Feds Foil Attack on Baltimore's Power Grid

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

A pair of white, gun-toting, hillbilly neo-Nazis had their plans to blow up the Baltimore power grid thwarted earlier yesterday by federal authorities.  The failed act of terrorism is being described in the national press as "the latest attempt by far-right extremists to destroy energy facilities across the US.”  (Sanjana Karanth, Huffpost)
 
I have written about several of these attacks over the past couple of months, some of which were successful when the terrorists sprayed remote power substations with automatic gunfire.  Now, with a planned attack on electric service to a major US city, the criminals seem to have upped their game.
 
The FBI arrested the pair, a 34-year-old woman from Maryland and a 27-year-old man from Florida, on Monday, February 6, 2023, and charged them with conspiracy to damage energy facilities.  According to a press release from the FBI, the two planned to “inflict maximum harm” on the power grid with the ultimate aim of destroying the city of Baltimore.
 
There seems to be a common belief among this new breed of terrorists, the ones focused on sabotaging the nation’s power supply, that if they can precipitate a major power outage, angry citizens will rush into the streets and begin bringing down the government – a lame movie plot, at best.
 
The female terrorist gave the plan away when she approached an FBI informant for help in purchasing a gun.   She told the informant that she had a terminal kidney condition which would take her life within a few months. She reportedly also said that she would sacrifice “everything” for “my people” to just have a chance for “our cause” to succeed.
 
An assistant US Attorney General described the couple’s cause as “racially-motivated hatred.”
 
The male member of the duo expressed a belief that a successful attack on a few substations would cause a cascading failure for most of the nation’s power grid.  He also said that “putting holes in transformers is the greatest thing somebody can do.”
 
Actually, Bubba, getting an education is the greatest thing somebody can do.  An educated person could have put all of those crackpot ideas into a movie script and then sold it to Jean Claude Van Damme or Sly Stallone.  In fact, some educated person probably will put your ideas into a movie, and then you can watch it on the small screen in the dayroom of the federal prison that will be your home for many, many years to come.
 
I am anxious to see how that racially-motivated hatred works out for you in there.