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2003-05-27 Home Front

Environmental Group Says It Burned Houses

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Posted by Steve 2003-05-27 09:01 am|| || Front Page|| [11 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I think you're right. ELF and ALF are in the FBI's sights, and there's been little progress in shutting them down

Posted by Frank G 2003-05-27 09:59:11|| 2003-05-27 09:59:11|| Front Page Top

#2 hey, I read that book "The Monkey wrench Gang". Should have been made into a movie.

Posted by Lucky 2003-05-27 10:05:26|| 2003-05-27 10:05:26|| Front Page Top

#3 From what I've read,ELF has no 'organization',you simply adopt their agenda and logos for your own actions.Thus,one can be an ELF terrorist without even meeting another member.Their MO is similar to 'leaderless resistance' championed by the Aryan Nations and other "ultra-right" extremists.Great minds think alike etc.I wonder how long it'll take until some nut pulls a Tim McVeigh in their name...

Posted by El Id 2003-05-27 13:19:36|| 2003-05-27 13:19:36|| Front Page Top

#4 ELF use to, perhaps still does, have an unoffical spokesperson in Oregon that the FBI has raided several times. This guy claims no connection to ELF. Sort of like the fiction of Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein and the IRA.

ELF is the group that torched the Two Elks Lodge in Vail several years ago to "protect" the lynx.

I went to law school at the University of Colorado and know, firsthand, how rabid the hard-left enviros are. They revere Albee and his book "The Monkeywrench Gang".

Posted by ColoradoConservative 2003-05-27 13:57:22|| 2003-05-27 13:57:22|| Front Page Top

#5 ALF is a serious threat to us in biomedical research; my university has multiple security measures just because of them. I'd be happy to let them stew in their own juices so long as they promised to not receive any personal medical care based on animal research. That would leave them aloe leaves and nothing more, I think.

Posted by Steve White 2003-05-27 14:06:18|| 2003-05-27 14:06:18|| Front Page Top

#6 One motto of the hard-core greens is "back to the Pleistocene!" Too bad we don't have a time machine; it would be nice to give them exactly what they want.

Posted by closet neo-con 2003-05-27 14:35:18|| 2003-05-27 14:35:18|| Front Page Top

#7 El id is right, this is not an "organization" so much as a loose network relying on personal knowledge for security. It is likely that fewer than 10 hard-core fanatics are committing most of the violence, with a much larger group of trusted fellow-travelers and collaborators who can be counted on for safe-houses, confidential information, and the like, with several layers of less committed associates outside that. It seems probable that the actual terrorists are financially independent, possibly trust fund types moving around under the cover of some kind of Jack Kerouac fantasy. Some of the supporters are probably fifth columnists with corporate or government jobs, with access to information that allows the torches themselves to stay one step ahead of the law.

Posted by Piltdown 2003-05-27 14:35:26|| 2003-05-27 14:35:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Closet Neo-Con, I've been saying that about the Islamo-Fasicts for years. If they want to live in the sixth century then we ought to be able to send them there.

Posted by Someone who did NOT vote for William Proxmire 2003-05-27 16:13:57|| 2003-05-27 16:13:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Had the same thing going on in Phoenix,Az.for awhile.

Posted by Raptor 2003-05-27 18:46:48|| 2003-05-27 18:46:48|| Front Page Top

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