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I'm sure that California requires an environmental impact assessment before such acts can be committed. So really nothing to worry about...

My money is on disgruntled union types, it happened during union "negotiations" and a bitter battle with the workers.

Their use of "snipers" cracks me up though. It took them 100 rounds to get 10 or so hits. That's not a sniper, that's Bubba with a deer rifle.

Our infrastructure is open and vulnerable. It was never conceived of to have to guard against this type of threat.

This type of attack involves few people. Several similar attacks occuring simultaneously could take down a major urban area. Once the power grid is down, other pre-positioned groups could then go to work, poisoning water supplies, destroying gas lines, bombing attacks on civilians, or attacking other critical infrastructure, hospitals, you name it. Local law enforcement would be overwhelmed.

This would not take a large group of individuals. Small, well trained groups that would total well under one hundred persons could cause devastation. The transformers used in a sub-station, espacially a transmission sub-station utilizing higher voltages are not stock items sitting on shelves. They could take months to replace. During a cold winter, the damage and dislocation would be substantial. You get the picture.

Add to that a massively overwhelming, ineffective and ham-handed response by the authorities, as we witnessed in New England after the Boston Marathon bombing. Generating images of overweight, out of shape law enforcement types in ill fitting body armor and with automatic weapons, a nervous tick, and absolutely no knowledge or care about the constitutional rights of citizens, because they are not combat trained military. A recipe for tragedy. Remember, for all their numbers, law enforcement couldn't locate the Boston Marathon bombers and it took a civilian noticing the surviving brother hiding in his boat. The perpatrators of this attack have not been found.

If the solution is more law enforcement and more infringement against our constitutional rights, more paranoia as we have seen in the years since 9-11, instead of trusting a citizenry that is an informed, armed and vigilant, we have already lost.

Too cute and too convenient, smacks of a set up job.

Another one these CIA set ups again.
That's the only way to account for the high count of shots but low count of hits. Civilians, even *bubbas* are far better than gov't employees.

Ask yourself, when was the last time any gov't employee did something right. Right, never. They are a cacophony of fuck ups.

In the book, "More Guns, Less Crime" it has been proven through law enforcement's own records that you are more than 13 times likely to be shot by a gov't employee than anyone else.

During the Iraq war over 7,000 rds of ammo were expended per each enemy killed. Spray and pray prevailed and the taxpayers picked up the tab.

The CIA must create crimes to justify their existence. Therefore they will soon find some perpetrators to fill this new position they have created in Calif, re: Boston, etc.

think Earth!First or some Gaia Liberation Front activist group. They all want to live in a stone age.

Um, Pecc, I'd go with Luddites. Oh, wait, they'd have to use tree branches or big rocks, hmm.

Sorry about the minor incoherencies in the earlier post above. I was typing that while eating my lunch. Chris Taylor commented above about the battle with the union, which I was unaware of. I would also bet on that. Several years ago in Alaska, the local union thugs tried to sabotage a transmission line between Anchorage & Fairbanks (169kV) by dropping a heavy chain across it. They were also fined (in a later separate incident) a quarter of a million dollars in damages for threatening the family of the owner of a non-union power line construction company. The state supreme court scathingly commented in their denial of the union's appeal to a finding against the union, that fining the union for attacking workers, damaging material & equipment, threatening to rape & kill the owner's daughter was not an infringement on their right to free speech.
However, the susceptibility of our utility infrastructure to attack is real and I for one am surprised something major has not yet happened.