Despite its warm-and-fuzzy public image, PETA has donated over $150,000 to criminal activists — including those jailed for arson, burglary, and even attempted murder. In 2001, PETA donated $1,500 to the North American Earth Liberation Front, a criminal organization that the FBI calls “domestic terrorists.”

Listen to PETA's campaign director Bruce Friedrich encourage activists to commit arson against restaurants, medical laboratories, and banks.

Since 2000, PETA's rank-and-file have been arrested over 80 times for breaking laws during protests. Charges included felony obstruction of government property, criminal mischief, assaulting a cabinet official, felony vandalism, performing obscene acts in public, destruction of federal property, and burglary.

Like millions of other nonprofit groups, PETA pays no federal taxes on its income. But few of these other groups share PETA’s total disregard for the law. In 2003 alone PETA avoided over $3.5 million in federal income taxes. This tax break amounts to a huge subsidy, and American taxpayers are footing the bill for PETA’s behavior.

To: Charles Rettig, Commissioner, U.S. Internal Revenue Service
Subject: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

I, the undersigned, urge the United States Treasury Department to cancel the tax-exempt status currently extended to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and its affiliated organizations under Section 501(c) of the U.S. Treasury Code.

By repeatedly and continuously giving financial support to individuals and organizations devoted to domestic terrorism, PETA has demonstrated that it is incapable of conducting itself in a manner expected of nonprofit groups receiving federal tax subsidies. PETA should not enjoy tax-exempt status similar to that of universities, houses of worship, and legitimate social service and educational organizations.

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