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Sarah Beth Clendaniel, who pleaded guilty to trying to attack and destroy the power grid in the Baltimore region, was sentenced to 18 years in prison with lifetime supervision post-release.

Prosecutors said Clendaniel, 36, from Catonsville, planned to blow up power stations around Baltimore to destabilize the government in a white supremacist plot

According to prosecutors, the attack would have resulted in $75 million in damages and caused power outages for much of the state. 

This sentence comes after Clendaniel accepted a plea deal and ultimately was found guilty of the crimes in May.

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[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 79 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

The mom arguing that her daughter is under the influence of bad spirits, that prison won't help, and that only when god pours his spirit over her will the bad spirits flee.. welcome back to the middleages!

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 30 points 2 days ago

God can golden shower his love all over her in her cell, no problem. The ceiling can't hold it.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago

Nah, that's one good orange spirit. She felt POWERFUL, like she really had ALL HER RIGHTS, and she DIDN'T think about ABORTIONS at all. I talked it out with some GREAT LEADERS, and that's what a woman SHOULD DO.

[–] v1605@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Sounds like Scientology

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[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Is this another of those well coordinated lone actors? We seem to have a lot of those

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

What a loser. Good riddance.

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee -5 points 2 days ago

It's AGAINST her Constitutional Rights to Punish her BEFORE she's done anything! Who CARES if she had a Gun and PLANNED to use it? It's her 2A RIGHT to do that UNTIL Women Children and Men die!

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 147 points 2 days ago (3 children)

How fucked up is it that a Nazi Plot to destroy Maryland's power grid only got thwarted a year and a half ago and so many insane things have happened in the intervening time that I totally forgot about it?

[–] match@pawb.social 5 points 2 days ago

did they ever catch the previous 2 lower grid nazi attacks

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 51 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They were more successful in Texas, that power grid is fucked up.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 78 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Tbf, it was easier since the nazis run the power grid...

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

I think this is the first time I've seen anyone post a gif or still of that with the line after "that's the joke" included.

Tbh this is the first I'm even hearing about it.

[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 56 points 2 days ago (5 children)

since when are nazis so against electricity? or is it that she personally prefers gas?

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Nazis aren't really known for being smart. The thought process goes like this:

  • America is shit
  • (Too cowardly to actually plan an assault against the institutions they hate)
  • A race war will solve things
  • Something has to start a race war
  • Attack unguarded substations and cause blackouts
  • ???
  • Race war.
  • ???
  • White, Christian monocultural ethnostate.
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[–] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 89 points 2 days ago (4 children)

They think the only thing holding us back from a race war where we kill all the non-whites is our access to electricity.

I think it genuinely doesn't even cross their minds that the vast majority of all the other people aren't violent, racist monsters.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 8 points 2 days ago

There's an important aspect to this: they think all or nearly all whites are just as racist as they are, but the Liberal Media censors them to make it seem otherwise. All they need to do, in their minds, is unshackle everyone and the Master Race will sweep out all the untermenschen.

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe because they think we marxist, socialist, environmentalist people prefer electric rail guns to defend from them? Dunno, I don't really like weapons.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"Yeah, OK. But is it vegan though?"

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[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

This is key. It's why they tend to message on virtue signaling so much, there's kinda a fundamental belief that all people are shitty deep down, and they're just more "real" about it. All the rest of us are just pretending so we look good, but we're all just as bad as they are, and they're just the courageous ones.

It's pretty twisted.

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If anything it should make everyone want to go after the bloodthirsty terrorists. You know, the ones who made everyone's lives worse by knocking out the power grid?

But reaching that conclusion requires reasoning not addled by lead poisoning and hookworms I guess.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (4 children)

They also believe that everyone else is too stupid to put it together. They think they're such geniuses that they will be able to cover their tracks and convince everyone that it's the brown people's fault.

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[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Agents recovered various firearms from her bedroom and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. Clendaniel is prohibited from possessing a firearm because she is a convicted felon.

Evidence used in the trial included transcripts of recorded phone conversations between Clendaniel and a confidential informant, revealing that she wanted to obtain a high-powered rifle to shoot through substations in Reisterstown, Perry Hall, White Marsh, and more locations.

