Current Events > NC power substation vandalized to prevent drag show

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https://amp.newsobserver.com/news/local/article269579392.html

Vandals are suspected to have intentionally damaged electrical substations in Moore County on Saturday night, shutting off power to 45,000 customers and prompting law enforcement officers to accompany crews sent to make repairs.

Jeff Brooks, a spokesman for Duke Energy, said the power went off after 8 p.m. When crews responded, they found multiple equipment failures at several substations and what appeared to be intentional damage, Brooks said.

The Moore County Sheriffs Office is investigating, according to Brooks.

Asked about reports on social media that people had heard gunshots before the outage, Brooks said he couldnt comment on whether the damage looked like it might have resulted from gunfire.

Brooks said crews were still evaluating the damage late Saturday and could not say how long repairs would take.

The Pilot in Southern Pines reported that a news release from the Moore County Sheriffs Office said evidence was discovered that indicated that intentional vandalism had occurred at multiple sites.

Earlier in the day, protesters had gathered outside the Sunrise Theater in downtown Southern Pines, upset about a drag queen show planned for the small venue Saturday night. On her Facebook page, Emily Grace Rainey posted an invitation to the protest.

After the lights went out out, Rainey, who became known in Moore County during the pandemic for her opposition to mask mandates, posted on Facebook that, The power is out in Moore County and I know why.

Later, she posted that the Moore County Sheriffs Office had come to her house to ask about the outage.

I welcomed them to my home, wrote Rainey, who organized a group of Moore County residents to travel to Washington on January 6, 2021. Sorry they wasted their time. I told them that God works in mysterious ways and is responsible for the outage. I used the opportunity to tell them about the immoral drag show and the blasphemies screamed by its supporters.

Rainey said, I told them God is chastising Moore County, thanked them for coming, and wished them a good night. Thankful for the LEOs service, as always.

The drag show started at 7 p.m. and was under way when the power went out. Headliner Naomi Dix kept the show going until almost 9 p.m.

I asked that everyone turn on their phone flashlights to illuminate the room, Dix said. I then lead the crowd in singing Beyoncs Halo.

Brooks said Duke Energy crews would continue to work on the problem and the company would update customers about power restoration as soon as information is available.

fucking vandals. they had to punish everyone else because of an event.

Vandalizing power station = good

Dude wearing a dress = bad

Someone explain the logic to me.....

Fuck if you don't want to see a dude wearing a dress then just don't go to the damn drag show.

I don't want to see Formula 1 racing, I'm not blowing up racetracks, I just don't go to Formula 1 races.

No regard for life.

sAvE dA cHiLdRuN!!!

The drag show started at 7 p.m. and was under way when the power went out. Headliner Naomi Dix kept the show going until almost 9 p.m.

I asked that everyone turn on their phone flashlights to illuminate the room, Dix said. I then lead the crowd in singing Beyoncs Halo.

Every Drag Queen down in Drag-ville, the tall and the small,
Was singing! Without any power at all!
He HADN'T stopped the drag show from coming!
IT CAME!
Somehow or other, it came just the same!

And the Vandal, with his vandal-feet ice-cold in the snow,
Stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so?
'It came without electricity! Not even a spark!
It came without lightbulbs to light up the dark!'
And he puzzled thirty-three seconds, till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Vandal thought of something he hadn't before! What if the drag show, he thought, doesn't come from an electrical store? What if the drag show...perhaps...means a little bit more?

People literally committed acts of terrorism to try and shut down a drag show.

Destroying public infrastructure and committing felonies to own the libs.

Indiscriminately attacking a country's/region's power grid is a war crime lmao

Man, if they're doing this for drag shows the next pride parade might need the department of homeland security

Related:
https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1599121277268422657
https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1599401718466629632

Remember when the right was upset when Antifa where rioting destroying property? Guess they don't actually care about property either.

This is why the LGBTQ+ community, leftists, liberals, racial minorities, and every other group the right hates need to arm themselves and learn how to use guns. The police won't protect us and are actively against us and the government/DOJ certainly aren't interested in protecting us either.

