You've been looking in the wrong direction, the dangers are coming from the right.

So much wrong, such a short post. Did the Nazis ever actually go away? No. What side are they on? The right. But, do blame those that fight against them for bringing that back. Fine Nazi logic you're using, *small handclap*. The Nazis never went away, the right's always been with them.

Oh, and welcome to Boards, new poster (uhuh). Working around a threadban?

Neo Nazis continue to attack power grid, FBI warns

Ooh that's good, spread that sense of plausible deniability, it will make them bolder and easier to connect together.

For a month, FBI agents listened in as two members of a white supremacist group discussed their sinister plans: a plot to use a pro-gun rights rally in Richmond, Virginia, to engage in mass murder and attacks on critical infrastructure, which they believed would mark the start of a racial civil war.

PRESS RELEASE

Two charged with attacks on four Pierce County power substations

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

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For Immediate Release

U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Washington

Attacks over the Christmas holiday caused $3 million in damage and cut power to thousands

Tacoma – Two Puyallup, Washington, men will appear in U.S. District Court in Tacoma today charged with conspiracy to damage energy facilities and possession of an unregistered firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Matthew Greenwood, 32, and Jeremy Crahan, 40, were arrested Saturday, December 31, 2022, following a fast-moving investigation by the FBI. Prosecutors will ask that both men remain detained at the Federal Detention Center at SeaTac pending future hearings.

“I commend the work by the FBI to quickly identify these suspects and disrupt any future attacks on the east Pierce County power grid,” said U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. “We have seen attacks such as these increase in Western Washington and throughout the country and must treat each incident seriously. The outages on Christmas left thousands in the dark and cold and put some who need power for medical devices at extreme risk.”

“I am so thankful for how quickly and diligently our investigators and partners worked to bring this to a resolution,” said Richard A. Collodi, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Seattle field office. “This case took many of them away from their families during the holidays but through their efforts, we have two men in custody we believe to be responsible for all four power station attacks. This demonstrates the commitment by all levels of law enforcement to protect our infrastructure and hold those accountable who put our community in danger.”

According to the criminal complaint filed with the court late Saturday, December 31, 2022, and unsealed today, the two men were identified as possible suspects through the analysis of cell phone records. At one of the substations, Tacoma Power captured images of one suspect and the image of a pick-up truck that appeared to be connected with the attack. A similar pick-up truck was connected to the defendants. When law enforcement served a search warrant on the home of the suspects, they recovered distinctive clothing pictured in the surveillance photos. Agents also seized two short-barreled firearms that had not been registered as required by law. One of the firearms was equipped with a make-shift silencer. 

The four substations that were targeted were the Graham and Elk Plain substations operated by Tacoma Power and the Kapowsin and Hemlock substations operated by Puget Sound Energy. The damage to the Tacoma Power substations alone is estimated to be at least $3 million.

Conspiracy to attack energy facilities is punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Possession of an unregistered firearm is punishable by up to ten years in prison.

The charges contained in the criminal complaint are only allegations. A person is presumed innocent unless and until he or she is proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

The FBI is investigating the case with assistance from the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF), Tacoma Police Department, the Washington State Department of Corrections and the Federal Protective Service.

Assistant United States Attorneys Will Dreher, Stephen Hobbs, and Todd Greenberg all worked around the clock over the last week to obtain search warrants and arrest warrants to assist the FBI investigation.

greenwood_and_crahan_complaint.pdf

Contact

Press contact for the U.S. Attorney’s Office is Communications Director Emily Langlie at (206) 553-4110 or Emily.Langlie@usdoj.gov.

Updated January 3, 2023

But just petty burglary right lads. At best, we've got copycats who will reproduce earlier terror attacks on the grid which were, provably politically motivated.

But you go on and continue to believe these 2 conspired 4 attacks on substations to rob 1 cash register twice.

You have to join the EU and you can leave (as the UK did). Empires conquered other countries and there was usually a lot of bloodshed involved if you wanted/managed to leave. People tend to be in favour of democratically participating in a larger entity as opposed to being submitted to its rule.

Any rhetoric comparing the EU to an empire on that point is grossly misinformed.

None of the issies you're outlining are exclusively right wing and never have been.

This argument has been going on here on and off for ages now.

Far left and far right regimes tend to do very similar things and observing a far left regimes actions and describing them as far right demonstrates a lack of understanding that should preclude you from participating in any serious discussion of the topic.

Extremism is the enemy, left or right wing extremism result in largely the same outcomes and that has been evident throughout history.

The real issue on this thread is people entrenched in their views wanting to blame the other side for all the ills in the world and that's just pathetic.

This is a longer discussion, but it has nothing to do with any ideological alignment. Short version is that the only reason russians support them is because they are divisive, this is a subversive tactic russia employed to weaken the west since forever. They seek to create polarization and division, not to further a particular ideology, because any ideology will do.

KGB defector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Bezmenov reveals some of this, of course, to the extent you can trust a KGB defector. Interesting watch, if you like recent history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErKTVdETpw