Trials and Errors

Tomorrow (Monday, January 22, 2007) begins the trial
of the century...the Twenty-First Century, that is.

Eleven years ago, O.J. Simpson was found innocent after
being tried for two murders. Many people referred to the
OJ case as the "Trial of the Century." Simpson's lawyers
fooled a jury of their client's peers, primarily because
that jury was challenged by Simpson's lead attorney who
taunted that panel and the media with his oft-repeated
mantra: ""If it doesn't fit, you must acquit."

If only I had been a witnesses for the prosecution, truth
would have won out over intimidation.
My family once owned what was once the largest glove and
mitten company in America. We manufactured over 200,000
dozen pairs of hand warmers for each winter season. If you
threw a snowball or participated in any outdoor winter
sport from 1950 through 1995, chances are that you wore
a pair of our gloves or mittens marketed under one of many
dozens of different names.

A funny thing happened to those gloves and mittens from one
season to the next. As a result of short term wetness and/or
cold followed by a short dry spell, I became quite aware that
gloves and mittens would experience shrinkage, sometimes
dramatic. This happened to the majority of gloves and mittens.
Oh, if only I could have responded to Johnny Cochran's jury
challenge. ""If it doesn't fit, you must acquit!" The
prosecutors did not consider what glove manufacturers know
to be true: The world took no notice of how wet gloves shrink
from one season to the next.

I welcome the unpopularity of political correctness.
I thrive on controversy. Consider that trait one of my
fatal flaws and blessed strengths. By critiquing PETA,
the animal rights people will diss me, truth be damned.
I've taken such rides before, but am now gained a better
immunity to the pain.

Tomorrow begins the PETA case, and lawyers for the
accused are already beginning to spin a webful of lies.
Their primary strategy is to claim that no animals
were abused by PETA. Here is a column that I wrote
the day after two PETA undercover operatives were
nailed for their compassionless act:

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Imagine the real-life nightmare experienced by sanitation
engineers (garbage men) who discovered dozens of dead
animals in a shopping mall dumpster three weeks in a row
(May 25, June 1, June 8, 2005). These traumatized
individuals did the smart thing. They called the police
department, and investigators staked out the dumpster
on the fourth consecutive Wednesday (June 15, 2005).

The result?

Two PETA employees were arrested and charged with
animal cruelty after police found a total of 31 dead
dogs and cats in their possession.

Where did the animals come from? PETA had adopted them
from animal shelters. PETA had represented that these
gentle creatures would be placed for adoption in loving
homes.

So...PETA has been caught with their pants down, committing
a most heinous act, and who did they really end up screwing?
Themselves! PETA admitted that they routinely euthanize
unwanted animals "compassionately" and in doing so, do the
animals and society a favor.

Three of the dead animals were a very adoptable mother cat
and her two kittens.

PETA raises funds by deceiving good people into believing
that they are helping unwanted animals. At his trial Adolf
Eichmann argued that he was doing the world a similar favor
by ridding Europe of unwanted Jews. Last year, PETA raised
more than $17 million. Did you donate to PETA? If so, don't
you now feel deceived?

Ingrid Newkirk (PETA's founder and director) wrote a book:

"Making Kind Choices: Everyday Ways to Enhance Your
Life Through Earth- and Animal-Friendly Living"

Here are some of the reviews:

"Gandhi said, 'You can judge a society by the way it treats
its animals.' Ingrid Newkirk's book shows us practical ways
to foster compassion toward animals. She is a true teacher."
~ Martin Sheen

"Ingrid Newkirk's wonderful new book is about us - about
how in a world so violent and cruel there is no way to
pretend we're kind people unless we extend our kindness
to those who are the most innocent and helpless."
~ Bill Maher, host of Real Time with Bill Maher

"This powerful book offers easy ways to make your
compassionate mark on the world."
~ Moby
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Two PETA employees are charged with a crime, which is based
upon standard operating procedures that go all of the way to
the top desk, where the buck should stop, but does not. PETA
fired the two guilty employees in the name of political
correctness, attempting to preserve continuing donations.
PETA later rehired the two after the pressure abated.

One gentle animal after another was killed in a traveling
van by PETA workers doing Ingrid Newkirk's dirty work while
other animals watched and heard and smelled the beauty of
life become the ugliness of death, each, awaiting its own
turn. The dead animals were then dumped illegally in a mall
parking lot dumpster.

Many people called the dumping of animals horrific.
I call the act of murder itself a contradiction of
everything good that PETA once stood for.

Tomorrow, Court TV will begin coverage of this trial.
They will attempt to gauge public opinion. You might
consider voicing your outrage at a system in which
unwanted animals end up in shelters. Rather than
projecting that controversy, PETA covertly killed the
unwanted creatures by using their own Machiavellian means
to justify an end. Rather than invest the many millions
of donated dollars they receive to find these creatures
homes, PETA became the infinite ugliness which they once
worked so very hard to expose and terminate.

So, who really is on trial tomorrow? Is it the two young
kids who were conned into doing Ingrid's bidding--if caught,
the secretary will disavow any knowlege of your actions, or
was it Charlie Manson who sent killers to perform deeds
which never fit his own gloves? Who is really on trial
tomorrow? Is it all animal rights activists who will
defend all of the above killers without knowing why,
only because their t-shirts are boldly emblazoned with
that four lettr word sending chills to authorities, PETA?
Who is on trial? It is society's value, and the verdict
remains to be seen.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
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