The feds are investigating whether the Earth Liberation Front, a domestic terrorist group, may be responsible for an attempted arson at a home contruction site and nearby garage yesterday in suburban Sammamish.
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At the scene...a threatening message was found scrawled on a white sheet: "Where Are All The Trees? Burn, Rapist, Burn."...The message was reported by a passer-by about 7:30 a.m. When deputies walked into the home in the 20500 block of Inglewood Hill Road, the natural gas had been turned on and an "incendiary device," apparently designed to light the gas on fire, was found inside, Urquhart said.Police switched the gas off and the 3,800-square-foot, unfinished home, with a view of Lake Sammamish, was not damaged. No one was injured. A white sheet was draped in the dirt outside, with a message etched in blue spray-paint and signed "ELF." The note suggests the involvement of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), considered a domestic terrorist group by the FBI. The group claimed credit for a string of arsons and attempted fires in Snohomish County subdivisions last April.
Individuals acting in the ELF's name have claimed credit for arson at a Vail, Colorado resort; construction sites and government buildings north of Sacramento, California; an Oregon tree farm and the University of Washington Center for Urban Horticulture (both were developing sinister hybrid poplars); and numerous other locales.
By destroying - or in this most recent case, attempting to destroy - private property to advance a radical political agenda, ELF and like-minded wingnuts reveal the illiberal face of modern liberalism. A continued emphasis on symbolic acts of resistance, whether torching buildings in and around Seattle, or objecting to military recruiters from Seattle's Garfield High School, shows the raging impotence of The Left.
Posted by Matt Rosenberg at April 14, 2005 12:45 PM | Email ThisYou just burned them, baby. Do they really think that burning buildings that are made out of WOOD is going to get their point accross? Seems a bit wasteful, since more trees are just going to need to be cut down somewhere else to make up for what is destroyed...
Of course, they are probably off to their local coffee shop to celebrate, not bothering to consider if the coffee beans were grown on land formerly covered by jungle.
Posted by: Amber on April 14, 2005 01:02 PMThe "loving left" ISN'T. Book 'em, Dano!
Posted by: Michele on April 14, 2005 01:08 PMEco-freakazoids. Let's find 'em, lock 'em up in a zoo, and throw peanuts at 'em. It's about what they deserve.
{I'm not *too* harsh, am I?}
Igor
Posted by: Igor on April 14, 2005 01:22 PMThese people want us all to return to the primitive of living in mud huts and eating nuts and berries so that we can forfeit the earth entirely to plants and non human animals.
These terrorists should be pursued with the same vigor as any other terrorists, and when they are caught, they need to receive the harshest of sentences. The judges who sentence these criminals have a duty to clarify that an outright assault on man's greatest virtue of independent, rational thought which leads to the creation of fine houses and all of the other technology that makes such fine houses possible is wholly unnaceptable to our society and will result in severe punishment.
Frankly, these eco-terrorists should be sentenced to a remote island where they can live out their fantasy of surviving in nature totally independent of the technology that mankind has created to assure its survival. I bet they wouldn't last a month.
Posted by: Jeff B. on April 14, 2005 02:37 PMI seem to recall a NY subdivision that they caught the guys, and a a couple of Hummer dealership fires that have been caught.
Posted by: Al on April 14, 2005 03:20 PMJeff B -- they seem to embrace the technology of the fire starting devices - oh - and the gas -- duh -- hopefully that can be replenished from ANWAR - heh heh heh -- and I bet they didn't trust their getaways to their widdle footsies -- eco freaks are just part of the VAST LEFT WING CONSPIRACY folks - get with it -- why aren't they rounded up and prosecuted -- must be too many G-D red diaper doper baby's lawyer's kids involved - make no mistake the goal for over a hundred years of these SOB's is to destroy this country and the principles that it was founded on -- and they have plenty of fellow travelers world wide. Check out front page of Thursday's Slimes -- 100 bull sea lions at Bonneville Dam scarfing up limited - ENDANGERED - spring running Chinook salmon - and we have these crap heads that claim we have to tear out dams to save the salmon - NOOO -- shoot the G-D sea lions -- oh no - might solve the problem -- the bureaucrats are gonna scare 'em away -- shades of Hershel -- what a total load of crap - will probably just end up scaring the salmon away from the fish ladder - then we will hear about how the fish ladders are not doing the intended job - what another load
Posted by: Bill on April 14, 2005 04:00 PMThese Meth'd-out pothead anarchist assholes at ELF are probably young adults who've lost any hope for the future and most discouraged that rightwing ignoramuses, white collar crooks and Jesus freaking hypocrits are hellbent on environmental destruction and racist class warfare. Nothing in your rants allowed any room for their reform, nor any awareness of your own brutal ignorance. Union thuggery, my ass.
Bill, The Hammering Man is an insult to the working class: He's a 2-dimensional, featureless asexual worker (the long neck denotes male or female), in an endless, strenuous, monotonous toil, amidst a leisure class setting, with an artistic sentiment no more refined than a whirlygig; an upper-class joke about the lower-classes. Hammering Man should be moved to Gasworks Park where the context of the 'historic industrial worker' and the playful whilygig arm movement is suitable for that family-oriented venue.
