The founder of a Florida-based neo-Nazi group has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for conspiring with his girlfriend to plan an attack on Maryland’s power grid in furtherance of their shared racist beliefs.
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.
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.
How long before Trump gives him a pardon?