OPINION/COMMENTARY

ALF Militants Attack California McDonald's

On this date in 1982, a letter bomb addressed to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher exploded in her residence at Number 10 Downing Street. It was one of five explosive packages sent by a previously unknown group calling itself the Animal Rights Militia (ARM). With twenty-two years of hindsight, most observers now understand that ARM is a particularly nasty "arm" of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), which still busies itself terrorizing farmers, restaurant operators, laboratory scientists, and others who fail to embrace animals' "rights" as a life philosophy. And last week the ALF continued its violent campaign by hitting two Los Angeles McDonald's....