A concrete manifestation of PETA's attitudes

Hey, folks, want to see how a member of PETA responds to people's anger over their ad?

Click here to go to a topic on their message board.

I'm in there as "prairiecrow", and tried to explain the emotional response of many non-PETA members to the ad as clearly and as civilly as I could. I mentioned the fact that PETA has made some enemies by using the death of Tim McLean to further their agenda. And one PETA member's response was:

Perhaps PETA is trying to target sensible and logical people instead of those with anger issues.

So I thanked him for confirming the opinions about PETA that I had come to the website hoping to have dispelled. His further response:

The people who are outraged and fuming about this are not the kind of people who can look at the ad and see it for what it is - they are the kind of people who cannot see beyond their emotions. If you value human life over non-human life, that's your choice. You can't expect people who value the lives of all animals equally to stop - and that is exactly what you are asking for.

Really? And where does the "valuing" of the anguish of the family and friends of Tim McLean come into it?

Further responses on the thread have cemented my opinion: Many PETA members are walking examples of "depraved indifference", and are willfully blind to any harm that they cause.

I'm done with them, at least in terms of trying to talk to them. But if I ever hear about any PETA event in my city, I'm going to network with other people and do my level best to disrupt it and/or stop it. These people are genuinely dangerous and hateful toward human beings. There is a level of psychopathy in most of the responses I saw on their forum that frankly terrifies me.

A letter to Fred Phelps

From Daily Kos, in reponse to the Westboro Baptist Church's plan to come up to Winnipeg and picket at Tim McLean's funeral...

Never one to pass up a notable funeral in order to spew his sewage, Freddy and the Family was planning on coming up to demonstrate, to show, and I quote, that Canadians are "cannibals and highway decapitaters", God's punishment for not killing all our gays, or something.

Typical stuff.

Unfortunately, Fred overlooked two teensy-tiny little issue.

We're not part of the United States. Entering the country is not an inherent right. And, as of now, it's a right that Westboro Baptist Church does not have. The border guards have been alerted to Phelps's planned trip and have been specifically ordered to keep him, his family, and other members of WBC out of the country.

Normally, I'm not one to give the Conservatives much credit, but on this occasion, simple decency has prevailed and some credit is warranted. McClean's family and friends, nor the city of Winnipeg, don't need Phelps's toxic presence.

But we do have a reputation as a polite society to uphold, so please allow me to attach a message for Fred:

Dear Reverend Phelps,
We do apologize for the fact that you won't be able to visit our beautiful country at what it perhaps the nicest time of year. However, please accept the following heartfelt expression in lieu of the right to drop in: fuck you, you ignorant, hateful, shitheaded fucking prick.

Yours truly, asswipe;
Canada.

I couldn't have said it better myself.

How stupid ARE they? Well...

It's a definite: several members of Westboro Baptist Church snuck into Canada past the border guards. They are now in hiding somewhere in Manitoba.

However, they had their protest signs (which they didn't want the border guards to find) FedExed to them.

*headdesk, headdesk, headdesk*

They're so arrogant they think they can get away with anything. However, the Canadian government has expressly forbidden them entry into our country, and the authorities do NOT take well to being mocked, much less by fanatical disruptive right-wing nutjobs.

The WBC horde is likely to find RCMP swarming up their asses as soon as they stick their heads out of cover (and even before, if the FedEx shipment is tracked). Hopefully they'll be in a jail cell before they have a chance to get within spitting distance of the McLean funeral tomorrow.

"OPPRESHUN! OPPRESHUN!"

From a CBC article about the planned WBC protest of Tim McLean's funeral...

However, Phelps-Roper said the reaction the group has raised from some police and public officials has her questioning whether the planned protest will go ahead.

"The question to my mind [is] whether or not we ought to get them the heck out of that country, because that's some crazy stuff when you've got your officials talking like they are in a back-alley brawl and not government officials who took an oath to obey the law and so forth."

"Ooooh, help, help! We is being threatened, instead of being teh ones doin' the threatenin'! WTF IS UP WITH THAT??1?1? OPPRESHUN! OPPRESHUN!"

My sympathy for the bitches and bastards in question can only be measured in double-digit negative numbers.

Phelps-Roper said she would advise church members not to go ahead with the protest if there is a concern they might be arrested or harmed.

Fucking candy-assed cowards. The slightest sign of trouble and they shut their pestilent yaps and run like whipped schoolgirls. So much for the courage of their detestible convictions.

Between WBC and PETA, I've been having a very angry couple of days.