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Yeah, it was power substations. Probably this one? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack

by dgacmu 3y ago

Yeah, it was power substations. Probably this one? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack And there was a still unsolved one in North Carolina two years ago: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_County_substation_attack https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_County_substation_atta... Which killed at least one person. There were also a few others in the SeaTac area around the same time: https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/two-charged-attacks-four-pierce-county-power-substations https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/two-charged-attacks-fou... But they caught those, and the suspects said they had planned to use the power outage to commit a burglary.

whartung 3y ago
Yea, Metcalf. My understanding (if it’s the right one) was the NC attack struck a pair of stations that were particularly important to the network. That the loss of those two stations had a much higher impact in contrast to the loss of two arbitrary stations. Those were selected for a reason. I think this attack was used as an argument against having things like details of the electric grid being public knowledge.
paulmd 3y ago
There’s been a string of these attacks for a decade now. One of the various neonazi/Patriot movements (Idaho flavor iirc) espouses infrastructure attacks and disruption as being the kickoff for their RaHoWa, and they keep trying to pop off every couple years. There hasn’t been a ton of coverage about it because of a desire to avoid copycats and avoid publicizing or popularizing the ideology in general. But like, occupying that nature preserve didn’t come out of nowhere, just there’s not a lot of benefit for centrists/sympathizers in pushing this particular culture war, with how many Americans are touchy about guns etc. https://news.yahoo.com/unsealed-warrant-provides-closer-look-210616746.html?guccounter=1 https://news.yahoo.com/unsealed-warrant-provides-closer-look... https://myfox8.com/news/investigations/power-grid-attack/neo-nazi-power-substation-plots/?ipid=promo-link-block1 https://myfox8.com/news/investigations/power-grid-attack/neo... (afaik the Facebook lady idea has been essentially discarded, she seems to be a moron but not involved. And then there’s this other guy with ties to a patriot group who supposedly started and then aborted plans for a similar attack… or perhaps not aborted after all?) (also, the patriot/militia movement is heavily involved with RNC and Russian funding in general… Maria Butina was attached to the NRA after all etc. The leader of one of these groups (literally “The Base”) has a Russian wife and lived in Russia etc. Generally speaking these groups are one of the tools Russia uses to inflame local tensions - whatever is most disruptive etc.) https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/jan/23/report-leader-of-neo-nazi-terrorist-group-owns-lan/ https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/jan/23/report-leader-...

by dgacmu 3y ago

whartung 3y ago

Yea, Metcalf. My understanding (if it’s the right one) was the NC attack struck a pair of stations that were particularly important to the network. That the loss of those two stations had a much higher impact in contrast to the loss of two arbitrary stations. Those were selected for a reason. I think this attack was used as an argument against having things like details of the electric grid being public knowledge.

paulmd 3y ago

There’s been a string of these attacks for a decade now. One of the various neonazi/Patriot movements (Idaho flavor iirc) espouses infrastructure attacks and disruption as being the kickoff for their RaHoWa, and they keep trying to pop off every couple years. There hasn’t been a ton of coverage about it because of a desire to avoid copycats and avoid publicizing or popularizing the ideology in general. But like, occupying that nature preserve didn’t come out of nowhere, just there’s not a lot of benefit for centrists/sympathizers in pushing this particular culture war, with how many Americans are touchy about guns etc. https://news.yahoo.com/unsealed-warrant-provides-closer-look-210616746.html?guccounter=1 https://news.yahoo.com/unsealed-warrant-provides-closer-look... https://myfox8.com/news/investigations/power-grid-attack/neo-nazi-power-substation-plots/?ipid=promo-link-block1 https://myfox8.com/news/investigations/power-grid-attack/neo... (afaik the Facebook lady idea has been essentially discarded, she seems to be a moron but not involved. And then there’s this other guy with ties to a patriot group who supposedly started and then aborted plans for a similar attack… or perhaps not aborted after all?) (also, the patriot/militia movement is heavily involved with RNC and Russian funding in general… Maria Butina was attached to the NRA after all etc. The leader of one of these groups (literally “The Base”) has a Russian wife and lived in Russia etc. Generally speaking these groups are one of the tools Russia uses to inflame local tensions - whatever is most disruptive etc.) https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/jan/23/report-leader-of-neo-nazi-terrorist-group-owns-lan/ https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/jan/23/report-leader-...