It looks like the nuts over at PETA must be having a problem getting people to pay attention to them. Since they can't get any attention any other way, they've started mixing a little sex and porn into their demonstrations. I doubt it's changing any minds about eating meat, but it is drawing some gawkers (and probably some perverts).
Last week in Beaumont, a couple of PETA girls stripped naked and took a shower behind a banner in the downtown section. They have also gotten naked in other cities. Anything to draw a crowd so they can pass out their propaganda.
But they had to tone their porn show down, when they appeared here in Amarillo yesterday. They continued the sex theme, but no one got naked. I suspect they didn't want to have to come up with bail money, and there's little doubt they would have been arrested if they had tried the naked bit in downtown Amarillo.
Instead, they just put a couple of girls dressed in lingerie on an inflatable mattress at the corner of 6th and Tyler (pictured above). I'm sure there were some disappointed pervs.
Of course, PETA has the right to demonstrate and exercise their free speech rights just like anyone else, but I still don't understand what sex and porn has to do with eating or not eating meat. Sounds like they're getting a little desperate to me.
And yes, I will continue eating meat.
Well they got nekkid last week in downtown Beaumont, which makes Amarillo the saddest place on Earth.
ReplyDeleteI like PETA.
ReplyDeleteThere, I said it. I don't necessarily subscribe to their ethic. I eat meat, just not as much of it as most of the people around here.
But PETA has a sense of humor that has been missing in most of the far left for decades, especially in the crunchy demographic they represent.
Also, despite the fact that they are completely ineffectual, they have a capacity to drive Panhandlians completely around the bend. That's never a bad thing.
You weren't here for "Jesus was a vegetarian," but the total bent-out-of-shapeness of the local populace during that campaign was a wonder to behold.
I only wish PETA had put on their "porn show" in front of the nightmarish institution Arnold's Burgers and invited Repent Amarillo.
I only wish PETA had put on their "porn show" in front of the nightmarish institution Arnold's Burgers and invited Repent Amarillo.
ReplyDeleteLOL!
Perhaps in light of the rally in the summer of 2006, as well as recent recruiting efforts in Pampa just this month, this might have been better received, at least among some Panhandle residents.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see peta put out of business..for all their noises and raising hell, they have spent not one red cent in saving dogs or cats.
ReplyDeletePETA is a good cause- if one doesn't like them, don't contribute.
ReplyDeleteNow, see, that's funny, CT. Maybe we can be friends in post-partisan America.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, I've always enjoyed claiming that it should be pronounced with a short "e" instead of a long, because they want you to "pet a" animal instead of eating it.
A sentiment I have trouble disagreeing with if I know the animal. But I'm a city boy at heart.