PETA's at it again...

[Canonbeat234]

i like peta bread though.

It has tanooki fur in it.

Does the fur itself has rabies? If not then I will pick the fur off as much as possible then I'll eat the bread.

 

[Foxi4]

Alright. I'll steer this *right* back on track alright. It's PETA time.

In 2001, three masked SHAC members brutally bludgeoned a medical researcher outside his home in England. The lead attacker was arrested and sentenced to three years in prison. A few months later, SHAC attacked another research industry employee on his doorstep with a chemical spray to his eyes, leaving him temporarily blinded and writhing in pain. The following year, Newkirk (President of PETA) was asked her opinion of SHAC in the Boston Herald. Her response? "More power to SHAC if they can get someone's attention."

By 2003, PETA activists had adopted SHAC's protest techniques, stalking and harassing fast-food restaurant executives. Not content to write letters and picket the chain restaurant's offices, PETA's leaders met with the CEO's pastor, and visited his country club and the manager of one of his favorite restaurants. PETA activists, one dressed in a chicken suit, even protested at the church of two executives, annoying worshipers by driving a truck with giant screens of slaughterhouse video back and forth along the street.

PETA famously suggested that drinking milk causes cancer, in an advertisement mocking then-NYC Mayor Rudy Guliani with the words "Got Prostate Cancer?" PETA has also erected a billboard reading: "Got Sick Kids? Drinking milk contributes to colic, ear infections, allergies, diabetes, obesity, and many other illnesses." In 2003 the group held a demonstration in front of a Toronto-area hospital that was under a SARS-related quarantine, spuriously alleging that animal husbandry has something to do with the epidemic's spread. Upon hearing that Charlton Heston had fallen ill with Alzheimer's Disease, Ingrid Newkirk suggested that PETA would "toy with the idea that both Alzheimer's and CJD [Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease] are related to meat consumption." According to a profile in The New Yorker, she considered "renting billboards that would display a large picture of a gaunt Charlton Heston foaming at the mouth."

Not only does PETA oppose the age-old Jewish tradition of Kosher slaughter, but the group's leaders maintain that Jews have misinterpreted their own sacred texts on the subject. They also claim, ignoring mountains of scripture to the contrary, that Jesus was a vegetarian. PETA celebrated Easter in 2003 with a billboard depicting a pig, reading "he died for your sins." PETA also insists (again, selectively ignoring contradictory evidence) that Muhammad "was not a meat-eater." In his speeches to adolescents, Gary Yourofsky regularly compares himself to Gandhi and Jesus Christ. PETA's in-school presentations include the application of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" to birds and turtles -- not people.

PETA also has given $2,000 to David Wilson, then a national ALF “spokesperson.” The group paid $27,000 for the legal defense of Roger Troen, who was arrested for taking part in an October 1986 burglary and arson at the University of Oregon. It gave $7,500 to Fran Stephanie Trutt, who tried to murder the president of a medical laboratory. It gave $5,000 to Josh Harper, who attacked Native Americans on a whale hunt by throwing smoke bombs, shooting flares, and spraying their faces with chemical fire extinguishers. All of these monies were paid out of tax-exempt funds, the same pot of money constantly enlarged by donations from an unsuspecting general public.

PETA president Ingrid Newkirk is also an acknowledged financial supporter of a publication called No Compromise. This periodical operates on behalf of the radicals of ALF, and often publishes underground “communiqués” and calls to arms from ALF leaders.


Most ominously, PETA president Ingrid Newkirk was involved in the multi-million-dollar arson at Michigan State University that resulted in a 57-month prison term for Animal Liberation Front bomber Rodney Coronado. At Coronado’s sentencing hearing, U.S. Attorney Michael Dettmer said that PETA’s Ingrid Newkirk arranged ahead of time to have Coronado send her a pair of FedEx packages from Michigan -- one on the day before he burned the lab down, and the other shortly afterward.
The first FedEx, according to the Sentencing Memorandum, was delivered to a woman named Maria Blanton, “a longtime PETA member who had agreed to accept the first Federal Express package from Coronado after being asked to do so by Ingrid Newkirk.” The FBI intercepted the second package, which had been sent to the same address. It contained documents that Coronado stole before lighting his firebombs, as well as “a videotape of the perpetrator of the MSU crime, disguised in a ski mask.” Since Coronado was convicted of the arson, we now know that he himself was that masked man. “Significantly,” wrote U.S. Attorney Dettmer, “Newkirk had arranged to have the package delivered to her days before the MSU arson occurred.” (emphasis in the original) (...) Shortly after Coronado’s arrest, PETA gave $45,200 to his “support committee” and “loaned” $25,000 to his father (the loan was never repaid and PETA hasn’t complained). Now free from jail, with an expired parole, and with the benefit of an expired Statute of Limitations on his many earlier arsons (to which he readily confesses in his standard stump speech), Coronado stood before a crowd of hundreds of young people at American University in January 2003 and demonstrated how to turn a milk jug into a bomb. A few days later, ALF criminals tried to burn down a McDonald’s restaurant in Chico, California, using a firebomb that matched Coronado’s recipe.

PETA has published a leaflet called “Animal Liberation Front: the Army of the Kind.” In another pamphlet, “Activism and the Law,” PETA openly offers advice on “burning a laboratory building.”

Perhaps Newkirk’s most telling comment, though, came in a 2002 U.S. News & World Report feature. “Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective,” she admitted. “We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.”

PETA has long-standing ties to militant groups like the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). The FBI calls these criminal groups a "serious domestic terrorist threat."
~Activistcash.com

A page from the 2000 annual tax return (form 990) of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), showing a $1,500 payment to support the program activities of the North American Earth Liberation Front. ELF has been called "the largest and most active U.S.-based terrorist group" by the FBI, and along with its sister group the Animal Liberation Front commits arson, sets off time bombs and incendiary devices, destroys research facilities, runs online eco-terror "training camps," and much more.

A page from the 1995 annual tax return (form 990) of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), showing a $45,200 payment for the "support committee" of Rodney Coronado, a felon. Mr. Coronado was convicted of arson in federal court for the 1992 firebombing of a Michigan State University research lab.

~AnimalSCAM.com

...so, are they, or are they not terrorists, mind you?

 

[chyyran]

What the hell? It's a damn video game.
What's next? Koopas? I can see PETA actually doing that

"Mario is a delirious turtle killer!"

"Koopas may hurt you in the game, but in real life, people actually jump on turtles! By jumping on Koopas, Mario's sending the message that it's OK to jump on turtles"

Spoiler: Hey look, it's PETA

 

[Canonbeat234]

So that's tax-payers money supporting PETA, right?

 

[Foxi4]

So that's tax-payers money supporting PETA, right?

If you choose to give your tax refund to PETA or donate, at least KNOW what they do with your money.

They burn universities and restaurants and fund attorneys for murdurers, arsonists and burglars.

 

[Oveneise]

I read about this the other day with my friend. PETA is fucking stupid. They NEED to just... accidentally all jump into a big bonfire or something. Do they know that absolutely nobody besides their own members take them seriously? Ugh. Really folks, they could use their collective power for things that actually matter than try to get animals at the same level of humans. (and don't say I don't love animals - owner of 5 rabbits, 2 dogs, and a goldfish here)

 

[Clydefrosch]

peta does this because right now, people will google mario, tanooki and stuff like that.

some of these people will end up on the peta page.

same with this, people spread it like a wildfire, peta gets more visitors.


THEY DONT REALLY GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE GAME, ALL THEY WANT IS FOR PEOPLE TO REALIZE THEY EXIST.

also, they have some kind of a point, mario does attack animals, namely turtles. you can bet your asses that at least a handful of turtles died due to little children playing super mario.


anyway, you can think about peta what you want, but realize that this has nothing to do with them hating mario or the game, its just cold and rational viral marketing. and you sirs, are what makes it work

 

[Foxi4]

This is why we're also posting anti-PETA materials.

Awareness is one thing, knowing that a given organization lies allows to use said gained awarness to someone else's advantage, perhaps "actual animal shelters" that need your contributions.

 

[Canonbeat234]

So that's tax-payers money supporting PETA, right?

If you choose to give your tax refund to PETA or donate, at least KNOW what they do with your money.

They burn universities and restaurants and fund attorneys for murdurers, arsonists and burglars.

So that's tax-payers money supporting PETA, right?

If you choose to give your tax refund to PETA or donate, at least KNOW what they do with your money.

They burn universities and restaurants and fund attorneys for murdurers, arsonists and burglars.

