PETA Poster Pulled

[Sledge]

Sorry, I'm a sucker for alliteration. Anyhoo, the news item (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20100203/tuk-peta-banned-from-using-baby-p-abuser-dba1618.html), and some choice quotage:
The poster, created by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta), showed an image of Steven Barker above the text: "Steven Barker: Animal Abuser, Baby Abuser, Rapist. People who are violent towards animals rarely stop there."

But the poster, which appeared on a billboard in Haringey, north London - where Baby P lived and died - sparked complaint over its "offensive and distressing" use of shock tactics.
PETA are such lovely people, aren't they?

[Darth Rotor]

PETA are such lovely people, aren't they?
No, but I enjoyed your alliteration. :)

[JAStewart]

No, but I enjoyed your alliteration. :)
I did too!

[Beerina]

(Presumably) most people who rape or kill babies also tortured animals. But most people who tortured animals also become rapists?

[dudalb]

Sorry, I'm a sucker for alliteration. Anyhoo, the news item (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20100203/tuk-peta-banned-from-using-baby-p-abuser-dba1618.html), and some choice quotage:

PETA are such lovely people, aren't they?


And So Great at Public Relations.....

[Sledge]

Oh yeah, PETA really know how to market themselves. It's almost as if they want people to ignore them, so they can justify to themselves taking more extreme action.

[dudalb]

I still think the PETA signboard in the US equating a slaugher house with Auschwitz takes the cake both for digust and stupidity.

[PhantomWolf]

Pulled, you're saying someone did a CD on their poster?

[Sledge]

So the Jews are in favour of animal cruelty? Of course! It all makes sense now.

[Drudgewire]

Pulled, you're saying someone did a CD on their poster?


Nice one. :D

[Corsair 115]

Well, to balance the scales just a little, there was this:

PETA protester hit with pie at Harper event (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2010/01/29/nl-seal-pie-012910.html)

[Sledge]

Would have been even better if the pie was steak and kidney.

[NWO Sentryman]

How PETA Conspiracy theorists would remember it:

I remember getting a call from the, head of the ASA telling me that they were not sure hey were going to be able to contain the controversy. And i said to him you know we've had such terrible loss of face, maybe the smartest thing to do is, is pull it. And they made that decision to pull and we watched the advert collapse

[Drudgewire]

Well, to balance the scales just a little, there was this:

PETA protester hit with pie at Harper event (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2010/01/29/nl-seal-pie-012910.html)


Except that incident was in and of itself a "balancing of the scales."


On Monday, PETA received national attention when one of its members hit Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea with a pie during a public event in Ontario.

[Safe-Keeper]

Oh yeah, PETA really know how to market themselves. It's almost as if they want people to ignore them, so they can justify to themselves taking more extreme action.I wonder what the goal is of this kind of fanatics. From extreme anti-abortion people presenting pictures of other peoples' stillborn babies as "abortion victims", to opponents of strip clubs picketing guests, to Greenpeace ships ramming whalers and protesters throwing rocks at police, breaking stuff, and getting themselves arrested...

Surely they know such tactics only serve to brand them and their ideal as fanaticism to be ignored? A strip club (or w/e they're called in English) just opened in my town, and I'm honestly curious to know what arguments there are against it, but no, it's all drowned out by promises of picketing and vague rhetoric like "it's degrading to women". When you're on the fence and genuinely interested in information from both sides, noise like that produced by PETA is incredibly annoying.

[dudalb]

A. Fanatics are often clueless about how to present their views to non Fanatics. Fervent True Believers are often the worst spokesmen you can think of.
B.I really think they are heavily into some fantasy about leading a revolution.

[Nosi]

Sorry, I'm a sucker for alliteration. Anyhoo, the news item (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20100203/tuk-peta-banned-from-using-baby-p-abuser-dba1618.html), and some choice quotage:

PETA are such lovely people, aren't they?

They were right about this particular individual, and the group involved with Baby P. The dead baby was found with lots of dead critters. There were dead baby chickens littered on the floor, and a cut open rabbit on the kitchen table.

I don't have the warm fuzzies for PETA though. I could read them the riot act...

[dudalb]

Would have been even better if the pie was steak and kidney.

And best of all if it was from Mrs Lovett's Meat Pie Shop....

[PhantomWolf]

to Greenpeace ships ramming whalers

Not that I'm a supporter of Greenpeace, but I suggest you mean the Sea Shepards. I'm also going to assume you are referencing the Ady Gil being rammed by the Shonan Maru No. 2. It's pretty clear in the following footage that the Japanese deliberately turned towards and into the Ady Gil meaning the ones that did the ramming were the Japanese.

Bbuq0YEIPNU

[Silly Green Monkey]

An unreasonable assumption.

[Wolrab]

Four and twenty blackbirds pie!