PETA founder posts mighty unique “unique will” online
posted at 3:00 pm on July 18, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Question for our techie readers. Is there some way to spoof a legitimate URL to make it look like a parody is part of a webpage owned by the subject of the parody? I ask because this appears to be hosted on the real, honest-to-goodness PETA website and yet it … can’t be real. Can it?
2. While the final decision as to the use of my body remains with PETA, I make the following suggested directions:
a. That the “meat” of my body, or a portion thereof, be used for a human barbecue, to remind the world that the meat of a corpse is all flesh, regardless of whether it comes from a human being or another animal, and that flesh foods are not needed;
b. That my skin, or a portion thereof, be removed and made into leather products, such as purses, to remind the world that human skin and the skin of other animals is the same and that neither is “fabric” nor needed, and that some skin be tacked up outside the Indian Leather Fair each year to serve as a reminder of the government’s need to abate the suffering of Indian bullocks who, after a life of extreme and involuntary servitude, as I have seen firsthand, are exported all over the world in this form;…
d. That one of my eyes be removed, mounted, and delivered to the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a reminder that PETA will continue to be watching the agency until it stops poisoning and torturing animals in useless and cruel experiments; that the other is to be used as PETA sees fit;
Those are just guidelines; PETA’s empowered to deviate from them if they decide they’d rather send her entire desiccated head to the White House or something. Exit question: Who should be the lucky beneficiary of Newkirk’s ass with a note attached reading, “Kiss it”? The NRA? The San Diego zoo, maybe?
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I’ve always thought that of the deranged Left, the animal rights people are the derangiest. Now I’m sure.
Cicero43 on July 18, 2008 at 3:03 PM
Oh, she’s not insane or anything.
TroubledMonkey on July 18, 2008 at 3:03 PM
Ah, but the problem is, the entire will falls apart with the “…being of sound mind…” clause, so she’ll probably just end up in an urn.
Bob Owens on July 18, 2008 at 3:04 PM
BTW, I’ll take a wallet if there’s one available.
Cicero43 on July 18, 2008 at 3:04 PM
Not top of the food chain, yes?
Kini on July 18, 2008 at 3:05 PM
That she’ll donate her body to be used by US medics for training?
wise_man on July 18, 2008 at 3:08 PM
Indian bullocks are suffering? I thought that was a department store.
Cicero43 on July 18, 2008 at 3:09 PM
Who should be the lucky beneficiary of Newkirk’s ass with a note attached reading, “Kiss it”? The NRA? The San Diego zoo, maybe?
Maybe they can stick her head up it and send it to all the morons that think PETA is a sane organization.
flytier on July 18, 2008 at 3:11 PM
I’ll have two pounds of de-cottage cheesed buttock and a tobacco pouch made from one of her breasts please.
BL@KBIRD on July 18, 2008 at 3:11 PM
Somebody’s not been taking their thorazine…
SuperCool on July 18, 2008 at 3:12 PM
Just took a couple of rib steaks out of the freezer for a good grilling tonight. Diversity is a good thing, right?
Dusty on July 18, 2008 at 3:13 PM
If I was the director of the EPA, I would solemnly accept the token with extreme reverence to the presenters ….. and then have it installed in one of those CEO anti stress desk accessory with the other balls that knock left and right when you swing the ball.
*swing* - tak! tak! tak! tak! tak! tak!
And then you grab two and
*swing* - ta-tak! ta-tak! ta-tak! ta-tak! ta-tak! ta-tak!
wise_man on July 18, 2008 at 3:13 PM
Would it be ironic if someone threw red paint on clothes made out of her?
Rogue Traveler on July 18, 2008 at 3:13 PM
Somebody is going to be tempted to off her just so that they can see that insane chain of events happen…..and then be disappointed when they just cremate her like any old slab of beef.
What a self-important ass.
wildweasel on July 18, 2008 at 3:14 PM
If she can get seven of her friends to sign up for the same deal, they’d have enough eyeballs for billiards.
