From SITREP -Early Warning
InFocus: Anarchists post instructions for winter of disruption
A recent blog post at an anarchist website details how anarchists, environmental, and Native social justice groups can sabotage rail lines and disrupt the Canadian economy (and by extension the U.S. economy). This is a tactic we’ve seen since 2016, with authorities determining that several U.S. train derailments have been
the result of sabotage. (For additional information, see the 28 SEP 21 Early Warning entitled, Climate action groups to expand sabotage and the 09 NOV 21 Early Warning entitled, Far Left activities through 2021.)
This instructional blog post is the latest in a line of other missives about how to derail trains carrying supplies through indigenous land. This particular post offers several methods to trigger an “occupied track” signal that will shut down rail traffic on that line until investigators can get out and investigate the signal.
One method they suggest is using copper wire to connect the parallel rails, simulating that a train is sitting on the tracks. Another method is to interfere with signal bungalows – the large metal boxes often found where a rail line crosses a road – which can detect interference and immediately trigger a track shutdown.
While previous instances of rail disruption have led to train derailment, like multiple cases in 2017 and 2020, the methods covered in this post are intended to disrupt rail traffic, not cause damage. Still, the risk to the transportation of oil and gas remains high, as inoperative pipelines mean higher fuel shipments by rail.
Sabotaging shipping and transportation channels was a major part of the 2020 plan to disrupt the U.S. economy if former president Donald Trump remained in office. With detailed rail sabotage instructions accumulating online, this is one potential course of action for the Far Left if the GOP takes back control of the House and Senate in 2022 and the presidency in 2024. – M.S.
