Animal rights activists are ‘bullies who can’t take their own medicine’

I WAS greatly amused by Nuala Donlon’s letter (May 20) attacking Deputy Mattie McGrath for calling animal rights activists “nothing short of terrorists”.

Of course it is untrue. After all why would the FBI rate the Animal Liberation Front as a domestic terrorist threat more dangerous than extremist right-wing groups in the USA?

Of course Dr Jerry Vlaseck, a well-known militant anti-vivisectionist, was prohibited from entering Britain for incitement to hatred just because he claimed it is justifiable to murder people involved in animal abuse? Of course the Animal Liberation Front never published a manual describing how to make firebombs and the best places to put them, and of course it was all a set-up that three convicted animal rights terrorists, er, sorry, activists, were convicted of this in the US?