The clown, err, uh, ALF activist that killed 7000 minks in the Midwest about 7 years ago has been arrested and is about to be sentenced to about 2 years of prison.  Which is a shame for the death and destruction he caused. 

But in reading the article, I was struck by several things.  All of them pointed to the fact that his "idealist" was no more than a sniveling coward.  See what you think from these exerpts from the article:

Young eluded authorities until his arrest in March for shoplifting CDs from a Starbucks in San Jose, Calif.

Shoplilfted?  CDs are not edible.  This tells me that he lead a life of plenty growing up and so he feels he is owed things in life, not that he is fighting for a cause.

Young said he and Samuel targeted Midwest fur farms because authorities in the Northwest were putting too much heat on them.

A true activist, one who sincerely believed in a cause would not be afraid of too much heat!  They love being Martyrs.  Yet this sniveling coward decided to strike out of his home area where perhaps the pickings were easier.

"Most people are just appalled I'd be put in prison for freeing the animals,"

Most people?  How have you spoken to MOST PEOPLE?  I think you have heard from a very few, and the few that know anything of your crimes understand that in your cowardly sniveling way, you caused more torture to those animals than the farmers ever could.

"One hundred years ago when we all lived on the farm, we would have laughed Peter Young out of the room," she (Theresa Platt) said.

Even second graders have some comprehension of this little fact. Something that escapes the cowards that are out there causing havoc for their own self delusion and grandeur.  But dont try telling that to Peter Young.  He is too spoiled to have ever learned that, and too much of a coward to ever accept responsibility for his own stupid actions.