Many news headlines about the power plant plot have tiptoed around what ABC News says directly:

[marmar]

OP's note: Link updated

Suspected white supremacists arrested in plot to attack power stations, destroy Baltimore: Prosecutors
Prosecutors said the suspects were motivated by racist extremist ideology.

ByAlexander Mallin, Bill Hutchinson, and Luke Barr
February 6, 2023, 2:54 PM


A Florida man and a Maryland woman have been arrested on federal charges of plotting to attack multiple energy substation with the goal of destroying Baltimore, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday.

The suspects, Sarah Clendaniel of Catonsville, Maryland, and Brandon Russell of Orlando, Florida, were allegedly fueled by a racist extremist ideology as they "conspired to inflict maximum harm" on the power grid with the aim to "completely destroy" Baltimore, U.S. Attorney Erek Barron and a top FBI official said at a Monday morning press conference.

Russell is quoted in court documents saying that attacking power transformers is "the greatest thing somebody can do." He is accused of providing instructions and location information for the substations he and Clendaniel allegedly sought to target as part of their plot, federal prosecutors said.

Clendaniel allegedly told an FBI confidential source she was "determined" to carry out the attacks aimed at Baltimore's infrastructure, saying, "It would lay this city to waste."

"Their actions threatened the electricity and heat of our homes, hospitals and businesses," said Thomas Sobocinski, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Baltimore field office. "The FBI believes this was a real threat." .............(more)

https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspects-arrested-plot-attack-power-stations-destroy-baltimore/story?id=96923380

[Johnny2X2X]

1. MAGA is a terrorist organization

This would have been catastrophic and caused great harm, these people need to be rooted out and put away.

[jimfields33]

3. At least 5 years in prison.

Although they will probably plea.

[okaawhatever]

13. She has a terminal illness w/only a couple months to live. nt

[jimfields33]

15. Oh. So she wants to go out like this?

Very sad.

[DENVERPOPS]

18. Anyone????????

Does anyone remember the "Jack Ruby" JFK assassination thing????????????????????

[jimfields33]

20. No. I thought we didn't know who killed JFK.

[DENVERPOPS]

28. My mind is getting old, but

Wasn't it Jack Ruby who assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald, (the accused JFK assassin) before he could be questioned?????
And wasn't Jack Ruby terminally ill????????

I will have to do a search and refresh my ancient memory..........

[DENVERPOPS]

32. Here you go...................

Basically, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for assassinating JFK, before he could be questioned, conveniently Jack Ruby assassinated him. He had a terminal disease..........all somewhat coincidental..............LOL

[jimfields33]

35. Thank you for providing that

DU is such a learning environment. I love it and all of you!

[calimary]

29. A life sentence would be better in the interest of public safety.

[Rebl2]

2. Finally

a network says it out loud with no hesitation. Glad they were arrested before they could attack.

[Renew Deal]

4. I still don't understand how knocking out power would "destroy Baltimore."

It would be disruptive but I don't see how the city would be destroyed.

[DENVERPOPS]

19. LOLOL Look no further

than the last two years of ABBOTT and Texas......................

[Captain Zero]

21. It's a racist meme to destroy the evil cities

Someone should make a movie where a large city is destroyed and the city folk go and burn the county the racists came from like Sherman marching to the sea.

[wnylib]

27. Definitely racist. Baltimore has

a majority Black population. Not a randomly chosen city for this planned domestic terrorism attack.

[Tommy Carcetti]

34. They assumed that any power outages would cause mass riots and violence in Baltimore.

Never mind that even during the Freddie Gray incident, after the first day, protests were overwhelmingly peaceful, and there were no deaths directly attributed to any acts of unrest.

It was just a way for them to knock Baltimore and its majority black population. I doubt it would have had their desired impact.

[MagickMuffin]

5. Link isn't working

Ah well thanks for the snips!

[riversedge]

8. This one works...........

I had to cut and paste the title in OP to get it.............


https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspects-arrested-plot-attack-power-stations-destroy-baltimore/story?id=96923380

[MagickMuffin]

12. Thanks

From the article


Clendaniel made her appearance alongside her court-appointed attorney Kirsten Hopkins and agreed to the government’s request to remain in detention until trial.


