PETA knows no end to their antics. They are known for their “holocaust on a plate” and naked celebrity “I’d rather go naked than wear fur” campaigns. Now they are suing to free five killer whales from Sea world on the grounds that they are persons, and should be protected by the 13th Amendment’s prohibition against slavery. According to one of PETA’s lawyers, Jeff Kerr, “By any definition, these orcas are slaves – kidnapped from their homes, kept confined, denied everything that’s natural to them and forced to perform tricks for SeaWorld’s profit. The males have their sperm collected, the females are artificially inseminated and forced to bear young which are sometimes shipped away.”
If the court grants these whales personhood, then I hope authorities will immediately arrest one of the whales, Tilikum, for murder. After all, we have video footage of him dragging a Sea World trainer under water in 2010, and held her there until she drowned. And this wasn’t his first victim. He killed two other people as well. Tilikum is a mass-murderer, and I believe justice should be served. What would a jail cell look like for a whale? It would have to be small and full of water. Hey, Sea World sounds like an ideal place for that.
UPDATE: On February 8, 2012 a federal judge in San Diego dismissed this lawsuit.
Thinking to Believe 
August 24, 2014 at 3:29 am
Dear friend. i just came across this site and this article.
To begin with, lets just forget about Peta.
The animal u wrote about was imprisoned for profits and places like circuses & sea worlds portray a distorted view of animals.
Animals do not naturally ride bicycles, stand on their heads, balance on balls or jump through rings of fire.
But in front of trainers who use abusive tools, including whips and electric prods, to force them to perform, they have no choice at all but to perform.
I hope u have heard about TYKE the elephant who
had been in the circus nearly 20 years
& was tired of being beaten, whipped, and kicked.
She could no longer take the pain and the confinement, was angry and
wanted to be free. But The price of freedom from the circus was steep…She was shot 87 times… and people were killed.
when we purposely push someone (& not just animals) to such an extent that it just breaks their spirit and makes them mad , accident like these are bound to happen.
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