The media are sharply divided about the level of criminality of the ELF terrorists. The Phoenix New Times carried an article, “Burn, Baby Burn,” this year that quoted environmentalists who were sympathetic for someone burning down houses that were under construction in open country outside Phoenix. Shortly later, the same Phoenix paper carried an “exclusive interview with an unidentified man claiming to be the leader of an Arizona arson ring that has torched nearly a dozen unoccupied houses,” according to an opinion article by James Taranto in The Wall Street Journal on February 7. The Journal concluded, “...journalists who disregard normal moral sense in pursuit of a story give our profession a bad name.”
Opinion: The last sentence of this article is grossly understated.
Their "name" went into the sewer a long time ago.