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Ok, so after the last episode of #ZooTT, I’ve had a few people ask me, “Who is Randy “Zoobuster” Pepe?”
This is important information, so gather round the fire. It’s story time.
#WhoIsRandyPepe
This is important information, so gather round the fire. It’s story time.
#WhoIsRandyPepe
Randy Pepe is not a zoo. He is an animal torturer and murderer. At the turn of the century, he set his sadistic sights on the zoo community he’d managed to infiltrate, inciting a campaign of violence, doxing, and fear.
Randy Pepe would use the threat of outing to force zoos into outing each other, and he made good on his threats. When my cohost Fausty refused to give up personal identifying information on one of Pepe’s targets, he was outed in spectacular fashion.
When outing wasn’t enough to break a zoo, he would craft dossiers of fake allegations of animal abuse, largely echoing his own crimes against the four legged community. He would circulate these forged dossiers to law enforcement and anyone else he thought could hurt his targets.
Randy Pepe kept a running tally of all the zoos that committed suicide due to outing or threats of outing on his website, and he bragged in detail about all the animal families that were murdered when law enforcement illegally seized and terminated animals from outed/dead zoos.
Randy used a lot of pseudonyms during his campaign of terror, including Mike and Judy Rolland. Under this name, he posed as an expert on zoophilia and kept correspondence with HSUS, telling them stories about the horrors of zoophilia that echoed his own sadistic animal torture.
In his emails, Randy re-labelled consensual cross-species intimacy as 'animal rape' irrespective of practical realities, and thereby spawned the lasting fallacy that adult, mature nonhumans are unable to 'consent' to participation in any sexual activities whatsoever.
This was a novel idea at the time; up to this point the HSUS had adopted a stance of tolerance of cross species sex. Randy “Zoobuster” Pepe convinced HSUS leadership to change their position by convincing them that all zoophiles were animal torturers just like him.
Randy Pepe’s campaign of terror completely scorched the landscape of the zoophile community, and the 2000’s were defined by a palpable fear. Randy also functionally spawned the false paradigm of “animals cannot consent” which has defined the discourse for a generation of zoos.
I really want to emphasize this point. In 1996, when Hani Miletski interviewed the American Humane Society about sex with animals, their response was, “Why should we have literature about people having sex with animals? They don’t harm the animals.”
Randy Pepe changed that.
Randy Pepe changed that.
Randy Pepe's efforts to hide his own location from those he attacked failed, and after years of joint community effort he was tracked down to his trailer, where he lived in festering squalor.
The survivors of his campaign of hate confronted Randy in person thereafter, details never publicly known. Whatever happened that day, it marked the crashing end of Randy's predations. He later recanted his actions & begged community forgiveness - which he was never granted.
For some reference, here are some comments about Randy that have been deleted from the super excellent @adjspecies article, “The Science of Zoophilia,” thoughtfully preserved by @acatwholovesyou.
So when someone asks you, #WhoIsRandyPepe, you’ll know that he’s someone who helped create the era of hatred and lies that is only recently beginning to clear. But don’t give him too much credit. He’s still alive and that will feed his ego.
He went down a sniveling coward.
He went down a sniveling coward.
Zoobuster Pepe spent literal years working full time hours trying to take down the community that rejected him as a torturer and an unwelcome predator in our midst. And you know what? He fucking failed. Because here we are now, and we’re strong and resilient. This is our time.
Imagine a time where the HSUS supports zoosexuality. That time existed before, and it will exist again. Because we have righteousness and truth on our side. These Kumquat Farts trolls are nothing but pathetic weaklings. We’ve weathered true monsters.
Never forget that one of the biggest, most evil antagonists we’ve faced as a community lived alone in squalor and begged for mercy. #WhoIsRandyPepe? He’s a coward from a bygone era. He is old news. And we are the fucking future, baby.
#StayDefiant, fellow zoos!
#StayDefiant, fellow zoos!
