And what are the chances someone is just false flagging?
Hard to say. Here's what I posted yesterday:
Not Florida. Orange County, NC. Specifically Hillsborough.
Like, five minutes from my house.
And before anybody even *thinks* it, no it wasn't me.
Drove by there this afternoon, and the damage looked pretty minor from the outside. The Republican Party HQ is in the back corner of an old strip mall, so it's not particularly visible from the main road.
News crews were out there, and i'm sure the local Republicritters were milking it for all they're worth. Thing is, this doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense. Orange County is pretty much the bluest county in the state, even more so than Durham. You almost feel sorry for the local Republicans because they're such a minority. And there's not much they can do to make inroads, considering the three largest population centers are an artists' colony, a writers' colony and a preeminent liberals arts university (with emphasis on the "liberal").
Not saying that it was false-flag, because I could certainly see some kid(s) from UNC with more balls than brains thinking they'd strike "a blow against fascism" by going all street revolution on the local GOP office in the middle of the night, but seriously.....in this case, it's like beating up a cripple.
So yeah...do I think some kids from UNC or Durham or hell, even just bored teens in Hillsborough could have done this? Yes.
Do I think it could have been a false-flag? Yes. If you're going to torch one of your own offices, why not the one you're getting the least traction out of? Like I said, being a Republican in this county means being an endangered species (though usually not in the sense of literally being in danger).
There's no security cameras anywhere around there (that strip mall dates back to the 1950's) and even the timeframe they have is 12 hours (9pm Friday to 9am Saturday). So who knows if they'll ever find much in the way of leads.
EDIT: Weirdly enough, one of the investigators' best leads might come from Pokemon Go. The mall is kind of a sprawling complex of antique shops, a blacksmith, and the GOP HQ (I'm guessing the theme is "things old, white people like"). I know for a fact that about 200 feet away there's a cluster of four Pokestops, and so every night (especially weekends) there's a cluster of Pokemon Go players who come hang out in the parking lot, slap lures on the stops and collect to their hearts' content. It's kind of on the other side of a slight ridge from the HQ, so they might not have *seen* anything, but they might have heard something or noticed something odd...