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Putting People First / August 1, 1994
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Washington Report
FROM THE TRENCHES
by Kathleen Marquardt
Chairman, Putting People First
...A weekly opinion column about the struggle against "animal rights" and
eco-extremists.
Copyright@1994 Putting People First
Permission to reproduce this column is freely granted on the condition that
credit is given to Putting People First.
Putting People First is a nonprofit organization of citizens who believe in
western civilization; that we need to return to common sense in man's
relationship with his fellow man; and that public policy should be based on
science and rationality, not emotionalism.
Putting People First
PO Box 1707
Helena, Montana 59624
(406) 442-5700
Fax (406) 449-0942
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USA TODAY SINGS PAeAN TO PeTA
In Wednesday,July 27, USA TODAY, is a piece by Ann Oldenburg titled
"Tactics get results and raise hackles." It is a long piece with photos
-- one of PeTA's leader of international campaigns, Dan Matthews, with
two "slaves" (PeTA's term for pets), another showing PeTAphiles breaking
the law, and a third of five women naked behind a cloth banner.
Oldenburg's piece, while it includes quotes from those who have
been targets of PeTA's illegal and asinine behavior, is mostly admiring
mush. Oldenburg calls PeTA the "advocacy darling of the moment," and
goes on to gush that the "employees are all hip, vegetarian or vegan,
and passionate." Charles Manson and Adolph Hitler were both passionate
people, too (and early animal rights advocates, to boot).
I have sent the following letter to USA TODAY. It is not too late
to express your feelings on this. And when you see other pieces like
this one, please write to the editor and let him or her know that there
are lots of us who still believe in a morality that is not relative. If
you cannot get a copy of Wednesday's paper, call our office and we will
fax you a copy of the offensive story.
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USA TODAY
1000 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, Virginia 22229
Editor:
If PeTA and Dan Matthews are the "animals' best friends," the
animals better run for cover. PETA, is decidedly not good for animals.
PeTA's only pretense of providing directly for animals is the Aspen Hill
Pet Sanctuary where they kill animals they do not want.
More to the point of Ann Oldenburg's July 27 issue is the question
of moral outrage. Here is a reporter with foreknowledge of an illegal
act ("PeTA plans to slosh human urine over the walls of the firm's
Lancaster Avenue headquarters"), not only writing about it in your paper
but presenting it as if it were something to be proud of. Where is your
moral outrage?
If Wyeth-Ayerst, which is the target of PeTA's latest temper
tantrum, were to do the same to PeTA's building, I am certain that
your paper and the rest of the country would be yelling bloody murder.
So why is it that when a bunch of overgrown delinquents do it, you
write about it as if it were something you would want your children
out doing?
Here is Dan Matthews who goes out in public wearing a carrot
costume and your reporter writes as if what he is saying is logical,
not the off-the-wall blathering of the zealot he is. Someone there
needs a reality check -- immediately. Ms.Oldenburg coos, "PeTA is the
advocacy darling of the moment." Only to those with no moral compass.
Only to those who would rather see our dogs wiped off the face of
the earth (Matthews' boss Ingrid Newkirk has said that "Pet ownership
is an absolute abysmal situation brought about by
human population," and a PETA white paper said, "The cat, like the
dog, must disappear... W should cut the domestic cat free from our
dominance by neutering, neutering, and more neutering, until our
pathetic version of the cat ceases to exist." How many of your
readers are dog lovers and cat fanciers? And these are the "animals'
best friends? Not unless the world is upsidedown. When good is bad
and right is wrong, then PeTA is the animals' best friend -- but not
until then and certainly not now.
Those PeTAphiles who have saved up their urine to throw on
someone elses property first need to go to jail for illegal
activities, then they need to get a life. Over-grown brats throwing
urine, running around naked, making asses of themselves are not things
you should be flaunting in your newspaper. If you report on their
asinine activities, it should be with ridicule, not reverence. Maybe
your reporters should be tested for maturity before you hire them.
Sincerely,
Kathleen Marquardt, Chairman