Earth Liberation Front strikes again!

EmperorSolo51 · Post by **EmperorSolo51** » 2003-08-22 12:50pm

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,95447,00.html

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-08-22 12:52pm

This is my favorite part:

"There's a lot more pollutants from the fire than the vehicles would pollute during their lifetime," he said. "There's hundreds of tons of pollutants that were spilled off."

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2003-08-22 12:54pm

How did a few 1.5-ton vehicles give off hundreds of tons of pollutants?

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-08-22 12:55pm

Iceberg wrote:How did a few 1.5-ton vehicles give off hundreds of tons of pollutants?

Plastic burns mmmkay? Lots of plastics, oily smoky flame

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2003-08-22 12:55pm

Oh right, other shit was burned too. WAY TO GO, DUMBASSES.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-08-22 12:56pm

Iceberg wrote:How did a few 1.5-ton vehicles give off hundreds of tons of pollutants?

The warehouse.

EmperorSolo51 · Post by **EmperorSolo51** » 2003-08-22 12:57pm

I say we have the morons rounded up and shipped off to Camp X-ray. All those in favor say Aye!

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-08-22 01:20pm

These people are going to get someone killed soon.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-08-22 01:22pm

Each time I read such a story - and this is not the first time the ELF is guilty of terrorist actions against auto dealerships - I'm starting to considering it kind of a mystery why they only destroy Range Rover-style off-road vehicles, and not other types of gas-guzzlers such as large luxury cars and high-powered sports cars? (I mean, a Mercedes-Benz S500 or a Chevrolet Corvette consumes just as much fuel as a Toyota Landcruiser)

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2003-08-22 01:44pm

RedImperator wrote:These people are going to get someone killed soon.

Yeah, when they break into a lab in London to free chimps being "tortured" by scientists and inadvertantly get turned into killer infected zombies.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-08-22 02:20pm

I`m trying to understand how their "minds" work,they protect the environment by contributing in polluting it even more.

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-08-22 02:43pm

Hmm, well, this looks like a job for the, ta da ta da!, ANTI-PETA LEAGUE!

Damn morons...

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-08-22 02:57pm

Simon H.Johansen wrote:Each time I read such a story - and this is not the first time the ELF is guilty of terrorist actions against auto dealerships - I'm starting to considering it kind of a mystery why they only destroy Range Rover-style off-road vehicles, and not other types of gas-guzzlers such as large luxury cars and high-powered sports cars? (I mean, a Mercedes-Benz S500 or a Chevrolet Corvette consumes just as much fuel as a Toyota Landcruiser)

They don't have the symbolic value of SUVs.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-08-22 04:01pm

American Wastefullness

Now meanwhile these people are burning a vast number of manufactured goods. Every member of this group should be shot and the body burned when captured to preserve the human gene pool.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-08-22 04:34pm

Durran Korr wrote:
Simon H.Johansen wrote:Each time I read such a story - and this is not the first time the ELF is guilty of terrorist actions against auto dealerships - I'm starting to considering it kind of a mystery why they only destroy Range Rover-style off-road vehicles, and not other types of gas-guzzlers such as large luxury cars and high-powered sports cars? (I mean, a Mercedes-Benz S500 or a Chevrolet Corvette consumes just as much fuel as a Toyota Landcruiser)
They don't have the symbolic value of SUVs.

Really? Correct me if I'm wrong, but to me it appears as though the only SUVs to have the same prestige value as 5-metre luxury sedans are the Range Rover and Jeep Grand Cherokee.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-08-22 05:16pm

The irony is delicious. Foolish ELf, destroying the environment like that.

Posbi · Post by **Posbi** » 2003-08-22 05:20pm

EmperorSolo51 wrote:I say we have the morons rounded up and shipped off to Camp X-ray. All those in favor say Aye!

Bah, just hang them on one of those trees tehy seem to favor so much over the property of other, hard working people...

CelesKnight · Post by **CelesKnight** » 2003-08-22 08:19pm

Durran Korr wrote:This is my favorite part:

"There's a lot more pollutants from the fire than the vehicles would pollute during their lifetime," he said. "There's hundreds of tons of pollutants that were spilled off."

