Your Children, PETA's Pawns

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April 26, 2004
Your Children, PETA's Pawns

Given the amount of propaganda it aims at America's children, it was just a matter of time before People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals crossed the wrong parent. A tip of the Consumer Freedom hat to Matthew Knowles, father of pop diva Beyoncé Knowles, who saw his daughter getting shoved around by PETA last week and did the only honorable thing he could. He shoved back. MSNBC reports that PETA recently attacked the pop star with a full-page ad in Billboard magazine, slamming her for wearing fur. In response, her dad called PETA president Ingrid Newkirk and left a message saying, in part: "Tell her we're going to get to know each other very, very well." Newkirk acknowledges that she expects a lawsuit to be in the offing, saying that if "you're a realist, you look for a subpoena."

Mr. Knowles isn't the only father who should be upset, as PETA has a long history of targeting children with its destructive animal rights messages. The group indoctrinates kids with Animal Liberation Front vocabulary at an early age, sends convicted felons into schools to lecture them about "compassion" (and vegetarianism), and even propagandizes them as they walk home at the end of the day.

The common thread running through all of PETA's outreach to minor children is its habit of going behind parents' backs to create the next generation of meat-shunning, pleather-wearing (and yes, bomb-throwing) activists. If you're a parent who's had enough of PETA preaching its disturbing brand of misanthropy to your kids, we'd like to hear from you. Even if you're not prepared to make a public stink the way Mr. Knowles did, we are.

Click here [email: info@consumerfreedom.com] to tell us how PETA has interfered with your efforts to raise your children your way. We'd love to hear from you: just be sure to include your name, address, and a phone number where you can be reached. And after you share your story, don't forget to add your name to our petition to the IRS, aimed at revoking PETA's federal tax exemption.

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Find the petition here: http://www.consumerfreedom.com/petaPetition.cfm

Take a Bite Out of PETA!
Posted January 19, 2004



Despite its deceptively warm-and-fuzzy public image, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has donated over $150,000 to criminal activists -- including those jailed for arson, burglary, and even attempted murder. In 2001, PETA donated $1,500 to the North American Earth Liberation Front, a criminal organization that the FBI classifies as "domestic terrorists." And since 2000, rank-and-file PETA activists have been arrested over 80 times for breaking various laws during PETA protests. Charges included felony obstruction of government property, criminal mischief, assaulting a cabinet official, felony vandalism, performing obscene acts in public, destruction of federal property, and burglary.

And PETA's leadership openly advocates breaking the law. Click here to listen to PETA vegetarian campaign director Bruce Friedrich encouraging activists to commit arson against restaurants, medical laboratories, and banks.

Like millions of other nonprofit groups in the United States (e.g., universities , houses of worship, social service organizations), PETA pays no federal taxes on its income. But few of these other tax-exempt groups share PETA's total disregard for the law. In 2002 PETA collected over $17 million from Americans, avoiding over $3 million in federal income taxes. Because this tax break amounts to a huge subsidy, every American taxpayer is footing the bill for PETA's behavior.

PETA's tax-exempt status was granted by the U.S. government on the basis of the group's willingness to conduct itself in a lawful fashion. We believe that PETA has failed to live up to its end of the bargain, and that the Internal Revenue Service should cancel PETA's tax-exempt status.

If you agree, please add your name and contact information below. Your "signature" -- along with those of thousands of other Americans -- will be used to encourage U.S. government officials to take action. PETA is currently being investigated by the IRS, so this is the perfect time to make your opinion known.

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