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If Animals are People, Too – Does that make PETA the next Serial Killers?

By Polly Britton 2/9/2007

We’ve all heard the animal "rights" catch-phrase "Animals are people, too." Personally, I don’t believe it, because I’m a rational person with a brain that hasn’t been hijacked.

If you’ve followed the news lately from Winton, NC, you already know the verdict delivered in the case of two PETA volunteers (evidently, they do this for free) who obtained dogs from animal shelters under the guise of taking them home to Virginia (PETA headquarters) where they’d be placed in loving homes. To 20-some healthy dogs, "home" meant a short trip from the animal shelter to the couple’s van, a lethal injection, and a trip to the nearest dumpster.

PETA and other animal "rights" groups have propounded the theory for years that serial killers start off by killing animals, and move on to killing people. PETA’s website says: "...Cruelty to animals are not mere indications of a minor personality flaw...they are symptomatic of a deep mental disturbance...people who commit acts of cruelty to animals don’t stop there — many of them move on to their fellow humans." If that’s true, what are we now to expect from the two PETA "volunteers" who just walked away with a simple littering fine instead of the animal cruelty and possessing/transporting/administering of controlled euthanasia drugs conviction they deserved? What are we now to expect from the radical organization who gave the orders, supplied the drugs, and funded their defense? The jury and judge just handed these PETA dog killers their permission slip to do the same thing in your neighborhood, so long as they pay their own landfill fees rather than dump the dogs in your local grocery store dumpster.
Throughout the trial, I found myself thinking, Finally, PETA is going to be exposed for what they are. They’re not about saving animals from the evil humans, they’re not about saving anything. They’re about destroying. Ingrid Newkirk, PETA president & founder, makes no secret of her disdain for human life:

"I am not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; It is nothing but vanity, human vanity." New Yorker Magazine 4/23/03

"Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth." Washingtonian magazine 2/1/90

"I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I don’t have any reverence for life..." The Washington Post 11/13/83

"Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we’d be against it." September 1989 issue of Vogue 9/1/89

And if Newkirk’s sentiments don’t give you chills, perhaps these will. In Wild Earth, Vol. I, No. 2, Summer 1991, p. 72, "Les U. Knight" (pseudonym) writes: "If you haven’t given voluntary human extinction much thought before, the idea of a world with no people in it may seem strange. But, if you give it a chance, I think you might agree that the extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species ... Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental."

Is "Les U. Knight" a PETA person? Who knows; but while the Winton, NC, trial was going on, PETA’s website praised the two "volunteers’"for helping to solve the "overpopulation" problem. Does PETA share the opinion that "voluntary human extinction" and "phasing out the human race" will "solve every problem on earth"? One method of voluntary human extinction is euthanasia. The two "volunteers" just demonstrated for us exactly what that means to PETA. Is it much of a leap from killing healthy dogs that "nobody wants", to killing physically and developmentally challenged babies, and old people whom they view as a burden on society and whom "nobody wants"? Not if, like PETA, you believe "animals are people", and "The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human." Where there’s no regard for the sanctity of life, is it any wonder PETA "volunteers" kill healthy dogs for no reason, and is there any doubt they’ll do the same or worse next time?

If "animals are people too" and the world would be a better place without people, it makes sense PETA would kill dogs; and what conclusion can we draw from their killing dogs other than they don’t like animals any more than they like people. Is PETA grooming "volunteers" to become serial killers? You tell me.

Polly Britton is a private animal owner in Ohio, contact her at pollybritton@alltel.net