Scattered, low-grade terrorism
Maybe them good ol’ boys heard their marching orders wrong. “We said attack the electoral system, not the electrical system, you idiots!” Whatever.
On the same day the (soon indicted?) leader of the Republican Party and its 2024 presidential frontrunner called for “termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” power went out for roughly 40,000 customers in Moore County, North Carolina east of Charlotte. The Moore County Sheriff’s Office cited “intentional vandalism” at several electrical substations serving almost two-thirds of the county.
The Pilot newspaper of Southern Pines (emphasis mine):
The Moore County Sheriff’s Office says is investigating incidents at multiple electric substations in Moore County that were shot up on Saturday night as a “criminal occurrence,” causing more than half the county’s electric customers to lose power.
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Workers from Duke Energy and authorities from the sheriff‘s office were at the substation off N.C. 211 near West Pine Middle School looking over the damage around midnight. Deputies were scanning the the area for bullet casing, and vehicles were going through the woods in search of more evidence at the scene.
In a text message to a reporter, Chief Mike Cameron of the Southern Pines Fire and Rescue Department confirmed that substations had been shot at. He said the agency is “preparing to be out of power for 24 hours.”
Heavy police presence was around several gun shops and Wal-Mart in Aberdeen around 10:30 p.m. after reports of looting. One woman was detained in front Wal-Mart and police were conducting a headcount of employees outside of the store.
There is no confirmation of looting. No motive is known and no suspects have been apprehended.
Even so, this thread popped up on the Bird site Saturday evening suggesting the substation attacks were connected to a planned drag show at the Sunrise Theater in the golf resort town of Southern Pines.
A CBS report soon after the Jan. 6 insurrection describes Emily Rainey as an Army psychological operations officer. “Rainey had resigned her commission after receiving a career-ending letter of reprimand for her actions at an earlier protest in the Fort Bragg area.” Rainey led 100 members of Moore County Citizens for Freedom to the Jan. 6, 2021 rally on the Mall.
Rainey’s Facebook post Saturday night prompted a visit from sheriff’s deputies:
With full awareness that Rainey was an Army psychological operations officer trained in using “information and misinformation to shape the emotions, decision-making and actions of American adversaries,” readers should take this next string with a full measure of salt. Again, no suspects have been identified and no motive for the substation attacks is established.
The right-wing Daily Haymaker blog of Pinehurst, N.C. a week earlier railed against the Sunrise Theater bringing the show from the “nation’s urban hellholes” to “force it on church-going, conservative suburban and rural community residents.” Perhaps some good ol’ boys took the hint.
Attacks like these for the near future are more likely to characterize any Civil War 2.0 than stand-up gun battles. Especially since in small-town America those gun battles would be against law enforcement officers that CSA 2.0 “troops” likely know personally.
Let the false flag narratives about Antifa begin. Watch for copycats.