Only Things Leftists Hate, Burn By Charles Taylor (Florida)
I have covered in many articles the strange phenomenon of food plants burning down both in the US and Europe. There has been little reporting on whether the authorities ever captured the arsonists; I certainly have not found any information. Still, what makes me suspicious is that it is only things that the left hates that burn down; never a Marxist book shop, a communist office, some climate change activist centre and the like. Now, why might that be?
“All through the past year and more, suspicious fires and accidents have devastated numerous plants all over the country that produce the very things that Leftists hate: oil and gas, beef (and chicken, and all meat), and coal. Coincidence? Maybe. After all, the gentle folks of Antifa and their fascist allies, who don’t hesitate to burn down cities and tear down statues of our Founding Fathers, wouldn’t dare try to interfere with the production of commodities that they’re determined to make us stop using, right? Surely they wouldn’t stoop so low. Surely!
The latest odd incidents are at oil refineries. Reuters reported Wednesday that “BP (BP.L) said on Wednesday two of its staff were killed after sustaining injuries in a fire at its 150,800 barrel-per-day Toledo, Ohio, refinery.” It appears to have been an accident: “The cause of the fire is not known, but leaking fumes from a crude unit may have caused the ignition in another unit at the facility, a source told Reuters.” Yet this is odd: “Workers finished a maintenance turnaround at the facility in recent weeks and the plant had resumed operating, according to the source.” They just finished a “maintenance turnaround” and yet didn’t spot the leak in the crude unit? Or apparently this leak developed after the “maintenance turnaround”?
On August 29, NBC 5 Chicago said that “an electrical fire at a BP refinery in northwest Indiana on Wednesday caused the company to temporarily close its facility located about 15 miles southeast of Chicago. No one was hurt.” That was good, but “BP’s Whiting Refinery produces about 435,000 barrels per day and provides about 20% to 25% of the refined gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel used by Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin.”
That followed a fire at Texas power plant in July. The Fort Bend Star reported: “A unit at a power plant in Fort Bend County will remain offline through at least the end of the year after a fire broke out at the facility earlier this year, and several local energy experts are left wondering about the long-term future of one of the region’s biggest energy producers.
In June, meanwhile, Reuters also reported that “Freeport LNG, operator of one of the largest U.S. export plants producing liquefied natural gas (LNG), will shut for at least three weeks following an explosion at its Texas Gulf Coast facility, raising the risk of shortages especially in Europe.” Freeport LNG, Reuters, added, “provides around 20% of U.S. LNG processing.”
Meanwhile, an April fire at the port of Benicia, Calif., hampered gasoline production. A natural gas pipeline exploded in Michigan in March.
Then there are attacks on food plants. After a boiler explosion at Shearer’s Foods in Hermiston, Ore., in February, the company laid off its employees. In March, there was a large fire at the Penobscot McCrum potato processing plant in Maine. In April, a private plane crashed into Gem State Processing, a potato processing plant in Idaho. A week later, another private plane crashed into the General Mills plant in Covington, Georgia.
That same month, there was a massive fire at the Taylor Farms food processing plant in Salinas, Calif. Also in April, the Dufur, Ore., headquarters of Azure Standard, a leading organic food distributor, was destroyed by fire, and another fire destroyed the East Conway Beef & Pork Meat Market in Conway, N.H. Early in May, a chicken farm in Jones County, Miss., was destroyed by fire. Saladino’s food processing plant in Fresno, Calif., caught fire around the same time. A Walmart Fulfillment Center in Indiana caught fire in late May. Also in late May, a fire at Forsman Farms in Howard Lake, Minn., killed tens of thousands of chickens. In mid-June, there was a huge fire at the Festive Foods pizza plant in Belmont, Wis.
In Iowa in April, five million chickens were killed after discovery of a single case of avian flu. 22 million chickens have been killed nationwide in an attempt to contain the outbreak. Thousands of cattle died in Kansas in June; their deaths were blamed on the heat, but it was not an unusually hot month, and numerous people with farming experience were skeptical of the official explanation.
Meanwhile, on May 26, a coal train derailed near Gothenburg, Neb. On June 1, a train derailed near Lansing, Iowa, with ten coal cars leaving the tracks; the contents of one spilled into the Mississippi River. Another train derailed in Shiner, Texas, on June 3, dumping coal in the center of the town. In British Columbia, yet another coal train derailed on June 18, losing coal from fifteen rail cars. That same day, one more coal train derailed in Lawrence, Kan., spilling a “large amount” of coal.
Maybe it’s all just a massive coincidence. Accidents do happen; many of these incidents have been classified as just that, accidents, with no foul play suspected. The problem with that is the sheer number of these incidents (and this article doesn’t contain a complete list) as well as the fact that all these alleged accidents coincide perfectly with the push towards the bicycle-riding, bug-eating future the Left envisions for us. Surely Leftists wouldn’t do such a thing to force us to accept their agenda, would they? Surely not!
In yet another coincidence, however, the Biden regime has shown clearly which side it is on. Instead of ordering special protection for oil and food plants, it is targeting Amish farmers. Yes, really. It certainly seems as if sinister forces are working to ensure that Americans cannot eat normal food and use normal means of transportation. Watch for a steady stream of such “accidents.””
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