In May of 2006, Morrissey, while speaking to the audience at one of his concerts, sent a message to employees of animal testing laboratories: "We will get you." (Here's an article online; there's more at Morrissey Solo.) I hardly gave it much thought at the time. But one night last summer, as I surfed channels while watching TV, I caught the beginning of 28 Days Later, which was being broadcast, dubbed in Spanish, on a Spanish-language channel. The opening scene of the film depicts animal rights activists breaking into an animal testing lab. Man, that got my blood boiling, and I recalled Morrissey's statement.

Another animal rights activist in the aforementioned article says of Morrissey, "I suspect when he said 'we will get you' he wasn't talking about violence at all, but about exposing these people for what they do." I don't buy that. Morrissey is rabid enough when it comes to animal welfare and enough of a bastard in general to have been thinking of violence against the workers.