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...torching of five large, newly constructed homes on the rural fringe of the Seattle metropolitan area, and an apparent claim of responsibility for the arsons by the eco-terrorism group ELF, has drawn predictable concern from local and federal authorities - and also a notable lack of sympathy for the fate of the homes themselves...
...Task Force is busy investigating the Monday fires and on Thursday finished its search for evidence at the crime scene, near Maltby, about 25 miles northeast of Seattle. FBI Special Agent Frederick Gutt told TIME he considers the arsons "potential domestic terrorism" and said this was the fourth such ELF-linked burning of new homes in Washington State since 2004. Other ELF-linked acts in recent years have targeted housing developments in California and New York, and an SUV dealership in Oregon...
...sheet left at the crime scene, the key piece of public evidence pointing toward ELF involvement, read: "Built Green? Nope black! McMansions in RCDs r not green. ELF." [RCD stands for Rural Cluster Developments] "The message on that sheet resonates," said a former resident of the Maltby area who now works at a large out-of-state architecture firm and does not want to be identified. "The arsons were terrible and stupid, but it's hard not to be cynical of claims of sustainability by suburban developers...
...Elf Abuse...
...film gets some stray buoyancy from John Michael Higgins, familiar from Arrested Development and the Christopher Guest improv comedies. ("Oh, he's always good.") Higgins plays Willie, the head elf, who's in love with a normal-size blond cutie and, after some romantic blind alleys, winds up with her. Parents are advised to ignore their more precocious kids' questions about how that little thing goes into that big thing. But they may have to tangle with workplace issues on the North Pole assembly line. Either the elves are making the generic toys (a bike, a sled, a dreidel) that...