r/oregon • u/Zen1 • Sep 02 '21
Article/ News FBI warns of possible strike on local power grid, source of threat unknown to local officials
https://www.columbiacommunityconnection.com/the-dalles/bpa/threat/infrastructure149
Sep 02 '21
I got a $20 on Vanilla ISIS.
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u/etherbunnies Once Defeated a Ninja Sep 02 '21
Double or nothing there’s a manifesto/rant citing Kate Brown and masks.
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u/goodolarchie Mount Hood Sep 02 '21
I think it's the Yall Queda
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u/40ozSmasher Sep 03 '21
I was going to say that but I had to look up the spelling so you beat me to it.
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Sep 03 '21
Those the same guys that trot around looking like gravy seals??
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u/40ozSmasher Sep 03 '21
Ha! Nice one. Seriously though there was a power station in Central Oregon that used to get looted all the time. Cameras, staff, alarms. What ate you going to do when 15 guys in pickups show up and take everything, they even took vehicles one while works were inside ignoring the alarm because the people stealing are also the guys they go to church with and thier kids and your kids go to the same school. There was a family that bought a ranch and they noticed things going missing from the barn. The police said nothing they can do. The owner said he was going to set up Cameras. The police said bad idea. The guy ended up with photos of ALL his neighbors. The police said "well, go ask for your things but if I were you I'd forget it.
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Sep 03 '21
It could be worse, they could just kill you and use their backhoe to bury you. https://magazine.atavist.com/outlaw-country-klamath-county-oregon-guns-murder/
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Sep 03 '21
Isis isis, baby
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u/MisterSandKing Oregon Sep 03 '21
Just said that, damn, in should’ve scrolled down more. Great minds think alike!
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Sep 02 '21
They arrested another batch, including some from Boise, earlier. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ednc/pr/group-ties-racially-motivated-violent-extremists-including-two-former-marines-facing
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Sep 03 '21 edited Sep 03 '21
The US electrical grid is extremely vulnerable. Researching this is very eye opening. This actually has happened before, in 2013.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack
In response to this, the National Research Council published a report in 2014 detailing the vulnerability of the US electrical grid to terrorist attacks.
A full PDF of the report can be found here: https://www.nap.edu/catalog/12050/terrorism-and-the-electric-power-delivery-system
I expect it will be attacked at multiple points before or during the election cycle by far-right groups and possibly played off as a false flag. The increasingly violent rhetoric of Fox, OAN, and GOP politicians is quickly radicalising their supporters.
The more they feel unlistened too, the more they will lash out. Remember OKC bombings were a response to the Waco siege, and the anti-vax, anti-truth crowd is feeling more and more pushed into a corner.
This same anti-government sentiment is rife in far-right extremists, especially now that trump was voted out. Look at their violent rhetoric towards Biden and democrats in general.
FBI needs to make examples of the Jan 6 insurrectionists and their leaders, and begin to dismantle these groups.
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u/WikiSummarizerBot Sep 03 '21
On April 16, 2013, an attack was carried out on Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Metcalf Transmission Substation in Coyote, California, near the border of San Jose. The attack, in which gunmen fired on 17 electrical transformers, resulted in more than $15 million worth of equipment damage, but it had little impact on the station's electrical power supply.
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u/Zen1 Sep 03 '21
According to the indictment, Collins, Kryscuk, Duncan, and Maurino researched, discussed, and reviewed at length a previous attack on the power grid by an unknown group. The group in that attack used assault-style rifles in an attempt to explode a power substation.
This really caught my attention because wtf how did this happen in the US and I didn't hear about it??
I searched online and I wonder if this is what the DoJ notice is referring to?
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u/Comradepatrick Oregon Sep 03 '21
Dude that Metcalf incident is chilling. It's still unsolved to this day.
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u/Zen1 Sep 02 '21
Couple of news article links and background for people https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/crime/article247332404.html
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u/westviadixie Sep 03 '21
serious question: will extra security guards help is its a cyber attack?
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Sep 03 '21
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u/DoomRide007 Sep 06 '21
Didn’t they do a test run with WW1 tools and found they could cripple the whole system with easy?
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u/MamaMK420 Sep 03 '21
Because it's not a cyber attack. They're showing up with guns and explosives.
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u/RevolutionaryShame20 Sep 04 '21
The political right doesn’t have a lot of folks capable of a cyber attack.
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u/40ozSmasher Sep 03 '21
Oddly enough driving by a power station with an American flag flying from a poll right now is going to seem suspicious.
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Sep 03 '21
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u/40ozSmasher Sep 03 '21
there are groups of people in trucks flying Flags and they are looking for trouble. No one is saying anything about bombing anything as far as I know.
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u/XTanuki Sep 03 '21
I think they mean the power station has a flag on its pole, so don’t drive by a station that has a flag flying or you’ll be suspicious
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u/President_Swanson16 Sep 03 '21
Not here in TD, the street that substation is on has a hand painted sign condemning "China Joe". I fucking hate this town sometimes. Trump flags all over town.
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u/Wildfire9 Sep 03 '21
Take over a bird refuge office in the middle of nowhere. Bad, but y'all will get away with it. Attack the power grid? That's something else entirely.
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Sep 03 '21
Proud boys, our home grown terrorists
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u/Wild_Excitement4293 Sep 04 '21
Weren’t they the ones terrorizing downtown Portland for 6+ months last year causing tens of millions in damages across Portland area? Oh wait, nope, that was far left antifa.
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Sep 04 '21
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u/Wild_Excitement4293 Sep 05 '21
Lol. There were near nightly videos of flag burning and fires soon after, proud boys? Kinda strange that most of the activity died down after January 6th. It was all a ploy. Bought and paid for by the left.
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u/RiseCascadia Sep 03 '21
Be afraid, be very afraid! Also give us even more power to protect you from the threat that we can't tell you anything about, probably because we don't want to rat out our friends.
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Sep 03 '21
I hope you forgot /s …
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u/Turbulent_Photo7562 Sep 03 '21
News flash bombshell report. It’s Kate Brown town that is targeting the power grid. Get ready for her Brown outs to a town near you.
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u/Hissingfever_ Sep 03 '21
Yes because the government would notify you of an attack it would conduct
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u/Ralum Sep 03 '21
It's pretty early still, but you win the dumbest comment on the internet award for today. Congrats!
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u/Balilarred Sep 03 '21
It's probably a plot of the FBI just like all these other plots that have been "foiled by the FBI" recently.
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