3 men plead guilty in white supremacist terror plot to disrupt power grid, trigger race war

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The three plotted to shoot at power substations and planned to kill themselves with fentanyl "suicide necklaces" if they were thwarted by authorities, the Justice Department says.

Hhaahaha another bullshit entrapment case it sounds like. FBI creates 'terror'.

[–]ShalomEveryone[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There was no entrapment. These white supremacists took it upon themselves to commit crimes. They were not goaded by the feds into committing any crimes.

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You being here to present and mansplain this story just makes it so much more credible. I just unsubscribed from Alex Jones. Shaloms.

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  • Federal prosecutors in Ohio said the three planned to disrupt the electricity grid in order to sow civil unrest and economic uncertainty in furtherance of their white supremacist cohort. They hoped to cause unrest and trigger a race war, but the plot never really got past the planning stage, prosecutors said.

  • Christopher Brenner Cook, 20, of Columbus, Ohio; Jonathan Allen Frost, 24, of West Lafayette, Indiana, and of Katy, Texas; and Jackson Matthew Sawall, 22, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty after initially claiming innocence.

  • “These defendants conspired to use violence to sow hate, create chaos, and endanger the safety of the American people,” U.S. Attorney Kenneth L. Parker for the Southern District of Ohio said in a statement. “As this case shows, federal and state law enforcement agencies are dedicated to working together to protect this country against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

  • Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, said targeting power plants and water supplies is a common aspiration among white supremacists.

  • Frost and Cook met in an online chat group in fall 2019, and Sawall joined the trio by the end of the year, prosecutors said. Frost had the idea of attacking the power grid, and the three set out to recruit possible participants, they said.

  • The trio decided to disable electricity substations in major regions of the nation essentially by shooting at them

  • "They had conversations about how the possibility of the power being out for many months could cause war, even a race war, and induce the next Great Depression," according to the Justice Department statement.

I'm glad to see the feds are doing their job and are taking threats to America's safety off the streets. It appears white supremacists who actually have the balls to do something as opposed to just talk tough online behind a computer and engage in circle-jerks about an ethnostate have half-baked plans that don't come to fruition.

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[–]chadwickofwv 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Why is it that you Democrats are involved in terrorism so often?