Is the Animal Liberation Front a terrorist organization

Yes, IMHO. So is Earth First!. If you put a spike into trees to damage saws and if that injuries the logger in the process, that is terrorism.

Some intelligence from the north.

A sign hung by Greenpeace activists from the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa in 2009

OTTAWA — A government agency responsible for tracking financial transactions to ensure they aren’t used for illicit purposes has identified animal rights activists and “environmental extremists” as terrorist groups on a website rife with references to al-Qaida.

The page is part of an online terrorism-financing tutorial hosted by the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre.

The government established FINTRAC in 2000 to detect and prevent money laundering and other illegal financial transactions by terrorists and organized crime groups.

Following a number of workshops, those taking the learning program are presented with a multiple-choice test with 13 questions. Questions include how terrorist financing differs from money laundering, and what constitutes a suspicious transaction.

Three of the questions specifically reference al-Qaida, while one reads: “Under which terrorist group do animal rights activists and environmental extremists fall?” The correct answer is single-issue terrorists, the website says....

...When asked why animal rights advocates and environment extremists were identified as terrorist groups, he said they were “given as examples (of organizations) who may be single-issue terrorists by virtue of choosing to use violence and criminal activities.”

He said the question was drawn from a Canadian Security Intelligence Service report from winter 1998 in which a CSIS counter-terrorism specialist discussed extremist militancy associated with animal rights, environmentalism and abortion in North America and the U.K.

Some environmental and animal rights groups have been known to adopt violent and illegal tactics. The Animal Liberation Front and Earth Liberation Front, for example, have taken credit for destroying businesses.

Yes, Earth Liberation Front is very extreme. Good work Canada...man we know we wouldn't get some intelligence from the American government.

“But the idea of a blanket statement about people who advocate for animals and who advocate for the protection of Planet Earth being terrorists is obviously absurd,” said Michelle Cliffe, a spokeswoman at the International Federation of Animal Welfare.

Mike Hudema, a spokesman for Greenpeace Canada, noted Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver used the term “extremists” to describe more than 100 protesters from First Nations communities, social justice groups and environmental organizations crossed a police line and peacefully allowed themselves to be arrested on Parliament Hill last month.

“And if we take the minister’s definition of what ‘extremist’ is when we’re tracking these financial transactions, then that’s a broad section of Canadian society,” Hudema said.

“The more we use the term ‘extremists,’ the more we use the term ‘terrorist,’ then we start to water down these terms and there is the threat of erosion of our civil liberties.”somebody who does just that.”

Concerned about blanket statements? Like gun owners all drive around with a shotgun in their trucks, etc. That if you allow people to carry concealed will led to massacres. You worried about generalities like that.