Cicero43 on July 18, 2008 at 3:14 PM
Don’t you get it yet, Allah? PETA almost exclusively relies on shock value to get into the news. They’ve found it to be very successful, so why should they stop now? True, it’s an embarrassment to moderate folks who believe that animals should be accorded some rights (which most people do) and that it’s better to refrain from eating them than to eat them (which dietitians do, to some extent), but moderates don’t make the news. It’s the same game the terrorists are playing, albeit with much lower stakes, since PETA doesn’t harm any human beings (though apparently it associates itself with the criminal defense of those accused of illegally harming other people’s property).
calbear on July 18, 2008 at 3:14 PM
Let’s not throw all animal rights people and PETA into the same bunch. The Humane Society isn’t going around doing weird-ass crap like this.
amerpundit on July 18, 2008 at 3:15 PM
“Hey, this barbecue is delicious! And look, I won this handbag in the raffle!”
Gymkata on July 18, 2008 at 3:17 PM
How about a doggie bag?
Just sayin’
dc84123 on July 18, 2008 at 3:17 PM
Of course. All things are possible in this best of all possible worlds.
I’m not a real “techie,” but I can think of several ways it could be done, some easier to uncover than others. For instance, most obviously and easily, if you happened to have the password to the PETA server, you could put up this page and it would stay there until someone else with equivalent access deleted it.
CK MacLeod on July 18, 2008 at 3:18 PM
Like a hack?
amerpundit on July 18, 2008 at 3:19 PM
Why is she being so discriminatory to the grubs and worms? A hole, some dirt, and *poof* you are brunch.
Limerick on July 18, 2008 at 3:20 PM
And after you’ve taken my ear and eye, please make sure the remainder of my head is shoved far up into my anal passage…
ynot4tony2 on July 18, 2008 at 3:24 PM
Is this that crazy old english bag?
I’m going to go find something legal to shoot in her honor.
LimeyGeek on July 18, 2008 at 3:25 PM
Narcissism like this can only point to one answer.
RushBaby on July 18, 2008 at 3:25 PM
Reminds me of one of my favorite movie quotes.
Should we bury ‘em?
Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms.
Also…
Just trying to make a living.
Dyin’ ain’t much of a livin’
ynot4tony2 on July 18, 2008 at 3:26 PM
What a frickin’ weirdo.
Mercutio on July 18, 2008 at 3:27 PM
If she gains weight, maybe there will be enough skin to make a leather couch/love seat.
PrettyD_Vicious on July 18, 2008 at 3:28 PM
Looks legit. To do this you either have to have rights to create a page on the server, or you would have to have the address redirected. The first involves hacking the server or getting access some other way (such as social engineering). The other would require hacking the Domain Name Servers so that they resolve the peta URL to your server instead of theirs. I don’t know of any way to redirect it and keep the URL correct without having access to the server itself. But I am not an expert, so someone else may have an idea.
JeffC_95 on July 18, 2008 at 3:28 PM
It should be possible, but I don’t know how. Anyway, I don’t think this is a parody, because not that long ago I was looking up some of PETA’s nuttiness and I came across what she had in her will (the BBQ, leather products, etc.) and thought to myself “Oookay, we have a high-quality example of undiluted lunacy here.”
smithinmich on July 18, 2008 at 3:29 PM
It’s a little depressing that she truly sees no differences between humans and animals.
I agree that they should be treated ethically whenever possible. It’s our duty. However, we’re not animals.
Esthier on July 18, 2008 at 3:30 PM
Wow, talk about an inflated sense of self-importance. I bet there are just millions of folks hoping they’ll be presented with this woman’s thumb on a plaque after she’s gone.
kgs_mvs on July 18, 2008 at 3:32 PM
Yes, this is exactly what Ingrid Newkirk has been saying for years now. And yes, the entire “animal rights” movement is full of weirdos and idiots.
VerbumSap on July 18, 2008 at 3:32 PM
So, what would Medea Benjamin’s “unique will” consist of?
Blake on July 18, 2008 at 3:33 PM
She should have her uterus buried next to Cindy Sheehan’s uterus in the garden at St. Cindy’s ranch in Texas. It could be the beginning of a Uterus Mecca.
SilverStar830 on July 18, 2008 at 3:35 PM
I just heard that the Humane Society USA just received the award for the worst management of funds raised of any non-profit in the nation.
89 cents of every dollar go to the fundraising contractor. Of the 11 cents the Society receives, only 4.4% goes to programs - the rest to administration.
eeyore on July 18, 2008 at 3:35 PM
There are many ways to spoof stuff on the net, but what we’re dealing with here is an http request for an html doc at a given URL. Unless the DNS system has been hacked, the http://www.peta.org subdomain will resolve to an IP address, which is where the whole http request will be forwarded. That machine will be responsible for locating the doc, which could exist on yet another machine (a virtual server).
