Violent animal-rights radicals are claiming responsibility for an early Sunday morning fire at a California beef processing plant, and have described how they did it to prove they were really responsible.

A brief unbylined Associated Press report describes the perpetrators as "activists" -- twice:

Here are the first two paragraphs:

Geez, what does someone have to do at least be called a group of "militants"?

Even Janet Napolitano would probably call them "domestic terrorists."

Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.