Is there anyone who likes them? Well, it's certainly not me... idiots. Theyre probably so much "true believers" that polluting the environment, and hurting the environmental movement by giving it a bad name, won't phase them.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-08-22 08:43pm

Simon H.Johansen wrote:Really? Correct me if I'm wrong, but to me it appears as though the only SUVs to have the same prestige value as 5-metre luxury sedans are the Range Rover and Jeep Grand Cherokee.

Cadillac Escalade and the Lincoln Navigator have high 'prestiege' value as well.

johnmarkley · Post by **johnmarkley** » 2003-08-23 11:08pm

Simon H.Johansen wrote:
Durran Korr wrote:
Simon H.Johansen wrote:Each time I read such a story - and this is not the first time the ELF is guilty of terrorist actions against auto dealerships - I'm starting to considering it kind of a mystery why they only destroy Range Rover-style off-road vehicles, and not other types of gas-guzzlers such as large luxury cars and high-powered sports cars? (I mean, a Mercedes-Benz S500 or a Chevrolet Corvette consumes just as much fuel as a Toyota Landcruiser)
They don't have the symbolic value of SUVs.
Really? Correct me if I'm wrong, but to me it appears as though the only SUVs to have the same prestige value as 5-metre luxury sedans are the Range Rover and Jeep Grand Cherokee.

The symbolism isn't in their economic value as prestige/luxury goods; the symbolic value of the SUV is in the fact that, to many Americans, they seem to epitomize waste and ecological irresponsibility, a reaction that other gas-guzzling vehicles don't seem to set off as much. (Possibly because many people intensely dislike SUVs for reasons of safety or aesthetics, which may only intensify their anger towards them on the fuel consumption issue. Luxury cars don't this PR problem.)

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-08-23 11:11pm

Why the hell is it these assfuckers get off torching SUVs, and their leader
gets to issue comminiques and remain a free citizen while Joe Blow, who
gets caught with some black powder is automatically a "mad bomber"?

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-08-24 09:27am

phongn wrote:
Simon H.Johansen wrote:Really? Correct me if I'm wrong, but to me it appears as though the only SUVs to have the same prestige value as 5-metre luxury sedans are the Range Rover and Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Cadillac Escalade and the Lincoln Navigator have high 'prestiege' value as well.

Oh... I forgot those, but it may just be because I live in the country where the most common large SUVs are the Nissan Patrol, Land Rover Discovery and Toyota Landcruiser.

Not that you can't buy a Navigator in Denmark, but the Mercedes-Benz S-Class is still the vehicle of choice among European industry magnates, and it appears to stay that way.

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2003-08-24 09:35am

johnmarkley wrote:
The symbolism isn't in their economic value as prestige/luxury goods; the symbolic value of the SUV is in the fact that, to many Americans, they seem to epitomize waste and ecological irresponsibility, a reaction that other gas-guzzling vehicles don't seem to set off as much. (Possibly because many people intensely dislike SUVs for reasons of safety or aesthetics, which may only intensify their anger towards them on the fuel consumption issue. Luxury cars don't this PR problem.)

And despite all that, of course, they're exceptionally popular--which no doubt enrages certain elements which dislike them as above, and in the case of a few fanatics, to the point of engaging in terrorist activities.

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-08-24 09:42am

The Duchess of Zeon wrote:
And despite all that, of course, they're exceptionally popular--which no doubt enrages certain elements which dislike them as above, and in the case of a few fanatics, to the point of engaging in terrorist activities.

I don't consider setting fire to an SUV as a terrorist activity. It's vandalism, not terrorism. As long as they don't kill anyone, they will remain high profile vandals.

EmperorSolo51 · Post by **EmperorSolo51** » 2003-08-24 09:57am

Vympel wrote:
The Duchess of Zeon wrote:
And despite all that, of course, they're exceptionally popular--which no doubt enrages certain elements which dislike them as above, and in the case of a few fanatics, to the point of engaging in terrorist activities.
I don't consider setting fire to an SUV as a terrorist activity. It's vandalism, not terrorism. As long as they don't kill anyone, they will remain high profile vandals.

Well, the ELF and the ALF are have been on the Justice departments list of home-grown Terrorists since the days of the Clinton Administration.