March 03, 2008
Eco Terrorists Putting Firefighters At Risk
See the video here of the work of eco-terrorists in an upscale neighborhood near Seattle.
Uninformed dropouts trying to save the world. How abut that? These criminals don't give a damn about first responders. When they are apprehended the justice system should lay the hammer down on these punks.
According to this news account of the incident the criminals may have targeted firefighters.
"Firefighters were not allowed near the homes, officials said, for fear of booby traps. Eastman said the blazes, which began at about 4 a.m. local time, were set at six houses. Three have been completely destroyed and two others seriously damaged.....
ELF is an underground movement launched in the United Kingdom in 1992. The now defunct Earth Liberation Front Press Office said the group uses "economic sabotage and guerrilla warfare to stop the exploitation and destruction of the natural environment."
Members of the group have been blamed for embedding spikes in trees to cause injury to loggers using power saws.
The FBI in 2001 classified ELF as the top domestic terror threat in the U.S.
Today's blazes come as the trial of a 32-year-old woman charged in an ELF fire-bomb attack at the University of Washington in 2001 gets underway. Briana Waters, a violin teacher, is accused of serving as a lookout for arsonists who destroyed the Tacoma campus's Center for Urban Horticulture, which was rebuilt at a cost of $7 million" ...more at World Net Daily
Uninformed dropouts trying to save the world. How abut that? These criminals don't give a damn about first responders. When they are apprehended the justice system should lay the hammer down on these punks.
According to this news account of the incident the criminals may have targeted firefighters.
"Firefighters were not allowed near the homes, officials said, for fear of booby traps. Eastman said the blazes, which began at about 4 a.m. local time, were set at six houses. Three have been completely destroyed and two others seriously damaged.....
ELF is an underground movement launched in the United Kingdom in 1992. The now defunct Earth Liberation Front Press Office said the group uses "economic sabotage and guerrilla warfare to stop the exploitation and destruction of the natural environment."
Members of the group have been blamed for embedding spikes in trees to cause injury to loggers using power saws.
The FBI in 2001 classified ELF as the top domestic terror threat in the U.S.
Today's blazes come as the trial of a 32-year-old woman charged in an ELF fire-bomb attack at the University of Washington in 2001 gets underway. Briana Waters, a violin teacher, is accused of serving as a lookout for arsonists who destroyed the Tacoma campus's Center for Urban Horticulture, which was rebuilt at a cost of $7 million" ...more at World Net Daily
Labels: Eco Terrorism
