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John Stossel Goes After PETA Tonight...

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I received this e-mail from Mr. Stossel last night:

"Hello.

This Friday's "Give Me A Break" is about animal rights nuts — I mean, "activists." They want to tell us what to wear, what to eat, and ban research that might save human lives.

PETA President Ingrid Newkirk wants us to stop eating turkey, because turkey farms are "concentration camps for animals." That's an insult to the people who were in concentration camps.

PETA gets famous people like Alec Baldwin and Alicia Silverstone to appear in their ads. Silverstone licks a frog, and says they should not be dissected. Even though animal testing has led to penicillin, organ transplants, the cure for polio, PETA says medical research must not involve animal testing. "It's rubbish research," says Newkirk.

Other animal rights activists advocate not just civil disobedience, but force.

PETA says it does not fund terrorists, but when arsonists blew up a research lab in Michigan, PETA paid $45,000 for the legal defense of the arsonist. "We gave him money for his defense because it is America and you are entitled to a legal defense and he's a fine young man," Newkirk says.

The arsonist is now out of jail, and a few months ago the Center for Consumer Freedom taped him urging others to burn buildings down.

Now you know — if you make a contribution to PETA, that's where some of it goes."


John Stossel's "Give Me A Break" segment will appear on tonight's airing of the news show "20/20".
 
All animal rights activists and greenies should be lined locked up in padded cells were they cant do any harm to anybody.
 
Jon_in_london said:
All animal rights activists and greenies should be lined locked up in padded cells were they cant do any harm to anybody.
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It is the leadership and the eco-terrorists who are political.

The unfortunate truth is that the average member is just an ignorant do-gooder who wants to be able to put a PETA or WWF sticker on his car so that people will know he cares...
 
Even though animal testing has led to penicillin, organ transplants, the cure for polio, PETA says medical research must not involve animal testing. "It's rubbish research," says Newkirk.
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Its this kind of thing that really pisses me off. Also in the Uk, they actually attack scientists who work in labs where they work on animals. I would really love to kick the seven shades of ◊◊◊◊ out of people like that, I think I would really enjoy it.
 
vivisectionists beware

I would vote for a complete and immediate ban on animal testing and dissections. They should first perform lab experiments on:

Alec Baldwin
Alicia Silverstone
(make that all the Baldwins)
Cher
BB Streisand
Kim Bassinger
Sean Penn
all PETA board members
Hillary Clinton
Holly Hunter
Any ALF member

Once that supply is used up, you can go back to animal testing.
 
They once had this one animal rights activist on the radio in Sarf Efrica who was saying that animal tests are pointles etc... When I asked her who surgeons should practice on if not on pigs, perhaps for example on her children? she accused me of 'emotional blackmail' another way of saying 'I cant really answer that without conceeding so Ill accuse you of some nasty instead' :mad:
 
Excelleeeeeeeeeeeeent! I first saw this thread and thought it might have been last night. I don't work tonight, love John Stossel, can't wait to watch it!
 
Stossel is a dope. His reports are so biased and sensationalized. Im not a big fan of PETA but you can take extremeists from any group who make the rest look bad.

I did enjoy that Stossle report where the pro wrestler smacked him upside his head. HAW!!!
 
Tmy said:
Im not a big fan of PETA but you can take extremeists from any group who make the rest look bad.
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Maybe, but when the extremists are the ones in charge and get to hand out the money, that's a whole hell of a lot different from a group that just has a few extremist members on the fringe.
 
And if a movement wants to be seen as serious and responsible, they should condemn the extremists and distance themselves from same.
 
IMO, modern environmentalism is the last bastion of socialist activism...
 
Tmy said:
Stossel is a dope. His reports are so biased and sensationalized. Im not a big fan of PETA but you can take extremeists from any group who make the rest look bad.

I did enjoy that Stossle report where the pro wrestler smacked him upside his head. HAW!!!
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As another said, it is the leadership, and the actual philosophy that's extreme. Many supporters do not know the real goals of the organization.
Its like the DARE program, you can't be against it without being accused of condoning cruelty to animals (or in DARE's case, being in favor of drug usage).
(DARE is a completely ineffective half billion dollar scam.)
 
I won't deny that PETA has achieved some level of good along the way, but I think that's becoming more and more rare.

I would suggest that if you really want to help animals, donate time and/or money to the ASPCA or your local rescue groups.

At least then you can be sure you're not just buying gasoline for an arsonist or financing the campaign to change the name of the Green Bay Packer's.
 
Kodiak said:
IMO, modern environmentalism is the last bastion of socialist activism...
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hee hee. I keep saying the same thing.

I don't watch the major networks. 20/20 is on more than once a week? 'Cause they had Michael Jackson on last night.

I don't like PETA, so this will be junk food for my brain, I guess.

I just turned off my cable TV, so all I have is the major networks now. And they suck.

I just bought a bunch of books at the Amazing Meeting. Plus, I have some QM books I keep putting off. It's time to pull the plug on my TV and do some catching up.
 
Originally posted by Tmy
Stossel is a dope. His reports are so biased and sensationalized.
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Can't say I've seen everything he's ever done, but I certainly haven't found this to be the case. Can you be more specific?
 
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