[2dogs]

Am I on the same planet as these people?




http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_748025.html

Anger over donkey bomb attack

Animal rights campaigners have complained to Yasser Arafat after a donkey was blown up in a bomb attack in the West Bank.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) has sent a letter to the Palestinian leader to protest at last month's blast near Jerusalem.

No humans were killed when the donkey was strapped with explosives and detonated, but the attack narrowly missed an Israeli bus carrying soldiers.

"We have received many calls and letters from people shocked at the bombing," Peta president Ingrid Newkirk wrote.

"If you have the opportunity, will you please add to your burdens my request that you appeal to all those who listen to you to leave the animals out of this conflict?"

Ms Newkirk says she has not asked Mr Arafat to try to stop suicide bombings that kill people.

"It's not my business to inject myself into human wars," she told the Washington Post.

She adopted a polite tone in the letter because the group always try to "ask nicely" the first time, a Peta spokesman says.

A spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington said: "When you have a regime that has no respect for human life, can you really expect them to respect animal life?"

[critter]

Ain't sure 'bout the donkeys but we all know who the jackasses are!

[Azrael256]

:rolleyes:

[Soap]

Is it just me, or does that fact that people like this even exist anger you in some intense way?

[Azrael256]

Don't worry, you're not the only one.

[2dogs]

You know, I think I've figured out what it is I like about coming to this board- the posters are sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but at least they are FREAKIN' SANE. God, you have to come here just to hear rational thoughts expressed, and not idiocy leaking out of people's brains.

[Nathaniel Firethorn]

PETA should lead the charge against Arafat. (Not metaphorically, either.)

- pdmoderator

[Coronach]

"If you have the opportunity, will you please add to your burdens my request that you appeal to all those who listen to you to leave the animals out of this conflict?"Yeah, I'm pretty sure he'll listen to you on that one.Ms Newkirk says she has not asked Mr Arafat to try to stop suicide bombings that kill people.The mind boggles."It's not my business to inject myself into human wars," she told the Washington Post.So...animals are people too, but people are not animals? Uhm...ok.She adopted a polite tone in the letter because the group always try to "ask nicely" the first time, a Peta spokesman says.And if that doesn't work, I really want you guys to try some of your usual tactics on the PLO. I really do. I would pay to see it.A spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington said: "When you have a regime that has no respect for human life, can you really expect them to respect animal life?"Shhhhh! Now stop with that 'logic' and 'sanity' stuff. ;)

Mike

[BenW]

Well, I'm afraid I have to agree with PETA on this one. I believe it's morally reprehensible to blow up noble donkeys when you could be blowing up PETA members instead.

God, you have to come here just to hear rational thoughts
I second that 2dogs. Have you guys ever been to the PETA websites? Those people are just plain nuts (and vulgar as well, which I have always found to be a great way to sway people to your cause :rolleyes: ).

[Khornet]

"A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy."

-Ingrid Newkirk

[WilderBill]

Perhaps next itme they could volunteer to take the poor donkey's place? ;)

[Black Dragon]

Well now.......The fighting should just be about over in the Middle East. I can see Hamas and the rest of them running for the hill because PETA does not like donkey bombs! I can see how afraid those AK carrying people are with the fact that PETA is out to "get them"

Critter hit it on the head!

I think the scary thing is that these PETA people are allowed to breed!

[one-shot-one]

:banghead: no wonder the rest of the world hates americans, some body please write yessar and let him know these :cuss: do not represent the majority of americans:fire:

[Mute]

Wow! Gives new meaning to the term bada$$.

[Hkmp5sd]

I wonder how they hide the explosives and then teach the donkey to get on a bus...

Seriously, Ms Newkirk needs to come up for air. Her heads been buried in the sand too long.

[CZ-75]

Ms. Newkirk has a head full of air, so it can stay buried for the rest of her life.


I wonder if the PETA folks will start a suicide bombing campaign against the PLO now, considering how little either group values human life (except those of the folks in the leadership).

[jimpeel]

I about split a gut laughing when I first heard of this. They said on the news that Israeli soldiers said they saw the donkey walking toward them "in a suspicious manner" and then it blew up.

How does a donkey act in a suspicious manner?

The world must look very interesting through that little window in Ms Newkirk's bellybutton.

[Destructo6]

I'll join Arafat with a slap to the forehead and a "doh!"

[RON in PA]

I've been doing research using lab animals for 40 years so you know what I think of PETA (people eating tasty animals) but this is one time I agree. Leave the dumb beasts out of your immoral murders.

[CZ-75]

I hope someone else saw this goonie limey dingbat on 20/20.

What is it about the English that makes them seem so prone to daftness?

PETA provided financial aid to animal-rights terrorists blowing up facilities, vandalizing property, etc. for legal defense.

Newkirk (I'll skip the honorifics) went so far as to call one a "fine young man." He was (is?) a teacher, no less. I can only imagine the indoctrination he foisted upon his students.

Anyway, three cheers for John Stossel.

[jmbg29]

"One flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cukoo's BLAM!

