There has been a rise in attacks against power stations and
the energy infrastructure in the United States.
Now, there are all sorts of theories as to who is behind these attacks.
Some are alleging that it's white supremacists and
Neo Nazis who are trying to spark a race war.
But honestly, I have yet to see evidence of that.
So let's put that fearmongering aside for a minute and focus on the fact that no,
the energy infrastructure has been targeted multiple times and
what's shocking and
unacceptable is how there's really no security to prevent it from happening.
And that I blame that squarely on the energy companies that
should protect the power grid.
So we don't have to deal with these kinds of attacks.
Now, according to the Department of Energy statistics,
human attacks were responsible for 171 electric disturbance
incidents around the country in 2022, compared with just 99 in 2021.
So the number is increased.
If you look at this map,
it will show you where much of the attacks are targeted, right?
So you see California has been targeted.
You also have Washington state, Florida has also been targeted, but
it's becoming more and more of a problem year after year.
So let's give you a specific example of the kind of damage that's been done.
So at four substations in Washington state's Pierce County,
attackers broke into substations on Christmas Day and
tampered with equipment leading to arcs that cut power to 14,000 customers and
caused approximately $3 million dollars in damage, seems like a serious issue.
It wasn't difficult for attackers to breach those substations which are on
suburban streets and protected only by a fence, with a pair of bolt cutters.
Nor was there much surveillance to head signs
advising that the station was being surveille,
but the police didn't take any footage into evidence.
And if you look at this graph,
it'll also show you the states that have had the most attacks in 2022.
California had 42, Texas had 22, Washington had 20,
Pennsylvania had 11 and Oregon had 9.
>> Yeah, I disagree with you a little bit.
So I don't disagree with you that the energy companies are predominantly
at fault and
that's because we let them get away with it because they're gonna minimize costs.
And so adding security to all the utility areas will add a lot of costs.
That's personnel costs, that costs even more than fixing something
because it's a person, you have to constantly pay, its employee cost.
So we agree on that.
But I thought the business insider piece did have evidence
of Neo Nazis talking about attacking these facilities.
>> They had evidence in the form of the Department of Homeland Security theorizing
that that could be it.
So let me give-.
>> No, but they're theorizing it because they are talking about it and
message boards, etc.
And it is part of an accelerationist theory of Neo Nazis that if you cause
chaos like this, people get super angry and will lead to a race war.
>> I mean, look, if there is evidence of that, then obviously the Department
of Homeland Security is supposed to keep the homeland secure.
And so what are you gonna do about it?
>> But that was, that's my point Anna, because as I read the story first of all,
the reason why we're having this kind of disagreement is because there's
not enough fact.
>> There's not enough evidence, right?
But that's the issue that I'm having, we read some message boards.
Well, I've read all sorts of insane demented things on message boards and
it doesn't come to fruition, right?
This is the thing that I can't get past guys.
How do we spend so much money on defense yet
we don't see a massive surveillance balloon coming in from China.
How do we spend this much money on defense?
We're, I don't know.
It might be Neo Nazis messing with our energy grid.
We don't know?
What are we paying you for?
What is this?
>> Yeah, and part of the reason why we don't have enough facts and
evidence is because there's no cameras at these places.
There's no guards at these places.
So it's incredibly hard to get the evidence.
And so these guys keep getting away with it because the cops are,
I don't know, right?
And the energy companies are, I don't know, right?
And so if you if your Department of Homeland Security and you think it's
Neo Nazis doing it, for God's sake, put some legwork in, into it bust them.
Put some cameras, that covers everywhere.
The one place where there's no cameras isn't a giant utility company
situation where people can just fire at the at the power lines and
then people lose electricity in the cold, etc.
It's madness.
>> And how about the utility companies actually, invest some of those major
profits, massive profits, they make your after year in securing their equipment.
How about that?
>> And so one more thing if it turns out Department of Homeland Security's,
right, and these are Neo Nazis and these are nonstop attacks against our utilities,
why aren't we talking about that more?
Who is making up threats like Oklahoma passed a law
saying that you can't have Sharia law in Oklahoma.
There's no threat of fundamentalist Muslims taking over Oklahoma, right?
It's a mythical threat.
And there's always nonstop mythical threats.
Here's an actual threat to our security and
the government thinks Neo Nazis are doing it, yet no one's talking about it.
So let's get some facts and evidence and then for God's sake, will you pursue them?
Because for so often because of political correctness because the right wing is so
sensitive, they love to cry over everything.
The government doesn't actually pursue them and
the media doesn't make a big deal out of it.
So let's go find out who did it and get the sons of bitches.