Your Mommy Kills Animals!
December 18, 2003
Animal rights activist group PETA - who are on record as advocating violence and providing financial support to admitted terrorists - are now planning a campaign of psychological child abuse in the US.
The group will be handing out leaflets at American performances of "The Nutcracker" this year, targeting young children of women apparently wearing fur with the message "Your Mommy Kills Animals."
According to the Boston Herald:
The fliers include a color drawing of a woman plunging a large bloody knife into the belly of a terrified rabbit. The fliers urge kids to "Ask your mommy how many dead animals she killed to make her fur clothes. And the sooner she stops wearing fur, the sooner the animals will be safe. Until then, keep your doggie or kitty friends away from mommy - she's an animal killer!"
It's unclear how the activists will distinguish mothers wearing real fur from their more enlightened fake-fur-wearing counterparts.
A Boston-area child psychologist calls the action "absolutely unconscionable."
While PETA's child abuse may seem despicable, it's less odious than the outright terrorism that the group's spokespeople sometimes advocate:
"(If) these animals do have the same right to be free from pain and suffering at our hands, then of course we are going to be, as a movement, blowing stuff up, and smashing windows. For the record, I don't do this stuff, but I do advocate it. I think it's a great way to bring about animal liberation. And considering the level of the atrocity and the level of the suffering, I think it would be a great thing if, you know, all of these fast-food outlets and these slaughterhouses and these laboratories and the banks that fund them, exploded tomorrow. I think it's perfectly appropriate (applause) and I think it's perfectly appropriate for people to take bricks and toss them through the windows and, you know, everything else along the line. Alleluia to the people who are willing to do it." - Bruce Friedrich, PETA Vegetarian Campaign Coordinator, at Animal Rights 2001 National Conference in McLean, Va., July 2, 2001
Here's a link to the above audio: http://www.consumerfreedom.com/downloads/peta_quote.wav (1.1M WAV file)
PETA's support for terrorists goes beyond mere advocacy, according to this account:
"In 1992, a firebomb destroyed a laboratory at Michigan State University. Rodney Coronado, a member of the Animal Liberation Front, (sister group to Earth Liberation Front), was eventually arrested, admitted guilt, was sentenced, spent nearly five years in jail and served three years on probation. After his arrest, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a group that benefits from federal IRS non-profit status as a charity devoted to the public good, donated $45,200 to the Rodney Coronado Support Fund. It would have been difficult for PeTA to set up a Rodney Coronado Defense Fund, given that Coronado pled guilty well in advance of the trial and has always taken credit for the crimes he has committed."
While explicitly claiming the ethical high ground, PETA and its representatives advocate violence, support terrorism, and will now be engaging in child abuse.
Something to keep in mind the next time this "charity" asks for your support.
The Daily Ablution
The fliers feature a woman stabbing a terrified rabbit in the belly with a bloody knife, reports the Boston Herald. Text on the pamphlets urges kids to "Ask your mommy how many dead animals she killed to make her fur coat."
"Children can’t look up to a mom in a battered-raccoon hat or a crushed coyote collar," Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, told the paper. "Maybe when they’re confronted by their own children’s hurt looks, fur-wearers’ cold hearts will melt."
According to the report, the fliers even urge children to protect their pets from mom: "The sooner she stops wearing fur, the sooner the animals will be safe. Until then, keep your doggie or kitty friends away from mommy - she’s an animal killer!"
If this isn’t a good reason to callously stomp random PeTA members, I don’t know what is. If I had a child, and some fringe lunatic gave an emotionally scarring piece of propaganda to him, I believe I’d beat the aformentioned lunatic within an inch of their worthless lives.
Posted by Philip McClure in Rants, Political on Fri, 19 Dec 2003
Animal-rights activists across the nation are planning to single out children who are unlucky enough to have mothers who wear fur by giving them fliers at performances of "The Nutcracker" ballet saying, "Your Mommy Kills Animals."
The fliers feature a woman stabbing a terrified rabbit in the belly with a bloody knife, reports the Boston Herald. Text on the pamphlets urges kids to "ask your mommy how many dead animals she killed to make her fur clothes."
Child psychologist Dr. Carolyn Newberger decried the tactic:
"It's using children in the worst possible way," she told the Herald. "If (the activists) want to legitimately work to protect animals from destruction for fashion, they have every right to. But to do so by targeting children and making them feel their mothers are murderers is absolutely unconscionable."
According to PeTA national coordinator Lisa Franzetta, activists will descend on Christmas performances of "The Nutcracker" in as many as 20 cities across the U.S.
The paper says Franzetta acknowledged the anti-fur campaign might spark a backlash.
"It's definitely provocative; I will give you that," she said.
"Washing brains since 2003"
Animal-rights activists across the nation are planning to single out children who are unlucky enough to have mothers who wear fur by giving them fliers at performances of "The Nutcracker" ballet saying, "Your Mommy Kills Animals."
December 19, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern