From the PETA Media Center:
PETA recommends animal hoarder get psychiatric aid
An animal rights group is recommending that an Anchorage woman accused of neglecting more than 100 cats in her home get psychiatric help if convicted of animal cruelty.
Yes, we all agree that animal cruelty is bad. But anyone who is willing to either overlook cruelty to humans, or actually advocate cruelty to humans in order to prevent cruelty to animals, is in even more desperate need of psychiatric help.
Take our friend Bruce from PETA. You may recall my email exchange with him, in which he justified PETA’s tactics of using the Holocaust comparisons, and overlooking the slaughter of Israelis to appeal to Arafat. Well, that was apparently the tip of the mental insanity iceberg. Here is more on his tactics:
- He has openly advocated violence to achieve animal liberation. Click here and hear it with your own ears.
- He spent a year in prison for attacking an Air Force fighter plane with a hammer
- Proclaimed that mass murderer Timothy McVeigh’s decision to abstain from meat “groups him with some of the world’s greatest visionaries, including Albert Schweitzer, Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy and Albert Einstein.”
- Believes that sport hunters should be viewed “with the same revulsion we presently reserve for Nazi doctors and slave traders.”
Unfortunately, he is not alone. PETA’s Ingrid Newkirk, who penned the Arafat letter, also clearly has a kangaroo loose in the top paddock. Consider these quotes of hers:
On animal testing and AIDS:
“Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we’d be against it.”
On violent tactics:
“Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.”
“[People] need to understand that if they support the torture and misuse of other animals they will be made to pay. The animals are defenseless. They can’t fight back. But we can. And, no matter what it takes, we always will.”
On her last will and testament:
“That the meat of my body, or a portion thereof, be used for a human barbeque…my skin, or a portion thereof, be removed and made into leather products…my feet be removed and umbrella strands or other ornamentation be made from them…my eyes be removed, mounted and delivered to the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency…”
On Kentucky Fried Chicken’s Colonel Sanders:
“Why not find out when his birthday is, call the newspapers, and go dance on his grave?”
On her purpose in life..and after life:
“I am just trying to make the best case for animals. That is clearly what I was put on this earth to do. Even after I am gone, I will try to continue.”
On having children:
“I am not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.”
Compared to these two, the Anchorage cat lady seems mentally stable.
