Comeuppance: PETA Vegan Outreach Director Met By Protest

Bruce Friedrich was arrested a couple years ago for his naked protest at 
Buckingham Palace. He was also involved in an incident in which he threw 
a hammer at a USAF fighter plane. Friedrich believes sport hunters 
should be viewed "with the same revulsion we presently reserve for Nazi 
doctors and slave traders."

Just some of the information about him from:
http://www.consumerfreedom.com/activistcash/bio_detail.cfm?BIO_ID=1460

It's nice to see educators and parents standing up to this whiny vegan 
punk. PETA should not be allowed in schools. For those who doubt they're 
actively trying to indoctrinate young children, consider his dismay:
	"I give a fair number of talks, and this thing never happens,"
	said the animal rights activist, who is PETA’s director of vegan
	research. "I think it’s really unfortunate when an educator
	stifles free speech."

*Only* when it's his.
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From the Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle:

Protest greets animal rights activist

Promotion of UR talk limited; Brighton school cancels visit.

By Matthew Daneman
Staff Writer

(November 6, 2003) — BRIGHTON — Bruce Friedrich, a leader of People for 
the Ethical Treatment of Animals, stood outside the University of 
Rochester’s School of Medicine and Dentistry in the rain Sunday, 
decrying animal experimentation done there.

At the same time, the medical school and some of its employees were 
doing some protesting of their own.

After a couple of calls from David Guzick, the medical school dean, UR’s 
Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development agreed to curb 
its promotion of a Tuesday on-campus talk by Friedrich.

And after an outcry from some parents, Friedrich’s scheduled talk to a 
student group Monday at Twelve Corners Middle School in Brighton was 
canceled.

Brought in from Virginia by Animal Rights Advocates of Upstate New York, 
Friedrich made a series of appearances over the weekend and early this 
week in the Rochester area.

“I give a fair number of talks, and this thing never happens,” said the 
animal rights activist, who is PETA’s director of vegan research. “I 
think it’s really unfortunate when an educator stifles free speech.”

Terry Quinn, principal of the Twelve Corners school, said he made his 
decision because he hadn’t even known Friedrich was coming and Friedrich 
was to talk on a topic with which Quinn was unfamiliar.

Friedrich said his talk was going to be fairly innocuous, with tips on 
student activism.

Quinn said he received a “handful” of e-mails from parents last week 
raising concerns about Friedrich talking to the after-school Animal 
Club, concerns related to PETA’s tactics. Several of the e-mails 
referred to Friedrich and PETA as “terrorists,” said Marcia Cope, 
faculty adviser for the Animal Club.

Cope, however, said the club “encourages research, questioning (and) 
then students can draw their own conclusions. As far as I’m concerned, 
that’s education. I would defend the animal experimenters’ right to talk 
to our group. I wouldn’t want to silence them for the world.”

PETA is notorious for such attention-getting tactics as throwing paint 
on people wearing fur coats and disrupting fashion shows.

It was those tactics, as well as past public statements by Friedrich 
condoning the use of violence against fast-food restaurants, 
slaughterhouses and animal testing laboratories, that raised the ire and 
concern of UR medical school personnel, said spokesman Chris DiFrancesco.

Researchers at the medical school have been targets of harassment 
campaigns by animal rights activists in the past, he said.

At least one medical school employee, who is also the parent of a Twelve 
Corners student, e-mailed Quinn, DiFrancesco said.