I tried to find data about how seriously straw purchases are being treated these days, as enforcement always seemed very lax. This is how this person seems to have obtained her weaponry. A straw purchase in the case of firearms is when someone buys a firearm with the intent of it ending up in the hands of someone else. It is common to have a partner or acquaintance purchase a gun to get around the background check.

I searched for "straw purchase jail" to try to find conviction rates, and oddly all the results looked to be only from Pennsylvania, and are pretty recent. There does seem to be some enhanced penalties put into place nationally, after a number of mass shootings traced back to straw purchases.

Prosecutors say Clendaniel has been in communication with her co-defendant, Russell, through Dallas Humber, an alleged transnational terrorist group leader from California. Humber is accused of soliciting hate crimes, the murder of Federal officials, and conspiring to provide materials to terrorists. The communication between Clendaniel, Humber and Russell persisted until July 2024.

Prosecutors allege this communication shows that Clendaniel is still conspiring during recorded phone calls while incarcerated.

Before receiving the sentence, Clendaniel addressed the courtroom saying she is more likely to hurt herself than others. She says she still retains her national socialist beliefs, which she has had since she was 13 years old, but that she would not act on them.

Judge Bredar explained that she is not being sentenced for her beliefs, rather she is being put behind bars because she was prepared to act on them and cause significant harm. He said he is not convinced she wouldn't act on them in the future.

And she has learned nothing. Hopefully she will continue to incriminate herself on a regular basis to ensure she serves the full 18 years of her sentence.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Dallas Humber was one of the lead members of the large nazi "terrorgram" network on telegram. She was also recently arrested after France forced Telegram to start enforcing the law by arresting its billionaire CEO.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Humber has one heck of a backstory. Meth addict dildo seller turned Nazi audiobook narrator.

I don't know how to feel about the arrest of the person running the platform. I typically lean toward siding on it's the responsibility of the posters for what they post, but at the same time, if you are knowledgeable people are using something of yours for a crime, and not just anything, but terrorism or supporting murder, it seems like he should definitely have some share of the responsibility for not even taking any form of action.

[–] Baggins@feddit.uk 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Meth addict dildo seller turned Nazi audiobook narrator.

That's a sentence I never expected to hear.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sometimes I feel like I'm living in the latest season of The Boys.

I'd be fine with a meth using lady with some form of legit self run business. This Nazi stuff is a bridge too far though.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The Boys is written to specifically mirror modern life in way that calls out the fucked up nature of things.

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[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

She was working as a terrorist go between in this case. I guarantee she was involved with hundreds or even thousands of nazi terror plots as the admin of a nazi terror network.

This isn't someone running a tropical fish forum that was negligent and let it become a hotbed for racists. She started and directly participated in many of these plots. I have no sympathy at all.

[–] Baggins@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago

Whole life sentence should be case then.

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[–] borgertwo@ani.social 20 points 2 days ago (6 children)

She probably thinks electricity is a jewish invention made to control brainwaves or something like that

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 32 points 2 days ago (4 children)

This really isn't a joke. These people are all over, and this isn't the only attack on the power grid lately. They don't think the power grid is evil, it's only a plan to destabilize the nation and create a civil war, which they want to use to being in a fascist government.

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[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

WTF kind of plea deal is 18 years prison and lifetime supervision?

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

The kind a terrorist gets. The crimes she pleaded to had a max range of 20-35 but the stuff they left off would easily have seen her in prison the rest of her life. They left off the hate crime charges, conspiracy to murder charges, terrorism charges and I'm sure a few others. She wasn't robbing a bank with a note. She planned to destroy the electrical grid of an entire state and snowball that into a race war.

I forgot to add, her method of choice was a high power rifle, and Maryland specifically is never going to get over the Beltway Sniper attacks.

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 10 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I’ve never understood why people think destroying the power grid is going to cause a race war.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The only thing that keeps NASCAR fans and IndyCar fans from going for each other's throat is reliable access to AC.

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 days ago

…what brand of light beer is AC?

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[–] Aaron@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't understand why she cared.. supposedly she had a terminal illness in her kidneys and so had to hurry up and get that rifle.

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[–] hoch@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

I knew I recognized the guy in that article; not his first run-in with the law. There's a really wild police interrogation of Brandon Russel's (the co-conspirator) ex-roommate who warned police about their plans to attack power plants. Dude ended up killing their other 2 roommates with a rifle and then led police to his bomb making equipment. Very crazy story.

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