3 Men Plead Guilty in Plot to Attack U.S. Power Grid

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Source: NYT

Three men pleaded guilty on Wednesday in a plot to attack power grids in the United States, which they believed could lead to economic and civil unrest and create the opportunity for white leaders to rise, federal prosecutors said.

The men, Christopher Brenner Cook, 20, of Columbus, Ohio; Jonathan Allen Frost, 24, of West Lafayette, Ind., and of Katy, Texas; and Jackson Matthew Sawall, 22, of Oshkosh, Wis., each pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Columbus on Wednesday to one count of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.

They will each face up to 15 years in prison when they are sentenced. A date has not been scheduled.

Kenneth Parker, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, said in a statement on Wednesday that the three men “conspired to use violence to sow hate, create chaos, and endanger the safety of the American people.”
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[SheltieLover]

1. Kicking for visability

[TomSlick]

2. These are perilous times.

Their numbers are unclear but there is a group determined to start a civil war.

[demigoddess]

3. kicking for visibility.

[Mickju]

4. Up to 15 years?

They should get life.

[LiberalFighter]

5. To bad electrocution isn't an option.

[cstanleytech]

8. Oh, I think they might have already tried that themselves by sticking their tongues in electrical

sockets when they were children.
It did not kill them of course but it clearly fried at least 99.9% of their brain cells.

[Martin68]

6. Nice to know that another treasonous white supremacist has been stopped.

I suspect there is a negative correlation between high IQs and white supremacists. Being based entirely on ignorance and delusional thinking, I guess that is inevitable.

[rockfordfile]

7. You kidding give them the death penalty.

[Alwaysna]

10. They deserve worse than the death penalty!

They should be forced to watch all of Trump's speeches, every day for life. Is that cruel & inhumane?

[Rebl2]

9. In my

book that is terrorism.

[monkeyman1]

11. wire them to the grid ! then leave them for the buzzard's !

[Bristlecone]

12. F'ing terrorists. 15 years is too light a sentence

[slightlv]

13. The judicial system in this country,

as well as the rest of the institutions and departments therein, had better get their heads around the concept of "domestic terrorism" and do it fast. Otherwise, we're not going to have a country... we're going to be part of the USSR

[flying_wahini]

14. A cigarette and a blindfold at dawn.....

[NBachers]

15. Let's follow this and see if they get a jaywalking penalty; or if they're actually dealt with.

Forgive my cynicism; but I've seen too many traitors, terrorists, and insurrectionists let go with an affectionate pat on their ass.

[SergeStorms]

16. Let me see if I've got this straight....

These three wanted to attack the power grid, start economic and civil unrest, to create an opportunity for white leaders to rise? Who do these Mensa candidates think is in power all over the country? 🤪

Just give these guys some chicken bones to chew on and the rest will take care of itself.

[kacekwl]

17. Life in prison.

Period.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

18. As I started reading about this..

My thought lemme guess they're right wing..

Yup.

[CBHagman]

19. I've been wondering about this for some time.

Following 9/11 there was a great deal of discussion on all the vulnerabilities in our system beyond the obvious one of decaying infrastructure. Power grids, water supplies, chemical plants, mass transit, railways — so many nightmare-inducing scenarios.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

20. It's like Charles Manson all over again.

News

Dublin man admits to conspiring with 2 other white supremacists to attack U.S. power grids

Eric Lagatta
The Columbus Dispatch
Published 4:40 p.m. ET Feb. 23, 2022 | Updated 7:12 p.m. ET Feb. 23, 2022

Three men, including a Dublin, Ohio, resident pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Columbus to what federal prosecutors say was a domestic terrorist plot motivated by a white supremacist ideology in which they planned to attack power grids throughout the U.S. in an effort to sow unrest and economic instability, and create a race war.

A Greater Columbus man and two out-of-state men who espoused Neo-Nazi beliefs pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Columbus to plotting domestic terrorism attacks on power grids throughout the U.S. in an effort to sow unrest and economic instability.

Christopher B. Cook, 20, who records indicate is a resident of the portion of Dublin, Ohio, in Union County, was part of a group motivated by a white supremacist ideology who began concocting the domestic terrorism plan in fall 2019, according to prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of Ohio. Also charged were Jonathan A. Frost, 24, who has resided in Katy, Texas and West Lafayette, Indiana; and Jackson M. Sawall, 22, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

The group believed damaging or destroying the nation's electric grid would cost the government millions of dollars, create instability and possibly ignite a race war, prosecutors said.

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