Go Green

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The New York Times is reporting five luxury homes in Maltby, Washington, that burned down may have been caused by acts of terrorism from eco-warriors.

The houses, marketed as being built to be green, may have been burned by the Earth Liberation Front. Their Web site neither confirms nor denies these claims. The NY Times reports:

““Built green?” read letters spray-painted onto a bedsheet found hanging on a fence at the site, about 25 miles northeast of Seattle. “Nope Black!

“McMansions + R.C.D.’s r not green,” said the sign, apparently referring to “rural cluster developments,” which advocates say help prevent sprawl by limiting development density in rural areas. The section of the development, called Quinn’s Crossing, has fewer than a dozen lots on a cul-de-sac just off Echo Lake Road, an area where modest older houses and mobile homes are more common.

The message on the sheet was signed with the letters “E.L.F.,” the infamous initials of the Earth Liberation Front, a loosely organized group that has been linked to multiple bold acts of ecoterrorism across the Northwest and elsewhere for two decades. Banners have claimed E.L.F. responsibility for arsons at other housing developments in the region in recent years, and the fires on Monday came as jurors deliberated in a case involving an arson in 2001 at the University of Washington that was linked to E.L.F.”

What do you think about this? If E.L.F. was responsible, I want to know what you think of their actions.

- Linds