AR-News: (US-va)Extreme environmentalists target vehicles, buildings

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[from Virginian Pilot]

RICHMOND — On the night of Sept. 21, 2002 , two high school students crept
onto the site where Short Pump Town Center Mall was being built in
suburban Henrico County .

Their goal: to blow up a construction crane in the name of a radical
environmental group called the Earth Liberation Front .

The teenagers rolled up an American flag, soaked in kerosene, and shoved
it into the crane’s fuel tank.

They then lit their symbolic, makeshift fuse.

It didn’t catch, but the youths eventually were caught – along with a
friend and classmate who also considered himself a member of ELF’s
monkey-wrench army. 
...
The young men – Adam Virden Blackwell , now 20 ; Aaron Labe Linas , 19 ;
and John Burton Wade , 19 , all from families in the prosperous western
suburbs of Richmond – face up to five years in prison.

They must pay more than $200,000 in restitution to the victims of their
“direct actions,” as ELF calls targeted vandalism, under a plea agreement
with the U.S. Justice Department. 
...
In that attack, they left a long note with each vehicle that sought to
assure victims that only their property was in danger.

“You made a decision to buy an SUV which affects more than you could
possibly imagine,” the notes read. “I would never bring this to your
attention through hurting you physically. ... I am willing, however, to
bring this to your attention through financial means.”

“I am not crazy,” the notes concluded. “I am reasonable. You are not. – ELF”

Reach Scott Harper at 446-2340 or at scott.harper at pilotonline.com 

full story:
http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=68802&ran=151363

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