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PETA Going Looney Tunes?

NORFOLK -- The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals unveiled a new campaign to raise money for purchasing the rights to the Warner Brother's Looney Tunes library of cartoons from Time-Warner.

"We are asking that people join Pamela Anderson, Sir Paul McCartney, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, The Rev. Al Sharpton and countless other kind people world wide," explained local PETA Chapter President Hillary Hickums during a 'McCruelty, I'm Hating It' protest at the Pistol Creek Outlet Mall McDonald's, "to stop the perpetuation of specism and ugly specist stereotypes."

The so-called "Suffering Sycophants" campaign joins other initiatives, such as "Kentucky Fried Cruelty," "Lowest of the Low," and "PetSmart Cruelty." PETA intends to lock the collection away in a vault, purging contemporary culture of the cartoons' extreme violence, exploitation, innuendoes and prejudices, thereby protecting future generations of both fauna and homo sapiens.

Looney Tunes originally showcased Warner-owned musical compositions through the adventures of cartoon characters such as Bosko and Buddy. Later Looney Tunes shorts featured popular characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Sylvester, Tweety, Marvin the Martian, Taz, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam, Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, and many others.

"Oh my God, they're DIPS!" exclaimed Buster Higglesbottom, former Olympic Electronic Penta-Decathelon E-thete hopeful and founder of the hastily organized Cartoon Lovers Against PETA. "We can't and won't let them pull a Cosby on us."

CLAP has posted an internet petition on line at www.petaisjudgedoom.org they intend to send to Ted Turner to save the cartoons.

Hickums, along with as many as a McNugget's Happy Meal number of other PETA members, was arrested for lying down in the McDonald's drive through lane during lunch in an effort to force the company to use a less cruel method for slaughtering chickens.




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