A more elaborate version can be found at
http://www.animalliberation.net/news/02/020116m1

The press report was released by the North American Animal Liberation Front Press office that serves as the "repository for illegal direct actions" taken by the Animal Liberation Front perpetrators. It is located in Courtenoy, B.C. and its report is 47 pages in length. The Report is dedicated "to Barry Horne, a UK animal rights activist who died November 5, 2001 as a result of his fourth hunger strike in prison" where he "was serving an 18 year sentence for a series of fires... which caused tens of millions of dollars in damages". It claims no "physical connection" with the terrorists but all pretense stops there.

For example, it presented an Award for Most Vehicle Damages in a Single Action for the March 30 burning of 36 SUVs in Eugene, Oregon.

Though a number of congressional bills to track, control and punish domestic terrorism have been filed in recent Sessions, passage now looks more promising. Two bills have been introduced in this Session, H.R. Bill 2795, the Agroterrorism Prevention Act and H.R. Bill 2583, the Environmental Terrorism Reduction Act. Also, the House Resources subcommittee on Forest and Forest Health held a hearing on domestic terrorism on February 12, 2002. In testimony at the hearing, the FBI expressly classified the animal rights-eco-terrorism as "special interest extremism" "characterized" by the ALF and ELF that "have emerged as a serious terrorist threat". The ALF activity is a "steadily growing campaign of illegal activity...", according to the FBI testimony. The FBI testified that the ALF and ELF have been acting together since 1993. Testimony at the hearing linked ELF, ALF, PETA, No Compromise, Earth First, The Ruckus Society and the Rainforest Action Network as well as criminals such as Rodney Coronado (convicted arsonist who firebombed a research center at Michigan State University). For an understanding how animal rights terrorism has evolved I recommend you read the Government's Sentencing Memorandum for Rodney Coronado. His terrorism began with the Greenpeace - Sea Sherpards sinking of whaling vessels and continued to the level of arson, bombings and "monkeywrenching", as the terrorist call it. Probably spurred on by the public as a Robin Hood, in fact he was a criminal from the get-go.

It has boomeranged for one of their benefactors. Unlike the ALF and ELF that exist in small cells that are hard to identify even though they strike every two and one-half days. PETA is an identifiable organization.

For an additional expose on PETA see "Take the PETA Challenge" at the Center for Consumer Freedom’s website, www.consumerfreedom.com. You can actually listen to a PETA representative express a wish that fast-food restaurants, laboratories and even the banks that support them be blown up.

At the hearing PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, was repeatedly mentioned. PETA is the organization that put hunter orange on deer as a publicity stunt and then continued to do it knowing it was making the deer easier targets to kill.

The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise has done an excellent investigation of the animals rights movement and has documented PETA's extensive financial support of and connection with advocates of animal rights and environmental terrorism. It is not messing around with PETA. In early March it filed a formal complaint with IRS challenging PETA's tax exempt status on the basis that donors "money is being used to help finance domestic terrorism". It wants PETA's tax exempt status revoked. The complaint letter can be viewed at www.cdfe.org/CDFEPetaComplaint.pdf. The list of facts in the petition are a must for anyone that has to deal with PETA.