How the US power grid is a target for far-right groups

[DBoon]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64832129

Far-right groups are increasingly talking about attacking the US power grid to cause chaos and advance their cause, terrorism experts say.

The warnings come as the founder of a neo-Nazi group and a woman he met in prison are scheduled to appear at a plea hearing on Friday.

They are charged with plotting to attack power installations around Baltimore.
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Attacks against infrastructure are a long-standing obsession of far-right and white nationalist groups, and they are increasingly being discussed in extremist spaces online.

Veryan Khan, president and CEO of the Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium (Trac) says attacks are "not a matter of if, it's when".

[Lovie777]

1. You mean the white nationalist/supremacist groups .....................

that GQP won't acknowledge as terrorists?

[louis-t]

2. They should get the maximum penalty.

And if the judges can exceed the penalty, they should. The threat of 10 years in prison might put a stop to this.

[Hortensis]

3. Lots of violent, angry goons out there of various types.

Ran across five DVE threat categories that the federal government uses:

* racially or ethnically (and religiously) motivated -- RMVE

anti-government or anti-authority violent extremism, which includes
* MVE (militias),
* AVE (anarchists), and
* SCVE (sovereign citizen violent extremism)

* “all other domestic terrorism threats” that do not fit into the other DVE threat categories, including violent extremists driven by political, personal, or conspiracy theory–related grievances, as well as involuntary celibate violent extremists (IVEs); abortion-related violent extremism; and animal rights or environmental violent extremism.

Involuntary celibate violent extremists should be glad to get their own acronym, if not their own category.

The RMVE have killed the most people so far, but the MVE are of greatest concern for big violence to anti-terrorism experts.