Re: [RC] [Endurance Tracks] PETA vs. Bin Laden: News Stranger Than Fiction - Mike Lewis
Oh, Gawd... Gotta luv the PETA folks...
finding new and exciting ways to apply their moral standard to you and me in
efforts to take away more of our freedom every day!
Two unlikely
newsmakers share a story this week. People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals (PETA) has spoken out against a proposed endurance horse race across
North Africa that would replace this year's Paris-to-Dakar car
race.
The famous off-road car race was canceled for security reasons,
fearing terrorist intervention.
Enter Omar Osama bin Laden, the
26-year-old estranged son of Al Queda leader Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden the
Younger has proposed a horse race to replace the car race, and is serving as
spokesman and organizer, with his British wife. The race would cover 4800 km
(roughly 3000 miles) and the horses would "race" 30 miles per day.
Bin
Laden refers to the project in the international press as a "peace
mission".
