Texans are responsible (obviously).
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/ts_more.php?id=64646_0_10_0_M36
Beautiful. Thanks for the laugh Bosda
That was a nice feel good story.
That’s wonderful. The self-righteous brought low.
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BWAAAAA HAAA HAAA
I liked how KFC gets their own message across. They won’t comment because “we don’t negotiate with corporate terrorists.”
I once saw Phelps protestors get sprinklers trained on them like that, from a yard bordered by the sidewalk they were standing on. But the cops made the homeowner turn the sprinklers down.
I enjoyed that.
Really? Why?
I think that in the past PETA has demonstrated the ability to embarass themselves with no outside help, and I am confident that they will do so again in the future. And, as uncomfortable as I am with the wearing of fur, I can’t condone some of their tactics there.
But, this was non-violent protest, fully within their rights under the First Amendment. Even if they had gone to the extent of, say, blocking traffic or the like, I am reluctant to criticize those excercizing non-violent civil disobedience. (Can you tell that I am living in Thoreau country?)
I am not Jewish or Kosher, but I am fully in agreement with the attitude where one is humble and respectful for the taking of a life to sustain one’s own. Given that a majority of our livestock is destined for the table, I don’t think that it is unreasonable to ask that their end be painless. Whether the methods used today are painless or not is worthy of discussion.
(And calling a guy in a chicken suit a “corporate terrorist”? Give me a fucking break.)
best to all,
plynck
But it’s also within one’s rights to water the lawn.
Even us Democrats think those PETA folks are just plain nutty. They’ve abandoned our party, and I suspect even the Green party is contemplating yanking the welcome mat.
Well, better they protest then giving lab rats with infectious diseases to loving families.
While it’s kind of cute to see these nuts get their comeuppance, I can’t say I’m too crazy about the way the end of the article portrays them as hypocrites of some sort. “I’ll bet they eat their hamburgers secretly,” someone is quoted as saying. Really? I’m willing to bet they don’t. They may be wrong-headed (IMHO), but I wouldn’t suspect them of hypocrisy.
Heck, vegetarianism is common enough even amongst NON-animal rights folks.
Hmm. Here we see PETA folks behaving like dopes and Texans like self-important assholes. Gotta say I’m not surprised.
–Cliffy
Is a guy in a chicken suit a corporate terrorist? No. Is a guy breaking into a laboratory and opening all the animal cages and destroying research records a corporate terrorist? Yes. It’s the same organization.
Things like this three-person protest usually amuse me, mostly because PETA members are so stupid that they don’t realize that this kind of crap is counterproductive.
applause! Brilliant. Just brilliant.
Yeah, hamburgers is a stretch. It would have been better to accuse them of wearing leather.
Let’s focus on the good work that PETA has accomplished: their sucess in convincing attractive female celebrities to pose naked for anti-fur ads.
Sure, but watering the sidewalk where people are about their lawful business? The article says “curbside protestors,” not “trespassers.”
David Ingersoll’s cabrito-head comment sounds very close to (but not quite) incitement to assault, and John Olivo’s suggestion of hypocrisy is just self-justifying slander.
Plynck’s argument sounds a lot more civilized than that, and Cliffy sums up the story very nicely.
Except for using the f word
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Apologies. I get cranky before I have my coffee.
Best to all,
plynck
Because everybody is for the ethical treatment of animals; we vary on what ethical treatment actually is. Not only is PETA committing a fallacy by begging the question, they are using that logical crime to tell the rest of us that we are unethical.
I’ve never heard a PETA or SETA person establish that their standards are more ethical than my own, I have only heard them call me unethical without any justification. So it amuses me greatly when I hear that they get the hose turned on them. Based on my experience they are, as a group, assholes.
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