Wait then that means the universities and restaurants asks the banks for loans to rebuild the destroyed property. How can PETA get away with this and the government don't see that organization as a loophole to society?! If PETA encourages people to burn stuff in the name for animal liberation then why aren't the people who does that take care of the animals and set them free into the wild within their natural habitat?

 

[Foxi4]

Because they don't fund attacks of any kind "on paper" or participate in them - they just hire goons who "happen to get the idea to do something illegal" out of their own accord. They also fund the defense of people who in "their opinion" were unrightfuly convicted - anyone can do that. They themselves have never done anything that was crossing the line other than arranging flow of FedEx packages with stolen goods, for which they were surely penalized financially.

They are under close and watchful eye of the FBI, because common sense allows anyone to see there's something cookin' there once you see those transfers. Thing is, American law is not designed to penalize anyone before a crime is commited - that'd be pointless. All PETA has to say is that "they were not aware of such activity at the time they were making the donation" and that is it, at least in a nutshell.

 

[Canonbeat234]

Because they don't fund attacks of any kind "on paper" or participate in them - they just hire goons who "happen to get the idea to do something illegal" out of their own accord. They also fund the defense of people who in "their opinion" were unrightfuly convicted - anyone can do that. They themselves have never done anything that was crossing the line other than arranging flow of FedEx packages with stolen goods, for which they were surely penalized financially.

They are under close and watchful eye of the FBI, because common sense allows anyone to see there's something cookin' there once you see those transfers. Thing is, American law is not designed to penalize anyone before a crime is commited - that'd be pointless. All PETA has to say is that "they were not aware of such activity at the time they were making the donation" and that is it, at least in a nutshell.

I see so unless PETA has bluntly commit the crime as a whole, individuals will just be pawns to the organization. Which can explain the reason why no one ever bother taking PETA seriously since they are saying one thing about their agendas while not following what they have preached. Future syndicate plans?

 

[Magmorph]

PETA recently sued Sea World for enslaving killer whales. They claimed that the 13th amendment also applies to animals.

 

[Gahars]

I would move to Canada or Mexico, and I'm planning on moving to Japan next year. I would never fight for this country. Gahars it's not a war, because for it to be a war it has to be declared one by Congress. If you go by our Constitution. Yes we haven't had a war since World War II.

Let's see what the definition of a war is...

A state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state.

Gee, I think we've had quite a few wars then. They may not have been officially declared wars (as I mentioned), but they were still wars nontheless. It really doesn't (or at least, shouldn't) take an idiot to see that.

On topic, even if we're assuming that being vegan or vegetarian is a good thing, that in no way justifies their support for domestic terrorism. (That isn't to say being either is bad; it's a personal choice that shouldn't be forced on people).

 

[Hyro-Sama]

When I think of PETA. I think of this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQdhMSEqhfg&feature=related

 

[Kiaku]

That's just bull-

 

[DJPlace]

so peta's like the KKK clan of this gen or something (i mean by animal not people) also if you want something that's really nasty hang on...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRQGqTo6Dtc&list=FLTNfEr7jYEYc0kRWKRdXtEQ&index=9&feature=plpp_video

 

[DiscostewSM]

What the hell? It's a damn video game.
What's next? Koopas? I can see PETA actually doing that

"Mario is a delirious turtle killer!"

"Koopas may hurt you in the game, but in real life, people actually jump on turtles! By jumping on Koopas, Mario's sending the message that it's OK to jump on turtles"

They don't need to. Robot Chicken did it for them.

Anyways, who is to say Mario is wearing a "real" fur suit anyways? And, why doesn't the PETA have a fit during Halloween? Oh, that's right, because Halloween costumes in the "real world" use "fake" animal skins, but they sure will go after the "imaginary world" and assume they use "real" animal skins....

 

[chris888222]

Nintendo actually responded. Lol

 

[chyyran]

Nintendo actually responded. Lol

Where? I would like to see that response

 

[gloweyjoey]

Nintendo has responded:

Mario often takes the appearance of certain animals and objects in his games. These have included a frog, a penguin, a balloon and even a metallic version of himself. These lighthearted and whimsical transformations give Mario different abilities and make his games fun to play. The different forms that Mario takes make no statement beyond the games themselves.

http://www.eurogamer...o-pro-fur-claim