PETA to Mauling Victim: Grin and Bear It

Charlotte, NC --(Ammoland.com)- On December 13^{th 2013}, PETA “Special Projects” Division Manager Alicia Woempner lived up to the group’s reputation for bizarre extremism when she sent a letter scolding 18-year-old hunter and bear mauling victim Camille Bomboy.

In the dispatch, Woempner urges the recovering teen to “reflect on [the] incident” and “abandon hunting.”

Earlier in the week, Bomboy had been the victim of a vicious bear attack while hunting on her family’s farm, suffering bites to her arms and a severe injury that almost resulted in the loss of an ear. The attack was only halted when Bomboy’s stepfather frightened off the bear by firing a rifle.

Throughout the letter, Woempner equates human beings with animals, as is characteristic of PETA. Woempner writes, “This seems to be a good opportunity to put yourself in the place of the individuals you and the rest of your hunting party were trying to kill.” (Emphasis added.)  Woempner continues the lecture: “Now that you’ve experienced the horror of an attack –although this one was in self-defense – we hope you will choose to enjoy nature in only nonviolent ways.”

One might think a letter taunting a seriously wounded teenager would be new low for PETA, but it’s unfortunately par for the course. This is an organization that equates( http://tiny.cc/2ggk8w ) the terrorist Animal Liberation Front with the “Underground Railroad and the French Resistance.” This is a group whose president, Ingrid Newkirk, told Washingtonian magazine in 1986, “there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights.  A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.” Worse, according to the Washington Post, in a 1983 interview Newkirk remarked, “Six million people died in concentration camps, but 6 billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses.”

Bomboy appears to be handling her run-in with the bear and the animal “rights” radicals in stride. According to one news report, Bomboy plans to continue hunting, undeterred by the recent maulings, physical and written.

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