Ingrid wins again…

The latest publicity flap about PETA had everyone in New Haven, Connecticut, talking and raging on August 8 and 9, when the radical animal rights organization compared Afro-Americans' suffering during the days of slavery and social segregation to the present day "suffering" of animals that are used by people for food, entertainment and medical research.

Of course, this was exactly what Ingrid Newkirk, founder and still head of PETA, had intended. We should all remember that Ingrid's intention is to call attention to her organization through any possible means. "We are press sluts" has always been her by-line and her motto, and her outrageous displays always work to get PETA the attention she plans and craves. Media people never seem to get it. They love to proclaim that another PETA event has "backfired". In this case, it was the ACLU and Black people in the community who felt they had to jump in and object to the morbid and inappropriate poster photographs of Black people being mistreated, juxtaposed with photographs of animals, allegedly being mistreated as well. Of course, they had every right to object to this horrendous display and to the implications that these people and the animals depicted are all equally deserving of protection from intentional harm and death.

The entire event, and the public and media reactions to it, all conveniently made Ingrid's favorite point - her mantra is that animals and people are all of the same "worth" and therefore, it should be obvious that it is as wrong to pursue, injure and kill animals as it is wrong to do those things to people. By highlighting Jewish people and Black people in the infamous PETA campaigns, Ingrid the Press Slut and Media Wizard has called attention to her philosophy again. She cares not whom she hurts and outrages. She is the ultimate example of a socially dysfunctional leader. Yet, she attracts a certain element in our society that apparently agrees with her that people deserve no priority over other forms of life.

This clever event was planned to cause people to forget the recent disastrous publicity that PETA really does deserve - because it has recently been disclosed that PETA kills animals, and its employees are about to be tried for crimes in that regard. PETA wants us to forget its fraud and cruel disregard for both animals and the people who trusted the organization to find homes for unwanted pets. PETA employees were found to be routinely killing them and throwing their bodies into mall dumpsters.

We are all outraged, though not surprised, at this latest publicity stunt that sadly, worked its purpose once again. The only way this garbage will cease to exist is when so many people object to it that no one shall give this woman money to continue. There have been numerous attempts to remove PETA's charitable organization status but the IRS has so far disdained to listen to the thousands of demands that the government shall deny PETA tax exempt status, even when the organization has been implicated in giving assistance to those who attack and burn medical and pharmaceutical laboratories, and vandalize farms and other animal use facilities.

IWMC joins the millions of people who deplore the conditions under which any society allows tax exemption for an organization that defies the law and demeans humanity. We hope that Ingrid Newkirk and PETA shall someday get what they deserve - complete, desolate obscurity, and the disdain of all good people.