Robert G. Yetman, Jr.

The Cowardice of PETA

One aspect of the Michael Vick mess that I find particularly fascinating is the tellingly tepid response of everyone’s favorite animal rights Nazis, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, to the news of Vick’s reinstatement to the NFL.  I couldn’t help noticing that nowhere to be found in the news was any vitriolic statement by PETA condemning Vick, his savior Roger Goodell (NFL commissioner), nor any avowal on their part to aggressively protest any team that signs the QB.  As a matter of fact, PETA’s president and founder, Ingrid Newkirk, suggested this week, in a mealy-mouthed statement, that she didn’t really know what they would do, but she doubted they would be doing any picketing over this.

This is the response from the same group that has long-advocated and initialized direct action against those who abuse animals?  It’s all very curious, at first glance.  I mean, if you visit PETA’s website now, just a few short days after his reinstatement, you’ll not find any reference at all to the Vick affair on the home page.  So…what gives?

Race gives.  Race, the most electrified of society’s third rails, is apparently so shocking for the white liberal animal whackos that they aren’t willing to overcome the current in order to protest the kind of dog butcher who typifies their consummate enemy.   If Vic was white, this would be easy for them, as white liberals hate white people, for reasons that mystify most of the rest of us of any color.  As a black man, however, Vick and his transgressions have confused the loyalties of leftist whitey; clearly, PETA does not want to be seen protesting a black man who has served jail time for his crimes and is now trying to make a living at his chosen profession.  Still, PETA has always prided itself on its militancy, and if you take them at their word, their passionate, single-minded interest is in seeking justice on behalf of our furry friends; accordingly, nothing should stop them from doing that…should it?

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Robert G. Yetman, Jr.  Editor-At–Large  www.ChristianMoney.com

 

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Just Beat It, You Lunatics

How’s this for an oversimplification that nevertheless has merit? If you want to see the problem with America, you need do no more than turn on your television set. I’m not referring here to the generic but valid belief that so much of what permeates the airwaves truly is garbage; I’m speaking instead of the revealing public expression of idiocy associated with the passing of Michael Jackson.

There’s a lot I could say about Michael Jackson and his well-documented eccentricities and unfortunate proclivities…but even if Jackson was not the package of weirdness he came to be, what gives with the wailing and breathless mourning for someone few in the world actually knew and who was, well, just an entertainer? Nothing against entertainers, but when has the passing of one ever been worthy of the kind of coverage we’ve only previously given to the death of a sitting president (think JFK)? How will these nutjobs react when someone they actually know and hopefully truly love dies? Will they throw themselves from a bridge, or set themselves on fire? The uncomfortable truth is that they probably won’t be as upset at the passing of a family member as they are at the passing of Jackson, so screwed up are the values and priorities of so many in America these days.

I adored my own parents, but at the moment I came to learn of the passing of each, I didn’t disintegrate into a state of madness…and yet there are countless numbers of people around the world who appeared to do that very thing when the distant oddity that was Michael Jackson went to that great Neverland in the sky.

Perhaps the saddest aspect of all for the people who’ve managed to actually maintain a grip on reality is that we have to accept that these same people who are inconsolable over the loss of Michael Jackson are also people who vote…which means that the choice of our leaders, and, by consequence, the direction of our beloved country, is apparently, to a not-insignificant degree, in the hands of people who are quite obviously insane.

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