Truth: Both sides: And it keeps going...

If these are the "leftists" that stofurz is talking about, I must say I'm not all that impressed with their activities, either.

=-John-=

Anti-war vandals hit SUVs

Maria Alicia Gaura, Chronical Staff Writer

Santa Cruz police are searching for vandals with an anti-war message who defaced an estimated 65 sport utility vehicles and trucks in a late-night spray-painting blitz.

Slogans including "No Blood for Oil," "SUVs Suck" and "No War" were spritzed onto 45 new vehicles at the North Bay Ford and Lincoln Mercury dealership on Soquel Avenue, as well as onto 18 or 20 vehicles parked in front of residents' homes, police said Thursday.

The graffiti also included references to ELF, or Earth Liberation Front, a radical environmental group that has previously taken credit for torching and vandalizing dozens of SUVs in Pennsylvania and Virginia -- presumably to protest the gas-guzzling vehicles' environmental costs.

Santa Cruz Police Lt. Joe Haebe said the Tuesday-night spree might have been the work of ELF, but no links have been established.

"It may have been ELF, but then, I sometimes get them confused with ALF, the Animal Liberation Front," Haebe said. "And then there's Earth First! and PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). There's a lot of cross- pollination between them, and some people here are probably members of two of those groups, or more."

The ELF press office said the group could not definitively take credit for the vandalism, but noted that the ELF tags found at the scene "can be construed as a claim of responsibility."

Read the rest at The San Francisco Chronicle.