”It ain’t elves.”
Posted on 12/31/2022 5:13:41 AM PST by karpov
Rolling blackouts during the recent cold wave has raised concern about the reliability of our electricity grid, but the growing possibility of deliberate sabotage may be a bigger threat.
The first sign America’s electricity grid might have become a target occurred in 2013, when a marksman disabled an electricity substation south of San Jose with more than a hundred long-range shots reportedly from a .50-caliber rifle. This was no casual prank or random act of vandalism. It was clearly planned, and the damage required nearly a month to repair.
At the time the FBI downplayed the incident, saying publicly that it didn’t think it was terrorist-related.
The mystery deepened with a series of Christmas Day attacks this year on two electricity substations in Washington state that led to blackouts for thousands of customers. Local authorities thought the attack was perhaps part of a burglary — thieves sometimes target electric-utility facilities for their valuable copper and other materials with a high black-market value — but there was a telling detail in the news stories on the incident: The local utility had received prior warning of a possible attack from “federal law enforcement officials.”
Which federal law-enforcement officials might those be?
In January a Department of Homeland Security report concluded that “extremist groups” had developed “credible, specific plans” to attack the grid. The report didn’t single out any particular group or motivation, saying a spectrum of extreme ideologies could have embraced the cause. According to one estimate, there have been more than 100 attacks on the grid this year.
The FBI has a long history of monitoring and infiltrating extremist groups and understandably remains tight-lipped about which groups it has under active surveillance.
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Ya think?
If true, the FBI will prioritize this right behind cases involving terrorizing pro-life groups.
There’s a person named Forrest who starts forest fires?
I never spell it out. I consider it a culling mechanism. If you can’t spot sarcasm, you’re probably not that bright.
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“The report didn’t single out any particular group or motivation, saying a spectrum of extreme ideologies could have embraced the cause.”
A sure sign that it is a leftist group. If it was right-wing they’d be shouting it from the rooftops.
Funny the NY Post didn’t mention the December 3, 2022, shooting attack carried out on two electrical distribution substations located in Moore County, North Carolina. Damage from the attack left up to 40,000 residential and business customers without electrical power.
I guess it’s not news worthy because it wasn’t in the north or west coast.
But I'm guessing one way or another this is a Deep State operation.
YES.
Of course they did it.
Back in the ‘80-90’s here in CaCaLand there were a bunch of power towers destroyed by the green brigade. And, this was before the suspicions of high voltage doing harm.
Why?
Because otherwise hopeless losers could feel like they made a contribution. Think they had kids?
How would we know what terrorist group might be involved? With the US govt all in free policy at our border any global group could be the culprit.
No No No , the incident in Moore county, NC was attributed to anti-LGBT(querty) types trying to shut down a Drag Show in town./sarc
The rest of them are copycats.
LOL!
I thought .50 BMG was illegal in CA.
And those rounds are about $3 per round, today.
Maybe it was a .50 cal muzzleloader.
These are some good ol boys. Them Duke boys and simular shooting up them electric sub stations. File this under toxic masculinity, done southern style. Happy days!
Is that you Otto Couric?
”It ain’t elves.”
Must be! For some sub stations! Eons ago I worked in the forest fire crews out of Fairbanks, Alaska. The rumor was that the native indigenous injuns started the fires. By tossing one gallon plastic jugs of flaming gasoline out of airplanes. They lacked the IQ to pilot helicopters.
Started those forest fires so they could be hired onto the fire fighting crews. Federally funded of course! I saw my paycheck.
At what range? The 7.62 x39 is pretty anemic beyond 400 yards. The srticle says “long range.”
What “earmarks” are you seeing that tell you these are attacks on America by Russia?
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Maybe he thinks they were wearing maga hats
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Maybe he knows vindman.
Or
Adam shifty
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