criminal "ar" extremists and unintended irony

I came across this three year old story on the BBC site:

Wednesday, 30 August, 2000

The government is considering whether to change the law 
to give the police more powers to stop animal rights 
extremists attacking people who work in research 
laboratories.

Home Secretary Jack Straw told BBC Radio 4's Today 
programme that such laboratory staff were decent people 
doing legitimate jobs.

The announcement follows a number of recent attacks. On 
Monday, fire bombs exploded under the cars of five 
employees who work at a research centre in Cambridgeshire.

The Animal Liberation Front, however, said that any 
extention of police powers was unnecessary because 
existing laws were more than adequate.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/902692.stm


Isn't that just fucking pricless?  The Animal 
Liberation Front, a PURELY criminal outlaw-terrorist 
group, pontificating about the adequacy of existing law!

In fact, it's pretty clear that existing law is 
inadequate, because ALF outlaw-terrorist criminals are 
still running loose.