He got superficially involved with the Animal Rights Movement in 2008. By 2010, he was tangentially involved with the Animal Liberation Front as a Press Officer for their legal, above-ground website, was publishing a widely read AR blog that advocated for the radical elements of the AR Movement, was waging tenacious and legal above-ground local AR campaigns via a self-started local AR group, was closely affiliated with the leading radical scholar behind the Movement, co-wrote a three part treatise with said scholar, was working full time, was co-raising a teenager, was investigated by the FBI for his above-ground, legal affiliation with the ALF, was arrested for overly aggressive above-ground activism, was running on 2-3 hours of sleep a night, and, finally, crashed and burned.
“What is Bipolar Jeopardy, Alex?”
Bipolar mania: It is ruthless, leads to wild extremes, and can be deadly….