I feel sorry for kids who get into trouble like this. It's a result of poor parenting and economic insecurity. And judging by your blithering responses, they are likely product of more republican parents than from those who vote democrat. You should be ashamed of yourselves. Those kids could be from your own families, rejecting you.
Perhaps you should consider that is exactly what is wrong with the little criminals - parents, teachers and liberals not holding the poor little darlings accountable but instead pitying them and telling them nothing is ever their fault.
Posted by: Cheryl on April 14, 2005 07:25 PMLet me introduce a concept to you - it's called R-E-S-P-O-N-S-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y.
Those so-called "Meth'd-out pothead anarchist assholes at ELF" have no sense of responsibility, little or no socal graces, and have been brainwashed to the max. How to go about "rehabilitating them"?? Wake up and smell the coffee, dude, they need to be PUT IN JAIL so that they can think about C-O-N-S-E-Q-U-E-N-C-E-S of their totally inane and dangerous actions. If these criminals are smart enough to construct fuel-air explosive devices, they're smart enough to realise that what they are doing is wrong.
Teach a pig to sing and you waste your time *and* you annoy the pig! Don't bother teaching the pig, my friend. Turn 'em into bacon. Problem solved.
{Gee, ya think I'm too harsh?}
Igor
As this house is not that far from where I live, I drove by. This house AND another 1,000 feet up the road were hit. The one 1,000 feet away was hit at about the same time and looks to have had a fire set in the garage, which was almost completely destroyed. Other exterior damage was observed in various places, especially the side of the house next to the garage. It is eery to see it, knowing leftwing terrorists set it and got away with it.
My question is: What are the feds doing to track down and disrupt this terrorist network? They are certainly doing a good job hunting down Islamofascism, but these leftist radicals are not much less callous in their desire to utterly destroy private property to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
And btw, there were PLENTY of trees around these homes. FAR MORE than you'd see in a typical city of Seattle neighborhood.
Posted by: Michele on April 14, 2005 09:19 PMThe creeps who burned that house and tried to burn the other are organized, extremely dangerous, and self-righteous to the point of insanity. Your response to them is very surprising, and sounds like someone whose home was NOT the target of terrorists, as these homeowners were. Feel sorry for them, and hope that the ELF terror network is broken up and destroyed.
Posted by: Michele on April 14, 2005 09:26 PMWho will you feel sorry for when they decide that burning uninhabited buildings isn't enough?
Posted by: Amber on April 15, 2005 06:54 AMI'm no apologist for ELF. In order to prevent their moronic ideology from spreading, we should better understand how this tiny minority of dropouts, (it's likely they are both leftys and rightys, anarchists oppose government in rightwing fashion), we have to understand what drives them.
Michele, you ASSUME I'm not sorry for the owners of the burned house. Typical. ELF members are most likely ignorant luddites who see industrial society as in its last stages, too destructive and consumptive to continue much longer. Their belief then is not much different than rightwing christian fundamentalist view of a coming Apocalypse.
While you people flippantly blame liberals, these arguments point to republican ideology as the source of ELF ire; and probably where they got their "self-righteousness" as well.
I'll say it again: you people ought to be ashamed of yourselves.
Posted by: Fluke on April 15, 2005 09:29 AMNutz!
I "feel" no shame; I bear no responsibility. I haven't fostered an environment conducive to any anarchists misconduct.
Somehow in your twisted and sick brain I should be ashamed because I insist that people obey the law?
Nutz!
We're supposed to "feel their pain" and attempt to divine their pathology instead of making them toe the line?
Nutz!
I've read your posts, fluke, and have concluded that you're...
Nutz!
Posted by: alphabet soup on April 15, 2005 10:20 AMThe fact that they now have to kill more trees to rebuild the house, the fact that now they have to demolish the house to remove the charred timber which requires additional energy and oil to run the demolition crew. Once the house has been demolished, then that burned charred wood and plastics then will have to be dumped somewhere - landfills maybe - so we're now polluting again with charred wood and plastics and whatnot in landfills. Then the reconstruction begins with additional electricty and oil be used to power the machinery needed to build and of course the additional trees needed to rebuild the house.
SO ELF, what good did this accomplish for the environment?
Posted by: irritated by ELF. on April 15, 2005 10:44 AMAlphabet stoop, It is your thinking that's twisted and sick: I did not infer that you should be ashamed for insisting ELF obey the law; only that it is a shame that many do not understand how it is ELF turns to law-breaking, thus insuring ELF criminality continues. You're 'shooting yourself in the foot', as they say.
Irritated at ELF best sums the situation: ELF causes more environmental destruction than they claim as their desire to prevent. The ELF have got their thinking all screwed-up. The answer is not simply, "Throw 'em in jail", where they're likely to learn more criminal behavior.
Right wing websites are a sewer of BS.
Posted by: Fluke on April 15, 2005 11:52 AMWhat you "implied" was certainly contextually aimed at conservatives (Unless, of course, that you just type words without knowing or caring what they mean ;'}
That you justify in any way, the actions of these domestic terrorists proves how depraved you are.
