Earth Liberation Front

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
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ELF “Earth Liberation Front” Sign Left At Scene of Burning Homes ...

Earth Liberation Front at it again.