Father to PETA: Hands Off My Kid!

The Center for Consumer Freedom ^ | February 18, 2005 | N/A

[Darnright]

Paul Johnston of Middletown, Delaware is one ticked-off parent. And with good reason. As the Middletown Transcript reports, Johnston's daughter -- a student at Louis L. Redding Middle School -- came home from school last week with a propaganda booklet and magazine from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). The PETA materials, it turns out, were part of the official classroom teaching. "I thought it was totally inappropriate for something like this to even be thought of being in the curriculum," Johnston told a reporter. We couldn't agree more. The Center for Consumer Freedom has written to Dr. Sue Dutton (the principal of the young Johnston girl's school), along with the members of the local school board, asking them to reconsider putting their stamp of approval on PETA propaganda. A sampling from our letter:

The debate shouldn't be about whether animal welfare is a valuable thing to teach. No one, after all, wants to endorse cruelty to animals. But it's equally irresponsible to lend a school's imprimatur to the teachings of a group that values lab rats over human children, believes giving milk to kids constitutes "child abuse," actively recruits an "army of animal rights rebels" in and around schools, encourages children to regard their non-vegetarian parents as "murderers," and has even funded the operations of arsonists and other violent felons. Administrators in Mr. Johnston's school district will also receive copies of "Your Kids, PETA's Pawns," the Center for Consumer Freedom's report detailing PETA's plan to indoctrinate millions of American children behind their parents' backs. Skeptical? PETA activists appeared outside a Wisconsin middle school at 7:30 this morning, handing anti-chicken trading cards to young kids as they walked to school.

Parents: If your child brings home animal-rights propaganda materials (often masquerading as "humane education" booklets), drop us a note and tell us your story. We'll be happy to educate your school administrators.

Teachers and other education professionals: Printed copies of "Your Kids, PETA's Pawns" are available to you free of charge. Just let us know where to send them.

[cake_crumb]

"Sorry, 'should' was supposed to be 'shouldn't' "

I dunno...since they don't consider the life of a human being more important than that of a deer, we can run 'em over in the street and turn it in to our insurance like we do with deer damage...no charges filed. Sounds good to me.

[Casloy]

The left and the MSM would be braying like mules if anyone dared pass out NRA material in a school. But for this one, you got have a few irate parents. I Classify PETA in the same category as the White Supremacists, the KLAN, and the Communist Party USA.

[bigfootbob]

Yes, weak but provable. I've been told there's some sealed indictments and several Federal grand juries have or are hearing evidence. They'll screw-up sooner than later, just wait. The FBI and Homeland Security folks are all over this.

[bigsigh]

BTW I think BS with Penn and Teller is a Showtime production.

[bigfootbob]

I read about those incidents. The rest of what you said I totally concur.

[VictoryGal]

All I can say is: home school or private school. Public schools are cesspools of liberalness and incompetency.

[cake_crumb]

You're obviously new at this and have no idea how closely related these groups are. They even have the same founders. Go to activist cash to start. Most of the research has been done for you and is public knowledge. Then do a bit more.


WE have been trying to get the truth to the public for years. Unfortunately, every few months, there are people like yourself who seem to have missed all of it and demand we make our case over and over, ad nauseum. Not flaming you in particular, this is a peeve in general.

[VictoryGal]

LOL!!!!

[cake_crumb]

Oh, you're one of those evil people who are threatening our virgin forests with your arboreal Frankensteins!! Shame on you!

Good luck and good harvest, too :- )

[girlangler]

Here is what I posted on another thread and I repeat:

PETA bankrolled attorney fees for Rodney Coronada, an ALF arsonist. You will also see lots of PETA current and former leaders in positions with the Humane Society of the US from time to time.

These are all TAX-EXEMPT organizations and blatant political lobbyist groups. Among their goals are to
eliminate hunting, fishing, factory farming, small farming, animal research, use of animals in every way. Their
membership ranges from a little old lady on a fixed income who loves animals and contributes $$$, thinking she's
helping them, to major corporate contributors and paid half-naked movie stars.

