My thoughts:
1. If an infrastructure attack was to be prosecuted, how many people would it take to cause significant disruption on a very wide scale?
Clearly, with an open border the available manpower ability to disperse around the country has no obstacle.
2. Re #1, in a post-9/11 era, is there adequate public information available to facilitate such planning?
Even in the lack of such information, it wouldn't take much effort to map major power hubs.
3. Are such antagonists able to communicate to facilitate required coordination?
The antifa/blm riots proved that it was possible to both communicate and evade law enforcement detection. As well, the ongoing matter of leftist violence against pregnancy centers - as well as the 1/6 bombs - remain unresolved.
4. My problem: WHY would such antagonists openly attack minor infrastructure when such attacks would surely attract government attention and corresponding surveillance?
5. Are such attacks designed to redirect resources and, if so, what is the purpose of the distraction?
Such a distraction would serve many purposes, but the history of such attacks spans such a length of time that the nature of such a plot is unlikely.
6. Why would government FINALLY comment on an ongoing domestic terrorism investigation (vs. the mantra, "We don't comment on active investigations") by implicating 'domestic extremists'?
We all know the score here as well: When the government cites 'domestic extremists' they mean the right, NOT the left.
7. The details of such attacks (if we are to believe Homeland Security, "In recent attacks, criminal actors bypassed security fences by cutting the fence links, lighting nearby fires, shooting equipment from a distance or throwing objects over the fence and on to equipment," read the memo.') highlight 2 possibilities: A. Probing, B. Random efforts to cause minor - rather than major - damage.
8. Why did it take YEARS for these clearly-communicating, coordinated plot efforts to figure out that a small caliber rifle can take out power to a community?
Photos of the NC damage appear to be no larger caliber than 30-30.
Finally, my deepest thoughts:
9. Why do the pattern of damage attacks appear to keep focus on the vulnerability of the power grid, highlighting what my memory suggests is the first nationwide coverage of such attacks in NC without causing region-wide damage?
The pattern almost suggests an effort to hold utilities and the government accountable for hardening our grid infrastructure.
IMHO, the pattern of attacks do not fit the profile of terrorism, but the NC incident is certainly an escalation (if one believes it is part of the ongoing series of seemingly-random incidents spanning a number of years).
Thoughts?
Probably the same group organizing all those ‘mysterious burn-downs’ of food processing businesses.
Go ask Bill Gates. I think he knows.
Who’s doing it? The same people who are destroying our food processing and fertilizer plants, grain silos, etc. Overwhelm the system!
It is hard to figure out.
It is the Green Nazis.
The Brainwashed Global Warmist.
“9. Why do the pattern of damage attacks appear to keep focus on the vulnerability of the power grid, highlighting what my memory suggests is the first nationwide coverage of such attacks in NC without causing region-wide damage? “
The difference this time is that it took out a Drag Queen show, and so it crossed a red line.
Ecoterrorists. They should stick to gluing themselves to art gallery floors. That’ll affect real change!
If you have allies at Twitter, yes…
My question has been: “Why does it take 5 days to restore power when Ukraine can restore power after 50 much larger hits in 5 hours?”
Even driving a truck cross-country only takes two days, and it’s more likely that a replacement was within a 24 hour drive, considering the population density of the areas. Did they go out for bids or something?
How hard would it be for a terrorist to come across the border?
A couple of drunks/nuts with guns...no plot.
So far as has been reported, these attacks were not done to power plants. They were electrical sub-stations and distribution points.
It is ReichWing Ultra-MAGA White Supremacist’s until they catch them. Then it is a conspiracy theory and only ReichWing Ultra-MAGA White Supremacist’s believe it happened.
#4 to falsely accuse the opposition
Environmental nutcases
Iran
Russia/China (take your pick)
Narcos
Fear not Biden’s crew have vetted every illegal he let in snickers heard from bushes by the ones that got away unchecked.
Now that he’s let an Russian arms dealer go free what could go wrong.
“If power goes out in your neck of the woods for an extended period of time during the months ahead, what will you do?”
If I lived in the woods, I’d burn wood.
4... My theory.... The terrorist wing of the democrat party, BLM Antifa, are protected and celebrated. They will obey the Obama standing orders and destroy. The FBI knows it, if not outright directing it, in order to confirm the DHS warnings about “far right white supremacist domestic terrorism” to demonize the political enemies of the democrat party. This is the politics of the “By Any Means Necessary” wing of the democrat party. By the time election season starts I have no doubt there will be a declaration that MAGA is declared a terrorist organization and as ruthlessly prosecuted as ISIS and Al Quaida. They can’t just outright kill us, yet, so the next best thing is what they are doing to the January 6th protesters. Lock us up without a trial to send a message to anyone who dare challenge the democrats. While the GOP enjoys their comfortable status as losers who still get the perks of power. Paranoid? Yes. Possible? As Merrick admitted this is the biggest priority of the FBI. Nothing else matters except destroying their political enemies.
And, after basically refusing to help reign in the corrupt Federal government, you want OUR help? Really?
Ideology: They are anti power delivery. That leaves mostly green groups. IE Left Wing Nuts
Avoiding detection: That means they are lefties. The FBI, IRS, DOJ CIA, Homeland security, have already infiltrated, are spying, and censoring any conservatives. This should be obvious from the past decade. However, Antifa, BLM, Communist groups, people who attack pro life offices, foreign terrorists, and crazies who threaten to use bombs, they go undetected.....
Money would be on the Watermelons (green on the outside and red -communists- on the inside).
The goal is to create enough fear and chaos across society that the sheep willingly surrender whatever freedom they have remaining, for assurances of safety and security.
Whatever is promised to the People, the cost will always be (what’s left of) our freedom.