The accused are extremists called accelerationists who hoped to ‘accelerate’ a race war by shooting-up five Maryland substations. The two neo-Nazis charged with federal crimes for plotting to attack Baltimore’s energy grid support a decades-old doctrine to push the country into armed racial conflict. Sarah Beth Clendaniel, 34, and Brandon Clint Russell, 27, subscribe to a neo-Nazi ideology called accelerationism — which aims to cause society’s collapse through violent acts, such as what federal investigators say was their plan to shoot up five Baltimore-area power substations and cause widespread outages. The thwarted plot would have been another in a string of recent attacks against critical energy infrastructure nationwide. Tens of thousands of people nationwide have lost power due to substation attacks across the country over the past three months. (…) For the past year, the Department of Homeland Security has repeatedly issued warnings on the increased threat of terror attacks against critical infrastructure, including against the energy sector. Most recently, in June 2022, a bulletin from DHS warned that these threats primarily stem “from lone offenders and small groups motivated by a range of ideological beliefs and/or personal grievances” — and accelerationists are just that. The accelerationist movement is rooted in 20th century neo-Nazi texts: ”The Turner Diaries” and James Mason’s SIEGE newsletter. Both materials call for violent revolutions by disrupting critical infrastructure (energy, transportation, sewage systems) in order to promote a white ethnostate.
via thebaltimorebanner: The neo-Nazi movement behind the plot to blackout Baltimore