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ELF vs SUVs
The following is the text of a Reuters report, lifted from New York City Indymedia, about recent overwhelmingly successful anti-SUV actions in Los Angeles by the crafty and elusive Earth Liberation Front
SUVs Destroyed by Environmental Radicals in Calif.
Fri August 22, 2003 07:22 PM ET
By Judith Crosson
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A pre-dawn fire apparently aimed at sport utility vehicles, vilified as gas guzzlers and polluters, engulfed an auto dealership on Friday in California, the state known for its love affair with the car.
The Earth Liberation Front, a radical underground group that targets land development and other issues it deems harmful to the environment, said on its Web site that spray painted messages at the dealership indicate the group was responsible.
No injuries were reported in the blaze in West Covina, a suburb east of Los Angeles.
SUVs were spray painted with the words "terrorist" and "gross polluter" at two other California dealerships.
In addition to the fire, Hummers were defaced with anti-pollution graffiti and scrawled on several of the vehicles were the letters ELF.
The move prompted a national SUV owners' group to condemn the incident and criticize celebrities like California gubernatorial candidate Arianna Huffington, a founder of the Detroit Project, which has challenged automakers to produce fuel-efficient vehicles.
"While we believe these groups do not condone such activity, those who have generated the greatest amount of media coverage are creating an atmosphere where it is open season on SUV owners and their vehicles. It must stop," SUV Owners of America President Jason Vines said in a statement.
The Earth Liberation Front Web site also featured a newspaper article reporting the FBI suspected it of setting on fire earlier this month an apartment complex under construction near San Diego. Appended to the article, which placed preliminary damage estimates at $20 million, was an update: "(Note: Damage from this fire is now estimated at $50 million.)"
A study released this week by a Washington, D.C.-based transportation reform group showed that Southern California faces a "public health crisis" in the climbing number of residents with respiratory illnesses linked to air pollution.
The study by the Surface Transportation Policy Project found that nearly 2 million tons, or 57 percent of all air pollutants in Los Angeles, come from tailpipe emissions.
Although improved technology has made vehicles 90 percent cleaner in the past 30 years, the number of miles Americans drive has tripled, undermining those gains, the study found.
In 2001, Southern California cities were among the country's top 20 for highest smog levels, according to the California Public Interest Research Group's Web site. (Additional Reporting by Gina Keating)
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Does anybody notice the irony of ELF setting fires to "save the environment?"
They are truly a terrorist group, and should be treated as such.
They are truly a terrorist group, and should be treated as such.
The person who claims the insurance benefit should be arrested.
Unless they did it legaly. Which is highly likely. Maybe they had a burn permit or something.
Maybe they set up a nonprofit organization to catch the FBI red handed at malicious and false prosecution of voters. Then they got a burn permit and burned the SUV'S AND THE FBI.
If they did all that in the interest of voters and the generaly public and it helps fight pollution then I don't see any thing wrong with that.
Unless they did it legaly. Which is highly likely. Maybe they had a burn permit or something.
Maybe they set up a nonprofit organization to catch the FBI red handed at malicious and false prosecution of voters. Then they got a burn permit and burned the SUV'S AND THE FBI.
If they did all that in the interest of voters and the generaly public and it helps fight pollution then I don't see any thing wrong with that.
detroit and the other polluters have know how to increase the overall miles per gallon on their fleet of vehicles, but have choosen not. now the funniest thing i heard recently is that if you purchase one of these gas guzzlers, your entitled to a 70% tax refund. so the 100k 6,000 lb + vehicle actually costs ya 30k. a little known tax loop hole set up to get small business' tax breaks to purchase delivery vehicles. it's intent wasn't to allow yuppies to drive gas guzzlers in the city, but it has played out that way.
viva la ELF
viva la ELF
Did you all see this by now? http://www.ktvu.com/news/2439703/detail.html
It is so clear that the next major terrorism initiative by the government is going to be against animal rights groups - it will probably become like the period where the government was making all adult men from the list of 17 countries in the middle east report to the INS for questioning. Already they were raiding the houses of outspoken people who had been arrested for animal rights oriented activity and seizing all their possessions, including baby pictures. I wouldn't want to be in any ordinary nonviolent/non-direct action group that has an animal rights connection because they'll probably all fall under the umbrella pretty soon: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/120226_alf02.html
It is so clear that the next major terrorism initiative by the government is going to be against animal rights groups - it will probably become like the period where the government was making all adult men from the list of 17 countries in the middle east report to the INS for questioning. Already they were raiding the houses of outspoken people who had been arrested for animal rights oriented activity and seizing all their possessions, including baby pictures. I wouldn't want to be in any ordinary nonviolent/non-direct action group that has an animal rights connection because they'll probably all fall under the umbrella pretty soon: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/120226_alf02.html
...I actually believe that there are WMD's in Iraq, so what do I know? Not a whole hell of a lot!!!!
That is the fool who is posting zionist propaganda in the author field.
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