Why Should PETA be Tax-exempt?

While putzing around the kitchen this evening waiting for the SOTU speech, I heard this great ad on the FoxNews Channel encouraging people to sign a petition countering PETA's tax exempt status. So, I went to the site and did my duty. Read this paragraph and you might want to sign the petition yourself:

Despite its deceptively warm-and-fuzzy public image, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (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 classifies as "domestic terrorists." And since 2000, rank-and-file PETA activists have been arrested over 80 times for breaking various laws during PETA 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.

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