like a new kind of tagger, specializing in new construction housing or sports radio towers, and on the same mental level..unable or unfit to join gangs. ELF has an office in Washington DC (!) {how hard for Obama to shut down?}, which today claimed responsibility for this damage-espousing Leftist ideology that Van Jones was deeply a part of, advocated, and verbally supported.

http://www.kirotv.com/news/20723839/detail.html#

ELF Claims Responsibility For Radio Tower Sabotage

Posted: 6:28 am PDT September 4, 2009Updated: 2:59 pm PDT September 4, 2009
SNOHOMISH, Wash. -- An environmental extremist group has claimed responsibility for toppling two towers near Snohomish owned by a sports radio station.

The Earth Liberation Front group took responsibility for the act on its Web site Friday.

The towers were brought down with a trackhoe.

Andrew Skotdal, president and manager of KRKO in Everett, said a banner emblazoned with the word ELF was left at the scene.

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The group claimed responsibility in the firebombing of a University of Washington building in 2006, and the FBI said it estimates that ELF has committed more than 600 criminal acts in the U.S. since 1996, resulting in damages in excess of $43 million.

In a news release issued Friday afternoon, ELF cited adverse health affects, harm to wildlife and interference with home phone lines as some of the reasons for their action. Read the full release.

The FBI said it will lead the investigation of the sabotage.

Skotdal said the station was recently granted permits to build the two 199-foot towers in the Snohomish River Valley. Some in the community are upset about the project that has been a source of court battles and controversy for several years.

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"It goes to show you, people really just did not want this to happen in this valley. It's a beautiful area and to have a farm of towers go up, it really went against everything else that was natural around here," said Snohomish resident Elizabeth Grant.

Skotdal said he's not convinced that ELF is responsible for the vandalism..

Lieutenant Rick Hawkins of the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office said calls were received from citizens who said they saw three people running from the scene. A search by police was unsuccessful.

[The sign left at the scene of the vandalism.]
The sign left at the scene of the vandalism. Full Story ››

Video from Chopper 7 showed the sign that read "WASSUP? SNO.CTY. ELF" and another line "(illegible word) abandon this."

Police said the vandals stole the trackhoe from a fenced yard, broke through a fence surrounding the towers and then used the machinery to pull a main tower and a smaller tower down.

The manager said the station is trying to find a way to offer a $25,000 reward and will use their broadcasts to find the persons responsible for the damage.

The station transferred its radio transmission and remained on the air.

Skotdal said the main tower took about two months to erect.