So far ALF's crimes have not resulted (as far as I know) in any human deaths in the U.S,. but they have caused untold animal suffering, as well as financial destruction on targeted businesses.

They've burned public buildings and harassed and threatened people who are involved in animal research (and their families).

As far as I am concerned they are terrorists; even if their converts are mostly young snotty-nosed brats from urban settings who wouldn't know a zebra from a raccoon. They are recruited young with the HSUS and PETA propaganda taught in schools (as young as elementary schools).

I don't have time to post it now but there are many links to articles about the finances of PETA/ALF and HSUS and their links to terrorist organizations.

Americans For Medical Progress is an excellent link, and in the mid-1990s major newspapers (I think the Post was one) ran exposes about the HSUS finances, and PETA's ALF link.

Their counterparts in Great Britain and other European countries have become quite adept at violence, and play a HUGE role in politics.

My feeling is, like all zealots, they'll get more violet to achieve their aims and eventually could kill humans, if only by accident.

And I don't understand why the FBI doesn't take them more seriously, or produce more results.

I got chills when I heard one renowned animal rights leader (can't remember but I think a PETA spokesperson) say she hoped the mad cow disease came to America so we could all pay for/appreciate the plight of factory farm animals (not an exact quote but basically that message).

[StoneGiant]

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled 'Nature.'" The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of "Nature" -- but beavers and their dams are. But the contradictions go deeper than this prima-facie absurdity. In declaring his love for a beaver dam (erected by beavers for beavers' purposes) and his hatred for dams erected by men (for the purposes of men) the "naturist" reveals his hatred for his own race -- i.e., his own self hatred.
In the case of "Naturists" such self-hatred is understandable; they are such a sorry lot. But hatred is too strong an emotion to feel toward them; pity and contempt are the most they rate.
As for me, willy-nilly I am a man, not a beaver, and H. sapiens is the only race I have or can have. Fortunately for me, I like being part of a race made up of men and women -- it strikes me as a fine arrangement and perfectly "natural."

ROBERT HEINLEIN

[paulat]

This would have been funny if the spelling wasn't so pathetic.

Doesn't anyone out there teach the difference between "you're" and "your?????!!!!!!"

[Darnright]

You raise some interesting points, however, PETA has other goals that most thinking people find repugnant; such as banning the keeping of pets and abolishing the right of people to eat what they want (meat).

Are you talking about allowing convicts to volunteer for reasearch, or sentencing those who are on death row to the research?

[Darnright]

One of the most effective arguments used in Virginia against the humane education bill pointed out the time that would be taken from students (and teachers) needed to prepare them to pass the state's required Standards of Learning (SOL) testing program.

The argument for humane education is seductive. After all, we want our kids to grow up with an empathy for other living things, do we not?

[Darnright]

You are absolutely correct. When we fought the humane ed. bill a few weeks ago, look who was on the front line of the battle (thank goodness!). This organization has been a stalwart fighter against PETA and other humaniacs in Virginia:

http://vhdoa.uplandbirddog.com/

[westmichman]

Just because your name says "follower of Christ" doesn't convince me that you are one- especially since you don't capitalize His name!

[bert]

I thought religion was prohibited in the class room.

[MagnoliaB]

OMG! I love it!

PETA
ALF
DNC
ANSWER
AL QAEDA

Is there any difference?

[R. Scott]

Some time ago PETA came out against pet ownership. I think they have since dropped that part of their campaign, and my dog is happy about it.
All he has to do is listen for intruders and give me a warning. In exchange he gets fed, has fresh water (sometimes milk or juice) always at hand, lives in a warm in winter cool in summer apartment, sleeps on a soft bed with his own personal heater (me). He also gets back rubs, ear rubs and belly rubs on demand.
Tough life.