Neo-Nazi group leader sentenced to 20 years in prison for planning an attack on Maryland’s power grid
Neo-Nazi group leader sentenced to 20 years in prison for planned Maryland power grid attack
This is one of those weird obsessions I never understood. They think if the power goes out it will trigger a race war. Like normal people will think: "Oh my God... The lights are out.... Finally I can kill black people without anyone seeing!" Like they believe that everyone secretly is as racist as them and just waiting for the opportunity to kill.
It's part of this Hollywood apocalypse trope where if there's a disaster everyone turns on each other. In reality we see the opposite happen. Communities struck by disasters come together, not apart.
It is much worse on Sundown Towns, but yes, this keeps happening since colonists arrived.
It still happens when a drag performance goes public too.
These people are really dumb. Well, not just for the racism stuff.
There is this pervasive belief among far right extremists that they can disrupt society by shooting at transfer stations. They think it will cause a cascade power outage and then people will just start rioting. They hope it will trigger the big race war they are hoping for.
The thing is, sometimes they succeed, and sometimes it does cause a wide power disruption. No one riots. They just go home and play board games by candlelight, and smart people fix the damage.
Most of the time they get caught before trying anything.
Dumb.
A lot of it is because the only book they all have ever read is the turner diaries. In the book a neonazi group does some terrorism and this magically leads to white people winning a race war.
It's terrible writing written to appeal to terrible people.
Yeah I guess that's consistent with their lack of empathy. They don't understand other people. That probably is a requirement for being a racist shithead
How long before Trump gives him a pardon?
always surprised we don't see more grid attacks. Most of that stuff just has a lock on it and not much else. Pair of bolt cutters and a few molotovs and youve taken down a grid for thousands.
There are grid attacks all the time, though many aren't effective because intelligence is apparently not a marker of the "master race." It's in their handbook, "Siege," a collection of ramblings by a neo nazi too shitty for "mainstream" neo Nazis. This is also why there has been an increase in "lone wolf" attacks over the last 10-15 years due to a republication and digital dissemination. Ultimately, they're accelerationists, not too dissimilar to Manson, who believe they can start a race war (or at least get away with murdering POC) by turning the lights out.
There are grid attacks all the time. Virtually everyday! Usually it's by animals .
So there are consequences for being a Nazi in the States. Somewhat uplifting.
Only when they plan to attack property.
Property lives matter here in the US, apparently.
Yea they get to be "president."
I’m surprised they even prosecuted a fascist at this point, tbh
Great. Now go after the orange queen bee.
Another Trump pardon incoming
You mean it wasn't drag queens?
Pardon coming soon
Oh no how unfortunate.
Sorry, but this won't work on a state that did this to Native Americans.
They need to show a full force what it means to disrupt peoples lives. I hope Floridians learn what it means to take someone's else power infrastructure.
Lol futurecrime
I too am against a surveillance state and thoughtcrime punishment but I am conflicted in this instance. Here's why they were watching him: "Russell apparently wasn’t on law enforcement’s radar until police responded to a 2017 double homicide at a Tampa apartment building and found him outside crying, dressed in military fatigues. One of his roommates had killed the other two, officials said.
Police concluded Russell had nothing to do with the deadly shootings. But while detectives investigated, they discovered a stash of highly explosive materials and a cache of neo-Nazi signs, posters, books and flags. Russell was in the Florida National Guard at the time and had attended the University of South Florida.
Investigators said Russell co-founded the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, which is German for “atomic weapon.” They found flyers in his possession that said, “Don’t prepare for exams, prepare for a race war.” Russell also kept a framed photo of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in his room and read books like “Mein Kampf” and “The Turner Diaries,” both reading staples of white supremacist extremists.
Devon Arthurs, who later pleaded guilty to killing his roommates, told detectives he shot them for teasing him about his recent conversion to Islam. He also said it was to thwart a terrorist attack by Atomwaffen and claimed Russell had materials in the house “to kill civilians and target locations like power lines, nuclear reactors, and synagogues,” prosecutors said." Article Link
A terrorist did terrorist things and got terrorist consequences? Nice. I believe that we still have Guantanamo Bay ... or even one of those new El Salvadorian concentration camps. Let's send him there. It'll go great.
Trump pardon incoming.
Maybe he'll even knock out Maryland's power grid for them as well.
My first thought. What a time to be alive.
Only if they're federal charges. The president can't pardon state charges.