not want to "reform" vivisectionists but to "wipe them off the face of the earth." The letter from the Home Secretary said: "In expressing such views, it is considered that you are fomenting and justifying terrorist violence and seeking to provoke others to terrorist acts and fomenting other serious criminal activity and seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts." The letter was dated the same day that the Home Office published its new list of behaviors that would see people banned from the UK. Under the list, people who write, speak, run a website, or use their positions as teachers to express views that "foment, justify, or glorify violence in furtherance of particular beliefs" will be banned or deported. The British government called the new measures part of its "ongoing work to tackle terrorism and extremism." Best responded by saying it didn't surprise him. He told the Chronicle of Higher Education: "It was only a matter of time, especially after the July 7, 2005 London bombings. The climate in Britain is totally unbelievable. It's very fascist. It's becoming a police state." See also Animal Liberation Press Office Critical animal studies (CAS) Earth Liberation Front (ELF) Behind the Mask Speciesism: The Movie List of animal rights advocates References External links Steven Best's faculty page 1955 births Living people American animal rights activists American anti-capitalists American veganism activists Earth Liberation Front Philosophers from Illinois Philosophers from Texas Postmodern writers University of Chicago alumni University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts alumni University of Texas at El Paso faculty