Posted by: alphabet soup on April 15, 2005 12:13 PMI never said throw them in jail but, if they try to burn my house down I won't shoot 'myself' in the foot.
I never said throw them in jail but, if they try to burn my house down I won't shoot 'myself' in the foot.
I never said throw them in jail but, if they try to burn my house down I won't shoot 'myself' in the foot.
I never said throw them in jail but, if they try to burn my house down I won't shoot 'myself' in the foot.
I guess Bill can't explain how Hammering Man is Stalinist/Hitlerian socialist crap. Anybody else think Hammering Man would be more suitably installed at Gasworks Park?
Posted by: Fluke on April 15, 2005 05:40 PMBill K: Actually, I still think the PI wins the prize for sorriest local daily around here, even IF the Times very regrettably refers to ELF as 'activists'.
Posted by: Michele on April 15, 2005 11:36 PMYou've had some big hurt in your life; it comes through loud and clear. I know of a guy who was like that and had your same radical leftist political affiliations. You should see him today; a totally different kind of person and not roiling in anger anymore.
Posted by: Michele on April 15, 2005 11:42 PMI never said throw them in jail but, if they try to burn my house down I won't shoot 'myself' in the foot.
Terry, society does affect our upbringing, our views, our loyalties. Your views are simplistic and probably versions espoused by deceitful liars like Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity and the rest. Like Michele, you too would like to see yourself as blameless and righteous, but are similarly, ignorantly judgmental. Hell has a special place for your kind.
Posted by: Fluke on April 16, 2005 01:47 PM
Prayer annoys God; particularly repetitious and insincere kiss-up prayers. If God really loves us, how could God enjoy hearing prayers that are based on doubt and fear? I'm wager when you pray, God puts on an MP3 player and listens to banjo music to tune you out.
Posted by: Fluke on April 16, 2005 06:12 PMPlease allow me to relate a story to you. Several years ago I was visiting some friends when there arose a commotion out in their back yard.
We went out to investigate and discovered that a squirrel had come onto my friends property. His children, naturally curious, naturally friendly, had approached the seemingly harmless little beastie when it abruptly attacked them.
I tried several times to shoo the critter away, but he focused in on me and started his attack on me.
I retrieved my gun and dispatched him.
Later, after the squirrel had been autopsied, they found that he was quite literally insane. It seems that squirrels, being the rodents that they are, scavenge whatever they can for food, up to and including cat feces. The cat poop that the squirrel ate contained worms that attacked the squirrel's brain, driving it crazy.
You may draw you own conclusion from my little story. As for me - I prefer not to associate with people who eat their own crap!
Say $5000?
Put up or shut up
Posted by: alphabet soup on April 17, 2005 11:27 AMCowardly POS. You see, conservatives don't need to lie or embellish. We don't need to be afraid of the truth. Sometimes the truth isn't readily apparent, but that is what reflection and introspection is for.
liberals have strayed so far from the truth that even the barest hint makes them pee their pants.
Oh, BTW - check out more of flukie's special type of friends: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1571447_1,00.html
What do you suppose there flukie boy? Maybe they weren't breast-fed by their mommies? Maybe they lost their religion? Do you suppose they think God abandoned them? Maybe they got their start by pulling the wings off of flies. (Oh, sorry, didn't mean to talk about you ;'}
Oh well, doesn't matter. They have their hearts in the right place, right flukie? They'll go out and burn things (belonging to innocent uninvolved parties, no doubt), tear things up, and generally make fools of themselves.
I'm comfortable about my choices flukie, are you?
Posted by: alphabet soup on April 17, 2005 01:58 PMMichele, it's been loads of fun. But please, your logic isn't just impossibly convoluted, it's silly, as in feeble or pitiable. Learn to edit, will ya? I'm sure you can do better if you try. Good luck.
Posted by: Flukie on April 17, 2005 09:08 PM
Flukie doesn't think that Jesus loves bed-wetters, and so he take it out on anyone who will give him half a chance.
Have a good one....
Posted by: alphabet soup on April 17, 2005 11:40 PMI'll go out on a limb and say ELF are probably anarchist. Anarchy is very anti-government. So, in that way ELF are like abortion clinic bombers, Michele, ignorant, radical and reactionary. Take care dear. Remember to edit carefully. I'm through with this string. Discussion with Alphy is like (spreading?) pearls before swine.
Posted by: Fluke on April 18, 2005 08:02 AMWhere's my 5K troll?
Posted by: alphabet soup on April 18, 2005 01:58 PMDon't you have the courage of your convictions? Everyone else has abandoned this thread - it's just me & you.
Put up or shut up you POS.
I repeat - where's my 5K?
As an alternative viewpoint, I would venture that anyone encountering this exchange would see a baseless accusation made (by you), a challenge proffered (by me) and a coward slinking its way out (Quite obviously you there, flukie).
The only thing I have "proven", is by way of illustration: that I provided you an opportunity to put up of shut up, and you have neither the courage of your convictions, nor the honor or basic common decency to do so - in other words, you have demonstrated that you are a democrat.
Suit yourself flukie......
Posted by: alphabet soup on April 19, 2005 11:07 AM