To my eyes, this looks real - and is prime evidence of her dementia.
LimeyGeek on July 18, 2008 at 3:36 PM
I don’t know what this broad looks like, but if you put Halle Berry on a BBQ…….
Alden Pyle on July 18, 2008 at 3:36 PM
All I can think of while reading this nimrod’s comments is…. Ed Gein of Wisconsin did the skin thing already and the Donner Party and the Argentinian plane wreckage people did all the rest. She sure isn’t very original is she?
MNDavenotPC on July 18, 2008 at 3:36 PM
Meat is Murder!!!!! Tasty, tasty murder, but murder nonetheless!!!
Andy in Agoura Hills on July 18, 2008 at 3:36 PM
A few months ago someone used social engineering to get the password to Comcast’s account with their domain name registrar and changed it another server. There is also currently a problem with one of the root servers being taken offline, and that has allowed other people to become ersatz name servers because of some stale hard coded references floating around. I haven’t heard of anyone taking advantage of it however.
pedestrian on July 18, 2008 at 3:36 PM
Again, don’t lump everyone in together. I’m a donor to the HSUS, but I don’t go around having body parts sent to politicians. She’s a loon and I don’t like her organization — but not everyone who wants animals treated humanely is nuts.
amerpundit on July 18, 2008 at 3:37 PM
Maybe they could do a kind of “Weekend at Bernie” thing, where they just kind of take her around and prop her up and treat her like a big puppet.
Matticus Finch on July 18, 2008 at 3:38 PM
Haven’t read it or seen it. Anyway, bad management is hardly on par with this woman’s nuttiness.
amerpundit on July 18, 2008 at 3:39 PM
Point 5 of the will states:
5. I authorize the person carrying out these directions to deviate from them in any manner he or she deems appropriate to further the purpose expressed herein.
I think they just gave me a reason to join PETA and try to rise through the ranks….
Wise Golden on July 18, 2008 at 3:40 PM
I like the idea of the Army shooting pigs to help our army medics repair wounds in the battlefield. Maybe Newkirk will volunteer to take the place of the pigs. Same difference.
Andy in Agoura Hills on July 18, 2008 at 3:40 PM
Lumping.
Nail. Head. Every thread someone is put into a petri dish for classification.
Limerick on July 18, 2008 at 3:42 PM
The animal rights movement is insane in many ways, but I don’t feel harsh about the PETA founder’s will. What she writes seems to me the logical conclusion of both PETA’s ideology and use of shock. She’s just following her truths to their logical conclusions and thus is more successful in her “pursuit of happiness” (not necessarily happiness) than many people. While we ridicule, let’s also appreciate her will is the promise of freedom–the possibility of being weird.
thuja on July 18, 2008 at 3:43 PM
“Come ‘n git it ‘fore I throw it to the hogs!”
mojo on July 18, 2008 at 3:44 PM
She looks like John Kerry. But more masculine.
wccawa on July 18, 2008 at 3:46 PM
My animal cousins all asked that I give this the “thumbs up”.
Cheerio Ms. Newkirk.
gabriel sutherland on July 18, 2008 at 3:53 PM
The funny thing is that as outrageous as this is, if it is a spoof, it is believable enough that people would not be surprised if it is real. Shows a lot about how people view PETA and the ilk.
coyoterex on July 18, 2008 at 3:56 PM
Yes, they´re all flesh and skin and share many biological similarities, but I can think of at least one important difference….wait for it…. one´s human and the other isn´t. This difference may be irrelevant to you, but to a lot of people, humanity ranks a little higher than a cow. God-given dominion over the earth and such.
apostle26 on July 18, 2008 at 3:57 PM
I remember reading about Newkirk’s crazy will a few years ago–I think it was in Newsweek–so this will is real, folks.
Yossarian on July 18, 2008 at 3:57 PM
Mmm or not.
ronsfi on July 18, 2008 at 3:58 PM
She covered this at the end of their documentary, it’s real, came from her lips.
AprilOrit on July 18, 2008 at 3:59 PM
No fava beans & chianti jokes yet? You guys are slacking.
