What's It All About, ALFIE?

ALF, for those of you may not know, stands for Animal Liberation Front. They are a domestic terror organization, using the thin facade of concern for animal welfare to mask their desire for violence and aggression . And they are coming to a driveway near you soon. Maybe even your own. Click on the hyperlink and you'll go to today's Oregonian, where you'll learn about their vandalism attack on the private homes of Wachovia employees. Because, you see, their company has holdings in another company that has something to do with somebody involved in animal experiments.

My wife's reaction to this is quick. Having put in a year or two in veterinary school herself, as well as coming from a family of scientists, her pronouncement is swift, direct and simple: "I hope they catch them and send them to prison." My wife remembers the day the ALF freaks attacked and damaged a lab where they were working on medical experiments using live animals...experiments that were designed to help cure sick animals. She was fortunate. While she and her associates were targets of ALF madness and ideological incoherence, it was nothing like the time the ALFies mailed razor blade booby trapped envelopes to medical researchers at Oregon Health Sciences University.

Larry King, legendary talk show host and liberal extraordinaire (I freely admit enjoying listening to his interview segments many times as a kid), put it best. Paraphrasing an earlier encounter with animal rights types, he summed it up simply. "To them," he said, "a rat is a dog is a boy." He then repeated the same words again, to emphasize his point. You see, you can't take the common sense out of a home grown Brooklyn Boy like Larry. He bleeds blue, but he's still got his marbles, which is more than we can say for the ALFies. Here's hoping our FBI and Homeland Security people get to the ALFies before they do more to Oregonians like you and me than just vandalize our cars and homes.