Posted on 11/05/2024 8:13:58 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A man has been charged after allegedly trying to blow up a Tennessee power substation as part of a white supremacist plot to upend American society, another potential instance of extremism targeting critical infrastructure.
Skyler Philippi, 24, spent months plotting an attack on the Nashville area, where he hoped to further his “accelerationist” goals of bringing about an all-white culture, according to charging documents. While communicating with confidential sources and undercover FBI agents, Philippi said that he wanted to “attack high economic, high tax, political zones” and that it was “time to do something big.”
Philippi, of Columbia, Tennessee, was arrested Saturday and charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to destroy an energy facility. He was in FBI custody in Nashville on Tuesday, and his attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The FBI was alerted to Philippi earlier this year after he allegedly threatened a mass shooting, according to court documents. In July, Philippi told an undercover law enforcement source that he wanted to attack large power substations to “shock the system” and cause other substations to malfunction.
According to an FBI investigation, Philippi researched previous plots and attacks on power substations and planned to fly an explosives-laden drone into the substation. In 2022, there were numerous costly attacks on power grids across the country, including at two substations in North Carolina, where more than 45,000 people were without power for four days. Later that year, two men attacked four substations, leaving more than 15,000 people without power and causing $3 million in damage. Authorities at the time said the critical infrastructure was vulnerable to such attacks because it’s accessible and fragile.
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It almost sounds as if he was put up to it by the FIB, but they would never do anything like that!
𝘐𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘧 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘐𝘉, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵!
I wouldn’t be surprised. I remember reading one or two posts here in FR in January of 2021. One was involving the FBI helping a teen who was part of a white supremacist group “The Iron Youth” illegally purchase a machine gun. Another story involved the FBI befriending an antisemite who regularly posted in forums, and helping him procure materials to make pipe bombs. Then there’s always the Whitmer kidnapping plot.
...and Trump assassination attempt.
Class. Raise your hands if you trust the FBI about anything?
No one?
And how many others beside Phillipi were in his gang of white supremacists and were also charged, Oh, what just undercover agents were the co-conspirators? How many federal agents does it take to make a fringe loser into a movement. Just one director green lighting the funds evidently. Probably could have installed ten redundant substations for the cost of the investigation.
Yeah, sure, we believe you Fae Wray! Thanks from saving us from this dangerous KKKracker.
The FBI is great at finding some tard and goating him along.
The sources are incentivized to keep this going...
Rabid squirrels running amok and all they can do is frame huwite retards.
Sounds like the Feds are hard at work.
This Philippi fellow didn’t happen to be wearing khaki pants and a blue polo shirt, did he?
Different sources, different titles, different articles, Poindexter.
But thanks for playing.
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