So here ELF (allegedly) goes again, accomplishing nothing good by what they do. This was the first Seattle Street of Dreams with an eco-friendly sensibility. Sustainable materials were the norm in the building process. It was great for the public to see homes beautifully done and “green” at the same time. It was a good learning experience and may also have encouraged people to go “green”. Yes, the homes were huge, you cannot dispute that fact. However, the message of sustainable materials went a lot farther with the public. How ironic for the group to have torched anything, let alone these homes.
There’s been talk the fire was set in retaliation for the trial of Briana Waters, who was the lookout for The Center for Urban Horticulture fire. The jury was beginning deliberations in her case at the start of this week, when the homes were torched at The Street of Dreams. So, if torching the homes was in retaliation for the trial of a group member, then it sounds like the message ELF was trying to send was to not “mess” with them. This certainly is not a statement for saving the earth.
The third irony for me as a blogger is the amount of hits I received on Monday, the 3rd of March and Tuesday, the 4th, for a post I wrote back in August about these Street of Dreams homes. As journalists will tell you, bad news travels fast and certainly grabs people’s attention. This is the post I wrote last year, if you’d like to see photos of the homes before the fire.
Let’s hope the perpetrators are caught and punished. Terrorism, for whatever reason, is unacceptable.
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