By Brandon Smith of Bob Livingston's Personal Liberty
Accidents happen, all the time in fact, and often the American public barely takes notice of the number of such events that occur on a monthly basis. The reason for this is that the vast majority of accidents leading to industrial and infrastructure damage are small in scale.
Look at the statistics for train derailments in the U.S. and you might be surprised to discover that there are thousands of these incidents every year. "Fact-checking" websites are quick to cite these statistics as a way to dismiss concerns over increasing disaster events in the U.S. What they don't mention, however, is that the vast majority of these incidents are minor, with negligible damage.
When was the last time the U.S. saw a train derailment similar to the chemical destruction in Ohio? Not since 2002 when a train carrying ammonia crashed in Minot, North Dakota, and kept clean-up workers at bay due to air hazards. The generalized data used by fact checkers lumps events with a single boxcar derailment in with widespread environmental catastrophes (which are exceedingly rare).
The multiple Ohio events in particular are very concerning to me for a number of reasons. The media barely reported on the train derailment and chemical cloud the first week. Joe Biden has essentially refused to address the severity of the East Palestine disaster and has not announced plans to visit the area to survey the damage. There has also been confusion over the deployment of FEMA; not that I'm a fan of FEMA, but I'm starting to get Hurricane Katrina vibes from this mess, as if the government is trying to deliberately ignore it.
Even Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg waited 20 days to visit the train derailment. And when he finally did, he disguised himself in a worker's uniform in a quick appearance in the early hours of the morning to avoid the public.
I generally don't engage in theory without considerable evidence detailing clear motive or clear involvement. Call it a gut feeling that I think needs to be addressed, but something very strange is going on here.
Why is the White House acting like this? How easy would it be to make a quick appearance and put people's minds at ease? This is the kind of behavior that leads the public to entertain "conspiracy theories."
We have seen many conspiracy theories proven true over the past couple of years, from the COIVD pandemic lockdowns, mandates and death numbers being exposed as a sham, the former Twitter management colluding with government officials to censor conservatives, and, according to Seymour Hersh's sources, the U.S. government blowing up the Nordstream gas pipeline to Europe. Conspiracy theorists are racking up an impressive list of wins lately.
So, I would like to offer my theory on recent events surrounding what seems to be a spike in major infrastructure accidents including numerous food distribution plants catching fire, trains derailing, factories exploding, etc.
Hiding in the swarm
Imagine you are incredibly evil or incredibly mentally deranged, or both, and you wanted to incrementally destabilize the U.S. from the inside. How would you do it?
First, you would have to have some help from government authorities because if serious investigation was a concern, you are likely to be caught. Officials would have to look the other way, which in the case of Ohio and many other disasters, they currently are. Questions of sabotage are actually attacked as ridiculous, rather than considered as a possibility that needs to be pondered.
With the government on your side, as it remains passive, you can then operate with impunity. But what then? You would have to commit acts of sabotage in a way that avoids drawing too many public questions. You would have to make the events look like accidents. Industrial and infrastructure failures are statistically common and nuance in terms of scale is often overlooked. As noted above, if a person looks at the stats out of context, they might think a disaster like the one in East Palestine, Ohio, is a normal occurrence.
Then, you go to work, rigging localized crises across the U.S. using simple tactics. It doesn't take much to sabotage a train track, or set a fire in a food plant, or explode a metal factory. And, your acts of subterfuge mix in with other commonly occurring disasters, washed away in the swarm as the public becomes too overwhelmed to focus on any single calamity.
Slowly but surely, you and whatever group you are working with are able to wreak havoc on U.S. infrastructure while operating in perfect cover.
The Monkey Wrench Gang
In 1975, author Edward Abbey published a politically charged fiction book titled The Monkey Wrench Gang. The book portrays a group of environmentalist extremists out to stop the "pollution" of the southwestern U.S. using sabotage of machines and infrastructure as a means to grind development to a halt.
The Monkey Wrench Gang has long been considered an inspirational work of fiction for the political left, but it is also treated as a sort of instruction manual for leftists and anarchists. A guide for bringing down the system. It depicts the destruction of minor targets like billboards and bulldozers, up to and including the destruction of bridges, the derailment of trains and the attempted bombing of a dam.
It's sort of like the leftist version of The Turner Diaries.
After witnessing the background activities of groups like Antifa and BLM during the riots, I don't find it hard to believe that there may also be an environmental or political element in the U.S. that is engaging in infrastructure terrorism. This is not to say that the protesters themselves are highly organized, but there is evidence that they are managed by organized people behind the scenes.
For example, law enforcement offices in multiple cities reported numerous pallets of bricks and rocks magically appearing on mornings before protest marches and riots. Media fact-checkers once again tried to protect leftist groups by claiming that the strategic piles of bricks and other riot fodder were "for construction," only to be fact-checked themselves later. There was no construction in those areas.
Media outlets asserted that Antifa essentially "doesn't exist" during mass rioting by groups calling themselves Antifa. CNN claimed that riots in Kenosha by BLM and Antifa were "fiery but mostly peaceful" while the city burned in the background. And, if you try to Google information on leftist riots the majority of the results you get back will be on the Jan. 6 event instead of the two years of SJW actions across the country.
When mass civil unrest is protected by corporate "journalists" and leftist groups are funded or even coordinated by think tanks like the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundation, we have to consider the scenario of organized sabotage in the U.S. as a means to ratchet up the chaos.
Remember, the motto of these people is "burn it all to the ground."
A rising flurry of disasters?
Again, what I am discussing here is merely a theory, but it is not outlandish to suggest that there may be an organized monkey-wrench campaign made to look like a series of unfortunate "accidents." I suspect that there will be an increasing number of these localized disasters in the coming year with an increasing level of severity. And mark my words, one day you will begin to hear whispers of law enforcement investigations into terrorism surrounding these events.
The value of a compartmentalized sabotage effort cannot be overstated. The overall instability it would cause creates national panic and fear, but if ever exposed as deliberate the campaign could also be blamed on a useful scapegoat. Would China or Russia engage in such attacks? Maybe, but it would also be advantageous to the current administration to place the culpability on foreign enemies.
The White House response to the East Palestine disaster alone warrants inquiry, and the steady drone of the media chanting that "there's nothing to see here, move along" is revealing. Certainly, most of these events including the train derailment in Ohio will be labeled fatal accidents and the public will move on. Just keep an eye on the news feeds, because, very likely, there are many more East Palestines on the way.
To truth and knowledge,
BRANDON SMITH
