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December 22, 2005
FBI Keeping an Eye on PETA
Posted by Dave Blount at December 22, 2005 8:48 AM
WaPo and their colleagues at the ACLU have their knickers in a knot over revelations that the FBI has opened a preliminary terrorism investigation into People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Naturally, PETA is screeching like a cat swung by the tail.
"You shouldn't have to wonder when you go to a speech at a college campus, or when you go to a meeting, whether you're being surveilled by the FBI," squalled PETA general counsel Jeff Kerr. Sticking close to moonbats' beloved this-is-the-early-70s template, he added, "It goes back to the dark days of Nixon and the enemies list."
However, PETA kooks are not being investigated for spewing propaganda, for wearing lettuce bikinis, for giving highly objectionable comics to children, or even for killing dogs and cats. They are being investigated because environmental and animal rights militants pose a serious terrorist threat. Before a Senate panel last May, FBI deputy assistant director for counterterrorism John Lewis cited more than 150 pending investigations.
PETA is suspected of funding, supporting, and acting as a front for ecoterrorist outfits like Animal Liberation Front and Earth Liberation Front that express their sociopathic views primarily through arson and vandalism.
Now where would they get the idea that PETA endorses the use of violence to promote their antihuman agenda? Could they have been listening to PETA's own campaign director Bruce Friedrich? Or maybe they were reading letters like this one from James Bowers of Center for Consumer Freedom.
