Seems like some group is making another test of their abilities. Perhaps gathering data on government response and repair times.
Makes me wonder if a coordinated multi-location strike is coming sometime in the future. Scary stuff.
Makes me wonder if a coordinated multi-location strike is coming sometime in the future. Scary stuff.
It's not that difficult to know which bits to target for the greatest fallover effect.
Internally, the military had some reporting on “Significant Activities,” major protests and bombings and infrastructure attacks and such.
I’ve always wondered is there anything open-source of that nature - tracking “activities” like these?
though there is no confirmation that they are behind it, only that they are glad that it happened.
Also, we shouldn't mince words here, this is a terrorist attack on civilian infrastructure for political ends. If this had been done by islamists, we'd call it as such. Instead we play the "gosh well she technically didn't say she did it" and "gosh how can we tell what the motivations might be" games... like, we have a group openly claiming responsibility for the attack here and people want to play the "how can we really know anything?" crap. C'mon.
Hopefully they will be able to find the people behind this attack though. And if it turns out to be the person above I hope they will be stuck down with both terror and hate crime.
That being said, I also wouldn't give too much faith to the police. Police as an institution have been historically LGBTQ-unfriendly, and have perpetrated anti-LGBTQ violence on an institutional level in the past.
For many people, myself included, who grew up in the country, the power going out is not a big deal, and was a pretty regular occurrence. I say this not to downplay it, but because it's easy to see how someone could see the power go out while something they didn't approve of was happening, and feel happy about it, without really considering how big of a deal the outage is for people in the city.
I could be wrong of course, but the most single explanation is that this person just saw it as karma, not that they somehow knew something
I guess I'd cross off "detective" as fall back career
Most crimes that make the news have a few dozen nutjobs calling in claiming responsibility. People will go to great lengths to get attention. And we're already talking about social media posts here...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/emily-rainey-fort-bragg-captain...
After reading that article, I do think they qualify for the epithet "nutter".
This doesn't mean she had any foreknowledge of the recent events, of course, but her comment doesn't read as an off-the-cuff casual reaction either. She's surely aware of the impression it would create thanks to her training and real-world experience with political activism.
I’ll wait for some actual investigation before jumping to conclusions.
Well...yes. Of course it is.
If for no other reason than there are a lot of angry people who would love to spread misery around and they've now been given an idea of how to do it and places like 8chan and kiwifarms provides the encouragement and planning infrastructure.
So yes, I'd be extremely surprised if this kind of destruction doesn't escalate and become much more wide spread. What's gonna stop it?