A Baltimore County woman has pleaded guilty Tuesday for conspiring to attack and destroy Baltimore region’s power grid last year.
Sarah Beth Clendaniel, from Catonsville, pleaded guilty to conspiring to damage or destroy electrical facilities and to being a felon in possession of a firearm, according to the Maryland Department of Justice.
She is now facing a maximum of 20 years in prison on the conspiracy charge and 15 years on the felony charge, followed up to a lifetime of supervised release for the conspiracy charge.
iirc, the organization came from preparing to overthrow the government and cause chaos - and basically just “come prepared, ready to fight like hell” - around the January 6 riots. However, then they kinda dropped that overall plan in favor of having Pence certify the election results (which didn’t work out but…), except a few of the most die-hard members like her decided they didn’t want all that planning to go to waste. Having been handed that weapon (knowledge of how to really hurt an entire city), they were loath to not use it against their “enemies” (liberals, as exemplifed by city folk).
A “rebel without a(n organized) cause”, if you will. Any responsible gun owner knows the limits of when to draw their weapon (only when you are prepared to use it) and especially to actually discharge (only after you’ve positively identified the target, to avoid friendly fire). However, whoever radicalized her released the danger that she could unleash, without seeming to care about what chaos could ensue later, i.e. she is like a bullet fired from a gun, being uncontrollable after that point.
But anyway, January 6 has now been rewritten as being “peaceful”, so that retroactively makes her into a “lone actor”, until they find a better fit or use for her story.