Here in the United States, there has been a lot of virtual ink spilled over the activities of our domestic terror groups, like the ironically-named "Antifa," who are as virulent a group of little fascists as you're likely to meet. Groups like this are active not only here but in Canada as well and in Europe; Germany is now struggling with a particularly nasty group of eco-terrorists calling themselves the "Vulkangruppe," or "Volcano Group." And they are a nasty bunch indeed.
The Vulkangruppe, or "Volcano group" has been on Berlin's radar since it was founded in 2011.
German authorities listed it as a left-wing extremist organisation, operating in the capital and Brandenburg, according to a 2019 report.
Their usual method is to target railway lines or cable ducts, data lines and radio masts.
The alleged perpetrators tend to claim responsibility in letters signed with nicknames referring to active volcanoes in the world such as "Grimsvotn" or "Katla."
The anarchist group was classed as "left-extremist" in a follow-up 2021 report that claimed they were trying to gain influence as part of the global climate movement.
It was then that the far-left group shifted its focus to Tesla with an attack that destroyed the plant's power cables at the construction site at Gruenheide in 2021.
Here's where the Vulkangruppe differs from their American counterparts: These people aren't just randomly looting and burning small businesses. The attack on Tesla's plant in Gruenheide was carefully planned and targeted. Someone with some brains was behind this operation.
The hit saw an electricity pylon on fire that caused a power outage forcing the manufacturing plant to halt production.
According to Bild, the cost of the damage amounts to hundreds of millions of pounds.
In a 2,700-word statement published online, the extremist far-left group known as Vulkangruppe said: "We sabotaged Tesla today."
Here's the interesting bit about all this: Most similar American groups — Antifa, BLM, the Animal Liberation Front, and so on — are characterized by three things: arrogance, incompetence, and stupidity. This "Vulkangruppe" would appear to be arrogant, but they do not appear to be incompetent or stupid; on the contrary, they have shown that they can identify a target, plan an operation, carry it out, and successfully exfiltrate (to get away, in other words) when the operation is complete.
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This is a group that is out to disrupt not only neighborhoods but the very fabric of German society. They are well-organized and seem to have a good idea as to how to go about achieving their goals.
Extremism expert Felix Neumann explains how the anarchist's group mail goal is to underline "how fragile communication and public life is."
He told Taggeschau: " "The group also wants to draw attention to the fact that everything is vulnerable.
"That's why they choose targets that cause power or telecommunications outages not only for large companies like Tesla, but also for the nearby population."
The history of eco-terror in the United States goes back at least to 1976, with the formation of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), which uses arson, theft, and other terror tactics in the name of "animal rights." In 2004, the FBI recognized the ALF and the related Earth Liberation Front (ELF) as domestic terror groups. Antifa and BLM are a notch above the relatively warm and fuzzy animal rights groups, as they are not hesitant to physically attack anyone they see as not only a threat but merely anyone who disagrees with them; for all the property damage they have caused over the decades, at least the animal rights groups have not (yet) committed a political assassination.
This is the key thing to remember: The difference between the Vulkangruppe and our homegrown groups like Antifa and even the ALF/ELF nuts is a difference of degree, not of kind. When fascist terror groups don't get their way, the only avenue open to them is escalation, and sooner or later, even the arrogant, incompetent, and stupid Antifa cells may well be taken over by someone with some training and experience; someone who actually knows what they are doing, how to identify targets and plan and carry out attacks not only on our people but our institutions and our infrastructure.
And, as a reminder: In the last few years, we have had an invasion of millions of unknown, unscreened, illegal aliens, many of them young, unattached, military-aged men from all over the world. We do not know who these people are, where they intend to go, or what they intend to do when they get there.
Get out of the cities!