It's sad, but it has come to this. The only other option is lay down and die.

Antifar posted...

Related:
https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1599121277268422657
https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1599401718466629632

it always makes me laugh whenever I see these guys always wear masks while pulling these stunts but threw the biggest temper tantrums when it was asked of them to wear them to help curb a global pandemic

ScazarMeltex posted...

Reminder that you can't rely on the police to protect you. Buy weapons, organize with your community and allies and train to defend yourselves.

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Southernfatman posted...

This is why the LGBTQ+ community, leftists, liberals, racial minorities, and every other group the right hates need to arm themselves and learn how to use guns. The police won't protect us and are actively against us and the government/DOJ certainly aren't interested in protecting us either.

It's sad, but it has come to this. The only other option is lay down and die.

If I had a conspiratorial mindset I'd say these posts were part of a concerted effort to get LGBT people killed by police.

FearlessMango posted...

it always makes me laugh whenever I see these guys always wear masks while pulling these stunts but threw the biggest temper tantrums when it was asked of them to wear them to help curb a global pandemic

they probably saw all the unmasked Jan 6th morons getting arrested and realized they should hide

ScazarMeltex posted...

Lol fuck off. Do you think the police are going to protect the LGBTQ community? Past history has shown they absolutely will not. They are going to have to. protect themselves and that's going to require the capability and willingness to do violence against those who mean them harm.

Okay but we already know that guns are useless for self-defense and that having a gun mkaes you more likely to get shot.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-threats-and-self-defense-gun-use-2/

We already know that the "good guy with a gun stopping shootings" narrative is completely untrue.
https://giffords.org/blog/2020/10/the-good-guy-with-a-gun-myth/

We already know that gun suicides are a major problem and that LGBT people are more likely to attempt suicide, and that suicide attempts are much more likely to be successful with a gun.
https://preventfirearmsuicide.efsgv.org/about-firearm-suicide/statistics/
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/suicide-prevention-media-alert/

And we already know that police are very likely to shoot armed minorities and get away with it.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-immunity-guns/

So what, exactly, do you expect to happen when you tell LGBT people to start carrying guns everywhere? Either you're actively trying to get them killed or you're completely detached from reality.

Background_Guy posted...

If I had a conspiratorial mindset I'd say these posts were part of a concerted effort to get LGBT people killed by police.

Oh fuck off. I'm a leftist and LGBT. Seriously, what other options are there for any of the groups I listed besides just wait and be killed anyway?

Slim chance > no chance.

Find them and lock them all up for life

Southernfatman posted...

Oh fuck off. I'm a leftist and LGBT. Seriously, what other options are there for any of the groups I listed besides just wait and be killed anyway?

Slim chance > no chance.

And I'm saying that your juvenile heroic fantasies go against literally all evidence of how things work in the real world. You don't live in an action movie, grow up.

Background_Guy posted...

And I'm saying that your juvenile heroic fantasies go against literally all evidence of how things work in the real world. You don't live in an action movie, grow up.

I'm not saying people should go all Rambo. Just saying people should learn how to defend yourself because nobody else will.

Grow up? How about you grow up and realize life ain't a fantasy land and that fascists just don't go away and forget they hate and want to kill people.

Again, what other option do we have besides just throw ourselves at the mercy of fascists and more than likely let ourselves be killed?

Don't get mad at me please. Saying guns is the wrong way to deal with this comes out of historical perspective.

The point is Kyle R. was found innocent.

The [long acronym] won a battle.

Stop talking about guns and give them credit.

45,000 people in North Carolina are freezing in the dark. No power means no internet.

Most of the 45,000 never heard of the show.

I say support [long acronym] by organizing aid to the 45,000. This makes the Rainy Grace look bad and the [~] look good.

Can y'all stop getting roped in by worthless alts and just report them >_>

E: Especially since that account already has an active Purg moderation on it.

