You Don't Have to Burn the Village to Save It.

Not good.

For people who are anti-sprawl activists — or have baser motives — a new-built house sitting empty in a previously rural area evidently makes a ripe target for an attack by fire.

It happened again today north of Seattle, where three of six model homes on a so-called Street of Dreams burned to the ground and a fourth was damaged. Fire officials said the blazes were deliberately set, and that a sign was found at the scene claiming responsibility and signed E.L.F., which stands for a shadowy group or movement called the Earth Liberation Front.

The model homes were said by their builders to contain environmentally friendly or “green” elements. But the size and location of the houses appeared to irritate whoever left the sign and presumably set the fires: “Built Green? Nope black.” The sign said that “McMansions” in rural areas are “not green.

Two things:

1. Terrorism is terrorism, whether by foreign invaders like 9/11 or home-grown assailants like Timothy McVeigh.
2. I'm curious to see who'll try to politicize this, and blame the Environmental Community as a whole (much how every issue involving black people just has to be brought up to Jesse Jackson and/or Al Sharpton).