Antifa deletes posts about sabotaging train tracks—after Washington train derailment

[Forever_frost]

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Washingtonians were shaken by a deadly train derailment on Monday. An Amtrak train carrying 80 passengers and headed South to Portland, Oregon from Seattle careened off a bridge outside Tacoma, NBC News reported. At least three were killed in the crash and several were injured.

The tragic accident prompted scrutiny of writings by the far-left group Antifa, in which it described sabotaging train tracks.

In November, the Antifa-linked website It’s Going Down took credit for pouring concrete on tracks outside Olympia, Washington. But in the wake of the Washington train derailment, the article was taken down.

Earlier this year, a prominent #Antifa website published an article tacking credit for the sabotage of train tracks in Olympia, WA. In this article they claimed to have poured concrete on the tracks. It has since been deleted. #Amtrak pic.twitter.com/aHfwdSM1ce

— Far Left Watch (@FarLeftWatch) December 18, 2017

The text is still available via an archived version.

The Antifa group wrote:

“Early in the morning of April 20th we poured concrete on the train tracks that lead out of the Port of Olympia to block any trains from using the tracks. We took precautions to notify BNSF (the train company) – we called them and we used wires to send a signal that the tracks were blocked. We did this not to avoid damaging a train, nothing would bring bigger grins to our faces, but to avoid the risk of injuring railway workers.”

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(Photo: Screen Capture).

According to the article, the act of sabotage was a form of pro-environmental protest against corporatism.

“This action was done to disrupt the movement of trains carrying proppants used in natural gas fracturing. These train tracks are part of a system of pipelines, fracking wells, mines, clearcuts, control centers, fiberoptics, dams, highways and factories that cover the planet and are physical manifestations of a process that is destroying the ecosystems, cultures, and inhabitants everywhere.

Behind this network of infrastructure there are politicians, CEOs and bureaucrats who have private security, cops, prison guards, non-profit directors, PR consultants and the legacy of 500 years of colonization to back them up. We oppose all of these manifestations, infrastructural, personal and ideological. We blocked the train tracks because we want to blockade the entire web of domination that is slowly killing us.”

Another Antifa website, Puget Sound Anarchists, published a post on December 9 that described putting wire and jumper cables to the Union Pacific line that goes through Nebraska.

Here is an article from 9 days ago where #Antifa extremists claim they sabotaged train tracks. This is the far-left. #Amtrak pic.twitter.com/ckJCdw1LWI

— Far Left Watch (@FarLeftWatch) December 18, 2017

“During this week we attached wire and jumper cables to the main Union Pacific rail line running through the state of Nebraska to disrupt rail signals and delay trains that mainly carry coal from the mountainous west to population centers in the east,” the article read.

Antifa, short for Anti-Fascist, has gained notoriety for using the threat of violence to shut down conservative events, most notably at the University of California, Berkeley.


(JASON CONNOLLY/AFP/Getty Images).

Antifa’s methods have brought them criticism. In August, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) condemned Antifa’s provocations of violence.

The New Jersey Office of Homeland Security has classified Antifa as a domestic terror group.

[The King]

Those dumbfucks are in deep shit now...Nancy Pelosi has condemned them.

[sig239]

At first the news was saying it hit something on the tracks.
Now that claim went away

[mardyn]

The story is "adjusted" to fit the agenda... that's the way government and the media works these days.

mardyn

[BP]

Good thing the black box was recovered. Wait a minute, why is the box always referred to as being black when most of them are actually yellow?

[ram57ta]

I work as a subcontractor for BNSF on the signal side. There were no track indications (meaning there were no jumpers on the track to cause red signals) and so far while digging for information that isn't generally available to the public there is no indication that the accident in Washington was anything other than a distracted train operator not paying attention and hitting a 30mph curve at 80mph. This accident is going to cost that operator his job...maybe even his freedom depending on the prosecutor and what the Federal Railroad Administration and NHTSA decide in the results of the investigation. This is just one more Amtrak accident to add to the growing list they've been piling up over the years. This also adds even more fuel to the fire behind the now years behind implementation of PTC (positive train control) and the FRA's push to force every railroad into compliance. Eventually accidents like this may lead to implementation of fully automated train control where the engineer sits in the seat and does nothing other than hit the brakes if something goes wrong and radios dispatch occasionally to update them or answer questions.

[orphan Shelby]

Good thing the black box was recovered. Wait a minute, why is the box always referred to as being black when most of them are actually yellow?

They might not work?

[4bangen]

I work as a subcontractor for BNSF on the signal side. There were no track indications (meaning there were no jumpers on the track to cause red signals) and so far while digging for information that isn't generally available to the public there is no indication that the accident in Washington was anything other than a distracted train operator not paying attention and hitting a 30mph curve at 80mph. This accident is going to cost that operator his job...maybe even his freedom depending on the prosecutor and what the Federal Railroad Administration and NHTSA decide in the results of the investigation. This is just one more Amtrak accident to add to the growing list they've been piling up over the years. This also adds even more fuel to the fire behind the now years behind implementation of PTC (positive train control) and the FRA's push to force every railroad into compliance. Eventually accidents like this may lead to implementation of fully automated train control where the engineer sits in the seat and does nothing other than hit the brakes if something goes wrong and radios dispatch occasionally to update them or answer questions.

SO NOW MORE COW SKIN RUGS FOR THAT GUY?
CHOOOOO.............CHOOOOO............ money is gone.

[ram57ta]

They might not work?

Fairly certain all the Amtrak trains have video cameras filming in front of the train and also from the rear of the train...I know all of our trains do and have been used to disprove claims made against our railroad or the engineers. Any debris in the tracks would be visible from the camera view. The "black box" on the train is not the only means of seeing what happened. Most signalized railroads will have data loggers and event recorders at all signals and powered switch locations...as well as any signalized grade crossing where train speed can be seen or determined. These trains all have GPS on them also.

[cyclonescott]

Washington state is currently at war with cars. There is a push to turn existing roads into toll roads, add a per mile gas tax and push cars out of cities in favor of bikes and mass transit. This was the maiden run on a $181,000,000 project. I wonder if the engineer was under pressure to make sure that the train wasn't late. Someone from the state was on the train tweeting how the train was passing cars on I5.