Sorry Ms. Newkirk. Guess I just couldn't help myself. I'm such a naughty boy.;)

Fruitcake.:rolleyes:

[TarpleyG]

"It's not my business to inject myself into human wars,"
As opposed to what other species that conduct warfare???:confused:

GT

[BenW]

The other way to look at this is that PETA says animals = humans. Thus the donkey should be self-aware and capable of determining its own destiny.

How do we know it wasn't an Islamic Fundamentalist donkey? Maybe somebody told it that if it would strap itself into a bomb and die a martyr there would be 24 virgin donkeys and endless fields of alfalfa waiting for it in the afterlife.:D

[jmbg29]

LMAO:D

Fonix reely wurkt 4 me. D'oh!

[Deadman]

Got Donkey?

[Dan Shapiro]

I love PETA. I really do. You just can make up better material. :D

[2dogs]

http://www.pilotonline.com/opinion/op0206dou.html

Arafat gets asinine plea from PETA on intefadeh





The Virginian-Pilot
© February 6, 2003

Every so often, I violate my own policy against giving PETA -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals -- the publicity it desperately desires and doesn't deserve.
I do this whenever the Norfolk-based animal rights group does something so astonishing, it simply can't be ignored.

This is one of those times.

But our story doesn't begin in Norfolk. It begins in Israel.

On Jan. 26, a bomb exploded on the road between Jerusalem and the West Bank settlement of Gush Etzion.

As terror attacks go, this one was minor. Most of us didn't hear about it because, with the exception of one bus passenger treated for shock, no one was injured.

Thank God.

Palestinian terrorists delivered the bomb to its destination by donkey. They strapped explosives and a remote device to the animal and detonated the bomb by cell phone as an Israeli bus passed by.

The donkey, of course, was killed.

You know where this is going, don't you?

That's right. PETA, the group that never before expressed concern about the carnage in Israel, is suddenly outraged.

All because a donkey died.

Never mind that, according to the Israeli embassy, which keeps track of such grim statistics, 729 Israelis have perished in terrorist attacks since September 2000.

It took the death of a donkey for PETA to find its voice.

Leave the animals out of it, they cry.

Determined to make Hampton Roads look like a breeding ground for wackos to the rest of the world, PETA President Ingrid Newkirk this week fired off a fax to Yasser Arafat.

She began the letter with a polite salutation: ``Your Excellency.''

I can think of lots of titles for Arafat. Excellency isn't among them.

But I digress.

``. . . We have received many calls and letters from people shocked at the bombing . . . in which a live donkey, laden with explosives, was intentionally blown up.

``All nations behave abominably in many ways when they are fighting their enemies, and animals are always caught in the crossfire. The U.S. Army abandoned thousands of loyal service dogs in Vietnam. (Odd. No mention of our dead soldiers, MIAs, POWs or even loyal South Vietnamese allies who were left behind, but again, I digress.)

``Al-Qaeda and the British government have both used animals in hideously cruel biological weaponry tests.''

Brace yourselves. It gets worse.

``We watched on television as stray cats in your own compound fled as best they could from Israeli bulldozers''

Fleeing cats! PETA confronts the horror of war.

``Animals claim no nation. They are in perpetual involuntary servitude to all humankind, and, although they pose no threat and own no weapons, human beings always win the undeclared war against them. . . .

``If you have the opportunity,'' Newkirk beseeched Arafat, ``will you please add to your burdens my request that you appeal to all those who listen to you to leave the animals out of this conflict?'' In other words, Newkirk seems to be begging the Palestinians not to stop the slaughter, but rather to find a different delivery system for their bombs.

Appalling.

Perhaps Ms. Newkirk would prefer that the Palestinians used suicide bombers instead of burros. Oh, that's right, they usually do.

Lisa Lange, PETA's vice president of communications, told me yesterday that Newkirk's letter was written after their offices had been bombarded with calls from PETA members who had learned of the donkey bomb.

Lange said it's PETA's philosophy that human cruelty often begins with animal cruelty.

The Washington Post this week asked Ms. Newkirk if she had ``considered asking Arafat to persuade those who listen to him to stop blowing up people as well'' as animals.

Her response should be required reading for all would-be members of PETA:

``It's not my business to inject myself into human wars,'' Newkirk told the Post.

How does one respond to such moral ambiguity?


How about a body count of human bodies?

In January 2003 -- the month in which the donkey died -- 21 Israelis and eight foreign nationals were killed by terrorists in Israel, and 127 others were injured.

Yet PETA weeps for the ***.

Radio talk show host Tony Macrini got it right when he remarked recently that ``PETA'' was an acronym for ``People Embarrassing the Tidewater Area.''

One can only hope that Newkirk left off her Norfolk return address on that asinine letter to Arafat.

[mjustice]

I'd pay good money to see them go to the West Bank or Gaza and try and toss some paint on Arafat.. :)

MJ

[Flying V]

If only PETA were around during WWII. They might have sent Joe Stalin a polite letter requesting that the Red Army cease using dog-mines against German tanks.