IWOG ACTIVISTS

    INGRID NEWKIRK, president and co-founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), for her desire to see Foot-and-Mouth disease come to the United States.
    Said Newkirk on March 30, 2001: "If that hideousness came here, it wouldn't be any more hideous for the animals--they are all bound for a ghastly death anyway. But it would wake up consumers...I openly hope that it comes here. It will bring economic harm only for those who profit from giving people heart attacks and giving animals a concentration camp-like existence. It would be good for animals, good for human health and good for the environment."
    No word from Ms. Newkirk about the pandemic consequenses to livestock if a treatment for the disease can't be found, or about the endangered species who are now caught in the mass slaughters and threatened with extinction.

    REV. AL SHARPTON, for a visit with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat in late October of 2001.
    While meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, Sharpton was able to secure another such meeting with Arafat by claiming that he was doing so at the request of U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell. However, when questioned about the meeting by various news sources after it had already taken place, the State Department reported that Secretary Powell never made any such request.

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