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Manchester (NH) Union Leader Sept 18, 2002:

PETA's unethical behavior: Group funds and backs terrorism

PEOPLE FOR THE Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has engaged in some of the most unethical tactics of any tax-exempt American advocacy group. And now it might lose its tax-exempt status as a result.

Some non-profit groups, as well as some congressmen, are looking into PETA's financial and political ties to terrorist organizations, particularly a group called the Environmental Liberation Front. The FBI lists the ELF as one of America's largest terrorist organizations. The group burned a U.S. Forest
Service lab in Pennsylvania in August, burned a Vail, Colo., ski resort a few years ago, and has promoted and engaged in other acts of destruction. An ELF spokesman told Congress in February that "anyone who is making money off the destruction of the natural environment could be a target" of the group's violence.

Despite, or more likely because of, this record, PETA donated $1,500 to ELF. PETA also has donated more than $30,000 to other known terrorists convicted of such unethical behavior as burning research labs, firing at a fishing boat, fire-bombing a fur cooperative, and attempting to murder a medical company executive. A PETA executive has even publicly wished for the violent demise of slaughterhouses, laboratories and banks that fund them.

PETA can, and should, lose its tax exempt status for financially supporting such illegal activity. There should be no room for terrorism of any sort in American politics.

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The Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch
September 15, 2002

QAEDA COUSINS

On September 9, America heard from terrorists.

Not al-Qaeda, but another sinister group: the Earth Liberation Front. In an e-mail message the outfit took credit, as it were, for a blaze at a Forest Service lab that caused $700,000 in damage and destroyed 70 years of research. The ELF also took the opportunity to renounce non-violence:

"In pursuance of justice, freedom, and equal consideration for all innocent life across the board, segments of this global revolutionary movement are no longer limiting their revolutionary potential by adhering to a flawed, inconsistent, non-violent ideology. While innocent life will never be harmed in any action we undertake, where it is necessary, we will no longer hesitate to pick up the gun to implement justice, and provide the needed protection for our planet that decades of legal battles, pleading protest, and economic sabotage have failed so drastically to achieve."

At a congressional hearing earlier this year, an FBI agent testified that the ELF and its sister organization, the Animal Liberation Front, had committed more than 600 criminal acts causing more than $43 million in damage. He said "special-interest extremism" including animal-rights activism had become "the most dangerous domestic terrorist threat to the country."

Now the ELF, saying all Forest Service buildings and research facilities are possible targets, is threatening not merely property damage but bloodshed. (We await inquiries into the "root causes" of ELF terrorism - poverty, ignorance, American support for Israel, etc.) Members of the ELF presumably are Americans. If so, they should receive all the legal rights to which they are entitled under the Constitution, and thus cannot receive the summary judgment meted out to their kissin' cousins, al-Qaeda and the Taliban - however much they might deserve it.

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Also, Fox News has reported on PETA's contributions to ALF/ELF.read more.

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