I guess Sarah Clendaniels agreeing to remain in detention is a good thing. I’d say keep them locked up. However, you could let them have her cell phone, perhaps she’d contact some of her domestic terrorists and the FEDS could ensnare more of them!

[FakeNoose]

9. I think it became this video story on Good Morning America

(link) https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/video/suspected-white-supremacists-arrested-plot-attack-baltimore-power-96943509

Also this links to last night's story on ABC News:
(link) https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/fbi-arrests-2-suspects-alleged-plot-attack-baltimore-96936683

[MLAA]

6. Indict, arrest, convict, publicize and throw away the key.

The link didn’t work for me

[OneGrassRoot]

7. This Thom Hartmann piece that just came in email...

pulls it together and fleshes it out more:

https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-students-of-how-to-start-a-civil


They thought that by “completely destroying Baltimore” — shooting up five power substations to blackout the city — they’d so upset white people in America that Trump’s racist base would rise up, begin the Second Civil War, and start slaughtering Black people, Hispanics, and Jews.

Instead, Sarah Clendaniel, 27, and Brandon Russell, 34, a co-founder of the white supremacist neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, are in federal custody awaiting arraignment.

This is what then-Congressman Adam Kinzinger was worried about when he told Axios last year: “I don’t think that’s too far of a bridge to recognize. It’s going to be armed groups against armed groups, targeted assassination, and violence.”

There is an active movement within the United States trying to start a civil war. They’re armed and serious, having already shot up power stations nine times after their brothers-in-arms tried to kidnap and murder the Governor of Michigan and to hang the Vice President of the United States. They have already murdered numerous people across the countr

[wnylib]

30. Malcolm Nance's book, They Want to Kill Americans

outlines such terrorism attacks with the civil war motive. He even specifically mentions the Atomeaffen as one group to be watching out for.

I recommend reading Nance's book if you want to understand what is going on today on the fascist front in the US.

[lindysalsagal]

10. Gee, do you ever wonder if our crippled fbi is somehow dropping the ball on hate?

Because I do.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

24. It's the American white old boy media that is crippled, not the FBI. Crippled by truth, drugged

by the easy profit of lies and half truths disguised as trustworthy major corporate journalism.

The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth is mostly just for courtrooms, not media rooms.

[UTUSN]

11. They should have called Greg ABBUTT - their expert in wrecked grids!

[bahboo]

16. so um...why Baltimore...

[Hekate]

25. Why Seattle. This isn't the Nazis first try.

[wnylib]

31. Because they are White supremacists. Baltimore is 62% Black.

[cbabe]

17. FBI infiltrated BLM. Stirs up violence. The new cointelpro.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017803298

COINTELPRO 2.0: How the FBI Infiltrated BLM Protests After Police Murder of George Floyd

A new podcast out today called “Alphabet Boys” documents how the FBI disrupted racial justice organizing after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020, including paying an informant at least $20,000 to infiltrate and spy on activist groups in Denver, Colorado. The informant also encouraged activists to purchase guns and commit violence, echoing the FBI’s use of the COINTELPRO program to sabotage left-wing activist groups in the 1960s. For more, we’re joined by three guests: journalist and creator of the “Alphabet Boys” podcast Trevor Aaronson, Denver-based activist Zebbodios Hall, who was one of many activists targeted by the FBI’s infiltration, and former FBI special agent and whistleblower Mike German, who left the agency after reporting misconduct and mismanagement in its counterterrorism efforts.

[malaise]

22. And not a word from a single ReTHUG

These are their people

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. Scale of delusion that believes simple destruction will trigger a "race war" is stupefying. . . . nt

[ancianita]

26. I wonder why there's no mention of any confiscation of weapons. It's just about conspiring talk.

This report seems pretty sketchy on details, like evidence beyond conspiracy talk, or where they were arrested, or what they'll be charged with and where, etc.

[Mr. Sparkle]

33. I have a funny feeling the house republicans are not going to investigate this

i don't know what it is , i can just feel it in my bones.

[DemocraticPatriot]

36. How does shutting down some power stations "completely destroy Baltimore" ??

Is that 'Q-Anon Science' ?

[Renew Deal]

37. lol

Sounds about right