LimeyGeek on July 18, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Looney Tunes
CP on July 18, 2008 at 4:01 PM
Do we have to wait till she dies to execute this will?
Akzed on July 18, 2008 at 4:01 PM
That’s just gross, I feel ill.
I don’t know how you could do a spoof on that, it’s about as weird as it gets!
That’s funny!
My question, what are Indian bullocks?
4shoes on July 18, 2008 at 4:02 PM
Funny thought: were she to drop dead in the woods somewhere, animals would eat her.
Akzed on July 18, 2008 at 4:02 PM
That’s gratitude for ya.
Akzed on July 18, 2008 at 4:02 PM
Nugent would be happy to prepare her corpse as she wishes.
Hell, he would be happy to assist this dope in achieving corpse status.
Bishop on July 18, 2008 at 4:08 PM
She is such a freak, she is planning this assault on Gaultier’s boutique in Paris, who mind you is as Far Left as it gets.
Politically he’s basically on her team, but she goes after him anyway because of a fur mini skirt and some other fur items.
She’s ordering them what and how to do it and the gay one from PETA - the one who runs around with Pam Anderson - is questioning her sanity and whether her idea is a good one.
She steamrolls forward anyway, it was such an unwarranted attack on Jean Paul Gautier’s store, it was really disgusting.
AprilOrit on July 18, 2008 at 4:08 PM
I read through that “will”, I didn’t see China mentioned once for designation of any body parts. Surely China deserves some recognition for animal abuses…???
4shoes on July 18, 2008 at 4:09 PM
Meat is sacred and holy and should not be consumed or abused or used,
But it is alright for her to engage in sexual abuse with carrots and cucumbers when the whim strikes her I suppose and then later skin them alive then eat them!
BL@KBIRD on July 18, 2008 at 4:09 PM
A “fur mini skirt”? Really? How ironic.
LimeyGeek on July 18, 2008 at 4:14 PM
It was a blurb on Beck(?) Prager(?) McIntyre(?).
I think NGOs don’t have much idea about fiscal responsibility. World Wildlife Fund had 96% overhead a few years ago. And many years ago I heard there was a joke on K Street that one of the enviros (Sierra Club, I think) had THE fanciest digs of any of the lobbyists in DC.
eeyore on July 18, 2008 at 4:17 PM
Threadless fan?
Esthier on July 18, 2008 at 4:17 PM
There’s room for all of God’s creatures, including Newkirk…..right between the vegetables and mashed potatoes.
Chuckie on July 18, 2008 at 4:17 PM
My opinion, based on years of experience/observation of their idiocy, hasn’t changed.
VerbumSap on July 18, 2008 at 4:21 PM
That crazy b***h is into S&M.
madmonkphotog on July 18, 2008 at 4:22 PM
Wow! I know this lady. I can’t imagine her becoming someone’s pocketbook. Or a barbecue with slaw either.
Travis1 on July 18, 2008 at 4:22 PM
It was like a small skirt that she staged for one of them to keep the sales clerk busy asking about while she put red paint all over her hands and got up into the store windows and smeared the glass with her hands. And of course they notified the press before hand so they were all there.
A shameful and disgusting display of distruction of property from shameless morons.
AprilOrit on July 18, 2008 at 4:24 PM
My sister mother and I have been splattered with kethup by these asses walking in NY. They got my mother’s fur, luckily not mine or my sister’s.
I have 4 fur coats, three I am very proud of, especially my red fox, as I bought them myself with my own money. I have a white ranch mink that I only wear a few times during the winter because it can get dirty so easily up here. I was wearing that coat the day they got my mother.
Had they hit me, you guys would have all read about it in the paper because I would have done some serious harm.
These morons always show up at the fashion shows and ruin everyone’s good time.
AprilOrit on July 18, 2008 at 4:29 PM
e. My brain is to be donated the University of Washington, to aid in the study of particles smaller than the atom.
Jim Treacher on July 18, 2008 at 4:31 PM
I thought PETA was actually starting to show some sense with the spay and neutering post from earlier..
This only turns them into crazyville again..
DaveC on July 18, 2008 at 4:32 PM
Mmmmmm. Barbi Q.
el hombre on July 18, 2008 at 4:37 PM
They have thrown red paint onto the runway at Bryant Park, hitting models, expensive samples, the media and the 2 front rows of the show.
