OPINION/COMMENTARY

PETA President To Get a Taste of Her Own Medicine

Dressed as eco-terrorists, carrying comically large gasoline cans and matches, and holding a banner depicting an arson fire under the words "PETA's Kind Choice," representatives from the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) will gather to protest the Manhattan book-signing appearance of Ingrid Newkirk. Newkirk, the president and co-founder of the radical group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is promoting a new animal-rights book misleadingly titled "Making Kind Choices." A CCF spokesperson will be on-hand with leaflets detailing PETA's shameful history and tactics, and a list of Ingrid Newkirk's most controversial quotables. Meanwhile, other CCF advocates will appear dressed in the all-black garb of the PETA-funded Earth Liberation Front (ELF), a group of arsonists and violent saboteurs describes by the FBI as a "domestic terror organization." In 2001 PETA made a large cash contribution to the ELF, the only such donation ever publicly acknowledged....