Though I’m not sure I agree with PeTA being classified as terrorists
PETA is one of the most controversial activist groups operating today. The group’s contentious media campaigns, undercover operations, infamous advertising, and high profile demonstrations have made them perhaps the most notorious–and most polarizing–nonprofit organization there is. But are they terrorists? According to the US Department of Agriculture, they are now.
And right when PETA was about to be able to call it quits, too. The USDA has just released a new security profile form (pdf), which it distributes to animal experimentation facilities. The form reveals that PETA has been classified as a terrorist threat by the US government–potentially opening up its members to prosecution as terrorists. According to Green is the New Red, an eco-activist rights website, the document was given to all facilities that conduct experiments on animals. They were asked to disclose whether they were the target of attacks or harassment from a list of terrorist groups–one of which, evidently, is PETA.
They give money to groups like ELF/ALF, and it is very likely that some of their members are of those groups. This would make PeTA more of eco-weenie equivalent of marajuana, a “gateway” organization, or the Islamic Society of North America, an unindicted co-conspirator to the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing conspiracy, and not actually terrorists.
Not that I’m going to go to protest for them to be taken off the list or anything. Any friend of ELF/ALF is no friend of mine.
They’re the ones who decided to lay with those dogs. Now they have to deal with the fleas.