They have stood outside the tent at Bryant Park attacking and protesting whatever designer they’re after at the moment running films, like the did to JLO. They were running these horrible films from China.
They have sqirted kethup, mustard and red taco sauce on people’s backs as they are walking in big cities minding their own business.
No sense at all, and she orders all of it like some kind of evil queen.
AprilOrit on July 18, 2008 at 4:37 PM
Does any sane person[s], really listen to the PETA loons? The whole lot of them, should be committed to the dungeons of life!
byteshredder on July 18, 2008 at 4:39 PM
Damn. If they did that to a lady down here they would be in peril of being shot.
LimeyGeek on July 18, 2008 at 4:39 PM
winner :)
LimeyGeek on July 18, 2008 at 4:40 PM
As they should be.
We had some help from passerbys but they weren’t able to get them. It was a guy and a girl. We were all very dressed up, high heels so my sister and I couldn’t really jog after them like we would have liked to. We filed a police report, but they do this all the time, on her orders.
I don’t get why Pam Anderson subscribes to this kind of behavior.
AprilOrit on July 18, 2008 at 4:44 PM
I gave my nephew the mink lined baby blanket from Tiffanys as a gift for his birth.
I see Tiffanys is no longer carrying them, I wonder if she got to them.
AprilOrit on July 18, 2008 at 4:53 PM
My wife got mink ear muffs for Christmas last year. She loves them! Our two Ragdoll kittens have endless fun with them!
sabbott on July 18, 2008 at 5:07 PM
Was that the script from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre?
peacenprosperity on July 18, 2008 at 5:14 PM
The ear muffs are so warm, the best!
There is nothing better against the cold than fur IMHO.
AprilOrit on July 18, 2008 at 5:15 PM
wow, just wow.
kirkill on July 18, 2008 at 5:28 PM
Yeah, that was gross. I’m guessing that was her point. If she really wanted to gross us out, she could have posted her nude photo with the will… Just saying…
Candy Slice on July 18, 2008 at 5:39 PM
Unless someone uploaded a faked HTML page to the PETA server, it’s real. The server headers respond as legit with no indicated redirects to another server. The HTML does not use IFRAMEs, i.e. it’s simple, straight code without embedding. The javascript referred to in the HTML header is hosted on the same server and doesn’t do any redirection tricks. The search engine on the PETA site refers to this document several times, so its closed database has included this document in its archiving, an archiving surely limited only to legitimately accessible document trees.
This isn’t a spoof except to the extent that Ingrid Newkirk is using this “shock” to indicate her post mortem wishes which, of course, will not happen. No one will carry out such a nonsensical actions even as a last wish. Heck, some of them are probably criminally prosecutable despite them being last wishes. Why doesn’t she just ask that her blood be splattered on some steak restaurant chain’s CEO? IOW’s, her wish ain’t happenin’.
However, her real wish is to get everyone excitable about her public cremation; in that regard, she’s succeeded.
AnonymousDrivel on July 18, 2008 at 5:50 PM
Desecration of her own body after death,
like dissecting a frog in science class,
the very thing that she is against!
They need to put her in the animal wacko
hall of fame,and please don’t tell me there
is such a thing!
canopfor on July 18, 2008 at 6:02 PM
Please
Excuse
The
Asshat
profitsbeard on July 18, 2008 at 7:11 PM
Tastes like Chicken $hit
EJDolbow on July 18, 2008 at 7:18 PM
Meds… look into them.
Claypigeon on July 18, 2008 at 8:36 PM
I hear the Army is looking for targets….Just sayin’
Sanjoboy on July 18, 2008 at 9:22 PM
Its too bad she wasn’t in the Andes in 1972.
Irenaeus on July 18, 2008 at 10:21 PM
Will they be turning her ears into silk purses?
andycanuck on July 18, 2008 at 11:48 PM
Nothing new here.
Typical PETA.
seanrobins on July 19, 2008 at 4:19 PM
Meat is murder….
….tasty, tasty murder.
Black Adam on July 20, 2008 at 8:48 AM
The sicko part of me always wanted to get a venus flytrap and feed a vegetarian to it, bit by bit. Maybe that should be in her will…it would create a powerful dynamic. The unfeeling meat-eater and the suffering of the eaten.
ynot4tony2 on July 23, 2008 at 8:44 AM