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According to the story, he learned most of this environmental radical pap at school in that "club," then took what he learned to it's natural conclusion. Some of our schools are turning out fanatics every bit as violent as their Islamo-fascist brethern overseas, the "cause" is simply different.

"They didn't have bad family background. They would all be considered children of advantage. They grew up in well-off homes. They went to a good school," Mr. McNulty said.

Mr. McNulty credited exposure to books and information on the Internet as motivation. The young men were said to have read Edward Abbey's "The Monkey Wrench Gang," a fictional account of four "environmental warriors" liberating parts of Utah and Arizona from "evil" road-builders and miners, according to "Abbey's Web," a Web site dedicated to Mr. Abbey's life and works.

ELF has roots in a radical environmental group known as Earth First! and in 1992 began ecoterrorism in Oregon. In 1998, an ELF fire at a ski resort in Colorado caused $12 million in damage.

Last September, ELF ecoterrorists set fire — and destroyed — four homes under construction in San Diego, causing more than $1 million in damage, according to the group's Web site. In March, ELF ecoterrorists defaced military vehicles. They spray painted antiwar slogans and the group's initials on three Navy sedans and two Navy vans and set fire to a truck at Navy recruiting headquarters in Montgomery, Ala.

I firmly believe that the current 'hate Bush, America, SUV, etc.' crowd will perpetrate a major attack in the near future. Society has told these punks that they are smarter than the rest of us and that destruction of life/property is acceptable to further their cause.