Eco-terrorists don't deserve sympathy We don't know what, if anything, self-described anarchist Kevin Tucker told a federal grand jury on Tuesday. Yet it's reassuring to know that the U.S. Attorney's Office continues to investigate a series of eco-terrorism crimes that struck Erie and northwestern Pennsylvania in 2002 and 2003. Members of the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front claimed responsibility for the crimes, which included torching sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks at a Girard dealership; setting fire to a crane at a Wintergreen Gorge construction site; releasing foxes from a Greenfield Township ranch; destroying two northwestern Pennsylvania farm fields; setting fire to a U.S. Forest Service research station in Warren County; setting fire to a fur barn in Harborcreek, and releasing breeding minks at the same farm....