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The Animal Liberation Front In the last few decades, animal rights has become a familiar concept to Americans, largely though media accounts of activist’s efforts. The events most typically reported, demonstrations, raids on laboratories, and civil disobedience, are dramatic and much known; however, the realities from which this movement to liberate animals from human possession emerged is not as well known to the general public. My aim in this research paper is to supply that context by making clear the major ideas of the movement, the kinds of activism that take place, reveal one specific organization that has emerged, the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), and argue that the ALF is, in fact, a good and ethical terrorist organization. In this paper, I hope to provide basic information about the ALF and that my research and my own philosophies and ideas will be of use to both those not familiar and already familiar with the animal rights movement and furthering discussion between these two groups of these important issues. In order to set the stage for understanding the animal rights movement, one needs some background information about animal rights. Lawrence Finsen, the author of “The Animal Rights Movement in America