The Earth Liberation Front is back in the news again. The Earth Liberation Front is your standard issue group of environmental crazies. Mankind is the problem, certainly capitalism is evil, we should all eat nuts and berries and the invention of agriculture itself was probably a pretty bad idea.
Sadly, that’s the sort of thing the Earth Liberation Front guys do believe in.The reason they’re in the news today is that they’ve just burnt down four houses:
The sign, which had the initials of the Earth Liberation Front,
mocked claims the luxury homes on the "Street of Dreams" were
environmentally friendly, according to video images of the sign aired
by KING-TV.
"Built Green? Nope black!" the sign said.
The
fires started at a strip of unoccupied, furnished luxury model homes
where developers show off the latest in high-end housing, interior
design and landscaping. The homes are later sold.
The blazes are
suspicious because they were set in multiple places in separate houses,
said Chief Rick Eastman of Snohomish County District Seven. Eastman
confirmed that the ELF sign was found at the scene of the fires in the
community north of Woodinville, where some homes were still under
construction.
The ELF, or Earth Liberation Front, is a loosely
organized collection of radical environmentalists authorities say is
responsible for other arsons in the Northwest.
It is the sort of thing the Earth Liberation Front is known for:
On the afternoon of May 21, 2001, investigator Cheryl Glenn of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) walked through the charred remains of several buildings at the Jefferson Poplar Farm in Clatskanie, Ore. Periodically she would stop, adjust her gloves, get down on her hands and knees, and pull out of the dirt melted bits and pieces of what she would later describe as "initiating components" to buckets filled with gasoline. After bagging much of the evidence, she photographed the spray-painted epitaph on the side of one of the only standing buildings:
You cannot control what is WILD —ELF
It was the day of the Earth Liberation Front’s double whammy. Earlier, more than 200 miles to the north, someone had torched the University of Washington’s Center for Urban Horticulture.
The federal trial of an alleged Earth Liberation Front arsonist got
under way today, with prosecutors and defense attorneys offering
starkly different portraits of the 32-year-old violin teacher accused
of helping plan and carry out the May 2001 fire that caused more than
$1.5 million in damage to the University of Washington Center for Urban
Horticulture.
Federal prosecutors say two convicted members of the Earth Liberation
Front will testify against Briana Waters at her arson trial now under
way in Tacoma.
The two have agreed to testify for the prosecution in return for reduced sentences.
Waters
is accused of acting as a lookout during the 2001 arson that caused $7
million damage at the Center for Urban Horticulture at the University
of Washington.
The Earth Liberation Front claimed responsibility
for the fire because it believed, mistakenly, that a researcher was
genetically engineering trees.
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