Sometimes CNN.com makes me want to throw up a little bit. 

Daniel Andreas San Diego has been given quite the honor.  The 31-year-old “strict vegan” is the first animal rights activist to be added to the bureau’s “Most Wanted Terrorists” list which includes such infamous characters as al Qaeda’s Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Adam Yahiye Gadahn.

Now listen, while I work my tail off to help make this world a better place for humans and animals alike, I have ZERO tolerance for violence in the name of any cause. Zero! So it doesn’t bother me that he’s on the list if he really did bomb facilities that he believed had ties to animal-testing labs. What bothers me is how the story is written. 

Stories like this have a hell of a way of demonizing and generalizing entire groups of people. The caption below his mugshot reads: “Daniel Andreas San Diego is 31 years old and a ’strict vegan,’ the FBI says.”  Really? Why not say “Daniel Andreas San Diego is 31 years old and bombed the shit out of a building?” And then of course there’s this:

“Photographs of San Diego, who grew up in suburban San Francisco, California, show a well-groomed, bespectacled man.

But the computer network specialist also sports several elaborate tattoos. According to an artist’s rendering of the body art, San Diego has one in the center of his chest of a burning hillside and the words “It only takes a spark” in a typewriter-style font.”

I have two tattoos, I’m a strict vegan, I give money to animal rights organizations…I MUST BE A TERRORIST TOO!! 

All I’m saying is that the mainstream media still doesn’t take too kindly to our type, and it affects the entire community  when one of our own ends up on a terrorist list. So animal-rightsers listen up: speak up don’t blow up! GOT IT? Good! Or before you know it CNN will be talking about your tattoos too!