From Lowell Ponte in Frontpage
Magazine:

 

This conflagration could easily have spread to hundreds of
homes in the densely-packed neighborhood not far from La Jolla beaches.
Perhaps known to the arsonists, the development’s dirt roads were impassible
by many fire trucks, and only one working fire hydrant was available at
the site.

Friday’s attack destroyed a whole subdivision of half-finished homes,
toppled and destroyed a 100-foot construction crane worth $7 million, and
blew up a 500-gallon fuel tank.

“I’m out of work now. Thank you, arsonist,” one carpenter on the project
told reporters. He was one of thousands whose livelihoods or investment
were devastated by this attack.

The estimated cost of this blaze, set during the tinder-dry days of
San Diego summer by an arsonist who knew when and how to do maximum damage,
is $20 million.

“If you build it, we will burn it,” read the 12-foot-long banner authorities
found at the scene. “The E.L.F.s are mad.”

An email received by the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper declared
the banner “a legitimate claim of responsibility by the Earth Liberation
Front,” a group identified and pursued as terrorists by the Federal Bureau
of Investigation.

I thought about typing in a long winded rant about how the greenies hate
human life so much that they don't care how much human death and suffering
results from their feel-good posturing. But I'm just too emotionally drained
from rage about that subject. The vermin hate us. The worst of them wish
to see us dead.

The simple unevadable fact of reality in my own personal view is that
Environmentalists are nothing less than Enemies of Mankind, and it is about
[expletive] time that they are dealt with as such, which is as vermin fit
solely for extermination.

-- Leslie Bates