seek out animals throughout the community to kill. PETA sets traps to catch roaming animals all over Hampton Roads. These traps are designed to catch cats, many of these are not just strays but people's pets. They have even ventured onto a local federal installation, where they captured dozens of cats and immediately killed them. The cats at this particular facility were living in a 'feral cat colony'. They were well fed, spayed and neutered, and received regular veterinary care at the expense of the government workers. PETA in their renowned arrogance decided that they knew better and illegally entered the installation several times, stole these people's cats and ended their lives.

PETA employees and volunteers regularly enter private properties to capture animals, which according to former PETA employees are often times people's pets- someone's cat out for a midnight stroll or even just sitting in their owner's yard! Car loads of cats are regularly brought to PETA headquarters by employees and volunteers whose job it is to 'round them up'. One such volunteer has brought in hundreds of cats, many wearing tags bearing the name and address of their owner. The animals are loaded into a small storage shed, where they sometimes sit for several hours in the heat and cold...awaiting their date with the executioner.

We have all seen the outrageous costumes worn by PETA wackos. As an example of just how callous and truly bizarre these people truly are, two of the employees who perform the euthanizations came to a PETA function dressed as syringes! PETA's co-founder (Alex Pacheco) left the group over its absurd policy of feline genocide. PETA's mission statement, written by that group's leader Ingrid Newkirk states "We believe that animals have an intrinsic worth of their own". So Ms. Newkirk...Did you forget your mission?

In researching this article, I spoke to former PETA employees as well as people whose pets have been stolen by PETA (which were undoubtedly killed). Everyone of these people were willing to talk to me but insisted I not divulge their names or even the cities in which they now reside! When I asked one of these people why she was so afraid of retribution from PETA, I was told..."They will take it out on my animals".

Ingrid Newkirk is not only hypocritical but incredibly cruel. Euthanasia is something which is at times necessary, I know this all too well as I have had to make this heart-breaking decision. It is something that is done as a last resort, not a first response. It is a decision which must be made out of love and compassion, with a great deal of soul-searching. It is not something to be committed out of haste and blind loyalty to some feminazi. It is done to end suffering or when all efforts to find one a home has failed. It must never be done to animals that don't belong to you!

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© 2003 Dave Gibson


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: animalkillings; animalrights; hypocrisy; peta
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1 posted on 09/03/2003 8:50:17 AM PDT by The Right Stuff
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To: The Right Stuff
Is this for real? If so, PETA needs to be exposed, but you will never see it on any of the government stations.
2 posted on 09/03/2003 8:54:31 AM PDT by Sunshine Sister
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To: The Right Stuff
This has to be real. It's so typical of these leftist hypocrites. These bastards have to be exposed for the scum they are.
3 posted on 09/03/2003 9:00:35 AM PDT by exile (Exile - proudly ticking off the Left since 1992)
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To: The Right Stuff
If this is real, Newkirk will never appear on any show to discuss. She had no problem going on O'Reilly and proclaiming her hope that Mad Cow, and especially Hoof and Mouth disease would make its way to America to halt our consumption of beef.
4 posted on 09/03/2003 9:04:20 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Distributor of Pain, Your Loss Becomes My Gain)
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To: The Right Stuff
One such volunteer has brought in hundreds of cats, many wearing tags bearing the name and address of their owner.

I'm just speechless. PETA are just a bunch of hypocrites.

