The Underlying National Security Threat To Electrifying Everything
The American people are asleep at the wheel allowing our corrupt politicians to set our country up for disaster that any sensible person can see coming a mile away . . .
By Norman Leahy
February 28, 2023
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The push to electrify everything in our lives in the name of lower emissions has always seemed a bit optimistic, given the nation’s rickety and increasingly dodgy electric grid.
But there’s another, more troubling, menace to the grid that exceeds its mechanical shortcomings. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, vandalism aimed at transformers, substations and power lines is on the rise across the country.
And these aren’t your garden variety vandals out to make a mess. There seems to be an intention to destroy infrastructure behind a growing number of these attacks:
Brian Harrell, former assistant secretary for infrastructure protection at the Department of Homeland Security, said there has lately been a notable increase in conversations among extremists about targeting critical infrastructure.
“These groups are talking to each other, and they’re learning from each other,” he said. “It gets a lot of people’s attention when you start turning off the lights, and I think that’s what they’re craving.”
Kooks, cranks, would-be terrorists…they really don’t care about electric vehicles or appliances. They are interested in causing maximum disruption and harm.
The electric grid just happens to be one way for them to do it. A Brookings Institution report on domestic terrorism notes that a North Carolina incident in which two transformers were attacked and power was disrupted for more than 40,000 people gave:
…important lessons about the persistence of domestic terrorism, the vulnerability of U.S. infrastructure to attacks, and the need for imaginative counterterror efforts against a diversifying threat that includes new perpetrators and targets.
The same report also notes that some groups intent on spreading harm have actively “encouraged attacks against the energy infrastructure sector as being ‘sitting ducks, worthy prey’ and ‘largely unprotected and often in remote locations.’”
Since 9/11, governments and law enforcement have understood that foreign terrorists were keen on inflicting damage on critical infrastructure – everything from refineries to dams to the electric grid. It very much looks like domestic terror groups are reading from the same script, using similar tactics.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.
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Norman Leahy has written about national and Virginia politics for more than 30 years with outlets ranging from The Washington Post to BearingDrift.com. A consulting writer, editor, recovering think tank executive and campaign operative, Norman lives in Virginia.
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