Fascist scum needs to be dealt with, harshly

Background_Guy posted...

Okay but we already know that guns are useless for self-defense and that having a gun mkaes you more likely to get shot.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-threats-and-self-defense-gun-use-2/

We already know that the "good guy with a gun stopping shootings" narrative is completely untrue.
https://giffords.org/blog/2020/10/the-good-guy-with-a-gun-myth/

We already know that gun suicides are a major problem and that LGBT people are more likely to attempt suicide, and that suicide attempts are much more likely to be successful with a gun.
https://preventfirearmsuicide.efsgv.org/about-firearm-suicide/statistics/
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/suicide-prevention-media-alert/

And we already know that police are very likely to shoot armed minorities and get away with it.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-immunity-guns/

So what, exactly, do you expect to happen when you tell LGBT people to start carrying guns everywhere? Either you're actively trying to get them killed or you're completely detached from reality.

So, what do you suggest, then?

The right continues to do this shit in the name of religion and the bible or whatever. Have they not thought this is eventually going to come to a head and people will start targeting churches and religious groups for the ongoing extremism?

I wouldn't be shocked to start seeing stories in Colorado about churches being torched overnight.

It's something I've thought about for a while, all they do is hold up a bible to justify ongoing hatred.

People will only stay silent and hold back for so long.

This is enabled by all the transphobic crap people spew, whether it be in the name of "comedy" or "neutrality" or "hate"- it all fuels fascist terror.

How is this not terrorism, in the dictionary sense?
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/terrorism

It was a terrorist attack and since hillbillies did it to minorities no-one cares. No if BLM did this it would be on the news non stop.

Questionmarktarius posted...

How is this not terrorism, in the dictionary sense?
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/terrorism

radical. domestic. terrorism.

but one side is hesitant to say those words. i wonder why?

*NC power substation attacked by terrorists to prevent drag show

Giant_Aspirin posted...

i wonder why?

...because the house of cards of moralistic coercion implodes immediately.

I'd go so far as argue that the other side is also a bit hesitant, for fear of losing that same moralistic coercion toolbox.

This pisses me off so much. Right wingers get away with everything.

Is there any actual proof that this was done to prevent the drag show, or did someone just latch onto an unrelated act of terrorism and claim that it was because of the drag show?

"You blew up a substation over a goddamn drag show!?" may sway popular opinion hard against the moralists, but I doubt it.

cjsdowg posted...

No if BLM did this it would be on the news non stop.

it's what the news wants us to see (good or bad).

They'd throw a fit if they lived in Raleigh. Think they have multiple a week

Giant_Aspirin posted...

radical. domestic. terrorism.

but one side is hesitant to say those words. i wonder why?

reactionary, not radical. they have so little problem calling out radical terrorism that when they find out how rare it actually is they just start making it up.

This is straight up terrorism not vandalism.

googs19 posted...

Is there any actual proof that this was done to prevent the drag show, or did someone just latch onto an unrelated act of terrorism and claim that it was because of the drag show?

I have actually been pretty interested in this and so far the only connections to the drag show I have found are:

-It happened during the drag show, which was getting protested by locals. Not exactly a concrete connection, but at the same time not nothing either. That's one unusual (for the area) event happening concurrently with another.

-There was a lady on social media from the area that cops interviewed who was protesting the drag show and talking about "she knew why it happened" and not elaborating. They questioned her and she basically said she was trying to say jesus stopped it to save the children. She could be lying, but who knows

I doubt we'll know for sure until the people are caught. But knowing that area for what it is, I would not be surprised.

Fucking with critical infrastructure is effectively terrorism anyway, regardless of the "cause".
If it's a direct response to the drag show or not, shooting up a substation is a very serious crime.

Guns really is a distraction.

Instead of demanding equal access to voting minories are saying lol I have my weapon stash.

Look at Florida. First state to become real ID compliant and you need that ID to register to vote. All it would take is access to voting and ranked voting and that fascist would be out of office.