"I'm not gonna lie - I'm kinda freaking out about this. 
Because according to that sourcelink, the New Jersey Regional Operations Intelligence Center (ROIC) just came out with a report which monitors the threat level to the US power grid, and has determined that it's "inherently vulnerable" to "widespread sabotage."
Apparently, electric grid compounds across the US have faced an increase in "unauthorized intrusions by unknown individuals," y'all, including 8 in New Jersey alone between October of 2013 and January of this year. EIGHT IN ONE STATE. And there are lots more examples from across the country.
And if that's not scary enough, the sourcelink also indicates that US officials have already been concerned that the electrical grid is RIPE for a terrorist attack. I mean, just think about what would happen if a huge section of the country lost power completely. I guarantee you that within a couple of DAYS, it would be complete mayhem - looting, murder, and other acts of total desperation would be inevitable.
Counterterrorism expert Patrick Poole warned that these attacks could be a “test-run” for a larger act of sabotage.
“While some of these incidents involving substations can be attributed to metal scavenging, it’s planned attacks, much like the one in San Jose, that have officials worried the most and raises a number of questions,” he said. “Why was this substation targeted? What were they trying to accomplish with this attack? Was this a test-run for something larger? What the New Jersey ROIC report shows is that this fits into a larger pattern of incidents, which should be keeping someone at Homeland Security up at night. The other big question is how many more of these incidents are going unreported?”
Somehow, I just don't get the sense that anyone at Homeland Security is up at night worrying about this, because they're too busy trying to figure out how to deport illegal aliens people more humanely.
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