North Carolina Blackout Is Domestic Terrorism. Shots Fired In SC Too
Whoever it was who shot two power substations in rural Moore County, North Carolina, on Saturday—and so far investigators do not appear to be anywhere close to identifying them—did more than just inconvenience their neighbors with a power outage: They have caused a full-fledged state of emergency in the affected areas, which left about 45,000 people and several towns completely without power for several more days.
More than that, however, is the ominous cloud that lingers from the act: Was it domestic terrorism? The circumstances of the attacks on the substations—including the fact that two of them were disabled by gunfire directed precisely at targets that would bring down the grid, indicating possible coordinated action and the likelihood of more than one perpetrator, as well as their timing at around the same time as a scheduled drag queen show that drew far-right protesters—certainly point in that direction.
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