What do you think of this. More proof Peta is a terrorist group.?
SPECIAL REPORT: Judge Reminds PETA That Dognapping Is A Felony
Posted On June 27, 2007
Yesterday, the latest People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) employee to run afoul of the law made her get-out-of-jail-free arguments before a Virginia judge. It didn’t go too well. At the end of a 90-minute “probable cause” hearing in the aptly named town of Courtland, Virginia, PETA worker Andrea Florence Benoit stood charged with the October 2006 felony theft of a hunting dog. And we learned a great deal more about this disturbing case, and just how far PETA will go to substitute its judgment for everyone else’s.
Before the hearing even began, the prosecutor declared that he wouldn’t pursue petty larceny charges related to a radio-tracking collar Benoit removed from the dog before she put it in a PETA-owned van. Benoit’s lawyer now admits that she took the collar off, but tossed it by the side of the road.
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PETA, ALF, ELF, etc...all those loony groups use strong arm tactics to make their point. So yes, they should be listed as domestic terrorists and aggressively sought after and prosecuted under RICO. Street gangs same thing.
Are we going to describe every act of criminal asshattery as "terrorism"??
Is this woman a dumbass? You bet! Terrorist? Are you kidding me?
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Is PETA threatening anyone (person or animal) with physical harm? No? Not terrorism then.
I bet you're tired of people playing the race card. I'm tired of people playing the terrorism card, for the same reason.
How does stealing a dog equal terrorism?
Unless you're defining terrorism to be "all crimes".
With friends like this, do animals need enemys?
In Chicago, they sprayed a restaurant with red paint because the owner (who is French) had testified against the idiotic ban on Foie Gras that was enacted by our city council.
I'd say that was at least a hate crime.
is that what PETA does now? kidnap healthy animals just to put them to death?
Yeah, Goldspider said it.
There is REAL terrorism that we all need to be worried about. Labeling EVERY infraction of the law as "terrorism" will only weaken us, drive us apart, make us all suspicious of one another, and eventually subvert any and all notions of justice.
You don't like PETA? Join the club - they are extreme, and there are plenty of animal welfare groups that do a lot of great things without resorting to those tactics.
But PETA is not a terrorist group.
Their tactics are sometimes terrible but unless they are blowing up buildings or setting fires (which I hear some of theirs have done) they do not qualify as terrorsits the same way Al Qaeda does. They need to be stopped from stealing and murdering animals the way they do though.
These are the same "People" that have destroyed hundreds of thousands, if not million of dollars in persona property of people they disagree with.
In San Fransisco a couple years back a number of Peta members broke in to and destroyed a shop that sold Pate and Foie Gras, because THEY decided it was wrong to sell those products.
These guys are almost as bad as those people who burn down Car lots and ski resorts to "Save the environment", forgetting of course that the fire, smoke and water used to put out the blazes are releasing toxic chemicals in to the air soil and ground water.
Good intentions are great but they need to remember that they also pave the road to Hell.
This , by itself, doesn't make them a terrorist group. This makes them a group of organized criminals, I feel that they are a danger to civilized society, because they really believe that the rules don't apply to them. Using the Peta process of justification perhaps I could beat the beans out of one who came on to the family farm. I'm just looking out for the animals so I don't have to obey the law.
Good point !!
PETA is a good group but it seems like some of its members have done some illegal things in the process of trying to help animals.
I generally like PETA but some of the things they do are wrong.
I think PETA has good intentions but doesn't carry them out well.
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