Summary
Brandon Russell, leader of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, was convicted of conspiring to attack Maryland’s power grid in a terrorist plot.
Prosecutors say Russell recruited Sara Beth Clendaniel to shoot at multiple Baltimore-area substations, aiming to cause mass blackouts and societal disruption.
Clendaniel, who took a plea deal, received 18 years in prison. Russell previously served five years for possessing explosives.
Officials estimate the planned attack would have caused $75 million in damages and widespread outages. He faces up to 20 years in federal prison.
The dumbest part is that it might have caused a temporary regional outage, but nothing more. One substation going out isn’t going to start a race war.
Among other things, i do feel like this is THE DUMBEST idea in that book (i cant recall the name atm). How does making the lights go out start a massive race war? Like have these people ever had their power go out for a few hours?
Right? Smarter would be to open a pizza restaurant in a mostly black neighborhood but only put pictures of Italian celebs on the Wall of Fame.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_blackout_of_1977
But race war is a reach. The shooter years ago in Buffalo Mall (?) thought the same.