5 posted on 09/03/2003 9:07:00 AM PDT by MotleyGirl70
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To: The Right Stuff
If this is true about PETA, then you should be willing to name cities and addresses of PETA buildings where these crimes occured. 60 Minutes type news. Or did you invent the article. Really, You need to report the facts to the Police. If your facts are true then this is a national scandal. Please don't try to say that it is all just a left wing conspiracy. Your PETA story is front page news if it is real.
6 posted on 09/03/2003 9:13:52 AM PDT by Soliv123
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To: The Right Stuff
The "animal rights" wackos don't really believe in rights for animals. They're just using people's love of animals to foist their totalitarian views about nature and human diets upon the uninformed and unwary.
7 posted on 09/03/2003 9:19:11 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: The Right Stuff
Sure hope these a$$holes try this in my neck of the woods. One shot, one kill.
8 posted on 09/03/2003 9:20:19 AM PDT by scooter2
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To: The Right Stuff
If you want to piss off an animal rights wacko, tell him you have an outdoor cat.
9 posted on 09/03/2003 9:26:47 AM PDT by Guillermo (Proud Infidel)
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To: The Right Stuff
Has anyone noticed that Fox News is bashing the ALF and ELF today? This is the first time I've seen the mainstream media devote any amount of time to exposing these groups for what they are. I hope this is the beginning of a trend.
10 posted on 09/03/2003 9:30:04 AM PDT by itzmygun (Tag line provided by TagLines-R-Us.com)
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To: The Right Stuff
I think they sell the hides of the recently expired animals to an Asian conglomerate and most of the meat goes to China and South Korea. The financial records are all available to the public because, well, that is the ethical thing to do.
11 posted on 09/03/2003 9:37:49 AM PDT by Tacis
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To: The Right Stuff
Now you let the cat out of the bag.
12 posted on 09/03/2003 9:43:39 AM PDT by Free Trapper
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To: Sunshine Sister
I didn't write the article, just posted it. I have, however, been in contact with the author and he says he has definite documentation.

I believe he's telling the truth, he's conducted interviews with prior PETA employees and he lives in that neck of the woods.

13 posted on 09/03/2003 9:48:51 AM PDT by The Right Stuff
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To: The Right Stuff
They don't see it as hypocrisy at all. Animal-rights groups regard pet ownership as a kind of enslavement. (Excuse me..."pet" is a pejorative term. I meant "companion animal.") They anticipate the day when no species is in anyway the property of any other. Hence, such tactics as "liberating" mink farms and stealing people's cats. But here their collectivist notion of "rights" become clear: the "liberated" mink are just so many (or too many) predators unleashed on the local environment at once; those which aren't recaptured either kill local wildlife or starve or are hit by cars...PETA and those of their ilk care no more for what happens to the individual animal than they do for what happens to you or me, or our rights, or our property. As for the cats, PETA people will tell you it's unnatural for us to have them anyway, so it's best to do away with them. Search out their ideas about any domesticated breed--as they are "man-made" and unfit (or at least ill-sutied) to survive in the wild, they must go. This is their stance.
14 posted on 09/03/2003 9:49:45 AM PDT by Peter Porcupine
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To: Guillermo
No tell him you have a pet. Believe it or not, these folks believe owning pets is a form of slavery.
15 posted on 09/03/2003 9:50:15 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Peter Porcupine
Yep. They believe in a sort of "tooth and claw" socialism of the jungle. Get rid of all the arbitrary distinctions man has imposed upon nature and both man and beasts will live happily ever after in the Garden Of Eden. Its Marxist equality taken to its naturalistic extreme.
16 posted on 09/03/2003 9:52:48 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Peter Porcupine
in anyway = in any way.
17 posted on 09/03/2003 9:53:01 AM PDT by Peter Porcupine
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To: farmfriend
ping
18 posted on 09/03/2003 9:56:01 AM PDT by Libertarianize the GOP (Ideas have consequences)
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To: The Right Stuff
Well, I'm no supporter of PETA here but there is nothing in this article that is credibly sourced. The stuff about rounding upp all those cats seems kinda fishy...I generally notice cats that bolt into hiding at the approach of stranges...

And the business of names not being mentioned, well that's akin to CNN's widely overused line of "anonymous sources say...". For as much as I'd like to believe the article, the author lends little to no credibility...just comparable liberal innuendo...
19 posted on 09/03/2003 9:58:15 AM PDT by grumple
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To: grumple
I have to say it struck me as having the ring of truth. That is to say, I believe there are groups out there, if not PETA, then the Animal Liberation Front or some splinter group, willing and able to pursue this course, if not actively doing so as we speak.

As to my point about domesticated animals, I came across this quote:

We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding....One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.

-- Wayne Pacelle, Former National Director of Fund for Animals.

20 posted on 09/03/2003 10:11:47 AM PDT by Peter Porcupine
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