Posted on 12/02/2020 3:07:32 AM PST by Texas Fossil
Federal authorities in Seattle on Monday charged two women with a terrorist attack on train tracks, suggesting they were working with an anarchist community to stand in solidarity with a Native American tribe to oppose the construction of a natural gas pipeline across the Canadian province of British Columbia by trying to derail trains in Washington state.
Samantha Frances Brooks, 27, and Ellen Brennan Reiche, 23, were arrested Saturday night in Bellingham, located in Whatcom County, which borders Canada, as they allegedly placed “shunts” on Burlington Northern Santa Fe tracks, according to a complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of Washington Monday.
A shunt is comprised of wire and magnets that are strung across the tracks, mimicking the electrical signal of a train.
The two women were charged in connection to Saturday’s incident, but there have been 41 incidents of shunts placed on the BNSF tracks in Whatcom and Skagit counties since January. Shunts were placed in areas that disrupt the crossing guards where the tracks cross streets, so vehicles could have tried to cross the tracks unaware of the oncoming train, U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran said.
On one occasion on Oct. 11, multiple shunts were placed in three different locations in Whatcom and Skagit. The devices triggered an automatic braking system on a train that was transporting hazardous and combustible material. The emergency braking then caused a portion of the train to decouple from the engine. Though a disaster did not occur, federal prosecutors said the decoupling could have caused the tanker cars filled with flammable gas to derail in a residential area.
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It’s Insane.
Somebody suggested doing this. These two idiots would never thought to do this on their own.
Wow, these are serious charges. These are not the civic authority neutered Portland or Seattle cops they are dealing with.
Repeatedly
Should be life in prison
At a minimum
“Yes, these are leftist anti capitalist Nut Cases.”
^ ^ ^ ^
Thanks. Their type are good candidates for the Darwin award.
Nasty, stupid skanks LOVE the new anti-American BS...
It ‘glamorizes’ the element THEY choose to accept. Now, they ‘fit in’ because cool people are just like THEM...stupid, homely and dirty.
I ran into this in the 70’s at college. They thought if was cool to wear dirty clothes, don’t comb your hair, don’t iron your shirt, don’t wash, don’t use deodorant, don’t wear make-up and God forbid … don’t wear perfume!! It’s a raunchy Liberal thing with them. Here where I work at the University, we still have them... faculty too. It’s like a contest to see who can look most like a refugee. Sorry, some refugees look MUCH better, actually.
Those girls would glare at me in the ladies room when I combed my hair or fixed my lipstick. I thought the costume party was over in ‘72...but I guess not!
I bet they come from liberal parentage
This is where it starts
Or conservatives that didn’t fight back against culture and academia
We have a few here like that
Crazy squaws no like big iron buffalo.
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