"The fires were reported at 4 a.m. and more than five hours later flames were still rising from a natural-gas pipeline which crews from Puget Sound Energy were working to control.
The damaged homes, all unoccupied, were included among Seattle Street of Dreams homes in the Quinn's Crossing development near Highway 522. The homes that burned were between 4,200 and 4,750 square feet in size, with prices up to nearly $2 million.
The Seattle Street of Dreams is a 30-year-old home-building home tour, intended to show luxury home-building and trends in architecture, interior design, home technology and landscaping. The destroyed homes were featured last June.
No injuries were reported in the three-alarm fire. A terrorism task force which includes police, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is investigating. Investigators stopped short of blaming the ELF for today's fires, but acknowledged finding the sign with the group's initials."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004256586_webdreamsfire03m.htmlSo Briana Waters is on trial right now facing a minimum of 35 years and Tre Arrows trial is starting soon and now there is a supposed ELF action- um, coincidence much?
and did the homes belong to every day rich fuckers, or was it the homes of mcdonald, oil guzzling, rich fuckers? I mean i guess there's room for interpretation right there, but it does seem off that they would select random rich people's homes....kinda out of the ordinary.
Esp because people learned form the Jeff Luers trial not to blow shit up when there are people on trial.... it seems really off", for lack of better words.
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I think that's bullshit. No offense, because I know you didn't mean to sound like a liberal, but you did. It's really silly and momentum killing to a movement to consistently label practically everything that matters that happens as the work of "provacateurs." Everytime a riot happens, some autonomous action happens, or anything else of value happens, there are a team of anarcho-liberals ready to rush to the scene and declare it not genuine, but the work of provacateurs. This incident isn't the same as the 35 SUV arson that preceded Jeff Leurs's sentencing, that was at the same car dealership! Just because the Briana Waters trial is happening does not mean any autonomous action that happens is the work of provacateurs. Are all these mysterious eco-warriors simply supposed to put things on hold while a slightly related trial is happening? Should people stop beating up Nazis when there's an antifa trial happening? Should people not riot when there are people facing riot charges somewhere? Should black communities not organize themselves because the San Francisco 8 trial is happening?
Real "government provacateurs" don't engage in autonomous action, only in crowd actions, and when they do, it's REALLY rare and also REALLY obvious.
Should thought I'd comment, don't mean to sound harsh, I was just really pissed when some worthless liberal back in October posted on DC Indymedia that the Georgetown anti-IMF march was the act of "police provacateurs." First of all, no. Secondly, way to fucking kill something that had meaning.
So yeah, I'm just saying, throwing around the term "provacateur" just on speculation is not the healthiest thing for movements.
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2008/03/373035.shtml
"One thing that is certain to those close to the case is that the arson Monday has only damaged Briana's chances of getting a fair verdict. The corporate media have consistently pointed out how curious the timing of the arson is, with the "UW Ecoterror Trial" still going on, further linking Briana with a shadowy ELF underground in the minds of the public. Anyone should have been able to predict the negative impact of an action like this on Briana's trial, and that just makes this whole event even more frustrating. "
It's not about being a "liberal", it's about being in solidarity with people. But i guess being macho and all about "fucking shit up" gets in the way of that for you. People can and should resist whenever they want but it's fucking dumb to do an action when there is a trial going on about the exact same action (arson). It's common sense that the two things will be linked and can really fuck over people on trial.
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