The Shame of PETA

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[catcher T]

PETA is one scary group,,hope the world will see their evil ways soon

[Marty]

This is bull****. If you or me had done the SAME thing PeTA would have been pushing for hard penalties and protesting the courtroom. I say someone got paid off.

PETA Workers Cleared of Animal Cruelty, Convicted of Littering
By SAMUEL SPIES

WINTON, N.C. - A jury found two animal-rights workers not guilty Friday of animal cruelty for euthanizing animals they took from shelters, but both were convicted of littering for dumping the carcasses in a trash bin.

Adria Hinkle and Andrew Cook, two employees of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, were cleared of eight misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty. Hinklecounts of obtaining property by false pretenses.

Both received a 10-day suspended jail sentence and a year of supervised probation, meaning neither will serve jail time. Their van will be confiscated by police and each was ordered to pay $4,000 in fines and court costs.

"I gave the penalty I thought was appropriate, " Superior Court Judge Cy Grant said.

As she left the courtroom after the two-week trial, Hinkle said she was relieved.

"Justice was served," she said.

Cook declined immediate comment.

Hinkle and Cook had testified that they euthanized the animals in the back of their van to relieve the animals' suffering. They said they disposed of the bodies in Hertford County, instead of driving them back to the PETA offices in Virginia, because the smell was overwhelming.

The animals were picked up from several shelters in northeast North Carolina.

Hinkle, 28, of Norfolk, Virginia, and Cook, 26, of Virginia Beach, had each faced 21 felony counts of animal cruelty until Grant reduced those charges Thursday, saying prosecutors failed to prove malice, a necessary element of the felony charge.

The pair was arrested in June 2005 after police said they saw them dump several bags of dead animals behind a grocery store. Police said they found more dead animals in the pair's van.

Local shelter officials said they were unaware that PETA planned to euthanize most of the animals it picked up, but a PETA official testified that she told county officials of the policy.

http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/1191233/

[Marty]

http://www.consumerfreedom.com/article_detail.cfm/article/154 (http://www.consumerfreedom.com/article_detail.cfm/article/154)

There is some good info on the site. The petition is to revoke PETA's tax exempt status. Get these people where it hurts... their pocketbooks. For those of you that don't know, PETA is for total genocide of the pitbull breed. These are some crazy people. They are as close to homeland terrorists as you will find.

[Marty]

Colorado Governor: PETA “A Bunch Of Losers,” “Frauds”

As many as 340,000 cows and steers (http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/other_business/article/0,2777,DRMN_23916_5252668,00.html) have been left stranded by southeastern Colorado's most recent snowstorm, and National Guard units (http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/010507dnnatstorms.244b05e.html) are helping ranchers in a frantic bid to save the freezing animals (http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_4945553). Faced with 15-foot snowdrifts, rescuers are airlifting bales of hay and hoping for the best. But as Coloradans are learning, the wealthy People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (http://www.petakillsanimals.com/) (PETA) isn't about to lift a finger. Not forthose animals -- the ones destined to be flame-broiled, grilled, or roasted. Appearing on Denver radio station KRFX (http://www.thefox.com/) yesterday morning, Colorado Governor Bill Owens (http://news.scotsman.com/columnists.cfm?id=1242622003) spoke for all of us. PETA, he declared, are "a bunch of losers" [click to listen (http://www.consumerfreedom.com/downloads/reference/audio/070105_KRFX_Gov_Owens_PETA_Losers.mp3)] and "frauds" [click to listen (http://www.consumerfreedom.com/downloads/reference/audio/070105_KRFX_Gov_Owens_PETA_Frauds.mp3)].

The dustup started when KRFX morning hosts Rick Lewis and Michael Floorwax (http://www.thefox.com/pages/lewisandfloorwax-index.html) (yes, that's his real name) called PETA to ask if the group would help feed and rescue the snowbound herds. PETA spokeswoman Reannon Peterson (http://www.uua.org/ga/ga02/images/2063riannonpeterson.jpg) took the call, and bluntly replied: "You're going to save them, and then in six months they're going to be killed and end up on someone's plate. So I don't know that it's really the most noble cause." [click to listen (http://www.consumerfreedom.com/downloads/reference/audio/070105_KFRX_Reannon_Noble_Cause.mp3)].

Peterson added that wild animals caught in the blizzard's wake -- the same animals PETA routinely criticizes hunters (http://www.luvtohunt.com/peta.htm) for bagging -- also weren't worth spending PETA's money to save. "It's an act of God," she said. "There's really nothing to be done" [click to listen (http://www.consumerfreedom.com/downloads/reference/audio/070105_KFRX_Reannon_Nothing_To_Be_Done.mp3)].

Enter Governor Owens. In addition to labeling PETA "losers (http://www.consumerfreedom.com/downloads/reference/audio/070105_KRFX_Gov_Owens_PETA_Losers.mp3)" and "frauds (http://www.consumerfreedom.com/downloads/reference/audio/070105_KRFX_Gov_Owens_PETA_Frauds.mp3)," he expressed amazement that "PETA doesn't want us to feed freezing cattle" [click to listen (http://www.consumerfreedom.com/downloads/reference/audio/070105_KRFX_Gov_Owens_Exec_Order.mp3)] and stated that "it's symbolic of what PETA stands for" [click to listen (http://www.consumerfreedom.com/downloads/reference/audio/070105_KRFX_Gov_Owens_PETA_Symbolic.mp3)]. Finally, Owens declared that PETA is "a strange group of people. Don't send money to PETA" [click to listen (http://www.consumerfreedom.com/downloads/reference/audio/070105_KRFX_Gov_Owens_PETA_Strange.mp3)]. Asked a few hours later by KRFX sister-station KOA-AM (http://www.850koa.com/) to reiterate his position on PETA, he put it plainly: "What a bunch of losers. Don't give your money to PETA." [click to listen (http://www.consumerfreedom.com/downloads/reference/audio/070105_KOA_Gov_Owens_PETA_Losers.mp3)].

We couldn't agree more. As we're telling the media (http://www.consumerfreedom.com/pressRelease_detail.cfm/release/189) today, the Colorado snowstorm is exactly the kind of emergency that should send PETA into action. But PETA -- whose president publicly wished for a foot-and-mouth epidemic (http://www.soc.iastate.edu/sapp/Welfare03.html) in 2001 -- has a stubborn anti-meat bias. To this group of tofu-devouring loonies, seeing the livelihood of cattle ranchers evaporate is a cheap thrill. This may also be the reason why the vegetarian-oriented Humane Society of the United States (http://www.activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/oid/136) isn't spending any of the $145 million (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/06/AR2006090601770.html) it raised last year on Colorado helicopter rentals and hay bales.

To listen to the entire phone call with PETA, click here (http://www.startcolorado.com/iac/KRFX-FM/petacall3.mp3). Governor Owens' entire interview is also available (http://www.startcolorado.com/iac/KRFX-FM/govowens.mp3), thanks to KRFX radio.

Sorry about all the post but the truth needs to be heard.